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Clocking Off
- Television - BBC (2000) |
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In this BBC TV series filmed in Manchester, Christopher Eccleston
plays 35 year old lad-about-town Jim Calvert, who works at
Manchester Airport and falls in love with an unmarried mother
played by Sarah Lancashire. Chris was in two episodes in the
first series - episode 2 (Yvonne's Story) and episode 4 (Steve's
Story). |
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Gone In Sixty
Seconds (2000) |
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A retired master car thief must come back to the industry
and steal 50 cars with his crew in one night to save his brother's
life. Starring Nicholas Cage and Angelina Jolie. Eccleston
plays Raymond Vincent Calitri whose nickname is "The
Carpenter" due to he's good at making caskets after he
kills people for their failures. |
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The Tyre (2000) |
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film by an award-winning team of poet Simon Armitage and director
Brian Hill. A salesman is running late and gets a flat tyre.
The tyre roles away sparking memories of when he found a tractor
tyre as a boy and set it rolling. This is a 10 minute film.
It was the winner of the 15th Leeds International Film Festival. |
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Wilderness Men
- Television - BBC (2000) |
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of three drama-documentaries about great explorers. Chris
plays Alexander Von Humboldt in this BBC rediscovery of the
man who Darwin called ‘the greatest naturalist in the
world’. The 50 min drama/documentary charts his 5 year
voyage to South America and why his once great fame has now
virtually disappeared. |
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With or Without
You (2000) |
| Chris
plays Vincent Boyd, opposite Dirvla Kirwan in this soft romantic
film from director Michael Winterbottom about a married couple
who plan to have a baby. They seem unable to produce a child
even with adopting a healthier lifestyle; loose clothing,
green vegetables and programmed sex. |
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Killing Time
- The Millennium Poem (2000) |
| Chris plays Millennium
Man alongside Millennium Woman, Hermione Norris, (Karen in
Cold Feet) in this film by Rochdale Director Brian Hill. They
tour the country collecting items for a Millennium Bonfire,
starting with a knapsack and finishing up driving a truck.
The main dialogue is Simon Armitage's 1000 line Millennium
Poem. |
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buy
the book | |
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Heart (1999) |
| Chris
plays plays Gary Ellis, a young man who receives a heart transplant
in Jimmy McGovarn's psychological thriller. Saskia Reeves,
playing the mother of the donor, tracks him down and her obsession
with the only living piece of her dead son is the central
theme of this Manchester-filmed movie. Directed by Charles
McDougall. |
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eXistenZ (1999) |
| Chris
plays Levi in this "psycho-sexual mindbender" -
a computer games designer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, is targeted
for assassination by religious fanatics and the chase takes
her into a world bordering on fantasy. Also stars Jude Law,
Ian Holm, Callum Keith Rennie, Willem Defoe and Don McKellar.
Directed by David Cronenberg |
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Elizabeth (1998) |
| In
this Oscar winning drama about England's first Queen Elizabeth.
Chris plays the nasty Duke of Norfolk, alongside Cate Blanchett.
The highlight of this movie for Chris was not the number of
awards the film collected but the fact he was given the opportunity
to star alongside United legend-turned actor, Eric Cantona.
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A Price Above
Rubies (1998) |
| About
a young woman (played by Renée Zellweger) who is married
to a devout Brooklyn Hasidic Jew, Sender Horowitz, played
by Chris, and the problems that trouble their marriage because
of her wanting for more out of life. |
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Hillsborough
- Television - BBC (1996) |
| Christopher
Eccleston plays the character of Liverpool fan Trevor Hicks,
father of two girls killed in the 1989 Hillsborough football
stadium disaster, in this Jimmy McGovarn true story TV drama
that campaigned for justice. |
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Jude (1996)
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| Christopher
plays Jude Fawley, a struggling young peasant, starring opposite
Kate Winslett in Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Thomas
Hardy's 1895 novel, "Jude The Obscure". Also stars
June Whitfield, Liam Cunningham and Rachel Griffiths. |
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Our Friends
In The North - Television - BBC Series (1996) |
| Chris
played Nicky Hutchinson, a zealous idealist, in this brilliant
nine part TV series depicting the varying fortunes of four
friends from 1964 to 1995 in Newcastle and London. We see
their lives change throughout slum housing projects, police
corruption, the rise of Thatcherism, political sleaze, and
the 1984 Miners' Strike. |
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