Tess Harper

Tess Harper

Born: August 15, 1950
in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, USA
Tessie Jean "Tess" Harper (née Washam; born August 15, 1950) is an American actress. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her first film role in 1983's Tender Mercies, and for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Crimes of the Heart. Her other film appearances include Flashpoint (1984), Ishtar (1987), Far North (1988), and No Country for Old Men (2007). She also had a recurring role on the first three seasons of Breaking Bad (2008–2010).

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Our Almost Completely True Story
Title: Our Almost Completely True Story
Character: Tess
Released: December 8, 2023
Type: Movie
When a beautiful, tall, aging Hollywood star and a short, funny Jewish man try online dating, it's a disaster. But when they randomly meet at a bird store, what are the chances? He is immediately smitten, but she not so much. As he pursues the woman of his dreams, his charm, sense of humor, and multiple impressions win her over in their heartwarming (almost completely true) love story.
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American Outlaws
Title: American Outlaws
Character: Loretta Hillhouse
Released: September 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Facing the possibility of prison - and in search of an idealized freedom - 3 siblings take matters in to their own hands with a cross country crime spree of epic proportions.
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Good Side of Bad
Title: Good Side of Bad
Character: Mary Ellen
Released: June 22, 2023
Type: Movie
Three adult siblings are brought back together after a shocking diagnosis forces them to confront harsh future realities regarding the mental state of one of their own.
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Rosebud Lane
Title: Rosebud Lane
Character: Sugar
Released: February 24, 2023
Type: Movie
When a middle aged Hollywood filmmaker receives an unexpected card from his young son whom he has never met, he makes the difficult decision to go see him in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Both of their lives then take a life-altering turn as drama surrounding the boy’s mother unfolds in the small mountain town.
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The Evening Hour
Title: The Evening Hour
Character: Dorothy Freeman
Released: July 30, 2021
Type: Movie
Cole Freeman maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his rural Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts. But when an old friend returns with plans that upend the fragile balance and identity he's so painstakingly crafted, Cole is forced to take action.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
Title: Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
Character: Self
Released: December 30, 2020
Type: Movie
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page presents an unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas of the frontier and self-reliance. A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65, Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed her frontier childhood into the best-selling “Little House” series. The documentary delves into the legacy of the iconic pioneer as well as the way she transformed her early life into enduring legend, a process that involved a little-known collaboration with her daughter Rose.
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The Long Shadow
Title: The Long Shadow
Character: Mama Doris
Released: April 20, 2020
Type: Movie
A young female Sheriff's Deputy in rural Louisiana takes on her town's old money establishment when the woman she loves - an attorney fighting to stop a rail deal that threatens to displace the town's poor - is murdered.
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Burden
Title: Burden
Character: Hazel
Released: February 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, under her influence, quits the Klan and is taken in by an African American Reverend.
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The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Title: The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Character: Self
Released: October 28, 2019
Type: Movie
Aaron Paul, Vince Gilligan and other cast members, producers and crew share stories and footage from the making of "El Camino."
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Title: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Character: Mrs. Pinkman
Released: October 11, 2019
Type: Movie
In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.
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The Perfect Guy
Title: The Perfect Guy
Character: Mrs. McCarthy
Released: September 11, 2015
Type: Movie
With a fulfilling career and a loving relationship, lobbyist Leah Vaughn seems to have it all. Things come crashing down when Dave, her long-term boyfriend, disagrees with her future plans for marriage and a family. The resulting painful breakup leaves Leah heartbroken, until she meets the charming and handsome Carter Duncan. Soon, the budding romance turns dangerous as Carter reveals his volatile nature, forcing Leah to break up with the man she thought was Mr. Right. She soon realizes that Carter doesn't want to let her go.
