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Lead actress, onscreen from I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1956). ~ All Movie Guide more
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Cast: Ellen Burstyn   
Tags: Drama Family Drama 
Length: 115min
Director Kari Skogland takes the reins for a Buffalo Gals Pictures production starring Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn as author Margaret Laurence's much-lauded heroine Hagar Shipley. Hagar may by 90, but she not ready to lie down and die just yet....

Cast: Vincent Spano   
Tags: Horror Natural Horror 
Length: 94min
Initially titled The Colony, this made-for-TV thriller offers the nightmarish scenario of thousands upon thousands of verminous rats swarming over a posh Manhattan department store. Inevitably, the dirty rodents threaten the entire city, and it is up...

Tags: Comedy Drama 
Length: 88min
Sammy Smalls (Cristin Milioti), a twenty-something tomboy, wants to find love that will stick, and a job that doesn't make her queasy with guilt (she hunts down shoplifters at the local grocery stoe and delivers them to her abusive boss). Most of all,...

A Woman of Independent Means (1995)
Cast: Ron Silver Sally Field Tony Goldwyn   
Tags: Period Film Drama 
Length: 316min
Adapted from Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey's best-selling novel, Woman of Independent Means follows the journey of a woman forced to face fresh challenges following the unexpected death of her husband. Sally Field stars as Bess Steer Garner, a widow who...

Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis Kevin Pollak Jennifer Tilly Ray Walston Christopher McDonald   
Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 
Length: 108min
Grover Reindorf (Kyle Howard) is a kid with a problem, which is how to keep his parents from divorcing. He hits on a solution that makes sense to him. Why not lock them up in the basement, and keep them there until they reconcile? He and his younger...

Tags: Action Thriller Romantic Adventure Adventure 
Length: 95min
The reticent owner of a small bed and breakfast sets out on the adventure of a lifetime after joining a rugged bounty hunter in his search for an elusive antiques smuggler. Sara is a woman who never took any risks in life. She always lived strictly by...

Cast: Sam Shepard Lili Taylor Dermot Mulroney Valerie Perrine Bill Pullman   
Tags: Crime Drama Drama Road Movie 
Length: 94min
This contemporary western stars Dermot Mulroney as a Montana teenager whose sanity is being eroded by his parent's domestic squabbles. Linking up with Lili Taylor, a Wyoming-bound transient with a checkered history, Mulroney embarks upon an odyssey of...

Tags: Coming-of-Age Family Drama Period Film Comedy Drama 
Length: 101min
It is the 1960s, but Hal Kingswood (R.H. Thomson), the old-fashioned headmaster of a small school in British Colombia not far from Vancouver hasn't quite gotten hip to it yet. He won't even let his late-teen daughter Cleo (Tara Frederick) go to a...

Cast: Sissy Spacek Joan Micklin Silver Estelle Parsons   
Tags: Drama Feminist Film Docudrama 
Length: 89min
When Sherri Finkbine (Sissy Spacek), the host of the Sixties children's television program Romper Room, learns that her unborn child has been damaged by her use of the drug thalidomide, she and her husband decide to abort the fetus, setting in motion...

Cast: Melanie Griffith Elijah Wood   
Tags: Marriage Drama Drama Childhood Drama 
Length: 112min
Mary Agnes Donohue adapted her French success Le Grand Chemin for this American version, reworked as a vehicle for Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. Paradise is a coming-of-age story about a 10-year-old boy named Willard (Elijah Wood), who is sent by...
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