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One of Hollywood's more well-established and often underrated actresses, Dianne Wiest possesses a versatility that has allowed her to go from playing hookers to flamboyant stage actresses to some of the most memorable matriarchs this side of Barbara... more
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Tags: Thriller Supernatural Thriller
Length: 92min
A grief counselor (Anne Hathaway) begins to suspect foul play when the six airplane crash survivors she is tending to mysteriously begin to disappear and the truth behind the tragedy grows ever more clouded in Nine Lives director Rodrigo García's...
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
Tags: Drama Family Drama Coming-of-Age Urban Drama
Length: 98min
The harsh realities of life on the street merge with the universal themes of youthful pain and exhilaration in director Dito Montiel's telling tale of one boy's struggle to escape the grim fate that awaits his aimless, trouble-minded peers. For most...
Cast: Peter Bogdanovich Tom Wilkinson
Tags: Comedy Drama Black Comedy
Length: 111min
Actor Justin Theroux (Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Mulholland Dr.) steps behind the camera for his directorial debut with this irreverent omantic comedy. Billy Crudup is Henry, a cynical children's book writer who holds little more than disdain...
Tags: Farce Comedy of Errors Gay & Lesbian Films Comedy
Length: 91min
After making a living by providing English subtitle translation to numerous French films, American filmmaker Andrew Litvack makes his debut as a writer/director with the Merchant Ivory production Merci Docteur Rey. Set in Paris, this farcical comedy...
Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004)
Cast: Brian Dennehy
Tags: Drama Disaster Film
Length: 240min
Of all of the ways humankind can destroy the planet, none can hold a candle to the awe-inspiring and earth-shattering power of Mother Nature. As chief meteorologist for the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center, Andy Goodman (Brian...
Tags: Family Fairy Tales & Legends Family-Oriented Adventure Children's Fantasy Fantasy Adventure Fantasy
Length: 417min
This ten-hour mini-series extravaganza originally aired on February 26, 2000 on NBC, and concerns the fate of a janitor, Tony (John Larroquette), and his lovely daughter Virginia (Kimberly Williams), who mysteriously find themselves in a land where...
The Blackwater Lightship (2004)
Cast: Angela Lansbury
Length: 120min
This Hallmark Hall of Fame offering stars Keith McErlean as Declan, a 30-year-old Irishman who is dying of AIDS. Remembering how he and his sister Helen (Gina McKee) once stayed with their grandmother Dora (Angela Lansbury) during their fathers'...
Cast: Robert Redford Kristin Scott Thomas Sam Neill
Tags: Romantic Drama Psychological Drama Drama Rural Drama
Length: 168min
Robert Redford directed himself for the first time in this romantic drama adapted from the 1995 best-seller by Nicholas Evans. Fourteen-year-old Grace MacLean (Scarlett Johansson of Manny & Lo) and her friend Judith go horseback riding in upstate New...
Cast: Dianne Wiest Stockard Channing Sandra Bullock Nicole Kidman
Tags: Fantasy Romantic Comedy Fantasy Comedy
Length: 105min
Griffin Dunne directed this romantic fantasy adapted from the 1995 Alice Hoffman novel about the Owens family of witches, regarded as outcasts in the town where they live. Aunt Frances (Stockard Channing) and her sister Aunt Jet (Dianne Wiest) tried...
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
Cast: Sidney Poitier
Tags: Americana Melodrama Drama
Length: 87min
Directed by Gregg Champion, The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn follows the story of small town carpenter and farmer Noah Dearborn (Sidney Poitier), whose family land comes under the scrutiny of greedy land developer (George Newbern. Though his humble...
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