Mike Newell

Mike Newell

Date of Birth: 28 Mar 1942

Country: UK

Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 24 (Director)

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    Donnie Brasco
    A gangland thriller about an undercover FBI agent who befriends a hitman to gain entry to the mob.
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    Four Weddings and a Funeral
    The film follows the fortunes of Charles and his friends as they wonder if they will every find true love and marry. Charles thinks he's found "Miss Right" in Carrie, an American. This British subtle comedy revolves around Charlie, his friends and the four weddings and one funeral which they attend. (imdb)
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    Mona Lisa Smile
    Set at all-female Wellesley College in 1953, this is a poignant drama about one woman's desire to enrich the lives of her students.
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    Pushing Tin
    A feud develops between two air traffic controllers: one cocky and determined while the other is restrained and laidback, which inevitably affects their lives. (imdb)
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    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Harry finds himself selected as an underaged competitor in a dangerous multi-wizardary school competition. (imdb)
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    An Awfully Big Adventure
    In Liverpool in 1947, a theatre company is planning to produce a series of plays. Sixteen year old Stella... (imdb)
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    Dance with a Stranger
    Ruth Ellis lives with her 10-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He leaves her, something which makes her very upset... (imdb)
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    Into the West
    Grandpa Ward gives a horse he found to his grandchildren, who keep it in their tower-block flat in Dublin. The horse is stolen from them, and the two young boys set out to find it and flee on it. (imdb)
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    The Awakening
    An American archaeologist (Charlton Heston) is in Egypt with his pregnant wife, searching for the tomb of a long-lost Egyptian queen. At the same moment he discovers the tomb and opens it's accursed seal, his wife gives birth to his daughter... (imdb)
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    The Man in the Iron Mask
    The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, and Philippe's rescue by the aging Musketeers, led by D'Artagnan. (imdb)
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    Enchanted April
    This slow-paced gem is about the civilizing influence of Italy on beleaguered Londoners both male and female and has it's own civilizing influence on the viewer. It's almost like taking a little mini-trip to Italy, a gorgeously filmed enchantment. (imdb)
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    Love in the Time of Cholera
    Florentino (Bardem), rejected by the beautiful Fermina (Mezzogiorno) at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart. (imdb)
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    Bad Blood
    During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people, and the police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country. (imdb)
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    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
    Henry Jones Sr. takes his wife, son and the boy's tutor to the world's first psycho-analytical conference in Vienna, Austria in November 1908. Young Indy meets Princess Sophie of Austria, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and develops deep feelings for her. He even asks Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler for love advice. On their next stop in Florance, Anna Jones becomes the object of affection for the persuasive opera composer Giacomo Puccini... (imdb)
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    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil
    Posing as neutral Swedish journalist 'Nils Anderson', Indiana Jones is trying to convince Turkish general Mustafa Kemal to form a separate piece with the allies instead of the Germans. His mission becomes jeopardized when he learns there is a traitor, codenamed 'The Wolf' in his spy network. Afterwards, as part of a small team of special agents, Indy is sent to Transylvania to find out why the mysterious General Targo has raided a German P.O.W. camp.
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    Amazing Grace and Chuck
    Chuck Murdock is an all American kid living in a sleepy town in Montana. He is the top pitcher of the little league team as well. After taking a tour of a nuclear silo, Chuck decides to quit playing little league until nuclear weapons are disarmed. Boston Celtic Amazing Grace Smith hears about Chuck's exploits, and decides to do the same thing. Amazing then moves to the young boy's town to live.
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    Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    When an evil nobleman threatens to enslave the world by obtaining the Sands of Time -- a mystical hourglass that gives him control over the flow of time -- Prince Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal) and spunky Princess Tamina (Gemma Arterton) must join forces to stop the madman. Mike Newell directs this sweeping live-action adventure based on the popular video game.
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    Great Expectations
    An outstanding roster of British acting talent -- including Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Sally Hawkins, Jason Flemyng, Ewen Bremner -- bring Charles Dickens' universe to life in this magnificent new screen version of the classic novel from director Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral). (tiff.net)
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    The Good Father
    Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by hiw wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that Feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done. (imdb)
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    Blood Feud
    Blood Feud (1983) - TV Movie
    Made for TV movie about Bobby Kennedy's campaign to bring Jimmy Hoffa to justice. (imdb)
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    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    A writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island in the aftermath of World War II when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war. (imdb)
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    Soursweet
    Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. (IMDb).
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    Birth of a Nation
    A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
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    One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
    25 years after the events of Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Charles, Carrie, Fiona, Tom, David, Matthew, Bernard, Lydia, and Father Gerald are back in church. But whose wedding is it? And will there be any more familiar faces? (imdb)
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