Ellen Burstyn
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Actress Ellen Burstyn enjoyed her greatest prominence during the '70s, a decade during which she was a virtual fixture of Academy Award voters' ballots. Born Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, MI, on December 7, 1932, as a teen she studied dancing and... more
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Cast: Ellen Burstyn Tom Skerritt Jane Seymour Michael Landon, Jr. Una Kay   
Tags: Children's Fantasy Family 
Length: 88min
Live-action filmmaking mixes with imaginative animation in director Michael Landon Jr.'s feature adaptation of author Margery Williams' beloved children's book. An energetic child with a vivid imagination, Toby Morgan (Matthew Harbour) lives with his...

Cast: Ellen Burstyn Martin Landau Elizabeth Banks Nik Fackler Adam Scott   
Tags: Romantic Comedy Romance Holiday Film 
Length: min
Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn topline the debut of writer/director Nik Fackler in Lovely Still, a whimsical omance tale that follows an elderly grocery-store bagger (Landau) who experiences his first pangs of love in the form of Burstyn. Elizabeth...

Cast: Oliver Stone Richard Dreyfuss Ellen Burstyn Josh Brolin James Cromwell   
Tags: Political Drama Biopic Drama 
Length: 129min
Josh Brolin stars as George W. Bush in this Oliver Stone iopic that traces the head of state's rise to power from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power....

Cast: Ellen Burstyn Michael Murphy Hilary Duff Nancy Bardawil Evan Ross   
Tags: Drama 
Length: min
Hilary Duff and Evan Ross star in this interracial een omance about a waitress whose summer romance with an ambitious cook is threatened when her grandparents (Ellen Burstyn and Michael Murphy) voice concern about her new boyfriend's criminal...

Cast: Ellen Burstyn Carla Gugino David Boreanaz Tim Chambers   
Tags: Docudrama Drama Sports Drama 
Length: min
The feature debut of director Tim Chambers, this sports drama stars Carla Gugino (Spy Kids) as Cathy Rush, a women's basketball coach in the early 1970s. With almost no resources for the sport, Rush is hired by a small college and commits herself to...

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008)
Cast: Ann-Margret Ellen Burstyn Tennessee Williams Will Patton Bryce Dallas Howard   
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Drama 
Length: 102min
A rebellious socialite defies social conventions for a once-in-a-lifetime shot at true love, only to see her hopes for the future shattered after a priceless diamond vanishes into thin air in this omantic drama adapted from a long-lost Tennessee...

Cast: Ellen Burstyn Josef Sommer Seth Grossman Florence Vanida Faivre Tate Ellington   
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Family Drama 
Length: 92min
Seth Grossman's psychological drama The Elephant King concerns two brothers who have very different outlooks on life. Jake Hunt is a scientist working in Thailand who, dissatisfied with much of his life, does little work and lives his life in a state...

Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day (2007)
Cast: Ellen Burstyn Oprah Winfrey Michael Imperioli Samantha Mathis Scott Cohen   
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Inspirational Drama 
Length: 120min
Emmy Award-winner Michael Imperioli and Academy Award-winner Ellen Burstyn headline this made for television adaptation of author and radio personality Mitch Albom's bestselling book about a suicidal ex-baseball player who finds redemption after being...

Cast: Ellen Burstyn Dylan Baker Cole Hauser Wings Hauser Ellen Page   
Tags: Drama Family Drama 
Length: 115min
Director Kari Skogland takes the reins for a Buffalo Gals Pictures production starring Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn as author Margaret Laurence's much-lauded heroine Hagar Shipley. Hagar may by 90, but she not ready to lie down and die just yet....

Cast: Hugh Jackman Ellen Burstyn Darren Aronofsky Stephen McHattie Rachel Weisz   
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Psychological Sci-Fi 
Length: 95min
Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky switches gears from drug-induced urban malaise to abstract science fiction with this time-tripping symbolic tale of a man's thousand-year quest to save the woman he loves. Moving between representational...



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