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Boys On Film 13: Trick & Treat
Title: Boys On Film 13: Trick & Treat
Character: Linda (segment "Surprise")
Released: July 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Boys On Film surprises and delights with films exploring relationships, dark desires, and confronting hidden secrets. Volume 13: Trick & Treat features 10 new award-winning shorts, including: Anna Österlund Nolskog's "Boygame" starring Charlie Gustafsson and Joakim Lang; Christopher Brown's "Remission" starring Teddy Nicholas, Cai Brigden, and Antony De Liseo; Lazlo & Dylan Tonk's "Caged" starring Joël Mellenberg and Josha Stradowski; Charlie Francis's "Middle Man" starring Tommy Jay Brennan and Joe Cassidy; Dan Connolly's "Vis à Vis" starring Belinda Misevski, Dan Connolly, and David Harrison; Casper Andreas's "A Last Farewell" starring Tomas von Brömssen, Iwar Wiklander, and Liv Mjönes; Neil Ely's "Mirrors" starring Jody Latham and Liam Boyle; Tim Marshall's "Followers" starring Valmai Jones and Mark Oliver; Leslie Bumgarner's "Surprise" starring Tess Harper and Austin Fryberger; and Philip J. Connell's "Kissing Drew" starring Eden Ocean Sanders, Ben Hargreaves, and Chris Handfield.
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Surprise
Title: Surprise
Character: Linda
Released: April 28, 2015
Type: Movie
A mother and son confess their secrets.
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Title: How to Get Away with Murder
Character: Sheila Miller
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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Frank
Title: Frank
Character: Frank's Mom
Released: May 9, 2014
Type: Movie
A young wannabe musician discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.
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Sunlight Jr.
Title: Sunlight Jr.
Character: Kathleen
Released: April 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Quickie-mart employee Melissa and paraplegic Richie are very much in love. Supported only by Melissa’s small hourly wage, they are nevertheless thrilled to learn that Melissa is pregnant. Then their situation deteriorates, and their tenuous financial situation threatens to bring their happy life crashing down.
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Straight A's
Title: Straight A's
Character: Mother
Released: January 16, 2013
Type: Movie
Pressured by his deceased mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and hits the road to Shreveport.
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The Christmas Heart
Title: The Christmas Heart
Character: Elizabeth
Released: December 2, 2012
Type: Movie
The tight-knit neighbors on Arthur Avenue have proudly lit Christmas luminaries for 40 years, but that long-standing tradition is cancelled this year when Matt Norman, a teenage boy in the neighborhood, is hospitalized in desperate need of a heart transplant. As his parents Ann and Mike anxiously pray by his bedside, a donor is found, while in Detroit, a mother is in anguish at her own son’s bedside. When Matt's neighbors decide to honor him in the best way they know how, they just might help save his life.
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A Christmas Wish
Title: A Christmas Wish
Character: Trudy Willis
Released: November 20, 2011
Type: Movie
MARTHA EVANS has been abandoned by her ne'er-do-well husband, who took all their cash and left her homeless and virtually destitute with her two daughters and stepson. Martha leaves town in hopes of finding a job and a place to stay, she finally finds a job at a sleepy rural diner, formerly famous for its home-made root beer. But with her car broken down and the bills piling up, it looks like it's going to be a bleak Christmas for the Evans family. However, there are warm hearts working behind the scenes that ultimately make this the happiest holiday of Martha's life -- a real answer to her prayers
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Title: Revenge
Character: Carole Lyn Miller
Released: September 21, 2011
Type: TV
When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her family. Years ago, they took everything from her. Now, one by one, she's going to make them pay.
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Fatal Secrets
Title: Fatal Secrets
Character: Naomi
Released: January 3, 2009
Type: Movie
An attractive woman enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a charming man with a secret background who has pushed her to the breaking point. The women underestimate the consequences when they take matters into their own hands as their opponent forces them into a desperate situation, and everyone pays a price.
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Diary of a Country Sheriff
Title: Diary of a Country Sheriff
Character: Herself
Released: March 11, 2008
Type: Movie
No Country for Old Men: Diary of a Country Sheriff
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Title: Breaking Bad
Character: Mrs. Pinkman
Released: January 20, 2008
Type: TV
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
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Broken
Title: Broken
Character: Clare
Released: October 5, 2007
Type: Movie
A waitress confronts all the wrong turns she has made in her short life and ultimately ends up facing the biggest wrong turn of all: her dangerous ex-boyfriend who's determined to win back her love or die trying.
