Molly Ringwald

Molly Ringwald

Born: February 18, 1968
in Roseville, California, USA
Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. She was cast in her first major role as Molly in the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life (1979–80) after a casting director saw her playing an orphan in a stage production of the musical Annie. She and several other members of the original Facts of Life cast were let go when the show was reworked by the network. She subsequently made her motion-picture debut as Miranda in the independent film Tempest (1982), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year.

Ringwald is known for her collaborations with filmmaker John Hughes. She established herself as a teen icon after appearing in the successful Hughes films Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986). She later starred in The Pick-up Artist (1987), Fresh Horses (1988), and For Keeps (1988). She starred in many films in the 1990s, most notably Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992), The Stand (1994), and Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1994 short film – precursor to Sling Blade).

Ringwald was part of the "Brat Pack" and she was ranked number one on VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars. Since 2017, Ringwald has portrayed Mary Andrews on The CW television series Riverdale.

Movies for Molly Ringwald...

Catherine & Michael
Title: Catherine & Michael
Character: Naomi
Released: September 27, 2023
Type: Movie
An unhappily married couple visits their do-everything-right friends for a supposedly fun weekend upstate. But when their fragile relationship crumbles, they discover an unusual method for reigniting the spark.
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Bad Things
Title: Bad Things
Character: Miss Auerbach
Released: June 9, 2023
Type: Movie
A weekend getaway for a few friends at a snowy hotel becomes a psychological tailspin and bloody nightmare.
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Pursued
Title: Pursued
Character: Carol
Released: March 25, 2023
Type: Movie
After the death of her father a young woman starts to investigate her mother’s new boyfriend, but she makes a mistake and connects with a serial killer with the same name.
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Judy Blume Forever
Title: Judy Blume Forever
Character: Self
Released: January 21, 2023
Type: Movie
The radical honesty of the books by young adult fiction pioneer Judy Blume changed the way millions of readers understood themselves, their sexuality, and what it meant to grow up, but also led to critical battles against book banning and censorship.
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Title: Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Character: Self - Shari Dahmer
Released: September 21, 2022
Type: TV
This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.
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Title: Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Character: Shari Dahmer
Released: September 21, 2022
Type: TV
This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.
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Title: The Bear
Character: Moderator
Released: June 23, 2022
Type: TV
Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.
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A Brief History of Us
Title: A Brief History of Us
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: May 31, 2022
Type: Movie
When you are in a long-term relationship, you sometimes feel you are no longer an individual but a part of a super-organism. Between your daily routine, the decisions you make, the music you hear and the air you breathe – it’s hard to tell the difference between "my" choices and "our" choices. The vulnerable and moving voiceover of actress Molly Ringwald tells the story of a couple who have gone through such a long journey together that they can no longer determine where one ends and the other begins.
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Title: Single Drunk Female
Character: Alice
Released: January 20, 2022
Type: TV
A public flame-out at a New York media company forces 20-something alcoholic Samantha Fink to seize the only chance she has to sober up and avoid jail time: moving back home with her overbearing mother, Carol. Back in Greater Boston, Samantha restarts her life, working at the local grocery store while surrounded by all of the triggers that made her drink in the first place.
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The Kissing Booth 3
Title: The Kissing Booth 3
Character: Mrs. Flynn
Released: August 11, 2021
Type: Movie
It’s the summer before Elle heads to college, and she has a secret decision to make. Elle has been accepted into Harvard, where boyfriend Noah is matriculating, and also Berkeley, where her BFF Lee is headed and has to decide if she should stay or not.
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Title: HouseBroken
Character: Milly (voice)
Released: May 31, 2021
Type: TV
A dog named Honey leads a group of neighborhood animals in group therapy sessions.
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The Kissing Booth 2
Title: The Kissing Booth 2
Character: Mrs. Flynn
Released: July 24, 2020
Type: Movie
With college decisions looming, Elle juggles her long-distance romance with Noah, changing relationship with bestie Lee and feelings for a new classmate.
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Title: Creepshow
Character: Mrs. Porter (segment "Sibling Rivalry")
Released: September 26, 2019
Type: TV
A young boy's horror comic book comes to life in this anthology series of terrifying tales.
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Title: Tales of the City
Character: Claire's Mother
Released: June 7, 2019
Type: TV
Mary Ann returns to present-day San Francisco and is reunited with her daughter and ex-husband, twenty years after leaving them behind to pursue her career. Fleeing the midlife crisis that her picture-perfect Connecticut life created, Mary Ann is quickly drawn back into the orbit of Anna Madrigal, her chosen family and a new generation of queer young residents living at 28 Barbary Lane.
