. Gwyneth Paltrow
Sylvia (2003) Title: Sylvia Released: 2003 Genre: Drama Runtime: 110 min / USA:100 min Country: UK Language: English Tagline: Life was too small to contain her... Plot Summary: Talented but plagued by her owns demons Sylvia Plath's early relationship with husband and fellow poet, Ted Hughes, is dominated by Ted's ambition and success. In the early years of their marriage Sylvia lacks inspiration and increasingly senses Ted's infidelity. The unspoken question is whether Ted's extra-marital affairs are the result of Sylvia's own insecurities or whether Sylvia's deepening depression is exacerbated by her husbands philandering. It is only towards the end, when they are separated, that Sylvia is able to truly explore the dark depths of her soul and write the searingly brilliant poetry that earned her fame. Comments: So intense ... Ms. Paltrow does not let your eye leave her from the moment she enters the frame... moment by moment she projects her feelings thoughts... almost painful to watch at times... you almost feel like you are watching Paltrow herself unravel on screen (boat on the ocean. I love Plath and I love Paltrow as Plath... she is heartbreaking and haunting just like the poetry the real Sylvia wrote. She unlike most actresses becomes a character and she became Sylvia Plath. Scene Description: Gwyneth Paltrow showing us her bare ass and the silhouette of her breasts as she rides a guy in bed, and then rolls over underneath him as they continue to have sex. We Then see Gwyneth Paltrow sitting nude in a guy's lap as she rides him on a couch, her breasts and ass visible as they have sex. We then see her laying naked beside him, and finally kneeling on the couch afterwards, her breasts visible again. ..Movie Stills Shakespeare in Love (1998) Title: Shakespeare in Love Released: 1998 Genre: Drama / Romance / Comedy Runtime: 122 min Country: USA / UK Language: English Tagline: ...A Comedy About the Greatest Love Story Almost Never Told... Plot Summary: Will Shakespeare's life is going badly. His love life is a shambles, he's always short of money, and worst of all, he has writer's block. He's supposed to be nearly finished his newest play, "Romeo and Ethel the Sea Pirate's Daughter", but in fact he hasn't written a line. At a sham audition for the play, he admires a new actor, Thomas Kent, who suddenly runs away. Soon Shakespeare meets Viola de Lesseps, who lives in the same stately home as Thomas; it's love at first sight and he's inspired to begin writing the play. But by the time he realizes that Thomas is Viola in disguise, she's promised in marriage to a lord which means that Queen Elizabeth herself expects the marriage to happen. But Will and Viola find their attraction too strong to resist; they risk the wrath of her fiance with a clandestine affair, and of the law against women on stage by having "Thomas" play Romeo. No wonder he ends up changing the play into a tragedy... Comments: Brilliantly written and acted. This is one of my favorite movies of all times. The plot is very funny if you know your Romeo and Juliet, and there are so many funny lines. It is also great if you've done any theater work. Maybe Gwyneth Paltrow didn't deserve best actress, but Geoffrey Rush, Judi Dench, and Ben Affleck were all brilliant along with Joseph Fiennes portraying Shakespeare. ..Movie Stills Scene Description: Gwyneth topless as she lays in bed with and kisses Joseph Fiennes. ..Movie Stills Scene Description: Gwyneth Paltrow in a love scene with Joseph Fiennes. ..Movie Stills Scene Description: Joseph Fiennes running his hand up Gwyneth's naked breast. ..Movie Stills Great Expectations (1998) Buy this film on DVD Buy this film on VHS Title: Great Expectations Released: 1998 Genre: Drama / Romance Runtime: 111 min Country: USA Language: English Tagline: Let desire be your destiny. Plot Summary: Based on Charles Dickens' timeless tale, this is a story of the love of a man for an unreachable woman. Updated to modern day New York City, the story concerns a man of modest background who falls in love with a rich girl. But when a mysterious benefactor greenlights the man to make his dreams come true, everything done has the ultimate goal of making Estella fall in love with him... Comments: A romantic masterpiece. Great Expectations is surelly a gem, a masterpiece of the romantic genre. In these days is often rare to be presented with a genuine romantic (in the literally sense)effort like this. In this tradition, the characters are black and white; there's no "grey" in here, no ambivalences, no ambiguities.But also in a romantic tradition, the evil characters get the chance to redeem themselves. Rendition is always the main theme in romantism: like Jean Valjaean in Les Miserables there is Arthur Lusting in Dicken's Great Expectations. Plus a incredible photography and gorgeous scenarios, and a very intense cast. Ethan Hawke is great, Gwineth in her most beautifull appearance, Ann Bankrotf deserved an oscar and Robert Niro... well, De Niro is always De Niro: the greatest actor of the XX century. The best adaptation of the Dicken's classic ever. Scene Description: Gwyneth Paltrow getting undressed to go fully nude. ..Movie Stills Scene Description: Gwyneth Paltrow wearing a short green dress and standing in front of a guy as he reaches up to touch her panties and get her off with his hand. ..Movie Stills Available to buy:  Great