Amy Madigan

Amy Madigan

Born: September 11, 1950
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Amy Marie Madigan (born September 11, 1950) is an American actress who is known for her role as Annie Kinsella in the 1989 film Field of Dreams and Iris Crowe in the HBO television series Carnivale.

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Go For Grandma
Title: Go For Grandma
Character: Grandma
Released: October 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Inspired by iconic ‘80s fantasy films, "Go For Grandma" is a magical journey into the mind of a young boy who escapes a neglectful home life through his grandmother’s love and the power of his imagination.
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Antlers
Title: Antlers
Character: Principal Booth
Released: October 28, 2021
Type: Movie
A small-town Oregon teacher and her brother, the local sheriff, discover a young student is harbouring a dangerous secret that could have frightening consequences.
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Title: Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
Character: Miss Adelaide Finnister
Released: April 26, 2020
Type: TV
Rooted in the conflict between characters connected to the deity Santa Muerte and others allied with the Devil, this saga explores an exciting mix of the supernatural and the combustible reality of 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension.
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The Hunt
Title: The Hunt
Character: Ma
Released: March 11, 2020
Type: Movie
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.
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The Last Full Measure
Title: The Last Full Measure
Character: Donna Burr
Released: January 23, 2020
Type: Movie
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.
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Stuck
Title: Stuck
Character: Sue
Released: April 19, 2019
Type: Movie
A musical about six strangers who find themselves stuck on the New York City subway.
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A Crooked Somebody
Title: A Crooked Somebody
Character: Joyce Vaughn
Released: October 5, 2018
Type: Movie
An attention-seeking psychic is kidnapped and tries to use the situation to boost his popularity.
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American Woman
Title: American Woman
Character: Peggy
Released: June 7, 2018
Type: Movie
A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.
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American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
Title: American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
Released: March 2, 2018
Type: Movie
The historic story of Eugene Victor Debs, an American Socialist leader and union organizer during the Progressive era, 1900 to 192, who ran for US President on the Socialist Party ticket (SPA) five times, even once while he was in prison for speaking out against the US involvement in World War 1.
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Grey Lady
Title: Grey Lady
Character: Lola
Released: April 28, 2017
Type: Movie
A Boston police officer goes to Nantucket to investigate the murder of his partner, but he finds more than he bargained for.
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Buried Child
Title: Buried Child
Character: Halie
Released: November 28, 2016
Type: Movie
Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play in a production by The New Group, directed by Scott Elliott. Dodge (Ed Harris) and Halie (Amy Madigan) try to hang on to their farmland and their sanity while caring for their two wayward grown sons (Rich Sommer and Paul Sparks). When their grandson (Nat Wolff) arrives no one seems to recognize him and a secret must be kept.
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Rules Don't Apply
Title: Rules Don't Apply
Character: Mrs. Bransford
Released: November 23, 2016
Type: Movie
It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
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Title: Ice
Character: Diane Pierce
Released: November 16, 2016
Type: TV
A diamond dealer navigates the culturally diverse and treacherous world of the diamond business.
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Title: How to Get Away with Murder
Character: Irene Crawley
Released: September 25, 2014
Type: TV
A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.
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Frontera
Title: Frontera
Character: Olivia
Released: July 31, 2014
Type: Movie
After crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel, a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a former sheriff’s wife. After learning of his imprisonment, Miguel’s pregnant wife tries to come to his aid and lands in the hands of corrupt coyotes who hold her for ransom. Dissatisfied with the police department’s investigation, the former sheriff tries to uncover the truth about his wife’s death and discovers disturbing evidence that will destroy one family’s future, or tear another’s apart.
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Shirin in Love
Title: Shirin in Love
Character: Rachel
Released: March 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Despite being engaged to a successful Iranian plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, Shirin finds herself falling for a mysterious young man who lives in a lighthouse in northern California.
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Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited
Title: Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited
Character: Herself
Released: November 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited
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Sweetwater
Title: Sweetwater
Character: Madame Bovary
Released: October 9, 2013
Type: Movie
In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory.
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The Lifeguard
Title: The Lifeguard
Character: Justine
Released: August 30, 2013
Type: Movie
A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.