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Saving Sarah Cain
Title: Saving Sarah Cain
Character: Miriam Esh
Released: August 19, 2007
Type: Movie
When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather than choose to move to Lancaster County to finish raising them there herself, or let them be separated by the foster care system, Sarah decides to take them with her back to Portland where she believes she can make a new life for them. However, she soon realizes that the modern world has forced them to compromise who they are, and that she has moved them there for all the wrong reasons - a motive which is soon exposed - because secrets can really never be kept secret. In order to find her own redemption, she knows she must make a choice to give them back their lives in Amish Country. And whether she remains part of their lives will have a lot to do with how much she has grown to love them.
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Kiss the Bride
Title: Kiss the Bride
Character: Barbara Davis
Released: July 23, 2007
Type: Movie
In high school, Matt and Ryan were best friends. More than friends, actually. But in the ensuing ten years, they've lost contact. So when Matt receives an invitation to Ryan's wedding he's surprised - especially that Ryan is marrying a woman!
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No Country for Old Men
Title: No Country for Old Men
Character: Loretta Bell
Released: June 13, 2007
Type: Movie
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
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Judy's Got a Gun
Title: Judy's Got a Gun
Character: Susan Lemen
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Brothers and Sisters
Character: Beth Ridge
Released: September 24, 2006
Type: TV
The close-knit Walker family deals with struggles and triumphs.
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Broken Bridges
Title: Broken Bridges
Character: Dixie Rose Delton
Released: September 8, 2006
Type: Movie
A fading country music star returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the first time.
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Jam
Title: Jam
Character: Ruby
Released: April 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A traffic accident on a rural mountain road becomes a life changing experience for fifteen diverse travelers.
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Jesus, Mary and Joey
Title: Jesus, Mary and Joey
Character: Liz O`Callahan
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American family when he is reunited with a childhood schoolmate, Mary O'Callahan. Once mocked as 'Scary Mary' this ugly duckling has blossomed into an irresistible beauty. She's returned to the old neighborhood after an intense bout with cancer. When Joey learns her cure was the result of a miracle, friendship turns to romance as she educates him on the crossroads to the Almighty. Joey challenges his family's faith with his new found revelations and chaos ensues as they all search for a miracle of their own.
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Loggerheads
Title: Loggerheads
Character: Elizabeth
Released: October 14, 2005
Type: Movie
A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly draws out their secret losses and desires.
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Title: Ghost Whisperer
Character: Ellen Wilkins
Released: September 23, 2005
Type: TV
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.
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Title: Criminal Minds
Character: Dinah Troy
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: Pam Nelson
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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Angel in the Family
Title: Angel in the Family
Character: Mrs. Nelly Tomkins
Released: November 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Sisters separated by a lifetime of misunderstanding and their family desperately in need of healing old wounds, find themselves brought back together on one amazing Christmas.
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Lonely Place
Title: Lonely Place
Released: September 12, 2004
Type: Movie
A menacing farmhand worms his way between a husband and wife on an old peach farm.
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Title: Jack & Bobby
Character: Karen Carmichael
Released: September 12, 2004
Type: TV
If "greatness is thrust upon us," as Winston Churchill once said, then it stands to reason that those who are destined for greatness are rarely aware of it. Take Jack and Bobby McCallister for example: two bright young brothers growing up under the watchful eye of their eccentric single mother Grace McCallister. Grace's personality is a force of nature destined to shape both of these young men's lives and secure one a place in the history books - as President of the United States.
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Title: Jack & Bobby
Released: September 12, 2004
Type: TV
If "greatness is thrust upon us," as Winston Churchill once said, then it stands to reason that those who are destined for greatness are rarely aware of it. Take Jack and Bobby McCallister for example: two bright young brothers growing up under the watchful eye of their eccentric single mother Grace McCallister. Grace's personality is a force of nature destined to shape both of these young men's lives and secure one a place in the history books - as President of the United States.
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Title: Cold Case
Character: Sharon Lertola (2009)
Released: September 28, 2003
Type: TV
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.
