Rainwear interest books & films

Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) meets and falls for Jenny Jackson (Uma Thurman), without initially knowing that she is the alter ego of G-Girl, a superheroine. (Think of Diana Prince alias Wonder Woman or Linda Lee Danvers alias Supergirl.) When her true identity is revealed to him, his ardour cools and he realises he loves his work colleague, Hannah (Anne Faris). G-Girl reacts badly to being dumped and exacts her revenge. Just to complicate matters, Jenny's former boyfriend, Barry, now Professor Bedlam (Eddie Izzard), comes on the scene. CGI effects are used competently, though they are hardly ground-breaking. Ah, if only this film was as funny as it intends to be! Some may feel that the cartoon sequence accompanying the closing credits is quite a bit funnier than the film itself. Never mind. We can take solace in the fact that in several scenes, Jenny wears a trench mac.

(Dave D)

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Marlene, Joseph Vilsmaier, Germany / Italy, 2000	This is biographic movie about life and career of Marlene Dietrich, played by German actress Katja Flint. In one scene she wears a trenchcoat. (Artem)
American Psycho, Mary Harron, USA, 2000	The psycho wears a long semi-transparent plastic raincoat to keep the blood off his clothes when he’s chopping up one of his victims. (Rainy Brian, Kingler)
En Face, aka Facing, Mathias Ledoux, France, 2000	Great suspense story, with Jean-Hugues Anglade, Clotilde Coureau, Christine Boisson (The Truth about Charlie) and José Garcia. In several scenes, Clotide Coureau wears a traditional beige trenchcoat, alway belted. (Bernard) From Amazon: Across the Road ( En face )
The Perfect Storm, Wolfgang Petersen, USA, 2000	Starring George Clooney The Perfect Storm features noumerous scenes of fishermen wearing rainwear while rain and seawater is flooding the vessel. It's great. (Thomas) From Amazon: The Perfect Storm [2000]
Autumn in New York, Joan Chen, U.S., 2000	During a torrential downpour, Winona Ryder, dressed in a fashionable translucent raincoat, visits Richard Gere at his New York apartment. From Amazon: Autumn In New York [2000]
La Pianiste, Michael Haneke, France, 2001	With Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot and Benoît Magimel. A neurotic piano teacher falls in love with one of her young student. Great role for Isabelle Huppert. In many scenes she wears a classical white mac. (Bernard) Available from Amazon.
Tanguy, Étienne Chatiliez, France, 2001.	French actress Sabine Azéma wears a classic beige burberry trench coat in one scene. Since the seventies, french actresses in Burberry trench coats are a smash. (André) From Amazon: Tanguy [2004]
Gosford Park, Robert Altman, US, 2001/2	In the opening scenes, Kristin Scott-Thomas can be seen on a horse galloping towards the house. As a top coat, she is wearing a shortie riding mac. As the film is set in 1932, I cannot give a precise manufacturer. Unfortunately, she does not wear the coat anymore during the film. (Brian) From Amazon: Gosford Park [2002]
Swordfish, Dominic Sena, US, 2001	Halle Berry wears a marvellous leather trenchcoat. (Nikita) From Amazon: Swordfish [2001]
Ma femme est une Actrice, Vincent Attal , France, 2001	Featuring Attal's wife Charlotte Gainsbourg wearing a Burberry, it tells the story of a man jealous of his actress wife. The man was played by Attal himself. Also featured is the British screen legend Terence Stamp. Charlotte also wears his Burberry in a manifestation againsi Le Penn and the fn after the victory of Le Penn in the first stage of the"elections présidentielles" in France. Serge Gainsbourg (Charlotte's father) the French singer also wore trenchcoats, in 1979 he topped the charts with his reggae version of La Marseillaise. He had bought the original sheet music. In the auction room he was surrouded with men with ties and suit but he wore his Burberry belted over jeans - the "négligé" look, unshaven, a cigarette in his mouth, sunglasses. (André) From Amazon: Ma femme est une actrice (2001)
The Last Castle, Rod Lurie, US, 2001	With Robert Redford starring, there is a scene taken during torrential rain when inmates are on yard detail - all dressed in flowing clear vinyl/pvc ponchos. (Skagit) Available from Amazon: Last Castle, The [2001]
