| rdfs:comment | - Courier Wood is a 1997 American Drama Thriller film written by Michael Cooney and directed by James Mangold starring James Spader, Julianne Moore, Uma Thurman, Doug Jones, Kenneth Branagh, Melissa Leo, Kurt Sutter, Kelly LeBrock, Bernie Mac, Ben Kingsley and Viola Davis. The film's principal cast of youngsters consisted of Max Irons, Dave Franco, Daniel Sharman, Edwin Hodge and Freddie Highmore. The film first screened at the 1997 Cairns film festival on April 19th, 1997 to phenomenal success and praise garnering it the Palm D'Or award nomination for truly moving picture.
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| abstract | - Courier Wood is a 1997 American Drama Thriller film written by Michael Cooney and directed by James Mangold starring James Spader, Julianne Moore, Uma Thurman, Doug Jones, Kenneth Branagh, Melissa Leo, Kurt Sutter, Kelly LeBrock, Bernie Mac, Ben Kingsley and Viola Davis. The film's principal cast of youngsters consisted of Max Irons, Dave Franco, Daniel Sharman, Edwin Hodge and Freddie Highmore. The film first screened at the 1997 Cairns film festival on April 19th, 1997 to phenomenal success and praise garnering it the Palm D'Or award nomination for truly moving picture. BAFTA nominations also went to head actress Thurman and youngsters Irons and Franco who head up as the protagonist and antagonist respectively. The film draws inspiration from Sir WIlliam Golding's acclaimed book Lord Of The Flies and deals with controversial elements of violence among children, sexual assault and disillusionment. The film ran theatrically on April 29th, 1997 and was released on video and DVD format on September 16th, 1997, it later secured a blu-ray release on January 20th, 2010. The film is set in Glasgow, England and was shot there over the hard winter of 1996.
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