Roger Rees
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Biography: Roger Rees (5 May 1944 – 10 July 2015) was a Welsh actor and director, widely known for his stage work. He won an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for his performance as the lead in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. He also received Obie Awards for his role in The End of the Day and as co-director of Peter and the Starcatcher. Rees was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in November 2015. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Rees, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
Birthday: May 05, 1944
Deathday: July 10, 2015
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Gender: Male
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The Prestige
Overview: A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-17
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Frida
Overview: A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-29
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
Overview: The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world - 92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Genres: War Drama Adventure Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-06
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Imaginary Friends
Overview: Ellen Pitblado is a widow who lives in recluse in 1930s Gloucestershire. When her scummy journalist nephew, Douglas, tries to force her to give him her money, she calls her mysterious lookalike gentlemen friends to her aid.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-13
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The Invasion
Overview: Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-17
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Star 80
Overview: Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Under his guidance Dorothy grows to fame as a Playboy Playmate. But when Dorothy begins pursuing an acting career, the jealous Paul finds himself elbowed out of the picture by more famous men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-10
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If Looks Could Kill
Overview: Michael Corben, along with the rest of his high-school French class, sets out for a trip to France when he is mistaken for an agent of the same name. He is beseiged by both the good guys and the bad guys. British Intelligence outfits him with a series of James-Bond-like gizmos, and Steranko sends more would-be assassins after him. Can Michael stop the evil Steranko's plans for European domination?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-15
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Overview: Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham. Robin Hood assembles a band of fellow patriots to do battle with King John and the Sheriff.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-28
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Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Overview: Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle. His reign is soon jeopardized by the nefarious Lord Dargis, who has designs on the estate.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-15
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-09
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The Scorpion King
Overview: In ancient Egypt, peasant Mathayus is hired to exact revenge on the powerful Memnon and the sorceress Cassandra, who are ready to overtake Balthazar's village. Amid betrayals, thieves, abductions and more, Mathayus strives to bring justice to his complicated world.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-18
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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Overview: A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-21
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The Crossing
Overview: A made-for-TV dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the British forces at Trenton.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-10
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Macbeth
Overview: Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Television, it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. The TV version was directed by Philip Casson. The original stage production was performed at The Other Place, the RSC's small studio theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. It had been performed in the round before small audiences, with a bare stage and simple costuming. The recording preserves this style: the actors perform on a circular set and with a mostly black background changes of setting are indicated only by lighting changes.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-02
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The Voysey Inheritance
Overview: Young Edward discovers that the family business he is due to inherit has been defrauding clients for decades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-04
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The Pilgrims
Overview: Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th century is a seminal, if often misunderstood episode of American and world history. The Pilgrims explores the forces, circumstances, personalities and events that converged to exile the English group in Holland and eventually propel their crossing to the New World; a story universally familiar in broad outline, but almost entirely unfamiliar to a general audience in its rich and compelling historical actuality. Includes the real history of the "first thanksgiving".
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-24
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On Broadway
Overview: An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion and a sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Legends of the stage and screen—including Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Viola Davis, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen—take us behind the scenes of Broadway's most groundbreaking and beloved shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton. Iconic performances by Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones and Mandy Patinkin lead the way on a hurly burly ride through Times Square, once again the main street of American show business in this documentary directed by Academy-Award nominee Oren Jacoby.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
Overview: An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Almost Perfect
Overview: A 30-something career woman tries to find the balance between her demanding family and her perfect new boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-13
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Trouble on the Corner
Overview: Jeff, a troubled therapist, suffers a breakdown when he spies on his sexy neighbor Ericca, a beautiful model that rollerblades around her apartment in red gloves and a kimono. When he confuses his erotically bizarre patients' most perverse neuroses with his own, the fine line between reality and fantasy erodes with lethal consequences. Darkly comedic, Trouble on the Corner takes you into the depths of one man's decent into madness and races toward the murderous conclusion of this tale of a modern urban nightmare.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-09
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The Substance of Fire
Overview: Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the company, grows frustrated with Isaac's emotional decline and attempts to take over the firm. The resulting crisis involves Isaac's other two children, his daughter Sarah and his dying son Martin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-11
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Mountains of the Moon
Overview: The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-16
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Going Under
Overview: Peter, a married psychotherapist, and Suzanne, a professional dominatrix, have been engaged in an affair of sensual dominance and submission in an S&M dungeon where they must abide by the rules. Now, those rules are about to be broken when they agree to see each other on the outside. As Peter becomes increasingly obsessed with the troubled Suzanne, they embark on a sordid psychosexual journey into their tortured pasts through their most carnal desires.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-21
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The Return of Sam McCloud
Overview: Ex-Marshal McCloud now is senator of New Mexico, fighting for a new environment law. His enemy is Maitland, unscrupulous owner of Chemtel, the world's most important chemical manufacturer. Shortly after McCloud gives an inspiring speech, he barely escapes an bomb in his car and a shooting in a restaurant. When he learns that his niece, medical researcher for Chemtel, was killed, he begins to suspect that the attempts on his life were not made by Arabian terrorists, but by Maitland. He pays him a visit in Britain and starts to research on his own.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-12
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Return to Never Land
Overview: In 1940, the world is besieged by World War II. Wendy, all grown up, has two children; including Jane, who does not believe Wendy's stories about Peter Pan.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-14
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God's Outlaw
Overview: A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bible into English, which illegal act set him at odds with the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Affluenza
Overview: An aspiring young photographer finds himself caught up in a heady world of money, sex, and privilege when he moves to wealthy Long Island in the summer of 2008.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-11
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The Ebony Tower
Overview: A brash young artist invades the secluded retirement of an elderly painter and finds that the great man lives with two young women in a tantalizingly ambiguous relationship.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-01
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Falling for Grace
Overview: Grace is a Chinese American who longs to be a part of New York's high society. At a socialite event, she is mistaken for a Hong Kong heiress and meets her Prince Charming. Nothing is as it seems absorbing drama. What will happen to this Cinderella when the clock strikes midnight?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-31
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The Tower
Overview: A mix-up with a security card causes a malevolent building to try and kill an employee on his first day at work.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-16
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Survivor
Overview: A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-21
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The Three Sisters
Overview: Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-29
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The Narrows
Overview: A 19 year old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds when his photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to NYU. He must figure out how to balance his Italian neighborhood roots with the expansive, sophisticated world on the other side of the East River. Based on Tim McLoughlin's novel "Heart of the Old Country".
