Biography: Ned Beatty |
Portly American character actor Ned Beatty originally planned to enter the clergy, but after appearing in a single high-school play, he changed his mind and decided to become a thespian instead. By his early twenties, Beatty was playing Broadway and... more
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Cast: Bertrand Tavernier
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 117min
A detective tracking a serial killer who preys on young women finds his investigation complicated by a glamorous Hollywood starlet and a ruthless crime kingpin in director Bertrand Tavernier's adaptation of the James Lee Burke novel -In the Electric...
Cast: Julia Roberts Mike Nichols Tom Hanks
Tags: Drama Political Drama
Length: 97min
Produced by Tom Hanks, written by Aaron Sorkin, and directed by Mike Nichols, this adaptation of George Crile III's incendiary bestseller tells the remarkable story of the Texas congressman whose efforts to prevent the Red Army from overtaking...
Cast: Lauren Bacall Lily Tomlin Kristin Scott Thomas
Tags: Political Drama Drama
Length: 107min
With The Walker, Paul Schrader unofficially updates themes and tropes first explored by his controversial erotic hriller American Gigolo (1980). Woody Harrelson stars as Carter Page III, an overtly gay, Virginia senator's son, paid as an asexual...
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Drama
Length: 110min
A European exile finds herself a stranger in a strange land when she comes to the United States in this independent omantic comedy-drama. As a man ponders what to do with his family's estate after the death of his grandmother, he thinks back to how...
Cast: Jackie Gleason
Length: 120min
Created for the TNT television network, The Wool Cap is a remake of the 1962 film Gigot, which was written by and starred the legendary Jackie Gleason. This time around, it's Academy Award-nominee and Emmy winner William H. Macy (Fargo) handling the...
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)
Cast: Jackie Cooper Marlon Brando Christopher Reeve Gene Hackman John Williams
Tags: Science Fiction Action Alien Film Superhero Film
Length: 116min
Reconstructed using archival film and sound elements long thought to be extinct, this special cut of Superman II pieces together unseen footage shot by Richard Donner in order to present the most comprehensive version of what was to be the original...
Where the Red Fern Grows (2003)
Cast: Dabney Coleman Kris Kristofferson
Tags: Period Film Animal Picture Family-Oriented Adventure Family Childhood Drama
Length: 90min
Based on the 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows is a family-oriented drama four years in the making. This project is co-directed by Lyman Dayton, who also adapted the screenplay and produced the 1974 filmed version. The...
Cast: Ned Beatty
Tags: Crime Police Detective Film Police Drama
Length: 95min
Some six months after the cancellation of the popular, hard-hitting TV cop series Homicide, most of the cast members were reunited for a two-hour TV movie, which deftly (and somewhat surprisingly) combines stark, raw realism with Sartre-esque flights...
Tags: Buddy Film Drama Odd Couple Film
Length: 111min
Playwright and character actor Tom Gilroy made his feature directorial debut with this dialogue-driven character study set against the backdrop of the changing seasons. Liev Schreiber plays Paul, a short-fused ex-con who finds unlikely comfort,...
Cast: James Garner
Tags: Drama Biopic Period Film
Length: 185min
Based on Mark Twain's 1872 autobiographical novel, this made-for-cable film is presented in flashback form, as aged humorist Mark Twain (James Garner) is invited to be keynote speaker at the Bryn Mawr graduation ceremonies of 1891. At first worried...
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