Bill Hurt is a teacher of the hard of hearing whose growing friendship with a beautiful deaf woman leads him to confront his own prejudices and frustrations about her condition. A brave film for using a real deaf-mute actress in the lead role, only for her to win an Oscar and marry William Hurt !
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COMING HOME (1978)
Certification18 Our Rating
A rather over-sentimentalised romantic drama about the wife of a war-hero who falls in love with a paraplegic 'Nam vet. The drama is underplayed, and cliched in places, and Jane Fonda, despite a sterling attempt, comes across as just a bit too saintly. The ending adds credibilty though.
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DRIVING MISS DAISY (1989)
CertificationU Our Rating
Winner of four Oscars including Best Film and Best Actress. Jessica Tandy stars as Miss Daisy, the cantankerous Jewish widow who very unwillingly has to hire a black chauffeur. Over the years these two very different people have to learn to live together. Both humourous and touching.
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GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
CertificationPG Our Rating
The original big screen romantic epic that fired the hearts of generations to come. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and telling the tale of the love between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler, it's the history of a selfish woman who doesn't want to admit her feelings about the man she loves, and finally loses. Won Best Picture at 1939 Academy Awards.
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HOWARD'S END (1992)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Encounter of three social classes in England at the beginning of the century; the capitalists, the Wilcoxes, whose only god is money, consider themselves as aristocrats, the enlightened bourgeois Schlegels and the proletarian Basts. The Schlegel sisters' humanism will be torn apart as they try both to softly knock down the Wilcox's prejudices and to help the Basts. Essentially the same story as Room With A View, nobody marries beneath their station and class is everything, but with a distinct el
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LA VIE EN ROSE (2007)
Certification12 Our Rating
A stunning dramatisation of the mesmerising life and ultimately tragic times of Edith Piaf, the ‘little sparrow'. The singer's life is beautifully evoked, as is the time, while Marion Cotillard in the central role is perfection. A moving and marvellous delight.....'Je ne regrette rien'.
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MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004)
Certification12 Our Rating
Maggie Fitzgerald knows that she's got to make a boxing career for herself now or lose her chance for ever. Frankie Dunn has been coasting along, running his boxing gym and keeping everyone at an arm's length. Frankie's days as a boxing manager seem to be fading and the last thing that he thinks he needs is a talented but raw girlfighter to train. After a prodding from gym keeper Eddie, Frankie agrees to take Maggie on, forging a strong bond between the two, further magnified by Frankie's estran
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ON GOLDEN POND (1981)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Two of Hollywood's oldies star together as a septuagenarian couple visiting their lakeside New England bungalow in this tear-jerking family bonding movie. When middle-aged daughter Jane arrives with her boyfriend and his teenage son in tow, the scene is set for the old man to teach the boy to fish and to read Treasure Island.
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PLACES IN THE HEART (1984)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Two Oscars were awarded for this stirring tale of a young widow trying to run a cotton farm through the Great Depression with the help of family and a disparate group of friends. Superb.
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ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)
CertificationU Our Rating
For all romantics this is essential viewing. Hepburn as the princess going awol is simply stunning, Peck smoulders to perfection, Rome is beautiful and all is right with the world. Ah, they don't make them like that any more.Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!
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