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A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story (1983) more movies like this

directed by Bob Clark
featuring Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Peter Billingsley, Ian Petrella, Scott Schwartz

Nine years after the Yuletide slasher flick Black Christmas, Porky's director Bob Clark once again took on the holiday genre, switching from gasps to laughs with A Christmas Story. Adapted from a memoir by humorist Jean Shepherd (who narrates), the film centers on Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley), a young boy living in 1940s Indiana, desperately ...

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) more movies like this

directed by Steven Spielberg
featuring Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey, Bob Balaban

Steven Spielberg followed Jaws (1975), his first major box-office success, with this epic science fiction adventure about a disparate group of people who attempt to contact alien intelligence. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is an electrical lineman who, while sent out on emergency repairs, witnesses an unidentified flying object, and even has a ...

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Harry and the Hendersons

Harry and the Hendersons (1987) more movies like this

directed by William Dear
featuring John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Margaret Langrick, Joshua Rudoy, Kevin Peter Hall

While vacationing in the Pacific Northwest, the Henderson clan's dad George (John Lithgow), mom Nancy (Melinda Dillon), daughter Sarah (Margaret Langrick) and son Ernie (Joshua Rudroy) accidently run over a strange animal with their car, and when they get out to see what it is, they find the seemingly dead body of a hairy Bigfoot-type monster ...

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Absence of Malice

Absence of Malice (1981) more movies like this

directed by Sydney Pollack
featuring Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Luther Adler, Wilford Brimley

In this legal drama from director Sydney Pollack, Sally Field stars as Megan, an ambitious newpaper reporter who, based on information from FBI investigator Rosen, played by Bob Balaban, writes a scathing article that implicates Gallagher, a reclusive business-owner played by Paul Newman, in the recent disappearance of a labor leader. When ...

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Sioux City

Sioux City (1994) more movies like this

directed by Jim Goldthwait, Lou Diamond Phillips
featuring Lou Diamond Phillips, Ralph Waite, Melinda Dillon, Salli Richardson, Adam Roarke

A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller. Because of his upbringing, Jesse Rainfeather Goldman knows almost nothing of Native American traditions. He is doing his internship when he suddenly receives an amulet from the Lakota reservation ...

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A Painted House

A Painted House (2003) more movies like this

directed by Alfonso Arau
featuring Logan Lerman, Scott Glenn, Robert Sean Leonard, Arija Bareikis, Melinda Dillon

Based on John Grisham's semi-autobiographical novel (which he regarded as his favorite because it "contains no lawyers"), A Painted House is set in the rural community of Oak Park, AR, in 1952. The story is told through the eyes of ten-year-old Luke Chandler (Logan Lerman), who lives and works on a rundown cotton farm with his parents (Robert Sean ...

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Bound for Glory

Bound for Glory (1976) more movies like this

directed by Hal Ashby
featuring David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne

Adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Hal Ashby's biopic portrays a few pivotal years in the life of the celebrated folk singer and social activist. In the Depression 1930s, Midwesterner Guthrie (David Carradine) plays music locally but cannot make enough as a sign painter to support his wife (Melinda Dillon) and children. ...

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Songwriter

Songwriter (1984) more movies like this

directed by Alan Rudolph
featuring Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Melinda Dillon, Rip Torn, Lesley Ann Warren

A good ol' boy comedy-drama, Songwriter flashes enough substance between the songs and the hijinks to qualify as a sometimes astute look into the darker areas of the music business. Willie Nelson plays Doc Jenkins, the title character, who conspires with longtime pal Blackie Buck (Kris Kristofferson) to turn the tables on a shady promoter, Rodeo ...

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F.I.S.T.

F.I.S.T. (1978) more movies like this

directed by Norman Jewison
featuring Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon, David Huffman

F.I.S.T. is author Norman Jewison's chronicle of an innocent and idealistic young man corrupted by power and success as seen through the rise of the United States labor movement. Sylvester Stallone plays a Jimmy Hoffa-inspired figure who rises through the union ranks during turbulent labor times. The film begins in 1937 during the burgeoning of ...

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Shattered Spirits

Shattered Spirits (1987) more movies like this

directed by Jack Greenwald, Robert Greenwald
featuring Martin Sheen, Melinda Dillon, Matthew Laborteaux

A father's descent into alcoholism is chronicled in this powerful made-for-TV drama. Much of the story centers on the devastating effects that his drinking has on his family. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Staying Together (1989) more movies like this

directed by Lee Grant
featuring Sean Astin, Stockard Channing, Melinda Dillon, Jim Haynie, Levon Helm

After winning an Academy Award for their documentary Down and Out in America (1986), actress-director Lee Grant and her producer-husband Joseph Feury filmed this comedy-drama based on an original script by playwright Monte Merrick. In a small Southern town, the McDermott family has owned and operated a popular chicken restaurant for years. Each of ...

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State of Emergency (1994) more movies like this

directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
featuring Joe Mantegna, Lynn Whitfield, Melinda Dillon

Set in a busy inner-city emergency room, this made-for-cable television drama follows the struggles of a world-weary surgeon who takes on the hospital administrators whose budget-cutting is affecting his ability to adequately care for his patients. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Adam & Steve (2006) more movies like this

directed by Craig Chester
featuring Julie Hagerty, Melinda Dillon, Paul Sand, Sally Kirkland, Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets, Parker Posey, Chris Kattan

A forgotten one-night-stand from the 1980s sets the stage for romance fifteen years removed in director Craig Chester's urban romantic comedy starring Parker Posey, Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets, and Chris Kattan. Despite the fact that neither Adam (Chester) nor Steve (Gets) recall the one-night-stand they shared fifteen years ago, the compatible ...

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Nightbreaker (1989) more movies like this

directed by Peter Markle
featuring Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Lea Thompson, Melinda Dillon, Joe Pantoliano

Father-and-son actors Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez star in the made-for-TV movie Nightbreaker. The film was first telecast March 9, 1989, two months after the debut of another TNT Cable Service "original", Finish Line. The earlier film also starred a father and son, James and Josh Brolin; but, whereas the Brolins were cast in parent-child roles ...

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