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-08
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The Possession of Michael D.
Overview: When a dark force begins to destroy a couple's happiness, they decide to turn to a parapsychologist who discovers that the husband is possessed by a demon.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-02
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Game 6
Overview: Combining real and fictional events, this movie centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a day in the life of a playwright who skips opening night to watch the momentous game.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-10
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The Pink Panther
Overview: When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Inspector Dreyfus assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau to the case.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-10
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius, while other romantic entanglements abound in the woods, with married fairy rulers Titania and Oberon toying with various lovers and each other.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-20
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Sudden Manhattan
Overview: Twenty-something Donna is jobless, single and broke. On a fateful day, reality turns itself upside down, and she is suddenly faced with one absurdity after another.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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3 A.M.
Overview: The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes the viewer into the world of taxi drivers. Developed in the Sundance Laboratory, this film offers dove-tailing stories centering on the lives of individual taxi drivers as they reflect on and experience romance, politics, sociology, and spirituality.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-01
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Saigon: Year Of The Cat
Overview: The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Chesneau (Frederic Forrest). She quickly realises that he works for the CIA and he knows that the fall of South Vietnam is very near.
Genres: Drama Romance War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-29
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The Mayflower Pilgrims: Behind The Myth
Overview: The voyage of the Mayflower in 1620 has come to define the founding moment of America, celebrated each year at Thanksgiving. A lavish new drama documentary by Ric Burns, based on governor William Bradford's extraordinary eye-witness account, the Mayflower Pilgrims reveals the grim truth behind their voyage across the Atlantic. The Pilgrims story has come to define the founding moment of America and all it stands for. Celebrated each year at Thanksgiving, it is remembered as a pious crusade aimed at founding a Puritan paradise. However their journey from a harsh, often violent part of England to a colony assured of survival less than ten years later is also one of wealth, cruelty, and entrepreneurial genius.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-27
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Next Stop Wonderland
Overview: Dumped by her loser boyfriend, Erin thinks that her love life has hit rock bottom. In reality, the all-time low comes when her overbearing mother places an embarrassing ad for her in the "personals" section of a local newspaper! Erin's disgust turns to curiosity, however, when the calls start pouring in - all 64 of them! As she searches for the right guy in a hilarious series of disastrous dates, a lonely ex-plumber named Alan clumsily searches for his dream job...all the while narrowly missing one chance meeting with Erin after another!
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-21
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Crazy Like a Fox
Overview: This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his family farm, Greenwood, to a pair of land speculators from Washington, D.C. When the predatory couple manipulates a "legal" real estate transaction that turns into a hostile possession of the manor house, he temporarily loses his mind, leaving his family but not the farm. Instead he hides out in a cave on Goose Creek, waging guerilla warfare against expansionism and the destruction of historic property with the help of his family, friends, and neighbors...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-25
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Next
Overview: William Shakespeare, without saying a word, gives a quick run through of all his plays in a very special audition.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-28
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Double Platinum
Overview: The story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only child.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-16
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Happy Tears
Overview: Two sisters return home to care for their aging father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-16
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Blackmale
Overview: Two desperate con men attempt to blackmail a psychotic doctor who may just be a serial killer.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-11
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'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming
Overview: Hosted by Cary Elwes. It's a promotional piece that was intended to get the word out about the film while it was in production, but some of the behind the scenes material that appears here is amusing
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-27
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P.J. Sparkles
Overview: PJ is an orphan with no last name and she has a special wish, she wants someone to love. One night while out riding her grey horse Blaze, PJ gets her wish. The "Wishing Star" shines its magic light on her and her horse and PJ is transported to the gray world of Twinkle Town. There she meets three new friends, Glimmer, Glowee, and Sparks, three lonely children who live there and have been wishing for someone to love them. The Wishing Star has turned Blaze into a beautiful white talking horse and given PJ a crown that talks! Her clothing has changed into a brilliant, sparkling dress, which gives her a last name, she is now PJ Sparkles! She's been given a magic power, the magic of LOVE!
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Comedy of Errors
Overview: The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together by circumstance.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-17
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Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After
Overview: Biography - First telecast in 1982, this drama picks up the story of Prince Charles (Roger Rees) and Lady Diana (Catherine Oxenberg) as their marriage begins to fall apart and follows it through to the royal couple's very public divorce. Charles and Diana must struggle with the pressure of public life, the relentless paparazzi and brutal tabloid articles, not to mention Queen Elizabeth's (Amanda Walker) disapproval as they deal with their failing union. - Catherine Oxenberg, Roger Rees, Benedict Taylor
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Overview: The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world - 92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Genres: War Drama History Adventure Comedy Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-09
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A Life in Suitcases
Overview: Follows Tulse Luper as he is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to spend his life in a succession of imprisonments.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-20
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Russian Broadway Shut Down
Overview: Citing homosexual propaganda law, Russian government outlaws theatrical performances ; Russian Broadway community responds.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-23
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