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Easily recognizable for her bright smile, thick brunette hair, brown doe eyes, and all-around athletic good looks, Kristy McNichol was one of the more popular juvenile television stars of the 1970s. She specialized in playing tomboys and tough teens and is best remembered for playing Buddy Lawrence on the popular family melodrama Family (1976-1980). McNichol is the daughter of a former actress -- her brother Jimmy McNichol is also an actor -- and started out in commercials at age six. She was 12 when she was cast for the short-lived family drama Apple's Way (1974-1975). After that, she guest starred on several series, including The Bionic Woman (1976-1978) and Love American Style (1969-1974). McNichol was 14 when she was cast in Family. During its run, McNichol received two Emmys and a People's Choice Award. She also appeared in television movies such as the Emmy-winning Summer of My German Soldier (1979) and occasionally in feature films, beginning with The End (1978), in which she played a supporting role opposite Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise. In 1980, McNichol and fellow child stars Tatum O'Neal and Matt Dillon starred in Little Darlings, a summer camp film in which two teen girls compete to be the first to lose their virginity. McNichol has made a few attempts to establish herself in features, and as her performance in Neil Simon's Only When I Laugh shows, she is a bright and talented actress. Unfortunately, her choice of films has been less than stellar and though her performances in such vehicles as The Pirate Movie (1982) and Just the Way You Are (1984) received praise, the films did not. In 1988, McNichol returned to series television as an unmarried detective who returns home to live with her father and her recently divorced sister in the sitcom Empty Nest (1988-1995). Suffering from severe bouts of manic depression, McNichol left the show during the 1992-1993 season. Since then she has apparently retired from acting. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide less

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Baby of the Bride (1991)
Tags: Farce Comedy
Length: 93min
This made-for-TV domestic drama is a follow-up to 1990's Children of the Bride. Rue McClanahan plays a 53-year-old newlywed, the wife of much-younger Ted Shackelford (replacing the earlier film's Patrick Duffy) It's bad enough when McClanahan...
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Women of Valor (1986)
Cast: Susan Sarandon Georges Delerue Buzz Kulik
Tags: Drama POW Drama Period Film
Length: 95min
In this made-for-TV film, a group of American nurses stationed in the Philippines are captured when Japanese forces invade during World War II. In the hands of the enemy, the women are held prisoner for three years and must struggle to survive. ~...
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Just the Way You Are (1984)
Cast: Robert Carradine
Tags: Psychological Drama Romantic Drama Comedy Drama
Length: 96min
In this standard human interest comedy, Susan Berlanger (Kristy McNichol) has been crippled since a child and has to wear a leg brace in order to get around, but that does not in any way prevent Sam (Robert Carradine) and several other men from being...
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Two Moon Junction (1988)
Cast: Louise Fletcher Sherilyn Fenn Zalman King
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Softcore Sex Film Romance
Length: 104min
Zalman King wrote and directed this soft-core Harlequinesque Romance that plays like Tennessee Williams meets Fredericks of Hollywood. April Delongpre (Sherilyn Fenn) is the daughter of a powerful senator and heiress to an old and respectable Southern...
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Dream Lover (1986)
Cast: Sven Nykvist Kristy McNichol
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 105min
Director Alan J. Pakula does the best anyone can with this complicated tale of what happens when the dream state and the waking state are confused and intermingled. While at home alone one day, Kathy Gardner (Kristy McNichol) defends herself against...
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The Pirate Movie (1982)
Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Musical Adventure Romantic Adventure
Length: 100min
An introverted girl who yearns for popularity (Kristy McNichol) attends a pirate festival in her seaside community, featuring a swordplay demo led by a curly haired hunk (Christopher Atkins). After selecting Mabel (McNichol) to participate in the act,...
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Blinded by the Light (1982)
Cast: Anne Jackson
Tags: Drama Religious Drama
Length: 90min
Real-life brother and sister Jimmy and Kristy McNichol star in this made-for-television drama about a claustrophobic cult. Jimmy McNichol stars as David, oldest son of the seemingly well-adjusted Bowers. When David disappears from his family to live...
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White Dog (1982)
Cast: Samuel Fuller Burl Ives Ennio Morricone Bruce Surtees Curtis Hanson
Tags: Drama Message Movie Psychological Drama
Length: 90min
A little-seen film, suppressed by Paramount studio executives and never released theatrically in the U.S., this drama is a powerful saga about racism. Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol) hits a handsome white dog with her car one night and then nurses it...
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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981)
Cast: Dennis Quaid Mark Hamill
Tags: Drama
Length: 110min
A would-be Nashville star finds himself in hot water during a stay in Georgia in this drama based (very loosely) on the hit song of the same title. Travis Child (Dennis Quaid) is a country singer looking for his big break, crisscrossing the country...
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Only When I Laugh (1981)
Cast: Neil Simon
Tags: Comedy Drama Family Drama Showbiz Comedy
Length: 120min
Playwright Neil Simon made one of his periodic forays into serious themes with the drama -The Gingerbread Lady, and while this screen adaptation adds a bit more wit to the proceedings, it remains a change of pace from his usual breezy comedies....
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