Richard Attenborough
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Magic (1978) 
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Anthony Hopkins,  Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith 
- Anthony Hopkins is tormented by his evil ventriloquist dummy in an off–kilter thriller, that misses a little screen magic. Scripted by William…
 
Human Factor, The (1979) 
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Richard Attenborough, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi… 
- Otto Preminger last film is a mild espionage affair, concerning a low–level British informant suspected of being a double agent. A hefty cast…
 
Gandhi (1982)
 
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox… 
- Epic retelling of the life of the inspirational Indian leader with Ben Kingsley as 'The Mahatma'. Won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture.
 
A Chorus Line (1985) 
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Michael Douglas 
- Michael Douglas plays the cantankerous Broadway director in Sir Richard Attenborough's perfunctory adaptation of the highly successful stage musical.…
 
Cry Freedom (1987)
 
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline 
- Potent political cinema based on the story of black South African activist Steve Biko (Denzel Washington), whose suspicious death was investigated by…
 
Chaplin (1992)
 
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Hopkins 
- A reverent yet captivating biopic of comic genius Charlie Chaplin, boasting an uncanny central performance from Robert Downey Jnr. Commendably…
 
Shadowlands (1993)
 
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger 
- Anthony Hopkins is terrific as academic and children's author C.S. Lewis, who discovers a well of unfathomable emotion when his American divorcee…
 
Jurassic Park (1993)
 
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum… 
- Richard Attenborough's eccentric billionaire has perfected his tropical island themepark. With cutting edge science; he has revived the dinosaurs!…
 
Miracle On 34th Street (1994) 
- Dir. Les Mayfield
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott 
- Richard Attenborough plays Kris Kringle, a department store Santa who defiantly thinks he's the real thing. Sweet remake of classic Christmas tale…
 
In Love and War (1996) 
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Chris O'Donnell, Sandra Bullock, Margot Steinberg 
- Semi–biographical account of the young, manful Ernest Hemingway's WWI romance/Florence Nightingale complex, based on Agnes von Kurowsky's…
 
Lost World, The (Jurassic Park 2) (1997) 
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite… 
- Spielberg steals a few licks from KING KONG for this perfunctory JURASSIC PARK sequel. Yup, its more of the same, really, so its no surprise that the…
 
Elizabeth (1998)
 
- Dir. Shekhar Kapur
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes… 
- Attended by much ballyhoo, Australian actress Cate Blanchett fruitfully represents England's famous Queen as a key player in the sex…
 
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999) 
- Dir. Steven Pimlott, David Mallet
Feat. Donny Osmond, Joan Collins, Richard Attenborough 
- Early, Bible–story musical from the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice team and taken from the London Palladium production.
 
Grey Owl (1999) 
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Annie Galipeau 
- True–story of Englishman Archie Belany, whose obsession with all things Native American led to his emigration to the North American wilderness,…
 
Railway Children, The (2000) 
- Dir. Catherine Morshead
Feat. Jenny Agutter, Michael Kitchen, Richard Attenborough 
- Reviving Edith Nesbit’s classic turn–of–the–century tale of three siblings displaced to the English countryside is this freshly…
 
Jack and the Beanstalk - The Real Story (2001) 
- Dir. Brian Henson
Feat. Matthew Modine, Jon Voight, Vanessa Redgrave… 
- TV sequel to the fairytale of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' in which a descendant of Jack (Modine) must lift a family curse by returning the world of the…
 
Puckoon (2002) 
- Dir. Terence Ryan
Feat. Elliott Gould, John Lynch, Griff Rhys-Jones… 
- A flawed but unique adaptation of Spike Milligan's 1963 satirical novel set on the troubled borders of Northern Ireland in the 1920s.
With a plot…
 
Closing the Ring (2007) 
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton… 
- Richard Attenborough–directed romance set both in the '40s and present–day, following the wartime history of a ring and an unbreakable…