Mike Newell
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A former stage director, Briton Mike Newell has always brought a touch of high theatrics to his films, but never so much as to make them seem stagebound. Newell's breakthrough film Dance with a Stranger (1985), a style-conscious retelling of the notorious Ruth Ellis murder case (she was the last woman executed in England), brought full stardom to British actress Miranda Richardson, while the director's Enchanted April (1992), also with Richardson, ended up a surprise moneymaker in the US. Sometimes Newell's larger-than-life approach comes a cropper, as witness the fuzzy-headed allegory Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) and the confusing fantasy overtones in Into the West (1993). In 1994, Mike Newell made up for past missteps with Four Weddings and A Funeral, which outgrossed Enchanted April (and practically everything else) at the box office and was nominated for an Academy Award.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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81% | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | The Enchanted Kingdom |
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— | 2015 |
68% | Great Expectations |
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$0.3M | 2013 |
37% | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time |
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$90.8M | 2010 |
27% | Love in the Time of Cholera |
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$4.6M | 2007 |
88% | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
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$290M | 2005 |
34% | Mona Lisa Smile |
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$63.7M | 2003 |
79% | I Capture the Castle |
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$1M | 2003 |
92% | Traffic |
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$123.9M | 2000 |
91% | High Fidelity |
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— | 2000 |
43% | Best Laid Plans |
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— | 1999 |
48% | Pushing Tin |
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— | 1999 |
30% | 200 Cigarettes |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid |
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— | 1999 |
82% | Photographing Fairies |
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— | 1998 |
88% | Donnie Brasco |
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— | 1997 |
36% | An Awfully Big Adventure |
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— | 1995 |
96% | Four Weddings and a Funeral |
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— | 1994 |
84% | Enchanted April |
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— | 1992 |
38% | Amazing Grace and Chuck |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | The Good Father |
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— | 1986 |
91% | Dance with a Stranger |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Bad Blood |
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— | 1982 |
0% | The Awakening |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | The Man in the Iron Mask |
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— | 1977 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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67% |
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2006
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