5 Movies Starring Celia Imrie

The Borrowers

The Borrowers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-02-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

89 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (15316 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Hewitt

Cast:

Writer:

Mary Norton (novels)

Gavin Scott (screenplay)

John Kamps (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The Borrowers are four-inch high "little people" who live under the floorboards. When the owner of the house they live in dies and evil realtor Ocious Potter wants to destroy the house to build luxury apartments on its place, they start to fight him with the help of the son of house owner, Pete.

Gormenghast

Gormenghast

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-06-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

232 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (2461 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Gormenghast is an ancient city-state which primarily consists of a rambling and crumbling castle. The narrative, based on the first two of the three Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake, begins with the birth of a son, Titus, to the 76th Earl, Sepulchrave Groan, and Countess Gertrude. This mismatched pair (he'd prefer the melancholy privacy of his library; she'd prefer the company of her menagerie of cats and birds) also have a teenaged daughter, Fuchsia, who resents her new brother but comes to love him dearly. Simultaneously, a young kitchen apprentice, Steerpike, takes advantage of an altercation between head cook Swelter and the Earl's manservant, Mr. Flay, and escapes from the kitchens. Gormenghast is rigidly feudal in structure, but Steerpike has ambitions. He befriends the imaginative, yearning Fuchsia, and through her becomes apprenticed to the castle physician, Dr. Prunesquallor, who lives with his man-hunting sister Irma. This position allows Steerpike to work his way into the favour of the Earl's discontented twin sisters, Cora and Clarice, who feel displaced by Gertrude. The Earl's library mysteriously burns during a family gathering there, and subsequently the Earl goes fatally mad, and Steerpike gains a position with the castle's Master of Ritual. As Titus grows into childhood then adolescence, he chafes at the restrictions of Gormenghast's ritual-bound way of life and seeks ways of escape. He grows to resent and despise the ever-more ambitious Steerpike, who is gradually pursuing Titus's beloved sister Fuchsia. When Steerpike becomes Master of Ritual himself (although he's scarred for life in the fire that kills his predecessor), Titus decides he's had enough. But significant acts of treachery, which he discovers with the help of faithful Mr. Flay and the doctor (whose sister meanwhile has snagged the Gormenghast schoolmaster), force Titus's hand, and Steerpike must run, and fight, for his life, over the rooftops of a Gormenghast flooded by torrential rains.

Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones's Diary

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-04-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, France, USA, Ireland

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (155989 Reviews)

Director:

Sharon Maguire

Cast:

Writer:

Helen Fielding (novel)

Helen Fielding (screenplay)

Andrew Davies (screenplay)

Richard Curtis (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her many imperfections. As a New Year's Resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance who Bridget cannot seem to stop running into or help finding quietly attractive.

Thunderpants

Thunderpants

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-05-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, Germany

Runtime:

87 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

3.6 (4418 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Hewitt

Cast:

Writer:

Peter Hewitt (story)

Phil Hughes

Fullplot:

Patrick Smash (11) was born with two stomachs, and hence the uncontrollable 'talent' to produce ungodly farts. This soon drives his own dad away and makes his social life hell. His only friend is classmate Alan A. Allen, a prodigy genius, who has no sense of smell. Even Alan's invention Thunderpants, which renders Patrick's farts harmless, can't make his space travel dream realistic. However after the invention of an adaptation which turns it into flying fuel, Alan is recruited by the US space center. Patrick becomes word class tenor Sir John Osgood's secret high C farter. Their reunion is even more incredible.

Imagine Me & You

Imagine Me & You

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-05-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, Germany

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (21077 Reviews)

Director:

Ol Parker

Fullplot:

Rachel and Heck, long time friends and lovers, finally tie the knot, and during the celebration, Rachel starts a friendship with their florist, Luce. And while Rachel originally intended to match her new friend, Luce, up with her husband's friend, Cooper, she soon finds out that Luce is a lesbian. During the course of their friendship, Rachel starts to question her own sexuality. And though she comes to realize she may have feelings for her new friend, Rachel must decide who she will ultimately find the most happiness with: Heck, her new husband who is also adored by her family, or Luce, who has turned her life and everything she thought she knew about love upside down.

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