Adam and his friends are youth at its most hedonistic, reared in the upper echlons of British society they are the first of their class to indulge every whim in full view of the public eye, and the booming press love them for it. This relentless and unfocused pursuit of pleasure ultimately begins to implode on the ‘Bright Young Things' and a series of self induced, and outside, events conspire to force the remnants of the group to re-evaluate their lives. Bright Young Things is adapted from Evel
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SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959)
Certification15 Our Rating
Based on a Tennessee Williams play and touching on all manner of depraved horrors. Taylor plays the girl driven to madness by what she's witnessed and Clift is the shrink being pressured to lobotomise her, but Hepburn steals the show as the unnervingly genteel aunt trying to sweep everything under the carpet.
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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (2011)
Certification12 Our Rating
Set during the Great Depression, Jacob Janowski finds his promising career as a vetinary student shattered by family tragedy. Bereft and confused Jacob joins the Benzini Brothers circus as the vet for their animals and in particular the company’s elephant, Rosie. But it is the ringmaster’s wife that really holds the young Jacob’s attention, and it is this mutual attraction that forms the heart of the story. Based on Sara Gruen’s best selling novel, ‘Water for Elephants’ is a sumptuous but relati
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WATERLAND (1992)
Certification15 Our Rating
Superb adaptation of Graham Swift's novel about growing up in the poverty stricken, primitive, rural Fenland. Irons is peerless as the ageing and troubled history teacher, disillusioned as his students with dry facts and figures, taking them on a field trip though his personal history re-exploring his marriage to his childhood love and the often tragic experiences that befell them. Brilliant and moving.
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