Two young girls, Kerry Lynn Palmer and Dana McNamara, are raped and murdered--fourteen years apart. At the time of the first...
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2005
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In this downbeat drama, a reformed criminal finds himself led back to a life of crime. Fresh out of prison, former...
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Aunt Dierdre
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2000
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An ailing criminal and his excitement-starved nurse decide to knock over a bank for fun and profit in this comic suspense...
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Mrs. Tetlow
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2000
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Carter (Noah Wyle) is pressed into service as tour guide for the family of Ruth Johnson (Anne Pitoniak), who was born at...
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1998
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Adapted from a play by Tom Ziegler, the made-for-TV Grace and Glorie stars Gena Rowlands and Diane Lane as the title...
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1998
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A feminist farm belt version of William Shakespeare's King Lear, this film is based on Jane Smiley's novel about an aging...
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1997
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Two lonely people learn to say it with flowers in this romantic drama. Lisa (Mary Stuart Masterson) is a business executive...
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1996
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1994
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The full title of this made-for-TV film was In the Best of Families: Pride and Madness. Based on a true story, the film...
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1994
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In Michael Lessac's lugubrious House of Cards, women's intuition beats out psychology in the battle against autism. The story...
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1992
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1991
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1991
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In this historical drama based on Carlos Fuentes' novel, Harriet Winslow (Jane Fonda) is a naive woman who, hoping to broaden...
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1989
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Written with heartbreaking attention to detail by Ara Watson and Sam Blackwell, No Place Like Home was one of the first TV...
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1989
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In this film, based on the novel by John Nichols, young Wendall Olet (Lukas Haas) is sent to live with his Aunt Sybil...
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1988
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Mrs. Bettleheim
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1988
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Housekeeping is the film in which Christine Lahti invites a guest into a living room half-submerged in water. This is hardly...
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Aunt Lily
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1987
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Hiding Out, a surprisingly entertaining and engaging action comedy, directed by Bob Giraldi, takes the implausible idea that...
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1987
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1987
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1987
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This made-for-TV movie was not, as has sometimes been reported, a remake of the 1938 Spencer Tracy film Boys Town. It was...
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1986
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Agnes of God is an "opened up" adaptation of the minimalist stage play by John Pielmeier. Meg Tilly plays a young nun who...
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Dr. Livingston's Mother
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1985
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Director and writer Marissa Silver debuted with this captivating film on the friendship of two young girls from opposite...
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1984
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A TV pilot film, Doctor's Story explores the rights--or rather, the lack of them--of geriatric patients. Howard E. Rollins...
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1984
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1983
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