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The Miracle Worker

The Miracle Worker (1962) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Penn
featuring Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine

Based on William Gibson's Broadway play and retaining its acclaimed cast, Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker tells the true story of Helen Keller (Patty Duke), an Alabama girl struck blind and deaf as a baby after an elevated fever. Enter Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), a partially-blind woman assigned the task of teaching Helen sign language. After ...

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The Graduate

The Graduate (1967) more movies like this

directed by Mike Nichols
featuring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Elizabeth Wilson, Murray Hamilton

"Just one word: plastic." "Are you here for an affair?" These lines and others became cultural touchstones, as 1960s youth rebellion seeped into the California upper middle-class in Mike Nichols' landmark hit. Mentally adrift the summer after graduating from college, suburbanite Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) would rather float in his parents' ...

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84 Charing Cross Road

84 Charing Cross Road (1987) more movies like this

directed by David Jones
featuring Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Jean de Baer, Maurice Denham, Mercedes Ruehl

Helene Hanff's book 84 Charing Cross Road had previously been a TV program and a stage play before it was converted into this 1986 film. The scene is New York, 1949: Anne Bancroft plays a struggling writer and passionate bibliophile, who answers an advertisement from a rare-volumes bookshop at 84 Charing Cross Road in London. Thus begins a two ...

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Jesus of Nazareth

Jesus of Nazareth (1977) more movies like this

directed by Franco Zeffirelli
featuring Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Peter Ustinov, Christopher Plummer, Anne Bancroft, James Mason, Ian McShane, Laurence Olivier, Rod Steiger

Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a religious icon, his expensive made-for-TV miniseries Jesus of Nazareth fell victim to protestors long before its April 3, 1977, debut. Despite the pullout of several sponsors, Jesus of Nazareth was aired as scheduled, sweeping ...

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How to Make an American Quilt

How to Make an American Quilt (1995) more movies like this

directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse
featuring Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Maya Angelou, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Jean Simmons

A young woman at a crossroads in her life finds herself receiving plenty of advice from her older and wiser counterparts in this drama. Finn Dodd (Winona Ryder) is a graduate student trying to finish up her doctoral thesis on women's folk art while deciding if she should marry her fiancé Sam (Dermot Mulroney); she's not sure if she's ready to ...

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Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays (1995) more movies like this

directed by Jodie Foster
featuring Holly Hunter, Robert Downey, Jr., Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Geraldine Chaplin

It's been said that while most people love their families, they don't always like them very much, and that emotional dividing line is the heart of this comedy directed by Jodie Foster. Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) usually approaches family reunions with a certain trepidation, but as she prepares to fly from her home in Chicago to her parent's ...

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G.I. Jane

G.I. Jane (1997) more movies like this

directed by Ridley Scott
featuring Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe, Scott Wilson

Ridley Scott directed this flawed but involving study of Lt. Jordan O'Neil (Demi Moore), a Navy topographic analyst who is chosen as a test case for the presence of women in combat. Aware that she is making history and knowing that 60% of all male trainees will fail the rigorous training, Lt. O'Neil struggles to prove herself physically and ...

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Keeping the Faith

Keeping the Faith (2000) more movies like this

directed by Edward Norton
featuring Edward Norton, Ben Stiller, Jenna Elfman, Anne Bancroft, Eli Wallach

Actor Edward Norton debuts as a director with this comedy-drama about love, friendship, and faith. Priest Brian Finn (Norton) and rabbi Jacob Schram (Ben Stiller) have known each other since childhood. When Anna Reilly (Jenna Elfman), whom they both knew as children, returns to New York, both men find themselves infatuated with her, sparking both ...

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Torch Song Trilogy

Torch Song Trilogy (1988) more movies like this

directed by Paul Bogart
featuring Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, Brian Kerwin, Karen Young

Harvey Fierstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit was adapted for the screen by Fierstein himself. The playwright also repeats his stage role of female impersonator Arnold Beckoff, aka nightclub entertainer "Virginia Hamm." The three-part plotline, whittled down to accommodate the film's 117-minute running time, concerns Arnold's seriocomic ...

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations (1998) more movies like this

directed by Alfonso Cuarón
featuring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft, Robert De Niro

Alfonso Cuaron (The Little Princess) directed this Mitch Glazer screenplay, a modernization of the 1860-61 classic by Charles Dickens. Some situations in the film are presented as memories -- the way the central figure, Finnegan Bell (Ethan Hawke) recalls events many years later. At a Florida fishing village, eight-year-old orphan Finn Bell ...

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The Turning Point (1977) more movies like this

directed by Herbert Ross
featuring Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt

One of a cycle of '70s post-Women's Liberation "women's pictures," Herbert Ross's drama uses the ballet world to examine the conflict between family and career. Former dance colleagues Deedee (Shirley MacLaine) and Emma (Anne Bancroft) are reunited when Emma's New York ballet company stops in Oklahoma City for a performance. Having dropped her ...

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Fatso (1980) more movies like this

directed by Anne Bancroft
featuring Dom DeLuise, Anne Bancroft, Ron Carey, Candice Azzara, Michael Lombard

In this dark and sometimes sad comedy, Dominick -- an extremely obese man -- is pushed by his sister Antoinette to shed a few pounds lest he end up dead like his cousin. To do so, she helps him enroll in the fanatical weight-loss group, the Chubby Checkers, who will do anything to keep fellow members from over-eating. Another incentive for ...

