Projects matching: Richard Eyre

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When the geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital is threatened with closure, the hospital decides to fight back by galvanizing the local community, and invite a news crew to film their preparations for a concert in honour of the hospital’s most distinguished nurse. What could go wrong? ALLELUJAH celebrates the spirit of the elderly patients whilst paying tribute to the deep humanity of the medical staff battling with limited resources and ever-growing demand. Official selection Toronto International Film Festival 2022 - Special Presentation - World premiere

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An ageing king invites disaster when he abdicates in favour of his two corrupt elder daughters and rejects his younger, honest child.

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As her marriage to Jack founders, eminent High Court judge Fiona Maye has a life-changing decision to make. Should she force a teenage boy, Adam, to have the blood transfusion that will save his life? Her visit to his hospital bedside has a profound impact on them both, stirring strong new emotions in the boy and long-buried feelings in her. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2017 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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Based on a short story by Bernhard Schlink, The Other Man tells the story of Peter, who is missing his wife Lisa when he discovers that she has been receiving emails and mobile messages from a man he never knew existed. Against the advice of his daughter, Abigail, a hurt and vengeful Peter flies to Milan to seek out the mysterious Ralph and the truth about the other man in his wife's life.

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The film opens in England, on the hottest day of the summer of 1935. Thirteen year old Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous Victorian Gothic mansion. As the family gathers for the weekend, the combination of the oppressive heat and long suppressed emotions coming to the surface create an ominous sense of threat and danger. Briony, a fledgling writer, is a girl with a vivid imagination. Through a series of catastropic misunderstandings which take place that day, the lives of Briony, her sister and her sister's newfound lover Robbie Turner - who is also the housekeeper's son - will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach, becoming victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination. Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt of which will colour her entire life.

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Middle-aged history teacher Barbara discovers that the beguiling Sheba, a new teacher at St George's, is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old pupils. Barbara quickly positions herself as Sheba's chief defender. However, all is not what it seems and, as Sheba soon discovers, a friend can be just as treacherous as any lover.

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It is 1661, and Edward Knyaston (Billy Crudup) is theatre land's most famous "leading lady". Overnight his life is shattered by the Reformation law, which forbids an actor to play women on stage. Seemingly headed for the bottom of a bottle, it is up to his lovelorn dresser Maria (Claire Danes) to teach him what it means to be a man again.   A beautiful, touching and funny period romp about, love sex and everything in-between.

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John Bayley, adoring husband to the famous novelist Dame Iris Murdoch, holds on to what he can as the witty, brilliant Iris slips into the devastation of Alzheimer's. A poignant, poetic evocation of a modern literary legend confronted with true love.   Adapted from the writings of John Bayley.