Sophie Balhetchet Movies
A new bride finds she's tempted to leave her husband under circumstances she never anticipated in this romantic comedy-drama. Rachel (Piper Perabo) and Heck (Matthew Goode) are longtime sweethearts who have decided to take the plunge and get married, but on the day of their wedding, while Rachel is walking down the aisle, she finds herself struck by the beauty of Luce (Lena Headey), who has been hired to do the floral arrangements for the ceremony. While Rachel thinks little of this at first, she finds she can't get Luce out of her mind, and when Rachel invites Luce over to dinner in hopes of fixing her up with Coop (Darren Boyd), Heck's best friend and best man, she learns the lovely florist is a lesbian. When Rachel and Luce meet again while shopping, they strike up a friendship that deepens into something more, until Rachel declares her attraction to Luce -- and Luce reveals she feels the same way. Rachel has never had a relationship with a woman before, and while she's fallen deeply in love with Luce, she isn't at all sure of what to do next, and Heck soon realizes something has gone wrong in their marriage. Produced under the title Click, Imagine Me & You was the first directorial credit for screenwriter Ol Parker. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, (more)
This futuristic British miniseries began when the best friend of Det. Sgt. Michael Colefield (Jack Davenport) suddenly vanished from the altar at his own wedding. Though told not to investigate, Michael unearthed evidence that his pal had transformed into a vampire. This led the hero to a secret government organization, working in cahoots with the Catholic Church to rid the world of a vampiric scourge, using SWAT team tactics and state-of-the-art computer technology (those infected with vampirism could be detected with computer-generated ultraviolet light). Somewhat perversely, the modern-day bloodsuckers tried to maintain their respectable cover by actively supporting charities and worthwhile causes, thereby coming off somewhat more sympathetically than their relentless pursuers. One of the more intriguing aspects of this six-part series was the refusal by the authorites to make any direct reference to vampires; their quarry was always described as "Code 5" or "Leeches." A fascinating blend of traditional British cop drama with Dracula-style melodramatics, Ultraviolet made its Channel 4 debut on September 15, 1998. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jack Davenport, Susannah Harker, (more)
- 1996
Based on a novel by Rumer Godden, the two-part British miniseries The Peacock Spring took place in Delhi, India, in 1959. Hattie Moraham starred as Una Gwithin, 15-year-old daughter of the recently appointed U.N. diplomat to the region. Una caused shock waves to ripple throughout what was left of the British empire when she fell in love with a charismatic (and extremely self-absorbed) Indian poet named Ravi Batticharya (Naveen Andrews). Further complicating the story is the curious animosity between Una's father and her Eurasian governess Alix (Jennifer Hall). The Peacock Spring originally aired in 1996. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Hattie Moraham, Jennifer Hall, (more)
- 1988
A clear antecedent to Prospero's Books in its use of multiple-screen techniques, Peter Greenaway's take on Dante's Inferno is a fascinating journey through a well-known classical work. The close-ups of Bob Peck (as Dante) and Sir John Gielgud (as Virgil, whom Dante has asked to be his guide to Hell) are accompanied by superimposed images of people, events, and animals mentioned in the text. Moreover, small screens pop up, with literature experts, historians, biologists, and even animal behaviorists offering their comments on the proceedings. The project was conceived by Greenaway together with translator Tom Phillips; they originally intended to cover all 34 cantos of Dante's work, but in fact did only the first eight cantos. The sequel, Cantos 9-14, was made by famed Chilean expatriate filmmaker Raul Ruiz. ~ Yuri German, Rovi
- 1988
Georg is blond and blue-eyed and Polish. Like a lot of similar-looking kids, when the Germans swept into Poland at the beginning of World War II, he was taken back to Germany to be raised as a German child -- part of a program inspired by Hitler's crackpot racial eugenics theories. However, at the end of the war, Georg realizes that the unpleasant Bible-thumpers he has been staying with aren't his real parents, and he runs away from home, running into a Polish soldier, whom he is miraculously able to say a few words to. Immediately, the soldier realizes that Georg must be one of the "lebensborn" children stolen from his homeland, and Georg is soon on his way back to his mother and grandparents in Poland, whom he barely remembers. The rest of this drama chronicles his (and their) adjustment to his return, and to the new circumstances that prevail at the war's end. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Rafal Synowka, Boguslaw Linda, (more)
- 1982
Comparatively unknown, the British And Nothing But the Truth is a blistering indictment of government-sanctioned corruption, as well as the "facts of life" of the television industry. Filmmaker Glenda Jackson and reporter Jon Finch head to South Wales, where a farm family has taken on the local village government. Accusations have been raised that a powerful corporation has (within legal limits) bribed the village to permit encroachment upon local farm land. In pursuit of the truth, Jackson and Finch are subjected to character assassination and overt threats. Only gradually do they discover that their own bosses are also on the take. And Nothing But the Truth was originally titled Giro City. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Glenda Jackson, Jon Finch, (more)
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