Biography: Thora Birch |
By the time six-year-old Thora Birch made her feature film debut with a small role in Purple People Eater (1988), she was already a veteran television actress with two years' worth of commercial and series work under her diminutive belt. Probably... more
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Winter of Frozen Dreams (2008)
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller True Crime
Length: 92min
The true story of the first televised murder trial in U.S. history, Winter of Frozen Dreams reveals the bizarre tale of a brilliant biochemistry student who lead a shocking double life. Barbara Hoffman (Thora Birch) was a top student at the University...
Cast: David Arquette
Tags: Crime Drama Thriller
Length: 90min
Taylor (Balthazar Getty) and Ashley (David Arquette) have been best friends since they were boys. They've grown older and stuck together, making a meager living, drifting across the country running low-level cons. They end up in Fairfield, CT, where...
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003)
Length: 95min
In this fact-based cable TV drama, Thora Birch stars as Liz Murray, the daughter of a loving but extremely dysfunctional Bronx family. Weighed down with a coke-addict father and an HIV-infected mother, Liz spends her early years shuttling from squalid...
Tags: Horror Psychological Thriller
Length: 95min
Nightmares blend with dreams to offer a surreal and terrifying portrait of one woman's rapidly deepening psychological malaise in first-time writer/director Ray Gower's tale of a troubled young woman pursued by malevolent creatures led by a mysterious...
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss John Sayles Kris Kristofferson Mary Kay Place Ralph Waite Maria Bello Billy Zane Daryl Hannah
Tags: Mystery Drama Political Satire Political Thriller
Length: 133min
Celebrated writer and director John Sayles turns his eye to politics in America in this drama. The son of respected Colorado politician Senator Jud Pilager (Michael Murphy), Dicky Pilager (Chris Cooper) is a charming but half-bright man with a bad...
Cast: Keith Carradine Ellen Burstyn Rebecca De Mornay
Tags: Melodrama Marriage Drama Drama Family Drama
Length: 94min
Based on the novel by Barbara Esstman, this made-for-TV drama concerns Neal (Keith Carradine) and Nora (Rebecca DeMornay), a married couple who run a horse ranch. Neal and Nora have slowly but surely drifted apart; while they still live together, they...
Tags: Teen Movie Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 102min
A fun-filled getaway for four teenagers becomes a season in Hell in this tense British thriller. Liz Dunn (Thora Birch) is a student at an exclusive private school who is head over heels for Mike Steel (Desmond Harrington), a handsome classmate whose...
Cast: Steve Buscemi
Tags: Coming-of-Age Comedy Drama
Length: 111min
Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff, who enjoyed breakthrough success with his 1994 documentary Crumb, shifts gears as he examines the lives of two young women on the verge of leaving their adolescence behind in his first dramatic feature. Enid (Thora Birch) and...
Cast: Chris Cooper Kevin Spacey Sam Mendes Annette Bening
Tags: Coming-of-Age Family Drama Comedy Drama Tragi-comedy
Length: 120min
Noted theater director Sam Mendes, who was responsible for the acclaimed 1998 revival of ~Cabaret and Nicole Kidman's turn in ~The Blue Room, made his motion picture debut with this film about the dark side of an American family, and about the nature...
Cast: Jeremy Irons
Tags: Sword-and-Sorcery Fantasy
Length: 107min
The imaginary world of the world's most popular fantasy role-playing game comes to life in this special-effects laden adventure. In the Empire of Izmer, magic is the key to power in both the supernatural and political realms. The Mages are a sect who...
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