Sam Neill
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"Get to know the star of some of the world's favourite film and TV classics in this fascinating and remarkably honest memoir from Sam Neill'Hilarious, wicked, wonderful, kind, thoughtful, engaging and wise' STEPHEN FRY'Just wonderful, so funny and charming and sharp. Sam Neill's lively, lovely book made me laugh out loud' MERYL STREEP' Really, really, really funny. There are some cracking stories. I read it in one sitting!' LORRAINE KELLY' I love...
2) Blackbird
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Lily (Susan Sarandon) summons her daughters Jennifer (Kate Winslet) and Anna (Mia Wasikowska) for one final family reunion as she looks to end her battle with a terminal illness. Amid the bittersweet farewell, unresolved feelings surface.
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Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant volume 3
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In Timor, Mary and the other men enjoy the luxury of freedom under false identities. However, fate conspires against them as Clarke stops there on his way back to England.
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Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant volume 2
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Mary, her husband Will, their two children, and five other men set sail for Timor, closely followed by Clarke who obsessively pursues them. Through sheer grit and enormous luck, most of them make it 4,000 miles to the Dutch colony of Timor.
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Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant volume 1
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Cornwall, 1786, hungry Mary Broad is convicted to death for stealing a lady's picnic but 'mercifully' allowed to join for life first governor Phillip's founding shipload to start a penal colony at Botany bay in New South Wales.
7) Rams
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Two estranged brothers, Colin (Sam Neill) and Les (Michael Caton), are at war raising separate flocks of sheep. When Les's prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley but Colin attempts to stealthily outwit the powers that be.
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Merlin The Complete Miniseries volume 1
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A spellbinding and inventive retelling of the life, myth, magic and great lost love of the masterful wizard, Merlin, and his relationship with his regal young protege, Arthur. All star cast includes Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Helena Bonham Carter, Isabella Rossellini, John Gielgud, Rutger Hauer, Martin Short and Lena Headey.
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Merlin The Complete Miniseries volume 2
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The story of the masterful wizard Merlin continues, picking up with Arthur's historic removal of Excalibur from the stone. All star cast includes Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Helena Bonham Carter, Isabella Rossellini, John Gielgud, Rutger Hauer, Martin Short and Lena Headey.
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Merlin's Apprentice volume 1
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The story of MERLIN, one of television's biggest minisereis of all time, continues in this sequel. Merlin returns to Camelot and finds a Kingdom now vulnerable to ill-fates and war. Sam Neill and Miranda Richardson star.
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Merlin's Apprentice volume 2
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With the help of Jack, an irascible young beggar-thief imbued with his own unruly magic, the fight against unknown dangers begins to restore the Kingdom back to its glory days. Sam Neill and Miranda Richardson star.
12) The vow
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A young couple have a car accident that puts the wife in a coma. After she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband sets his sights on winning her heart again.
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The ultimate battle for survival begins as Robinson Crusoe sets sail for the New World. A dangerous onboard attack finds Crusoe stuck on a remote tropical island with only the assistance of his native friend Friday to help him prepare for his journey back home. Explore the perils and challenges facing the castaways as they struggle to survive on a desert island with little more than their wits, overcoming marauding militias, hungry cannibals, wild...
15) Long way down
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Four strangers happen to meet on a roof of a building with the intent of committing suicide. They decide to call off their plans for six weeks and form an unconventional, dysfunctional family and friendship.
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Czarist Russia, 1897 - war and revolution bring poet and physician Yury Zhivago together with the beautiful Lara, his muse and all-consuming passion. But, both Yury and Lara are haunted - he by guilt over his betrayal of Tonya, his beloved wife, and Lara by fear of Komarovsky, the powerful man who means to have her any way he can.
18) The piano
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With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through the silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds...
19) Yes
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Feeling trapped in her marriage to a politician, an American scientist begins an affair with a Lebanese surgeon living in exile in London. As the affair goes on, the couple finds it difficult to put aside their very different beliefs.