HEAVENLY CREATURES

GENRE:  Crime/ Drama/ Fantasy
MADE:  1994
CAST:  Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse
DIRECTOR:  Peter Jackson
WRITER:  Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson

PLOT:  In this cult film two girls with a close friendship are bonded by their fantasies, when threatened to be separated from each other the two girls plot to take down all obstacles in their way.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Hole, Poison Ivy, The Crush

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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

GENRE:  Drama/ Romance
MADE:  1995
CAST:  Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Hugh Grant
DIRECTOR:  Ang Lee
WRITER:  Jane Austen, Emma Thompson

PLOT:  Based on Jane Austen's novel, Sense and Sensibility, Mr Dashwood dies leaving his wife and her two daughters poor making their marriageability most impossible.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Vanity Fair, Pride & Prejudice, Brokeback Mountain

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FINDING NEVERLAND

GENRE:  Biographical/ Drama/ Family
MADE:  2004
CAST:  Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie
DIRECTOR:  Marc Forster
WRITER:  Allan Knee, David Magee

PLOT:  A biographical film on the creator of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie and how he came to create Peter Pan.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Hook, EverAfter, The Brothers Grimm

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ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

GENRE:  Drama/ Romance/ Comedy
MADE:  2004
CAST:  Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst
DIRECTOR:  Michel Gondry
WRITER:  Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth

PLOT:  A brilliant doctor creates a way to erase certain memories in people, with a flow of grieving patients a couple goes in to erase the memories of each other, this is their story.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Science Of Sleep, The Fountain, Pan's Labyrinth

 

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HIDEOUS KINKY

GENRE:  Drama
MADE:  1998
CAST:  Kate Winslet, Bella Riza, Said Taghmaoui
DIRECTOR:  Gillies MacKinnon
WRITER:  Esther Freud, Billy MacKinnon

PLOT:  Set during the 1970s in Morocco, a free spirited non-traditional mother wanders around Morocco with her two young daughters running into various life adventures good and bad.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Chocolat, Finding Neverland

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