Honogurai Mizu No Soko Kara (Dark Water), Hideo Nakata, Japan, 2002	A young girl wears a long slightly transparent yellow raincoat. (Rainy Brian, Kingler)
Lost in La Mancha, Keith Fulton, USA/UK, 2002	This is a documentary about the making of another film. The cast and crew don rainwear when it rains in the desert during filming. (Rainy Brian, Kingler)
Piedras, Ramon Salazar, Spain, 2002	A lady wears a see- through plastic raincoat in the rain. (RainyBrian)
Two Weeks' Notice, Marc Lawrence, US/Australia, 2002	In this romantic comedy Sandra Bullock comes to terms with her attraction to Hugh Grant. An appealing scene shows close-ups of the two intimately discussing life on a torrentially rainy day with Bullock clad in an alluring clear plastic raincoat with hood up.(skagit) Sorry, can't find a pic that fits the write up - but the one shown is from this film, and on-theme anyway! LE From Amazon: Two Weeks Notice [2003]
Anita & Me, Metin Hüseyin, 2002, UK	Anita (Anna Brewster) wears a short red PVC mac in various scenes throughout the film.(Gary) From Amazon: Anita And Me [2002]
Femme Fatale, Brian de Palma, France, 2002	With Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Antonio Banderas. Scenes in the bridge at night. (Nikita) Available from Amazon.
The Truth about Charlie, Jonathan Demme, USA/Germany, 2002/3	Great to see Christine Buisson playing the part of Commandant Dominique in Burberry trench coat. Don't miss the final rain scene! This was a remake of 1963 movie "Charade". (André) From Amazon: The Truth About Charlie [2003]
Spider-man, Sam Raimi, USA, 2002	The female lead wears a trenchcoat in a couple of scenes. Watch carefully and you'll see the wrist strap on one arm appear and disappear. (Anon) Available from Amazon: Spider-Man [2002]
Unfaithful, Adrain Lyne, USA / Germany, 2002	Featuring Richard Gere and Diane Lane, the movie begins with a woman on her way to work, arriving in the city where she has to fight the storm in her beautiful raincoat. This scene is just fantastic. (Eric) Available from Amazon: Unfaithful [2002]
Catch me if you can, Steven Spielberg, USA, 2002	Stars Leonardo Dicaprio, Tom Hanks and Christopher Walken... The True Story of a boy, played by Dicaprio, who went on a check writing spree thru out the United States in the late 60's, while posing as an Airline Pilot, Doctor and a Lawyer before the age of 18... In the early part of the film, there is a brief scene of his mother, played by French actress Nathalie Bay, in a see-thru white polka dot raincoat, accented by a green scarf! (Great movie with a good job of bringing back the clothes and cars of that era!) (LH) Available from Amazon: Catch Me If You Can [2003]
Goldmember, US, 2002	In the beginning, you see Mike Myers character, Austin Powers, in a scene, dancing in the rain with raincoat clad male and female dancers (the coats are of different colors, and seem to be modeled after the coats Monica Vitti and her male counterpart were wearing in the 1966 film "Modesty Blaise") ...shiny slickers with sou'westers. (LH) From Amazon: Austin Powers in Goldmember [2002]
The Secretary, Steven Shainberg, US, 2002	Star Maggie Gyllenhaal applies for a position as secretary at a law office. It turns out that her boss (James Spader) likes to give his secretaries a thorough spanking - and it also turns out that his new secretary likes it (to say the least!). For that reason alone the film is worth seeing, but also for the fact that Maggie Gyllenhaal, when applying for the position, enters the office wearing a purple rubber cape [For the purist: polyurethane or the like I'm sure - ed] which she keeps on for the entire scene (a couple of minutes). And yes, it IS raining. (Thomas) [The 'ole firm can now make you one of these submissive capes! - LE, sales executive.l] Available from Amazon: Secretary [2002]
The Bourne Identity, Doug Liman, US, 2002	In the opening scene the unconscious Matt Damon is picked up from the sea by a vessel. Several fishermen are all wearing heavy duty raingear - worth a look for the rainwear enthusiast (such as myself :) (Thomas) From Amazon: The Bourne Identity [2002] Available from Amazon.
