Barbara Marten Movies
- 2011
- R
Director Jim Loach and screenwriter Rona Munro collaborate to adapt Nottingham social worker Margaret Humphreys' autobiographical account of her noble effort to expose the systematic deportation of British children to Australia, and to reunite them with their devastated families. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, (more)
Hugo Speer, Warren Clarke, Lee Williams, and Martin Freeman co-star in the gripping British thriller The Debt (2003), which originally aired on the BBC. The story concerns Geoff Dresner (Warren Clarke), a retired English safecracker forced back into the seedy underworld and illicit doings of his past when his son-in-law (Freeman) fails to pay a cutthroat loan shark -- and must immediately cough up an enormous sum of money if he has any hope of emerging unscathed. Dresner stages a robbery to aid the young man, but it quickly goes awry -- placing Dresner in a vice between a ruthless detective, eager to bring the thief in once and for all, and an attorney (Williams) unequipped with the experience or know-how to successfully defend this career criminal. Dresner suddenly finds himself caught up in a net of lies and double-crosses, struggling to find a way to save himself and assist his family in the process. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Two women form a special bond in a working-class British town shortly after World War II in this drama. Ellen Hardy (Barbara Marten) is a housewife and mother living in a dark and dingy industrial town in the North of England. Her husband Geoff (Andrew Dunn) is unsophisticated and uncommunicative, but Ellen dotes on Victor (Edward Woodcock), her ten-year-old son who displays a real talent for painting and sketching. Ellen is introduced to Kathy Thompson (Andrina Carroll), who teaches art at Victor's school, and the two women soon strike up a friendship. As they get to know one another better, Ellen and Kathy become aware that their feelings go beyond simple friendship, but they both live in a time and place that makes it difficult from them to act upon their desires. Produced for British television, Between Two Women was the first feature-length film from writer and director Steven Woodcock. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Barbara Marten, Andrina Carroll, (more)
- 1996
In this made-for-television drama, a woman and her husband fight long and hard to make euthanasia legal, but when she is diagnosed with cancer, her viewpoint abruptly changes. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Robert Lindsay, Gwen Humble, (more)
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