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  • Directed by Iain Softley, from a David Lindsay-Abaire script, based on Cornelia Funke’s novel, everyone involved with Inkheart has a sissy name.

    BRENDAN FRASER STILL TRIES TO ACT KINDA 2007

  • Softley said that he was impressed by Roach's "understated and naturalistic" acting: "She took her work seriously without being 'actressy'," he said.

    Thatcher role puts 'troublemaker from the valleys' on road to stardom 2011

  • Roach also has lead roles in Private Peaceful, Pat O'Connor's screen adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's 2003 novel about two brothers in the first world war, and Trap for Cinderella, a psychological thriller written and directed by Iain Softley.

    Thatcher role puts 'troublemaker from the valleys' on road to stardom 2011

  • (I kind of liked his costume drama The Wings of the Dove (rating: 67), but I've always had a thing for Helena Bonham Carter, and it's the kind of movie that sounds like it ought to be directed by a Brit named Softley.)

    Hackers : A Comically Inept Movie With Perhaps the Worst Computer Visuals of the '90s 2010

  • (I kind of liked his costume drama The Wings of the Dove (rating: 67), but I've always had a thing for Helena Bonham Carter, and it's the kind of movie that sounds like it ought to be directed by a Brit named Softley.)

    Alex Remington: Hackers : A Comically Inept Movie With Perhaps the Worst Computer Visuals of the '90s 2010

  • Robert Softley was refused entry to Alton Towers theme park because he and his partner are disabled.

    Boygirlfruitflower 2008

  • Iain Softley first optioned the book in the late 90s - although to be more precise it was his wife, producer Sarah Curtis, who first took the option, and Iain wasn't part of the picture.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Stephen Gallagher 2007

  • Iain Softley first optioned the book in the late 90s - although to be more precise it was his wife, producer Sarah Curtis, who first took the option, and Iain wasn't part of the picture.

    Memories of Water Stephen Gallagher 2007

  • New Line recently wrapped production on the Iain Softley-directed film, a children's fantasy starring Brendan Fraser, and set it for distribution in spring 2008... full detailsSuing the original author seemed an odd movie, but apparently this fella is claiming that both Funke and New Line removed him from the project in 2003.

    Funke Trouble fusenumber8 2007

  • Then Softley did quit -- to make an even worse film, "K-Pax."

    Bye-Bye, 'American Pie' 2007

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