Africa is revisited by a real-life Hollywood couple in this made-for-television documentary. Hume Cronyn and wife...
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1996
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When an elderly woman dies, she decides to take possession of a stray dog's body so as to keep an eye on her widowed husband...
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1994
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Camilla Cara
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1994
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Paul Newman earned an Oscar nomination (and won citations from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Berlin International...
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Miss Beryl
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1994
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Todd Graff wrote the screenplay for this eccentric romantic comedy in the spirit of Moonstruck that exchanges pasta for matzo...
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Freida
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1992
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A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in...
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Ninny Threadgoode
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1991
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1991
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In this made-for-TV drama, Jessica Tandy plays Grace McQueen, an elderly woman who has grown bored and restless following the...
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Grace McQueen
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1991
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy affectionately covers the 25-year relationship...
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Miss Daisy Werthan
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1989
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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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Yes, there are commies under the bed. But are there Nazis there too? Emily Crane (Kelly McGillis) is a modestly successful...
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Miss Venable
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1988
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Cocoon 2: The Return, like most sequels, relies a bit too heavily on one's familiarity with the first film. Without dwelling...
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1988
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Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy are among the impoverished residents of a slum tenement threatened with demolition by evil land...
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Faye Riley
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1987
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Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, stars of the Broadway drama Foxfire, recreate their stage roles in this TV-movie adaptation....
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Annie
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1987
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Cocoon is a warm-hearted science-fiction fable that avoids becoming overly corny thanks to the performances of its mostly...
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Alma Finley
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1985
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Film clips and interviews with actors and colleagues provide the material for this laudatory view of the career of Alfred...
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1985
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Miss Birdseye
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1984
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D.L. Coburn's1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Gin Game was originally directed by Mike Nichols. This taped TV version was...
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1984
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In Still of the Night, a mystery thriller written and directed by Robert Benton, a psychiatrist falls in love with a woman...
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Grace Rice
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1982
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We'd rather not speculate over how much of Best Friends is autobiographical. We'll just note that this story of a male-female...
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Eleanor McCullen
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1982
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The 1982 film version of the John Irving novel The World According to Garp attempts to captures the quirky spirit while...
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1982
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In this involved send-up of two American icons -- the automobile and the tourist trap -- the tiny Florida town of Ticlaw...
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1981
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The American Film Theatre has made movies of a number of significant theatrical performances, including Laurence Olivier's...
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Edna Shaft
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1974
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Even while on the lam from the Feds, brash bank robber Larry Kulhane (Gerald O'Loughlin) masterminds another major heist....
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1972
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The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch...
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Lydia Brenner
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1963
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The "official" title of this film is Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man; its screenplay is adapted from...
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1962
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After several years' separation from her husband, Laura Bowley (Jessica Tandy) leaves London and heads for a reunion with Mr....
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1958
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Those who learned to dislike Conrad Richter's novel The Light in the Forest when it was required reading in high school will...
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Myra Butler
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1958
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Season three of Alfred Hitchcock Presents gets under way with one of the series' best and most celebrated episodes -- and one...
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1957
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1956
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This 1956 presentation of the TV anthology The Alcoa Hour represented a new collaboration between writer Ernest Kinoy and the...
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1956
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The title character in this grim charade is a sickly little baby, whom middle-aged Edwina Freed (Jessica Tandy) insists is...
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1956
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This live Goodyear TV Playhouse presentation was a 60-minute extension of The Marriage, a short-lived TV series which starred...
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1955
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Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954 through 1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color 90 minute...
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The Wife
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1955
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The Desert Fox is a superb filmed biography of German general Erwin Rommel, concentrating on the period between his retreat...
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Frau Rommel
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1951
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With location scenes lensed in Italy, September Affair is consistently good to look at, even when the pacing flags and the...
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Catherine Lawrence
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1950
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A Woman's Vengeance concerns a "likely" murderer, Henry Maurier, played by Charles Boyer. It is no secret that Maurier is...
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Janet Spence
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1947
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They said it couldn't be done, but they did it: Kathleen Winsor's "notorious", bestselling bodice-ripper Forever Amber...
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Nan Britton
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1947
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1946
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Years before he became the leading star in horror movies, Vincent Price starred in this gothic thriller based on the...
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1946
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Based on Marcia Davenport's novel and set in 1870, Valley of Decision details the romance between a housemaid named Mary...
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1945
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Fred Zinnemann directed this World War II drama, considered one of the best anti-Nazi dramas produced by Hollywood during the...
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Liesel Roeder
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1944
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In this mystery, a nephew is accused of murdering his aunt who had just refused to loan him some money. Unfortunately, he is...
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1938
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Director Cecil Lewis adapted Indiscretions of Eve from his own short story. During a New Year's Eve celebration, handsome...
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1932
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