Films with: Steadman, Alison

Abigail's party

""Abigail's Party" features Beverly, a bitingly funny hostess of a dainty evening party at which her husband has the ultimate bad taste of having a heart attack on her new living room carpet. Unable to decide which is more important, her dying husband or her new, very expensive carpet, Abigail must must come to terms with where her true priorities lay. One of Mike Leigh's greatest works, "Abigail's Party" reaches a moment where the unbearable and the hopeless fuse to create an explosion of incredible humor and tremendous insight into the state of human affairs." --container.

DVD 7645

Hard labour

Focuses on the grinding, daily abuse a poor, elderly woman suffers at the hands of her husband, her children and her employer.

DVD 712

Nuts in May

Hilarious and appalling things happen to Keith and Candice-Marie, a pair of terrifically self-satisfied, middle-class vegetarians still high on love-philosophy of the 1960's, when they go on a camping trip in Dorset.

DVD 7644

Pride and prejudice

The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of 19th century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.

DVD 1706

Shirley Valentine

An English housewife, bored with her life, goes on a vacation with a friend to Greece and finds that there's more to life than just dishes and laundry when she has a fling with a handsome man.

DVD 6654