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Hope Floats

Hope Floats (1998) more movies like this

directed by Forest Whitaker
featuring Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick, Jr., Gena Rowlands, Mae Whitman, Michael Paré

Actor/director Forest Whitaker (Waiting to Exhale) helmed this romantic drama about a one-time high-school beauty queen who returns to her hometown of Smithville, TX. The Steven Rogers screenplay begins in Chicago, where blonde Connie (Rosanna Arquette, uncredited) appears on a trashy daytime talk show and tells a nationwide TV audience about her ...

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The Notebook

The Notebook (2004) more movies like this

directed by Nick Cassavetes
featuring Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, James Marsden

Directed by Nick Cassavetes, this adaptation of author Nicholas Sparks' bestselling novel revolves around Noah Calhoun's (James Garner) regular visits to a female patron (Gena Rowlands) of an area nursing home. Rather than bore her with the inanities of everyday life, Calhoun reads from an old, faded notebook containing the sweeping account of a ...

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Something to Talk About

Something to Talk About (1995) more movies like this

directed by Lasse Hallström
featuring Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick

The feminist outrage of Thelma & Louise (1991) screenwriter Callie Khouri blended superbly with director Lasse Hallstrom's predilection for stories about idiosyncratic families in this effective comedy-drama. Julia Roberts stars as Grace King Bichon, a prim small-town wife who is incensed when she learns that her husband Eddie Bichon (Dennis Quaid ...

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Paulie

Paulie (1998) more movies like this

directed by John Roberts
featuring Gena Rowlands, Jay Mohr, Tia Texada, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Bruce Davison

In the Babe tradition of talking animatronic animals, this comedy adventure gets underway when animal-research-lab janitor Misha (Tony Shalhoub) expresses concern for a Blue-crown Conure parrot named Paulie (voice of Jay Mohr) caged in a dank basement. Misha settles back as Paulie tells his life story, seen in flashback: When Paulie was owned by ...

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Taking Lives

Taking Lives (2004) more movies like this

directed by D.J. Caruso
featuring Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Tchéky Karyo, Olivier Martinez, Gena Rowlands

A female detective on the trail of a psychotic killer discovers love in a dangerous time in this thriller, based on the novel by Michael Pye. Illeana Scott (Angelina Jolie) is a special agent with the FBI who has a reputation for using offbeat methods, but also boasts a strong record as a criminal profiler. Scott is called in by a former Quantico ...

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Playing by Heart

Playing by Heart (1998) more movies like this

directed by Willard Carroll
featuring Anthony Edwards, Dennis Quaid, Ellen Burstyn, Gena Rowlands, Jay Mohr, Jon Stewart, Ryan Phillippe, Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, Angelina Jolie, Madeleine Stowe

Sophomore writer/director Willard Carroll weaves together an all-star cast in interlocking stories about finding love in Los Angeles. The film's theme is spoken by young club-hopper Joan (Angelina Jolie). Taken by the mysterious Keenan (Ryan Phillippe), she tells him that "talking about love" is like "dancing about architecture" (the original ...

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The Mighty

The Mighty (1998) more movies like this

directed by Peter Chelsom
featuring Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Kieran Culkin, Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton

In the tradition of My Left Foot (1989), Peter Chelsom directed this emotional drama of outcasts, adapted from the Rodman Philbrick's popular young-adult novel Freak the Mighty. Although burly, slow-paced eight-grader Maxwell Kane (Elden Hensen), who narrates, is learning disabled, he nevertheless has a poetic soul, as evidenced when he meets the ...

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Night on Earth

Night on Earth (1992) more movies like this

directed by Jim Jarmusch
featuring Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Roberto Benigni, Béatrice Dalle, Lisanne Falk

Jim Jarmusch's deadpan comedy-of-the-night is a collection of five vignettes taking place in the enclosed space of a cab ride, each occurring simultaneously in five different cities and five different time zones -- Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki. The Los Angeles episode takes place at dusk, as high-powered casting agent ...

