Weird and whimsical tale of a New York fisherman (Depp) who travels to Arizona to visit his uncle. Once there, however he gets involved with oddball Grace and her even odder stepmother, who enlist him to help build a DIY flying machine. Depp proves his versatility yet again in this quirky drama.
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HOLES (2003)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Stanley Yelnats is cursed, but he takes the burden on his young shoulders well. Sent to a desolate desert remand camp, Stanley and his new found buddies find themselves under the draconian rule of 'The Warden', a harsh and unrelenting creature who sets them to work digging hole after hole in an obsessive, but mysterious, search that the reluctant young shovelers become determined to unearth for themselves. Holes is an adaptation of Louis Sachar's hugely successful book and an inspired take it is
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1969)
Certification15 Our Rating
Leone's superb all-encompassing epic portraying the death of the mythical 'Wild West'. A superb cast, the collaborations of Bertolucci and Argento, and Morricone's brilliantly atmospheric score all add to the incredible style and weight of Leone's creation. A true cinematic masterpiece! A candidate for greatest movie ever made, if you haven't... then you must.
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THE CONSTANT GARDENER (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
A diplomat posted in Africa is devastated by the murder of his wife but he's sceptical of the authority's diligence and determination to find her killers so he devotes himself to finding those responsible. What our dour hero discovers is that his wife's death is only the tip of a genocidal conspiracy and while she may be lost to him the only hope of easing his anguish is to expose those that she'd died defying. Based on John Le Carre's novel, The Constant Gardener is a searingly effective adapta
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THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996)
Certification15 Our Rating
Sweeping romantic drama of epic proportions. Fiennes's WWII pilot lays badly burned and in the care of an army nurse. As the unnamed, stiff-upper-lipped "English Patient" begins to recover, memories emerge of a past life as an archaeologist/cartographer in the Sahara, and a passionate affair with a married woman, Katharine. Though Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel simplifies, jettisons and changes certain elements of the original story, it remains a rich, complex, entran
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