Mare Winningham

Mare Winningham

Born: May 16, 1959
in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Mary Megan "Mare" Winningham (born May 16, 1959) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award.

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Brats
Title: Brats
Character: Self
Released: June 7, 2024
Type: Movie
Based on his memoir, this documentary takes an intimate look at the life of actor Andrew McCarthy who grew to fame in the 1980s and was part of a group of actors known as The Brat Pack.
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Rob Peace
Title: Rob Peace
Character: Professor Durham
Released: January 22, 2024
Type: Movie
Film follows a young man who grew up in a crime-ridden section of Newark, NY and later graduated from Yale with degrees in molecular biophysics and biochemistry earned on scholarship. Peace led a dual life living in the insular world of academia and as a lab researcher of cancer and infectious diseases, while at the same time making six figures from the sale of marijuana.
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All My Puny Sorrows
Title: All My Puny Sorrows
Character: Lottie Von Riesen
Released: June 14, 2023
Type: Movie
The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one sibling struggles in love and life, the other is a world-famous concert pianist.
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Title: Dopesick
Character: Diane Mallum
Released: October 13, 2021
Type: TV
The story of how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. Look into the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the opulence of "one percenter" Big Pharma Manhattan.
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News of the World
Title: News of the World
Character: Doris Boudlin
Released: December 25, 2020
Type: Movie
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
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Title: The Outsider
Character: Jeannie Anderson
Released: January 12, 2020
Type: TV
When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.
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Dark Waters
Title: Dark Waters
Character: Darlene Kiger
Released: November 22, 2019
Type: Movie
A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.
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The Seagull
Title: The Seagull
Character: Polina Andryevna
Released: May 11, 2018
Type: Movie
At a picturesque lakeside estate, a love triangle unfolds between the legendary diva Irina, her lover Boris, and the ingénue Nina.
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O.G.
Title: O.G.
Character: Janice
Released: April 20, 2018
Type: Movie
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
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Geostorm
Title: Geostorm
Character: Dr. Jennings
Released: October 12, 2017
Type: Movie
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.
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Philomena
Title: Philomena
Character: Mary Hess
Released: November 1, 2013
Type: Movie
A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
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Title: Under the Dome
Character: Agatha Seagrave
Released: June 24, 2013
Type: TV
A small town is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome. While military forces, the government and the media positioned outside of this surrounding barrier attempt to break it down, a small group of people inside attempt to figure out what the dome is, where it came from, and when (and if) it will go away.
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Title: Hatfields & McCoys
Character: Sally McCoy
Released: May 28, 2012
Type: TV
It’s the true American story of a legendary family feud—one that spanned decades and nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. The Hatfield-McCoy saga begins with Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy.. Close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, they return to their neighboring homes—Hatfield in West Virginia, McCoy just across the Tug River border in Kentucky—to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments that soon explode into all-out warfare between their families. As hostilities grow, friends, neighbors and outside forces join the fight, bringing the two states to the brink of another civil war.
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Mirror Mirror
Title: Mirror Mirror
Character: Baker Margaret
Released: March 15, 2012
Type: Movie
After she spends all her money, an evil enchantress queen schemes to marry a handsome, wealthy prince. There's just one problem - he's in love with a beautiful princess, Snow White. Now, joined by seven rebellious dwarves, Snow White launches an epic battle of good vs. evil...
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Title: American Horror Story
Character: Rita Gayheart
Released: October 5, 2011
Type: TV
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
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Title: American Horror Story
Character: Alicia Spencer
Released: October 5, 2011
Type: TV
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
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Title: American Horror Story
Character: Sally Keffler
Released: October 5, 2011
Type: TV
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
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Title: American Horror Story
Character: Hazel Evers
Released: October 5, 2011
Type: TV
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
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Title: Mildred Pierce
Character: Ida Corwin
Released: March 27, 2011
Type: TV
Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a man, all the while trying to earn her spoiled, narcissistic daughter's love and respect.
