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	Phyllida Law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Phyllida Law (born 8 May 1932) is a Scottish actress.
		She was born in Glasgow, Scotland to William and Megsie Law, who divorced after World War II.
		Law has worked extensively in both television, including appearances in Dixon of Dock Green and Rumpole of the Bailey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phyllida_Law (157 words)

	movieThemes: Alan Rickman - Winter Guest
		In a brilliant piece of casting, Emma Thompson is paired with her real-life mother, Phyllida Law.
		Both Law and Thompson are wonderful at portraying this relationship - being both crotchety with eachother but displaying the undercurrent of love and respect all the time.
		Law is compelling as the mother who doesn't want to give in to her aging body, and is absolutely believable as her moods swing from irascibility, anger, to love and friendship.
	www.cybamuse.com /movieThemes/actors/arickman/winter_guest.htm (532 words)

	London Student Issue 11 - film Law interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Law is the mother of Emma Thompson, a role she replicates in The Winter Guest.
		Phyllida Law is of a breed of actor I haven’t met before.
		But then her mother fell ill, and Law, moving up to Scotland to nurse her, gave up the theatre: “Because a stage contract is always too long.
	www.londonstudent.org.uk /11issue/film/law.htm (1589 words)

	Home for the Holidays - Phyllida Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Punctuated with star-studded memories, Phyllida’s jaunt through the Highlands is a charming and fascinating insight into her life and the influence Scotland has had over the years.
		Mother of actors Emma and Sophie Thompson, Phyllida was born and brought up in Glasgow, living in a house on the Clyde.
		Phyllida chats freely about her life as an actress, working in wardrobe behind the scenes and even as the back end of a cow, before moving on to productions such as Taggart and West End plays, then mixing with the likes of Lauren Bacall, Alec Guinness and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
	www.scottishtv.co.uk /content/defaulttext.asp?page=s13_3 (209 words)

	The Winter Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Intercut is the progress of a tiny dark figure across a snowfield -- her mother, Elspeth (Thompson's real-life mother, Phyllida Law; the two have the mother/daughter thing down so well that at times it's downright annoying), the ostensible, unexpected guest of the title.
		When spoken by Thompson and Law, however (and surprisingly by Hollywood and Cockburn, who bring erotic tension and adolescent vulnerability and anarchy to their roles), the lines are like brittle rime glazing depths of feeling.
		His meditation on mortality set in a frozen Scottish coastal town and starring the mother-daughter team of Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson complemented the mood of audiences mourning the death of Princess Diana.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/98/01/15/THE_WINTER_GUEST.html (1318 words)

	The Louisville Scene - Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In this solemnly talky film, a mother (played by Phyllida Law) and her recently widowed daughter (played by Emma Thompson) come together to explore their lives.
		The setting is a Scottish coastal town so cold that Law's Elspeth can remember only one other time in her life the sea has actually frozen over.
		Law and Thompson are glorious together in this admirably understated movie.
	www.courier-journal.com /scene/movies/rev1998/19980227winterguest.html (743 words)

	SPLICEDwire: "The Winter Guest" review
		Emma Thompson stars as Frances, a introspective woman bitterly coming to terms with the death of her husband, and the story largely revolves around her bickering relationship with her aging mother, played by British stage star Phyllida Law (Thompson's real-life mother).
		But although Thompson and Law provide the film with a wonderful nuanced center, the plot also busies itself with a handful of poorly drawn secondary characters, assembled to symbolically parallel the mother and daughter, and to make some vague larger point about the cyclical nature of life.
		But as it is, when we're away from Thompson and Law, it's a bit of a bore.
	www.splicedonline.com /98reviews/winterguest.html (448 words)

	The Winter Guest [1998] - Cinema Club, dvd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Set during the brief hours of light one day in February when the sea has frozen, The Winter Guest is about how four pairs of people at different stages of life attempt to fill the emptiness in their hearts.
		Real-life mother and daughter Phyllida law and Emma Thompson are particularly good as mother and daughter in the film, struggling to cope with their relationship after the death of Emma Thompson's husband.
		Thompson is outstanding as always, as she spars with her mother (played by her real-life mother, Plyllida Law).
	sale-for-you.co.uk /dvd/item/B00004S8ID (858 words)

