Jane Adams

Jane Adams

Born: April 1, 1965
in Washington, D.C., USA
Jane Adams is an American actress. She made her Broadway debut in the original production of I Hate Hamlet in 1991, and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 1994 revival of An Inspector Calls. Her film roles include Happiness (1998), Wonder Boys (2000), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), and Little Children (2006). She also had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom Frasier (1999–2000), and was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for the HBO series Hung (2009–11).

Movies for Jane Adams...

Title: The Idol
Character: Nikki
Released: June 4, 2023
Type: TV
After a nervous breakdown derailed Jocelyn's last tour, she’s determined to claim her rightful status as the greatest and sexiest pop star in America. Her passions are reignited by Tedros, a nightclub impresario with a sordid past. Will her romantic awakening take her to glorious new heights or the deepest and darkest depths of her soul?
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Year of the Fox
Title: Year of the Fox
Character: Paulene
Released: May 13, 2023
Type: Movie
A 17-year-old Ivy, who was adopted as an infant into a wealthy and notable Aspen family, is navigating the fallout of her parents’ bitter divorce.
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Sick
Title: Sick
Character: Pamela
Released: September 11, 2022
Type: Movie
While quarantining at her family's lake house during the pandemic, Parker and her best friend are threatened by an unexpected visitor.
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Dog
Title: Dog
Character: Tamara
Released: February 17, 2022
Type: Movie
An army ranger and his dog embark on a road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway to attend a friend's funeral.
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Title: Hacks
Character: Nina
Released: May 13, 2021
Type: TV
Explore a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.
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Build the Wall
Title: Build the Wall
Character: Sarah
Released: August 27, 2020
Type: Movie
Kent is turning 50. He's not thrilled about it. His plans for a fun weekend with Sarah are upended when his friend Kev unexpectedly arrives to build him a wall.
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She Dies Tomorrow
Title: She Dies Tomorrow
Character: Jane
Released: July 31, 2020
Type: Movie
Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.
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Title: Messiah
Character: Miriam Keneally
Released: January 1, 2020
Type: TV
A wary CIA officer investigates a charismatic man who sparks a spiritual movement and stirs political unrest. Who exactly is he? And what does he want?
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Intervene
Title: Intervene
Character: Gwendolyn
Released: April 25, 2018
Type: Movie
INTERVENE is a surreal, hypnogogic parable about an unstable young man whose family feeds his madness by staging religious visions.
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Brigsby Bear
Title: Brigsby Bear
Character: April Mitchum
Released: July 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.
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Always Shine
Title: Always Shine
Character: Summer
Released: November 25, 2016
Type: Movie
On a trip to Big Sur, two friends, both actresses, try to reconnect with one another. Once alone, the women's suppressed jealousies and deep-seated resentments begin to rise, causing them to lose their grasp on not only the true nature of their relationship, but also their identities.
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Title: Easy
Character: Annabelle Jones
Released: September 22, 2016
Type: TV
This eclectic, star-studded anthology follows diverse Chicagoans fumbling through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture. First dates, friends with benefits, couples with kids. Whatever your relationship status is, it's always complicated.
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Digging for Fire
Title: Digging for Fire
Character: Woman on Beach
Released: August 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn't want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.
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Title: Sneaky Pete
Character: Maggie Murphy
Released: August 7, 2015
Type: TV
A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he’s never had.
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Poltergeist
Title: Poltergeist
Character: Dr. Claire Powell
Released: May 20, 2015
Type: Movie
A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.
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All the Light in the Sky
Title: All the Light in the Sky
Character: Marie
Released: December 20, 2013
Type: Movie
An insomniac actress is facing the waning days of her career, when her niece pays a visit to her Malibu house.
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Stray Bullets
Title: Stray Bullets
Released: February 1, 2012
Type: Movie
A short film by Joe Swanberg included on the DVD of Silver Bullets. "footage from the first month of shooting a film that became Silver Bullets "several of the actors from Silver Bullets are playing different characters here "i hope this provides a window into my improvisatory process "this footage is not sound mixed or color corrected the dialogue is difficult to hear at times" — Joe Swanberg
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The Lie
Title: The Lie
Character: Dr. Bentel
Released: November 18, 2011
Type: Movie
A man's life is altered unexpectedly after telling a lie to get out of work.
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Silver Bullets
Title: Silver Bullets
Character: June
Released: October 28, 2011
Type: Movie
An actress and her filmmaker boyfriend experience turbulence in their relationship when she accepts a role in a werewolf film.
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Restless
Title: Restless
Character: Mabel Tell
Released: September 16, 2011
Type: Movie
Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.
