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Tag Archives: Bruce Beresford
Mao’s Last Dancer (2009) Bruce Beresford, Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village Read More »
Rich in Love (1992) Bruce Beresford, Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kathryn Erbe
Charleston, South Carolina. The Odoms have lived a life of the traditions of the American south in their longtime, large family beach front home. Read More »
Mister Johnson (1990) Bruce Beresford, Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Maynard Eziashi
A decade after he broke through with Breaker Morant, Australian director Bruce Beresford made another acclaimed film Read More »
Money Movers (1978) Bruce Beresford, Terence Donovan, Tony Bonner, Ed Devereaux
Filmed in Adelaide, South Australia, Bruce Beresford’s adaptation of Devon Minchin’s novel Read More »
Breaker Morant (1980) Bruce Beresford, Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Read More »
Crimes of the Heart (1986) Bruce Beresford, Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek
Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. Read More »
Bride of the Wind (2001) Bruce Beresford, Sarah Wynter, Vincent Perez, Jonathan Pryce
Vienna, 1902: Alma Schindler meets Gustav Mahler. She beautiful, young, plays, and composes: music is her life. Read More »
The Getting of Wisdom (1977) Bruce Beresford, Julia Blake, Dorothy Bradley, Kay Eklund
In the early 1900s, Laura Tweedle Ramsbotham (Susannah Fowle) arrives at an exclusive Melbourne ladies’ Read More »
Black Robe (1991) Bruce Beresford, Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, Adventure, Drama, History
In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter. Read More »
Evelyn (2002) Bruce Beresford, Pierce Brosnan, Julianna Margulies, Aidan Quinn, Drama
1953. Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation.
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Her Alibi (1989) Bruce Beresford, Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers’ block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment. He is still falling for her, but more and more nervous as time passes, and there are more close calls with death on his part.
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