Felicity Kendal Movies
Horticulure enthusiasts and amateur detectives Rosemary Boxer (Felicity Kendal) and Laura Thyme (Pam Ferris) continue to solve mysteries while running a cozy garden shop in the second season of the British crime series Rosemary & Thyme. The first of the season's seven episodes is "Memory of Water," in which Rosemary and Laura, restoring an ancient wall garden, are confronted by a dead man who won't stay dead. "Orpheus in the Undergrowth" features Ryan Philpott in the recurring role of Laura's son Matthew, who joins his mom as she looks into the untimely death of a strange man in what was supposed to be a memorial garden (and, for all intents and purposes, is still a memorial -- to the dead man). In "They Understand Me in Paris," the ladies are summoned to France by an old friend who plans to open the 150-year-old garden on her estate to the public, only to be stopped in her tracks by the murder of her husband. "The Invisible Worm" finds a practical joke getting tragically out of control at a prep school where the ladies are tending the new roses. "The Gongoozlers" puts Rosemary in harm's way when she shows up for a TV "garden makeover" show. "The Italian Rapscallion" whisks Rosemary and Laura off to Italy -- and to a double murder occurring near a cliff garden. "Swords Into Ploughshares" offers a distraught Laura trying to find out if reports of Rosemary's death are true. And in the season finale, "Up the Garden Path," an annual garden contest wilts under the weight of a murder apparently committed out of "green envy." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, (more)
United by a common love of all growing things -- and linked together by their two green thumbs -- Rosemary Boxer (Felicity Kendal) and Laura Thyme (Pam Ferris) meet for the first time as Rosemary & Thyme launches its first season. No sooner has their friendship congealed than our two heroines set about to investigate the "accidental" death of Laura's friend Sam, which is somehow connected to Rosemary's investigation of a mysterious virus that is killing all the trees on the estate of Rosemary's chum Daniel Kellaway. Shortly after cracking this case on behalf of the authorities, Rosemary and Laura set up their own gardening shop, but somehow they can't resist doing a bit of amateur sleuthing on the side. In subsequent season one episodes, the ladies look into a mystery inaugurated by the discovery of a horse's skeleton; probe into the curiously erratic "performance" of a water fountain in a fashionable health spa; try to figure out why the campus of a private university is having trouble raising a decent lawn (Could it have something to do with that corpse whose throat has been cut?); they unearth an insidious plot to purchase property via illegal and possibly homicidal means; and in the season's final installment, Rosemary and Laura are confronted with the puzzle of "The Tree of Death." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, (more)
Michael Winner directed this British comedy-thriller about the disappointing life of wedding photographer Harry Sterndale (singer-actor Chris Rea). Betrayed by his wife, Harry had his ideas stolen by his best friend Maurice Walpole (John Cleese), was fleeced by shady businessman Gerd Layton (Bob Hoskins), and is told he has less than two months to live. To get revenge on everyone who did him in, Harry purchases a gun from barmaid Fred (Joanna Lumley) and sets off to carry out his most outrageous fantasies, with lots of twist and turns along the way. Shown at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Chris Rea, Felicity Kendal, (more)
In this animated children's film from Amblin Entertainment, a group of four dinosaurs, including a tyrannosaurus rex, a triceratops, a hadrosaur, and a pterodactyl, are brought forward in time to New York City to entertain and befriend the children. However, when the dinosaurs are threatened by an evil circus owner, it is up to their young friends to save the day. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Goodman, Blaze Berdahl, (more)
Good Neighbors co-stars Felicity Kendal and Paul Eddington reunite for director Ken Taylor's adaptation of Mary Wesley's popular novel concerning the innocent summer before war changed everything, and the relationship shared by five cousins as they gather to pay tribute to their deceased uncle years later. As the warm breeze of August blows in the summer of 1939, five cousins gather on the Cornish coast to spend their carefree summer days bonding in the lavish estate of their wealthy uncle. War looms ominously on the horizon, though, and as these five youngsters bide their time by exploring the hills and cliffs of the countryside, they remain blissfully unaware that their lives are about to be changed forever. Decades later, in the shadow of a death, the cousins return to their childhood playground to pay their respects and share stories of how their lives were forever changed in the dark days following that one, unforgettable summer. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 1981
Felicity Kendal, who gained international television popularity as co-star of the British sitcom Good Neighbors, was back in the weekly TV grind as leading lady of the BBC comedy series Solo. Kendal was cast as 30-year-old Gemma Palmer, whose tranquil lifestyle was shattered when she learned that her live-in boyfriend Danny (Stephen Moore) was sleeping with her best friend Gloria (Susan Bishop). Booting Danny out of her life, Gemma vowed to start all over again with a new apartment, a new job, and hopefully a new love life. The 13 half-hour episodes of Solo aired from January 11 to February 15, 1981, and from September 5 to October 17, 1982. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Felicity Kendal
- 1980
Part of the TV series entitled "The Shakespeare Plays," this is one of the subtlest and most enjoyable of the Shakespearian plays. Portraying the different types of love, it is set in a country house of aristocrats and there are practical jokes, poetry and songs that make this a most entertaining view. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alec McCowen, Trevor Peacock, (more)
- 1977
- R
Rudolph Valentino, born in Italy in 1895 as Alfonzo Raffaele Pierre Philibert Guglielmi, emigrated to the U.S. and became for a time the reigning male romantic lead of the silent-film era. He died in 1926, having led a short, troubled and tempestuous life which included several stints in prison. The crowds surrounding his coffin before and during his funeral were among the largest ever seen in the U.S. In this film, Ken Russell has used events from the famous actor's life as the basis for an extended meditation on the nature of stardom, and especially on what it means to be a sex idol. Beginning and ending with the funeral of Valentino (Rudolf Nureyev), the story chronicles his rise to Hollywood stardom from life as an Italian emigrant dishwasher and show-dancer. Often embroiled in controversies about his manliness (or perceived lack of ), in the film he dies as a result of internal injuries suffered in a boxing match he fought in to defend his honor. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, (more)
Lizzie (Felicity Kendal) is an actress in a Shakespearean theater troupe that has seen better days. The troupe tours India to dwindling crowds who are less interested in all things British in the wake of Indian independence. When she has an affair with the Indian playboy Sanju (Shashi Kapoor), Lizzie feels the wrath of her disapproving father Tony (Geoffrey Kendal) and her mother Carla (Laura Liddell). Madhur Jaffrey plays the role of the Indian actress Manjula in this romantic drama with musical score from Satyajit Ray. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, (more)
