Biography: Melinda Dillon |
Though best known for her intense, sensitive dramatic portrayals, Melinda Dillon first attracted attention as an improvisational comedienne. Her Broadway break came about when she played the hypertense Honey in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia... more
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Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Gay & Lesbian Films
Length: 100min
A forgotten one-night-stand from the 1980s sets the stage for romance fifteen years removed in director Craig Chester's urban omantic comedy starring Parker Posey, Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets, and Chris Kattan. Despite the fact that neither Adam...
Cast: Scott Glenn Robert Sean Leonard Melinda Dillon
Tags: Rural Drama Coming-of-Age Family Drama Drama Period Film
Length: 98min
Based on John Grisham's semi-autobiographical novel (which he regarded as his favorite because it "contains no lawyers"), A Painted House is set in the rural community of Oak Park, AR, in 1952. The story is told through the eyes of ten-year-old Luke...
Cast: Kathy Bates
Tags: Adventure Drama Fantasy Adventure Fantasy
Length: 90min
In this family oriented fantasy drama, a boy discovers his long-lost father is actually a gifted magician. After father and son are reunited, they discover a notorious criminal is on the magician's trail, determined to wrestle away his secret powers....
Cast: Ralph Waite Lou Diamond Phillips
Tags: Crime Mystery Detective Film
Length: 100min
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller. Because of his upbringing, Jesse Rainfeather Goldman knows almost nothing of Native American...
Cast: Paul Dooley Lynn Whitfield
Tags: Medical Drama Drama
Length: 89min
Set in a busy inner-city emergency room, this made-for-cable television drama follows the struggles of a world-weary surgeon who takes on the hospital administrators whose budget-cutting is affecting his ability to adequately care for his patients. ~...
Cast: Stockard Channing Lee Grant Sean Astin
Tags: Comedy Drama Family Drama
Length: 91min
After winning an Academy Award for their documentary Down and Out in America (1986), actress-director Lee Grant and her producer-husband Joseph Feury filmed this comedy-drama based on an original script by playwright Monte Merrick. In a small Southern...
Judgment Day: The John List Story (1993)
Tags: Crime Drama Crime
Length: min
This fact-based made-for-television drama chronicles a 17-year-long police investigation of John List, a New Jersey accountant who became a mass murderer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Ned Beatty
Tags: Spy Film Superhero Film Action Thriller
Length: 103min
After a scientist creates superhuman warrior Red Skull for the Nazis during WW II, she defects and does the same for the U.S.-- injecting a polio victim to transform him into the titular heroic beefcake. Forty years after a confrontation which left...
Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
Cast: John Lithgow Steven Spielberg
Tags: Family Comedy Family-Oriented Adventure Animal Picture
Length: 111min
While vacationing in the Pacific Northwest, the Henderson clan's dad George (John Lithgow), mom Nancy (Melinda Dillon), daughter Sarah (Margaret Langrick) and son Ernie (Joshua Rudroy) accidently run over a strange animal with their car, and when they...
Cast: Emilio Estevez Lea Thompson Joe Pantoliano Martin Sheen
Tags: Political Drama Drama
Length: 100min
Father-and-son actors Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez star in the made-for-TV movie Nightbreaker. The film was first telecast March 9, 1989, two months after the debut of another TNT Cable Service "original", Finish Line. The earlier film also starred...
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