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Future Weather
Title: Future Weather
Character: Greta
Released: April 29, 2012
Type: Movie
Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures.
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Title: Prohibition
Character: Reader (voice)
Released: October 2, 2011
Type: TV
The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33). After nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve the lives of all citizens by protecting individuals, families and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse; but paradoxically it made millions of people rethink their definition of morality.
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That's What I Am
Title: That's What I Am
Character: Principal Kelner
Released: April 29, 2011
Type: Movie
A coming-of-age story that follows 12-year-old Andy Nichol, a bright student who, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict for fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his junior high school peers.
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Once Fallen
Title: Once Fallen
Character: Rose
Released: November 2, 2010
Type: Movie
When Chance (Brian Presley) returns home after five years in jail, he is determined to escape his past, start a new life and make peace with his father, (Ed Harris, Golden Globe® winner), who is the head of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang and serving a life sentence for murder. Upon his release, his dreams of a crime-free future begin to disintegrate when he is forced to assume his best friend's outrageous debt to a local mobster. Despite being thrust back into a world of organized fighting, drug dealing and ties to corrupt police agents, Chance falls in love with Pearl (Academy Award® nominee Taraji P. Henson) and the prospect of living a normal life seems almost within reach. But will he be able to escape the crimes of his father and his past?
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Virginia
Title: Virginia
Character: Mrs. Tipton
Released: May 18, 2010
Type: Movie
A sheriff sees his state senate bid slide out onto the ice when his daughter begins to date the son of a charming but psychologically disturbed woman with whom the sheriff has engaged in a two-decade-long affair.
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Title: The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Released: September 27, 2009
Type: TV
Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - “The National Parks: America's Best Idea” is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.
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Living Proof
Title: Living Proof
Character: Fran Visco
Released: October 18, 2008
Type: Movie
Dr Dennis Slamon, an American oncologist, discovers a treatment that could possibly cure breast cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. He tries to look for ways to fund the medication.
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Title: Fringe
Character: Marilyn Dunham
Released: September 9, 2008
Type: TV
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.
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Gone Baby Gone
Title: Gone Baby Gone
Character: Bea McCready
Released: September 18, 2007
Type: Movie
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.
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Title: Saving Grace
Released: July 23, 2007
Type: TV
Grace Hanadarko is a tormented, fast-living Oklahoma City police detective who, despite having an excellent career in solving crimes, takes self-destruction to new heights. After seeing tremendous tragedy, both professionally and personally, Grace reaches a turning point one night and meets a rough-hewn angel with a similar past who wants to help lead her back to the right path.
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Title: The Path to 9/11
Character: Colonel Raymond Malik
Released: September 10, 2006
Type: TV
Beginning with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and ending on the morning of 9/11, the draws on detailed information from the 9/11 Commission Report to take viewers on an unforgettable journey through the events that presaged that fateful day -- to understand what went right and wrong, and what can be learned from this crucial eight-year period.
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Title: The Path to 9/11
Character: Patricia Carver
Released: September 10, 2006
Type: TV
Beginning with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and ending on the morning of 9/11, the draws on detailed information from the 9/11 Commission Report to take viewers on an unforgettable journey through the events that presaged that fateful day -- to understand what went right and wrong, and what can be learned from this crucial eight-year period.
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Murder on Pleasant Drive
Title: Murder on Pleasant Drive
Released: May 8, 2006
Type: Movie
After Fran Smith disappears one day in mysterious circumstances, Fran's daughter Deanna and Fran's sister, Sherrie endlessly search for her with enduring hope. The most likely suspect in Fran's disappearance is her husband John, but without a body, neither Deanna or Sherrie can prove that murder, much less a crime, has even been committed. With the support of Sherrie, Deanna embarks on an eleven-year search to trace John's past, eventually uncovering a 25 year-old case of a missing person that involved John's first wife, who too, disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Using this lead, Deanna and Sherrie must use all their evidence to bring John to justice.
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Winter Passing
Title: Winter Passing
Character: Lori Lansky
Released: February 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.
