Roberta Wallach

Roberta Wallach

Born: August 2, 1955
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Roberta Wallach...

They Shot the Piano Player
Title: They Shot the Piano Player
Character: Jessica (voice)
Released: October 6, 2023
Type: Movie
New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Title: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Character: Tom Clancy Groupie
Released: October 19, 2018
Type: Movie
When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
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Emerald City
Title: Emerald City
Character: Miss Julia Luxman
Released: November 27, 2016
Type: Movie
Irish construction workers built New York City and had a grand time doing it. Each guy on the Emerald City crew is struggling with something: drinking, gambling, loss, the burden of a family legacy, and facing a city that doesn't need them anymore.
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Title: Vinyl
Character: Lydia
Released: February 14, 2016
Type: TV
In 1970s New York, jaded record exec Richie Finestra tries to resurrect his failing label and fractured personal life while keeping his finger on the pulse of the city's new sound.
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Last I Heard
Title: Last I Heard
Character: Angela LaRocca
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Released from federal prison after 20 years due to his ailing health, a formerly powerful New York mobster moves back home and attempts to reconnect with former life in this poignant Sopranos-esque character study.
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Rabbit Hole
Title: Rabbit Hole
Character: Rhonda
Released: December 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
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Boy Wonder
Title: Boy Wonder
Character: Erin
Released: August 11, 2010
Type: Movie
A young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet, straight-A student by day and a self-appointed hero at night. But what is a real hero? And who decides what is right or wrong? As the boundaries blur, Sean's dual life wears on his psyche and his two worlds careen dangerously close to colliding. Like a graphic novel you can't put down, Boy Wonder challenges morality, distorting perceptions of what is right and what is justified, as it races to its shocking conclusion.
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Men Without Jobs
Title: Men Without Jobs
Character: Dolores
Released: June 19, 2004
Type: Movie
Men Without Jobs is a comedy about Ish and Oz - best friends and roommates whose main goal in life is to avoid work at all costs. Ish is a graffiti artist who dreams of starting his own hip-hop band. Oz is an obnoxious loudmouth, addicted to gambling and cooking shows. When Ish collects several thousand dollars in a lawsuit settlement stemming from a childhood accident, Oz tries to convince him to invest the money in a pyramid scam in order to help him pay off a debt to a sadistic loan shark. The stakes are raised when Ish's girlfriend Veronica gives him an ultimatum to either get a job or get lost. Ultimately, the two eccentric slackers are forced to wake up and realize that sooner or later, everybody has to get a job! Written by Matthewz, Mad
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The Best Thief in the World
Title: The Best Thief in the World
Character: Granola Woman
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Izzy, the youngest son of a troubled New York family, takes a shine to breaking into people's apartments as a way to get attention.
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Title: The Sopranos
Character: Stella
Released: January 10, 1999
Type: TV
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.
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O. Henry's Christmas
Title: O. Henry's Christmas
Character: Johnsy ("The Last Leaf")
Released: June 3, 1996
Type: Movie
Three episodes based on O. Henry's texts. The first deals with the friendship between a painter and two young women. The second, a young man who receives an insignificant amount of his uncle, as an inheritance. The third concerns two people who make it all possible when they give themselves love as Christmas presents.
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Mistress
Title: Mistress
Character: Nancy
Released: July 24, 1992
Type: Movie
A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.
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Ted & Venus
Title: Ted & Venus
Character: District Attorney
Released: August 8, 1991
Type: Movie
Ted is a 1970s Venice Beach poet who spends his days drifting along the boardwalk, reciting his poetry to anyone who will listen. His life changes when a bikini-clad beauty named Linda strolls by him. Instantly, Ted believes he's found his "Venus" and becomes obsessed with Linda. He tries to woo her with poetry, obscene phone calls and romantic overtures, all to disastrous effect.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Defense Attorney Michele Selig
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: thirtysomething
Released: September 29, 1987
Type: TV
Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in the U.S. on September 29, 1987. It lasted four seasons, with the last of its 85 episodes airing on May 28, 1991. The title of the show was designed as thirtysomething by Kathie Broyles, who combined the words of the original title, Thirty Something. In 1997, "The Go Between" and "Samurai Ad Man" were ranked #22 on TV Guide′s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2002, Thirtysomething was ranked #19 on TV Guide′s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 TV Guide ranked it #10 in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time.
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Partisans of Vilna
Title: Partisans of Vilna
Character: Narrator
Released: September 12, 1986
Type: Movie
This extraordinary film tells the story of the men and women who formed the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania, during World War II. Using rare archival film footage dating from 1939 to 1944 and contemporary interviews with 40 partisan survivors (including Abba Kovner, a founder of the partisan movement and one of Israel's leading poets) the film explores the difficulties of organizing under the anarchic conditions of the ghetto.
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Seven Women, Seven Sins
Title: Seven Women, Seven Sins
Character: (segment "Greed")
Released: April 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amongst the world's most renown: Helke Sander (Gluttony), Bette Gordon (Greed), Maxi Cohen (Anger), Chantal Akerman (Sloth), Valie Export (Lust), Laurence Gavron (Envy), and Ulrike Ottinger (Pride). Each filmmaker had the liberty of choosing a sin to interpret as they wished. The final film reflected this diversity, including traditional narrative fiction, experimental video, a musical, a radical documentary, and was delivered in multiple formats from 16, super 16, video and 35mm.
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Charlotte Kandinsky
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Running Out
Title: Running Out
Character: Secretary
Released: January 26, 1983
Type: Movie
A young woman, unable to handle the stress of raising a family, runs out on her husband and young daughter. 12 years later, she returns in hopes of rekindling a bond with them.
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The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
Title: The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
Character: Princess Marguerite
Released: September 20, 1982
Type: Movie
The second Charles and Diana movie, with two virtual unknowns in the leads: Christopher Baines had acted on the British stage and on the BBC, but Catherine Oxenberg, a U.S.-born, British-raised professional model, here made her acting debut. Of particular interest was the casting of Dana Wynter as Queen Elizabeth, Stewart Granger as Prince Philip, Olivia de Havilland as the Queen Mother, and Ray Milland as a general factotum around the Palace.
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Family Reunion
Title: Family Reunion
Character: Jessica Winfield
Released: October 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher, who desperately tries to keep her family together. While she's traveling through the country and meeting her relatives, back in her hometown, a group of shopping mall developers are planning to take over her family land in order to begin their ambitious project. Now she needs to find ways to stop this construction in time before the town's annual festivities.
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The Hollywood Knights
Title: The Hollywood Knights
Character: Shirley Weintraub
Released: May 18, 1980
Type: Movie
Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high school love.
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The Other Side of Victory
Title: The Other Side of Victory
Character: Dolly Turner
Released: June 12, 1979
Type: Movie
This film dramatizes the problems facing ordinary American soldiers during the Revolutionary War, explaining why most ultimately chose to stay and fight.
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FM
Title: FM
Character: Shari Smith
Released: April 20, 1978
Type: Movie
When a liberal music station's owners decide to introduce army recruitment ads, despite the protests of its manager, the rebellious DJs are determined to fight back, no matter the cost.
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The Phantom of the Open Hearth
Title: The Phantom of the Open Hearth
Character: Wanda Hickey
Released: December 23, 1976
Type: Movie
This comedy/drama was written by Jean Shepherd, who appears at the beginning and the end and narrates it through voiceover. It tells the story of several events as they occur through the eyes of Ralph, a high-school-aged boy. Ralph is anticipating the upcoming prom and is working up the courage to invite Daphne Bigelow, a beautiful and popular student who does not seem aware of his existence.
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The Land of Hope
Title: The Land of Hope
Character: Devvie Barsky
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Chronicles the experiences of four immigrant families as they experience the Lower East Side of New York during the early twentieth century.
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Title: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Character: Ruth Hunsdorfer
Released: December 20, 1972
Type: Movie
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.