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All These Small Moments
Title: All These Small Moments
Character: Carla Sheffield
Released: January 17, 2019
Type: Movie
A teenage boy's infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus further complicates his already tumultuous adolescence.
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Siberia
Title: Siberia
Character: Gabby
Released: July 13, 2018
Type: Movie
Lucas, a diamond trader who travels to Saint Petersburg to arrange a sale, discovers that his Russian business partner has left his hotel and gone to a small Siberian village, so Lucas also heads there to try find him.
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Always at The Carlyle
Title: Always at The Carlyle
Character: Self
Released: May 11, 2018
Type: Movie
The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorkers.
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The Kissing Booth
Title: The Kissing Booth
Character: Mrs. Flynn
Released: May 11, 2018
Type: Movie
When teenager Elle's first kiss leads to a forbidden romance with the hottest boy in high school, she risks her relationship with her best friend.
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Title: Drop the Mic
Character: Self
Released: October 24, 2017
Type: TV
Based on a popular segment on "The Late Late Show With James Corden" and emceed by rapper-actor Method Man and model Hailey Baldwin, "Drop the Mic" invites celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, music, sports, and pop culture to compete in rap battles. Episodes feature four players in head-to-head battles, creating moments packed with lyrical creativity and "Did you hear that?" moments. Studio audience votes determine the mic-dropping winner of each battle.
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SPF-18
Title: SPF-18
Character: Linda Sanders
Released: September 29, 2017
Type: Movie
18-year-old Penny Cooper spent years pining for Johnny Sanders Jr., but when a mysterious musician shows up on the beach, Penny is torn.
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Title: FEUD
Character: Joanne Carson
Released: March 5, 2017
Type: TV
Anthology series of famous feuds with the first season based on the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford which began early on their careers, climaxed on the set of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and evolved into an Oscar vendetta.
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Title: Riverdale
Character: Mary Andrews
Released: January 26, 2017
Type: TV
Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.
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King Cobra
Title: King Cobra
Character: Amy
Released: October 21, 2016
Type: Movie
It's 2006, YouTube is in its infancy, and internet porn is still behind a paywall. Taking the stage name Brent Corrigan, a fresh-faced, wannabe adult video performer is molded into a star by Stephen, a closeted gay porn mogul who runs the skin flick empire Cobra Video from his seemingly ordinary suburban home. But as Brent's rise and demands for more money put him at odds with his boss, he also attracts the attention of a rival producer and his unstable lover who will stop at nothing to squash Cobra Video and steal its number one star.
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Title: Raising Expectations
Character: Paige Wayney
Released: May 5, 2016
Type: TV
Paige and her husband Wayne have worked hard at raising their five children. They succeeded four times! With Emmett around, every day without a visit from rescue workers in hazmat suits is a win!
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Jem and the Holograms
Title: Jem and the Holograms
Character: Aunt Bailey
Released: October 22, 2015
Type: Movie
As a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a one-in-a-million journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden. Four aspiring musicians will take the world by storm when they see that the key to creating your own destiny lies in finding your own voice.
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Bad Night
Title: Bad Night
Character: The Collector
Released: July 21, 2015
Type: Movie
When Kate and Abby are mistaken for famous art thieves, their fun night out quickly goes from good to bad.
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Title: Odd Mom Out
Character: Joy Greene
Released: June 8, 2015
Type: TV
Acclaimed author Jill Kargman plays a version of herself as she navigates the treacherous and elite ecosystem of New York's Upper East Side, and the uber-wealthy mommy clique inhabiting this fantastically outrageous domain.
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Wishin' and Hopin'
Title: Wishin' and Hopin'
Character: Madame Frechette
Released: November 23, 2014
Type: Movie
Felix Funicello is a Catholic school fifth-grader in 1964, whose claim to fame is his cousin Annette Funicello, the famous Mouseketeer and teen movie queen. But grammar and arithmetic move to the back burner this holiday season with the sudden arrivals of substitute teacher Madame Frechette and feisty Russian student Zhenya Kabakova. While Felix learns the meaning of French kissing, cultural misunderstanding, and tableaux vivants, Wishin' and Hopin' barrels toward one outrageous Christmas!
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Me
Title: Me
Character: Pepper Folly
Released: November 21, 2014
Type: Movie
A down and out actress secretly sells a reality show about her friend, a delusional eccentric, a once famous creator of reality shows, who now believes that his entire life is being filmed by hidden cameras and that he is the star of his very own reality show.