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Title: Criminal Minds
Character: Jane
Released: September 22, 2005
Type: TV
An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Katharine Wyatt
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: TV
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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Admissions
Title: Admissions
Character: Martha Brighton
Released: October 16, 2004
Type: Movie
A gifted high-school student flubs her college admissions interviews for the most unexpected reasons in this independent coming-of-age drama. Cynical, world-weary Evie is more interested in taking care of her family than getting into the Ivy League institutions for which she seems destined. Dad Harry spends all his time building model trains in the basement, while workaholic mom Martha depends on Evie to take care of her other daughter, developmentally challenged Emily. When she's not busy reading poetry to her sister Emily, Evie hangs out with James (Fran Kranz), the sensitive boy next door, whose romantic overtures prove too confusing to acknowledge. College also seems too daunting, so Evie deliberately blows one university interview after another in the hopes of staying at home as her sister's keeper. Meanwhile, Evie begins passing off her own poems as Emily's, fuelling the belief that her brain-damaged sister is actually a literary savant.
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Title: Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Character: Other Voices (voice)
Released: September 4, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
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The Ranch
Title: The Ranch
Character: Mary Larkin
Released: July 5, 2004
Type: Movie
A comedy drama about a few days in the lives of a group of "working girls" in Reno, Nevada. “The Ranch” is a legally operated brothel that operates under the careful watch of state health inspectors (who insist on weekly medical check-ups) and the semi-benevolent leadership of Mary, the manager. While the women on staff don't have to dodge the law like their comrades elsewhere, that doesn't mean they don't have their problems.
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Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime
Title: Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime
Character: Self
Released: June 6, 2004
Type: Movie
Features Major League players and managers and cast and crew discussing the themes of the film, the performances, baseball, family, the film's lasting impact, and more.
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Title: Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Character: Other Voices (voice)
Released: October 6, 2003
Type: Movie
In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.
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Title: Carnivàle
Character: Iris Crowe
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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A Time for Dancing
Title: A Time for Dancing
Character: Jackie Russell
Released: September 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.
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Just a Dream
Title: Just a Dream
Character: Cindy Wilder
Released: March 16, 2002
Type: Movie
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
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Mark Twain
Title: Mark Twain
Character: (voice)
Released: January 14, 2002
Type: Movie
Largely considered to be the greatest American author, Mark Twain is celebrated in this exhaustive documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns.
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Title: Mark Twain
Character: Other Voices (voice)
Released: January 14, 2002
Type: TV
Mark Twain is a documentary film on the life of Mark Twain also known as Samuel Clements produced by Ken Burns in 2001. Burns captures both the public and private persona of Mark Twain from his birth to his death. The film was narrated by Keith David and the voice of Mark Twain was provided by Kevin Conway.
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The Laramie Project
Title: The Laramie Project
Character: Reggie Fluty
Released: January 10, 2002
Type: Movie
"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe's visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.
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Shot in the Heart
Title: Shot in the Heart
Character: Bessie Gilmore
Released: October 13, 2001
Type: Movie
The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own family.
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The Sleepy Time Gal
Title: The Sleepy Time Gal
Character: Maggie
Released: January 24, 2001
Type: Movie
A young woman learns of her adoption and eventually quits her law firm job and goes on a journey to find her birth mother.
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Pollock
Title: Pollock
Character: Peggy Guggenheim
Released: September 6, 2000
Type: Movie
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
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In the Name of the People
Title: In the Name of the People
Released: February 2, 2000
Type: Movie
John Burke is on death row for the murder of a young girl. He is worried about what will happen to his own young daughter after his execution. He asks the parents of the girl he killed to look after his daughter which, he claims, would also help fill the void left in their lives by the death of their own daughter.
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Title: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Character: Amy Hill Hearth
Released: April 18, 1999
Type: Movie
Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters who both lived past the age of 100. They grew up on a North Carolina college campus, the daughters of the first African-American Episcopal bishop, who was born a slave, and a woman with an inter-racial background. With the support of each other and their family, they survived encounters with racism and sexism in their own different ways. Sadie quietly and sweetly broke barriers to become the first African-American home-ec teacher in New York City, while Bessie, with her own brand of outspokenness, became the second African-American dentist in New York City. At the ages of 103 and 101, they told their story to Amy Hill Hearth, a white New York Times reporter who published an article about them. The overwhelming response launched a bestselling book, a Broadway play, and this film.
