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Melinda and Melinda
2005 • 100 minutes • Colour • Fox Searchlight
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Jonny Lee Miller, Radha Mitchell, Amanda Peet, Gene Saks, Chloë Sevigny, Wallace Shawn
Two alternating stories about Melinda's (Mitchell) attempts to straighten out her life.
Men Don't Leave
1990 • 114 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Paul Brickman
Cast: Jessica Lange, Chris O'Donnell, Charlie Korsmo, Arliss Howard, Tom Mason, Joan Cusack
Widowed Lange, left broke with two sons, relocates from small-town Maryland to a downtown Baltimore high rise.
Merchant of Venice
2004 • 127 minutes • Colour • Mongrel Media
Director: Michael Radford
Cast: Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Zuleikha Robinson
Kris Marshall, Charlie Cox, Heather Goldenhersh
In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic
ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
Merry War
1997 • 101 minutes • Colour • Maple Pictures
Director: Robert Bierman
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Wadham, Jim Carter, Harriet Walter, Lesley Vickerage, Liz Smith
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous
poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
Mickey Blue Eye’s
1999 • 103 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Kelly Makin
Cast: James Caan, James Fox, Hugh Grant, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Burt Young
A romantic Comedy about Michael Felgate (Grant), an English art dealer in New York, who is head-over-heels in love with his beautiful
girlfriend, Gina (Tripplehorn), daughter of Mafia boss Frank Vitale (Caan). In order to win her hand, Michael embarks on a mission to
thwart the Mob but, within days, is laundering money, witnessing murder and masquerading as the notorious mobster “Mickey Blue Eyes.”
The Middle of the World
2003 • 85 minutes • Colour • Mongrel Media
Director: Vicente Amorim
Cast: Wagner Moura, Cláudia Abreu, Manoel Sebastião Alves Filho, Carol Castro, Laís Corrêa, Cícera Cristina Almino de Lima
Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. Based
on a true story, The Middle of the World follows a family of seven on a journey 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles.
Along the way, director Vicente Amorim beautifully explores the inner dynamics of a family facing a great challenge. The Middle of the
World is an unimaginable road movie, both graceful and tender, about having the courage to pursue your dreams.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1999 • 120 minutes • Colour • Fox Searchlight
Director: Michael Hoffman
Cast: Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci, Calista Flockhart, Anna Friel
A splendid cast that includes Christian Bale, Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, Kevin Kline, Sophie Marceau, Michelle Pfeiffer, David
Strathairn and Stanley Tucci brings to life this dynamic and enchanting new version of Shakespeare's most magical comedy. Teeming with
dangerous potions, fairy warfare and misbegotten romances, "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream" is the wondrous tale of
a singular night in which roguish spirits turn the world of love on its head.
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