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Brothers
Title: Brothers
Character: Elsie Cahill
Released: December 2, 2009
Type: Movie
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic mayhem.
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Swing Vote
Title: Swing Vote
Character: Larissa Johnson
Released: August 1, 2008
Type: Movie
In a remarkable turn of events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man's vote.
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War Eagle, Arkansas
Title: War Eagle, Arkansas
Character: Belle, Enoch's Mother
Released: November 3, 2007
Type: Movie
Based on a True Story War Eagle, Arkansas is a character-driven drama about a young man’s choice of whether to leave his family and friends for a career in baseball or stay and redeem his struggling community. The story takes place over a few pivotal weeks in the summer after Enoch Cass’s senior year, and is set against the backdrop of Arkansas’ beautiful Ozark Mountains. War Eagle, Arkansas poses important questions that face all young people in rural America. The answers we find could touch us all.
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Title: Torchwood
Character: Ellis Hartley Monroe
Released: October 22, 2006
Type: TV
The exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Susan Grey
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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The Magic of Ordinary Days
Title: The Magic of Ordinary Days
Character: Martha
Released: January 30, 2005
Type: Movie
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
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Title: Boston Legal
Character: Patrice Kelly
Released: October 3, 2004
Type: TV
Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.
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Title: Clubhouse
Character: Lynne Young
Released: September 26, 2004
Type: TV
For the first time, Pete Young takes a risk - perhaps the only risk of his young life - when he applies for and lands his dream job as a batboy for the New York Empires. The problem is that his single mother, Lynne has no idea what he's up to. Until now, he's been the golden boy while his rebellious older sister, Betsy, has always been in the doghouse. Pete attends a strict Catholic high school where he hangs out with his best friend, Mike, who hopes to cash in on his friend's new position in life. On the job, Pete becomes a member of a new family that includes Conrad Dean, the team's captain and star third baseman and one of the boy's all-time idols, who takes on the role of an older brother. Also in the clubhouse are Pete's boss, Lou Russo, a gruff but fair equipment manager who becomes a much-needed father figure; Carlos Tavares, a rookie who believes that Pete is his good luck charm, and Jose Marquez, the Empires' territorial head batboy. Pete is over the moon at being part of his favorite team but he must still balance life at home and life in the big leagues as he faces the moral dilemmas and curve balls that are thrown his way.
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Title: CSI: NY
Character: Katherine Donovan
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".
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The Adventures of Ociee Nash
Title: The Adventures of Ociee Nash
Character: Aunt Mamie Nash
Released: February 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Ociee Nash, a spirited nine-year-old from rural Mississippi, is sent to live with her Aunt Mamie to become a "young lady". Her true bravery, character, and spirit are put to the test.
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Dandelion
Title: Dandelion
Character: Layla Mullich
Released: January 15, 2004
Type: Movie
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender bond is soon tested after a fatal accident and a series of complications takes Mason away for something he didn't do.
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Title: Cold Case
Character: Celeste Cooper (2010)
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: The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire
Released: September 24, 2003
Type: TV
The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire is an American drama series created by David E. Kelley that aired on CBS. The show offers the typical quirkiness and eccentric humor that have become synonymous with David E. Kelley's shows. The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire has been described as "Northern Exposure with middle-aged angst and populated with the sort of oddball supporting characters so typical of the Kelley oeuvre." The show was canceled after five episodes due to poor ratings.
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The Maldonado Miracle
Title: The Maldonado Miracle
Character: Maisie
Released: January 20, 2003
Type: Movie
A story about a small, dying town in need of hope until one day a young boy gives them something to believe in.
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Tru Confessions
Title: Tru Confessions
Character: Ginny
Released: April 5, 2002
Type: Movie
Trudy Walker hated her life. She thought it was totally messed up until she found out about a contest that could change everything..
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Title: 24
Released: November 6, 2001
Type: TV
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
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Title: Night Visions
Character: Kate Morris
Released: July 12, 2001
Type: TV
Horror anthology series, with each episode comprising two half-hour stories dealing with themes of the supernatural or simply the dark side of human nature.