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Title: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Character: Self - Actress
Released: October 6, 2014
Type: Movie
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
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Title: Late Night with Seth Meyers
Character: Self
Released: February 25, 2014
Type: TV
Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as host of NBC’s "Late Night" — home to A-list celebrity guests, memorable comedy and the best in musical talent. As the Emmy Award-winning head writer for "SNL," Meyers has established a reputation for sharp wit and perfectly timed comedy, and has gained fame for his spot-on jokes and satire. Meyers takes his departure from "SNL" to his new post at "Late Night," as Jimmy Fallon moves to "The Tonight Show".
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Character: Self
Released: February 17, 2014
Type: TV
After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program was brought back to New York.
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Title: Doc McStuffins
Character: Darla (voice)
Released: March 23, 2012
Type: TV
A young African-American girl aspires to be a doctor like her mom.
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More Business of Being Born
Title: More Business of Being Born
Character: Self [Part 3]
Released: November 8, 2011
Type: Movie
Executive Producer Ricki Lake and Filmmaker Abby Epstein follow their landmark documentary,'The Business of Being Born', with an all-new, four part DVD series that continues their provocative and entertaining exploration of the modern maternity care system. Exploration of the maternity care system, including birthing options and celebrity birth stories.
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Title: Who Do You Think You Are?
Character: Self
Released: March 5, 2010
Type: TV
From roots in the Deep South to the slums of New Jersey, "Who Do You Think You Are?" follows the journeys of some of the most well-known names in American popular culture. Watch as celebrities discover unknown details about themselves and their families while researching their ancestry with the help of historians and genealogical experts.
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Title: Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Character: Self - Guest
Released: July 16, 2009
Type: TV
Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.
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Title: The Secret Life of the American Teenager
Character: Anne Juergens
Released: July 1, 2008
Type: TV
Amy and her friends at Grant High learn to define themselves while they navigate the perilous waters of contemporary adolescence. Between their love triangles, secrets, drama, accusations, gossip, confusion, and scandalous rumors, there's never a dull moment.
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Life After Tomorrow
Title: Life After Tomorrow
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 24, 2006
Type: Movie
Women who have played orphans in "Annie" are brought together in this documentary.
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Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front
Title: Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front
Character: Mrs. Helen McIntire
Released: November 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Molly is a girl living in the year 1944 and WWII has brought many changes to Molly's life. An English girl comes to live with Molly's family to escape the bombings. They slowly become good friends.
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Title: The Megan Mullally Show
Released: September 18, 2006
Type: TV
The Megan Mullally Show is an American talk show hosted by Megan Mullally that debuted in syndication on September 18, 2006, and was cancelled in January 2007 due to its low ratings. Early promotions for the program featured Mullally as herself and as her Will & Grace character, Karen Walker. The talk show also aired nationally on TBS and was distributed by NBC Universal Television Distribution. Promotional television advertisements featured Mullally standing in front of the title-card attempting to correct the voice-over announcer who throughout the commercial mispronounces her name as "Minnie Minnie Moo Moo" and "Monkey McMonkey" among other names. The first episode featured actor Will Ferrell and Jenny McCarthy.
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Title: Rachael Ray
Released: September 18, 2006
Type: TV
Rachael Ray, also known as The Rachael Ray Show, is an American talk show starring Rachael Ray that debuted in syndication in the United States and Canada on September 18, 2006. It is filmed at Chelsea Television Studios in New York City. The show's 8th season premiered on September 9, 2013, and became the last Harpo show in syndication to switch to HD with a revamped studio. In January 2012, CBS Television Distribution announced a two-year renewal for the show, taking it through the 2013–14 season.
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The Wives He Forgot
Title: The Wives He Forgot
Character: Charlotte Saint John
Released: September 10, 2006
Type: Movie
When a man, beaten and bloody, stumbles into the law office of Charlotte, she discovers that he has amnesia. She takes him in as a guest, hoping that his memory will recover once his wounds heal, and the two fall in love. But everything changes when his wife comes to get him. When another woman comes forward claiming to be Jay's wife as well, he's put on trial for bigamy and Charlotte has to defend him.
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Title: Psych
Character: McElroy
Released: July 7, 2006
Type: TV
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.
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Title: Medium
Character: Kathleen Walsh
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.
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Title: The Tony Danza Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 13, 2004
Type: TV
The Tony Danza Show was a daytime variety talk show that premiered on September 13, 2004 in syndication and was distributed by Buena Vista Television.
