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Venus (2006) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Dec 22, 2006
BoxOffice: $3.3M
MPAA Rating
Rated R for language, some sexual content and brief nudity.
Running Time
1 hour, 35 minutes
Country UK
Production Companies
Free Range Films, Film Four, Miramax Films, UK Film Council
Studio Miramax Films
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• Venus (2006)
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Genre: Comedy
Plot: Screen legend Peter O'Toole stars in this moving story of an elderly actor and his somewhat questionable relationship with a teenage girl. Maurice (O'Toole) and his friend Ian (Leslie Phillips) are two classy curmudgeons whiling away their hours in coffee shops and at the theater, but their routine is thrown for a loop when Ian's niece's daughter Jessie (Jodie Whittaker) is sent from the country to act as his nurse. Jessie shows up on the scene sullen and pouty, immediately drinking all the liquor in the house and slouching her way from room to room. But Maurice befriends her, taking her to museums and getting her a gig as an art model, and along the way he openly expresses the lust she has awakened in him. Jessie's brash rejections of his affections are at first as amusing as they are awkward. When she starts to allow him small pleasures--like kissing her bare shoulders or caressing her hands--the film enters into some uncomfortable, complicated territory, but it is deftly navigated by Hanif Kureishi's sharp screenplay, and O'Toole's heartbreaking performance. VENUS is in many ways a quiet film, shot mainly in tiny shops and in Ian's musty apartment, and it often relies on single shots of O'Toole's weary blue eyes to convey the many complexities within the story. Far from
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 | Leslie Phillips
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Jackal |
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 | Richard Griffiths
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, Solitaire for 2, Gypsy Woman | | |
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David Arnold
Independence Day, Casino Royale, Die Another Day |
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