Biography: Martha Coolidge |
After studying at the Rhode Island School of Design and N.Y.U., filmmaker Martha Coolidge worked in Canadian television while making short films and documentaries. In 1975, she wrote, directed, and produced her first feature film, Not a Pretty... more
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An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong (2008)
Cast: Martha Coolidge
Tags: Family
Length: 90min
It's always tough to move to a brand new school, especially when the year is already half over. This is exactly the spot Chrissa is in after finding herself the newest kid in the fourth grade and a prime target for the popular girls known as the "Mean...
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 92min
Cast: James Fox
Tags: Romantic Comedy Melodrama Romance
Length: 110min
For the second time in her career, Julia Stiles plays a character romancing the Crown Prince of Denmark in The Prince & Me, a romantic wish-fulfillment fantasy from director Martha Coolidge. Far from her role as Ophelia in 2000's Hamlet, however,...
The 12 Days of Christmas Eve (2004)
Cast: Molly Shannon Steven Weber
Tags: Comedy Drama Holiday Film
Length: 88min
A money-minded modern day Scrooge with no time for family is given twelve days to discover the true meaning of Christmas in this holiday comedy from director Martha Coolidge. Calvin Carter (Steven Weber) is strictly business. The owner of a popular...
Cast: Anjelica Huston Lukas Haas
Tags: Comedy Teen Movie
Length: 98min
Stripped of their wealth and forced to fend for themselves when the multi-million-dollar cosmetics company inherited from their father suffers due to controversy, two sisters who have never known the simple life must finally find out how the other...
Tags: Courtroom Drama Drama
Length: 95min
Martha Coolidge (Real Genius, Out to Sea) directed this light PBS drama about a rich eccentric who is overly generous with his fortune. Ally McBeal's Peter MacNicol stars as Daniel Ponder, the wealthy man in question, who finds himself charged with...
Cast: William Hurt Elizabeth McGovern
Tags: Domestic Comedy Family Drama Comedy Drama
Length: 98min
Based on the novel by Larry Baker, this bittersweet comedy-drama focuses on Hubert T. Lee (Brian Benben), an eccentric man with big dreams, who, along with his wife Edna (Elizabeth McGovern) and adopted children Louise Janine (Olivia Oguma) and...
If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
Cast: Sharon Stone Vanessa Redgrave Ellen DeGeneres
Tags: Gay & Lesbian Films Feminist Film Drama
Length: 105min
This three-part drama, produced for HBO, examines the changing tides of the lives of lesbians in America, both politically and personally, as we eavesdrop on three stories taking place in the same house over a span of five decades. In 1961, the house...
Cast: Walter Matthau Jack Lemmon Dyan Cannon Gloria de Haven
Tags: Romantic Comedy Buddy Film Comedy
Length: 109min
A pair of grumpy old men hit the high seas in this comedy. Small-time con man Charlie (Walter Matthau) fast-talks his considerably more straight-laced friend Herb (Jack Lemmon) into joining him for a luxury cruise on an ocean liner headed to the...
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
Cast: Klaus Maria Brandauer
Tags: Addiction Drama Drama Showbiz Drama Biopic
Length: 120min
Dorothy Dandridge was a singer, nightclub entertainer, and actress who became the first African-American woman to receive an Academy award nomination as Best Actress (for her standout performance in 1954's Carmen Jones; she lost to Grace Kelly)....
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