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Title: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Character: Actress
Released: May 24, 2003
Type: Movie
The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world - 92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
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The Big Time
Title: The Big Time
Character: Marion Powers
Released: October 20, 2002
Type: Movie
In 1948 Manhattan, a diverse group of people are committed to making the fledgling Empire Network a success. Among them: a naive young woman who's hired as a script girl; an idealistic programmer; and an aspiring director who hopes to make Empire "the network that takes risks and makes new stars." Then there's Empire's president, an eccentric scientist whose bride raises eyebrows at the network.
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Cowboy Up
Title: Cowboy Up
Character: Connie
Released: September 3, 2002
Type: Movie
"Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the world of professional bull riding, newcomer Ely Braxton (Marcus Thomas) is the craziest guy around; his brother Hank (Kiefer Sutherland) is a rodeo clown, and the two use each other to play up their acts. But love may be one thing that tears the brothers apart. When Ely falls for the rodeo's sweetheart (Daryl Hannah), Hank is filled with jealousy and hatred. The brothers try to come to grips with their differences, but the competition gets as fierce as the bulls in the ring.
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Not Another Teen Movie
Title: Not Another Teen Movie
Character: Flight Attendant
Released: December 7, 2001
Type: Movie
On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.
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Title: The $treet
Character: Devyn Alden
Released: November 1, 2000
Type: TV
The $treet is an American television drama series about a small brokerage house called Belmont Stevens located in New York and the lives of its employees. Freddie Sacker was one of the most notable characters played by Rick Hoffman.
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In the Weeds
Title: In the Weeds
Character: Chloe
Released: June 11, 2000
Type: Movie
It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the restaurant staff. Adam, a hopeful playwright, suffers for his art while dealing with a very indecisive (ex-?)girlfriend. Marlon is a cocky young actor, certain that his big break is just around the corner. When the restaurant's obnoxious owner, Simon, brings a special client in for dinner, pressures mount until an explosion seems inevitable.
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The Giving Tree
Title: The Giving Tree
Character: Penelope
Released: March 7, 2000
Type: Movie
Nine former schoolmates, staying at a secluded mountain cabin for a reunion, try to figure out why one of their friends and their hostess would invite them there and commit suicide which prompts them to look into the mysterious and dark past of their 10th friend.
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Cut
Title: Cut
Character: Vanessa Turnbill / Chloe
Released: February 23, 2000
Type: Movie
A group of film students set out to finish filming a movie that was never completed after its director was murdered. After they begin filming, they realize they're in for a bit of trouble, not unlike the late director...
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Kimberly
Title: Kimberly
Character: Nancy
Released: October 28, 1999
Type: Movie
Four young men fall in love with the same woman. When they all find themselves attracted by Kimberly, hey vow not to fight for her affections during the season -- but then she gets pregnant and doesn't know which teammate is the father.
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Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Title: Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Character: Miss Banks
Released: August 11, 1999
Type: Movie
A bright high-school senior has her impending status as valedictorian jeopardized when her bitter history teacher, Mrs. Tingle, gives her a poor grade on a project. When an attempt to get ahead in Mrs. Tingle's class goes awry, mayhem ensues and friendships, loyalties and trust are tested by the teacher's intricate mind-games.
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Requiem for Murder
Title: Requiem for Murder
Character: Anne Winslow
Released: April 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Anne Winslow hosts a popular classical music radio show. Detective Lou Heinz discovers Anne is connected to a series of murders in which the victim is killed via poisoned wine while a radio is tuned into her show. It seems that each victim had wronged Anne in some way and whoever is sending her roses may be the killer.
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Twice Upon a Time
Title: Twice Upon a Time
Character: Beth Sager
Released: November 9, 1998
Type: Movie
An unhappy woman makes a wish for a different life which whisks her to a parallel world where she falls back in love with her boyfriend.
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Since You've Been Gone
Title: Since You've Been Gone
Character: Claire the Fan
Released: June 6, 1998
Type: Movie
The story of a 10th anniversary High School reunion, told through the eyes of a doctor who was humiliated on graduation day by being badly beaten up by a fellow graduate.
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Titey
Title: Titey
Character: Anne Frank (voice)
Released: May 15, 1998
Type: Movie
A Saturday Night Live parody of a (fictional) Walt Disney film of the famous Titanic. Jason Alexander provides the voice for the ship, and Whoopi Goldberg is the Iceberg.