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Title: One Tree Hill
Character: May Scott
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
In Tree Hill, North Carolina two half brothers share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his skills are appreciated only by his friends at the river court. Popular, affluent Nathan basks in the hero-worship of the town, as the star of his high school team. And both boys are the son of former college ball player Dan Scott whose long ago choice to abandon Lucas and his mother Karen, will haunt him long into his life with wife Deb and their son Nathan.
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Title: Without a Trace
Character: Patricia Spade
Released: September 26, 2002
Type: TV
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
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The Rising Place
Title: The Rising Place
Character: Rebecca Hodge
Released: February 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
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Title: The Division
Released: January 7, 2001
Type: TV
The Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and starring Bonnie Bedelia. The series focused on a team of women police officers in the San Francisco Police Department. The series premiered on Lifetime on January 7, 2001 and ended on June 28, 2004 after 88 episodes.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Julia Barrett
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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The In Crowd
Title: The In Crowd
Character: Dr. Amanda Giles
Released: July 19, 2000
Type: Movie
A mentally disturbed young woman takes a job at a posh country club and falls in with a clique of wealthy college kids where she's taken under the wing of the clique's twisted leader, who harbors some dark secrets too terrifying to tell.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Mrs. Hallander
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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Title: Judging Amy
Character: Barbara Nissman
Released: September 19, 1999
Type: TV
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
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Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Title: Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Character: Narrator / Older Laura Ingalls Wilder
Released: January 21, 1999
Type: Movie
A version of the "Little House" stories that cover some of the events that take place in the last three books of the series and the book "The First Four Years" Laura is living on the prairie near De Smet, South Dakota and eventually meets the man that she will marry, Almanzo Wilder. Life, however, is not easy on the prairie and after a crop lost to hail, the loss of their baby son, the burning down of their house, and a terrible bout of diphtheria, the Wilders must make some hard choices about how to move on from the tragedies. Written by Anonymous
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The Jackal
Title: The Jackal
Character: The First Lady
Released: November 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
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Title: Cracker
Released: September 18, 1997
Type: TV
Crime drama based on the UK TV series about Gerry "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a brilliant but troubled criminal psychologist working alongside the Los Angeles police department.
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A Child's Wish
Title: A Child's Wish
Character: Joanna Chandler
Released: January 21, 1997
Type: Movie
A family discovers their youngest daughter has cancer. But the real struggle has yet to start.
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The Killing Secret
Title: The Killing Secret
Character: Tina Decapprio
Released: January 6, 1997
Type: Movie
A pregnant teen is murdered and a popular high-school senior is suspected. But will his girlfriend stick by him to prove his innocence despite the fact she has bonded with the victim's mother?
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Title: Early Edition
Released: September 28, 1996
Type: TV
Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What will he do with tomorrow's news?
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A Stranger to Love
Title: A Stranger to Love
Character: Linda Grant
Released: March 24, 1996
Type: Movie
In this Hallmark story, Allan is a normal middleaged man with a wife and two kids. When Alan is suddenly attacked one night, he loses his memory, leading his family to believe that he is dead.
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The Road to Galveston
Title: The Road to Galveston
Character: Julia Archer
Released: January 24, 1996
Type: Movie
Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind woman who was a nurse: enter a foster care program in which one takes care of patients in their own home. The patients she cares for are Alzheimers sufferers, and she shares her home with three other women in advanced stages of the disease, one (Gayle) wheelchair bound. And with these women, Jordan realizes a lifelong dream - to feel the ocean breeze. An accidental find of a coffee can stash of cash, buried by her late husband, makes the trip possible. Based on the true story of Peggy Lee of Camilla, Texas (the Alzheimers, the patients, and the foster care program are actual, the trip to the Galveston beaches is fictional).
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Death in Small Doses
Title: Death in Small Doses
Character: Jerri Sims
Released: January 16, 1995
Type: Movie
One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after - poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her temporarily the year before because of an affair. Especially Nancy's brother is keen on getting the children away from the suspected murderer. All evidence points against Richard, but in court Richard surprisingly presents proof that his wife had depressions and maybe killed herself - or are these proofs just fake? -- Depicts an authentic case.
