Based on the best-selling novels of Elizabeth George The Inspector Lynley Mysteries find Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley (also known as the 8th Earl of Asherton) and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers solving cases of murder that would challenge the savviest of detectives. Divided by class barriers both real and imagined but united in their efforts to uncover the truth Lynley and Havers form an unlikely yet successful sleuthing duo. Episodes Comprise: 1. Natural Causes: After being suspended from duty because of accusations of threatening a witness Inspector Lynley must take a step back in a murder case. DS Havers works with DI Knight to try and solve the death of a woman found dead in a car at the bottom of a lake but Lynley can't help but get involved. 2. One Guilty Deed: A case Lynley has been forming against a local mob boss is in danger of falling apart with the death of a potentially important informant. 3. Chinese Walls: After the sad murder of a young girl living out her dream of being a lawyer in London Lynley must investigate whether the barrister she had been working with had dangerous motives. 4. In the Blink of an Eye: When a war photographer turned paparazzo is found murdered it leads to questions of whether the tabloid paper he was working for has deeper connections to him.
Based on the best-selling novels of Elizabeth George The Inspector Lynley Mysteries find Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley (also known as the 8th Earl of Asherton) and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers solving cases of murder that would challenge the savviest of detectives. Divided by class barriers both real and imagined but united in their efforts to uncover the truth Lynley and Havers form an unlikely yet successful sleuthing duo. Episodes Comprise: 1. In Pursuit Of The Proper Sinner: Lynley's assigned to a double murder and persuades DCI Webberley to allow Havers onto the case. Young and attractive Nicola Maiden has been bludgeoned to death whilst her apparent camping companion Gerry Cole has been stabbed. 2. A Traitor To Memory: Lynley and Havers are called away from DCI Webberley's silver wedding anniversary party when a woman is killed on a quiet London street. 3. A Cry For Justice: DC Havers and DC Billy Slaven discover a woman's body. It appears she's committed suicide but Havers feels something is wrong and calls for assistance from Scenes of Crime Officers. 4. If Wishes Were Horses: Lynley and his pregnant wife Helen attend the funeral of Professor Dermot Finnegan. A forensic psychologist and Helen's former mentor Finnegan has been murdered by a car bomb.
Trevor Eve plays Dominic King, an international hostage release negotiator and a damn good one at that. A veteran in the field, he regards his job as a calculated game of chess, but like all maverick heroes, King is haunted. His failure to rescue a hostage from a ruthless gang dented his spirit yet strengthened his resolve to save a kidnapped British botanist working in South Africa. Helen Baxendale also reprises her role as Angela Beddoes, King's business partner.
Hugh Grant stars in this adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel about a feckless, wealthy, single 30-something who invents an imaginary son as a way of meeting available single parents, and consequently develops a friendship with a troubled 12 year old boy.
Based on the best-selling novels of Elizabeth George The Inspector Lynley Mysteries find Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley (also known as the 8th Earl of Asherton) and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers solving cases of murder that would challenge the savviest of detectives. Divided by class barriers both real and imagined but united in their efforts to uncover the truth Lynley and Havers form an unlikely yet successful sleuthing duo. Such a close working relationship is likely to expose their personal lives and so Lynley often finds himself bearing witness to Havers' bruising encounters with the dating scene; while Havers becomes both a punching bag and a shoulder to cry on as Lynley's love-life takes him through marriage separation and bereavement - at one point leading him into a relationship that marks him a murder suspect. From politics to the all-too personal; from smuggling to blackmail and corruption; from Cornwall to the House of Lords; The Inspector Lynley Mysteries find murder lurking in every corner and - for Lynley and Havers - solving those murders can sometimes come at a very heavy price
Series Three - Disc OneIn Pursuit of the Proper Sinner: Nicola Maiden has been bludgeoned to death and her camping companion Gerry Cole stabbed. When it turns out that Nicola's father is a retired Superintendent in Vice Lynley and Havers soon uncover dark secrets and find themselves in a murky world of prostitution and revenge. A Traitor to Memory: Lynley and Havers are called away from DCI Webberley's wedding anniversary when Eugenie Martin is killed on a quiet London street. She had deserted her husband and son after the death of her daughter - but that death may hold a clue to her murder. Series Three - Disc TwoA Cry for Justice: DC Havers and DC Billy Slaven discover a woman's body Morag MacNichol. It appears she has committed suicide but Havers feels something is wrong and calls for assistance. When proven right it sets Havers and Lynley in search of a killer and the answer to a large bag of money found hidden at the scene. If Wishes Were Horses: Lynley and his pregnant wife Helen attend the funeral of Professor Dermot Finnegan a forensic psychologist and Helen's former mentor. Could the killer be a convicted murderer Finnegan helped put away? Or one of Finnegan's many lovers a list of which seems to include Lynley's wife. Series Four - Disc OneIn Divine Proportion: It's Havers' first day back at work and she and Lynley find themselves in a Suffolk village where a young woman has been brutally murdered with a shot gun. Everyone seems to know something but no one is talking until a series of clues lead to a suspect who might turn out to be another victim. In the Guise of Death: Havers and Lynley have taken different paths to Cornwall but end up at the same destination - a barn containing an apparent suicide... and a lot of money. If it's murder the cause may be wrapped up in a world of horses and coastal smuggling - and the killer may be closer to home than Lynley suspects. Series Four - Disc TwoThe Seed of Cunning: A doorkeeper at the House of Lords has been murdered and Lynley and Havers find themselves caught up in the murky world of politics lobbyists and arms dealing. This could be their most dangerous case yet as they find themselves up against forces they are helpless to combat. Word of God: The body of a man has been found frozen on a meat truck carrying a British passport and a valuable page from an ancient Koran. But which is the greater clue the body or the Koran? Under pressure Lynley may cross a line from which there is no return.
