Movies by Brenda Blethyn
As part of the cast:
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London River (2009)
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Roschdy Zem …
Directed by: Rachid Bouchareb
After the terrorist bombings of July 7, 2005, Mrs. Sommers and Ousmane each travel to London to find their missing children. From divergent backgrounds but united by their search, they find…
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Dead Man Running (2009)
Cast: Tamer Hassan, 50 Cent, Monet Mazur …
Directed by: Alex De Rakoff
An ex-con has 24 hours to pay a ruthless loan shark -- or else he's dead. To get his hands on as much cash as possible, he embarks on a wild adventure full of fights, shoot-outs, heists…
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Atonement (2007)
Cast: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan …
Directed by: Joe Wright
When 13-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) discovers a lustful letter and witnesses a sexual encounter between her older sister (Keira Knightley) and a servant's son (James McAvoy),…
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Introducing the Dwights (2007)
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Katie Wall, Richard Wilson …
Directed by: Cherie Nowlan
The romantically inexperienced Tim (Khan Chittenden) finds himself caught between a controlling mother and his new girlfriend in this emotional coming-of-age film. Jean (Brenda Blethyn), a…
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A Way of Life (2006)
Cast: Amma Asante, Brenda Blethyn, Michael Conway …
Single teen mother Leigh-Anne (Stephanie James) tries to keep her baby's grandmother (Brenda Blethyn) and Social Services from taking her child away in this stark look at life in the…
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Mysterious Creatures (2006)
Cast: Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Rebekah Staton …
Directed by: David Evans
Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn star in this compelling drama based on the true story of Bill and Wendy Ainscow, a working-class British couple who spend their lives caring for their…
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Piccadilly Jim (2006)
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Frances O'Connor, Tom Wilkinson …
Directed by: John McKay
In this film adaptation of the P.G. Wodehouse novel, Sam Rockwell plays a dashing and debauched ex-society column writer who makes life difficult for his social-climbing stepmom by falling…
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Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
Cast: Jim Cummings, John Fiedler, Nikita Hopkins …
Directed by: Frank Nissen
Who or what exactly is a Heffalump? The lovable residents of the Hundred Acre Wood -- Winnie the Pooh, Rabbit, Tigger, Eeyore, Kanga and the rest of the pack (voiced by Brenda Blethyn, Jim…
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On a Clear Day (2005)
Cast: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Sean McGinley …
Directed by: Gaby Dellal
When Frank (Peter Mullan) loses his job at the docks, he quickly realizes that, at age 55, he's too old to start a new career but too young to simply stop working. So he decides to take…
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Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Cast: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn …
Directed by: Joe Wright
In this retelling of Jane Austen's novel set in 19th-century England, Mrs. Bennet (Brenda Blethyn) is all atwitter in hopes of marrying her daughters to prosperous gentlemen callers,…
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Beyond the Sea (2004)
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman …
Directed by: Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey directs and stars in this biopic of Bobby Darin, a hipster in the Frank Sinatra tradition and singer of pop hits such as "Splish Splash." Darin moved on to performing jazz…
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Belonging (2004)
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Kevin Whately, Rosemary Harris …
Directed by: Christopher Menaul
Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary…
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Blizzard (2004)
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Christopher Plummer, Zoe Warner …
Directed by: LeVar Burton
When Katie (Brittany Bristow) moves with her family and has to drop her beloved ice skating lessons, she figures her Christmas is ruined. But meeting an outcast reindeer named Blizzard has a…
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The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)
Cast: Jessica Alba, Hugh Dancy, Brenda Blethyn …
Directed by: Guy Jenkin
A young English colonial is sent to the jungles of the Sarawalk during the 1930s. Inside this steamy jungle, the officer meets up with a beautiful native (Jessica Alba) who's assigned to…
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Pumpkin (2002)
Cast: Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn …
Directed by: Anthony Abrams, Adam Larson Broder
A perky sorority sister is assigned to coach a young man named Pumpkin, a mentally challenged athlete. She's terrified at first, but to the horror of her friends, she starts to fall in…
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Lovely & Amazing (2002)
Cast: Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer …
Directed by: Nicole Holofcener
Four spirited women tackle everything from relationships to careers in this captivating indie drama, starring Brenda Blethyn as an insecure mother who passed along bits of her neuroses to…