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Calvin Marshall
Title: Calvin Marshall
Character: June Marshall
Released: October 23, 2009
Type: Movie
A college student is determined to become a Major League Baseball star, but finds his true calling instead.
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Title: Hung
Character: Tanya Skagle
Released: June 28, 2009
Type: TV
Desperate times call for desperate measures and Ray Drecker's situation couldn't be much tougher. The former high school sports legend turned middle-aged high school basketball coach is divorced and struggling to provide for his kids when his already run-down house catches fire. Looking to take on a second job, Ray decides to exploit his best asset in a last-ditch attempt to change his fortunes.
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Alexander the Last
Title: Alexander the Last
Character: Director
Released: March 14, 2009
Type: Movie
An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
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The Wackness
Title: The Wackness
Character: Eleanor
Released: July 3, 2008
Type: Movie
Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, who just happens to be the doctor's daughter. This is a coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, music and what it takes to be a man.
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Lifelines
Title: Lifelines
Character: Nancy Bernstein
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Mom Nancy, a schoolteacher, is unable to handle the constant barrage of hostility from her three children. Husband Ira is ineffectual in helping his wife with her anxiety. Older son Mikey is barely able to express himself. Middle child Meghan flouts whatever restrictions her parents place on her, and youngest child Spencer, needs to be handcuffed to the car just to participate in family outings.
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The Brave One
Title: The Brave One
Character: Nicole
Released: September 12, 2007
Type: Movie
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
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Little Children
Title: Little Children
Character: Sheila
Released: October 6, 2006
Type: Movie
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
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The Sensation of Sight
Title: The Sensation of Sight
Character: Alice
Released: August 1, 2006
Type: Movie
An English teacher sells encyclopedias while searching for the meaning of life.
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Last Holiday
Title: Last Holiday
Character: Rochelle
Released: January 13, 2006
Type: Movie
The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life. With weeks to live, she withdraws her life savings, sells all her possessions and jets off to Europe where she lives it up at a posh hotel. Upbeat and passionate, Georgia charms everybody she meets, including renowned Chef Didier. The only one missing from her new life is her longtime crush Sean Matthews.
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Stone Cold
Title: Stone Cold
Character: Brianna Lincoln
Released: February 20, 2005
Type: Movie
Jesse Stone is a former L.A. homicide detective who left behind the big city and an ex-wife to become the police chief of the quiet New England fishing town of Paradise. Stone's old habits die hard as he continues to indulge his two favorite things: Scotch whiskey and women. After a series of murders—the first ever in Paradise—and a high school girl is raped, he's forced to face his own demons in order to solve the crimes.
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Title: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Character: White-Faced Women
Released: December 16, 2004
Type: Movie
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
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Title: House
Character: Bonnie
Released: November 16, 2004
Type: TV
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Title: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Character: Carrie Eakin
Released: March 19, 2004
Type: Movie
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
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Title: Carnivàle
Character: Mother of Dead Baby (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 2003
Type: TV
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.
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Searching for Debra Winger
Title: Searching for Debra Winger
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.
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Orange County
Title: Orange County
Character: Mona
Released: January 11, 2002
Type: Movie
Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another, starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong form.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Sylvia Campbell
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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Title: Citizen Baines
Released: September 29, 2001
Type: TV
Citizen Baines is an American drama series that starred James Cromwell. The series premiered September 29, 2001 on CBS and was created by Emmy Award-winning producer Lydia Woodward.
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Title: Night Visions
Character: Amanda
Released: July 12, 2001
Type: TV
Horror anthology series, with each episode comprising two half-hour stories dealing with themes of the supernatural or simply the dark side of human nature.
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The Anniversary Party
Title: The Anniversary Party
Character: Clair Forsyth
Released: June 9, 2001
Type: Movie
While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash and the British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors in a party. Under the effect of Ecstasy, revelations are disclosed and relationships deteriorate among the group.
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Songcatcher
Title: Songcatcher
Character: Eleanor 'Elna' Penleric
Released: March 1, 2001
Type: Movie
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Belinda Goff
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
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Wonder Boys
Title: Wonder Boys
Character: Oola
Released: February 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.
