Biography: John Heard |
A veteran of Chicago's free-form Organic Theatre, the boyish, personable John Heard won the Theatre World Award for his performance in the 1976 play Streamers, and two years later was the recipient of the Obie Award for two separate off-Broadway... more
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Cast: Robert De Niro Robin Williams Max von Sydow
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Medical Drama
Length: 121min
Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Something of a klutz and naif, Dr. Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. Here...
Cast: Dyan Cannon
Tags: Family Drama Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 102min
Actress Dyan Cannon, whose 1976 directorial debut Number One was nominated for a "best short subject" Academy Award, moves on to feature-length projects with The End of Innocence. In addition to directing, Ms. Cannon wrote the screenplay and played a...
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
Cast: Rubén Blades
Tags: Comedy Drama Rural Drama
Length: 118min
It's advisable to know from the beginning of The Milagro Beanfield War that "milagro" is the Spanish word for "miracle". The scene is a rundown Hispanic community in New Mexico, bordering a posh housing development. In full control of the local water...
Cast: Gene Hackman John Heard Tommy Lee Jones
Tags: Thriller Political Thriller
Length: 108min
The Package, a hriller involving political assassination and intrigue, is an excellent action feature using a familiar theme and providing good performances by the cast. Boyette (Tommy Lee Jones) is a prisoner entrusted to Gallagher (Gene Hackman)...
Cast: Tom Hanks
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Fantasy Comedy
Length: 98min
More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh (David Moscow) wants to be "big". That's the wish he makes at an odd-looking amusement pier fortunetelling machine. The next morning, Josh wakes up-only to discover that he's grown to manhood...
Cast: Debra Winger Costa-Gavras
Tags: Thriller Political Thriller
Length: 112min
Set in Iowa, Betrayed stars Debra Winger as an FBI agent who infiltrates a Klanlike white supremacist organization. Allegedly a woman of intelligence and perception, Winger throws caution and logic to the winds when she falls in love with local farmer...
Cast: Garry Marshall
Tags: Melodrama Buddy Film Drama
Length: 123min
Based on a novel by Iris Rainer Dart, Beaches traces the 30-year oil-and-water friendship between free-spirited Bronx Jew CC Bloom (Bette Midler) and uptight San Francisco WASP Hillary Essex (Barbara Hershey). The two meet as children in Atlantic City...
Cast: Demi Moore
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 97min
This horror thriller is based upon the final chapter of the Bible and centers upon Abby Quinn, a pregnant woman living in Venice, California who leases her garage apartment to mysterious David, who seems to be trying to claim the soul and the life of...
Cast: Shirley MacLaine
Length: 160min
Actress/author Shirley MacLaine described her 1983 book -Out on a Limb as the tale of her "personal spiritual quest." In this two-part TV-movie adaptation of the book, MacLaine plays herself, meeting the emotional challenge of passing 40 by entering...
Tags: Marriage Drama Crime Drama Drama Crime
Length: 93min
Loni Anderson, James Naughton, and John Heard star in this tense tale of a woman whose life is changed forever after discovering that her husband is a dangerous drug kingpin. Deceived by her husband Rick (Naughton) into believing he is an average...
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