"and discussing the proof. The film is based on the four-character stage play ""Proof"". The film adds many bit parts for the sake of realism, and ""opens up"" the setting considerably. The role of Catherine was first played by Mary-Louise Parker in the play's 2000 Manhattan Theatre Club original production. Gwyneth Paltrow played Catherine in a London stage production before being cast in the film. Hopkins' character is a mathematics professor at the University of Chicago. Although many scenes were filmed on the university's campus, the mathematics building itself (Eckhart Hall) was not used. Instead, many scenes that were set"
"Sliding Doors Sliding Doors is a 1998 British-American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Howitt and starring Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah, while also featuring John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Virginia McKenna. The film alternates between two parallel universes, based on the two paths the central character's life could take depending on whether she catches a train, and causing different outcomes in her life. Helen Quilley (Gwyneth Paltrow) gets fired from her public relations job. As she leaves the office building, she drops an earring in the lift and a man picks it up for her. She rushes"
"a nifty gimmick"". Angie Errigo of Empire magazine gives the film 3/5 stars. Roger Ebert gives the film 2/4 stars, and was critical of the screenplay. Film director Agnieszka Holland considers the film to be a botched copy of the 1981 Polish film ""Blind Chance"", directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, with all the ""philosophical depths and stylistic subtleties stripped away"". Sliding Doors Sliding Doors is a 1998 British-American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Howitt and starring Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah, while also featuring John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Virginia McKenna. The film alternates between two parallel universes,"
"fine cast, speedy pacing and playful direction make this a solid contender for the Austen sweepstakes."" 1998 marked a turning point in Paltrow's career as she took on leading roles in five high-profile film releases in the year —""Great Expectations"", ""Sliding Doors"", ""Hush"", ""A Perfect Murder"" and ""Shakespeare in Love"". In the adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel ""Great Expectations"", with Ethan Hawke, Robert De Niro, Anne Bancroft and Chris Cooper, she played the unrequited and haughty childhood love of a New York City painter. The British drama ""Sliding Doors"" saw her star as a woman whose life could take"
"their children. Zara Turner Zara Turner is a Northern Irish actress. Turner appeared alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah in the 1998 romantic drama film ""Sliding Doors"" and as Dr Angela Moloney again with John Hannah in the television series ""McCallum"" (1995–98). In 2001 she appeared in the comedy film ""On the Nose"" as Carol Lenahan, with Dan Aykroyd and Robbie Coltrane. Turner has won the Best Actress award at the Reims International Television Festival and the Golden FIPA at the 2004 Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels. Turner is married to fellow actor Reece Dinsdale and they live in Yorkshire,"
"Zara Turner Zara Turner is a Northern Irish actress. Turner appeared alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah in the 1998 romantic drama film ""Sliding Doors"" and as Dr Angela Moloney again with John Hannah in the television series ""McCallum"" (1995–98). In 2001 she appeared in the comedy film ""On the Nose"" as Carol Lenahan, with Dan Aykroyd and Robbie Coltrane. Turner has won the Best Actress award at the Reims International Television Festival and the Golden FIPA at the 2004 Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels. Turner is married to fellow actor Reece Dinsdale and they live in Yorkshire, England with"
"Hush (1998 film) Hush is a 1998 American thriller film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Johnathon Schaech, and Jessica Lange. Helen and Jackson live together in New York City. At the beginning of the film, the two are driving towards the Kentucky farmhouse, Kilronan, where Jackson grew up, primarily to introduce Helen to Jackson's mother, Martha (Lange). After returning to New York, Helen discovers she is pregnant. When she informs Jackson of this, he asks her to marry him and she accepts. The wedding is held at Kilronan, where Helen meets Jackson's paternal grandmother, Alice, who tells Helen she doesn't trust Martha."