Underworld, Len Wiseman, UK/Germany/Hungary/USA, 2003	Lots of rain, long leather raincoats and Kate Beckinsale. (Rainy Brian, Kingler)
Kontroll, Nimrod Antal, Hungary, 2003	Right at the end in this film about the antics of ticket inspectors on the underground a lady wears a semi transparent raincoat, which may be plastic. (Rainy Brian, Kingler)
Reconstruction, Christoffer Boe, Denmark, 2003	A very smart trenchcoat worn by Maria Bonnevie, graduate of the Danish Film School.(H)
La bande du drugstore, François Armanet, France, 2002	In this film about teenagers of the sixties, the very sensitive Cécile Cassel is wearing, in the scene happening in the bookstore (with Jacques Lanzman), a very shiny ochred yellow vinyl raincoat with a typical sixties zip. (Cire Noir)
Bruce Almighty, Tom Shadyac, US, 2003	A part from Jim Carey, who wears an umbrella hat, a boat load of passengers wear lightweight transparent blue rainwear as they set off to visit the Niagara waterfalls. (Rainy Brian)
Kill Bill Volume I, Quentin Tarantino, US, 2003	Stars Uma Thurman, Lucy Lui, David Carridine and Daryl Hannah, among others. Early in the movie, Uma Thurman's character is in a coma after an attempt on her life, Daryl Hannah's character, Elle Driver, is entering the hospital on a rainy night to do away with her, and she is sporting what looks like a designer beige-yellow raincoat (Prada?), along with yellow galoshes and an umbrella. Cult film, not for the squeamish. (LorHod) Available from Amazon: Kill Bill, Volume 1 [2003]
Anger Management, Peter Segal, US, 2003	Reserved Adam Sandler is ordered to attend anger management classes following a misunderstanding aboard an airplane, Jack Nicholson stars as his overbearing counselor.. Somewhere towards the end, there is a scene where adam meets two of his session mates for dinner, played by Krista Allen and January Jones, respectively wearing black and red shiny pvc trenchcoats, looking drop dead gorgeous!!! Not a typical Adam Sandler movie, but still rather funny! (LH) Available from Amazon: Anger Management [2003]
Le Divorce, James Ivory, France/USA, 2003	Kate Hudson wearing a short yellow plastic rain jacket. She gets her umbrella stolen and gets really wet. Also at the end of the movie, several people wearing yellow rain capes. (LindaM) From Amazon: Le Divorce [2003]
The Swimming Pool, François Ozon, France/UK, 2003	Charlotte Rampling sports a Burberry near the beginning. (Namrof) Available from Amazon: Swimming Pool [2003]
I Capture the Castle, Tim Fywell, 2003, UK	Bill Nighy's expressive face makes a fine thing of this interesting film, but it is Tara FitzGerald's body, in a black oilskinny thing one minute and nothing at all the next, that makes the more immediate impact. (H) Not an Aussie raincoat, but still. (JW) Available from Amazon: I Capture The Castle [2003] .
