Iain Softley
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Iain Softley (born November 30, 1956) is an English film director. He was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing, where he played the part of Thomas Becket in its 1975 production of T. S. Eliot's play, Murder in the Cathedral, and Queens' College, Cambridge. His movies include the Beatles film Backbeat (1994), Hackers (1995), The Wings of the Dove (1997), K-PAX (2001), The Skeleton Key (2005) and Inkheart (2008). Softley also has been developing an adaptation of Stephen Gallagher's novel The Boat House for Dimension Films, set in the English Lake District. He previously attempted to film the book in 1999, with Milla Jovovich in the lead role of a haunted and driven Russian émigré. Description above from the Wikipedia article Iain Softley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Curve (2015)
A young woman becomes trapped in her car after a hitchhiker causes her to have an automobile accident.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Iain Softley
Stars: Teddy Sears | Julianne Hough | Penelope Mitchell | Drew Rausch | Madalyn Horcher
Trap for Cinderella (2013)
A young girl suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Iain Softley
Stars: Tuppence Middleton | Frances de la Tour | Kerry Fox | Alexandra Roach | Aneurin Barnard
Inkheart (2008)
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Iain Softley
Stars: Andy Serkis | Sienna Guillory | Eliza Bennett | Paul Bettany | Brendan Fraser
The Skeleton Key (2005)
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Iain Softley
Stars: John Hurt | Kate Hudson | Peter Sarsgaard | Gena Rowlands | Joy Bryant
K-PAX (2001)
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Iain Softley
Stars: Kevin Spacey | Jeff Bridges | Alfre Woodard | Mary McCormack | Ajay Naidu
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Iain Softley
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Charlotte Rampling | Michael Gambon | Linus Roache | Alex Jennings
Hackers (1995)
Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Iain Softley
Stars: Matthew Lillard | Jesse Bradford | Angelina Jolie | Jonny Lee Miller | Renoly Santiago
Backbeat (1994)
Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe (played by Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon (played by Ian Hart), and also with Sutcliffe's German girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr (played by Sheryl Lee).
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Iain Softley
Stars: Stephen Dorff | Sheryl Lee | Ian Hart | Chris O'Neill | Gary Bakewell