Helen Cotterill Movies
- 1985
- PG13
Another Man Who Loved Women with a slightly different plot, this routine story opens with the funeral of a local projectionist and gardener, Donald Lovelace (Barry Jackson). His widow and daughter are surprised at the number of women who turn out to mourn Donald's passing. Soon the truth about his peccadillos with a string of women ranging from the usherette at the movie theater to an aspiring singer are told in flashbacks, revealing a life that his aloof wife and resentful daughter knew nothing about. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Barry Jackson, Maurice Denham, (more)
- 1978
- PG
The religious conversion of British actress Joan Winmill is chronicled in this bio-pic. Told via flashback her life up until that moment is chronicled from her miserable childhood, her mother's death, and a cousins death. Her bout with clinical depression resulting in suicidal tendencies is also chronicled. Apparently the problem was genetic as her grandmother also suffered a nervous breakdown related to the problem. Also depicted is her affair with Robert Kennedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Belinda Carroll, Roland Culver, (more)
This lackluster 1970 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield (made as a film twice before) turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield (Robin Phillips) as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Starring:
- Richard Attenborough, Cyril Cusack, (more)
