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The Dresser is a compelling study of the intense relationship between the leader of the company and his dresser. Sir (Albert Finney), a grandiloquent old man of the theatre, has given his soul to career, but his tyrannical rule over the company is now beginning to crack under the strain of age and illness as he prepares for his two-hundred-twenty-seventh performance of King Lear. Sir's fastidious and fiercely dedicated dresser, Norman (Tom Courtenay), submits to Sir's frequendy unreasonable demands, tends to his health, and reminds him of what role he is currendy playing. The two men are essential to each others life. - Director:
- Peter Yates
- Cast:
- Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox
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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)L'extravagant voyage du jeune et prodigieux T.S. Spivet
T.S. Spivet lives on a remote ranch in Montana with his parents, his sister Gracie and his brother Layton. A gifted child with a passion for science, he has invented a perpetual motion machine, for which he has been awarded the prestigious Baird Prize by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. He leaves a note for his family and hops on a freight train to make his way across the United States and receive his prize. But no one there suspects that the lucky winner is a ten-year-old child with a very dark secret... - Director:
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Cast:
- Helena Bonham Carter, Chris Cinnamon, Solenn Gaillot
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Basil (Danny Huston) leaves his family to pursue a lucrative property deal in Colorado. He hires local chauffeur Nick (Matthew Jacobs) to drive him into the heart of the Rocky Mountains. The men's backgrounds are as different as their points of view: Basil, the shrewd and abrupt American businessman pitched against his charming and recently divorced English driver. But as the evening sets in, the growing menace of the elements leaves the men with no choice but to work together if they are to survive the night. - Director:
- Bernard Rose
- Cast:
- Julie Marcus, Edie Dakota, Lisa Enos
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One day, nobody dies. All across the world, nobody dies. Day after day, the phenomenon continues. And a secret British institution named Torchwood seems to hold the answers... CIA agents Rex Matheson and Either Drummond investigate the only two surviving members of the team - Gwen Cooper, who has retreated to o remote Welsh hideaway with her husband and new baby, and the mysterious, brilliant Captain Jack Horkness. But they soon find themselves on the same side, fighting the greatest threat to humanity ever known - humanity itself. - Director:
- Bharat Nalluri
- Cast:
- John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Mekhi Phifer
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