Directed by Jack Clayton • 1987 • United Kingdom
Starring Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller
Maggie Smith delivers a tremendously moving performance as a woman grappling with loneliness, love, and faith in this sensitive character study adapted from the novel by Brian Moore. Middle-aged spinster Judith Hearne (Smith) has seen life pass her by. Now alone and living in a rundown boarding house, she begins to question the Catholic piety that has heretofore governed her life. The possibility of a relationship with her landlord’s widowed brother (Bob Hoskins), newly arrived from America, offers her a chance for redemption—but is it only an illusion?
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The Raggedy Rawney
Directed by Bob Hoskins • 1988 • United Kingdom
Starring Dexter Fletcher, Bob Hoskins, Zoë NathensonAcclaimed actor Bob Hoskins made a striking directorial debut with this curiously captivating fable that plays freely with gender, fantasy, and magic. Stationed somewhere in Eastern Europe, a you...
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Felicia’s Journey
Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1999 • Canada, United Kingdom
Starring Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinée KhanjianAtom Egoyan’s haunting adaptation of the novel by William Trevor is a Hitchcockian psychological thriller that swirls around the filmmaker’s signature themes of fate and loss. Felicia (...
