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Tape (2001) Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman
A three-character ensemble piece set within the confines of a tawdry motor lodge in Lansing, Michigan. Read More »
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) Gus Van Sant, Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Pat Morita, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the US from a young age. Read More »
Les Misérables (1998) Bille August, Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Crime, Drama, History
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. Read More »
The Golden Bowl (2000) James Ivory, Uma Thurman, Jeremy Northam, Kate Beckinsale, Drama, Romance
Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie, an innocent abroad. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend, Charlotte Stant, an alabaster beauty with brains, no money, and a practical and romantic nature, is his lover. She and Amerigo keep it secret from Maggie that they know each other, so Maggie interests her widowed father in Charlotte, who is happy with the match because she wants to be close to Amerigo. Charlotte desires him, the lovers risk discovery, Amerigo longs for Italy, Maggie wants to spare her father pain, and Adam wants to return to America to build a museum. Amidst lies and artifice, what fate awaits adulterers?
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A Month by the Lake (1995) John Irvin, Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox, Uma Thurman, Comedy, Drama, Romance
For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up – not even thinking about it – as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzerland, is bored and finds some amusement in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the first time since before the great war. And Miss Bentley now finds more about the major to admire than his ears.
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The Avengers (1998) Jeremiah S. Chechik, Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from “Mother”, investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine. Steed investigates the beautiful Doctor Mrs. Emma Peel, the only suspect, but simultaneously falls for her and joins forces with her to combat Sir August.
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