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The Corn Is Green *** (1979, Katharine Hepburn, Ian Saynor, Bill Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 10,371
Katharine Hepburn stars in director George Cukor’s touching 1979 made-for-TV version of Emlyn Williams’s famous semi-autobiographical 1938 hit play The Corn Is Green (which originally starred Ethel Barrymore) about an 1890s Welsh unmarried teacher and […]
Educating Rita **** (1983, Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams) – Classic Movie Review 6555
Willy Russell’s 1980 Royal Shakespeare Company West End stage comedy proved even more popular on film in 1983 than in the theatre, partly thanks to the engaging interplay between Julie Walters as Rita, a 27- year-old working-class […]
Major Payne ** (1995, Damon Wayans, Michael Ironside, Karyn Parsons, William Hickey, Michael Ironside, Albert Hall) – Classic Movie Review 6512
Director Nick Castle’s 1995 comedy stars Damon Wayans (who also co-wrote and co-produces) as Major Payne, who is discharged from the US Marines but lands a job teaching mismatched cadet school children combat skills. Wayans […]
Madame Sousatzka *** (1988, Shirley MacLaine, Navin Chowdhry, Peggy Ashcroft, Twiggy, Leigh Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 6025
Shirley MacLaine stars as Madame Sousatzka, dotty piano teacher to a 15-year-old prodigy, Manek Sen (Navin Chowdhry), in co-writer/ director John Schlesinger’s pleasantly offbeat 1988 drama of life in a West London house peopled by […]
Shadowlands **** (1993, Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Edward Hardwicke, Michael Denison, John Wood, Joseph Mazzello, Julian Fellowes, Peter Firth, Robert Flemyng) – Classic Movie Review 5757
Producer-director Richard Attenborough’s 1993 cinema version of William Nicholson’s TV and stage play is a wonderfully warm-hearted and poignant experience. It won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the 1994 BAFTA Awards. there were […]
Mr Holland’s Opus **** (1995, Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, William H Macy) – Classic Movie Review 5569
Oscar nominated as Best Actor, Richard Dreyfuss is excellent as Mr Glenn Holland, a music teacher recalling his 40-year career – and his failure as his true vocation of being a composer – on the […]
A Child Is Waiting **** (1963, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Bruce Ritchey, Gena Rowlands, Steven Hill, Paul Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 4246
Burt Lancaster gives a commanding performance as Dr Matthew Clark, the psychiatrist in charge of an institution for mentally handicapped children in this sincere, moving and emotionally wrenching 1963 movie version of acclaimed American writer Abby Mann’s acclaimed […]