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First Independent Films
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Foundation date 1 january 1981
First Independent Films was a British film distributor and home video company that replaced Vestron Video UK and were first opened in 1991.
Although a small film company, the company distributed a wide selection of genres, but they mainly served as a distributor for New Line Cinema and Turner Pictures Worldwide Distribution. The company also distributes independent films.
Some films released by First Independent Film are distributed and marketed by Cinema Club, a home video company that specailises in movies owned by Video Collection International (now 2 Entertain).
First Independent Films was sold to Columbia TriStar Home Video (now Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) in 1997 and shut down two years later but Columbia TriStar continued to use the First Independent Films label for as long as four years.
Now some of the First Independent Archive is now distributed by other major distributors, such as Columbia Tristar Home Video, Entertainment Film Distributors and Warner Home Video.
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(1994)Filmography of First Independent Films (6 films)
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House of America (1997)
, 1h35Directed by Marc Evans
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Siân Phillips, Matthew Rhys, Steven Mackintosh, Steve Speirs, Richard Harrington
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
, 1h41Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Richard E. Grant, Helena Bonham Carter, Bill Wallis, Jim Carter, Julian Wadham, Harriet Walter
Gordon Comstock (Grant), is a successful copywriter at a flourishing advertising firm in 1930s London. His girlfriend and co-worker, Rosemary (Bonham Carter), fears he may never settle down with her when he suddenly disavows his money-based lifestyle and quits his job for the artistic satisfaction of writing poetry.
Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996)
, 1h31Directed by Tim Metcalfe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Prison films, Serial killer films
Actors James Woods, Robert Sean Leonard, Ellen Greene, Cara Buono, Robert John Burke, Richard Riehle
During the latest of many imprisonments for burglary, Panzram (James Woods) forms an uneasy friendship with prison guard Henry Lesser (Robert Sean Leonard). Panzram asks Lesser for writing equipment and proceeds to write his life story, in which he confesses to several murders.
The Last of the High Kings (1996)
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jared Leto, Christina Ricci, Catherine O'Hara, Gabriel Byrne, Colm Meaney, Stephen Rea
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie (Leto), caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer organising a beach party, having lustful thoughts about two girls he believes are unobtainable and fending off the advances from a visiting American family friend, all whilst coping with his oddball family.
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
, 1h47Directed by Frères Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Buddy films, Sports d'hiver, Ski
Actors Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Charles Rocket, Mike Starr, Victoria Rowell
Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) are best friends and roommates living in Providence, Rhode Island who struggle at every aspect of life. Lloyd, a limousine driver, falls in love with Mary Swanson (Lauren Holly), a woman he is driving to the airport. She intentionally leaves a briefcase in the terminal; Lloyd, unaware that it contains ransom money for her kidnapped husband, Bobby, retrieves it and tries to return it to her, but her Aspen-bound plane has already departed, leading to Lloyd running through and falling out of the jetway.
Let Him Have It (1991)
, 1h55Directed by Peter Medak
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins, Tom Bell, Edward Hardwicke
The film is based on the true story of Derek Bentley. Within the film, Bentley (Eccleston) is an illiterate young adult with developmental disabilities who falls into a gang led by a younger teenager named Chris Craig (Reynolds). The two become trapped by the police, who tell Chris to put down his gun. Bentley says, "Let him have it, Chris." Chris begins firing, killing one officer and wounding another. Because he is a minor (under 18), Chris is given a minor sentence, but Bentley, although he did not shoot anyone, is sentenced to death, on the basis that his statement to Chris was an instigation to begin shooting.