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Tag Archives: Michael Winterbottom
Code 46 (2003) Michael Winterbottom, Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri
Code 46 is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities Read More »
In This World (2002) Michael Winterbottom, Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah, Imran Paracha
In February 2002 in the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan Read More »
Wonderland (1999) Michael Winterbottom, Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, Drama
There’s little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. Read More »
Go Now (1995) Michael Winterbottom, Robert Carlyle, Juliet Aubrey, James Nesbitt, Drama, Romance, Sport
The Claim (2000) Michael Winterbottom, Wes Bentley, Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Drama, Romance, Western
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Read More »
The Road to Guantanamo (2006) Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom, Riz Ahmed, Farhad Harun, Waqar Siddiqui, Documentary, Drama, War
In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantly wrong confessions to being terrorists. In the midst of this abuse, the three struggle to keep their spirits up in that face of this grave injustice.
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I Want You (1998) Michael Winterbottom, Rachel Weisz, Alessandro Nivola, Luka Petrusic, Crime, Drama, Music
Helen is a young woman running a hairdressing salon; Bob is her boyfriend and local radio DJ; Honda is a mute kid who’s secretly taping people’s conversation and Smokey is Honda’s sister who sings at local bar. New guy in town is the mysterious Martin, who shares some dark history with Helen and observes her from afar at first. Honda falls in love with Helen and starts taping her conversations with Bob, and that leads to reactivation of the Helen-Martin relationship.
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The Trip (2010) Michael Winterbottom, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Paul Popplewell, Comedy, Drama
When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country’s finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
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