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There were a lot of disappointments in the 2000 summer movie season, but Chicken Run wasn't one of them. Made by Aardman Animations, which produced the Oscar-winning Wallace & Gromit shorts, this is a dazzling stop-motion animation film that is both deftly funny and surprisingly touching. The concept is simple: The Great Escape--with chickens. But directors Peter Lord and Nick Park ...

Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
Starring: Mel Gibson, Timothy Spall, Miranda Richardson
Directed By: Peter Lord, Nick Park

Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Starring: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks, Stephen Rea
Directed By: Mike Leigh

At first glance, a musical period comedy-drama about Gilbert and Sullivan seems an odd fit for British filmmaker Mike Leigh, who made his name with searing, intense contemporary dramas such as Secrets and Lies and Career Girls. What could the Victorian world of two composers (of "light opera," no less) have to offer a filmmaker who specializes in the world of modern-day middle class ...

Manufacturer: Polygram USA Video
Starring: Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith, Roger Heathcott, Wendy Nottingham
Directed By: Mike Leigh

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Timothy Spall, Julian Glover
Directed By: Roland Joffé

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Sean Patrick Flanery, George Hall, Corey Carrier, Ronny Coutteure, Margaret Tyzack
Directed By: Jim O'Brien

Manufacturer: Columbia/Tri-Star
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Joss Ackland, Tim Roth, Timothy Spall
Directed By: Agnieszka Holland

In LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, after Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire's parents perish in a terrible fire, they are placed in the care of their uncle, Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), an evil fiend who is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune. The orphans travel from guardian to guardian, including herpetologist Montgomery Montgomery (Billy Connolly) and grammar-wise Aunt ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Video
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jude Law, Meryl Streep, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning
Directed By: Brad Silberling

Three-time Oscar®-nominated* writer/director Mike Leigh (Topsy-Turvy, Secrets & Lies) delivers this "rewarding vibrant poetic slice-of-life drama" (Variety) about an ordinary family dealing with the complexities of life and a crisis that takes them on a tumultuous emotional journey. In a crowded South London apartment building, Penny, a working mom, struggles to keep her wayward daughter, her ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Alison Garland, James Corden
Directed By: Mike Leigh

Manufacturer: Virgin Video
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Ade Sapara, Elvis Payne, Richard D. Sharp, Colin Bruce
Directed By: Caleb Deschanel

After her adoptive parents die, a young black woman seeks out her natural birth mother, only to discover her mother is white, thus setting in motion the revelation of a whole series of secrets and lies.

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Claire Rushbrook, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Directed By: Mike Leigh