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Another Woman

Another Woman (1988) more movies like this

directed by Woody Allen
featuring Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm, Blythe Danner, Gene Hackman

Grad-school administrative head Marion Post (Gena Rowlands) is in the midst of writing a book. The walls are thin in the apartment she's taken for work purposes, and soon Marion begins listening to the sessions conducted by her neighbor, an analyst. One of the patients is Hope (Mia Farrow), whose marriage is in tatters. As Hope prattles on, Marion ...

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Once Around

Once Around (1991) more movies like this

directed by Lasse Hallström
featuring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Danny Aiello, Laura San Giacomo, Gena Rowlands

Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom made his American movie debut with this romantic comedy, starring Holly Hunter as Renata Bella, an aimless Bostonian thirtysomething who attends a seminar for aspiring condo salespersons. Here she meets hotshot salesman Sam Sharpe (Richard Dreyfuss), who immediately falls in love with her. After the marriage, Sam's ...

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Broken English (2007) more movies like this

directed by Zoe Cassavetes
featuring Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud, Drea de Matteo, Gena Rowlands, Justin Theroux

A single thirtysomething whose friends all seem to be romantically involved, happily married, or with child meets an eccentric Frenchman who shows her just what an amazing place the world can truly be in director Zoe Cassavetes' entry into the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. As if it wasn't depressing enough to be 35 and still single, Nora (Parker ...

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Tempest (1982) more movies like this

directed by Paul Mazursky
featuring John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Vittorio Gassman, Raul Julia

This comedy is set upon a remote Greek island and is very loosely based on Shakespeare's classic play. The tale centers on a middle-aged New York architect who abandons his wife and moves to the island with his teen-age daughter and his new lover, a Greek singer, in hopes of finding meaning in his life. The only resident of the island is an old ...

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The Skeleton Key (2005) more movies like this

directed by Iain Softley
featuring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Peter Sarsgaard, John Hurt, Joy Bryant

A young woman discovers a terrible secret while caring for an elderly man in this supernatural thriller. Caroline (Kate Hudson) is a care provider for the aged who is hired away from the hospice where she works by Violet Devereaux (Gena Rowlands). Violet needs someone to help take care of her husband, Ben (John Hurt), who is in poor health and ...

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The Brink's Job (1978) more movies like this

directed by William Friedkin
featuring Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Warren Oates, Gena Rowlands

In 1950, a Brink's armored truck in Boston was robbed by a highly organized gang decked out in Halloween masks. The Brink's Job is an occasionally humorous account of that "perfect crime." Peter Falk stars as the mastermind behind the robbery, who assembles a bunch of two-bit hoods who in any other circumstance would be written off as born losers. ...

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Gloria (1980) more movies like this

directed by John Cassavetes
featuring Gena Rowlands, John Adames, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen, Lupe Garnica

Gloria (Gena Rowlands), a self-involved woman in her forties who was once a mobster's mistress, is asked to look after Philip (Juan Adames), the son of her Mafia-connected Puerto Rican neighbors. This temporary set-up becomes permanent when the neighbors are killed in a mob hit. Philip has in his possession a diary containing a record of illegal ...

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Charms for the Easy Life (2002) more movies like this

directed by Joan Micklin Silver
featuring Gena Rowlands, Mimi Rogers, Susan May Pratt, Geordie Johnson, Kenneth Mitchell

Charlie Kate Birch (Gena Rowlands) is a peculiarly powerful Southern matriarch, an anachronism in the early 20th century. She's a self-educated woman who makes a good living as a midwife and holistic healer. One day, she saves a black man who's been lynched, and he thanks her by giving her a rabbit's foot, which supposedly "brings an easy life" to ...

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A Woman Under the Influence (1974) more movies like this

directed by John Cassavetes
featuring Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Matthew Cassel, Matthew Laborteaux, Christina Grisanti

John Cassavetes' harrowing masterpiece charts the emotional meltdown of a suburban housewife and its effects on her blue-collar Italian family. Gena Rowlands stars as Mabel Longhetti, a mother of three whose husband Nick (Peter Falk) works as a construction worker; a mismatched couple like so many others in Cassavetes films, the Longhettis seem to ...

