Colin McKeown Movies
- 2000
- PG13
- Add In His Life: The John Lennon Story to Queue Add In His Life: The John Lennon Story to top of Queue
In Liverpool in the 1950s, a young man named John Lennon (Philip McQuillen) combats the traditional education system and the wishes of his well-meaning aunt, Mimi Smith (Blair Brown), to become a musician in the incipient field of rock & roll. He forms a number of bands and with each new effort his local audience grows. Soon, he's teamed up with Stuart Sutcliffe (Lee Williams, George Harrison (Mark Rice-Oxley), Pete Best (Scot Williams), and Paul McCartney (Daniel McGowan), and collectively known as the Beatles, they draw the attention of music promoter Brian Epstein (Jamie Glover) who ushers them into the big time. Sutcliffe and Best are dropped from the band, Ringo Starr (Kristian Ealey) is added, and the rest is musical history.
~ Buzz McClain, Rovi
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- 1997
Based on the novel by Catherine Cookson, this made-for-TV drama, set in England shortly before the outbreak of World War I, concerns Agnes Conway (Claire Skinner), a beautiful young woman who works in her family's confectioner's shop. Agnes' natural beauty and spirited nature lead her into romantic entanglements with two men from a prominent family -- first Charles Farrier (Edward Atterton), then his brother Reginald (Julian Wadham) -- and later into a friendship with the Felton family, decent folks from a notoriously rough part of England, when her sister Jessie (Michelle Charles) falls in love with one of the Felton men. Produced for British television, The Wingless Bird was first shown on American television as part of the acclaimed PBS anthology series Masterpiece Theater. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Claire Skinner, Dale Meeks, (more)
A torrid extramarital affair sends a government official scrambling to salvage his career in this drama starring Michael Gambon and John Hannah and directed by John Strickland. Peter Moreton (Gambon) is a high-ranking government official with a lot to lose, and when his daughter purposefully reveals her father's indiscretion to a reporter she is dating, the ensuing media frenzy threatens to reveal his unseemly lifestyle to all of Britain and put an end to his privileged lifestyle. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Michael Gambon, Susannah Harker, (more)
- 1978
Created by Phil Redmond, the long-running, youth-oriented British soap opera Grange Hill first aired on February 8, 1978. The title of this BBC1 effort referred to an inner-city comprehensive (or high) school, where a diverse group of teachers held court over an ever-changing collection of students. Inasmuch as the kids were obsessed with such vital issues as status and sex, this was the sort of program that British youngsters watched religiously, even when Mum and Dad ordered them not to. Although few of the many Grange Hill regulars went on to lasting stardom, they were extremely popular during their tenure on the series. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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