Ruth Maleczech

Ruth Maleczech

Born: January 8, 1939
Died: September 30, 2013
in East Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Movies for Ruth Maleczech...

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Title: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Character: Homeless Caroline
Released: October 3, 2008
Type: Movie
Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus begins an odd night filled with ups and downs as the two keep running into Tris and her new boyfriend while searching for Norah's drunken friend, Caroline, with help from Nick's band mates. As the night winds down, the two have to figure out what they want from each other.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Inez
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Mondo Plympton
Title: Mondo Plympton
Released: March 28, 1997
Type: Movie
A compilation of animator Bill Plympton's classic shorts, including "Your Face", "How to Kiss", "One of Those Days", "25 Ways to Quit Smoking", "Plymptoons", "Nosehair" and "How to Make Love to a Woman". In between, an animated version of Bill answers questions about his life and career.
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The Crucible
Title: The Crucible
Character: Goody Osborne
Released: November 27, 1996
Type: Movie
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
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Sleepers
Title: Sleepers
Character: Woman at Subway Station
Released: October 18, 1996
Type: Movie
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
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Angela
Title: Angela
Character: Sleepwalker
Released: January 26, 1996
Type: Movie
A ten year old girl named Angela leads her six year old sister, Ellie, through various regimens of 'purification' in an attempt to rid themselves of their evil, which she believes to be the cause of their mother's mental illness. Precocious, to say the least, Angela has visions of Lucifer coming to take her and her sister away, and one of her remedies for this is for them to remain within a circle of their dolls and toys until they see a vision of the virgin Mary come to them. But such thinking can only lead to an ending befitting of her own mental state.
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Statuary
Title: Statuary
Character: The Statuary Keeper
Released: February 2, 1995
Type: Movie
With deadpan comedy and rich black and white imagery, STATUARY parallels the stories of a reclusive statuary yard keeper (played by the late great theatre artist Ruth Maleczech) and a college grad looking for meaningful paying work.
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Title: ER
Character: Marita Novotny
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Me and Veronica
Title: Me and Veronica
Character: Person on Ferry
Released: September 24, 1993
Type: Movie
Two sisters share a disturbing family secret.
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The Dutch Master
Title: The Dutch Master
Character: Dutch Housekeeper
Released: September 1, 1993
Type: Movie
The Walter Mitty-esque tale of a Brooklyn dental hygienist who escapes into a painting by 17th-century Dutch master Peter de Hooc. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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The Ballad of Little Jo
Title: The Ballad of Little Jo
Character: Shopkeeper
Released: August 20, 1993
Type: Movie
After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.
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XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint
Title: XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint
Released: June 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A Polish immigrant go-go dancer dreams of Hollywood. A man living in his car dreams of redemption. They meet. A comical, at times brutal look at the American dream.
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In the Soup
Title: In the Soup
Character: Mrs. Rollo
Released: October 23, 1992
Type: Movie
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
Title: The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
Character: Cathy’s Mother
Released: December 4, 1991
Type: Movie
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Old Woman
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
Character: Android Sister (voice)
Released: June 1, 1989
Type: TV
Animator Bill Plympton first received widespread public attention when his outré "Your Face" (1987) was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short. This collection of short films—some as brief as 15 seconds—made between 1985 and 1991, showcase his unique talent much more effectively than his ponderous feature films. But in off-the-wall shorts like "Your Face", "25 Ways to Quit Smoking", and the 15-second shorts made for MTV, he emerges as an entertaining and highly original filmmaker.
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Volcano Saga
Title: Volcano Saga
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman whose dreams foretell the future.
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Anna
Title: Anna
Character: Woman #1 / Woman Named Gloria
Released: November 28, 1987
Type: Movie
Czech refugee Krystyna travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna. After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna finds that celebrity often doesn't travel well, and she must go through a battery of humiliating auditions to try and get work in her adopted land. But when Krystyna and Anna finally meet, they provide a support structure for each other.
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Dead End Kids
Title: Dead End Kids
Released: January 15, 1986
Type: Movie
The 1986 film version of the theatrical production "Dead End Kids" by the NYC avant-garde theatre group The Mabou Mines.
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Boomtown
Title: Boomtown
Character: The Android Sisters (voice)
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
The Android Sisters sing about the alarming increase in U.S. defense spending during the cold war and its effect on various aspects of the domestic economy.
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C.H.U.D.
Title: C.H.U.D.
Character: Mrs. Monroe
Released: August 31, 1984
Type: Movie
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photojournalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
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Far from Poland
Title: Far from Poland
Character: Anna Walentynowicz
Released: March 10, 1984
Type: Movie
FAR FROM POLAND is probably the first American non-fiction film (Godmilow calls it a "drama-tary") to explode cinema verite's mythic claim to be the only trustworthy mode of representation for discussing the real world, and in particular, social and political issues, on film. Refused a visa to travel to Poland, "Jillski" (her Polish nickname in the film) has to literally re-invent the documentary to deal with the Polish situation and she does so with a particular eye to deconstructing not only documentary's specific claims to objectivity, but also the bourgeois audience's desire to sit comfortably in their seats, feel compassion, feel themselves part of the solution (not part of the problem) by having felt compassion for the poor oppressed Poles, who, Godmilow would argue, are far more acutely aware of their situation and what forces oppress them than the liberal American folk in the movie house.
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Strong Medicine
Title: Strong Medicine
Character: Eleanor
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday party, goes to see a doctor, plans a vacation, argues a lot and even breaks the fourth wall.
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Conversation
Title: Conversation
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Multiple overlapping images combine with still-frames of an amorous Puerto Rican filmmaker's telephone conversation with a repairman, coincidentally also interested in film. Written by Lee Breuer and performed by Ruth Maleczeck, both of Mabou Mines theatre company. Music by Bob Telson.