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A graduate of Sarah Lawrence University and the University of Edinburgh, American actress Jane Alexander first gained national fame for her Tony-winning performance in the 1965 Broadway play The Great White Hope. She repeated her portrayal of the... more
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Betty Ford: The Real Deal (2009)
Length: 60min
Presidential historian Michael Beschloss' candid interview with former first lady Betty Ford serves as the centerpiece of this film exploring the life and career of a woman who never shied away from controversy. When Gerald Ford first came into the...
Cast: John Goodman Ed Asner
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 99min
There Will Be Blood's Paul Dano stars as Brian, an unhappy mattress salesman whose infatuation with Happy (Zooey Deschanel), one of his attractive customers, temporarily pushes aside his obsession with adopting a Chinese baby in this unconventional...
Cast: Kenneth Branagh Joseph Sargent
Length: 120min
In the tradition of Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello, the made-for-cable iopic Warm Springs focuses on one of the least publicized aspects in the life of America's most-publicized (and longest-serving) president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, here...
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Cast: Nicole Kidman Robert Downey, Jr. Steven Shainberg
Tags: Period Film Drama Biopic
Length: 122min
Nicole Kidman assumes the identity of visionary photographer Diane Arbus in a film that draws inspiration from author Patricia Bosworth's best-selling iography to tell the tale of a once-shy woman who becomes one of her generation's most strikingly...
Length: 90min
Roberto Faenza's historical drama The Soul Keeper is a iopic of Sabina Spielrein. The family of depressed 19-year-old Sabina (Emilia Fox) takes her for treatment from Carl Jung (Iain Glen), whose radical approach to mental health was much derided in...
Cast: Kevin Anderson Jane Alexander Penelope Ann Miller
Tags: Childhood Drama Drama Period Film
Length: 97min
Television director Jace Alexander directs the feature-length Showtime childhood drama Carry Me Home. Set on a rural farm in upstate New York after WWII, the film follows young Carrie (Ashley Rose Orr) as she attempts to deal with her father's death....
Cast: Barbara Hershey
Length: 200min
"Based on the Georgia case that shocked the country" (or so said its ad copy), the made-for-TV Stay the Night was originally telecast in two parts in April of 1992. Part One introduces Barbara Hershey as a predatory middle-aged woman who seduces...
Cast: Mary Steenburgen John Sayles Ralph Waite Edie Falco
Tags: Social Problem Film Americana Ensemble Film Drama
Length: 141min
Writer and director John Sayles returns with another multi-layered look at an American community, subtly exploring how race, class, economics, and both national and regional history come together to shape people's lives. Plantation Island is a...
Cast: Naomi Watts Brian Cox Rick Baker Gore Verbinski
Tags: Horror Supernatural Horror
Length: 109min
A disturbing videotape appears to hold the power of life and death over those who view it in this offbeat hriller. A strange videotape begins making the rounds in a town in the Pacific Northwest; it is full of bizarre and haunting images, and after...
Daughter of the Streets (1990)
Length: 97min
A mother is determined to keep her daughter from the seedy world of prostitution in this made-for-television movie. Jane Alexander stars as Peggy Ryan, a busy single mom who doesn't have much time for her daughter Charly (Roxanna Zal). Lacking...
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