"Shallow Hal Shallow Hal is a 2001 American romantic comedy film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Jack Black about a shallow man who, after hypnosis, begins to see people's inner beauty reflected in their outward appearance. The motion picture was directed by the Farrelly brothers and filmed in and around Charlotte as well as Sterling and Princeton, Massachusetts at Wachusett Mountain. The supporting cast features Jason Alexander, Tony Robbins (as himself), and Laura Kightlinger. The film's score was composed by William Goodrum, Ivy and Cliff Eidelman. Hal Larson (Jack Black) is a nice guy, but he has one flaw: he is"
"hero is inattentive to the victim to the point of dementia."" Jessica Lange earned a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actress, losing to the Spice Girls for ""Spice World"". Hush (1998 film) Hush is a 1998 American thriller film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Johnathon Schaech, and Jessica Lange. Helen and Jackson live together in New York City. At the beginning of the film, the two are driving towards the Kentucky farmhouse, Kilronan, where Jackson grew up, primarily to introduce Helen to Jackson's mother, Martha (Lange). After returning to New York, Helen discovers she is pregnant. When she informs Jackson of"
"Prince of Tides"" (1991), ""To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar"" (1995), ""The Myth of Fingerprints"" (1997), ""The X-Files"" (1998), ""Forces of Nature"" (1999), ""The Last Kiss"" (2006), ""Paul"" (2011), ""Hello I Must Be Going"" (2012), ""I'll See You in My Dreams"" (2015), and ""What They Had"" (2018). Danner is the sister of Harry Danner and the widow of Bruce Paltrow. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow. Danner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Katharine (née Kile; 1909–2006) and Harry Earl Danner, a bank executive. She has a brother, opera singer"
"""land of opportunity"". Set in the Coventry Mansion during the Victorian era, the wealthy family hires a young woman named Jean Muir to be the governess of sixteen-year-old Bella. When she first meets the Coventry family, Jean succeeds in charming Bella, Ned and Mrs. Coventry by having a fainting spell. However, Gerald and Lucia, son of the estate and cousin to the Coventry family, remain suspicious. They are skeptical with good reason, for when Jean retires to her own bedroom, she removes her costume (a wig and some fake teeth) to reveal that she is actually an actress of at"
"View from the Top View from the Top is a 2003 American romantic comedy film directed by Bruno Barreto, and stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Candice Bergen, Joshua Malina, Mark Ruffalo, Rob Lowe, Mike Myers, and Kelly Preston. The film follows a young woman (Paltrow) from a small town who sets out to fulfill her dream of becoming a flight attendant. Donna Jensen is a girl from a small town in Nevada who wishes to see the world in order to get away from her unhappy life of living in a trailer with her alcoholic mother, a former Las Vegas"
"The Staircase (1998 film) The Staircase is a 1998 television film about the story of the spiral staircase, believed by some to be miraculously built, at the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The film stars Barbara Hershey as Mother Madalyn in charge of the Chapel and William Petersen as Joad, the traveling carpenter with spiritual talent as well as woodworking skill. It's based on the novel of the same name by Ann Rinaldi. The sisters of the legendary Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico have lived for years with an unfinished choir loft, until one day a"
"1 May 1998. Dylan (Dan Futterman) and Jez (Stuart Townsend) are two orphans who meet in their twenties and vow to achieve their shared childhood dream of living in a stately home. In pursuit of this dream they spend their days living in a disused gas holder, spending as little money as possible and conning the upper classes out of their riches. During one of their biggest cons, their lives are touched by Georgie (Kate Beckinsale), who needs money to save the Down's syndrome foundation that her brother attends. When a con goes wrong, the two find themselves in jail"
"(played by Libby Belitsos) gazes out the window of her prison cell. She's about to be released. In her pocket is a photograph clipped from a travel book. The caption reads, “Autumn colors along Copper Creek near Gilead, Wisconsin”. (""A Ring Around the Moon"") Arriving in Gilead, Percy reports to the local Sheriff, Joe Sutter (played by Zak Kline). He leads her through the deserted streets to a ramshackle diner called the Spitfire Grill, run by a crusty old widow, Hannah Ferguson (played by Sylvie Williams), who has a bad hip and sharp tongue. Joe persuades Hannah to take Percy"
"1998 film version of Koontz's novel. Jenny and Lisa Paige, two sisters, return to Jenny's hometown of Snowfield, California, a small ski resort village nestled in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains where Jenny works as a doctor, and find no one alive. The few bodies they find are either mutilated, or reveal some strange form of death. Finally, after growing more alarmed by the town's mysterious and alarming situation Jenny manages to call police in a neighboring town to come help. Together, the girls and the police, led by Sheriff Bryce Hammond, are able to request help from the military Biological Investigations"