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Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) more movies like this

directed by Delmer Daves
featuring Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Anne Bancroft

Demetrius and the Gladiators was the sequel to The Robe, and though they were released several months apart, the films were shot at the same time. Based on characters originally conceived by Lloyd C. Douglas, the film stars Victor Mature as the title character, an ex-slave who embraced Christianity after being present at the Crucifixion. Thrown in ...

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The Elephant Man (1980) more movies like this

directed by David Lynch
featuring Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller

John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as "The Elephant Man". Treated as a sideshow freak, Merrick is assumed to be retarded as well as misshapen because of his inability to speak coherently. In fact, he is highly intelligent and sensitive, a fact made public when one Dr. Frederick Treves (Anthony ...

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Don't Bother to Knock (1952) more movies like this

directed by Roy Ward Baker
featuring Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran, Jeanne Cagney

Sex symbol Marilyn Monroe went dramatic in 1952's Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe plays Nell Forbes, a beautiful but suicidal young woman, recently released from a mental institution. She doesn't mention this on her resumé when she takes a baby-sitting job in a posh hotel. Jed Towers (Richard Widmark), a hotel guest, tries to make time with Nell ...

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Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) more movies like this

directed by Andrew Bergman
featuring James Caan, Nicolas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Anne Bancroft, Johnny Williams

After making a deathbed promise to his mother that he would never marry, Jack Singer (Nicolas Cage) finds that resolve challenged when his girlfriend, Betsy (Sarah Jessica Parker), begins making noise about wanting to start a family. Worried he might lose her, Jack makes the rash decision that they should fly to Las Vegas that weekend to tie the ...

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To Be or Not to Be (1983) more movies like this

directed by Alan Johnson
featuring Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Tim Matheson, José Ferrer

Mel Brooks and his real-life wife Anne Bancroft play Frederick and Anna Bronski, musical comedy stars in 1939 Poland. The highlight of the Bronskis' act is Frederick's imitation of Adolf Hitler, but he is forced to eliminate this turn for fear of offending the Nazis. Meanwhile, Anna enters into a harmless flirtation with Polish bomber pilot Andre ...

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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003) more movies like this

directed by Robert Allan Ackerman
featuring Helen Mirren, Olivier Martinez, Anne Bancroft, Brian Dennehy, Roger Allam

Tennessee Williams' 1958 novella The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone was first filmed in 1961, with Vivien Leigh as the middle-aged title character and Warren Beatty as the callow gigolo with whom she falls in love. Since the "shocking" aspects of a May-December romance in which the woman is December have lost their punch over the years, it is perhaps ...

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Point of No Return (1993) more movies like this

directed by John Badham
featuring Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney, Miguel Ferrer, Anne Bancroft

Director John Badham's remake of French action thriller La Femme Nikita moves the action to the U.S., where Maggie (Bridget Fonda) is a strung-out Washington, D.C. drug addict who kills a policeman in a pharmaceutical-induced haze. Sentenced to death, Maggie is rescued by a shady operative, Bob (Gabriel Byrne), who offers to save her life if she ...

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Agnes of God (1985) more movies like this

directed by Norman Jewison
featuring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly, Anne Pitoniak, Winston Rekert

Agnes of God is an "opened up" adaptation of the minimalist stage play by John Pielmeier. Meg Tilly plays a young nun who secretly gives birth to a baby; the child's body is later found strangled to death. Court-appointed psychiatrist Jane Fonda is sent to the convent to investigate, a task made difficult by the weathervane behavior of mother ...

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Up at the Villa (2000) more movies like this

directed by Philip Haas
featuring Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft, James Fox, Jeremy Davies

A woman left alone by the death of her husband finds her love life has become suddenly and dangerously complicated in this drama. Mary Panton (Kristin Scott Thomas) is a British woman living in Italy in 1938 who has been financially ruined by the death of her husband. Edgar (James Fox), an aging diplomat, asks Mary for her hand in marriage, and ...

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Mr. Jones (1993) more movies like this

directed by Mike Figgis
featuring Richard Gere, Lena Olin, Anne Bancroft, Tom Irwin, Delroy Lindo, Bruce Altman

The title character, a manic depressive prone to very irrational behavior (Richard Gere), is hospitalized for treatment. While there, the psychiatrist responsible for his rehabilitation (Lena Olin) becomes involved with him and cannot stand to allow his check-out. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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Lipstick (1976) more movies like this

directed by Lamont Johnson
featuring Margaux Hemingway, Chris Sarandon, Perry King, Anne Bancroft, Robin Gammell

Lipstick is a cheap exploitation film pretending to make a social statement about rape and revenge. Chris (Margaux Hemingway), a fashion model is raped by Gordon Stuart (Chris Sarandon) her sister's music teacher. When he tries to rape her sister Kathy (Mariel Hemingway), Chris kills him. She is tried for the crime and defended by Carla Bondi ...

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The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1974) more movies like this

directed by Melvin Frank
featuring Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson, Florence Stanley

A lesser but still entertaining Neil Simon work, The Prisoner of Second Avenue was adapted to film in 1974. Jack Lemmon takes over the role played on Broadway by Peter Falk: Mel is a New York-based advertising man who goes through hell when he loses his job. The gods seem to conspire against him as he tries to cope with his unemployed status; he ...

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Broadway Bound (1992) more movies like this

directed by Paul Bogart
featuring Corey Parker, Jonathan Silverman, Anne Bancroft, Michele Lee, Hume Cronyn

The 1986 stage hit Broadway Bound is the third entry in playwright Neil Simon's "autobiography trilogy". Unlike the cinemadaptations of Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound was filmed for television, where it debuted March 23, 1992. Brighton Beach Memoirs star Jonathan Silverman returns as Neil Simon's alter ego Eugene Jerome, ...

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