Biography: Conchata Ferrell |
Expressive comic actress Conchata Ferrell attended drama classes at West Virginia University and Marshall University. Ferrell's first off-Broadway appearance was as good-natured hooker April Green in Lanford Wilson's Hot L Baltimore (1972), a role... more
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Cast: Lisa Kudrow Teri Garr
Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 87min
A slacker tries to do the right thing for his family with unexpectedly chaotic results in this independent comedy. Salman (Scott Prendergast) is an out-of-work twentysomething who has few skills and fewer prospects. However, things are significantly...
Oprah Winfrey Presents: Amy and Isabelle (2001)
Cast: Elisabeth Shue Martin Donovan
Tags: Drama Family Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 95min
Executive produced by Oprah Winfrey, the made-for-TV Oprah Winfrey Presents: Amy & Isabelle was based on the bestselling 1999 novel by Elizabeth Strout. The scene is the mining town of Shirley Falls, ME; the year is 1971. Seeking escape from the iron...
Cast: Keith Carradine Mare Winningham
Length: 94min
Curiously listed as a 1991 theatrical production in some sources, Eye on the Sparrow was actually a made-for-TV movie, which first aired December 7, 1987. Mare Winningham plays a blind Missouri woman who marries sightless teacher David Carradine. He...
Cast: Molly Ringwald Conchata Ferrell John G. Avildsen Kenneth Mars
Tags: Comedy Drama Teen Movie Family Drama
Length: 98min
Young, ambitious high school students Darcy Elliot (Molly Ringwald) and Stan Bobrucz (Randal Batinkoff) have a hitch thrown into their plans to attend college and pursue professional careers when they discover that Darcy is pregnant. Deciding against...
Where the River Runs Black (1986)
Cast: Charles Durning
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama
Length: 96min
This drama concerns the clash of two worlds in the person of a young boy. The small boy (Alessandro Rabelo) is the offspring of a missionary who died before the he was born, and a Native American who is later killed by white prospectors. Father...
Cast: Lilia Skala
Tags: Romantic Drama Americana Rural Drama Drama
Length: 95min
The "heartland" of the title is rural Wyoming in the early 20th century, where dwells taciturn, reclusive Scottish farmer Rip Torn. Conchata Ferrell arrives at the Torn spread to work as his housekeeper. Paid near-starvation wages, Ferrell continues...
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case (1980)
Cast: Rip Torn Linda Hamilton Eugene Roche
Length: 96min
The landmark 1978 courtroom prosecution which determined that a married man can by law be brought up on charges of raping his wife, was meticulously--and tastefully--detailed in this made-for-TV movie. Linda Hamilton stars as Oregon housewife Greta...
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