"himself would never have done. What Lies Beneath What Lies Beneath is a 2000 American supernatural horror film directed by Robert Zemeckis. It was the first film by the film studio ImageMovers. It stars Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer as a couple who experience a strange haunting of their home. The film opened in 2,813 theaters in North America, and grossed $291 million at the worldwide box office, becoming the tenth-highest grossing film of the year. It received mixed reviews, but was nominated for three Saturn Awards. After her daughter Caitlin leaves for college, Vermont housewife Claire Spencer begins noticing"
"What Lies Beneath What Lies Beneath is a 2000 American supernatural horror film directed by Robert Zemeckis. It was the first film by the film studio ImageMovers. It stars Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer as a couple who experience a strange haunting of their home. The film opened in 2,813 theaters in North America, and grossed $291 million at the worldwide box office, becoming the tenth-highest grossing film of the year. It received mixed reviews, but was nominated for three Saturn Awards. After her daughter Caitlin leaves for college, Vermont housewife Claire Spencer begins noticing the volatile relationship between new"
"Holes (film) Holes is a 2003 American adventure comedy-drama film directed by Andrew Davis, and based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Louis Sachar (who also wrote the screenplay). The film stars Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson and Shia LaBeouf. The film was co produced by Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures and distributed in many markets by Disney's distribution company Buena Vista. ""Holes"" was released in the United States on April 18, 2003, and earned $71.4 million worldwide. It was later released on DVD and VHS on September 23, 2003, by Buena"
"Drawing Down the Moon (film) Drawing Down The Moon; filmed in Sunbury, Pennsylvania; is a 1997 Chaos Entertainment Independent film written and directed by Steven Patterson. The title is based upon a traditional Wiccan ritual of the same name. Gwyneth McBride (Karina Krepp) is a Wiccan woman who attempts to open up a homeless shelter in a small community. She is threatened when a local crime lord Joe Merchant (Walter Koenig, Star Trek's ""Pavel Chekov"") with a mathematical bent—and a particular flair for chaos theory—sends in his thugs to intimidate her. She defends herself against anti-Pagan religious intolerance with both"
"The Glitter Dome The Glitter Dome is a 1984 American made-for-HBO crime drama film starring James Garner, Margot Kidder and John Lithgow. The film, based on the 1981 Joseph Wambaugh Hollywood-set homicide novel, was directed by Stuart Margolin, who also scored the film and played a supporting part. The movie was filmed in Victoria, British Columbia and co-starred Colleen Dewhurst. It was subsequently released on video in 1985. The film was also the last film for John Marley. The Glitter Dome is a bar frequented by the Hollywood police detective division (the name is a slang reference to Hollywood). When"
"responded less favorably than they had at Sundance. The movie was the basis for the 2001 Off-Broadway musical of the same name by James Valcq and Fred Alley. The story centers on a young woman named Percy (Alison Elliott) who was recently released from prison. She arrives in a small town in Maine with hopes of beginning a new life. She lands a job as a waitress in the Spitfire Grill, owned by Hannah (Ellen Burstyn), whose gruff exterior conceals a kind heart and little tolerance for the grill's regular customers who are suspicious of Percy's mysterious past. None is"
"The Revolving Doors The Revolving Doors () is a 1988 Canadian-French French-language drama film directed by Francis Mankiewicz. The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 61st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Céleste (Monique Spaziani), a jazz pianist, has reached the twilight of her years. Alone in her New York apartment, she looks back on her life and decides to record it all in a diary that she sends to her estranged son, Blaudelle (Gabriel Arcand). The arrival of the diary disrupts Blaudelle’s life, although his son, Antoine"
"ozone layer gone. In order to survive, the duplicates intend to take over Earth. The entrances to the duplicate Earth are called the vortex, which are located in major bodies of water, ponds, and lakes. The Lake (1998 film) The Lake is a 1998 made-for-TV movie, a science fiction thriller starring Yasmine Bleeth. Jackie Ivers (Bleeth) is a Los Angeles nurse who returns home to the small town of San Vicente to find that her friends and family have taken on bizarrely different personalities. Jackie notices that everyone who goes into the town's lake come out different. As the movie"
"film as well. The song playing in the ""Stew"" scene is ""d-moll"" by the duo Tosca off of their album ""Delhi 9""; this theme is repeated through the film. Running with Scissors (film) Running with Scissors is a 2006 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Ryan Murphy, based on Augusten Burroughs' 2002 memoir of the same name, and starring Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh and Gwyneth Paltrow. The semi-autobiographical account of Burroughs' childhood (when his real name was still Christopher Robison), based on his best-selling book, received mixed reviews"