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Office Killer
Title: Office Killer
Character: Kim Poole
Released: December 3, 1997
Type: Movie
When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.
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Title: The View
Character: Self - Guest
Released: August 11, 1997
Type: TV
ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Meghan McCain, and Abby Huntsman, discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.
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Title: Townies
Character: Carrie Donovan
Released: September 18, 1996
Type: TV
Life-long friends Carrie, Shannon and Denise grew up together. Now in their mid-twenties, the threesome work together as waitresses but wish they had more to their lives than that. Together the girls make their way though life knowing no matter what, they'll always have each other.
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Baja
Title: Baja
Character: Bebe Stone
Released: April 16, 1996
Type: Movie
On the run from a drug deal gone wrong, a beautiful young woman escapes across the border only to find herself trapped in a dangerous web of intrigue and deceit in old Mexico.
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Enfants de salaud
Title: Enfants de salaud
Character: Susan
Released: April 3, 1996
Type: Movie
Sylvette, a sassy waitress, Sandro, a macho guy, Sophie, a shy bourgeoisie, and Susan, an American actress, do not know each other and do not have much in common. However, they all have the same father, a scammer named Julius.
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Title: Remember WENN
Character: Angela Colton
Released: January 13, 1996
Type: TV
The personal and professional lives of the staff of fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN in the early 1940s, before and during World War II.
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Malicious
Title: Malicious
Character: Melissa Nelson
Released: November 6, 1995
Type: Movie
A mystery woman turns vengeful after a college athlete dumps her following a one-night stand.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Allison Channing
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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Seven Sundays
Title: Seven Sundays
Character: Janet Gifford
Released: January 11, 1995
Type: Movie
Dodo, a French man living in Florida, has one goal in life: Get by without working. Difficult to implement without the help of some women. Betty is one of them, and a gypsy's bride, who suddenly disappears, changing Dodo's life.
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Title: The Stand
Character: Frannie Goldsmith
Released: May 8, 1994
Type: TV
After a deadly plague kills most of the world’s population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a maleficent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.
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The Stand
Title: The Stand
Character: Frannie Goldsmith
Released: May 8, 1994
Type: Movie
After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.
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Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
Title: Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
Character: Teresa Tatum
Released: March 26, 1994
Type: Movie
25 years after committing a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane. A local reporter comes to talk to him, and listens in horror about his life leading up to the crime. This is the short film that inspired the full-length "Sling Blade".
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Title: Intimate Portrait
Character: Self
Released: November 14, 1993
Type: TV
Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network focusing on different celebrities, which includes interviews with each subject. Among the people profiled were Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood, Carly Simon, Jackie Kennedy, Katharine Hepburn, Carol Burnett, Tanya Tucker, and Marla Maples.
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Title: Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 13, 1993
Type: TV
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. The second incarnation of NBC's Late Night franchise, O'Brien's debuted in 1993 after David Letterman, who hosted the first incarnation of Late Night, moved to CBS to host Late Show opposite The Tonight Show. In 2004, as part of a deal to secure a new contract, NBC announced that O'Brien would leave Late Night in 2009 to succeed Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon began hosting his version of Late Night on March 2, 2009.
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Face the Music
Title: Face the Music
Character: Lisa Hunter
Released: June 23, 1993
Type: Movie
Divorced couple Charlie and Lisa Hunter once a song writing team decide to spend a weekend in the French countryside to inspire them to write one last song together. But there is one person who isn't too crazy about the idea... Charlie's fiance!
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Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
Title: Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
Character: Alison Gertz
Released: March 26, 1992
Type: Movie
An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.
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Betsy's Wedding
Title: Betsy's Wedding
Character: Betsy Hopper
Released: June 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife Lola into a financial panic.
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Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
Title: Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
Character: Kit
Released: April 2, 1990
Type: Movie
This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes.
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Strike It Rich
Title: Strike It Rich
Character: Cary
Released: January 26, 1990
Type: Movie
A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.
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Fresh Horses
Title: Fresh Horses
Character: Jewel
Released: November 18, 1988
Type: Movie
A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. She says she's 20, but he finds out she's 16 and married to an abusive husband.
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For Keeps
Title: For Keeps
Character: Darcy Elliot Bobrucz
Released: January 15, 1988
Type: Movie
Young high school couple Darcy Elliot and Stan Bobrucz are one year from graduation, with promising futures ahead of them. But their paths take a drastic turn when Darcy becomes pregnant. Unwilling to go through an abortion or an adoption — despite their parents' pleas — Darcy and Stan decide to sacrifice their college experiences and degrees in order to keep and raise the baby. After a quick marriage, the two realize it won't be as easy as they thought.
