Biography: Ricki Lake |
Trained at various professional schools for youngsters, actress Ricki Lake completed her education at Ithaca College. While her excessive weight precluded ingenue roles on stage and screen, Lake enjoyed some success as a cabaret singer and... more
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Cast: Mercedes Ruehl
Tags: Romantic Drama Marriage Drama Drama
Length: min
A handsome cardiologist and his late brother's wife enter into a marriage of convenience while realizing that the harder they work to maintain their "pretend" union, the deeper their love for one another grows. When successful, thirty year old...
The Business of Being Born (2007)
Tags: Parenting Culture & Society Women's Health
Length: 87min
While the United States has perhaps the most advanced health care system in the world, it also has the second-highest infant mortality rate of any industrialized nation, and many have begun to question conventional wisdom regarding the way...
Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery (2000)
Cast: Blythe Danner Ed Begley, Jr.
Tags: Whodunit Family Comedy Animal Picture Detective Film
Length: 100min
An amateur sleuth gets some help from her pets in this family-oriented mystery. Mary Haristeen (Ricki Lake), known to her friends as Harry, is the Post Mistress in a small Southern town; when she's not reading mystery novels, she tends to her cat,...
Cast: Shirley MacLaine Richard Benjamin Brendan Fraser
Tags: Romance Comedy of Errors Comedy Drama Romantic Comedy
Length: 106min
A poor woman is the beneficiary of a case of mistaken identity in this comedy. Luckless Connie (Ricki Lake) leaves home to move to New York, only to find herself stuck with no job, no money, and a louse of a boyfriend (Loren Dean) who gets her...
Cast: John Waters Kathleen Turner Sam Waterston
Tags: Comedy Satire Black Comedy Media Satire
Length: 93min
Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) is the perfect suburban housewife and mother. She likes to cook, her home is immaculately clean, she's always well-groomed and cheerful, and she loves her husband Eugene (Sam Waterston) and her two children, Misty...
Cast: Ricki Lake
Tags: Horror Psychological Thriller
Length: 81min
Dennis Skinner (Ted Raimi) seems like a normal enough guy, but he has a very abnormal hobby -- at night, he creeps through the back streets looking for potential victims, and when he finds one, he carefully removes their skin with an elaborate...
Where the Day Takes You (1992)
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency Film Social Problem Film Urban Drama Drama
Length: 103min
Marc Rocco's gritty drama Where the Day Takes You stars Dermot Mulroney as King, a street-smart hustler who acts as a father figure to a motley collection of young runaways. Among the people in his sphere are the young self-destructive drug addict...
Cast: Polly Bergen Johnny Depp Susan Tyrrell
Length: 85min
John Waters does a quirky spin on '50s nostalgia in Cry-Baby, his musical homage to Rebel Without a Cause and +Romeo and Juliet. Set in Baltimore in 1954 at the birth of ock & roll, the film features Johnny Depp as Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker. Depp is...
Tags: Romantic Comedy Romance
Length: 94min
Babycakes is an American remake of the raucous 1988 German comedy Sugarbaby. A pre-talkshow Ricki Lake stars as Grace Johnson, who works as a cosmetician in a funeral parlor. The elephantine Grace falls in love with pencil-thin ice skater Rob Harrison...
Cast: Sonny Bono
Tags: Period Film Dance Film Teen Movie Comedy Musical Comedy
Length: 94min
Forever interested in the kitsch built into past eras, director John Waters chooses the TV dance show craze of the early '60s for his playful focus in Hairspray. Ricki Lake plays Tracy Turnblad, just one of several alliteratively named characters...
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