	Peter's Friends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Also appealing among the actors is Phyllida Law, Thompson's real-life mother, but her role as the housekeeper in the manse where Fry is hosting this gathering doesn't really go anywhere.
		In fact, in reprising the shopworn domestic-worker-as-repository-of-wisdom trope, Law's part is almost as boring as those of co-screenwriter and sole American Rudner, playing a self-obsessed sitcom actress, and Emmanuel, who for some reason agreed to repeat every dubious cultural cliché about the reckless sexual insatiability of fl women.
		Peter's Friends saves its purportedly most dramatic and most surprising announcement in its final ten minutes, but by the time the climactic admission is made it neither surprises nor engages an audience sated on an hour and a half of comic contrivance and obligatory bickering.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /petersfr.html (361 words)

	Fine Line Features \| The Winter Guest: About the Cast
		In his directorial debut, Alan Rickman brings together two of Britain's most august talents, Academy Award-winner Emma Thompson and her mother Phyllida Law, to portray a pair of strong-willed individuals at a unique moment in their history together.
		Elspeth (Phyllida Law) stubbornly picks her way across the icy streets of a coastal Scottish town to pay a visit to her daughter Frances (Emma Thompson).
		The film stars Phyllida Law (Emma, Much Ado About Nothing) and Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility, Howard's End, The Remains of the Day), and was produced by Ken Lipper, Edward R. Pressman and Steve Clark-Hall.
	www.finelinefeatures.com /winterguest/about.html (475 words)

	'The Winter Guest' is as bleak as the landscape
		Real-life daughter and mother Emma Thompson, left, and Phyllida Law star as bickering offspring and mom in The Winter Guest.
		Arriving to give support is her mother, Elspeth (Phyllida Law, Thompson's real-life mother).
		Mom's idea of support is to resume the bickering that has been the lifetime status quo of this mother-daughter relationship.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/ae/movies/reviews/0116winterguest.html (400 words)

	Movies: The Winter Guest - Margaret McGurk: The Cincinnati Enquirer
		Rickman adapted for the screen with author Sharman Macdonald, -- he rounded up a sterling cast headed by Emma Thompson and her mother, Phyllida Law.
		Law play mother and daughter on screen in The Winter Guest, and their resemblance adds realism to their emotional wrestling match.
		Law) frets and nitpicks compulsively at Frances (Ms.
	www.cincinnati.com /freetime/movies/mcgurk/winterguest.html (296 words)

	Boxoffice Magazine: Alan Rickman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Intertwined into their account are the stories of a teenage couple (Gary Hollywood and Arlene Cockburn) falling in love; two 12-year-old boys (Douglas Murphy and Sean Biggerstaff) embarking on adventures; and two 65-year-old women (Sheila Reid and Sandra Voe) whose hobby is attending funerals of people they don't know.
		I knew that it was her because of the fact that I had read her first play [`When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout'] when I was on a script panel at one of London's fringe theatres, and I'd recommended that it should be done.
		And then the absolute moment I rang her to ask her if she would read it was when she was available to do theatre again.
	www.boxoff.com /dec97story4.html (1022 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| The Winter Guest
		It's a feuding mother-and-daughter piece given extra poignancy by the roles being played by a real-life mother and daughter, Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson.
		But the conflict between Thompson and Law is too much in the tradition of the sort of theater where one character has a secret and the other worms it out at long last, after much spatting between them.
		Plays based on the message that people should get over their grief and live again are, I think, more fun for actors than they are for audiences.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.26.98/winterguest-9808.html (485 words)

	FILM REVIEW -- `Winter' May Leave Viewers Cold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It's no wonder Frances hides in the bathroom when her mother pays an unexpected visit in ``The Winter Guest.'' Although there ostensibly to cheer up her recently widowed daughter, Elspeth is not by nature a comforting kind of mom.
		With Emma Thompson and her real-life mother, Phyllida Law, playing Frances and Elspeth, it would be hard to argue with that assessment.
		Thompson and Law, a veteran of the British stage, are great to watch, and they bring real spirit to the contentious relationship between mother and daughter.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/01/16/DD60140.DTL (598 words)

	CNN - Rickman moves to director's chair with 'Winter Guest' - December 17, 1997
		Alan Rickman directs Emma Thompson (R) and her real-life mother Phyllida Law in "The Winter Guest"
		Quiet and introspective, "The Winter Guest," which opens December 25, examines the strained relationship between a recently widowed Scottish woman (Thompson) and her mother (played by Thompson's real-life mother Phyllida Law).
		"Emma didn't do the play, while Phyllida played the mother in it; but whenever the film version came up, it was sort of automatically assumed that Emma would do it, too," he explains.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9712/17/winter.guest.lat (1149 words)

