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Mothertime
''Mothertime'' is a 1997 British film directed by Matthew Jacobs. Plot Vanessa and her siblings watch, as their divorced mother once again becomes drunk, making the children believe their Christmas will be ruined once again. Some drastic changes must be taken. When their mother is drunk, they take her and lock her in a basement to dry out. So begins a conspiracy to hide her absence from their father and the cleaning lady. The children feed their mother and spend many hours in the basement with her, hence the title ''Mothertime''. The children also spend time with their beloved father and his new wife hoping to spring a new but long lost family whole again. Unfortunately, the manoeuvres are not so easy. Cast *Kate Maberly as Vanessa *Gina McKee as Caroline * Anthony Andrews as Robin *Imogen Stubbs as Suzie * Sheila Allen as Eileen *Felix Bell as Lot * Rosalind Bennett as Ruby * Faith Brook as Isobel *Megan De Wolf as Sacha *Rosy De Wolf as Amber *Kevin Dyer as Park Supervisor *St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mothertime
''Mothertime'' is a 1997 British film directed by Matthew Jacobs. Plot Vanessa and her siblings watch, as their divorced mother once again becomes drunk, making the children believe their Christmas will be ruined once again. Some drastic changes must be taken. When their mother is drunk, they take her and lock her in a basement to dry out. So begins a conspiracy to hide her absence from their father and the cleaning lady. The children feed their mother and spend many hours in the basement with her, hence the title ''Mothertime''. The children also spend time with their beloved father and his new wife hoping to spring a new but long lost family whole again. Unfortunately, the manoeuvres are not so easy. Cast *Kate Maberly as Vanessa *Gina McKee as Caroline * Anthony Andrews as Robin *Imogen Stubbs as Suzie * Sheila Allen as Eileen *Felix Bell as Lot * Rosalind Bennett as Ruby * Faith Brook as Isobel *Megan De Wolf as Sacha *Rosy De Wolf as Amber *Kevin Dyer as Park Supervisor *St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Jacobs
Matthew Jacobs (born 1 July 1956) is a British writer, director, producer and actor. He is known best for his extensive career writing for television shows like ''Doctor Who'' and ''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles''. He also directed two prize-winning TV movies for BBC films, '' Hallelujah Anyhow'' (1992) and ''Mothertime'' (1998). As an actor, he starred alongside Danny Huston in '' Boxing Day'', Bernard Rose's 2012 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novella " Master and Man". Life and career Jacobs worked as one of the many writers for George Lucas's ''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles''. His episodes included "Passion for Life," "The Perils of Cupid," "Travels with Father," "Spring Break Adventure," "Attack of the Hawkmen" and "Hollywood Follies." Jacobs is perhaps best remembered for writing and co-producing the 1996 ''Doctor Who'' television movie, which featured Paul McGann as the Doctor and Eric Roberts as the Master. Jacobs was responsible for writing the first televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Maberly
Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly (; born 14 March 1982) is an English actress, director, writer, producer, and musician. She has appeared in film, television, radio and theatre. Early life Maberly was born in Reigate, Surrey, England. She is the daughter of a lawyer and one of five children; her older sister Polly is also an actress. She has two older brothers, Thomas and Guy, and one younger brother, Jack. Maberly attended Dunottar School, Reigate where she skipped ahead a year and left with A-levels in maths, chemistry, history and music. Maberly began swimming competitively at the age of 5 and was a county champion swimmer up to the age of 16. At 7 years old she completed the BT National Swimathon (as the youngest individual to complete the event at the time) which she did to raise money for St Piers Lingfield (Now "Young Epilepsy"), a school to help children with Epilepsy. She represented her county in tennis from the age of 12, and from 2004-2010 she played for the Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Glen
Georgie Glen is a Scottish actress, known for her film and television work in both dramatic and comedic roles. Among her most popular performances are the running characters of Miss Higgins in the BBC One period drama series ''Call The Midwife'' from 2018 onwards, and of history teacher Audrey McFall in the BBC One school-based drama series '' Waterloo Road'' from 2012 to 2015. Life and career Glen is from Helensburgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland and graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a degree in graphic design. She worked at Thames and Hudson publishers as an assistant book designer for five years before studying at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for two years. After graduating she worked for a year at Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich, England. She has featured in the BBC One drama series, ''Call the Midwife'', '' Waterloo Road'', ''Les Misérables'', as Mother Abbess; in 2012, she had appeared in ''Les Misérables'' the film, as Madame Baptistine. Additional period per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian White (writer)
Gillian White (1945-2020; pen name, Georgina Fleming) was a British novelist and former journalist, several of whose works were adapted for television. Life She was born on 6 February 1945 in Streatham, south London, and was adopted as a baby by Ted and Lily Smith of Wirral, Merseyside, where she grew up. She had a difficult childhood, was expelled from three schools, and ran away to London, where a social worker helped her to obtain a job as a junior reporter on a newspaper in Harlow, Essex. There she met journalist Ron White, and they married in 1967. In the 1970s they moved to Cornwall where they farmed. When her children were teenagers she began to write, and after publishing several books with Rainbow Romances in 1988 she published ''The Plague Stone'' in 1989. Her fourth book, ''Rich Deceiver'' (1992) was adapted for television in two parts by the BBC in 1995, directed by Gurinder Chadha and starring Lesley Dunlop and John McCardle. Gina McKee starred in the 1997 televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Andrews
Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews (born 12 January 1948) is an English actor. He played Lord Sebastian Flyte in the ITV miniseries ''Brideshead Revisited'' (1981), for which he won Golden Globe and BAFTA television awards, and was nominated for an Emmy. His other lead roles include ''Operation Daybreak'' (1975), ''Danger UXB'' (1979), ''Ivanhoe'' (1982) and ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' (1982), and he played UK Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in ''The King's Speech'' (2010). Early life and career Andrews was born in London, the son of Geraldine Agnes (née Cooper), a dancer, and Stanley Thomas Andrews, an arranger and conductor for the BBC. He grew up in North Finchley, London. At the age of eight, he took dancing lessons, making his stage debut as the White Rabbit in a stage adaptation of Lewis Carroll's ''Alice in Wonderland''. He attended the Royal Masonic School for Boys in Bushey, Hertfordshire. After a series of jobs that included catering, farming and journalism, he secured a po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Allen (English Actress)
Sheila Allen (22 October 1932 – 13 October 2011) was an English actress, who was best known to the wider public for her role on television as Cassie Manson in '' Bouquet Of Barbed Wire'' and its sequel ''Another Bouquet'' (1976–77). From 1966 to 1978, Allen was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Early life and stage work Allen was born in Chard, Somerset, to Dorothy Essex (née Potter) and William Allen. She was educated at Howell’s School, Denbigh and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from 1949 to 1951. From the 1950s, Allen appeared in plays by Shakespeare. Her first leading role was that of Katherine ("the shrew") in ''The Taming of the Shrew'' for the Arena Company in Birmingham (1954–56). Among many other Shakespearean roles, she played Hippolyta in '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' with the Bristol Old Vic Company, a production that moved to London (1957–58) and Portia (''The Merchant of Venice'', Old Vic, London, 1962). She joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imogen Stubbs
Imogen Stubbs (born 20 February 1961) is an English actress and writer. Her first leading part was in '' Privileged'' (1982), followed by ''A Summer Story'' (1988). Her first play, ''We Happy Few'', was produced in 2004. In 2008 she joined ''Reader's Digest'' as a contributing editor and writer of fiction. Early life Imogen Stubbs was born in Rothbury, Northumberland, lived briefly in Portsmouth, Hampshire, where her father was a naval officer, and then moved with her parents to London, where they lived on a vintage river barge on the Thames. She was educated at Cavendish Primary School, then at two independent schools: St Paul's Girls' School and Westminster School, where Stubbs was one of the girls in the mixed sixth form, and Exeter College, Oxford, gaining a First Class degree. Her acting career started at Oxford, where she played Irina in a student production of '' Three Sisters'' at the Oxford Playhouse. After graduating, she enrolled at RADA, and while there had her fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hannan (cinematographer)
Peter Hannan (born 1 February 1941 in Sydney) is an Australian cinematographer who spent the majority of his career in Great Britain. One of his first jobs in the film industry was as an assistant cameraman on Stanley Kubrick's '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968). Since 1972, Hannan has worked on more than 30 films as the director of photography. They include the Terry Jones films ''Monty Python's The Meaning of Life'' (1983) and ''Absolutely Anything'' (2015), Nicholas Roeg's '' Insignificance'' (1985) and Bruce Robinson's cult film ''Withnail and I'' (1987). Hannon has worked with Monty Python members and George Harrison's production company HandMade Films on multiple occasions. In addition to his films as a lead cameraman, he also worked as the Second unit photographer on blockbuster productions like '' Sleepy Hollow'' (1999) and ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'' (2004). His awards include a 2001 BAFTA TV Award in the category ''Best Photography and Lighting'' (for his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Films
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic (1997 film), Titanic'', the List of highest-grossing films, highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of the most observed comet, comets of the 20th century; Golden Bauhinia Square, where sovereignty of Hong Kong is Handover of Hong Kong, handed over from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China; the 1997 Central European flood kills 114 people in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany; Korean Air Flight 801 crashes during heavy rain on Guam, killing 229; Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner (rover), Sojourner land on Mars; flowers left outside Kensington Palace following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car crash in Paris., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Titanic (1997 film) rect 200 0 400 200 Harry Potter rect 400 0 600 200 Comet Hale-Bopp rect 0 200 300 400 Death of Diana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Reddington
Ian Reddington (born 25 September 1957) is an English actor with many stage and television credits since the early 1980s. He became widely known for television roles such as the Chief Clown in the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Greatest Show in the Galaxy'', Richard Cole in ''EastEnders'' and Vernon Tomlin in ''Coronation Street''. Early life Ian Reddington was born in Walkley in Sheffield. He was educated at Frecheville Comprehensive. He had no formal drama training at school but became a leading figure in the Meatwhistle youth theatre project run by youth workers in the city. This gave him his first appearance as the Herald in Peter Weiss's ''Marat/Sade'' at the Sheffield Crucible in 1973 directed by Glen Walford. He also played percussion and sang backing vocals in proto-punk band Musical Vomit alongside Glenn Gregory, who later went on to become lead singer with Heaven 17. Reddington then went on to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London (1976–1979), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the radical feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. Specializing in English and women's literature, she has held academic positions in England at the University of Warwick and Newnham College, Cambridge, and in the United States at the University of Tulsa. Based in the United Kingdom since 1964, she has divided her time since the 1990s between Queensland, Australia, and her home in Essex, England. Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her first book, ''The Female Eunuch'' (1970), made her a household name. An international bestseller and a watershed text in the feminist movement, it offered a systematic deconstruction of ideas such as womanhood and femininity, arguing that women were forced to assume submissive roles in society to fulfil male fantasies of what being a woman entailed. Greer's subsequent work has focused o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