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The Pick-up Artist
Title: The Pick-up Artist
Character: Randy Jensen
Released: September 18, 1987
Type: Movie
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.
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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Character: Cordelia
Released: September 15, 1987
Type: Movie
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
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P.K. and the Kid
Title: P.K. and the Kid
Character: P.K. Bayette
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: Movie
P.K. runs away from home because her step-father keeps on harassing her sexually and her mother is ignoring the problem. She hides in the loading space of Kid Kane's pickup, who's on the way to the world championships in arm-wrestling. When he discovers her, he wants to send her home at first, but after he knows the story he takes her with him - and gets himself into big trouble: her step-father is behind them furiously, trying to kidnap her and take revenge for the stress he got from her mother.
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Pretty in Pink
Title: Pretty in Pink
Character: Andie Walsh
Released: February 28, 1986
Type: Movie
Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.
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Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
Title: Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
Character: Self
Released: January 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Celebrities are interviewed about the social and working lives of Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the rest of the Looney Tunes.
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Johnny Appleseed
Title: Johnny Appleseed
Character: Betty Nature
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Shelley Duvall acted as host for this 1980s television series about legendary characters and historical events. This volume chronicles Jonathan Chapman (Martin Short), who loves two things: apples and his sweetheart, Betty Nature (Molly Ringwald). Following Betty's advice, he travels the countryside and sows apple seeds along the way, riling Smithville's imperious ruler (Rob Reiner) in this timeless American yarn.
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Title: Tall Tales & Legends
Character: Jenny Smith
Released: September 25, 1985
Type: TV
An anthology series that showcases various mythical characters and incidents throughout history.
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The Breakfast Club
Title: The Breakfast Club
Character: Claire Standish
Released: February 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.
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Surviving
Title: Surviving
Character: Lonnie
Released: February 10, 1985
Type: Movie
Lonnie and Rick seem to be complete opposites, at first glance. A survivor of suicide, Lonnie is introverted and ill at ease around her parents, Lois and Harvey. Rick, meanwhile, is sunny and charismatic. But appearances can be deceiving, as their families learn when the teens begin a romance. Upset about Lonnie's influence on Rick, his parents forbid the pair to see each other -- with tragic consequences.
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Sixteen Candles
Title: Sixteen Candles
Character: Samantha Baker
Released: May 4, 1984
Type: Movie
With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake, but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior. Meanwhile, she must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy Ted, who is unfortunately the only boy in school who seems to take an interest in her.
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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Title: Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Character: Nikki
Released: May 20, 1983
Type: Movie
Three women make an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog. Adventurer Wolff goes there to rescue them and meets Niki, the only Earthling left from a medical expedition. Combining their talents, they try to rescue the women.
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Packin' It In
Title: Packin' It In
Character: Melissa Webber
Released: February 7, 1983
Type: Movie
In quest of a wholesome place to live: at first the Webbers laugh at their neighbors when they leave L.A. for the mountains of Oregon. But when they recognize the same symptoms in their family that made the neighbors leave, they follow them. However their new domicile is a bit more apart from the civilization than expected. Even then it's not a paradise: their neighbors are weird, the next shop is miles away and their house lacks even the most basic comfort. How long will it take until they're packin' it in again?
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Tempest
Title: Tempest
Character: Miranda
Released: August 13, 1982
Type: Movie
A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.
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Title: The Facts of Life
Character: Molly Parker
Released: August 24, 1979
Type: TV
The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979, to May 7, 1988, making it the longest running sitcom of the 1980s. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focuses on Edna Garrett as she becomes a housemother at the fictional Eastland School, an all-female boarding school in Peekskill, New York.
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Title: Diff'rent Strokes
Character: Molly Parker
Released: November 3, 1978
Type: TV
The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond and his daughter Kimberly, for whom their deceased mother previously worked. During the first season and first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds' housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett.
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Title: Saturday TV Funhouse
Character: Anne Frank (voice)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A spin-off of the "TV Funhouse" segments on Saturday Night Live, "Saturday TV Funhouse is a dark parody of Bozo the Clown, with Robert Smigel playing Prozo, a half-drunk clown, accompanied by an announcer, a sidekick, and a live band.
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Columbarium
Title: Columbarium
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Faced with their grandmother's dying wish, two brothers are tasked with stealing her dead dogs' ashes from her ex-husband, their grandfather, on his 80th birthday. This is dysfunctional even for them.