Dear Frankie: Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress
Pilot - Disc OneTwo-Part Pilot Episode: A Great Deliverance: Investigating the beheading of a Yorkshire farmer in front of his traumatised teenage daughter Lynley discovers his aggressive new sergeant Havers has no time for upper class police officers. Series One - Disc TwoWell-Schooled in Murder: The search for a missing schoolboy uncovers a den of iniquity secrecy and lies at an old public school. Meanwhile Havers has problems with her senile mother and Lynley with his love life. Payment in Blood: Helen Clyde is one of the guests at the seaside home of a famous theatre producer where a playwright has been found dead. But is the presence of his old friend clouding Lynley's professional judgement? Series One - Disc ThreeFor the Sake of Elena: When Elena a beautiful deaf Cambridge student is bludgeoned to death Havers and Lynley suspect different people and follow their own line of enquiry. Missing Joseph: In an apparently tranquil Lancashire village local herbalist Juliet Spence has poisoned the local vicar. Was it a tragic mistake or a deliberate act of murder? Series Two - Disc OnePlaying for the Ashes: The body of cricket star Kenneth Fleming is found in a burnt-out house the victim of an arson attack. It emerges that Kenneth has three women in his life - a lifelong patron and mentor Miriam Whitelaw; his married lover Gabriella Patten; and his childhood sweetheart and devoted wife Jeannie any of whom might be guilty. In the Presence of the Enemy: Lynley and Havers investigate a case of kidnapping involving a left-wing MP Eve Bowen and a right-wing publisher Dennis Luxford. Luxford enlists the help of his close friend and criminal profiler Helen Clyde who is also close to Lynley but betrayal lurks around every corner. Series Two - Disc TwoA Suitable Vengeance: Lynley's dreams come true as he returns to his ancestral pile to celebrate his engagement to the woman he loves. However a brutal murder on the grounds of his idyllic Cornish estate sheds new light on the Inspector and his surprisingly dysfunctional family. Deception on his Mind: The body of a young Asian man is found on a beach in the seaside resort of Balford-le-Nez. Havers finds herself with time on her hands as Lynley is on honeymoon and decides to assist a friend in the investigation.
