A wedding brings together one very dysfunctional family in this dark comedy-drama. Lynn (Ellen Barkin) was married to Paul...
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Doris
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2011
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Mother St. John
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2011
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Georgiana Carr
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2011
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Mary
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2010
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A rebellious socialite defies social conventions for a once-in-a-lifetime shot at true love, only to see her hopes for the...
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Miss Addie
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2009
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Live-action filmmaking mixes with imaginative animation in director Michael Landon Jr.'s feature adaptation of author...
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The Swan
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2009
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Famed film director Barry Levinson (Rain Man) focuses his camera on the 2008 Democratic and Republican conventions during the...
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2009
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Seth Grossman's psychological drama The Elephant King concerns two brothers who have very different outlooks on life. Jake...
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Diana Hunt
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2008
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Barbara Bush
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2008
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Hagar Shipley
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2008
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Hilary Duff and Evan Ross star in this interracial teen romance about a waitress whose summer romance with an ambitious cook...
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2008
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Emmy Award-winner Michael Imperioli and Academy Award-winner Ellen Burstyn headline this made for television adaptation of...
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Posey Benetto
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2007
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Dr Lillian Guzetti
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2006
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A young child has gone missing and it's up to a haunted but determined policeman to travel to the remote island community...
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Sister Summerisle
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2006
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The most controversial -- and one of the shortest-lived -- series of the 2005-2006 network season, The Book of Daniel...
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2006
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At the outset of this earnest drama, an innocent basketball game regresses into an ugly brawl, which in turn leads to the...
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Maura
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2006
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Hubert Selby Jr. was a powerful and influential literary figure whose best-known novels, Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem...
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2005
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Based on the book by Newsweek senior editor David France, the made-for-cable Our Fathers dramatizes the pedophilia scandal...
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2005
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The sensationalistic murder of diet guru Dr. Herman Tarnower is explored in this stylized take on the tabloid cover story...
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2005
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Mitch Albom wrote the screenplay for this made-for-television adaptation of his best-selling story, which offers a novel...
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Ruby
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2004
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Less lurid than its title suggests, this made-for-TV movie was based on the true story of the trials and tribulations of...
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2004
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In the late '60s, American culture experienced a period of change as the youth movement challenged conventional attitudes...
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2003
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Based upon Peter Biskind's book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood...
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2003
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Susan Vreeland's novel The Girl in Hyacinthn Blue was the source for this made-for-TV drama. Utilizing a complex...
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Rika
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2003
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Screenwriter Callie Khouri makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of a pair of popular novels by author...
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Vivi Abbott Walker
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2002
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Mother
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2001
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A woman behind bars learns to reach out to someone with whom she has almost nothing in common as she begins to help others in...
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Executive Producer, Joan Thomas
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2001
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In this drama, a young man joins the family business without knowing that he's entering a world of danger and deceit....
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Val Handler
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2000
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Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr., this gritty drama concerns four people trapped by their addictions. Harry...
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Sara Goldfarb
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2000
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A child's letter to heaven gets an unexpected response in this touching family drama, inspired by actual incidents. Desi is a...
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Trish
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2000
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Dolly DeLucca
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2000
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Ellen Burstyn stars in this warm family drama. Mattie (Burstyn) is an aging southern belle who realizes that she's getting...
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1999
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Maggie
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1999
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Sophomore writer/director Willard Carroll weaves together an all-star cast in interlocking stories about finding love in Los...
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1998
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Originally a two-part, five-hour NBC miniseries, this turn-of-the-20th-century tale follows the adventures of a headstrong...
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1998
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Walter Wayland (Tim Roth) has lead a life that many would envy. The heir to a fortune, he was educated at Princeton and then...
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Mook
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1998
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Though she has struggled to put her past behind her, a woman finds the task impossible. This drama chronicles the events...
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1998
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Shimon Dotan directed this Canadian comedy-drama from Oren Safdie's screenplay based on Safdie's play, Hyper-Allergenic, set...
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Shirley Cooperberg
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1998
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A pre-Sex and the City Kristen Davis stars in this made-for-TV thriller as waitress Babette Watson, who has the uneviable...
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1997
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While the 19th century saw great advances in science and technology, it also spawned the 40-year craze known as...
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1997
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Lucas Black and Ellen Burstyn star in this made-for-TV movie from Disney, in which a poor boy dreams of owning a horse named...
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1997
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This debut drama from writer-director Lee David Zlotoff (creator of the TV series MacGyver) won the audience award at the...
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Hannah Ferguson
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1996
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Maud Gannon
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1996
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1996
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This video recounts the tragic tale of Auschwitz's bizarre all-female orchestra, a group forced to play for the...
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1995
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A young woman at a crossroads in her life finds herself receiving plenty of advice from her older and wiser counterparts in...
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Hy (Finn's grandmother)
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1995
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A man facing AIDS has to deal with the personal and social ramifications of the disease in this made-for-television movie....
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1995
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Sheryl Lee stars in this fact-based story of a colonial woman taken prisoner by a tribe of Shawnee Indians during the French...
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1995
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In the film Happy New Year (1987), actor Peter Falk donned old-age makeup to play a senior citizen. Eight years later, he did...
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1995
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Based on the characters from the series of best-selling books by Ann M. Martin, The Baby Sitters Club concerns a group of...
