Waris Hussein

Sixth Happiness (1997)

Tags: Drama Biopic Docudrama 

Length: 98min

Disabled activist Firdaus Kanga scripted this autobiographical British drama by adapting his novel, Trying to Grow. Born in 1962 with brittle bone disease, Brit Kotwal (Kanga) grows up with the support of his middle-class Bombay family, but adulthood...

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A Child's Wish (1997)

Length: min

This fact-based TV movie stars John Ritter as Ed Chandler, whose life is torn asunder when his daughter Missy (Anna Chlumsky) is diagnosed with cancer. The nature of Missy's illness obliges Ed to spend many hours away from his job as a car salesman to...

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Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story (1998)

Cast: Ann-Margret Waris Hussein David Dukes   

Tags: Comedy Drama Biopic 

Length: min

This film is based on the extraordinary and at times outrageous life of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman (aptly played by Ann-Margret), who arrived in America from her native England. During her 40 years in the U.S. she managed to marry...

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The Summer House (1993)

Cast: Jeanne Moreau Joan Plowright Julie Walters John Wood   

Tags: Romantic Comedy Romance 

Length: 85min

Martin Sherman adapted Alice Thomas Ellis' novel for this comedy about a suburban Englishwoman who's about to settle on marriage with her mother-dominated next door neighbor until everyone's comfortable life is disrupted by a visit from her exotic and...

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Murder Between Friends (1994)

Cast: Timothy Busfield Lisa Blount Stephen Lang   

Tags: Whodunit Crime Mystery Docudrama 

Length: 100min

Another "based on an actual event!" TV movie, Murder Between Friends is set in 1980s New Orleans. Two friends become involved in murder when the wife of one of them begins cheating on her spouse. Constructed along the lines of "Rashomon", the script...

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Fall from Grace (1994)

Cast: Michael York   

Length: 180min

The two-part British miniseries Fall From Grace was set in the fifth year of WWII. To mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the invasion of France, Col. Sir Henry Ridley (James Fox) leaves an elaborate trail of false clues, not least of...

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For the Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story (1993)

Length: min

Based on a true story, this drama centers on a mother and father who decide to have another child in hopes of providing a bone-marrow donor for their leukemia-stricken child. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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The Face on the Milk Carton (1995)

Cast: Edward Herrmann Jill Clayburgh Richard Masur   

Tags: Drama 

Length: min

Director Waris Hussein delivers another made-for-television drama, this one based on the popular young-adult book by Caroline B. Cooney. The movie stars Kellie Martin as Janie, a teen who one day sees her own face on the back of a milk carton in an ad...

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She Woke Up (1992)

Tags: Crime Thriller Mystery Crime Thriller 

Length: 100min

Surprisingly good soap opera in which the suspense and thrills are genuinely good revolves around a wealthy woman who awakens from a fourteen-month coma after an attempt is made on her life and now must remember who tried to kill her in order to...

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