TV Guide: Online Video Guide Chris Menges

A World Apart

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:14:29 -0500

Synopsis: Exceptionally well-acted drama of a mother whose political activism against the oppressive South African government of the 1960s causes her to neglect her family, and how her teenaged daughter reacts.

Crisscross

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:30:59 -0500

Synopsis: Key West, 1969: a young boy and his mom, abandoned by his dad, struggle to get by - she's turned to quick money in a strip club, and the boy discovers he's a unwitting drug courier. Can they overcome the challenges?

Second Best

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:49:23 -0500

Academy Award-winner and Golden Globe-nominee William Hurt ("Syriana," "The Village") stars in this touching story about a lonely, unmarried mail clerk who must prove that he is emotionally qualified to love and nurture a troubled young boy before he is allowed to adopt him. His struggle to win the boy over demonstrates that simply by being present and caring, he is a better parent than the boy's own absent father, who was sent to prison not long after the boy's mother died. Also starring Academy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-winner John Hurt ("Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," "The Skeleton Key"), and directed by Academy Award-winner Chris Menges ("The Mission," "The Killing Fields"). The Hollywood Reporter calls this "an entirely first-rate drama... a quietly powerful film," and The Los Angeles Times says it is "Splendid. Perfect. Richly realized."

Second Best

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:47:58 -0500