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Tag Archives: John Irvin
Turtle Diary (1985) John Irvin, Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Richard Johnson
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. Read More »
The Moon and the Stars (2007) John Irvin, Jonathan Pryce, Alfred Molina, Catherine McCormack
Together in Rome to shoot a film, a German actress (McCormack) Read More »
Eminent Domain (1990) John Irvin, Donald Sutherland, Anne Archer, Jodhi May
A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Read More »
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) John Irvin, Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate
George Smiley has been retired for about a year when he finds a friend from the Circus Read More »
Crazy Horse (1996) John Irvin, Michael Greyeyes, Victor Aaron, Nathaniel Arcand
The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion. Read More »
Ghost Story (1981) John Irvin, Craig Wasson, Alice Krige, Fred Astaire
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. Read More »
The Dogs of War (1980) John Irvin, Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely
Jamie Shannon is a soldier of fortune — a mercenary who will stage a coup or a revolution for the right price. Read More »
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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