	Time Machine - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		Stars: Guy Pearce, Mark Addy, Jeremy Irons, Yancey Arias, Sienna Guillory, Samantha Mumba, Omero Mumba, Josh Stamberg, Phyllida Law, and Orlando Jones.
		Phyllida Law as the caring housekeeper is actress Emma Thompson's mother.
		Sienna Guillory makes a deeper impression as the lost love who lingers almost a million years in Alexander's mind.
	www.tollbooth.org /2002/movies/timemach1.html (793 words)

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	DVD Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Based on the novels by Caroline Graham, a modern master of the English village mystery.
		Guest stars include Richard Briers, Prunella Scales, Julian Wadham, Phyllida Law and Trudie Styler.
		Death's Shadow-A string of bizarre murders in Badger's Drift lead to the discovery of a long-buried secret.
	www.dvdpacific.com /item.asp?ID=54885 (172 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Winter Guest, The / DVD-Video
		Academy Award®-winner Emma Thompson (Howards End, Primary Colors) co-stars with her real-life mother (Phyllida Law, Emma) creating a brilliant and absorbing performance ensemble that is "astonishing" (Premiere), "radiant" (Harper's Bazaar), "thrilling" (The New Yorker) and "daring and graceful" (Rolling Stone).
		Seldom has a film extracted such a powerful emotional response from an audience.
		Interviews with Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson and Phyllida Law
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=689130&partner_id=28174990 (205 words)

	Alan Rickman Guestbook (December 1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He included a short clip of Phyllida and Emma ("What've you done with your hair!") and an excerpt from the musical score, which he also praised.
		Neit her my parents nor my in-laws have a separate line for their computers and I feel too guilty tying up their phones for more than a few minutes.
		In fact, Ms Law's only worry was that their hypersynpathetic relationship would somehow interfere with the film, "Alan may have been concerned that we were too easy with each other to play the parts, she said, "that it would in some way affect us - we wouldn't have enough grit in the oyster"
	www.alan-rickman.com /archives/December97.html (16211 words)

	Saving Grace - Movie Review
		Blethyn is comedic perfection as a widow dodging debt by using her green thumb to enter the drug trade
		Starring Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tchéky Karyo, Phyllida Law, Jamie Forman, Bill Bailey, Valerie Edmond, Tristan Sturrock, Clive Merrison, Leslie Phillips, Diana Quick
		Grace (Brenda Blethyn) is a middle-aged English housewife whose husband has jumped out of a plane without a parachute, leaving her with a messy legacy of massive debt.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/savinggrace_1 (454 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : The Winter Guest : Main
		Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Gary Hollywood, Arlene Cockburn
		Adapted from a stage play by Sharman McDonald, this film marks the directorial debut of British character actor Alan Rickman.
		Set against a bleak winter landscape of rural Scotland, the story centers around the recently widowed Frances (Emma Thompson) and a visit from her mother, Elspeth (Phyllida Law, Thompson's real-life mothe...
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/115545/moviemain.jhtml (114 words)

	Film Review: Milk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		James Fleet is great, bringing his own inimitable charm to the character of Adrian.
		There is also an enjoyable supporting cast including Dawn French, Phyllida Law and the wonderful Peter Jones as the kleptomaniac uncle.
		Yet despite the cast's efforts, the film is a bit of a nothing: it is by parts fl comedy, unromantic romance and dreary drama, but lacks the skill to bring these elements coherently together.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/m/milk_1998.shtml (229 words)

	Winter Guest, The - DVDs and VHS - MovieMail UK
		The lives and relationships of four couples, based around a Scottish seaside town in the icy depths of winter.
		Confident, sensitively directed debut from Rickman, who also co-scripted with playwright Sharman MacDonald, the film retains Phyllida Law as the meddling Elspeth from the stage version, and adds her real-life daughter Thompson as the grieving daughter with whom she attempts to repair a relationship gone sour.
		The harsh winter landscape is beautifully photographed and the cast is uniformly excellent.
	www.moviemail-online.co.uk /films/6429 (209 words)

	Blinded - Anders W Berthelsen, Samantha Bond, Phyllida Law
		Cast: Anders W Berthelsen, Samantha Bond, Phyllida Law, Jodhi May, Peter Mullan
		Running from a dark secret, Danish backpacker Mike Hammershoi (Anders W Berthelsen) arrives at Black’s estate in the Scottish borders, looking for work.
		He encounters blind owner Francis Black (Peter Mullan) and his elderly mother Bella (Phyllida Law), who are living there in a shuttered, decaying mansion.
	www.phase9.tv /movies/blinded.shtml (220 words)

	Phyllida Law News
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		Eric Thompson, actor and theatre director, was born on November 9 1929 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, the son of George Thompson, a hotel waiter, and his wife, Annie Jackson.
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