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Biography: Dee Wallace

Kansan Dee Wallace rose out of the ashes of an extremely difficult childhood that included paternal abuse and a suicide to establish a resonantly successful movie career as a character actress. Born Deanna Bowers, Wallace attended the University of Kansas in the late '60s as an education major, then turned to dancing and drama, at least partially as an escape from her torturous familial history. Radiating a cornflower-wholesome, Middle-American goodness, Wallace often played against that image, tackling parts and films that exposed a darker side of domestic life. On that note, she began to specialize in horror roles, and landed one of the most memorable for quite some time: that of Lynne Wood, the mother of an itinerant family that falls prey to a band of mutant desert-dwelling cannibals, in Wes Craven's controversial gore-fest The Hills Have Eyes (1977). Another lurid role, albeit a much less extreme one -- Wallace's portrayal of a prostitute in a 1978 episode of Lou Grant -- caught the attention of white-hot director Steven Spielberg, who would eventually seek an actress to portray Mary, the colorful divorcée mother of Elliott (Henry Thomas) in his box-office phenomenon E.T. (1982). In the meantime, however, Wallace achieved fame independently of Spielberg and his team with another legendary part: that of Karen White, a sexy blonde TV newscaster who gets more than she bargained for when she heads off to a California retreat, in Joe Dante's ghoulish, werewolf-themed horror comedy The Howling. After E.T., Wallace's popularity soared; she followed it up with a contribution to the Stephen King horror vehicle Cujo (1983), as a mother terrorized relentlessly by a monstrous, rabid Saint Bernard. Unfortunately -- and for unknown reasons -- Wallace's career languished for much of the 1980s and '90s, in forgettable potboilers and programmers ranging from Critters (1986) to Popcorn (1990) to Alligator 2: The Mutation (1990). Occasionally, she signed to work with directors who wanted to trade on her status as a terror icon, such as Peter Jackson, with his 1996 horror comedy The Frighteners. In fact, this is exactly what happened when Rob Zombie tapped Wallace to play Laurie Strode's mother in his violent 2007 remake of Halloween. Wallace is also occasionally billed as Dee Wallace-Stone; she took the "Stone" from the surname of her first husband, Christopher Stone (The Howling), who died of a heart attack in 1995. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide less

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Boo (2004)
Tags: Haunted House Film Horror
Length: 100min
A haunted hospital harbors a deadly secret, and when a group of college students check in for a cheap Halloween thrill they're in for the fright of their life in this seasonal shocker starring genre veteran Dee Wallace Stone and directed by Anthony C....
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Bone Dry (2007)
Cast: Lance Henriksen
Tags: Crime Thriller Thriller
Length: 100min
Luke Goss and Lance Henrikson star in first time writer/producer/director Brett A. Hart's unforgiving tale of a vengeance pitting a mysterious man with a dark past against a sadistic tormentor intent on pushing his prey to the limits of human...
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Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el - La Llorona (2008)
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 88min
A man in search of his missing sister discovers that there may be some truth to the terrifying legend of a woman who drown her old children in this dark tale of horror featuring Dee Wallace and Diana Bracho. Could the disappearance of George's sister...
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Matchmaker Mary (2008)
Cast: Jeff Fahey
Tags: Family
Length: 94min
A six year old matchmaker who uses puppies to form love connections between lonely adults faces her biggest challenge to date when her parents begin drifting apart. After getting an "A" on her sixth grade final exam, proud student Mary (Katherine...
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Pirates of the Plain (1999)
Cast: Tim Curry
Tags: Family Family-Oriented Adventure
Length: 100min
A young boy with a habit of daydreaming discovers that reality has caught up with his imagination -- with a vengence -- in this comedy-adventure for the whole family. Bobby (Seth Adkins) is an eight-year-old boy growing up on a remote community in the...
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Killer Instinct (2000)
Cast: Corbin Bernsen
Tags: Slasher Film Horror
Length: 86min
Perrysburg, PA, is just a dot on the map, but the town's major employer, a somewhat profitable factory run by a board of directors headed by Jennings Wilhite (Corbin Bernsen), is ripe for sale. The representative of a prospective suitor, Sarah...
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The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story (2004)
Cast: G.W. Bailey Dean Cain
Tags: Drama Docudrama
Length: 84min
On December 24, 2002, a woman named Laci Peterson, eight months pregnant at the time, was reported missing to police in a suburban California community. Laci's husband, Scott Peterson, initially joined police in their investigation of his wife's...
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Skeletons (1997)
Cast: James Coburn Ron Silver Christopher Plummer
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 86min
In this grim and suspenseful thriller, a news journalist and his family exchange life in grimy, hectic New York for that in a peaceful Maine village. Unfortunately, the burg they chose is ruled by a harsh, ultraconservative preacher who hates all...
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Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story (1998)
Tags: Biopic Drama Sports Drama
Length: 120min
Dwayne Adway portrays Dennis Rodman in this biographical drama that begins with Rodman as a Dallas teen, follows him to college where he confronts racism, and then traces his NBA ascendancy (Detroit Pistons to San Antonio Spurs), ending with his 1995...
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Out of the Black (2001)
Cast: Dee Wallace Sally Kirkland
Tags: Rural Drama Family Drama Drama Americana
Length: 103min
A family faces new crises while trying to resolve an old one in this drama. After the death of Cal Malby (Miles O'Keefe), a miner who died in an accident that eventually leveled the economy of a small Pennsylvania community, his sons Patrick (Jason...
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