On Thanksgiving 1987, police raided the Great Neck, Long Island, home of Arnold and Elaine Friedman and confiscated a stack of child pornography.
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HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE (1984)
Certification18 Our Rating
Based on John Irvings tragi-comedy about an eccentric family who run a particularly off beat hotel. A performing bear, a flatulent dog and a group of Viennese terrorists all go into the manic mix of this great cinema adaptation.
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SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959)
Certification15 Our Rating
Based on a Tennessee Williams play and touching on all manner of depraved horrors. Taylor plays the girl driven to madness by what she's witnessed and Clift is the shrink being pressured to lobotomise her, but Hepburn steals the show as the unnervingly genteel aunt trying to sweep everything under the carpet.
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THE DANGEROUS LIVES OF ALTAR BOYS (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
After being caught drawing an obscene comic book, a group of Catholic school friends plan a prank to make them local legends. An intelligent, thoughtful and well acted coming of age drama that effectively mixes animated flights of fantasy with the real characters.
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THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
From the director of Rushmore comes the story of Royal Tenenbaum and his idiosyncratic family. Having separated from his wife ten years ago, Royal has been estranged from his strange children and wants to make up for some lost time. A little white lie gets Royal back into his family home but all will not go as he plans. Richie used to play tennis professionally until a breakdown on the court; Margot, a chain-smoking playwright has an unseemly marital past and an even dimmer present, while widowe
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THE SHIPPING NEWS (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
Quoyle is running away from a recent tragedy, and, along with his young daughter, finds refuge in the home of his childhood, a small fishing village in Newfoundland. It is in this place of reclusive beauty and seasonal hardship that Quoyle finds the opportunity to begin rebuilding his shattered emotions and perhaps another chance at happiness. The Shipping News is based on the novel by E Annie Proulx and directed by the man responsible for Chocolat and Cider House Rules, a quality drama with a s
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WATERLAND (1992)
Certification15 Our Rating
Superb adaptation of Graham Swift's novel about growing up in the poverty stricken, primitive, rural Fenland. Irons is peerless as the ageing and troubled history teacher, disillusioned as his students with dry facts and figures, taking them on a field trip though his personal history re-exploring his marriage to his childhood love and the often tragic experiences that befell them. Brilliant and moving.
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