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With Friends Like These...
Title: With Friends Like These...
Character: Hannah DiMartino
Released: September 10, 1998
Type: Movie
Four small-time two-bit character actors, all close friends, are competing for same important part in the next Martin Scorsese mob film.
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A Bright Shining Lie
Title: A Bright Shining Lie
Character: Mary Jane Vann
Released: May 30, 1998
Type: Movie
Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advisory force a stepping stone to promotion. However, he disagrees vocally (and on the record) with the way the war is being run and is forced to leave the military. Returning to Vietnam as a civilian working with the Army, he comes to despise some South Vietnamese officers while he takes charge of some of the U.S. forces and continues his liaisons with Vietnamese women.
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Loved
Title: Loved
Character: Brett Amerson
Released: October 31, 1997
Type: Movie
After a man is accused of droving his third wife to suicide, his first wife Hedda, a troubled woman who can't hate or hurt others even if they had wronged her, is subpoenaed to testify on his abusive behavior during their marriage.
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Title: Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Character: Self
Released: July 27, 1997
Type: Movie
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.
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Female Perversions
Title: Female Perversions
Character: Maddie Stephens
Released: November 21, 1996
Type: Movie
An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems including helping her kleptomaniac sister.
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Riders of the Purple Sage
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage
Character: Jane Withersteen
Released: January 21, 1996
Type: Movie
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Title: Crocodile Shoes
Released: November 10, 1994
Type: TV
Crocodile Shoes is a British 7-part television series made by the BBC and screened on BBC One in 1994. The series was written by and starred Jimmy Nail as a factory worker who becomes a country and western singer. A sequel, Crocodile Shoes II followed in 1996 and the theme tune "Country Boy" was a hit for Nail too.
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Title: ER
Character: Mary Taggart
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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Title: Baseball
Character: Various (voice)
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: TV
The history of the sport of baseball in America, told through archival photos, film footage, and the words of those who contributed to the game in each era. Writers, historians, players, baseball personnel, and fans review key events and the significance of the game in America's history.
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And Then There Was One
Title: And Then There Was One
Character: Roxy Ventola
Released: August 4, 1994
Type: Movie
After struggling and finally conceiving a child, Roxy and Vinnie Ventola, a successful television writing couple, learns that their newborn has AIDS. Soon afterward, the two parents are also diagnosed with the fatal virus.
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Title: Frasier
Character: Maggie (voice)
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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The Dark Half
Title: The Dark Half
Character: Liz Beaumont
Released: April 23, 1993
Type: Movie
Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic murders matching those in his pulp novels, which are soon discovered to be the work of Stark himself. Looking like a maniacal version of his counterpart, Stark is not so willing to quit the writing game – even if it means coming after Thad's wife and their baby.
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The Donner Party
Title: The Donner Party
Character: voice
Released: October 28, 1992
Type: Movie
Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and survival. The Donner Party's nightmarish journey penetrated to the very heart of the American Dream at a crucial phase of the nation's "manifest destiny." Touching some of the most powerful social, economic and political currents of the time, this extraordinary narrative remains one of the most compelling and enduring episodes to come out of the West.
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Lucky Day
Title: Lucky Day
Character: Kari
Released: March 10, 1991
Type: Movie
When 30-year-old Allison Campbell wins a $2 million lottery, her family life turns upside down not just because of her winnings but because Allison is mentally handicapped. Kari, her younger sister, has been caring for Alison for 10 years. Problems arise when the girls' mother, Katherine, decides she wants Allison to live with her.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Emily Ryan
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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Uncle Buck
Title: Uncle Buck
Character: Chanice Kobolowski
Released: August 16, 1989
Type: Movie
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his older niece Tia, loyal girlfriend Chanice and just about everyone else who crosses his path.
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Roe vs. Wade
Title: Roe vs. Wade
Character: Sarah Weddington
Released: May 15, 1989
Type: Movie
Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.
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Field of Dreams
Title: Field of Dreams
Character: Annie Kinsella
Released: April 21, 1989
Type: Movie
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.