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1995
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Narrator
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1994
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This made-for-TV crime drama follows the actions of the courageous, determined prosecutor who attempted to put notorious...
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1994
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Contracted to paint a ballroom to memorialize a young woman's tragic death, an artist starts discovering little tidbits that...
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1994
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This taut, gritty made-for-TV drama is based on an off-Broadway play by Marsha Norman and follows the struggle of a female...
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1994
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A dramatic treatment of a family torn apart by alcoholism and recovering from it, this was a star vehicle for popular actress...
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1994
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A client's claims of incest cause an attorney to remember the traumas she suffered when she was a sexually abused child....
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1993
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Esther Moskowitz
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1993
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This exhaustive treatment of the roots of environmental destruction in the modern world has come in for scathing criticism...
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1993
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This movie is based on the true story of Nancy Ziegenmeyer, a rape victim who announced to the world that rape is not the...
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1992
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Set in 19th-century Louisiana, the made-for-cable film The Grand Isle is about a wealthy woman (Kelly McGillis) who discovers...
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Mademoiselle Reisz
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1992
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This installment from HBO continues the story of baseball from 1925 through 1961. Follow the farm teams from the '30s, '40s,...
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1992
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Directed by Joel Schumacher, Dying Young was adapted from a novel by Marti Leimbach. When Victor Geddes (Campbell Scott)...
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1991
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A foster home-bound 9-year-old and his aging grandmother run from the authorities in this drama. ~ Rovi...
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1991
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In this inspiring drama, a plucky 14-year-old boy with muscular dystrophy is abandoned in a ramshackle nursing home where he...
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Nurse Cooder
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1990
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1990
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Maruschka Detmers stars as Hannah Senesh, a real-life Hungarian Jew who became a martyr to the cause of freedom during WW II....
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Katalin Senesh
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1988
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Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam was first telecast April 3, 1988, over the HBO cable service. Based on the book of...
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Narrator
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1987
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Adapted from the one-act play by Hugh Whitemore, Pack of Lies originally aired as a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation on...
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Barbara Jackson
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1987
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Something in Common is a made-for-television comedy about a middle-aged, widowed career woman (Ellen Burstyn) who discovers...
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Lynn Hollander
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1986
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Produced for the HBO Cable service, Act of Vengeance reenacts the 1969 murder of United Mine Workers leader Jock Yablonski....
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Margaret Yablonski
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1986
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In this docudrama, Ellen Burstyn stars as the mother of a Canadian teen who mysteriously vanishes while traveling to school...
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1985
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On the occasion of his 50th birthday, blue-collar family man Gene Hackman is possessed by our old friend, The Mid-Life...
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Kate MacKenzie
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1985
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Originally telecast in a three-hour network slot, Surviving is virtually two films in one. In the first 90 minutes, we see...
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Tina Brogan
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1985
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Robert Mitchum plays as U.S. ambassador to Israel whose efforts at reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians run afoul...
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Alex Hacker
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1984
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This compilation documentary covers the massive anti-nuclear peace march held in New York City on June 12, 1982, including...
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1984
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Although the Actors Studio and Lee Strasberg have been famous for many decades in the U.S., this documentary is the first...
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1981
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Based on a true story, this film follows the trials and tragedies that befall Walter Reamer (Tom Skerritt) and his wife,...
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Olive Fredrickson
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1981
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The videotaped TV movie The People vs. Jean Harris premiered May 7, 1981-five weeks after the outcome of Jean Harris' trial....
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1981
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Host
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1980
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Edna McCauley
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1980
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Brenda
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1978
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Based on Bernard Slade's Broadway play of the same name, this film is about George, a married New Jersey accountant (Alan...
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Doris
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1978
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The first English-language film from Alain Resnais, this drama about a spiteful, alcoholic novelist contains the French...
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Sonia
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1977
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1974
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In Paul Mazursky's rueful character drama, 57-year-old Art Carney plays Harry, a 70-plus Manhattan widower who loses his tiny...
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Shirley
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1974
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Martin Scorsese's first Hollywood studio production also marked his first (and only) foray into a woman-centered story. Alice...
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Alice Hyatt
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1974
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Novelist William Peter Blatty based his best-seller on the last known Catholic-sanctioned exorcism in the United States....
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Chris MacNeil
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1973
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Dreams die hard in wintry Atlantic City in Bob Rafelson's downbeat character drama. Depressive deejay David Staebler...
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Sally
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1972
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Produced by Hollywood iconoclast BBS Productions, film critic-turned-director Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 film pays homage to...
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Lois Farrow
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1971
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Gene Wilder and Bob Newhart star as husbands who have some explaining to do in this made-for-television comedy. Wilder stars...
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1971
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Made on the heels of Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, this cinematic experiment is one of the director's more...
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Beth
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1970
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Three years after cinematizing James Joyce's long-censored Ulysses, Joseph Strick mounted an adaptation of another racy...
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Mona
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1970
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This routine stockcar racing feature finds Grant Willard (Brian Donlevy) as the head of a racing team who desires to be first...
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1967
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Franny
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1964
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In this beach movie, a group of teenagers hang out at the Silver Palms everyday after school. Because things can get quite...
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1964
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Bounty hunters hired by an ex-con focus on the Wells Fargo agent who placed the ex-con in prison. ~ Rovi...
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1961
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