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1.Doctor Zhivago starring: Sam Neill, Chris Marshall, Hans Matheson, Bill Paterson, Celia Imrie directed by: Giacomo Campiotti March 24, 2003
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I seem to remember that this was aired on ITV the same time as Daniel Deronda on BBC, and I have no doubt that this is the better of the two. The main thing to keep in mind when watching this film, is that it is an 'adaptation' of Dr Zhivago. Certain elements of the book are altered, but the general spirit of the novel is maintained. The settings are breathtaking and generally the acting from Celia Imrie, Sam Neill, Bill Patterson, Kris Marshall and unknown Hans Matheson as Yury are incredibly moving. Even new star, Keira Knightley does a good job (she was only seventeen when she made this), though she pouts a little too much for my liking. I personally have loved the book for as long as I can remember, but that hasn't prevented me from appreciating ... Read More:

2.The Gathering Storm [2002] starring: Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent, Linus Roache, Lena Headey directed by: Richard Loncraine September 15, 2003
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All performances in this film are remarkable, but especially Linus Roache stands out with a superb performance, as the man with a conscience, who made it possible for Winston Churchill to expose Chamberlains aid to Nazi Germany.

3.America's Sweethearts / Notting Hill / The Mexican [1999] starring: Julia Roberts, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini directed by: Joe Roth, Roger Michell, Gore Verbinski September 15, 2003
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All performances in this film are remarkable, but especially Linus Roache stands out with a superb performance, as the man with a conscience, who made it possible for Winston Churchill to expose Chamberlains aid to Nazi Germany.

4.DANIEL DERONDA starring: HUGH BONNEVILLE, EDWARD FOX, ROMALA GARAI
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All performances in this film are remarkable, but especially Linus Roache stands out with a superb performance, as the man with a conscience, who made it possible for Winston Churchill to expose Chamberlains aid to Nazi Germany.

5.Take A Girl Like You [2000] starring: Rupert Graves, Hugh Bonneville, Robert Daws, Emma Chambers, Sienna Guillory directed by: Nick Hurran March 26, 2001
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This is Kingsley Amis at his perceptive best. Over 60? Then if you're English, you'll remember those lost "You've-never-had-it-so-good" days of cosy pubs, warm beer and windy station platforms. Prosperity, colour and sunshine seemed to come flooding back after the grey "utility" days of the war years.Under 60, or even 30? Then here's a bit of social history well worth seeing. You can almost smell the inside of the dingy boarding house of the early scenes; the cabbage water, the gas from the geyser,the cheap shampoo and the french polish. This production catches the attitudes, the mores, the slowly slipping standards inculcated by Church and Chapel since time immemorial and which the War had done much to loosen. Achingly pretty Jenny Bunn arrives ... Read More:

6.Armadillo [2001] starring: James Frain, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Rea, Hugh Bonneville, James Fox directed by: Howard Davies September 17, 2001
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A friend converted this wonderful series to NTSC for me, and I'm forever in her debt for it. It was wonderfully entertaining, full of quirky yet loveable characters. I simply adore James Frain, and he manages to make Lorimer (aka Milo) a very adorable character, indeed. Lorimer's smart and saavy, yet extremely vunerable. He thinks he's safe from life's little surprizes...that he's hardened, worldly, and wise...that he's covered all the bases, and that there is nothing that could hurt him, touch him, or "disturb his anticipations". Boy, is Lorimer ever wrong! His life gets turned topsy turvey, and along the way you grow to love him more and more, and wish him nothing but happiness. Frain is just perfect as Lorimer/Milo, and he is added tremendously by Stephen ... Read More:

7.Iris [2002] starring: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Eleanor Bron directed by: Richard Eyre November 04, 2002
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Prolific English novelist Iris Murdoch (The Sea, the Sea, Under the Net) was a lover of words and the power of language. She was quite the avant-garde free-thinker as a young professor and the shy, stuttering John Bayley seemed an unlikely match for her, but fall in love they did and they shared a long and loving marriage. The movie focuses on Iris' battle with Alzheimer's disease, which gradually robbed her of the ability to use her beloved words. John cared for her and loved her until the end. This is simply the best movie I've seen in a long time; the acting is superb as is the script. Judi Dench gives a stunning performance as Iris. It is heartbreaking to watch her steady decline, knowing how it must end. She was nominated for, but did not receive an Oscar, ... Read More:

8.Mansfield Park [1999] starring: Frances O'Connor, Lindsay Duncan, James Purefoy, Sheila Gish, Harold Pinter directed by: Patricia Rozema March 12, 2001
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I have to say that I am astonished to see how poorly this film is rated by many other reviewers. I've read a Jane Austen or two, but not Mansfield Park. Consequently, when I saw this film for the first time I thought it was great, and I still do because I still haven't read the book. It's clear from reading the many other reviews that the makers of this film have greatly upset the Austen purists by substantially altering the story and characters and bringing in non-original elements such as the references to slavery, which anyone could guess was where the family money must have come from. However, the fact remains that this is a very, very decent film in its own right. Frances O' Connor's Fanny Price - whether she resembles her namesake in Austen's Mansfield ... Read More:

9.Tipping the Velvet [2002] starring: Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Anna Chancellor, Jodhi May, Hugh Bonneville directed by: Geoffrey Sax October 28, 2002
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When it aired in my country in the summer of 2002 and i loved it. it was one of the best mini series i have ever watched. i don't know if it was the subject, gay romance in 19 century England, but this is to this day still in my top 5 of most see mini series. the plot, the script, the character and the acting are amazing. you can tell it is BBC made due to it's quality. i highly recommend it and If you don't want to buy try and rent it from somewhere I promise it be worth it.

10.Madame Bovary starring: Frances O'Connor, Hugh Bonneville, Eileen Atkins, Desmond Barrit, Keith Barron directed by: Tim Fywell April 03, 2000
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A dark, paradoxical portrayal of a young woman who deludes herself with passion and grandeur, but married into an insipid life with a boring doctor, starts a string of affair which ultimately bankrupts and ruins her. I wanted to believe the heroine a passionate, independent, good person who only made the mistake of marrying the wrong man (as many do) but could only think her cruel and unkind to her devoted husband, vain, ignorant and very stupid. Frances O'Connor's performance was fluid and deserves no censure, but all in all, the film was very disappointing, and the soundtrack too satirical for my liking.

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