Lynley and Havers come from totally different worlds but they are both dedicated professionals. In Series 1 they managed to put aside their cultural differences and work together as a successful team.They are now close friends and confidantes with a mutual respect for one another. Series 2 sees them solving four more puzzling crimes: the death of a star cricketer the abduction and killing of a Government ministers daughter a murder on Lynleys ancestral estate with the prime suspect his brother and the suspicious death of a young Asian man involving racial tension religious extremism family loyalties and illicit sex. Away from work Lynleys relationship with his old friend Helen Clyde (Lesley Vickerage - (Between The Lines Grafters) has blossomed into love and they are now planning to marry. Meanwhile Havers no longer has her parents to look after and is enjoying the first home of her own and a new-found freedom. Her career too is taking off with Lynley openly praising her and giving her more responsibility. She is also now free to enjoy romance if the right man comes along. Episodes Comprise: Playing for the Ashes In the Presence of the Enemy A Suitable Vengeance Deception on His Mind
Bridget Jones' Diary: In the screen adaptation of 'Bridget Jones Diary' Helen Fielding's international best-selling phenomenon documentary filmmaker Sharon Maguire has managed a rare feat: a film as captivating as the novel! Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is a pretty and neurotic thirtysomething ""singleton"" (in her vernacular) who vows to take control of her life after being humiliated by handsome standoffish barrister Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at her parents' New Year's party. Determined to lose weight and cut back on vices like wine cigarettes and workaholic-alcoholic-misogynistic men Bridget begins a diary to chart her progress. Unfortunately the P.R. executive hits a snag when her boss gorgeous cad Daniel (Hugh Grant) instigates a sexy e-mail flirtation. Despite her tendency to bungle book launch parties and any situation involving the ever-disapproving Mark Darcy Bridget's winning combination of charm vulnerability and wit intrigues not only the seductively dangerous Daniel but also the arrogant barrister. Featuring a note-perfect performance by Zellweger a devilish one by Grant and the inspired casting of Firth (the object of Bridget's lusty fantasies in the book) 'Bridget Jones Diary' is a clever delightful romantic comedy guaranteed to please old fans and win new ones. (Dir. Sharon Maguire 2001) Bridget Jones's Diary 2 - The Edge Of Reason: She's back! The perfect boyfriend the perfect life what could possibly go wrong? Four weeks into her relationship with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is already becoming uncomfortable. With the reappearance of old flame daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) things are about to get very complicated... (Dir. Beeban Kidron 2004) About A Boy: Growing up has nothing to do with age... Will (Grant) is a 38-year old Londoner living a bachelor lifestyle on the back of royalties earned from a Christmas song penned by his father some years previously. A serial womaniser Will comes up with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up women. Inventing a two-year old son for himself he meets lonely bullied schoolboy Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) and his depressed music therapist mother (Toni Collette). The intelligent Marcus soon learns Will's secret and so blackmails him into letting him hang out at his place and watch afternoon telly. However what starts out as an uneasy quiz show watching alliance turns into an unlikely friendship... (Dir. Chris Weitz Paul Weitz 2002)
Hugh Grant stars in this adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel about a feckless, wealthy, single 30-something who invents an imaginary son as a way of meeting available single parents, and consequently develops a friendship with a troubled 12 year old boy.
The film version of Nick Hornby's novel About a Boy takes a deeper though no less entertaining approach than the easy laughs of Fever Pitch and High Fidelity. The "coming together" of idle playboy Will (Hugh Grant) and put-upon loner Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) is a revealing tale of self-understanding and role reversal. Will finds that being yourself is of little consequence without a defining human context, while Marcus finds that pleasing others counts for little without a degree of self-confidence. How they arrive at this complementary awareness is the intriguing subject matter of the film, involving well-meaning single mothers, difficult adolescents and helpless older adults. Yet there's a wider significance to all this in the guise of human stereotypes--how we fall into them and how we can try to get out of them. The film's wit and amusement comes down to deft and understated directing from Chris and Paul Weitz, and a snappily crafted screenplay from Peter Hedges and the Weitz brothers. Grant clips his hair as well as his vowels for a believable and ultimately sympathetic Will--by far his best performance since Four Weddings and a Funeral. As Marcus, Hoult is convincingly self-dependent, but could have been even more self-absorbed. Toni Colette is a dead-ringer for the well-meaning but ineffectual hippie mother Fiona, while Rachel Weisz gives her best screen performance to date as the attractive and vulnerable Rachel, with whom Will comes of age emotionally. Badly Drawn Boy's soundtrack will delight those who enjoy his brand of reconstituted 1970s Dylan; the title track has a wistful charm and there's a gem of an instrumental in the "Countdown" sequence. About a Boy is in the best traditions of British comedy: enlightening as it amuses, it's a film to enjoy and come back to. --Richard Whitehouse
Bridget Jones's Diary 2: The Edge Of Reason She's back! The perfect boyfriend the perfect life what could possibly go wrong? Four weeks into her relationship with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is already becoming uncomfortable. With the reappearance of old flame Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) things are about to get very complicated... About A Boy: Growing up has nothing to do with age... Will (Grant) is a 38-year old Londoner living a bachelor lifestyle on the back of royalties earned from a Christmas song penned by his father some years previously. A serial womaniser Will comes up with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up women. Inventing a two-year old son for himself he meets lonely bullied schoolboy Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) and his depressed music therapist mother (Toni Collette). The intelligent Marcus soon learns Will's secret and so blackmails him into letting him hang out at his place and watch afternoon telly. However what starts out as an uneasy quiz show watching alliance turns into an unlikely friendship...
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