Expectations (DVD)  Great Expectations (VHS)  Great Expectations (1998 Film) [SOUNDTRACK] (Audio CD)  Great Expectations: The Score (1998 Film) [SOUNDTRACK]  (Audio CD)  Great Expectations -- by Charles Dickens (Book)  Charles Dickens Four Complete Novels (Great Expectations & Hard Times & A Christmas Carol & A Tale of Two Cities) -- by Charles Dickens (Book) Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) Title: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Released: 1994 Genre: Drama Runtime: 126 min Country: USA Language: English Tagline: At the center of the circle is a woman ahead of her time. Plot Summary: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair. Comments: I enjoyed this film a lot and actually saw it twice when it came out in England. No doubt it is a minority taste, though. It was the first Jennifer Jason Leigh movie I ever saw and she (and Campbell Scott) pretty much hold most of the attention. The film's witty dialogue was also attractive, though I did think towards the end there was a feeling of witty characters degenerating into mere bores. I think one reason for this is that it captured almost too well the essence of Dorothy Parker, a clever but basically unhappy person, and her circle. ..Movie Stills Hush (1998) Buy this film on DVD Buy this film on VHS Title: Hush Released: 1998 Genre: Thriller Runtime: 96 min Country: USA Language: English Tagline: When Jackson brought home his new bride, she was everything a mother would kill for. Plot Summary: Helen is the young girlfriend of good-looking Jackson Baring. When Helen gets pregnant and marries Jackson, they decide to move to his hometown, Kilronan, and have a baby there. But his mother Martha, who lives there, starts to do weird things, and obviously she's not too friendly to Helen. Comments: Thought it was a more than respectable suspense thriller. It definitely kept me riveted throughout. Gwenyth Paltrow, who was offered Kate Winslet's part in Titanic at the time she committed to this project, devles into her role as the unsuspecting fiancee with grace and down to earth affability. But this is clearly Jessica Lange's film. Her psychotic mother-in-law is one of the most disturbing characters I have come across in any film. In my opinion this film rates an 8/10. ..Movie Stills Available to buy:  Hush (DVD)  Hush (VHS) Flesh and Bone (1993) Buy this film on DVD Buy this film on VHS Title: Flesh and Bone Released: 1993 Genre: Drama / Mystery / Romance Runtime: 126 min Country: USA Language: English Tagline: Evil is patient Plot Summary: Some thirty years after Arlis witnesses his father murdering a family, he runs into Kay, who happens to be the family's baby who was spared. Kay and Arlis suspect nothing about each other, but when his father returns, old wounds are reopened. Comments: Good acting, interesting plot. Quaid thoroughly impressed me with his performance. Paltrow (still somewhat of a rookie in this movie) and Ryan are decent, but I fear that Caan may never replicate his "Godfather" Days. Both Ryan and Paltrow have bits of gratuitous nudity that could have easily been edited out without extracting from the plot. I didn't really see a need to make everybody a redneck, though it did add a little bit to Arliss Sweeney's old-fashioned manners. The plot twist recaptures the viewer's attention, and the story is too original for me to draw a comparison to another movie. This is a must-see if you like movies with spouses opposite each other (e.g. Cruise-Kidman, Willis-Moore [though now divorced], Baldwin-Basinger, Quaid-Ryan, etc.). Scene Description: Gwyneth Paltrow showing us the side of her left breast and nipple while she changes clothes. ..Movie Stills Available to buy:  Flesh And Bone (DVD)  Flesh and Bone (VHS)  Flesh And Bone (1993 Film) [SOUNDTRACK] (Audio CD) Perfect Murder, A (1998) Title: Perfect Murder, A Released: 1998 Genre: Thriller Runtime: 107 min Country: USA Language: English Tagline: A powerful husband. An unfaithful wife. A jealous lover. All of them have a motive. Each of them has a plan. Plot Summary: Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory. Brilliant in her own right, she works at the U.N. and is involved with a struggling artist who fulfills her emotional needs. When her husband discovers her indiscretion, he sets out to commit the perfect murder and inherit her considerable trust fund in the bargain. Comments: A great movie all around. a perfect 10. A well done thriller with good acting and a great look. Andrew Davis did a good job with the camera work and the over all look of the film. it looked clean and sleek and i loved it. the acting from everyone on the film was great too. ..Movie Stills
