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Emma Thompson
Author
Publisher
Frederick Warne
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Peter Rabbit and his cousin Benjamin Bunny meet a new friend, William the Turkey, but as the three prepare for Christmas, the two bunnies realize that William is meant to be Christmas supper and decide to help him avoid his dire fate.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Told through his diaries--a twenty-five-year passion project--the beloved actor, political activist, and more grants us access to his thoughts and insights on theater performances, the craft of acting, politics, friendships, work projects, and his general musings on life.
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Barney Thomson, an awkward Glasgow barber lives a life of desperate mediocrity. His uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of serial killers. Winner of Best Actress and Best Feature Film at the **BAFTA Awards, Scotland**. "*Scottish actor Robert Carlyle makes a bold impression as a first-time director with Barney Thomson, a brash, dirty little film that's eager to please...
7) Sea Sorrow
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A documentary focusing on the present and past history of refugees in Europe. Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave tells her own story beginning as a two-year-old 'evacuee' from London at the outset of World War Two; later as a student volunteer helping Hungarian refugees; and concluding with her return to Lebanon to visit Palestinian three-year olds in a refugee camp nursery school. SEA SORROW marks Vanessa Redgrave’s debut as a film director...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Kay Effiel is an author writing her latest novel. Her story revolves around an isolated man named Harold Crick. What she doesn't know is that her fictionalized character is real. Harold is an IRS agent who has lived a dull existence. One day he begins to hear Karen's voice as she narrates what she is putting down on paper. Harold enlists the help of a literary professor to find out what is happening and ends up changing things about his life. He begins...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes--only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins--turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We also meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man...
10) Alone in Berlin
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this WWII thriller, Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson are courageous parents driven to an extraordinary act of resistance against the Nazi regime. Based on true events.
11) The Children Act
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Smart, elegant, and deeply moving, THE CHILDREN ACT stars two-time **Academy Award**-winner Emma Thompson in a powerful and riveting performance as Fiona Maye, a British High Court judge who, in the midst of a marital crisis, must rule on a life-changing legal case concerning the survival of a teenage boy. Fiona is intensely dedicated to her profession, never finding time to have her own children while fully assuming the immense responsibility of...
12) Junior
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Alex Hesse and his associate, Dr. Larry Arbogast have developed a wondrous new drug to ensure healthy pregnancies. But when the government forbids further testing of their creation, Alex and Larry secretly move forward with a daring plan, and Dr. Hesse becomes pregnant, which leads to comedy, romance and maternal love.
14) Fortunes of war
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Mini-series that chronicles the lives of an English couple who live in Bucharest when WWII breaks out.
16) Howards End
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
In Edwardian England, two well educated sisters, full of life, each find different ways to deal with the constraints of society.
17) Howards End
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson) and her sister Helen (Helena Bonham Carter) become involved with two couples: a wealthy, conservative industrialist (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife (Vanessa Redgrave), and a working-class man (Samuel West) and his mistress (Niccola Duffet). The interwoven fates and misfortunes of these three families and the diverging trajectories of the two sisters’ lives are connected to the ownership of Howards End, a beloved...
19) Men in black 3
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Agent J must travel back in time to MIB's early years in the 1960s and save his partner, Agent K, from being assassinated by an alien. Along the way, Agent J teams up with young Agent K and learns that there are secrets to the universe that Agent K never told him.
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein becomes a catalyst for the #MeToo Movement. Contains testimonials from those who knew him well such as Hillary Clinton, Emma Thompson, Heather Kerr, Ashley Judd, Rose McGowan, Uma Thurman and more!