Olivia Williams
24 titles
Filmography
24 results

Flashbacks of a Fool
(2008)An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970's Britain. Hollywood star Joe is now a teenage boy in a tentative relationship with a school-girl called Ruth. Further, his mother's friend, Evelyn, is attempting to seduce him. Engulfed by guilt at the unintended, tragic consequences of his subterfuge, he leaves home. The movie then switches back to contemporary Hollywood. Joe confronts his fear and returns to England for a difficult meeting with Ruth, who had gone on to marry Boots and has been a left a poor widow.

Hanna
(2011)Hanna was raised in the wilds by her father, an ex-CIA agent, to become the perfect assassin. But as she is sent on her first mission, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

Maps to the Stars
(2014)It's Hollywood, but not as you know it. The Weiss family are an archetypical Hollywood dynasty - Dr Stafford Weiss is a psychotherapist whose self-help books have made him a fortune. His wife Cristina is the overbearing mom-ager of their thirteen-year old son, Benjie, a prodigious child star fresh out of drug rehab and their estranged daughter Agatha has recently been released from a psychiatric hospital. Agatha is now back in Hollywoodmaking friends with a wannabe actor/writer limo driver named Jerome and with a new job as PA to one of Stafford’s clients - the neurotic and tempestuous actress Havana Segrand, whose dream of reprising her dead mother’s starring role from the 1960s is beginning to haunt her.

Born Romantic
(2000)The hypnotic beat of salsa provides the backdrop to this urban drama about three lonely Londoners contemplating life's greatest mystery - women. There is Fergus (David Morrissey), who is searching for the high-school sweetheart he jilted years ago (Jane Horrocks). Eddie (Jimi Mistry), the pick-pocket who falls for Jocelyn (Catherine McCormack), the grave tender. And Frankie (Craig Ferguson), who is determined to find the love of his life while still living with his ex-wife. Jimmy (Adrian Lester) the streetwise cabbie guides them all on their tumultuous search for love.