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Gia
(1998)
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directed by
Michael Cristofer
featuring
Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Faye Dunaway, Mercedes Ruehl, Kylie Travis
Novelist Jay McInerney and playwright Michael Cristofer (who also made his feature film directorial debut) collaborated on the script for this bio of doomed supermodel Gia Carangi. In a star-making performance, Angelina Jolie stars as Gia, a gorgeous Philadelphia native who arrives in New York City to become a model and immediately makes an ...
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The Warriors
(1979)
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directed by
Walter Hill
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Michael Beck, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly, Thomas G. Waites, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Dorsey Wright, Mercedes Ruehl
Walter Hill's hip, super-stylized action film unfurls in a dystopian near-future, when various gangs control New York City. Each gang sports a unique moniker ('The Men in Blue,' 'The Baseball Furies,' 'The Rogues'), with a costume underscoring its "theme"; each, in turn, is also responsible for one geographic borough. Hill sets up the landscape as ...
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The Fisher King
(1991)
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directed by
Terry Gilliam
featuring
Adam Bryant, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Lombardi, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer, Michael Jeter
Terry Gilliam directed this adaptation of Richard LaGravenese's mystical (and mythical) tale of redemption in the hard-time town of New York City. Jeff Bridges is shock radio DJ Jack Lucas, whose low opinion of humanity lends itself well to his radio talk show, where the enmity rubs off on his listeners. One fan in particular takes Jack's rants to ...
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84 Charing Cross Road
(1987)
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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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Subway Stories
(1997)
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directed by
Abel Ferrara, Alison Maclean, Bob Balaban, Craig McKay, Jonathan Demme, Julie Dash, Lucas Platt, Patricia Benoit, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Ted Demme
featuring
Rosie Perez, Mercedes Ruehl, Lili Taylor
Subways provide the common setting for this modern anthology comprised of distinct vignettes made by ten of Hollywood's top directors and featuring some of Tinseltown's most popular actors. The episodes are based on real stories submitted by scores of subway regulars. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Last Action Hero
(1993)
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directed by
John McTiernan
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O'Brien, F. Murray Abraham, Anthony Quinn, Art Carney, Frank McRae, Charles Dance, Mercedes Ruehl
Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as a pumped-up Shakespearian hero while an announcer bellows, "Something is rotten in Denmark -- and Hamlet is taking out the trash!" This gag sets the stage for the post-modernist action epic The Last Action Hero. The film concerns Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien), a lonely eleven-year-old boy who escapes from his ...
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What's Cooking?
(2000)
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directed by
Gurinder Chadha
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Alfre Woodard, Dennis Haysbert, Ann Weldon, Mercedes Ruehl, Victor Rivers, Kyra Sedgwick, Julianna Margulies, Joan Chen, Kristy Wu, Will Yun Lee
Kenyan-born, London-educated Indian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha follows up on her debut hit Bhaji on the Beach (1994) with this gentle look at multiculturalism in Los Angeles. The film details the lives of four ethnically diverse families -- black, Latino, Jewish, and Asian -- during one frantic Thanksgiving. The film opens with Ronald (Dennis ...
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Lost in Yonkers
(1993)
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directed by
Martha Coolidge
featuring
Richard Dreyfuss, Mercedes Ruehl, Irene Worth, Brad Stoll, Mike Damus, David Strathairn
An adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, semi-autobiographical stage play by popular dramatist Neil Simon, this comedy-drama focuses on the difficulties faced by two young brothers forced to live with a group of eccentric relatives. Arty (Mike Damus) and Jay (Brad Stoll) are young teenagers when their their widower father heads South to seek ...
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Crazy People
(1990)
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directed by
Tony Bill
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Dudley Moore, Daryl Hannah, Paul Reiser, Mercedes Ruehl, J.T. Walsh
Dudley Moore stars as Emory Lesson, an advertising genius whose finds himself committed to an insane asylum in Tony Bill's Crazy People. Emory becomes tired with creating phony ad campaigns and decides to create his own campaigns that tell the brutal truth. Since sex sells, Emory designs an explicit ad campaign consisting of unadorned sexuality. ...
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Married to the Mob
(1988)
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directed by
Jonathan Demme
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Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin
Michelle Pfeiffer is Married to the Mob in this comedy. The wife of Mafia hitman Alec Baldwin, Pfeiffer regularly chastizes her husband for his underhanded line of work. Baldwin refuses to entertain any thoughts of quitting the mob-and besides, he's got a good thing going with Nancy Travis, the promiscuous girl friend of gang boss Dean Stockwell. ...
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The Minus Man
(1999)
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directed by
Hampton Fancher
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Owen Wilson, Brian Cox, Mercedes Ruehl, Janeane Garofalo, Dwight Yoakam
Notable as the directorial debut of Blade Runner co-scripter Hampton Fancher, this darkly comic thriller stars affable Owen Wilson as Vann Siegert, a different brand of serial killer: one who actually believes he's doing his deeply depressed victims a service of mercy. Wandering up the West Coast, Vann chooses victims from a parade of colorful ...
