Opens Friday, Jul 19, 2013 Synopsis: Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn and star Ryan Gosling reunite for this intense crime drama set in Thailand, and following a powerful crime boss seeking bitter vengeance for the murder of her son. English gangster Julian (Gosling) and his brother Billy are the owners of a Thai boxing club that covers for a lucrative drug smuggling operation. Using the business as a front, they deliver the drugs to London, where their ruthless mother Jenna (Kristin Scott Thomas) sits at the head of a powerful criminal empire. Upon learning that Billy has been murdered, Jenna travels to Bangkok to claim his body, and bury the people responsible for his death. Later, as the death toll rises along with the stakes, an intense conflict leads to a last chance for salvation. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Ryan Gosling, Luke Evans, Kristin Scott Thomas Movie Details
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Now Playing Synopsis: A disillusioned French teacher's passions for literature are reawakened by a shy-yet-talented student who insinuates himself into the family life of an unsuspecting classmate in order to pen a series of voyeuristic essays. Adapted from Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga's The Boy in the Last Row, François Ozon's In the House opens to find weary educator Germain (Fabrice Luchini) wondering why he still gets up in front of the classroom every day. His enthusiasm for teaching has all bit withered away when Claude (Ernst Umhauer), a 16-year-old student who rarely speaks a word in class, suddenly develops a close friendship with middle-class schoolmate Rapha (Bastien Ughetto). Before long Claude has practically become an adoptive member of Rapha's family, furtively scrutinizing their lives while fashioning his observations into stories that hold his teacher spellbound. Claude's stories begin to take on an increasingly ominous air, however, as they become unusually focused on Rapha's pretty mother Esther (Emmanuelle Seigner). Meanwhile, by encouraging Claude to carry on writing, the newly invigorated teacher strays into morally questionable territory. By the time the young writer turns his attentions toward Germain's own wife Jeanne (Kristin Scott Thomas), the horrified teacher's foolhardy permissiveness threatens to result in shocking repercussions. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner Movie Details Play Trailer
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...variety of accents. It's handsome, large-scale escapist fare - and has as its costar the formidable, versatile Kristin Scott Thomas.Set in Croatia and Hong Kong, with a stopover in Mato Grosso, Brazil, "Heir Apparent" turns upon a volatile...
...key character, a British government press officer, from a man to a woman named Patricia Maxwell. This allowed Kristin Scott Thomas to do a sparkling, take-no-prisoners comic turn as a sarcastic spin doctor who oozes fake charm, gets away...
...Sabrina,'' he has largely left audiences cold. ``Random Hearts'' focuses on a relationship between Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas, who bond after their spouses are killed in a plane crash. Ford realizes it's not the most enticing commercial...
...moments but is too sophisticated a presence for his character's determinedly folksy persona to be convincing. Kristin Scott Thomas, usually the most reliable of actresses, is similarly uninvolving. (PG-13, for a disturbing accident scene...
...theatrical distribution. Even when you added major French-speaking actors such as Nathalie Baye, Jean Rochefort, Kristin Scott Thomas and Marie-Josée Croze as well as a script based on a novel by bestselling American suspense writer Harlan Coben...
...best acting you can get, and writer and first-time director Philippe Claudel chose brilliantly when he picked Kristin Scott Thomas to star as the shattered Juliette. The bilingual Thomas is best known to domestic audiences for her Oscar-nominated...
...to groaning summations of the dangerous game these women are being forced to play in the second. At least Mom (Kristin Scott Thomas, divine) puts up a fight. Despite many emotional moments supplied by the leads, especially by Portman, the...
...moments but is too sophisticated a presence for his character's determinedly folksy persona to be convincing. Kristin Scott Thomas, usually the most reliable of actresses, is similarly uninvolving. (PG-13, for a disturbing accident scene...
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