Professor David Ash is invited to Edbrook to calm the fears of the elderly nanny of the Mariell family. Read More »
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Uncovered (1994) Jim McBride, Kate Beckinsale, John Wood, Sinéad Cusack
While restoring an old painting showing a woman and two men playing chess Read More »
Cold Comfort Farm (1995) John Schlesinger, Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19 Read More »
The Last Days of Disco (1998) Whit Stillman, Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman
The Last Days of Disco, from director Whit Stillman, is a cleverly comic look at the early 1980s Manhattan party scene 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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