Biography: Elizabeth McGovern |
The daughter of educators, Elizabeth McGovern moved from her home town of Evanston, Illinois to Los Angeles when her father, a law professor at Northwestern, transferred to UCLA. Discovered for the movies while appearing in a high-school play,... more
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Cast: Geraldine Chaplin
Length: 105min
A physician who helps his clients bring new life into the world is accused of an ethical breach that's also criminal in this independent drama. Dr. Freeman (Colm Feore) is a doctor who runs an upscale fertility clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada. Freeman...
Length: 90min
As is well-known and frequently discussed, the gothically-inclined English woman of letters Daphne Du Maurier (-Don't Look Now, -Rebecca) also happened to be a lesbian, but virulently suppressed these inclinations given her beloved father's abhorrence...
Cast: William Hurt Martha Coolidge
Tags: Comedy Drama Family Drama Domestic Comedy
Length: 98min
Based on the novel by Larry Baker, this bittersweet comedy-drama focuses on Hubert T. Lee (Brian Benben), an eccentric man with big dreams, who, along with his wife Edna (Elizabeth McGovern) and adopted children Louise Janine (Olivia Oguma) and...
Cast: Scott Glenn Ed Harris
Tags: Comedy Drama Satire Military Comedy
Length: 94min
Australian director Gregor Jordan makes his sophomore effort with this tale about crooked U.S. soldiers based in Germany during the waning days of the cold war. Special Fourth Class soldier Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix) guards against the Soviets while on...
Cast: Ernie Hudson
Tags: Childhood Drama Drama
Length: min
Eleven-year-old Clover is angry, confused, frightened, and sad. She didn't ask her father to fall in love with that Yankee white woman, and she certainly didn't expect her father to die in a car crash on his wedding day. Now she feels all alone,...
Cast: Laura Linney Eric Stoltz Dan Aykroyd Gillian Anderson Anthony LaPaglia
Tags: Romantic Drama Romance Drama Period Film
Length: 143min
Adapted for the screen from Edith Wharton's much-loved novel of the same name, House of Mirth follows the fortunes -- or lack thereof -- of Lily Bart, an ambitious but financially imperiled young woman looking for a rich husband in early 20th century...
Length: 200min
Originally telecast over Britain's ITV1 in 2000, the two-part mystery miniseries Thursday the 12th began with the discovery of an unidentified body on the estate of Marius Bannister (Ciaran Hinds), a wealthy dentist and politician. As an investigative...
The Misadventures of Margaret (1998)
Cast: Brooke Shields Jeremy Northam Parker Posey
Tags: Romantic Comedy Screwball Comedy Comedy
Length: 105min
In this British-French comedy of manners, Parker Posey stars as Margaret, an award-winning writer of bawdy novels who's grown vaguely dissatisfied with her life in Manhattan -- and her marriage to Edward (Jeremy Northam), a junior poetry professor....
Cast: Charlotte Rampling
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Romance Drama
Length: 101min
Based on the 1902 Henry James novel of the same name, The Wings of the Dove is set in 1910. After the death of her mother, Kate Croy (Helena Bonham Carter) has become a ward of her wealthy Aunt Maude (Charlotte Rampling), who is paying her dissipated...
Cast: James Woods Elizabeth McGovern
Tags: Period Film Drama
Length: 134min
A man who acts upon his conscience opens a Pandora's box of racism and intolerance in this made-for-TV drama. Temple Rayburn (James Woods) is an attorney who lives and works in a small Southern community in the 1940s. When Rayburn and his wife Celia...
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