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Despite her relative obscurity, redheaded performance artist Ann Magnuson has a bright star persona, a multitude of talents, and a definitive sense of style and glamour. Born in the South and schooled in the Midwest, she escaped to New York and worked on a number of projects as a theatrical collaborator with the likes of Eric Bogosian and Joey Arias. In 1985, she helped form the performance art group/ock band Bongwater along with her creative partner and guitarist Kramer. While singing and writing songs for the band, she was also building her acting career. Co-starring Bogosian and Meatloaf, her comedic social commentary special Vandemonium Plus was released on HBO Home Video along with her sly parody sketches "Made For Television." Her first few films were made by rising young directors Beth B., Sara Driver, and Susan Seidelman. She also made an appearance in the documentary Mondo New York, along with contemporaries Lydia Lunch and Karen Finley. In 1987, she made her breakthrough film performance in the omantic comedy Making Mr. Right, ideally cast as the high-fashion publicist Frankie Stone opposite the literally robotic John Malkovich. She got another juicy role the following year as older woman Joyce Fickett in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon opposite earthy teen heartthrob River Phoenix. The next year she joined the cast of the ABC sitcom Anything but Love as fashionable magazine editor Catherine Hughes. Meanwhile, Bongwater released several albums on Shimmy Disc before breaking up in 1992 after a legal dispute. Magnuson continued to make brief yet memorable appearances in feature films (Cabin Boy, Clear and Present Danger, Tank Girl) before releasing her solo album The Luv Show on Geffen Records. Staying with her acting career, she went on to appear in various supporting roles in independent films, mainstream blockbusters, and TV specials. After 2000, she turned away from comedies toward darker material in The Caveman's Valentine, Panic Room, and Night at the Golden Eagle. In 2003, she joined the cast of the FOX sitcom Wanda at Large as liberal political commentator Rita and went on tour with her one-woman show "Pretty Songs and Ugly Stories." ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide less

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Open House (2004)
Cast: Sally Kellerman Ann Magnuson James Duval
Tags: Ensemble Film Musical Comedy Musical Comedy Comedy of Manners
Length: 94min
A Sunday afternoon quest to find the perfect American dream home finds a group of wannabe homeowners embarking on a series of strange misadventures in this real estate musical from ~Slamdance Film Festival founder Dan Mirvish and starring Sally...
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Ghostlight (2003)
Tags: Comedy Drama Mockumentary
Length: 80min
For his feature debut, writer/director Christopher Herrmann chose a subject near and dear to his heart. Herrmann had been the biographer and a close friend of renowned choreographer Martha Graham before the dance legend passed away in 1991 at the age...
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The Nomi Song (2003)
Tags: Performance Art Music History Music Social History Biography
Length: 96min
Andrew Horn (co-writer/producer of East Side Story) directs the documentary The Nomi Song, a portrait of late German artist Klaus Nomi. Born in Bavaria during the '40s, Nomi was a trained opera singer who became an underground cult figure in New York...
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Night at the Golden Eagle (2002)
Cast: James Caan
Tags: Crime Crime Drama
Length: 87min
A pair of elderly career criminals may have ended their old lives before they can start a new one in this streetwise drama. Tommy (Donnie Montemarano) and Mic (Vinnie Argiro) are a pair of aging wiseguys who used to work on the fringes of the New York...
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Glitter (2001)
Cast: Terrence Howard Vondie Curtis-Hall
Tags: Drama Romantic Drama Musical Drama Showbiz Drama
Length: 104min
The acting debut of pop music diva Mariah Carey loosely traces the singer's real-life trajectory to fame. Carey is Billie, an impoverished girl growing up in a tough New York neighborhood abandoned by her drug-addicted mother and dreaming of stardom....
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Love & Sex (2000)
Cast: Jon Favreau Famke Janssen
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Urban Comedy
Length: 80min
Jon Favreau and Famke Janssen star in this slick indie film about love, romance, and jealousy. Kate (Janssen) almost gets fired from her posh magazine job when she submits an overly graphic, overly personal article on oral sex. As she rewrites her...
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The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
Cast: Danny DeVito Samuel L. Jackson
Tags: Urban Drama Psychological Thriller Paranoid Thriller Thriller
Length: 105min
A man struggles back from madness to avenge the death of someone he knew in an intelligent thriller based on the acclaimed novel by George Dawes Green. Romulus Ledbetter (Samuel L. Jackson) once had a career as an acclaimed concert pianist, a position...
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A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)
Cast: River Phoenix Ione Skye
Tags: Teen Movie Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 95min
The een drama A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon is directed by William Richert, who adapted the screenplay from his own semi-autobiographical novel -Aren't You Even Going to Kiss Me Goodbye? Set in a wealthy Chicago suburb during the 1960s,...
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Levitation (1997)
Cast: Ernie Hudson
Tags: Drama Psychological Drama Road Movie
Length: 99min
In this independent drama, Sarah Paulson stars as Acey Rawlin, a troubled teenager who discovers that she's pregnant after spending a night with a man she had just met. Acey has few friends to confide in, and her most trusted companion, a fisherman...
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Munster's Scary Little Christmas (1996)
Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy Holiday Film
Length: 91min
The made for television movie Munster's Scary Little Christmas, created three decades after the demise of the original series, concerns son Eddie missing his home in Transylvania. Soon the entire family bands together to teach the young boy everything...
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