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For Roseanna
(1997)
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directed by
Paul Weiland
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Jean Reno, Mercedes Ruehl, Polly Walker, Mark Frankel, Giuseppe Cederna, Trevor Peacock
A man trying to honor the last wish of his beloved wife has to keep an entire city alive in this bittersweet romantic comedy. Marcello (Jean Reno) is the owner of a restaurant in a small village in Italy. His wife Roseanna (Mercedes Ruehl) has received some awful news: she has learned that her weak heart has gotten worse, and she has only a few ...
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Widows
(2002)
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directed by
Geoffrey Sax
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Mercedes Ruehl, Rosie Perez, Brooke Shields, N'Bushe Wright, Jay O. Sanders
Adapted by Lynda LaPlante from her own 1983 British miniseries of the same name, the ABC four-parter Widows was set in motion by a bungled art heist, in which three thieves (and a possible fourth) were betrayed and killed. Rather than grieve over their fallen husbands, the three widows of the thieves -- Dolly (Mercedes Ruehl), Linda (Rosie Perez), ...
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Another You
(1991)
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directed by
Maurice Phillips
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Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Mercedes Ruehl, Stephen Lang
When con man Eddie Dash (Richard Pryor) is released from prison he's told to fulfill the required 100 hours of community service as the bodyguard/escort of a recently released mental patient (Gene Wilder). It's not too long before Wilder figures out a way to make a little dough at the expense of his impaired charge. Together they manage to get ...
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Indictment: the McMartin Trial
(1995)
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directed by
Mick Jackson
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James Woods, Mercedes Ruehl, Sada Thompson, Henry Thomas, Lolita Davidovich
Originally broadcast on HBO, Indictment: The McMartin Trial is a docudrama concerning the infamous McMartin child abuse case. In 1984, seven employees of Los Angeles' prestigious McMartin Preschool, including four members of the McMartin family, were arrested and charged with child abuse and sexual molestation. The film centers on the story of ...
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Spooky House
(2002)
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directed by
William Sachs
featuring
Ben Kingsley, Mercedes Ruehl, Matt Weinberg, Jason Fuchs, Ronald Joshua Scott
An old man and a young boy teach one another some lessons about magic and friendship in this adventure-comedy for all ages. Max (Matt Weinberg) is a fourth grader who has been having a tough time lately; his parents have died, and he's become the target of bullies at school. One night, not long before Halloween, Max and some friend at school are ...
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Lost Child
(2000)
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directed by
Karen Arthur
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Mercedes Ruehl, Jamey Sheridan, Irene Bedard, Dinah Manoff, Tantoo Cardinal
This Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation was based on a true story, as set down in the book Looking for Lost Bird by Yvette Melanson and Claire Safran. The heroine, a thirty-something woman named Rebecca, is an adoptee raised by a Jewish family. Though the fact that she was adopted was never in doubt, Rebecca (or "Becks," as she is known to her ...
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Running With the Hitman
(2004)
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directed by
Melanie Mayron
featuring
Judd Hirsch, Gil Bellows, Danny Aiello, Mercedes Ruehl, Reagan Pasternak
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Guilt by Association
(2002)
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directed by
Graeme Campbell
featuring
Elisa Moolecherry, Karen Glave, Mercedes Ruehl, Alex Carter, Alberta Watson
Based on a true story, the made-for-cable Guilt by Association was the first "original" movie to be presented by the Court TV network. Mercedes Ruehl stars as Susan Walker, a widowed nurse with two kids and a disreputable boyfriend named Russell (Alex Carter). Unbeknownst to Susan, Russell has been dealing drugs for quite some time, and when the ...
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The Amati Girls
(2001)
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directed by
Anne de Salvo
featuring
Mercedes Ruehl, Paul Sorvino, Cloris Leachman, Sean Young, Dinah Manoff
This family drama by actress and first-time director Anne DeSalvo centers around four adult sisters who are forced to re-evaluate their situations after tragedy strikes. The oldest of the clan, Grace (Mercedes Ruehl), is called upon to be the tower of strength, even though she is widely perceived to be a replica of their mother Dolly (Cloris ...
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Out of the Cold
(1999)
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directed by
Sasha Buravsky
featuring
Keith Carradine, Mia Kirshner, Brian Dennehy, Judd Hirsch, Mercedes Ruehl
In this period drama laced with music and romance, Keith Carradine plays Dan "Magic Legs" Scott, a tap dancer who has enjoyed great success on the vaudeville circuit and the Broadway stage. However, Scott's tremendous ego, coupled with his compulsive skirt-chasing and bottomless thirst for alcohol, cripple his career, and by the late 1930s, he's ...
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Leader of the Band
(1987)
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directed by
Nessa Hyams
featuring
Steve Landesberg, Gailard Sartain, Mercedes Ruehl, Jimmy Martinez, Calvert Deforest
An out-of-work musician (Steve Landesberg) agrees to coach a talentless high-school marching band in this comedy from Nessa Hyams. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
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North Shore Fish
(1997)
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directed by
Steve Zuckerman
featuring
Tony Danza, Mercedes Ruehl, Peter Riegert, Wendie Malick, Carroll Baker
For most of its existence, a tightly-knit Massachusetts community has earned its living and gained its identity from the fish industry. Indeed, the North Shore frozen fish company is the town's primary source of income. Sal Matilla (Tony Danza) is the plant foreman. With the help of his lifelong girlfriend Florence (Mercedes Ruehl) and best buddy ...
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