Alex Kingston

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Lost In Austen

A thoroughly modern heroine threatens to ruin one of the world's greatest literary love stories in this ingenious reinvention of Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice. The acclaimed cast includes Alex Kingston (ER, Croupier), Hugh Bonneville (Notting Hill, Iris), Lindsay Duncan (HBO's Rome) and Bond Girl Gemma Arterton (Quantum Of Solace). Bored bank worker Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper, The Black Dahlia, As If) literally becomes lost in her favorite Austen book after she finds a strange portal in her bathroom and swaps places with its heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.

Croupier

Suffering from a bad case of writer's block, author Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) sits in his London flat, staring at an empty computer screen and trying to find the words to narrate his meandering life. Reluctantly Jack accepts a job from his absentee father (Nicholas Ball) at a second-rate casino as a dealer, or croupier, a job he once held in South Africa. His immersion back into this world is intoxicating, thanks primarily to the power he holds over his nightly clientele.

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