In 1961 a group of girls growing up in London develop a passion for the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup ""double"". Twenty years later one of the girls Julia Herrick (Goodman) is a successful sports journalist. She finds herself sharing a car with her former hero Danny Blanchflower!
Love is a weakness to be exploited and betrayed. Starring Bob Hoskins Michael Caine and Cathy Tyson 'Mona Lisa' is a classic drama written and directed by Neil Jordan about a driver (Hoskins) who falls for his employer - high-class prostitute Simone (Tyson).
Mona Lisa
During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man now very emotionally distraught dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer or 'rawney'. In time however he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls which only leads to problems within the gypsy band especially when the wounded commanding officer finds him.
The Long Good Friday (Dir. John MacKenzie 1981): In the savage and deadly world of the gangland king the man at the top is ruler only for as long as he controls everything in his territory. For that man the rewards can be infinite but so are the dangers. Harold Shand is enjoying the height of his powers and he is on the verge of something that would make his current 'arrangements' small fry. But stronger forces than even he can control have moved in and taken over. Climaxing in one long and bloody day of terror an Easter Good Friday he is to see his empire begin to crack and crumble. Mona Lisa (Dir. Neil Jordan 1981): Love is a weakness to be exploited and betrayed. Starring Bob Hoskins Michael Caine and Cathy Tyson 'Mona Lisa' is a classic drama written and directed by Neil Jordan about a driver (Hoskins) who falls for his employer - high-class prostitute Simone (Tyson). The DVD includes interviews and a commentary with Bob Hoskins and Neil Jordan the original theatrical trailer subtitles for the hearing impaired and much more!
During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man now very emotionally distraught dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer or 'rawney'. In time however he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls which only leads to problems within the gypsy band especially when the wounded commanding officer finds him.
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