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Title: Christy
Character: Fairlight Spencer
Released: April 3, 1994
Type: TV
Christy is an American historical fiction drama series which aired on CBS from April 1994 to August 1995, for twenty episodes. Christy was based on the novel Christy by Catherine Marshall, the widow of Senate chaplain Peter Marshall. The novel had been a bestseller in 1968, and the week following the debut of the TV-movie and program saw the novel jump from #120 up to #15 on the USA Today bestseller list. Series regular Tyne Daly won an Emmy Award for her work on the series.
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Title: Grace Under Fire
Character: Joan
Released: September 29, 1993
Type: TV
Grace Kelly is a tough woman with kids to raise. A recently divorced recovering alcoholic, Grace struggles with the pressures of being a single mother supporting three children. Grace doesn't always handle situations with, well, grace, but she does get results.
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Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films
Title: Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films
Character: Mother ["Black or White"]
Released: September 28, 1993
Type: Movie
Michael Jackson's Dangerous album once again rocketed the global superstar to mega-platinum success! "Dangerous - The Short Films" captures the visual and musical highlights of his most recent string of hit singles. As well as extensive behind the scenes profiles of the making of Michael's state of the art short films.
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Title: Walker, Texas Ranger
Character: Katie Malloy
Released: April 21, 1993
Type: TV
Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.
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Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
Title: Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
Character: Verna Heath
Released: November 8, 1992
Type: Movie
A homemaker is driven by jealousy to conspire against the mother of her daughter's rival.
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My New Gun
Title: My New Gun
Character: Kimmy Hayes
Released: October 26, 1992
Type: Movie
Debbie and Gerald's lives drastically change after they get a gun. Their mysterious neighbor, Skippy, becomes an important and transforming figure in their lives.
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In the Line of Duty: Siege at Marion
Title: In the Line of Duty: Siege at Marion
Character: Vickie Singer
Released: February 10, 1992
Type: Movie
Adam Swapp and his brother Jonathan are suspects in the bombing of Mormon Center in Utah. The brothers and their families hold-up on their farm with provisions and enough ammunition to withstand the governments siege. They are devout in their beliefs and purposes and are determined to stand up for their rights.
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The Turning
Title: The Turning
Character: Martha Harnish
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Gillian Anderson in her first ever screen role. Anderson's psycho boyfriend, Cliff, returns to his home town seething with pent-up frustration and rage. Four years earlier his family was on the verge of breaking up. Now he's returned to put things right, fired by a psychopathic determination he is intent on destroying his father's new relationship...whatever it takes.
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The Man in the Moon
Title: The Man in the Moon
Character: Abigail Trant
Released: September 30, 1991
Type: Movie
Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets Maureen, he falls hard and they begin a passionate affair. The new couple try to keep their love hidden from Dani, but she soon learns the truth, disavowing her sister. But a heartbreaking accident later reunites the girls.
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My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Title: My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Character: Cheryl
Released: March 1, 1991
Type: Movie
H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Jolie is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl has put his father in a nursing home.
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Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?
Title: Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?
Character: Sara Lee
Released: May 4, 1990
Type: Movie
Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed.
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Incident at Dark River
Title: Incident at Dark River
Character: Betty McFall
Released: December 4, 1989
Type: Movie
When Tim McFall's young daughter dies as the result of toxic waste dumped in the local river, he tries to shut down the company and everybody turns against him. In his fight he is joined by a beautiful student activist, and soon his obsession with revenge threatens his marriage as well as his career.
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Criminal Law
Title: Criminal Law
Character: Detective Stillwell
Released: April 28, 1989
Type: Movie
A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previously defended man hires the attorney again, and although the attorney is quite certain that he is the killer, he agrees to again defend him... much to the consternation of his friends. However, he explains that by being his attorney he will be better able to catch the man in a mistake... and on this the rest of the film develops, with the killer playing a cat and mouse game with the attorney until, at last, they both must recognize that they are not all that different.
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Her Alibi
Title: Her Alibi
Character: Sally Blackwood
Released: February 3, 1989
Type: Movie
A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment.
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Unconquered
Title: Unconquered
Character: Mrs. Mary Flowers
Released: January 15, 1989
Type: Movie
In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his family's peace.
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Far North
Title: Far North
Character: Rita
Released: November 9, 1988
Type: Movie
After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues.
