Biography: Piper Laurie |
Signed by Universal in 1950, the perky, redheaded Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs) was a welcome presence in many a musical, situation comedy and costume drama. In later years, she tended to dismiss her ingenue years, noting that she spent most of... more
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Tags: Melodrama Showbiz Drama Drama
Length: 97min
Child-actor turned novelist Joshua Miller now adds directing to his resume with this screen adaptation of his novel The Mao Game. Piper Laurie plays an older woman who gave up an early career as a hoofer to become a respected photographer. Her...
The Last Brickmaker in America (2001)
Cast: Sidney Poitier
Length: 95min
Actor Sidney Poitier returns to CBS, the same station which originally broadcast his leading role in 1999's The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn, this time adopting the part of a humble brickmaker in the made-for-television drama The Last Brickmaker in...
Cast: Piper Laurie
Tags: Childhood Drama Drama Period Film
Length: 102min
A precocious but troubled young girl living in 1950s-era Alabama seeks solace in the music of Elvis Presley in director Deborah Kampmeier's controversial tale of childhood trauma and musical healing. An air of repression lingers over the home of...
Tags: Reunion Films Comedy Ensemble Film Domestic Comedy
Length: 106min
The luck of the Irish is not shining on anyone looking for a spot of whiskey or stout in this comedy about an unusual family get-together. Mary Pat Donnely McDonough (Piper Laurie) is the matriarch of a large Irish-American family, and as is her...
Cast: Jack Lemmon George C. Scott Beau Bridges
Tags: Drama Message Movie Courtroom Drama
Length: 120min
The celebrated stage drama by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, based on the real-life Scopes trial in which a teacher was jailed in 1925 for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, is filmed for the third time in this adaptation produced for the...
Cast: Patty Duke Truman Capote
Tags: Period Film Drama Childhood Drama Holiday Film Slice of Life
Length: 96min
Made for television, A Christmas Memory is adapted from the wistful short story by Truman Capote, previously filmed in 1967 as a one-hour episode of ABC Stage 67. Capote himself narrated the original version, in which he recalled his lonely childhood...
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 90min
Based on a book by Dean Koontz, who also served as one of the executive producers, this Canadian telefilm directed by Yves Simoneau (Mother's Boys) concerns a young psychology student named Chyna Shepherd. She's played by Molly Parker (who was so...
Cast: Cicely Tyson
Tags: Road Movie Drama
Length: min
In this heartwarming drama, a dying widow "abducts" a trio of women suffering from Alzheimer's disease and embarks upon a journey to the title Texas town in order to fulfill her lifelong fantasy of seeing the ocean. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Polly Bergen
Tags: Detective Film Crime
Length: 95min
After her lifelong friend is jailed for murder, a brave woman launches a private investigation to prove her innocent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Jack Nicholson Anjelica Huston
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Addiction Drama Urban Drama
Length: 120min
Sean Penn wrote and directed this tale of loss, guilt, and revenge. The daughter of Freddy and Mary Gale (Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston) was killed by a drunk driver, John Booth (David Morse). The death of their child took a heavy toll on the...
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