Movies starring Geoffrey Rush

Shine (1996)

105 mins Biography, Drama

I refer to the years before 1998 as my mainstream years as it wasn't until 1998 that I started to expand my viewing to include foreign cinema as well as independent movies. As such there are a lot of movies which I chose not ...

Les Mis�rables (1998)

134 mins Crime, Drama

I've never read Victor Hugo's novel "Les Misérables", I've never seen a stage production of it and until today I had never even watched one of the numerous movie adaptations. About the only thing I knew of it was Susan...

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

123 mins Comedy, Drama, Romance

At school during the 80s as part of the British Curriculum we had to study one Shakespeare play, we didn't get the choice and we were given "Macbeth" to study. I remember there were three witches and someone called MacDuff bu...

House on Haunted Hill (1999)

93 mins Horror

"House on Haunted Hill" is a remake of the 1958 movie and although I am not usually a fan of remakes I did enjoy this one purely because it took a good storyline and made it current. Some may say that for horror this newer ve...

Quills (2000)

124 mins Drama

I've mentioned it before but sometimes I watch a movie just because I have a copy rather than out of any desire and as I have said before sometimes it opens up a whole new world of cinema which had I not watched I would never...

The Tailor of Panama (2001)

109 mins Drama, Thriller

Pierce Brosnan is both a hindrance and a blessing when it comes to "The Tailor of Panama" an adaptation of a John le Carré novel. The hindrance part is pretty obvious because having played James Bond it is hard to get ...

The Banger Sisters (2002)

98 mins Comedy, Drama

"The Banger Sisters" had been on my to watch list for a long time because it starred Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon and let's be honest they look smoking on some of the advertising, the fact it also stars Geoffrey Rush was a ...

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

143 mins Action , Adventure , Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Without a single doubt in my mind no matter how stunning the special effects may be, or engaging the storyline is, or even how spectacular the action sequences are Pirates of the Caribbean would only rank 4 out of 5 stars for...

Ned Kelly (2003)

110 mins Action , Adventure , Biography

Watching "Ned Kelly" now you sort of find yourself comparing it to "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" as they both tackle the subject of notorious outlaws and both have a similar dry style. But where...

Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

100 mins Comedy, Romance

Intolerable Cruelty (2003) George Clooney is the successful divorce lawyer who finds himself the focus of a gold digger (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who wants revenge after he successfully presented one of her former husbands in di...

Finding Nemo (2003)

100 mins Adventure , Animation, Comedy

I thought it was just me as back in 2003 when "Finding Nemo" I thought it looked good, it was funny and entertaining but I thought what a racket and it has taken over a decade, not really looking but to stumble across someone...

Munich (2005)

164 mins Drama, Thriller

I was born in the October of 1972 and as such I knew nothing of what happened at the Munich Olympics that year, in fact because of the poor history curriculum of British schools during the 80s I only became aware of what happ...

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

169 mins Action , Adventure , Fantasy

If you took "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" and it's prequel "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and cut out about 3 and a half hours you would end up with one very good movie, a sequel to "Pirates of the ...

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

114 mins Biography, Drama

Elizabeth: The Golden Age: Cate Blanchett reprises her role of Queen Elizabeth in this sequel which sees her dealing with the Spanish & Sir Walter Raleigh...

The King's Speech (2010)

118 mins Biography, Drama

As someone who's not a fan of period dramas and someone who found history a bore during school "The King's Speech" would not be the sort of movie I would seek out unless someone told me to watch it. The thought of watching a ...

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

136 mins Action , Adventure , Family

It has been a while since I last watched a "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie and whilst much of the first movie has stayed with me parts two and three are mostly forgotten. The only thing I remembered was that I was less than ...

The Book Thief (2013)

131 mins Drama, War

The Book Thief (2013) Sophie Nélisse stars as Liesel whose life it is we follow as a young girl in Germany during WII...

* This is purely a list of reviews on The Movie Scene featuring the name Geoffrey Rush as one of the principle cast members.