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Snap Decision
Title: Snap Decision
Character: Jennifer Bradley
Released: June 4, 2001
Type: Movie
Inspired by a true story, a young widowed mother finds herself on trial for child pornography and abuse after allowing her best friend to photograph her daughters and friend.
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Title: Six Feet Under
Character: Eileen Piper
Released: June 3, 2001
Type: TV
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.
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Sharing the Secret
Title: Sharing the Secret
Character: Dr. Nina Moss
Released: May 10, 2000
Type: Movie
A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.
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Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
Title: Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
Character: Martha 'Patsy' Jefferson Randolph
Released: February 13, 2000
Type: Movie
Epic television miniseries exploring the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38 year love affair, spanning an ocean, ultimately producing children, grandchildren, and lots of controversy.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Sandra Blaine
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: Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
Character: Chandi Heffner
Released: February 21, 1999
Type: TV
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke is a four-part miniseries that was first broadcast on CBS in 1999 starring Lauren Bacall and Richard Chamberlain. It was based primarily on the book The Richest Girl In The World: by Stephanie Mansfield as well as Bob Colacello's two in-depth articles about Ms Duke in Vanity Fair. Colacello was the magazine's authority on Doris Duke. The title of the series was derived from the book Too Rich: The Family Secrets of Doris Duke by Pony Duke and Jason Thomas. Manfield's book was the first to be obtained by CBS, which optioned it for a planned miniseries in early 1995. The Duke-Thomas book, which was "being peddled as a miniseries" by the authors months before publication, was originally optioned earlier that year by the producer Doris Keating, who planned a miniseries of her own. Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke presents a dramatized account of the life of the heiress, philanthropist, and once richest woman in the world, Doris Duke. It has since been re-broadcast on The Hallmark Channel, and on Lifetime combined together and presented as a 192 minute movie. The film stars Hayden Panettiere as young Doris Duke, Lindsay Frost as 20 to 50 year old Doris Duke, and Lauren Bacall as an elderly Doris Duke. Bacall, who had met Doris Duke a few times, was pleased to have been able to appear in a TV miniseries, devoting a few paragraphs to the experience in her autobiography.
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Little Girl Fly Away
Title: Little Girl Fly Away
Character: Cath
Released: October 6, 1998
Type: Movie
Fact-based story about a woman whose life is shattered by a poetry-spouting stalker who manages to evade her police protectors.
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Everything That Rises
Title: Everything That Rises
Character: Kyle Clay
Released: July 12, 1998
Type: Movie
His son's critical injury forces a Montana man (Dennis Quaid) to reconsider priorities as he struggles to retain family land.
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George Wallace
Title: George Wallace
Character: Lurleen Wallace
Released: August 24, 1997
Type: Movie
George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it; Sinise and Mare Winningham also won Emmies for their performances. The film was based on the 1996 biography Wallace : The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace by Marshall Frady, who also co-wrote the teleplay. Frankenheimer's film was highly praised by critics: in addition to the Emmy awards, it received the Golden Globe for Best Miniseries/Motion Picture made for TV. Angelina Jolie also received a Golden Globe for her performance as Wallace's second wife, Cornelia.
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Bad Day on the Block
Title: Bad Day on the Block
Character: Catherine Braverton
Released: August 22, 1997
Type: Movie
The heat is at record highs, the air conditioner is broken, the milk has gone bad, the repairman can't find the house... and then there's the neighbor. Lyle Wilder, a celebrated firefighter, whose scorn for the young Braverton family next door turns to outright assault as his heroic exterior begins to unravel from the inside.
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The Deliverance of Elaine
Title: The Deliverance of Elaine
Character: Elaine Hodges
Released: April 10, 1996
Type: Movie
A small town schoolteacher is hunted by a paroled con who holds the secret of her dark past.
