Biography: Maureen Stapleton |
A highly respected character actress of stage, screen, and occasional television, Maureen Stapleton has specialized in playing slightly unkempt, earthy, and/or eccentric women in dramas and comedies. Born June 21, 1925, Stapleton grew up dreaming of... more
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Cast: Meg Ryan Richard Dreyfuss Matthew Broderick
Tags: Black Comedy Romantic Comedy Comedy Urban Comedy
Length: 100min
In this slightly dark comedy about romantic obsession, Sam (Matthew Broderick) is an astronomer who likes his life in the small New England town he calls home and loves his fiancée, Linda (Kelly Preston). But one day, Linda tells Sam that she's...
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl
Tags: Psychological Drama Comedy Drama
Length: 90min
An elderly retired violinist befriends a troubled young woman in this touching, sensitively performed drama. Armin Mueller-Stahl stars as Joseph Kopple, a former professional musician who has withdrawn into a quiet life after the death of his wife....
Cast: Danny Aiello
Tags: Comedy Drama Teen Movie Coming-of-Age
Length: 95min
During her valedictorian address at her high school graduation, Renata Devereaux (Shanee Edwards) makes a startling confession: She's killed a fellow student. In flashbacks, she tells the story of how she came to accidentally drown a student (Charles...
Cast: Maximilian Schell
Tags: Family Drama Drama Period Film
Length: 95min
In this Hallmark Hall of Fame TV film set in the post-war era, Kyra Sedgwick is the title character, a New Yorker who has long kept her Jewish heritage under wraps. Born in Poland but sent to the U.S. before the Holocaust, the young career woman...
Tags: Children's Fantasy Comedy
Length: 83min
The Mommy Market originated as a fey satirical novel by Nancy Brelis. In the film version, Anna Chlumsky plays the oldest of three siblings who are fed up with their impossible mother (Sissy Spacek). Through methods too complicated to go into here,...
Liberace: Behind the Music (1988)
Length: 93min
This was the "unofficial" Liberace biopic, as opposed to the error-ridden "official" Liberace (telecast one week earlier in October of 1988). The star of Liberace: Behind the Music is Broadway actor Victor Garber, who later scored a personal triumph...
Tags: Slice of Life Comedy Drama Americana
Length: 91min
The elderly owner of an aging but still beloved Catskill's landmark inn must decide whether to make necessary repairs to the hotel or to sell the land to developers. Meanwhile the owner's granddaughter toils in the hotel kitchen for the summer and the...
Cast: Don Ameche Jessica Tandy Hume Cronyn
Tags: Comedy Drama Sci-Fi Comedy Science Fiction
Length: 116min
Cocoon 2: The Return, like most sequels, relies a bit too heavily on one's familiarity with the first film. Without dwelling too long on Cocoon 1, we can observe that it ended with a group of senior citizens heading for the distant planet of Antarea,...
Cast: Jack Warden
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 96min
In this black comedy, elderly Jack Scanlan (Jack Warden) passes away just as he's about to tell his oldest son Johnny (Bob Hoskins) what he's decided is truly important in life, which does little to ease Johnny's mid-life anxieties. Jack's funeral and...
Cast: Maureen Stapleton Alan Rudolph
Tags: Romantic Fantasy Fantasy Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies Romance
Length: 102min
Alan Rudolph directed this offbeat, boy-meets-girl romance in which boy dies, dead boy meets dead girl, dead boy loses dead girl, and dead boy tries to find dead girl again. The tale begins is a small Pennsylvania town, where Mike Shea (Timothy...
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