Trauma, Marc Evans, UK, 2004	Colin Firth accidentally rugby tackles the wrong woman he is looking for. Both women wear long semi transparent plastic raincoats. (Rainy Brian, Kingler)
A Boire, Marion Vernoux, France, 2004	In this film Emmanuelle Béart wears a mid length thick, belted shiny tan coloured raincoat. (Rainy Brian, Kingler)
Zebraman, Takashi Miike, Japan, 2004	In this film you see men wearing various coloured protective suits, either in rubber, PVC or plastic. One man wears a semi-transparent plastic suit. (Rainy Brian, Kingler)
Agents Secrets, Frédéric Schoendoerffer, France/Italy/Spain, 2004. aka Spy Bound Agentes secretos Secret Agents	A couple of secrets agent are played by Vincent Cassel & Monica Belluci). Their mission : sink a boat in Noth-Africa. Back in Europe, in the airport, Monica Belluci wears a classical white trenchcoat. Later, in the last scene of the movie, she wears her trenchcoat full buttoned up, belted and collar turned up. (Bernard)
A Different Loyalty, Marek Kanievska, Canada/UK/US, 2004	Sharon Stone wears a classic trenchcoat in several scenes. She plays the role of an American woman whose British husband disappears. No trace of him, but she gets harrassed by the CIA from then on, and later she is told that he actually is alive and well and living in Moscow ... since he is -- and always has been -- a spy for the Soviet Union (the story is set in the Sixties). She is invited to come over to see him ... (Johan) From Amazon: A Different Loyalty [2004]
Ma Vie à t'Attendre, Thierry Klifa, 2004, France	In several scenes Nathalie Baye wears a black burberry trench coat - like other beautiful French actresses Nathalie wears the trench coat very well. I Also featuring Patrick Bruel with some 60's reminiscing. Nathalie sings "Comme une amourette" from Leny Escudero. Nathalie is the former wife of Johnny Hallyday and mother of Laura Smet. (André)
Dark Water, Walter Salles, USA, 2005	A young girl wears a plum coloured PVC raincoat which becomes shiny when it gets wet. (Rainy Brian, Kingler)
Rinne, Takashi Shimizu, Japan, 2005	A Japanese actress, played by Nagisa Sugiura, wears a faded pink shower proof raincoat from time to time. (Rainy Brian, Kingler)
Keeping Mum, Niall Johnson, UK, 2005	Maggie Smith wears a transparent plastic raincoat from time to time, usually when she is up to no good! (Rainy Brian)
Chinjeolhan geumjassi aka Lady Vengeance, Chan-wook Park, South Korea, 2005	In a rather gory bloody scene towards the end of the film the relatives of a child murderer all don clear shiny PVC raincoats to kill and dispose of the murderer. (Rainy Brian)
MirrorMask, Dave McKean, UK/USA, 2005	A fantasy film about the girl, who got into the strange world of her own paintings and tried to find the Mirror Mask, a mystical artefact, in order to save this world and get back home. In the first sequence of the film the girl's mother wears a trenchcoat. (Artem)
Le Transporteur II, Louis Leterrier, France, 2005	With Kate Nauta, the more sexy killer I've never seen, with her PVC(?) trenchcoat. (Nikita)
De Vilains Petits Canards (The Ugly Swans, Gadkie Lebed), Konstantin Lopushansky, France/Romania, 2006	It rains a lot during this film and the cast, made up mainly of men get soaking wet. There is plenty of long rainwear to see, some of it in plastic. There are some rubberised blackcaps as well. (Rainy Brian, Kingler) (Haven't been able to confirm the details here. Several films of these names none with quite these particulars according to IMDB) LE
Half-Light, Craig Rosenberg, UK/Germany, 2006	In this mystical thriller Demi Moore is a writer coming to remote Scottish village after the death of her son. There is a short scene close to the end of movie, where Moore comes to the seashore wearing a creamy-white Burberry trenchcoat. The weather is windy and the trenchcoat constantly flapping around her legs. (Artem)
My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Ivan Reitmann, US, 2006	Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) meets and falls for Jenny Jackson (Uma Thurman), without initially knowing that she is the alter ego of G-Girl, a superheroine. (Think of Diana Prince alias Wonder Woman or Linda Lee Danvers alias Supergirl.) When her true identity is revealed to him, his ardour cools and he realises he loves his work colleague, Hannah (Anne Faris). G-Girl reacts badly to being dumped and exacts her revenge. Just to complicate matters, Jenny's former boyfriend, Barry, now Professor Bedlam (Eddie Izzard), comes on the scene. CGI effects are used competently, though they are hardly ground-breaking. Ah, if only this film was as funny as it intends to be! Some may feel that the cartoon sequence accompanying the closing credits is quite a bit funnier than the film itself. Never mind. We can take solace in the fact that in several scenes, Jenny wears a trench mac. (Dave D)
