5 Movies Starring Denis Lawson

Local Hero

Local Hero

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-02-17

Languages:

English, Russian, Japanese

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (14986 Reviews)

Director:

Bill Forsyth

Fullplot:

Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scotish villiage to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the 'Silver Dollar' and can't believe their luck. However a local hermit and beach scavenger, Ben Knox, lives in a shack on the crucial beach which he also owns. Happer is more interested in the Northern Lights and Danny in a surreal girl with webbed feet, Marina. Mac is used to a Houston office with fax machines but is forced to negotiate on Bens terms.

Bleak House

Bleak House

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-01-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

510 min

IMDB Ratings:

8.6 (5645 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

A suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th-century English legal system

Jekyll

Jekyll

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-08-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (6248 Reviews)

Fullplot:

London, 2007. Tom Jackman is the only living descendent of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He has made a deal with his dark side: a body share. What Mr. Hyde doesn't know is that Tom has a family. There is a wife and two children that he'll do anything to protect from his dark side. With all the resources of modern technology, and the best surveillance hardware, he's determined to keep his dark side in line. He's done a deal with his own devil. What neither of them knows is that an ancient organisation, with limitless wealth and power, is monitoring their every move, and a plan over a century in the making is coming to fruition.

Enid

Enid

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-11-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

82 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1008 Reviews)

Director:

James Hawes

Fullplot:

Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family. Whilst training as a teacher after the Great War she sends her stories to publishers, one of whom, Hugh Pollock,takes her on and also marries her. They have two daughters but Enid is a terrible mother, letting a nanny rear them whilst she, ironically, bestows treats on anonymous children who worship her for her stories. She is completely self-absorbed,driving Hugh to drink and then to another woman. Enid uses the children as emotional blackmail to get a divorce on her terms before marrying Kenneth Waters, a weak man similar to her father. After World War Two she is as popular as ever, despite accusations of using a syndicate to pen her books and will carry on,adored by children who do not know her true nature, for another twenty years and her death in 1968.

The Machine

The Machine

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-03-21

Languages:

English, Chinese

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (22011 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Two artificial intelligence engineers come together as they work to create the first ever self-aware artificial intelligence. A veteran AI engineer secretly hopes to develop technology to help his diseased daughter, even if it means funding comes from the powerful Ministry of Defense (MoD). His new partner, a young woman gifted in the field of AI, is brought on after her breakthroughs are recognized by the MoD. Things go wrong when the MoD takes over and advances the researchers' work to the next level, teaching the AI to kill and follow MoD instructions with its new and nearly indestructible body.

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