Colm Meaney
1) Tolkien
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Description
Explores the formative years of the renowned author's life as he finds friendship, courage, and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including the author's tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt, until the outbreak of the First World War which threatens to tear their fellowship apart. All of these experiences would later inspire...
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Restoration : Robert Merivel is a young man who seems to have everything ... until an affair leads to scandal, suddenly leaving him heartbroken and penniless. An Ideal Husband, A Month by the Lake, My Life So Far, The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain, Sweet Revenge, Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown, Tom and Viv.
An ideal husband : A politician's spotless reputation is threatened by a dark secret from his past.
A month by the lake :...
4) Layer cake
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special ed.; Widescreen version.
Description
Planning to retire and begin a new life, Mr. X is a successful West End drug dealer who has been asked for one last favor: to negotiate the sale of one million hits of Ecstasy. Unfortunately for Mr. X, the pills were stolen from a Serbian drug lord who'll cut off his head if he sells them. And with a London crime czar promising to retire him permanently if he doesn't, Mr. X may be rightfully concerned about his future.
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Description
A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain -- a prized local landmark -- to be a "hill". The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
This mini-series follows the fortunes, mostly misfortunes, of a group of Irish and English immigrants who come to Newfoundland in the early 19th century. Hoping for a better life, they find themselves instead in the remote, unpopulated, and hostile landscape of Cape Random, struggling to survive. The settlers face extremely harsh conditions and catastrophes that range from devastating storms to bear attacks, yet the small outport community staggers...
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
A remote, hockey-obsessed town populated by 633 of the most eccentric characters you'd ever want to meet, Mystery is the kind of place where nothing ever changes. But then life as they know it gets turned completely upside down when a publicity stunt brings the world-famous New York Rangers to Mystery for a game with the local team of weekend warriors and the whole town rises to meet the challenge of a lifetime.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Before the hit television series, the same characters appeared in three feature-length adaptations of Maureen Jennings's beloved novels. In gritty 1890s Toronto, Detective William Murdoch uses new forensic techniques to solve the murders of a young chambermaid, a colleague on the force, and a backstreet abortionist.