A drama centered on the relationship between Elliot, a strange and wealthy Londoner, and Joe, a teenager who takes care of an empty house Elliot owns.
11-04-2007
1h 48m
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Main Cast
Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Stephen Poliakoff
Writer:
Stephen Poliakoff
Production:
Talkback Thames, BBC Film, HBO Films
Key Crew
Director of Photography:
Danny Cohen
Locations and Languages
Country:
GB
Filming:
GB
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Michael Gambon
Sir Michael John Gambon (October 19, 1940 – September 27, 2023) was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career, he received three Olivier Awards and four BAFTA TV Awards. In 1998, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama.
Gambon appeared in many productions of works by William Shakespeare such as Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and Coriolanus. Gambon was nominated for thirteen Olivier Awards, winning three times for A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), A View from the Bridge (1987), and Man of the Moment (1990). In 1997, Gambon made his Broadway debut in David Hare's Skylight, earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination.
Gambon made his film debut in Othello (1965). His other notable films include The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), The Wings of the Dove (1997), The Insider (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Amazing Grace (2006), The King's Speech (2010), Quartet (2012), and Victoria & Abdul (2017). Gambon also appeared in the Wes Anderson films The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009). Gambon gained wider recognition through his role of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series from 2004 to 2011, replacing Richard Harris following his death in 2002.
For his work on television, he received four BAFTA Awards for The Singing Detective (1986), Wives and Daughters (1999), Longitude (2000), and Perfect Strangers (2001). He also received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Path to War (2002) and Emma (2009). Gambon's other notable projects include Cranford (2007) and The Casual Vacancy (2015). In 2017, he received the Irish Film & Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, he was listed at No. 27 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
Rupert William Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970) is an English actor, the son of Welsh actor Peter Penry-Jones and English actress Angela Thorne. He is best known for his role as Adam Carter in the BBC spy drama Spooks, as well as other television roles such as Silk, Whitechapel and Black Sails.
Kelly Reilly (born 18 July 1977) is an English actress. Reilly's performance in After Miss Julie at the Donmar Warehouse made her a star of the London stage and earned her a nomination for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress of 2003. Aged 26, she's the youngest person ever nominated for that award. And, in 2005, she won Best Newcomer Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role as Wendy in The Russian Dolls (Les Poupées Russes).
Rebecca Maria Hall (born May 3, 1982) is an English actress and filmmaker. She made her first onscreen appearance at age 10 in the 1992 television adaptation of The Camomile Lawn, directed by her father, Sir Peter Hall. Her professional stage debut came in her father's 2002 production of Mrs. Warren's Profession, which earned her the Ian Charleson Award.
In 2006, following her film debut in Starter for 10, Hall got her breakthrough role in Christopher Nolan's thriller film The Prestige. In 2008, she starred as Vicky in Woody Allen's romantic comedy-drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Hall then appeared in a wide array of films, including Ron Howard's historical drama Frost/Nixon (2008), Ben Affleck's crime drama The Town (2010), the horror thriller The Awakening (2011), the superhero film Iron Man 3 (2013), the science fiction film Transcendence (2014), the psychological thriller The Gift (2015), the live-action/CGI fantasy adventure film The BFG (2016), the biographical drama Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) and the monster film Godzilla vs. Kong (2021). In 2016, Hall was praised by critics for her portrayal of news reporter Christine Chubbuck in the biographical drama Christine. She made her directorial debut with Passing (2021), receiving critical acclaim.
Hall has also made several notable appearances on British television. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2009 Channel 4 miniseries Red Riding: 1974. In 2013, she was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her performance in BBC Two's Parade's End.
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Clive Russell was raised in Fife, Scotland, from 3 months old. He originally trained as a teacher, but when his drama lecturer resigned and took over a theatre in the provincial town of Bolton, Lancaster, Russell joined him. Russell has been working solely in film and television since 1991.
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His older sister is singer Lily Allen. Allen's first professional appearance was in a one-off Channel 4 comedy, You Are Here in 1998. The same year, Allen and his sister Lily appeared in the 1998 film, Elizabeth, which was produced by their mother. His early work included small roles in Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, Atonement and BBC1's historical hospital drama, Casualty 1907. In 2008, he took over Daniel Radcliffe's role in the stage play, Equus. He has continued to work in films, appearing in Soulboy, The Kid, Freestyle and Powder in 2010. In 2012, he starred in the British thriller, Confine.
Celyn Jones is a Welsh actor born and raised in Holyhead on the island of Anglesey. His father was a sailor and mother a baker. Aged 15 Celyn attended the Manchester Youth Theatre where he gained life long creative & personal relationships. At 18 he won a scholarship to the prestigious Oxford School of Drama where he received a strong classical training. Since graduating he has secured a reputation as a very talented and versatile character actor. On TV & Film he has worked with some of the most talented and respected Directors & Actors around. Throughout his career he's returned to the Theatre and achieved critical success with each performance be it playing a "Definitive" Tony Lumpkin in "She Stoops to Conquer" or in cutting edge new plays like Gary Owen's "Ghost City" which played in Cardiff, London and New York or in Kaite O'Reilly's powerful "The Almond and the Seahorse" where his performance was described as "Superb" "Brilliant" "Captivating and Masterful".
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Born in Edinburgh in 1955 to acting parents Graham Crowden and Phyllida Hewat, Sara Crowden is a British character actress who works extensively in film, TV and theatre. She is also a professional writer, contributing to the literary quarterly Slightly Foxed and has reviewed books for The Lady, TLS, Geographical and Literary Review amongst others, and performs stand-up comedy under the alias of Dame Theresa Thompson's-Gazelle. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Diploma in Literature from The Open University and, in 2010, was awarded a Foundation Certificate in Bricklaying.
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