Trivia Graduated from The Spence School in New York, New York. [1990] Voted "Most Stuck-up" in Movieline's 100 Most. [October 1998] Gave $21,000 watch to boyfriend Ben Affleck as a birthday present. [15 August 1998] One of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. [1998] Engaged to actor Brad Pitt [20 December 1996] Confirmed as the next "Calvin Klein" model. [1996] Attended the University of California at Santa Barbara for one year. After spending a time in her early teens in Talavera de la Reina (Spain), she can speak fairly good Spanish. Turned down the role of Emma Peel in the movie Avengers, The (1998). Met with James Cameron for the role of Rose in Titanic (1997). A couple sued Gwyneth for an undisclosed amount claiming that the actress injured them during an April 1999 car accident. Attended Madonna's wedding to Guy Ritchie in Scotland. Spends Thanksgiving every year with Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw at their home in the Hamptons. As part of research for her role as an obese woman in 'Shallow Hal (2001)' , Gwyneth wore the 200 pound latex "fat" suit she used for the film to a bar where people refused to make eye contact with her and treated her rudely. She then said that this experience made her saddened by the injustice faced by overweight people in society. Has been friends with Maya Rudolph (of Saturday Night Live fame) since she was seven. Is a vegetarian Owns a flat in London, UK. Sister of Jake Paltrow; first cousin of actress Katherine Moennig; and Hillary Danner; niece of Harry Danner. In 2002, shot commercials and print ads for Spain's department store chain, El Corte Inglés' spring line. Did her own singing in the movie Duets (2000). Measurements: 33 1/2B-25-35. Called "a designer's dream". (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Went to Crossroads High School in Santa Monica for one year. 13th April, 2003, attended the ceremony in Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain, in which she was named "adopted daughter". Gwyneth first visited the town as a young school-girl, and has since frequently returned to visit the small town, enamoured - she says - of the people, the food and the countryside. Played Thomas Jefferson's daughter in Jefferson in Paris (1995). Her mother, Blythe Danner, had played Thomas Jefferson's wife in the film adaptation of the musical '1776' just before Gwyneth was conceived. She and Chris Martin are expecting their first child, which is due Summer, 2004. Wears a size 9 shoe. Personal quotes "Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick." "It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that. - about her father's struggle with throat cancer." "It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that day, and it will never be the same. - about her 1997 break up with Brad Pitt." "I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring, and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things." "I find 'Sex and the City' irreverent and shocking. It's one step beyond how girls really talk. I would do a cameo on that show in a flash." "I love men, even though they're lying, cheating scumbags." "In Los Angeles everyone has perfect teeth. It's crocodile land." Gwyneth Paltrow - Filmography Below is a complete filmography (list of movies she's appeared in) Sylvia (2003) .... Sylvia Plath View from the Top (2003) .... Donna Jensen Possession (2002) .... Maud Bailey Shallow Hal (2001) .... Rosemary Shanahan ... aka Schwer verliebt (2002) (Germany) Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001) .... Margot Tenenbaum Anniversary Party, The (2001) .... Skye Davidson Bounce (2000) .... Abby Janello Duets (2000) .... Liv Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999) .... Marge Sherwood ... aka Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999) (USA: complete title) Shakespeare in Love (1998) .... Viola de Lesseps ('Thomas Kent') Perfect Murder, A (1998) .... Emily Bradford Taylor Hush (1998) .... Helen Baring Great Expectations (1998) .... Estella Sliding Doors (1998) .... Helen Quilley Emma (1996) .... Emma Woodhouse Pallbearer, The (1996) .... Julie DeMarco Sydney (1996) .... Clementine ... aka Hard Eight (1997) (USA: changed title) Moonlight and Valentino (1995) .... Lucy Trager Se7en (1995) .... Tracy Mills Jefferson in Paris (1995) .... Patsy Jefferson ... aka Jefferson à Paris (1995) (France) Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) .... Paula Hunt ... aka Mrs. Parker and the Round Table (1994) Flesh and Bone (1993) .... Ginnie Malice (1993) .... Paula Bell Deadly Relations (1993) (TV) .... Carol Fagot Holland Cruel Doubt (1992) (TV) .... Angela Pritchard Hook (1991) .... Young Wendy Shout (1991) .... Rebecca Gwyneth Paltrow - Notable TV Guest Appearances "Film '72" (1972) playing "Herself" 27 January 2004 "Ellen DeGeneres Show, The" (2003) playing "Herself" 8 December 2003 "Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The" (1992) playing "Herself" 4 December 2003 "Parkinson" (1971) playing "Herself" 22 November 2003 "Entertainment Tonight" (1981) playing "Herself" 13 October 2003 "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993) playing "Herself" 10 October 2003 "Love Chain" (2003) playing "Herself" (archive footage) in episode: "Gwyneth Paltrow" (episode # 1.3) 2003 "Saturday Night Live" (1975) playing "Host" (episode # 27.5) 10 November 2001 "Gary & Mike" (2001) playing "Herself" in episode: "The Scene" (episode # 1.11) 6 April 2001 "Inside the Actors Studio" (1994) playing "Herself" 11 March 2001 "Revealed with Jules Asner" (2001) playing "Herself" in episode: "Gwyneth Paltrow" "Saturday Night Live" (1975) playing "Herself" (episode # 26.6) 18 November 2000 "Clerks" (2000) playing "Herself" (voice) in episode: "The Clips Show" (episode # 1.2) 7 June 2000 "Saturday Night Live" (1975) playing "Herself" (episode # 25.13) 19 February 2000 "Saturday Night Live" (1975) playing "Host" (episode # 24.12) 6 February 1999 "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993) playing "Herself" 22 April 1998 "Rosie O'Donnell Show, The" (1996) playing "Herself" 5 August 1996