Gillies MacKinnon

Nascimento : 1948-01-08, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

História

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948, Glasgow) is a Scottish film director and writer. His film credits include Hideous Kinky, Small Faces and Regeneration. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gillies MacKinnon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmes

The Last Bus
Director
John O'Groats é um velho homem cuja esposa acabou de falecer, e com seu passe de ônibus local gratuito viaja para o outro lado do Reino Unido, onde ele e sua esposa originalmente moravam. Em uma viagem nostálgica, mas também levando as cinzas de sua esposa em uma pequena mala, ele a leva de volta, e ao fazer isso encontra pessoas locais e, no final de sua viagem vira uma celebridade. Mas ele não está bem, então pode ser sua última viagem de ônibus.
Torvill & Dean
Director
Biopic of the British ice dancers and British, European, Olympic and World champions, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
Whisky Galore
Director
The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
Castles in the Sky
Director
England, while the storm clouds of Nazism menace Germany. Robert Watson Watt and a team of eccentric and brilliant meteorologists struggle to turn the mere idea of radar into a functional reality.
The History of Mr Polly
Director
When Alfred Polly fails to find fulfilment as a shop keeper, he leaves his wife and sets out on the open road to see where freedom leads.
Vidas Trocadas
Director
Duas mulheres trocam de casa durante o verão e aprendem muito vivendo uma no mundo da outra. Ria vive em Dublin com os seus dois filhos e o marido, mas certo dia ele decide sair de casa e ir morar com a namorada já grávida. Marilyn, de Nova Inglaterra, perdeu o filho e acabou por se separar do marido. Por acaso, elas conversam pelo telefone e decidem trocar de casa durante o verão. Elas vão aprender muito vivendo uma no mundo da outra...
Pure
Director
Após a morte do marido, Mel (Molly Parker), a mãe de Paul (Harry Eden) de 10 anos, conta com um velho amigo, Lenny (David Wenham), que é um cafetão e traficante. Diante a situação, o jovem precisa lidar com a mãe viciada em heroína e cuidar do irmão mais novo. Com medo de ser abandonado pela mãe, Paul fica amigo da garçonete Louise (Keira Knightley), uma mulher grávida que também é viciada em drogas.
O Escapista
Director
Ele tinha uma vida perfeita, até o dia que sua casa foi assaltada e sua mulher grávida assassinada. Inconformado que o assassino foi condenado a apenas 20 anos de prisão, Denis resolve fazer a sua justiça, para isto ele tem que correr atrás de alguém, que está salvo atrás das grades. Um filme fantástico, que mostra até onde vai o ódio e a sede de vingança de uma pessoa que tem sua vida destruída.
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Director
In the seventh film in the series, in April 1916, a disillusioned Indy hops the ocean to Europe where he figures the Great War might offer him a greater sense of purpose.
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Director
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.
O Expresso de Marrakesh
Director
Uma mulher britânica viaja com suas duas filhas pequenas de Londres para o Marrocos. Neste novo lugar, elas tentam se adaptar à nova cultura, enquanto a mãe busca uma vida de liberdade e amor.
Regeneration
Director
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.
Trojan Eddie
Director
Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather than inform on his partner in a failed burglary, Eddie now struggles to raise his two daughters alone. Power falls for and marries traveler girl Kathleen, but when she runs off with Power's nephew Dermot — and takes the $11,000 dowry with her — Eddie must track the couple down.
Small Faces
Director
Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex, who begins a downward spiral after he accidentally shoots the leader of Bobby's gang. Lex's cockiness and immaturity unfortunately prevent him from understanding the effect his subsequent crimes will have on both himself, and on those around him.
Uma Virada do Destino
Director
Morador de uma pequena cidade, o marceneiro Michael McCann leva uma vida solitária e sem graça até o aparecimento da garotinha Matilda à sua porta. Aos poucos, o que era uma caridade se transforma em um relacionamento de carinho e afeição mútuos. Mas ele ignora que a menina tem um segredo: é filha de um importante político da região, que nunca assumiu a paternidade por medo de arranhar sua supostamente intacta reputação.
Romance Proibido
Director
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
The Grass Arena
Director
The Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious family, with an abusive father, John soon learns that he has to defend himself. Growing into adulthood he takes up boxing, but soon falls victim to alcoholism. His boxing career over, John takes to the Grass Arena (the park) where he lives with other alcoholics. Prison time introduces him to a new and unexpected path.
Needle
Director
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
Conquest of the South Pole
Director
A Group of unemployed Edinburgh youths embark on a recreation of Roald Amundsen's historic expedition to the South Pole.