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The Boys Next Door
Title: The Boys Next Door
Character: Sheila
Released: February 4, 1996
Type: Movie
Kind-hearted social worker Jack Palmer feels guilty about not spending enough time with his wife due to the pressures of his job taking care of four developmentally disabled men: obsessive-compulsive Norman, bipolar Arnold, childlike Lucien, and schizophrenic Barry. When Jack announces his decision to leave his job, his four charges react quite unexpectedly to the news.
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Letter to My Killer
Title: Letter to My Killer
Released: August 9, 1995
Type: Movie
A letter is found by a demolition worker that reveals a cover up and a murder that is over 30 years old. The victim is the author of the letter that also contains evidence that leads to the killers. The demolition worker and his wife complicate things when they decide to blackmail the killers, who are wealthy and upstanding citizens of the community, of course.
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Georgia
Title: Georgia
Character: Georgia Flood
Released: May 19, 1995
Type: Movie
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to drugs and booze, and also to her own unwise choice in men. Finally, though, Sadie's Achilles heel is a rough, unlovely voice very different than her sister's crowd-pleasing singing.
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The War
Title: The War
Character: Lois Simmons
Released: November 4, 1994
Type: Movie
The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
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Title: Touched by an Angel
Character: Dr. Maggie de Santo
Released: September 21, 1994
Type: TV
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
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Title: ER
Character: Amanda Lee
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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Wyatt Earp
Title: Wyatt Earp
Character: Mattie Blaylock
Released: June 24, 1994
Type: Movie
From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his brothers and Doc Holliday, Earp wages war on the dreaded Clanton and McLaury gangs.
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Teresa's Tattoo
Title: Teresa's Tattoo
Character: Singer
Released: March 15, 1994
Type: Movie
Mathematician Teresa just wanted to study during the College spring break. But her friends, who want her to live a little, drag her out to parties. The next thing she knows, she has been drugged, kidnapped, made a redhead, tattooed, and wearing leather?!? Her captors seem to be the most inept crooks ever. They seem to have a plan, if only she could figure out why it involves her.
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Betrayed by Love
Title: Betrayed by Love
Character: Dana
Released: January 17, 1994
Type: Movie
An FBI agent and his pretty informant become lovers, which leads to tragedy.
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Sexual Healing
Title: Sexual Healing
Character: Marta
Released: July 18, 1993
Type: Movie
A recently dumped single guy and a bored housewife meet through a phone dating service and begin a hot "verbal" affair over the phone.
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Better Off Dead.
Title: Better Off Dead.
Character: Kit Kellner
Released: January 12, 1993
Type: Movie
A lawyer fights a losing battle against the courts to overturn the death sentence for a convicted female robber/murderer despite demands from the woman that her death sentence be carried out.
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Title: Mad About You
Released: September 23, 1992
Type: TV
Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.
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Title: Intruders
Character: Mary Wilkes
Released: May 17, 1992
Type: TV
When psychiatrist Dr. Neil Chase encounters two women suffering from the same symptoms with similar nightmarish stories, rational explanations just don't seem to fit.
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Those Secrets
Title: Those Secrets
Character: Faye
Released: March 16, 1992
Type: Movie
A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
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Hard Promises
Title: Hard Promises
Character: Dawn
Released: January 31, 1992
Type: Movie
A man who doesn't like stable work environments has been away for too many years, and finds out his wife has divorced him and is planning to remarry. He comes home to confront her, trying to convince her not to get married, aided by the daughter, who loves him despite his wandering ways. The couple finds out they still have feelings for each other but must decide how best to handle the contradiction of their lifestyles.
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She Stood Alone
Title: She Stood Alone
Character: Prudence Crandall
Released: April 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Prudence Crandall establishes herself in Cantenbury, and starts a girls-school. When Eliza Harris, a black girl, wants to take lessons at this school, the local people resist and forbid their daughters to go to the school any longer. William Lloyd Garrison, writer of The Liberator, helps Prudence to turn her school to a black girls-school.
