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Hunky Dory (DVD)
Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard, Danielle Branch, Robert Pugh, Haydn Gwynne, …
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Discovery Miles 530
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Feature drama starring Minnie Driver as a schoolteacher intent on
staging a rock opera version of 'The Tempest'. It is the summer of
1976, and Viv May (Driver) is an enthusiastic young drama teacher
at a Swansea secondary school. With her diaphanous dresses and
progressive attitudes, former actress Viv has her enemies amongst
the school's more conservative staff, and has set her sights on
creating a high-octane fusion of Shakespeare and David Bowie for
this year's school performance. Between rehearsals her adolescent
students pass the hot summer days lounging around the lido,
fighting and falling in love, as their future beyond the safe
confines of school life looms ahead of them.
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Conviction (English, French, DVD)
Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Thomas D. Mahard, Owen Campbell, Conor Donovan, …
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Discovery Miles 340
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Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell star in this crime drama based on a
real case that took place in 1980s Massachusetts. Hilary Swank
stars as Betty Ann Waters, a working-class single mother whose
small-time troublemaker brother Kenny (Rockwell) is falsely
convicted of a violent murder in their home town near Boston and is
sent to prison for the crime, where in his frustration and anger he
attempts suicide. With no one to turn to and no money, Betty Ann
decides to put herself through college and law school and qualify
as a lawyer in an attempt to set her brother free. Juliette Lewis
and Minnie Driver co-star.
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GoldenEye (Blu-ray disc)
Izabella Scorupco, Judi Dench, Gottfried John, Minnie Driver, Pavel Douglas, …
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Discovery Miles 710
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Pierce Brosnan makes his 007 debut, replacing Timothy Dalton as
Britain's most celebrated secret agent. On his first post-Cold War
mission, Bond is sent to blow up a Soviet chemical weapons factory
with agent 006 (Sean Bean). Nine years later, Bond becomes involved
in the break-up of the Soviet Union, and soon finds himself
involved with a blitzkrieg of stolen helicopters, beautiful female
assassins, Russian Mafiosi and the race for a vital piece of
weaponry - the credit-card sized 'GoldenEye'.
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Stage Fright (DVD)
Brandon Uranowitz, Thomas Alderson, Meat Loaf, Kent Nolan, Melanie Leishman, …
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Discovery Miles 430
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Minnie Driver and Meat Loaf star in this comedy horror written and
directed by Jerome Sable. Ten years ago celebrated soprano Kylie
Swanson (Driver) was brutally murdered by a person wearing an opera
mask just before she was due to perform on stage in her latest
musical role. A decade on and her children Camilla and Buddy (Allie
MacDonald and Douglas Smith) travel to their guardian Roger McCall
(Meat Loaf)'s summer theatre camp to audition for a modern version
of the same play in which their mother starred. As opening night
looms ever closer cast members are found dead and Camilla's fears
of the alleged opera ghost become a reality. Must the show really
go on?
Disney Studios turn their attention to Edgar Rice Burroughs'
classic tale with this lively animated adaptation. Tarzan (voiced
by Tony Goldwyn) is a human who was taken in and raised by gorilla
Kala (Glenn Close) when his parents were killed by Sabor the
leopard. Now a grown male, Tarzan has never been fully accepted by
Kala's husband Kerchak (Lance Henriksen), the head of the tribe,
but has female gorilla Terk and elephant Trantor for friends. When
explorer Professor Porter (Nigel Hawthorne) arrives in the jungle
with his daughter Jane (Minnie Driver) and adventurer Clayton
(Brian Blessed), Tarzan discovers his human heritage for the first
time, gradually learning how to speak and spending time at the
visitors' encampment. However, although Porter merely wishes to
study the gorillas, Clayton secretly plans to capture them and take
them back to England, and tries to trick Tarzan into leading him to
the tribe.
'A beautiful book: funny, honest, revealing, heartfelt and moving'
- Adam Kay, bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt' 'Vital,
heartfelt and surprising, these tales from a life are told with
humour, style and intelligence.' - Graham Norton 'A wonderful
memoir by a glorious writer: funny, poignant, profound. I gobbled
it up in one joyous sitting.' - Elizabeth Day 'An absolute jewel of
a book. Gloriously readable, hilarious, painful, acute, sharply
recalled and vividly brought to life' - Stephen Fry A dazzling
'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from
the life of actor Minnie Driver. I love stories. I have mostly told
other people's but now, in telling my own, I realize how all our
stories are connected by that great leveller of acclaim, loss,
fortitude, and fortune: being human. When I look at my life from
the alleged halfway point, some patterns are revealed: one, that
the story does not necessarily begin or end where it should; two,
happy endings are overrated. And three, happy endings are almost
never the end. This book is memoir-ish. A tell-most. Largely
because there's a lot I don't remember, and a lot that's not worth
talking about. So, this is a collection of stories about how things
not working out - worked out in the end. How reaching for the dream
is easily more interesting, expansive, sad and funny than the dream
itself coming true. I really hope you enjoy it. Love, Minnie x
A dazzling 'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny
scenes from the life of actor Minnie Driver. Managing Expectations
is a collection of delicately crafted, hilarious and heartfelt
essays, described as a 'tell-most', in which Minnie Driver uses her
formidable storytelling skills to examine and understand her
less-than-ordinary life. Suffused with warmth and humour, Minnie
shares poignant, candid and honest stories of her unconventional
childhood, the shock of fame, motherhood, love, success, failure,
the power of sisterly love, and the loss of her beloved mother. In
her own words, it's about how things not working out actually
worked out in the end, and how reaching for the dream is easily
more interesting, expansive, sad and funny than the dream itself
coming true. 'When I was six, I wrote my first short essay, about
how when I grew up, I wanted to be a farmer's daughter. My dad
worked in insurance. Now, though, I realise how apt that ambition
was. It set up a template in my life of wanting something
impossible to become true. How in trying to make something
impossible happen, and failing repeatedly, other things happened.
Things that became my life. A life I love, because it was made with
so many holes that I enjoy filling in.'
'A beautiful book: funny, honest, revealing, heartfelt and moving'
- Adam Kay, bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt' 'Vital,
heartfelt and surprising, these tales from a life are told with
humour, style and intelligence.' - Graham Norton 'A wonderful
memoir by a glorious writer: funny, poignant, profound. I gobbled
it up in one joyous sitting.' - Elizabeth Day 'An absolute jewel of
a book. Gloriously readable, hilarious, painful, acute, sharply
recalled and vividly brought to life' - Stephen Fry A dazzling
'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from
the life of actor Minnie Driver. I love stories. I have mostly told
other people's but now, in telling my own, I realize how all our
stories are connected by that great leveller of acclaim, loss,
fortitude, and fortune: being human. When I look at my life from
the alleged halfway point, some patterns are revealed: one, that
the story does not necessarily begin or end where it should; two,
happy endings are overrated. And three, happy endings are almost
never the end. This book is memoir-ish. A tell-most. Largely
because there's a lot I don't remember, and a lot that's not worth
talking about. So, this is a collection of stories about how things
not working out - worked out in the end. How reaching for the dream
is easily more interesting, expansive, sad and funny than the dream
itself coming true. I really hope you enjoy it. Love, Minnie x
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