Joan Plowright films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 10 films on Boxlist

Known for Drowning by Numbers, Jane Eyre and The Spiderwick Chronicles.

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Starring Joan Plowright

Drowning by Numbers
1988 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place an a lyrically beautiful landscape. Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings. The local coroner...
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Jane Eyre
1996 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement...
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The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
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Curious George
2006 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
When The Man in the Yellow Hat befriends Curious George in the jungle, they set off on a non-stop, fun-filled journey through the wonders of the big city toward the warmth of true friendship.
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Dinosaur
2000 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
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Last Action Hero
1993 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Danny is obsessed with a fictional movie character action hero Jack Slater. When a magical ticket transports him into Jack's latest adventure, Danny finds himself in a world where movie magic and reality collide. Now it's up to Danny to...
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101 Dalmatians
1996 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
An evil high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.
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Dennis the Menace
1993 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
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Bringing Down the House
2003 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
When a lonely guy meets a woman on the internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to get him to prove her innocence, and proceeds to wreak havoc on his middle-class life.
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The Scarlet Letter
1995 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to...
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