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Fatal Exposure
Title: Fatal Exposure
Character: Jamie Hurd
Released: February 6, 1991
Type: Movie
Mare Winningham stars in this thriller about a photo store mix-up of a single mom's family vacation snapshots with the pictures of an assassination target leading to murder on a sleepy Pacific Northwest island, and forcing her to team up with the hitman's quarry.
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Crossing to Freedom
Title: Crossing to Freedom
Character: Nicole Rougeron
Released: April 8, 1990
Type: Movie
A very proper Englishman becomes saddled with youngsters that he has to help escape Nazi Germany. Adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel.
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Love and Lies
Title: Love and Lies
Character: Kim Paris
Released: March 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Fact-based story of real-life detective Kim Paris who was assigned to work undercover to find the murderers of an elderly couple who were shot in their beds. The chief suspect (Gallagher) is a charming man who once lived with the daughter of the couple. In acting in her undercover role, she gets too close to the suspect and the two start falling in love.
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Turner & Hooch
Title: Turner & Hooch
Character: Emily Carson
Released: July 28, 1989
Type: Movie
Scott Turner has 3 days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some 'real' cases—not just misdemeanors. When Amos Reed is murdered, Scott sets himself on the case, but the closest thing to a witness to the murder is Reed's dog, Hooch, which Scott has to take care of—to avoid Hooch being 'put to sleep'.
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Miracle Mile
Title: Miracle Mile
Character: Julie Peters
Released: May 19, 1988
Type: Movie
After 30 years of searching, Harry has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los Angeles in less than an hour!
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God Bless the Child
Title: God Bless the Child
Character: Theresa Johnson
Released: March 21, 1988
Type: Movie
Single mother, Theresa Johnson, becomes homeless, loses her job and tries to survive with her young daughter, Hillary, through charities and public shelters.
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Eye on the Sparrow
Title: Eye on the Sparrow
Character: Ethel Lee
Released: December 7, 1987
Type: Movie
True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.
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Made in Heaven
Title: Made in Heaven
Character: Brenda Carlucci
Released: November 6, 1987
Type: Movie
Deceased drifter Mike arrives in Heaven and quickly falls for newborn soul Annie, soon to start her assignment on Earth. When Annie leaves, Mike follows.
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Shy People
Title: Shy People
Character: Candy
Released: May 14, 1987
Type: Movie
New York journalist visits her distant cousin for the first time to write an article about her hard life in the bayous of Louisiana. Journalist's wild drug addicted daughter just adds to tensions between two families' cultures.
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Nobody's Fool
Title: Nobody's Fool
Character: Pat
Released: November 7, 1986
Type: Movie
Cassie, who seeks love and escape from her mundane ordinary life, meets a traveling Shakespeare troupe offering a community acting workshop.
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Who Is Julia?
Title: Who Is Julia?
Character: Mary Frances Bodine
Released: October 26, 1986
Type: Movie
A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful womans brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Janes husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful womans husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.
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A Winner Never Quits
Title: A Winner Never Quits
Character: Annie
Released: April 13, 1986
Type: Movie
Raised in a poor Pennsylvania mining town by his immigrant parents, Pete Grey lost his right arm while still a young boy. But through the encouragement of his father and the constant coaching of his older brother, Pete never gives up on his dream of playing professional baseball. Driven by anger, he finally makes it to the big leagues. But it isn't until he agrees to meet a handicapped youngster who idolizes him that Pete finally becomes a genuine American hero.
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Love Is Never Silent
Title: Love Is Never Silent
Character: Margaret Ryder
Released: December 9, 1985
Type: Movie
A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds in marriage starts to strain under the guilt she feels for deserting her parents and the bitterness they express towards her.