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Little Girl Lost
Title: Little Girl Lost
Character: Clara Brady
Released: April 25, 1988
Type: Movie
This heart-wrenching story inspired by real events depicts the trials of the Brady family, who are trying desperately to adopt a helpless little girl they took in when she was in a foster care program. Clara and Tim Brady are in for the fight of their lives as they find that adopting Tella will not be so easy -- especially when social services puts her back into the care of her abusive father.
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Title: thirtysomething
Released: September 29, 1987
Type: TV
Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in the U.S. on September 29, 1987. It lasted four seasons, with the last of its 85 episodes airing on May 28, 1991. The title of the show was designed as thirtysomething by Kathie Broyles, who combined the words of the original title, Thirty Something. In 1997, "The Go Between" and "Samurai Ad Man" were ranked #22 on TV Guide′s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2002, Thirtysomething was ranked #19 on TV Guide′s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 TV Guide ranked it #10 in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time.
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Ishtar
Title: Ishtar
Character: Willa
Released: May 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
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Daddy
Title: Daddy
Character: Ann Burnette
Released: April 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Two high schoolers are unprepared for the reality of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant.
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Crimes of the Heart
Title: Crimes of the Heart
Character: Chick Boyle
Released: December 12, 1986
Type: Movie
Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Patricia M. Pittman
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Promises to Keep
Title: Promises to Keep
Character: Gwen Palmer
Released: October 15, 1985
Type: Movie
An aging cowboy returns to the family he abandoned 30 years ago with a terrifying secret.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: TV
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
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A Summer to Remember
Title: A Summer to Remember
Character: Jeannie Wyler
Released: March 27, 1985
Type: Movie
Silent since losing his hearing to meningitis, young Toby Wyler takes a bitter stance against the world and his family, refusing to accept his new stepfather. But when a highly trained orangutan named Casey is thrown from a truck near Toby's home, the boy soon has a secret friend he can communicate with via sign language.
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Reckless Disregard
Title: Reckless Disregard
Character: Meredith Craig
Released: March 17, 1985
Type: Movie
Meredith Craig is lawyer who has a small practice. She is then approached by a Dr. Lucas who is a doctor at a clinic, who was exposed on a television news program as writing prescriptions for drugs in exchange for money. He says that he is innocent and asks Meredith to file a lawsuit against the program and its staff. Can a small lawyer beat a big television network?
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Irene Rutledge
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Flashpoint
Title: Flashpoint
Character: Ellen
Released: April 19, 1984
Type: Movie
Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide whether to keep the money or report it, they privately investigate the clues and unravel a decades old mystery.
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Title: Celebrity
Character: Susan French
Released: February 12, 1984
Type: TV
Self-proclaimed faith healer T.J. Luther, movie star Mack Crawford and journalist Kleber Cantrell share a fateful reunion in a deserted Texas cabin that was the scene of a night of violence over two decades.
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Silkwood
Title: Silkwood
Character: Linda Dawson
Released: December 14, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
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Amityville 3-D
Title: Amityville 3-D
Character: Nancy Baxter
Released: November 18, 1983
Type: Movie
To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel.
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Title: Chiefs
Character: Carrie Lee
Released: November 13, 1983
Type: TV
Three different police chiefs in three different eras become involved in a growing mystery -- who is the mass murderer behind the killing of transient youths in and around the fictional southern town of Delano over a forty year period?
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Tender Mercies
Title: Tender Mercies
Character: Rosa Lee
Released: March 4, 1983
Type: Movie
Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
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Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Title: Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Character: Janet Briggs
Released: February 27, 1983
Type: Movie
Starflight One, a commercial aircraft that can whisk passengers around the globe in a matter of hours, embarks on its maiden voyage. The trip goes horribly awry, however, when the aircraft is forced out of the atmosphere and into outer space. As it is too dangerous to attempt reentry, Captain Cody Briggs, his passengers and his crew brave declining levels of oxygen while NASA scientists scramble to launch a rescue mission in a race against time.
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Kentucky Woman
Title: Kentucky Woman
Released: January 11, 1983
Type: Movie
A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad.