Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown Read More »
Tag Archives: Daniel Day-Lewis
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) Michael Mann, Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means
British and French troops do battle in colonial America, with aid from various native American war parties. Read More »
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Stephen Frears, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis
Much of the Pakistani Hussein family has settled in London, striving for the riches promised by Thatcherism. Read More »
Stars and Bars (1988) Pat O’Connor, Daniel Day-Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton, Kent Broadhurst
A British art expert travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting Read More »
Eversmile New Jersey (1989) Carlos Sorin
Traveling dentist O’Connell traverses South America on his motorcycle for the ‘Eversmile’ foundation of New Jersey Read More »
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) Philip Kaufman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Drama, Romance
Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever.
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