"or might not have happened involving a lot of empty people whose main claim to fame is that they're dead."" Wonderland (2003 film) Wonderland is a 2003 American crime drama film, co-written and directed by James Cox and based on the real-life Wonderland Murders that occurred in 1981. The film stars Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Dylan McDermott, Carrie Fisher, Lisa Kudrow, Josh Lucas, Christina Applegate, Tim Blake Nelson, and Janeane Garofalo. Kilmer plays the role of John Holmes, a famous pornographic film star and suspected accomplice in four grisly murders committed in an apartment on Wonderland Avenue, in the Laurel"
"criticised for pandering to the American market by playing to the stereotype of the English as posh, socially awkward eccentrics. This hasn't stopped the films generally being a huge success in the American and British cinema box office charts. Other films which have followed in Curtis's footsteps include ""Sliding Doors"" (1998), ""Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence"" (1998), ""About a Boy"" (2002), ""Wimbledon"", and the American film ""What a Girl Wants"" (2002). ""Londinium"" (2001) used locations in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, Hyde Park, Primrose Hill Park and at Waterloo station. Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen conducted their"
"and premiered The Greatest Show on Earth (with James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton) in Sarasota. In 1998. two studio films where filmed in Sarasota: Alfonso Cuaron’s Great Expectations, with Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Anne Bancroft and Robert De Niro; and Volker Schlondorff’s Palmetto, starring Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, and Gina Gershon. Out Of Time (2003), a crime drama starring Denzel Washington and Eva Mendes used the Casey Key Swing Bridge, Boca Grande and Cortez. In 2013, Taylor Hackford’s action movie Parker, with Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte had scenes filmed at Ca’ d’Zan in Sarasota. Sarasota"
"the character played by James Garner"". The Glitter Dome The Glitter Dome is a 1984 American made-for-HBO crime drama film starring James Garner, Margot Kidder and John Lithgow. The film, based on the 1981 Joseph Wambaugh Hollywood-set homicide novel, was directed by Stuart Margolin, who also scored the film and played a supporting part. The movie was filmed in Victoria, British Columbia and co-starred Colleen Dewhurst. It was subsequently released on video in 1985. The film was also the last film for John Marley. The Glitter Dome is a bar frequented by the Hollywood police detective division (the name is"
"Fine, Alma Cuervo as Mona Lauder, Sarah Jane Shanks as Doreen/ Connie, Mary Stout as Mrs. Leacock and Jake Lucas as David Whitaker. In a suburb of Hartford, Connecticut in 1957, Cathy Whitaker is an upper-middle class wife, mother and homemaker. She finds out that her husband Frank has had secret homosexual desires, which he has fulfilled. Her world is shaken but she cannot confide in her friend Eleanor. The widowed black gardener Raymond Deagan attempts to comfort her, but she is put off by gossip about them. Frank and Cathy seek help from the psychiatrist Dr. Bowman, in an"
"Kaufman, but the play's storyline and the characters' names were almost completely changed for the movie, so much so in fact that Kaufman joked the film should be called ""Screen Door"". Terry Randall (Katharine Hepburn) moves into the Footlights Club, a theatrical rooming house in New York. Her polished manners and superior attitude make her no friends among the rest of the aspiring actresses living there, particularly her new roommate, flippant, cynical dancer Jean Maitland (Ginger Rogers). From Terry's expensive clothing and her photograph of her elderly grandfather, Jean assumes she has obtained the former from her sugar daddy, just"
"charge for the loving and peaceful Ms. McBride. Drawing Down the Moon (film) Drawing Down The Moon; filmed in Sunbury, Pennsylvania; is a 1997 Chaos Entertainment Independent film written and directed by Steven Patterson. The title is based upon a traditional Wiccan ritual of the same name. Gwyneth McBride (Karina Krepp) is a Wiccan woman who attempts to open up a homeless shelter in a small community. She is threatened when a local crime lord Joe Merchant (Walter Koenig, Star Trek's ""Pavel Chekov"") with a mathematical bent—and a particular flair for chaos theory—sends in his thugs to intimidate her. She"
"whose surname was ""Paltrowicz"", was a rabbi in Nowogród, Poland. His father and mother owned Paltrow Steel Company and a home in Palm Beach, Florida. His brother is Robert Paltrow. Paltrow studied painting at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the late 1960s, he began directing stage productions in New York City, where he met actress Blythe Danner. They married December 14, 1969 and were married until his death. He was the producer of the television series ""The White Shadow"" and ""St. Elsewhere"". His last production was the film ""Duets"", which starred his daughter, Gwyneth. He also owned a"