Peter Yates' Oscar-winner is a heart-warming coming-of-age story that has also taken its place as the greatest sports movie about cycling ever made. Four friends graduate from high-school and find themselves looking at an uncertain future in small-town America. Dave's passion is cycling and his dream is to be a world-class champion like the Italians he idolises. His passion for cycling takes on new meaning when he and his friends face a team from the local college in the town's annual bike ra find out more...
As the second son of George V, the future George VI was not expected to ascend to the throne, but when his brother Edward abdicated he found himself a reluctant king. Plagued by a nervous stammer he was expected to make a rousing radio speech to herald Britain’s entry into the war against the Third Reich. ‘The Kings Speech’ charts the touching, often humourous, personal relationship that developed between England's reluctant King and his irreverent Australian speech therapis find out more...
A superb screen adaptation of William Gibson's play about Helen Keller who following an illness during infancy is left blind, deaf, and mute. Loved and yet misunderstood by her parents, Helen is allowed to run wild as she frustratedly struggles to communicate with the world around her. The generally held belief that Helen is a creature to be pitied, loved and incapable of intelligent interaction all changes with the arrival of a new governess Annie, played by Ann Bancroft, who having to overc find out more...