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Hysterical Blindness (2002) more movies like this

directed by Mira Nair
featuring Uma Thurman, Gena Rowlands, Juliette Lewis, Justin Chambers, Ben Gazzara

Two aging single women in 1980s New Jersey enact a depressing routine of deluded barroom romance in this made-for-cable drama. At least 15 years after her father walked out on her, Debby (Uma Thurman) still has issues with men. She spends her evenings carousing with best friend, Beth (Juliette Lewis), and her hung-over days working customer ...

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Unhook the Stars (1996) more movies like this

directed by Nick Cassavetes
featuring Tom Proctor, Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, Gérard Depardieu, Jake Lloyd, Moira Kelly

The great overlooked actress Gena Rowlands was cast in the starring role of Mildred in this film directed by her son, Nick Cassavetes. Rowlands appeared in several of John Cassavetes's remarkable films, notably A Woman Under the Influence. Mildred is a wealthy widow who lives with her daughter Ann Mary Margaret (Moira Kelly), who is constantly ...

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An Early Frost (1985) more movies like this

directed by John Erman
featuring Aidan Quinn, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney, John Glover

Originally telecast November 11, 1985, An Early Frost was the first TV movie to deal with the subject of AIDS. Aidan Quinn plays a personable young gay lawyer who is stricken with the HIV virus. As his health deteriorates, Quinn finds that his physical agony is secondary to his mental anguish. Ben Gazzara and Gena Rowlands play Quinn's parents, ...

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Wild Iris (2001) more movies like this

directed by Daniel Petrie
featuring Gena Rowlands, Laura Linney, Emile Hirsch, Fred Ward, Lee Tergesen

A woman tries to make sense of her relationship with her mother -- who also happens to be her boss and landlady -- in this dramatic comedy. Iris (Laura Linney) has never had an especially warm relationship with her mother Min (Gena Rowlands), but after her husband committed suicide, Iris was emotionally shattered and had nowhere to go, so Min ...

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The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (2003) more movies like this

directed by Paul Johansson
featuring Gena Rowlands, Kevin Zegers, Brenda James, Justin Chatwin, Heather Wahlquist

Paul Johansson's The Incredible Mrs. Richie stars Gena Rowlands as the title character. The film stars Kevin Zegers as Charlie Proud, a young man on the path to juvenile delinquency. Having had enough of Charlie's troublemaking, school principal Mr. Dewitt issues the boy an ultimatum. Charlie must begin working for Mrs. Richie or be expelled from ...

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Tony Rome (1967) more movies like this

directed by Gordon M. Douglas
featuring Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Richard Conte, Gena Rowlands, Simon Oakland

Frank Sinatra brings a sneering Rat Pack ethos to his first hard-boiled detective role in Tony Rome. Tony is an ex-cop who lives on a houseboat off Miami, accepting fees for private-eye work. His former partner, Ralph Turpin (Robert J. Wilke), asks Tony for help in locating Diana Pines (Sue Lyon), the daughter of rich construction magnate Rudolph ...

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Faces (1968) more movies like this

directed by John Cassavetes
featuring John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel

Faces is right: this definitive John Cassavetes film consists almost exclusively of tight, uncomfortable close-ups. It takes place in the fourteenth year of the marriage of Richard (John Marley) and Maria (Lynn Carlin). Neither husband nor wife is content with the conditions that prevail; Maria joins her friends looking for romantic satisfaction ...

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Opening Night (1977) more movies like this

directed by John Cassavetes
featuring Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart

John Cassavetes' Opening Night stars Gena Rowlands (Mrs. Cassavetes) as end-of-tether Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon. She is about to open in a play written by her old friend Sarah Goode (Joan Blondell), but a series of pre-show setbacks and disasters threaten to destroy not only the production but Myrtle's sanity. The actress is especially ...

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