Biography: Jean Simmons |
A luminous beauty, Jean Simmons was a star in her native Britain and in the U.S. who first appeared onscreen at age 14 in Give Us the Moon (1944), but did not become a true star until she played Estella in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946). In... more
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Cast: Hayao Miyazaki Lauren Bacall Billy Crystal
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Anime Fantasy
Length: 119min
Hayao Miyazaki, the Japanese animation director who wowed audiences worldwide with his award-winning film Spirited Away, brings another visually spectacular tale of imagination to the screen. Sophie is an 18-year-old girl who toils in the hat shop...
How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
Cast: Winona Ryder Kate Nelligan Ellen Burstyn Anne Bancroft
Tags: Americana Drama Coming-of-Age Ensemble Film
Length: 116min
A young woman at a crossroads in her life finds herself receiving plenty of advice from her older and wiser counterparts in this drama. Finn Dodd (Winona Ryder) is a graduate student trying to finish up her doctoral thesis on women's folk art while...
Cast: Jean Simmons
Tags: Romance Romantic Drama
Length: 98min
An unlikely romance blossoms at a seaside home in this British made-for-television movie. Joss Ackland stars as Gerald Carmody, an irascible stockbroker who doesn't expect much from his rest at a senior citizen-populated hotel. When he meets Katherine...
Tags: Romantic Drama Romance
Length: min
Though she has realized a measure of success in her career, Meredith Sanders (Melissa Gilbert) has never found true happiness. Haunted by fragmentary memories of her childhood, she returns to England, the first time she has set foot in native country...
Tags: Drama
Length: 97min
Laker Girls adheres slavishly to the formula established by those "Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders" TV movies of a decade or so ago. We follow the progress of three aspirants (Tina Yothers, Paris Vaughn and Alexandra Paul) for the cheerleading squad of...
Length: 85min
Cast: Viveca Lindfors
Tags: Thriller Comedy Comedy Thriller
Length: 89min
In this comic thriller, wealthy Maxine de la Hunt (Jean Simmons) is worried about what might happen to her step-daughter Marigold (Lea Thompson) as she goes on vacation in Denmark. So Maxine hires private detective Henry Brilliant (Chris Lemmon) to...
Cast: Anthony Hopkins Trevor Howard
Tags: Melodrama Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 97min
A young woman in her late teens is caught up in the political unrest of Southern Ireland in the 1920s in this drama that features an excellent cast. Nancy (Rebecca Pidgeon) befriends the pistol packing stranger she dubs Cassius (Anthony Hopkins) while...
Tags: Parody/Spoof Detective Film Comedy Mystery
Length: 90min
A bungling gumshoe tries hard to affect a hard-boiled demeanor, despite the fact that his latest assignment is to protect the bratty young heiress to a fortune in this lively spoof of detective movies. Henry Brilliant, Private Eye, is no stranger to...
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love (1987)
Cast: Raymond Burr Gene Barry
Tags: Mystery Crime Drama Detective Film
Length: 98min
The Case of the Lost Love was the fourth of the Perry Mason TV movies of the 1980s. Raymond Burr plays Mason (you're surprised?), who while out of town at a lawyer's conference is reunited with Jean Simmons, his lady friend of 30 years past. Simmons...
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