Tag Archives: stephen frears

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Stephen Frears Writer: Nicholas Martin

Posted in Comedy, Drama, Musical | Tagged alexandre desplat, carnegie hall, comedy, concert, drama, florence foster jenkins, heiress, hugh grant, meryl streep, music, musical, musician, new york, new york city, nicholas martin, opera, rebecca ferguson, simon helberg, singer, stephen frears, true story | Leave a comment

The Program (2016)

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Stephen Frears Writer: John Hodge (Based on the book “Seven Deadly Sins” by David Walsh)

Posted in Drama, Sports | Tagged 2016, athlete, Ben Foster, bicycle, biography, cancer, cheat, cheater, chris o'dowd, coach, cycle, cycling, david walsh, doctor, dope, drama, drugs, dustin hoffman, guillaume canet, jesse plemons, john hodge, journalism, journalist, lance armstrong, lee pace, lie, oprah winfrey, program, seven deadly sins, sport, sports, stephen frears, team, the program, tour de france, true story | Leave a comment

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Stephen Frears Writer: Christopher Hampton (Based on the play by Christopher Hampton) (Based on the novel “Les liaisons dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos)

Posted in Drama, Review, Romance | Tagged 1988, affair, aristocrat, betrayal, choderlos de laclos, christopher hampton, dangerous liaisons, drama, france, french, game, glenn close, god, innocent, john malkovich, keanu reeves, les liaisons dangereuses, love, lover, marquise, marriage, married, michelle pfeiffer, mildred natwick, passion, peter capaldi, play, rich, romance, seduce, sex, stephen frears, swoosie kurtz, uma thurman, virtue, wealthy, young | Leave a comment

Philomena (2013)

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Stephen Frears Writers: Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope (Based on the book “The Lost Child of Philomena Lee” by Martin Sixsmith)

Posted in Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Review | Tagged 2013, abbey, adaptation, aids, alexandre desplat, barbara jefford, comedy, convent, drama, gay, homosexual, jeff pope, journalism, journalist, judi dench, mare winningham, martin sixsmith, mystery, nun, peter hermann, philomena, philomena lee, political, politics, pregnant, sean mahon, search, son, stephen frears, steve coogan, the lost child of philomena lee, true story | Leave a comment

Fail Safe (2000)

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Stephen Frears Writer: Walter Bernstein (Based on the novel by Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler)

Posted in Drama, Thriller | Tagged 2000, adaptation, brian dennehy, cold war, don cheadle, drama, eugene burdick, fail safe, george clooney, grant heslov, hank azaria, harvey keitel, harvey wheeler, james cromwell, john diehl, martin a. pasetta jr, martin pasetta, moscow, noah wyle, norman lloyd, nuclear weapon, nuke, politics, president, richard dreyfuss, sam elliott, stephen frears, thriller, tv movie, walter bernstein, walter cronkite, war, warhead | Leave a comment

The Hit (1984)

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Stephen Frears Writer: Peter Prince

Posted in Drama, Thriller, Uncategorized | Tagged 1984, a.j. clarke, assassin, british, crime, drama, france, freddie stuart, gangster, Hitman, Hitmen, jim broadbent, paris, peter prince, ralph brown, spain, stephen frears, terence stamp, the hit, thriller, uk | Leave a comment