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From Where I Sit
Title: From Where I Sit
Character: Ruth
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Mumford
Title: Mumford
Character: Dr. Phyllis Sheeler
Released: September 24, 1999
Type: Movie
As a relative newcomer to an Oregon town that bears his name, Dr. Mumford seems charming and skillful to his neighbors and patients. His unique, frank approach to psychotherapy soon attracts patients away from the two therapists already working in the area. Soon he is treating a variety of conditions, ranging from the obsession of one man with erotic novels to an unhappily married woman and her compulsive shopping. Mumford befriends a billionaire computer mogul and a cafe waitress and attempts to play matchmaker. He also begins to fall for a patient who suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome. Together with an attorney (Martin Short) whom Mumford had rejected as a patient because of his narcissism, the rival therapists conspire to find skeletons in Mumford's closet, hoping to destroy his reputation. Meanwhile, Mumford's inherent likability causes his life to become intertwined with much of the rest of the town.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Joanne Parsons
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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A Fish in the Bathtub
Title: A Fish in the Bathtub
Character: Ruthie
Released: March 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.
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Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Title: Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Screenwriter Curtis Siodmak took very little from earlier werewolf legends, providing his own story for some of the films. This documentary displays clips from several other movies, including "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "House of Dracula" (1945).
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A Texas Funeral
Title: A Texas Funeral
Character: Mary Joan
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
It's 1968 and the Whit clan are reuniting for the burial of Grandpa Sparta (Martin Sheen). But Sparta still has some secrets to reveal to his family and wisdom to impart to his grandson, in this whimsical comedy from the writer of The Bourne Identity.
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You've Got Mail
Title: You've Got Mail
Character: Sydney Anne (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1998
Type: Movie
Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
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Happiness
Title: Happiness
Character: Joy Jordan
Released: October 11, 1998
Type: Movie
The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.
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Day at the Beach
Title: Day at the Beach
Character: Marie
Released: May 29, 1998
Type: Movie
An easygoing, darkly funny film about three friends frunning afoul of the mob, a young woman's escape from her overbearing father, the triumph of young love, and how the consequences of an unfortunate accident can be redeemed by an act of grace.
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Music from Another Room
Title: Music from Another Room
Character: Irene Swan
Released: April 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.
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Title: Liberty!
Character: Sara Scott
Released: November 23, 1997
Type: TV
Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation.
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Title: Relativity
Character: Karen Lukens
Released: September 24, 1996
Type: TV
Relativity follows a twenty-something couple and the lives and loves of their friends and siblings in Los Angeles.
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Kansas City
Title: Kansas City
Character: Nettie Bolt
Released: August 16, 1996
Type: Movie
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.
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Father of the Bride Part II
Title: Father of the Bride Part II
Character: Dr. Megan Eisenberg
Released: December 8, 1995
Type: Movie
Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife is expecting too. He was planning on selling their home, but that's a plan that—like George—will have to change with the arrival of both a grandchild and a kid of his own.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Mona Bailey
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Title: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Character: Ruth Hale
Released: September 7, 1994
Type: Movie
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
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I Love Trouble
Title: I Love Trouble
Character: Evans
Released: June 29, 1994
Type: Movie
Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy.
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Title: Frasier
Character: Mel Karnofsky
Released: September 16, 1993
Type: TV
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
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Light Sleeper
Title: Light Sleeper
Character: Randi Jost
Released: August 21, 1992
Type: Movie
John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even thought he’s trying to move on from the business. John’s professional midlife crisis becomes something more acute — and dangerous — when he re-encounters an old flame while a string of seemingly drug-related murders rocks the city.
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Title: Lifestories: Families in Crisis
Released: August 1, 1992
Type: TV
Lifestories: Families in Crisis is an American drama television series that premiered on HBO on August 1, 1992.
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Rising Son
Title: Rising Son
Character: Meg Bradley
Released: July 23, 1990
Type: Movie
A factory foreman with 36 years experience becomes despondent after being laid off by his company which has just been taken over by a Japanese conglomerate and is unable to find any other work. Meanwhile, his son uses his father's unemployment as an excuse to drop out of the pre-med program his father pressured him to enter.
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Vital Signs
Title: Vital Signs
Character: Suzanne Maloney
Released: April 13, 1990
Type: Movie
As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide what they intend to specialize in. Somehow, they must impress the Chief of Surgery while learning how to survive the life-and-death area of medicine and the complexity of their everyday lives.
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Title: Twin Peaks
Character: Constance Talbot
Released: April 8, 1990
Type: TV
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
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Taking A Stand
Title: Taking A Stand
Character: Elly Robinson
Released: January 19, 1989
Type: Movie
After school special
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Bombs Away
Title: Bombs Away
Character: Greeting Girl
Released: June 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A cab driver becomes involved in a chase for a misplaced atomic bomb.
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Title: Tales from the Darkside
Character: Charlotte Rose Cantrell
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.
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Title: Family Ties
Character: Andrea
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: TV
Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
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Title: Family Ties
Character: Marty Brodie
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: TV
Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.