Basic Instinct 2, Michael Caton-Jones, Germany/ UK / USA / Spain, 2006	Sharon Stone plays novelist Catherine Tramell. The seductress is once again in trouble with the law and playing the game with psychiatrist assigned by British police to evaluate her. She wears a mac in scenes when she visits a psychiatrist and when she goes on a trip through the streets of London. (Artem)
A Prairie Home Companion, Robert Altman, US, 2006	An angel wearing a pure white trenchcoat is in nearly every scene. (Tony) From Amazon: A Prairie Home Companion [2006]
Comme t'y es belle, Lisa Azuelos, UK/Luxembourg/France /Belgium, 2006	In this movie Valérie Benguigui, well known for the tv series Avocats et Associés, wears a classic Burberry trench coat - in the way of Charlotte Gainsbourg wears it, over jeans, whatever she is doing. She also wears it in the super market. In one scene her children want her to take off her coat and as she does so we can see the famous 'nova check'. (André)
A Good Year, Ridley Scott, US, 2006	The lovely secretary ‘Gemma’ can be seen in an equally charming trenchcoat talking to her boss Maximillian (Russell Crowe) (MacJames; and John who has got us the pics) Available from Amazon: A Good Year [2006]
Le Heros de la Famille, Thierry Klifa, France, 2006	Stars Catherine Deneuve wearing a black vinyl or pvc raincoat, 40 years after "belle de jour" a clip is already to be seen in Macrain site with comments "Belle de Jour is back ... the raincoat really is "le vetement fétiche de Catherine Deneuve". (André; for pics thanks to W.K.)
Mother of Tears, Dario Argento, USA/Italy, 2007	In a brief scene towards the end of the film we see one of a group of women wearing a shiny see thru clear plastic raincoat. (Clip on You Tube) (Rainy Brian)
The Queen, Stephen Frears, UK, 2006	Helen Mirren in the title role is seen, supposedly at Balmoral, wearing what just has to be a rubberised mackintosh, long, green and rather full, but without a belt. I seem to recall it being claimed that the older female members of the royal family used often to wear rubberised mackintoshes and capes, because they kept "one" dry even if an umbrella wouldn't! ( Crinckly-Mack) Clip
Fauteuils d'Orchestre, Danièle Thompson, 2006, France	French actress Valerie Lemercier wears a Burberry trench coat in this a very sensitive film in which French icon from the 60's and 70's DANI plays a remarkable part singing classic french songs. (André)
Shrooms, Paddy Breathnach, USA, 2007	Pics thanks to W.K.
Pars Vite et Reviens Tard, Régis Wargnier, Belgium, 2007	With Jose Garcia, Lucas Belvaux, Marie Gillain. A police officer investigates a serial killer in Paris. One of the victims is a woman. The day of her murder, she wears a trenchcoat. (Jack)
P.S. I love you, Richard LaGravenese, US, 2007	With Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler. In last scene Hilary Swank sporting beige trenchcoat. (Artem)
Nancy Drew, Andrew Fleming, US, 2007	In the film version Emma Roberts, the niece of Julia Roberts, playing the title role, wears a two tone shiny PVC raincoat. The top half has a tartan pattern whilst the bottom half is fawn coloured. At one points it makes a noise as she slaps it with both hands. (Rainy Brian)
Harry Potter & The Order Of The Phoenix, David Yates, 2007	Sees the actress playing Mrs Figg in a clear plastic mac in some early scenes.(GB)
Si Jie, Ang Lee, US/China et al, 2007 aka Caution, Lust	To show she is a well-disciplined and obedient girl, Wei Tang's student wears a blond gaberdine raincoat with the tight belt neatly knotted for much of her seduction plot. (H) Available from Amazon: Lust, Caution [2007]
Atonement, Joe Wright, UK/France, 2007	Two icons from the forties in this good-looking and well-made film: a rubber bathing cap, and a nurse's gaberdine uniform raincoat, both looking impossibly glamorous on the body of Keira Knightley. (H) Available from Amazon: Atonement [2007]
