Michael Radford’s Typical Vibe
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Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Michael Radford has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Postman.
Recurring themes

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Dir. Michael Radford · With Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta

A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.
Dir. Michael Radford · With Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Lambert Wilson

Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.
Dir. Michael Radford · With Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes

Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.
Dir. Michael Radford · With John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton