The true story of the woman who created some of the most beloved characters in children's literature comes to the screen in this drama leavened with elements of comedy and romance. Beatrix Potter (Renée Zellweger) is a imaginative but gently eccentric woman living in the socially and intellectually confining circumstances of Victorian England. ...
Ian Holm delivers an Emmy-nominated performance in this filmed adaptation of the classic Shakespearean tragedy King Lear. From director Richard Eyre (Stage Beauty), the film traces the events that follow the titular monarch's decision to make his three daughters vie for his kingdom. Originally broadcast on the BBC, it was later shown in the U.S. ...
An episode of the successful twenty-five year PBS anthology series Mystery!, Malice Aforethought tells the chilling story of Edmund Bickleigh (Ronnie Masterson), a physician who copes with irritations from his dominating wife by bedding numerous women from the town. This consummate philanderer decides to nudge his vileness one step further by ...
Season two of the gloomy, cynical British cop drama Cracker opens with the three-part mystery "To Be a Somebody," in which abrasive, self-destructive psychologist Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald (Robbie Coltrane), working in concert with the local police, manages to collar a demented middle-aged "political activist" -- this despite the fact that Fitz has ...
Season three of of the hard-boiled British cop drama Cracker is technically the "longest" of the series' seasons, comprised of three different stories rather than the standard two. First on the docket is the two-part "Brotherly Love," in which self-abusing, self-loathing psychologist Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald (Robbie Coltrane) gets his act together ...
The two-part opening episode "The Woman in the Attic" couldn't have been more typical for the hard-bitten British cop series Cracker. Severely hung over after losing all his money on the horses, making an ass of himself at a dinner party, and compelling his wife to walk out on him, bleary-eyed psychologist Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald (Robbie Coltrane) ...
The Beiderbecke Tapes is the second entry in playwright-screenwriter Alan Plater's Beiderbecke Trilogy (following 1985's The Beiderbecke Affair and preceding 1988's The Beiderbecke Connection). The British television miniseries follow the crime-solving adventures of a jazz-loving schoolteacher, Trevor Chaplin (James Bolam), and his environmentally ...
Of all the characters in TV's "unlikely detective" genre, the leading character of the British cop series Cracker may well have been the unlikeliest. Robbie Coltrane starred as Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a brilliant psychologist -- not to mention a chronic gambler, alcoholic, chain smoker, overeater, and serial philanderer. Despite these ...
Strongly recalling the film noir feel and labyrinthine plot twists of The Usual Suspects (1995), this German production featuring an all-English cast is a madcap caper flick about a quartet of dull-witted would-be bank robbers. The film opens with the police surveying the bloody aftermath of a botched robbery. The sole survivor, Jo Simpson (Claire ...
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