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The Prince of Pennsylvania
Title: The Prince of Pennsylvania
Character: Carla Headlee
Released: October 10, 1988
Type: Movie
Set in a remote Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this off-beat comedy follows the relationship between Carla, a hippie woman, and Rupert, a young punk rocker who feels like a pariah. Hoping to leave their current lives behind, the two conspire to kidnap Rupert's father and hold him for ransom.
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Nowhere to Hide
Title: Nowhere to Hide
Character: Barbara Cutter
Released: July 17, 1987
Type: Movie
Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashed because a defective part, a C-ring, has been made of a weaker, less expensive alloy. Before Rob can go public with this, Rob is killed on the orders of corrupt General Howard, who did not want Rob to go public with the defective part. Howard believes that Barbara, who is also a marine, now has the part, so Howard and his henchmen set out to kill Barbara and Johnny and get the part, but Howard is underestimating what Barbara is willing to do to protect Johnny.
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Twice in a Lifetime
Title: Twice in a Lifetime
Character: Sunny
Released: October 23, 1985
Type: Movie
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy barmaid--and, to his surprise, he finds that she is also very attracted to him.
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Alamo Bay
Title: Alamo Bay
Character: Glory
Released: April 3, 1985
Type: Movie
A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.
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The Laundromat
Title: The Laundromat
Character: Deedee Johnson
Released: April 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets.
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Places in the Heart
Title: Places in the Heart
Character: Viola Kelsey
Released: September 11, 1984
Type: Movie
In 1930s Texas, a widow and her family fight to save their home by harvesting cotton.
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Streets of Fire
Title: Streets of Fire
Character: McCoy
Released: June 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be passing through town on a visit. In an attempt to save his star act, Ellen's manager hires Tom to rescue her. Along with a former soldier, they battle through dangerous cityscapes, determined to get Ellen back.
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Title: Eureka Stockade
Character: Sarah Jamieson
Released: March 27, 1984
Type: TV
Eureka Stockade is a 1984 Australian miniseries based on the battle of Eureka Stockade. It reunited the producer, writer, director and star of A Town Like Alice.
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The Day After
Title: The Day After
Character: Alison Ransom
Released: November 20, 1983
Type: Movie
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.
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Travis McGee
Title: Travis McGee
Character: Billy Jean Bailey
Released: May 18, 1983
Type: Movie
Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, resulting in a death that might have been faked.
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Love Letters
Title: Love Letters
Character: Wendy
Released: April 1, 1983
Type: Movie
After discovering a box of old love letters sent to her mother by a mysterious stranger, Anna, a young radio deejay, begins a torrid affair with a married man. Burning attraction brings them together, but the reality does not come close to the passion expressed in the letters.
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Love Child
Title: Love Child
Character: Terry Jean Moore
Released: October 15, 1982
Type: Movie
It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the prison she will be pregnant by a jailer and she has to fight for bear and keep her child.
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Victims
Title: Victims
Character: Chloe Brill
Released: January 11, 1982
Type: Movie
A serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His victims decide to turn the tables on him and begin stalking him.
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The Ambush Murders
Title: The Ambush Murders
Character: Molly Slavin
Released: January 5, 1982
Type: Movie
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him.
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Crazy Times
Title: Crazy Times
Character: Marilyn
Released: April 10, 1981
Type: Movie
Follows the exploits of three teenage friends sharing the good times back at Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York during the summer of 1955.
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Title: Hart to Hart
Released: September 22, 1979
Type: TV
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.
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Title: CHiPs
Character: Jewel Burnett
Released: September 15, 1977
Type: TV
Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Bull Street
Title: Bull Street
Character: Mary-Ann
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A woman faces the battle of her life when her estranged father's family tries to evict her and her grandmother from the only home she has ever known.
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The Ploughmen
Title: The Ploughmen
Character: Francie
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Strange friendship between a haunted young deputy sheriff and a notorious old murderer turns both their worlds upside down.
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Rebel Girl
Title: Rebel Girl
Character: Gail
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Follows Maisie and her father Kurt who have to leave their Brooklyn bubble to go back to Kurt's childhood home in Minnesota, where Maisie upsets long-standing family traditions, falls in love, and makes her family face their issues.
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School for the Blind
Title: School for the Blind
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Follow a couple of siblings as they confront their issues and strive to solve the cold case murder of a blind student who disappeared years before.