Movies Starring Brenda Blethyn
War and Peace
Alexander Beyer, Clémence Poésy, Alessio Boni, Malcolm McDowell, Andrea Giordana, Brenda Blethyn, Violante Placido, Toni Bertorelli, Hannelore Elsner, Benjamin Sadler, Pilar Abella, Ken Duken, Hary Prinz, Vladimir Ilyin, Dmitri Isayev
DIRECTOR:Brendan Donnison
The story of five aristocratic families in Russia during the the Napoleonic Era.
Atonement
You can only imagine the truth.
Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Blethyn, Julia West, James McAvoy, Harriet Walter, Keira Knightley, Juno Temple, Felix von Simson, Charlie von Simson, Alfie Allen, Patrick Kennedy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Wight, Peter O'Connor, Daniel Mays
DIRECTOR:In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis observes a flirtation between a servant's son, Robbie, and her older sister, Cecilia, that she childishly misconstrues. Briony's misunderstanding leads to a terrible crime whose consequences follow them through World War II.
Clubland
The only remedy for love is to love more
Brenda Blethyn, Peter Callan, Khan Chittenden, Brendan Clearkin, Russell Dykstra, Frankie J. Holden, Philip Quast, Richard Wilson, Emma Booth, Rebecca Gibney, Katie Wall
DIRECTOR:Cherie Nowlan
The shy son (Chittenden) of an aging comedienne (Blethyn) tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend (Booth), and his mother's second chance at fame.
Pride & Prejudice
This holiday season, experience the greatest love story of all time.
Keira Knightley, Talulah Riley, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Carey Mulligan, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Claudie Blakley, Sylvester Morand, Simon Woods, Kelly Reilly, Matthew MacFadyen, Pip Torrens, Janet Whiteside, Sinead Matthews
DIRECTOR:The story is based on Jane Austen's novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend (Mr. Darcy) arrive in their neighborhood.
Beyond the Sea
BOBBY DARIN . . . in the era of cool he was the soundtrack.
Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins, Brenda Blethyn, Greta Scacchi, Caroline Aaron, Peter Cincotti, William Ullrich, Michael Byrne, Matt Rippy, Gary Whelan, Jake Broder, Tayfun Bademsoy, Tomas Spencer
DIRECTOR:Kevin Spacey
Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. He's volatile, driven by the love of performing, ambition, perfectionism, and belief that he's living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly, then "Splish Splash" puts him at the top of the charts and on "Bandstand." He wants to be an entertainer, not a pop star, so he aims for the Copacabana; then it's on to the movies, where he meets and marries Sandra Dee. After, it's balancing career, health, marriage and family life, balances he doesn't always keep. Throughout, conversations with his boyhood self give him perspective.
Blizzard
Jonathan Wilson, Wendii Fulford, Gary Johnston, Demetrius Joyette, Aidan O'Hara, Brenda Blethyn, Zoe Warner, Josh Buckle, J.D. Nicholsen, Jan Triska, Kevin Pollak, Christopher Plummer, Brittany Bristow, Stephanie Morgenstern, Jackie Byers
DIRECTOR:LeVar Burton
A young girl's aunt tells her the tale of a young ice skater and an enchanted reindeer.
The Sleeping Dictionary
Learn to speak her language.
Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Hugh Dancy, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Ling Lee Ian, Junix Inocian, Michael Jessing Langgi, Mano Maniam, K.K. Moggie, Emily Mortimer, Cicilia Anak Richard, Malcolm Rogers, Eugene Salleh, Noah Taylor, Kate Helen White
DIRECTOR:Guy Jenkin
In 1936, the expatriated young and naive just-graduated British John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) arrives to the Sarawak, a British colony, to work in the Iban society. The beautiful Selima (Jessica Alba) is assigned to be his "sleeping dictionary", to live and sleep with him and teach him the language and habits of the locals. The reluctant John and Selima fall in love for each other in a forbidden romance.
Sonny
His life was the morning after, until he decided to change the night before.
James Franco, Brenda Blethyn, Harry Dean Stanton, Mena Suvari, Josie Davis, Nicolas Cage, Scott Caan, Seymour Cassel, Brenda Vaccaro, Willie Metcalf, Marc Coppola, Janet Shea, Cary Wilmot Alden, Graham Timbes, Wallace Merck
DIRECTOR:Nicolas Cage
New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home. The only life he's known is as a gigolo, working for his mother, but he wants to leave that behind. However, the job his Army buddy promised doesn't materialize, and he can't escape his past.
Lovely & Amazing
If you're hoping for the perfect family don't hold your breath.
Troy Ruptash, Emily Mortimer, Brenda Blethyn, Raven Goodwin, Catherine Keener, Kristen Dalton, Romy Rosemont, Aunjanue Ellis, Brooke Allison, Jennifer Zehnder, James LeGros, Ashlynn Rose, Clark Gregg, Dreya Weber
DIRECTOR:The Marks family is a tightly-knit quartet of women. Jane is the affluent matriarch whose 3 daughters seem to have nothing in common except for a peculiar sort of idealism. Setting the tone of vanity and insecurity, Jane is undergoing cosmetic surgery to alter her figure, but serious complications put her health in real danger. Former homecoming queen Michelle, the eldest daughter, has one daughter of her own and an alienated, unsupportive husband. Elizabeth, the middle sister, has an acting career that is beginning to take off, but is timid and insecure, and habitually relieves her trepidation by taking in stray dogs. Only the youngest sister, Annie, an adopted African American 8-year-old, stands a chance of avoiding the family legacy of anxious self-absorption. If only her intelligence and curiosity will see her through what promises to be a confusing adolescence. Each of the women seeks redemption in her own haphazard way.
Little Voice
Finding your own voice can be magic.
Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Ewan McGregor, Philip Jackson, Annette Badland, Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, James Welsh, Karen Gregory, Fred Feast, Graham Turner, George Oliver, Virgil Tracy, Dick Van Winkle
DIRECTOR:The pathetically shy LV lives the life of a recluse listening to her late fathers old records in her room and in the process driving her abusive, loud-mouthed mother, Mari Hoff, to distraction. At night, however, when her father's ghost visits, LV sings the songs of the great divas such as Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Bassey. One evening LV is overheard by one of her mother's loathsome boyfriends, the disastrous dead-end talent scout Ray Say, who recognizes her innate talent and realizes this is his last big chance for the glittering prizes. Gambling everything Ray Say forces LV to appear at a local run-down, seedy night club run by Mr. Boo. As preparations for the big event proceed apace LV meets the equally shy Billy, a pigeon-racing telephone engineer and they form a tentative, gentle friendship. The big night finally arrives and everything is in readiness the band, the club and even a big agent from London, but what about LV?
The Witches
Saving the world from witches is a tall order for a boy they've turned into a mouse!
Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Jane Horrocks, Anne Lambton, Rowan Atkinson, Bill Paterson, Brenda Blethyn, Charlie Potter, Sukie Smith, Rose English, Jenny Runacre, Annabel Brooks, Emma Relph, Nora Connolly
DIRECTOR:A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid the world of all children.
