Sally Phillips — Actor (49)

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Parents (2012)
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actor: 汤姆·康蒂 / 达伦·斯特兰奇 …
other title: 拜贱爹妈 / 囧囧人生
性格各异的六人共处一室,偶尔还要接待幸灾乐祸的妹妹,啼笑皆非的家庭生活就此展开。

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The More You Ignore Me (2018)
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other title: 目中已无我 / 不理我试试 …
Based on Jo Brand's critically acclaimed novel of the same name, The More You Ignore Me is a warm, comedy drama focusing on the life of an unconventional family in 1980s rural England. The film focuses on Gina, a young mother, whose efforts to be a loving mother and wife are undermined by her declining mental health. Things deteriorate when she develops an obsession with the local weatherman, which leads to an admission to the nearby psychiatric hospital. Over the years, as she grows up, her daughter Alice struggles to relate to her heavily medicated mum, and causes chaos when she comes up with a plan to reconnect with her, which divides the family forever and leads to a moving climax. Set to the songs of The Smiths, The More You Ignore Me provides a sometimes stark, yet comical insight into life within this quirky household, whilst addressing mental health issues and their impact on the family.

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Birthday Girl (2001)
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★ 5.2 8 ratings
other title: 生日女郎 / 惊婚计 …
John is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Fed up with waiting for the right girl to come along, John takes a chance on a Russian mail-order bride arranged via the Internet, where he is introduced to Nadia. John's fondness for Nadia grows... until the sudden arrival of Nadia's gregarious cousins makes John realize that he's in over his head.

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Meet The Sloths (2011)
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Lucy Cooke actor: 莎莉·菲利普斯
With their enigmatic smiles, medieval hairdo’s and eccentric biology, sloths are one of the planet’s most wonderfully weird creatures. In a sleepy corner of Costa Rica is a sloth orphanage run by the world’s only sloth whisperer, Judy Arroyo. For 20 years Judy has been rescuing and rehabilitating orphaned and injured sloths with such success that her home is now bursting at the seams with almost two hundred snoozy inmates. This authored documentary follows zoologist and filmmaker Lucy Cooke as she makes a pilgrimage to Judy’s house of sloth to investigate some of the mysteries of sloth behaviour such as why they descend once a week to the bottom of a tree to poo, why they are so very slow, and if they really deserve their title as the world’s laziest animal.

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Taskmaster Season 5 (2017)
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★ 8.6 5 ratings
Andy Devonshire actor: 格雷格·戴维斯 / 亚历克斯·霍恩 …
Tasks are set, seals are broken and unpredictable actions take place, as Aisling Bea, Bob Mortimer, Mark Watson, Nish Kumar and Sally Phillips compete to earn the respect of Greg Davies and Alex Horne.

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The Liar (2024)
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other title: 谎言大师
Adrian Healey is clever, charming and witty, but above all he is an expert liar. His unparalleled ability to consummately cheat and deceive is a skill that does not go unrecognized at one of England’s finest educational establishments where he is groomed in the dark arts of spy craft. Whilst pursuing his first romance, Adrian is thrown into a wild and thrilling web of espionage. In a world where all is not what it seems, has Adrian met his match?

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Angela Carter: Of Wolves And Women (2018)
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★ 9.0 5 ratings
裘德·何 actor: 玛格丽特·阿特伍德 / 安吉拉·卡特 …
Angela Carter’s surreal imagination produced some of the most dazzling fiction of the last century. Pioneering her own distinctive brand of magic realism, works like The Magic Toyshop and Nights At The Circus cracked open the middle-class conventions of the post-war novel and influenced a new generation of writers. Yet in her lifetime Carter’s fierce politics, frank exploration of gender, and fondness for the supernatural unnerved the macho literary establishment. She never won the Booker Prize or received the staggering advances of her male contemporaries - and regularly struggled to pay the bills, despite creating the acclaimed film The Company Of Wolves. Four decades on, Carter’s powerful tales of desire, fearless women and monstrous sexual predators have never felt more relevant. As Jeanette Winterson says in the film: “Every woman writing now has a debt to Angela Carter, whether or not they have read her. She was ahead of her time. And that’s why we’re so interested in her now because she’s coming into her time almost prophetically.” Narrated by Sally Phillips, this film is a dark and delicious foray into Angela Carter’s extraordinary life. While Carter’s early work drew on her creepily claustrophobic childhood and miserable early marriage; it was her experience of living in Japan in the 1970s that liberated both her writing and her sexuality. And she continued to live out of kilter with polite society, horrifying critics with expletive laden put-downs, falling in love with a teenage builder in her 30s, becoming a mother at 43 - and, tragically, winning the reviews of her career for Wise Children, the week after her death at the age of 51. Made by the team behind The Secret Life Of Sue Townsend (Aged 68 ¾), with animation by Emmy award-winning Peepshow Collective, this film is a visual treat inspired by the surreal imagery of Carter’s fiction. Hattie Morahan plays the young Angela (with extracts from unpublished letters and diaries), while Maureen Lipman, Kelly MacDonald and Laura Fraser read from Carter’s fiction. Including rare archive and family photos, with contributions from Angela’s friends, family, students and admirers - including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson and Anne Enright.