"Director: Stephen Daldry"

• The Producers/Billy Elliot/Rent | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Producers: New York 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it so you can pocket the surplus. To this end they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. Finally they hire as a lead actress the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla (whose last name has over 15 syllables). As opening night draws near what can go wrong? Well there's no accounting for taste... Billy Elliot: Starring Julie Walters and newcomer Jamie Bell the film (based on a real-life story) follows the progress of little Billy Elliot a motherless 11 year-old from a poor Durham pit village. When young Billy chooses ballet classes over boxing lessons his life is changed forever. He decides to keep the lessons secret from his father a coal miner but when his ballet instructor persuades him to try out for the Royal Ballet School in London Billy must make the choice between family responsibilities and his dreams... Billy Elliot received plenty of recognition at the Academy Awards picking up nominations for Best Supporting Actress Best Director and Best Screenplay. Rent: Based on the hit musical Rent tells the story of eight friends dealing with life and love in Manhattan's Alphabet City. Wannabe filmmaker Mark and songwriter Roger are facing eviction at the hands of their former roommate and current landlord Benny. Benny has married rich moved out of the neighborhood and wants to build a state-of-the-art studio where the local tent city stands...

• Billy Elliot/Sixty Six | DVD | (10/03/2008) from £9.37   |  Saving you £3.62 (38.63%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Billy Elliot (Dir. Stephen Daldry) (2000): Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it. Starring Julie Walters and newcomer Jamie Bell the film (based on a real-life story) follows the progress of little Billy Elliot a motherless 11 year-old from a poor Durham pit village. When young Billy chooses ballet classes over boxing lessons his life is changed forever. He decides to keep the lessons secret from his father a coal miner but when his ballet instructor persuades him to try out for the Royal Ballet School in London Billy must make the choice between family responsibilities and his dreams... Billy Elliot received plenty of recognition at the Academy Awards picking up nominations for Best Supporting Actress Best Director and Best Screenplay. Sixty Six (Dir. Paul Weiland) (2006): It is the summer of '66 and England is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For 12 year-old Bernie though the biggest day of his life is looming: his Bar Mitzvah and the day he becomes a man. However Bernie's family are increasingly distracted by the threat of losing their business and their wayward older son and the scale of Bernie's Bar Mitzvah diminishes daily. Worst of all the Cup Final is scheduled to take place on the same day and when England makes it through the qualifying rounds Bernie's longed-for Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a complete disaster...

• Award Winning Box Set - Chicago / The Hours / Frida | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Chicago: At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves sharing space on Chicago's famed Murderess Row! They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends. But in Chicago, there's only room for one legend!; ; The Hours: An adaptation of the novel by Michael Cunningham, this is the story of three women living...

• Finding Neverland/The Hours | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Finding Neverland: (Dir. Marc Forster) (2004): This is a tale of magic and fantasy inspired by the life of Peter Pan author James Barrie. Set in London 1904 the film is a fictional account of Barrie's creative struggle to bring Peter Pan to life from his first inspiration up until the play's premiere - a night that will change not only Barrie's own life but the lives of everyone close to him. The Hours: (Dir. Stephen Daldry) (2002): An adaptation of the novel by Michael Cunningham this is the story of three women living in different time periods of the Twentieth Century all linked by a work of literature. In 1923 Virginia Woolf starts to write her novel 'Mrs Dalloway' whilst struggling to cope with depression and mental illness. In 1951 Laura Brown a dissatisfied housewife contemplates her own life after reading 'Mrs Dalloway'. In 2000 editor Clarissa Vaughan struggles to look after her ex-lover Richard Brown who is losing his battle with Aids. Richard nicknames her 'Mrs Dalloway'.

• The Hours | DVD | (01/02/2021) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The story of how the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway' affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives. Extras: COMMENTARY BY NICOLE KIDMAN, MERYL STREEP AND JULIANNE MOORE COMMENTARY BY DIRECTOR STEPHEN DALDRY AND NOVELIST MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM FILMMAKERS INTRODUCTION THREE WOMEN THE MIND AND TIMES OF VIRGINIA WOOLF THE MUSIC OF THE HOURS THE LIVES OF MRS. DALLOWAY THEATRICAL TRAILER