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At 18, Bronx-born blonde Cathy Moriarty had precisely no acting experience, which suited director Martin Scorsese just fine. Scorsese wanted a thoroughly natural, spontaneous actress to portray the bethumped Vickie La Motta, wife of volatile boxing... more
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Tags: Crime Thriller Crime Thriller
Length: 90min
In this crime thriller, Jason Chandler (Patrick Muldoon) is an FBI agent who is trying to hunt down a serial killer nicknamed "The Silencer" for his habit of cutting out the tongues of his victims. As Chandler tries to uncover the trail of "The...
Cast: Rod Steiger Robert Wagner Melanie Griffith Antonio Banderas
Tags: Social Problem Film Coming-of-Age Period Film Comedy Drama
Length: 111min
Comedy and drama take turns in this period piece based on a novel by Mark Childress. Peejoe (Lucas Black), short for Peter Joseph, lives in a small Alabama town in 1965, at the height of the Civil Rights movement. He becomes involved with a group of...
Cast: George C. Scott Sharon Stone Sidney Lumet Jeremy Northam Cathy Moriarty
Tags: Urban Drama Crime Drama Crime Drama
Length: 120min
Director Sidney Lumet has remade the 1980 movie by his contemporary, John Cassavetes, casting Sharon Stone in the role of Gloria (portrayed in the original by Cassavetes' wife, Gena Rowlands), a street-toughened woman sliding into middle age. When...
Cast: Harvey Keitel Danny Aiello Kathleen Turner
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Family Drama
Length: 109min
A child discovers a whole new world when he runs away from home in the family drama Prince Of Central Park. JJ (played by Frankie Nasso) is a boy living in New York with his foster mother (Cathy Moriarty). To say they don't get along is an...
Tags: Comedy Drama Gay & Lesbian Films Teen Movie Satire
Length: 81min
In this satire, parents who are worried that their children might not be walking the straight and narrow path discover a rehabilitation camp designed to curb alternative lifestyles. Megan (Natasha Lyonne), a high school student and member of the...
Cast: Sean Penn Malcolm McDowell
Tags: Comedy Drama Romance Ensemble Film Urban Comedy
Length: 92min
Cult figure Robert Downey, Sr. directed this offbeat comedy set in the eccentric environs of Los Angeles. Hugo Dugay (Alyssa Milano) is a young woman who makes her living cleaning swimming pools when she isn't busy looking after her mother Minerva...
Cast: Shelley Duvall Teri Garr
Tags: Children's Fantasy Family
Length: 94min
Casper the Friendly Ghost and Wendy the Good Witch team up to fight an evil warlock. Shelly Duvall and Teri Garr star. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
Cast: Kevin Bacon Mary Stuart Masterson
Tags: Drama Family Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 98min
Actor Timothy Hutton's directorial debut is set in rural New Hampshire of the mid-'60s. Divorced motel owner Mrs. Frankovitz (Cathy Moriarty) has two daughters -- Gwen (Mary Stuart Masterson), who is preoccupied with various boyfriends, and troubled...
Tags: Family Drama Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 92min
Mick (Michael Raynor) and Lex (Nick Chinlund) are a pair of brothers who grew up in Harlem under circumstances that were difficult at best. Their mother Doreen (Cathy Moriarty) was a diabetic with a drinking problem and difficulty in saying no to men....
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy
Length: 97min
A dying man and a man who wants to die strike up an unusual bargain in this independent comedy-drama. Terry (David Arquette) is a suicidal voyeur who is depressed but lacks the courage to kill himself. While trying to work up the nerve to throw...
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