David Hare

Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 9 (Director), 18 (Writer)

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    The Hours
    The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place; all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. (Paramount)
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    Plenty
    A young Englishwoman spends 20 years to make whatever kind of life for herself at the expense of others around her in post-World War 2 England. (imdb)
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    Damage
    A member of Parliament (Irons) falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée. They pursue their affair with obsessive abandon despite the dangers of discovery and what it would do to his complacent life and his son (imdb)
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    Wetherby
    A young man (McInnerny) appears at Jean Travers' doorstep whilst she's hosting a dinner party and invites himself in. No one knows who he is, and after a short time, he shoots himself in her kitchen. Jean is left to deal with the consequences of his actions, which unknowingly provoke a confrontation with her own repressed memories.
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    The Reader
    In postwar Germany, a young man's decades-long obsession with an older woman runs headlong into a war crimes trial, where he learns an awful truth.
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    My Zinc Bed
    My Zinc Bed (2008) - TV Movie
    A recovering alcoholic becomes involved with his boss's wife, a former cocaine addict. (imdb)
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    Page Eight
    Page Eight (2011) - TV Movie
    Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss and best friend Benedict Baron (Michael Gambon) dies suddenly, leaving behind him an inexplicable file, threatening the stability of the organization. (imdb)
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    Paris by Night
    Clara Paige is a Tory member of the European parliament, who lets absolutely nothing get in way of her ambitions. At present, she's convinced that she's being blackmailed by her ex-business partner, Swanton. Upon accidentally meeting him, she impulsively murders the man. In a deliciously ironic turn of events, she is approached by the deceased's daughter, who hopes that Clara will help her locate her missing dad. (AllMovie)
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    Turks & Caicos
    Following on from the events of Page Eight, Johnny Worricker is hiding out from his work at MI5 on the tax-exile Turks and Caicos Islands. Trouble comes knocking when an encounter with a CIA agent forces him into the company of some dubious American businessmen. (en.wikipedia.org)
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    Salting the Battlefield
    Johnny Worricker and Margot Tyrell are now on the run together across Europe. With the net fast closing in, Worricker knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront his nemesis - the prime minister, Alec Beasley. (bbc.co.uk)
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    National Theatre Live: Skylight
    On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy), a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires. (youtube.com)
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    Denial
    Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel. (imdb)
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    Strapless
    An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price. (imdb)
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    Collateral
    Collateral (2018) - TV Mini-Series
    Described as a modern-day state of the nation project which takes place over four days. (imdb)
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    The White Crow
    The story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West. (imdb)
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    Roadkill
    Roadkill (2020) - TV Mini-Series
    Politician Peter Laurence's private life is falling apart. Shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, he seeks to further his own agenda whilst others plot to bring him down. Can he out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?
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    Beat the Devil
    Ralph Fiennes stars in a one-man show about playwright David Hare and his experience with COVID-19.
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    National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
    Fiennes is brilliant portraying Robert Moses (1888 - 1981), a very powerful and charismatic urban planner, whose career spanned over 40 years. Early in his career, Moses claimed to want to give all New Yorkers easy access to the outdoors, but with time, his motives were revealed to be less pure. David Hare's script is based on a biography by Robert Caro.
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