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Being Human (1994)  link to Being Human on IMDb  link to trailer on IMDb

Number: 2960

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IMDb Rating:
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5.5/10 (3.8K votes)

Country: UK, 2h 02min

Spoken languages: English

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Director(s): Bill Forsyth

Storyline:
Five bittersweet vignettes that span the entire human history about five different men, all called Hector and played by the same actor (Robin Williams), who find themselves at a critical juncture in their lives. In prehistoric times, Hector lives in peace with his wife and their little son and daughter in a cave on a quite uninhabited island somewhere in the north. His world is shattered when a group of foreign pagan raiders led by a young chieftain and a somewhat pacifistic priest arrive there. In Ancient Rome, Hector is a loyal well-treated slave of Lucinnius, a somewhat naive big trader with political connections. When his latest shipment fails to arrive and the local corrupt governor Cyprion refuses to lend him money for his further endeavors due to bad omen that a professional soothsayer saw while reading the future from a chicken liver, he is ruined. To make things worse, just as Hector plans to ask his master for freedom and elope with his master's female African slave Thalia, ...

Cast:

Robin Williams Hector
Kelly Hunter Deirdre
Robert Carlyle Priest
Eoin McCarthy Leader
Robert Cavanah Raider
Tony Curran Raider
David McGowan Raider
Michael Nardone Raider
John Turturro Lucinnius
Bill Nighy Julian

Medium: Digital Copy,

Location: Red 4TB Drive

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1