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Joan Plowright

Joan Plowright

British actress
October 28, 1929 (95 years old)
U.S. 2008. Fantasy by Mark Waters with Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, David Strathairn. A boy troubled by his parents' separation discovers that the woods surrounding his new home are teeming with disturbing creatures.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 2004. Adventures by Paul Feig with Ben Tibber, Joan Plowright, Jim Caviezel. In 1952, a twelve-year-old boy escapes from a Bulgarian labor camp and sets out on a long journey across Europe.
Runtime: 92 min.
G.-B. 2003. Adventures by Tom Reeve with James Purefoy, Piper Perabo, Patrick Swayze. Returning to his native England after a long absence, a knight sets out to find a princess who has mysteriously disappeared.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 2003. Comedy by Adam Shankman with Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy. An African-American woman who escaped from prison bursts into the quiet life of a Los Angeles lawyer.
Runtime: 105 min.

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G.-B. 2002. Mores comedy by Sidney J. Furie with Peter O'Toole, Joan Plowright, Alicia Silverstone. A broke couple rents out their English manor to rock musicians and pose as their servants.
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 2001. Tale by Michael Tuchner with Camilla Belle, Joan Plowright, Cherie Lunghi. A little American girl tries to bring back to life the magic garden of the English orphanage where she stays.
U.S. 2001. Fantasy by Michael M. Robin with Linda Hamilton, Richard Burgi, Joan Plowright. After her husband's death, a mother discovers that he had just bought a piece of land on an island that harbours surprising secrets.
U.S. 2000. Dramatic comedy by JoBeth Williams with Mischa Barton, Ingrid Uribe, Joan Plowright. A young teenager with a talent for ballet also tries her hand at baseball while her best friend runs for mayor of their small town.
Runtime: 92 min.
It. 1999. Chronicle by Franco Zeffirelli with Baird Wallace, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith. Raised by his father's English secretary, a young boy grows up in Fascist-era Italy.
Runtime: 118 min.
G.-B. 1998. Dramatic comedy by Gavin Millar with Joan Plowright, Jonathan Burteaux, Penelope Wilton. An elderly English lady runs away to Paris, where she befriends a kid who has stolen money from drug dealers.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1998. Spy drama by John Mackenzie with Timothy Hutton, Joan Plowright, Elizabeth Pena. For eight years, out of professional spite and greed, a CIA bureaucrat sells state secrets to the KGB.
G.-B. 1996. Psychological drama by Franco Zeffirelli with William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joan Plowright.
Runtime: 116 min.
Runtime: 112 min.
G.-B. 1994. Dramatic comedy by John Irvin with Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson.
Runtime: 101 min.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 1994. Social drama by Joan Tewkesbury with Carl Lumbly, Joan Plowright, Norman D. Golden II.
Tch. 1994. Mores drama by Hannah Kodichek with Florence Hoath, Joan Plowright, Ian Bannen.
U.S. 1993. Melodrama by John Gray with Sissy Spacek, Mary-Louise Parker, Joan Plowright. Wanting to adopt a baby with AIDS, a nurse arranges for the baby
Runtime: 99 min.
G.-B. 1992. Dramatic comedy by Mike Newell with Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright. Dying of boredom in London, the wife of a morose civil servant rents a castle in Italy to stay with three companions.
Runtime: 93 min.
G.-B. 1991. Mores drama by Nuria Espert with Glenda Jackson, Joan Plowright, Patricia Hayes. A domineering mother interferes in her daughters' love lives.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 1990. Comedy by Lawrence Kasdan with Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright. When she discovers that her husband is a fraud, a young woman decides to kill him with the help of her mother.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1989. Mores drama by Robert Knights with Phillys Logan, Tom Watt, Joan Plowright. The trials and tribulations of a family in an industrial town in the north of England during the Second World War.
Runtime: 95 min.
G.-B. 1988. Mores drama by Jim O'Brien with Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Jane Horrocks. In 1944, the sentimental tribulations of an American soldier with a shy, young girl from Liverpool who is very attached to the veneer of respectability.
Runtime: 90 min.
G.-B. 1988. Dramatic comedy by Peter Greenaway with Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson. To escape the law, three women from the same family who murdered their spouses seek the help of an eccentric coroner.
Runtime: 118 min.
G.-B. 1985. History by Hugh Hudson with Al Pacino, Nastassja Kinski, Donald Sutherland. In 1776, a trapper is enlisted against his will in the war led by the American patriots to obtain their independence.
Runtime: 125 min.
G.-B. 1982. Mores drama by Richard Loncraine with Sting, Denholm Elliott, Joan Plowright. A strange young man imposes himself on a middle-aged couple whose daughter has paraplegia after an accident.
Runtime: 87 min.
U.S. 1977. Psychological drama by Sidney Lumet with Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Joan Plowright. A psychiatrist takes care of a teenager with strange behavior.
Runtime: 137 min.
G.-B. 1970. Psychological drama by Laurence Olivier with Joan Plowright, Jeanne Watts, Louise Purnell.
Runtime: 165 min.
G.-B. 1968. Drama by John Sichel with Alec Guinness, Tommy Steele, Joan Plowright. To win the heart of a noble lady, a lover uses a young woman disguised as a man.
Runtime: 101 min.
G.-B. 1960. Psychological drama by Tony Richardson with Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Brenda de Banzie. In the forties, the decline of a selfish and mediocre music hall artist.
Runtime: 97 min.

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