Tagged: Alan Rickman

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1990s / Drama

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning one for actress Emma Thompson’s (Wit, Nanny McPhee) excellent adaptation (her first screenplay), Sense & Sensibility is the definitive film version of Jane Austen’s classic novel of 1811. Thompson herself stars...

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2010s / Adventure / Family / Fantasy

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Director Tim Burton teams up with Disney scribe Linda Woolverton in a visual tour-de-force telling of the classic story, which combines elements of the two Lewis Carroll allegories, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its...

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1990s / Action / Adventure

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a more modern telling of the Robin Hood legend, with the 1990s penchant for dark tones, excessive violence, rampant innuendo, and a campy, juvenile attitude toward adventure.  A huge...

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1980s / Action / Thriller

Die Hard (1988)

In 1968, Roderick Thorp’s 1966 novel, “The Detective”, was adapted to the screen by 20th Century Fox. The film version starred Frank Sinatra as middle-aged ex-cop Joe Leland and performed well enough at the...

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2000s / Comedy / Romance

Love Actually (2003)

Richard Curtis, writer of the successful romantic comedies, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones’s Diary, takes the director’s chair for the first time with impressive results.  After watching many other directors do justice to...

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1990s / Comedy / Science Fiction

Galaxy Quest (1999)

The plot: Eighteen years after their cult science fiction show is cancelled, the actors of TV’s “Galaxy Quest” are still together, appearing at “GQ” conventions and ribbon-cutting ceremonies, living off their association with the...