Invasion, Oliver Hirschbiegel, US, 2007	Never mind the script, the darling little trenchcoat sported by Nicole Kidman is to die for. (H) Available from Amazon: The Invasion [2007]
Sexykiller, morirás por ella, Miguel Marti, Spain, 2008	In this film we get to see a still of two ladies wearing yellow and maroon PVC raincoats. Later on Macarena Gomez wears a white raincoat, maybe rubberised and then one of the medical staff wears a light grey rubberised doctor's coat. (Rainy Brian, Kingler)
Dorothy Mills, Agnes Merlet, France/Ireland, 2008	In this rather atmospheric film Carice van Houten wears a shower proof trenchcoat from time to time. (Rainy Brian, Kingler)
Max Payne, John Moore, USA/Canada, 2008	In the early part we see a lady wearing a long shiny black PVC jacket as she tries to escape her persuers through the rainy streets at night. (Rainy Brian)
Babylon A.D., Mathieu Kassovitz, US/France, 2008	The storyline of this action movie itakes place in near future, when a mercenary (Vin Diesel) is hired to escort two women to America. And while their journey is going on, he realizes that one of them, a young girl, is keeping some kind of secret. There is a short scene where actress Melanie Thierry appears in grey beltless trenchcoat. (Artem)
Yes Man, Peyton Reed, US/Australia, 2008	About half way through you see Zooey Deschanel wearing a short shiny black PVC raincoat which looks very impressive when it flaps in the wind while she rides on the back of a motorbike. (Rainy Brian, GB)
Cliente, Josiane Balasko, France, 2008	The last film of Josiane Balasko, with Nathalie Baye in a nice trench coat. Nathalie a beautifull woman! - and totally"craquante" in a trench. (André) Video clip.
La fille de Monaco, Anne Fontaine, France, 2008	Leading actress Julie Bourgoin appears in her first scene in a yellow vinyl raincoat (and a translucent umbrella). This is how she seduces Fabrice Luchini... (Ciré Noir)
The Bank Job, Roger Donaldson, UK, 2008	Georgia Taylor wears a shiny black raincoat in the last scene. (Ciré Noir)
Le Grand Alibi, Pascal Bonitzer, France, 2008	In this brand new film a good polar based on the novel of Agatha Christie, Anne Consigny, accused of murder, wears a trenchcoat in a police office confronting an officer. This scene reminds me of Sophie Agacinski in nearly the same situation in "Seule à Paris". Italian actress Caterina Murilo also wears a trenchcoat in this movie - but no epaulettes. (André)
Ultimate Game (Gamer), Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, France, 2009	You need to be very quick to spot the PVC rainwear in this film as it’s probably the fastest moving fim ever made with split second scene changes in some instances, but you do get a slightly longer look at a mock leather trenchcoat in a few scenes. (Rainy Brian, Kingler)
Smash Cut, Lee Demarbre, Canada, 2009	After about 10 minutes of this very dark comedy horror film a struggling film director gives a stripper a lift. Wearing a shiny plastic transparent raincoat she thinks he is harmless. But very soon the car crashes and not only is she killed but now it is she who becomes armless as he removes one of her arms from her body, still in the raincoat sleeve and goes on the revitalise his career by using other body parts in his films. Later on not only do we see him in a long black PVC or rubber raincoat, but also another lady wearing a rather nice bright yellow cotton raincoat. (Rainy Brian, Kingler)
Bitch Slap, Rick Jacobson, USA, 2009	In one brief scene at a railway station one of the ‘bitches’ wears a tight fitting shiny black PVC outfit. (Rainy Brian, Kingler)
Bunker Hill, John Avnet, US, 2009	Bridget Moynahan wears the trench.(Johan)
Antichrist, Lars von Trier, Denmark \| Germany \| France \| Sweden \| Italy \| Poland, 2009	She wears a hooded yellow and blue reversable rubberised raincoat and in one long scene he wears a long transparent see-through plastic raincoat which glistens when it gets wet. (Rainy Brian)
How To Be Another Woman, stage play directed by Natalie Abrahami, for the Gate Theatre, 2011	Kate Maltby writes: "In the pivotal scene in which Charlene explores the Wife’s wardrobe ... the cast transform a simple row of coats and shoes into a visual sequence that is as refreshingly elegant as it is menacing."(The Spectator Arts Blog, 27:10:11) (pics courtesy Flickr, via Johan)

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