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The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002)
Cast: Lacey Chabert, Brenda Blethyn, Tim Curry …
Directed by: Cathy Malkasian, Jeff McGrath
The Thornberry clan is on safari, and things are shaping up the way they usually do: Debbi (voiced by Danielle Harris) is annoyed; Nigel (Tim Curry) and Marianne (Jodi Carlisle) are wrapped…
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Sonny (2002)
Cast: James Franco, Brenda Blethyn, Harry Dean Stanton …
Directed by: Nicolas Cage
This is the story of a young New Orleans man, Sonny Phillips (James Franco), who is trained to follow the family tradition as a paid male prostitute, pleasuring the whims of wealthy women --…
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Undertaking Betty (2002)
Cast: Alfred Molina, Brenda Blethyn, Christopher Walken …
Directed by: Nick Hurran
Welsh funeral parlor owner Boris is about to realize his fondest dream. His true love since childhood will soon make herself available to him -- by staging her own fake death. But as part of…
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Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn, Tatjana Blacher …
Directed by: Robert Dornhelm
This filmed version of Anne Frank's famous diary -- which she kept while in hiding in Amsterdam during World War II -- fills in gaps omitted when her father (Ben Kingsley, who won a SAG…
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Daddy and Them (2001)
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd …
Directed by: Billy Bob Thornton
An Alabama family reunites to support their Uncle Hazel (Jim Varney), who's on trial for murder. Musician Claude (Billy Bob Thornton) and his wife, Ruby (Laura Dern), are among the…
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On the Nose (2001)
Cast: Robbie Coltrane, Brenda Blethyn, Dan Aykroyd …
Directed by: David Caffrey
Brendan Delaney (Robbie Coltrane) is a university janitor with a problem: His daughter's been accepted to medical school, but he's gambled away her college savings. Fortunately,…
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Saving Grace (2000)
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes …
Directed by: Nigel Cole
In this Sundance Audience Award-winning comedy from director Nigel Cole, newly widowed Grace (Brenda Blethyn) finds herself in financial ruin when she discovers that her dearly departed…
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RKO 281 (1999)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith …
Directed by: Benjamin Ross
High on the success of his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, the prodigiously talented Orson Welles (Liev Schreiber) heads west to pursue a career in movies. An invitation to the California…
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Little Voice (1998)
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Ewan McGregor …
Directed by: Mark Herman
A telephone repairman (Ewan McGregor) and a music promoter (Michael Caine) play second fiddle to Little Voice (Jane Horrocks), a young woman whose beautiful pipes could pack a thousand…
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In the Winter Dark (1998)
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Ray Barrett, Richard Roxburgh …
Directed by: James Bogle
In a desolate Australian valley, something vicious is slaughtering local livestock. Four residents -- a farm couple (Brenda Blethyn, Ray Barrett) with a tragic past, a lonely man (Richard…
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Music from Another Room (1998)
Cast: Jude Law, Gretchen Mol, Jennifer Tilly …
Directed by: Charlie Peters
A young man who helped deliver a baby girl when he was age 5 -- and declared he'd marry her someday -- runs into her 25 years later. But his plans for a marriage are soon short-circuited…
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Secrets & Lies (1996)
Cast: Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Brenda Blethyn …
Directed by: Mike Leigh
A family confronts shocking secrets and long-forgotten lies in this bittersweet drama. With no man in her life, single mom Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) finds life with her sullen daughter,…
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A River Runs Through It (1992)
Cast: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Robert Redford …
Directed by: Robert Redford
Two fly-fishing brothers, straitlaced scholar Norman (Craig Sheffer) and trouble-finding gambler Paul (Brad Pitt), struggle to mollify their Presbyterian preacher father's (Tom Skerritt)…
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Night Train (1988)
Cast: John Hurt, Brenda Blethyn, John Lynch …
After a stint in prison for embezzling a gangster's (Lorcan Cranitch) purloined loot, an ex-con (John Hurt) moves from the frying pan into the fire. That's because he has to hide…
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King Lear (1982)
Cast: John Shrapnel, Norman Rodway, Michael Kitchen …
Directed by: Jonathan Miller
The aging King Lear directs each of his daughters, Regan, Goneril and Cordelia, to profess her love and commitment to him. The first two, greedy for the throne, purr words of false kindness,…
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Grown Ups (1980)
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Philip Davis, Lindsay Duncan …
Directed by: Mike Leigh
When a recently married couple moves into their first home, they must put up with the wife's ditzy sister and their next-door neighbor, who's the newlyweds' former…