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Obsessed (DVD)
James Franco, Winona Ryder, Josh Hamilton, Marin Ireland, Katherine Waterston, …
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R23
Discovery Miles 230
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Psychological thriller starring James Franco and Winona Ryder.
Playwright Martine (Ryder) is putting on a new production of which
Tyrone (Franco) is one of the actors. While he causes problems
among the cast, Martine experiences troubling visions in which she
is being followed by a stranger. As her work begins to suffer, she
starts to wonder whether her visions are real or imaginary...
Declan Burke fled Ireland forty years ago and never looked back.
Now settled in New York, he thinks he's put the old country behind
him, until he reads the obituary of one Cathal Murphy. The
obituary, he sees at once, is not about Murphy at all. It is a
coded indictment of Burke's own life. And an announcement of his
impending death. Halifax lawyer Monty Collins investigates the obit
with its allusions to Burke's IRA past. Collins gets no help from
Burke, who -- good soldier to the end -- keeps the silence of the
grave. But Burke's denial becomes harder to maintain following a
burst of gunfire at a family wedding. The shooting brings another
old soldier onto the field: Leo Killeen, the commanding officer of
Burke's former battalion in Dublin. But he also has secrets to
protect. When a body is found in a rundown Brooklyn flat, Collins
wonders just how far Killeen will go to keep those secrets under
wraps. From the farms of Ireland to the tenements of New York City,
Monty is confronted by a cast of enigmatic characters, including
the owner of a nightclub frequented by the New York mob; a sultry
chanteuse; and Burke's hotheaded son Francis, whose resentment and
dubious activities set the family on a road to destruction. Monty
isn't the only one who is surprised when he reaches the end of the
road. Burke too must now confront the suspicion that he has been
manipulated all along by an unseen hand.
Lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins is used to defending murderers,
and occasionally investigating murders himself. But he can't round
up the usual suspects this time. The blood-drenched body of
Reinhold Schellenberg, a world-renowned German theologian, has been
found on the altar of an old church in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during
Vespers on Saint Cecilia's day. The man has nearly been
decapitated. The controversial priest, once a top insider in the
Vatican, was known to provoke strong feelings in Catholics of all
ideological stripes. Now those feelings have overflowed with
horrifying results. His friend Father Brennan Burke has just opened
a choir school for priests, monks, nuns, and other Catholics
devoted to the glorious music of the Church's past. So Monty has
before him an international cast of suspects, including a
flamboyant Sicilian priest who left the Vatican under a cloud of
suspicion; an eccentric English monk who has penned scathing
attacks on Schellenberg's actions during the Second Vatican
Council; a disgruntled American ex-priest who can't quite let go; a
church lady with a history of violence; a Vatican enforcer; and,
most perplexing of all, a police officer from the former East
Berlin. The case lifts the lid on fascinating episodes of Church
history, thwarted ambitions, old grudges and long-simmering
disputes. Monty and Brennan's investigation takes them on a road
trip to Italy: to the corridors of power and the glittering museums
of the Vatican, the elegant apartments of an operatic diva, and the
cloistered grounds of medieval monasteries. Monty immerses himself
in a world of ancient chants, votive candles, stained glass,
incense, and the music of the spheres. The more he learns, the more
questions he has. In the end, he finds himself turning to the
saints for answers
Stage musical based on the 2000 film of the same name which is set
in County Durham during the 1984 miners' strike. Young Billy Elliot
(Matteo Zecca/Mitchell Tobin/Bradley Perret/Elliott Hanna) becomes
fascinated with the ballet lessons which are being held in the same
hall as his boxing class. The ballet teacher, Mrs Wilkinson (Ruthie
Henshall), recognises his potential and encourages him to join her
class. As his talent gradually reveals itself, it becomes clear
that Billy should be attending the Royal Ballet School in London,
but with his father (Deka Walmsley)'s opposition and the extreme
poverty which descends on the area during the strike, Billy's
future is far from certain.
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