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The Brothers Grimm
By Terry Gillian
Will (Damon) and Jake (Ledger) Grimm dazzle small towns with their imaginative folklore and elaborate illusions, but when the brothers journey into a real enchanted forest to help a village rid itself of an evil witch, they encounter many of the fantastic characters and thrilling situations found in their beloved fairy tales.
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William Shakespeare’s ‘As you like it’
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Rosalind (Bryce Dallas Howard) is the daughter of a duke (Brian Blessed) living among a community of Westerners in 19th century Japan. When her father is suddenly banished, the frightened girl is forced to flee for the Forest of Arden lest she risk being executed by her malevolent uncle.
Joining Rosalind on her journey to the forest is her sympathetic cousin Celia (Romola Garai), who helps to pass her incognito kin off as a man in order to avoid detection. Later, Rosalind's clever ruse begins to serve a dual purpose when she determines to use the disguise to gauge the devotion of another exile, Orlando (David Oyelowo).
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The Road (from novel by Cormac McCarthy)
Director: John Hillcoat
In the burnt-out wasteland of a post-apocalyptic America, a man (Viggo Mortensen) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) try to survive by any means possible as they follow a desolate, corpse-strewn road towards the coast, where they hope to find some kind of a future for themselves. Travelling with only the clothes they are wearing, a small cart of scavenged food and a pistol with two bullets as protection, they struggle to survive in the ravaged landscape, encountering a few other desperate survivors along the way.
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The EUROPEANS (from novel by Henry James)
Director: James Ivory
Baroness Eugenia Munster (Lee Remick) travels from Europe with her brother Felix (Tim Woodward) to live with her country cousins, the Wentworths, who regard Eugenia and Felix as a pair of dangerous exotics. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's script reflects the wit of Henry James' novel as Felix falls for Gertrude (Lisa Eichhorn), daughter of the family, and Eugenia embarks on a romance with Robert Acton (Robin Ellis), the district's most eligible bachelor.
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Madame Bovary (from novel by Gustave Flaubert)
Director: Tim Fywell
Bored of her marriage to husband Charles (Hugh Bonneville), Emma Bovary (Frances O'Connor) embarks on a series of affairs, encouraged by suave aristocrat Rudolphe (Greg Wise). Along the way Emma incurs heavy debts with devious tradesman Lheureux (Keith Barron), and when Rudolphe deserts her it seems that her world is about to fall apart.
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Wuthering Heights (from novel by Emily Brontë)
Director: Dick Coles
Ken Hutchison stars as the brooding and tormented lover Heathcliff in this BBC television adaptation of Emily Bronte's classic novel. Adopted as a boy by the kindly Mr Earnshaw (John Collin), Heathcliff comes to live with the family at their home, Wuthering Heights, in the Yorkshire moors. He soon falls in love with Earnshaw's headstrong daughter Cathy (Kay Adshead), a doomed relationship that plunges them both into despair when Cathy agrees to marry her rich neighbour Edgar Linton (David Robb).
Tortured by his love, the dark and sinister Heathcliff refuses to relinquish his emotional hold on Cathy, and does everything in his power to destroy the lives of her and her family.
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Dorian GRAY (from novel by Oscar Wilde)
Director: Oliver Parker
When Dorian arrives in London he is introduced to a rakish, dissolute lifestyle by the larger-than-life character of Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth). When one of Wotton's artist friends paints Dorian's portrait, Dorian makes an offhand vow to always stay as young and handsome as he is in the picture, even at the cost of his soul.
As his behaviour becomes ever more corrupt and hedonistic, Dorian's comely countenance remains unchanged; but the portrait begins to tell a different story...
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The Help(from novel by Kathryn Stockett)
Director: Tate Taylor
It is 1964 and racism is rife in Jackson, Mississippi. Skeeter (Emma Stone), the strong-willed daughter of a well-to-do family, returns to the town from college to take up a role at the local newspaper.
However, working as a 'homemaker hints' columnist in the paper is by no means the extent of Skeeter's ambitions. Disturbed by the negative attitude of her friend, Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard), towards her house staff, Skeeter decides to write a book chronicling the experiences of the black maids who have spent much of their lives serving her and her contemporaries. Initially, the maids seem reluctant and suspicious.
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