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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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St. Elmo's Fire
Title: St. Elmo's Fire
Character: Wendy Beamish
Released: June 28, 1985
Type: Movie
A group of friends graduates from the halls of Georgetown University into lives that revolve around sex and career aspirations. Kirby waits tables to pay for law school. His roommate Kevin struggles at a D.C. newspaper as he searches for the meaning of love. Jules may be an object of adoration and envy, but secretly she has problems of her own. Demure Wendy is in love with Billy—a loveable sax player and an irresponsible drunk. Alec wants it all: a career in politics and the appearance of a traditional home life. Alec’s girlfriend, Leslie, is an ambitious architect who doesn't know about his infidelity, but his new allegiance to the Republican Party is already enough to put her off marriage.
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One Too Many
Title: One Too Many
Character: Beth
Released: May 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Four high school friends find their lives changed forever when one of the friends drives drunk with devastating results.
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Single Bars, Single Women
Title: Single Bars, Single Women
Character: Bootsie
Released: October 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Men and women gather at local singles bars in search of lasting love or casual action.
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Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Title: Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Character: Helen Keller
Released: April 23, 1984
Type: Movie
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Title: The Thorn Birds
Character: Justine O'Neill
Released: March 27, 1983
Type: TV
The story based on a novel by Colleen McCullough focuses on three generations of the Cleary family living on a sheep station in the Australian outback.
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Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Title: Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Character: Kate Bradshaw
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new home, but returns to find that they have been adopted out without her knowledge.
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A Few Days in Weasel Creek
Title: A Few Days in Weasel Creek
Character: Locksley Claitor
Released: October 21, 1981
Type: Movie
Serio-comic road movie about a feisty girl who sets out for California and hitches a ride for herself and her house trailer with a runaway farm boy and accompanies him on a side trip to visit his aunt in the Southern hamlet of Weasel Creek.
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Threshold
Title: Threshold
Character: Carol Severance
Released: September 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of the Ethics Committee, Dr. Vrain decides to perform the first artificial heart transplant.
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Freedom
Title: Freedom
Character: Libby Bellow
Released: May 18, 1981
Type: Movie
Talented musician and free spirit Libby chafes under the rule of her divorced journalist mother, so she seeks emancipation from her parents and hits the road, soon joining the ranks of a traveling carnival. She gains the freedom she has longed for but learns some hard lessons along the way.
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One Trick Pony
Title: One Trick Pony
Character: Modeena Dandridge
Released: October 3, 1980
Type: Movie
An aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage.
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The Women's Room
Title: The Women's Room
Character: Chris
Released: September 14, 1980
Type: Movie
A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women who help her find her own voice.
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Off the Minnesota Strip
Title: Off the Minnesota Strip
Character: Micki Johansen
Released: May 5, 1980
Type: Movie
A teenage runaway attempts to readjust to home and family life in Minnesota after returning home after years of working on the streets of New York City as a hooker and tries desperately to regain her parents' understanding and love.
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Amber Waves
Title: Amber Waves
Character: Marlene Burkhardt
Released: March 9, 1980
Type: Movie
A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but becomes a father-figure to the young man.
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The Death of Ocean View Park
Title: The Death of Ocean View Park
Character: Jenny Flowers
Released: October 19, 1979
Type: Movie
A group of celebrants find themselves trapped in an amusement park that is being torn apart by a hurricane during a Fourth of July holiday. The real Ocean View Park in Norfolk, Virginia, scheduled for demolition by the city, actually was blown up and burned down during the filming.
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Title: Studs Lonigan
Character: Helen Shyers
Released: March 7, 1979
Type: TV
The story of the Irish-American Lonigan family between 1918 and 1930.
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Title: The Young Pioneers
Released: April 2, 1978
Type: TV
The Young Pioneers is a three-episode ABC western television series starring Linda Purl and Roger Kern in the role of young newlyweds Molly and David Beaton, who settle in the Dakota Territory during the 1870s. The program was based on novels of Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose work inspired NBC's Little House on the Prairie starring Michael Landon. The Young Pioneers aired at 7 p.m. Eastern on Sundays on April 2, 9, and 16, 1978. The recurring cast included Robert Hays as Dan Gray, Robert Donner as Mr. Peters, Mare Winningham as Nettie Peters, Michelle Stacy as Flora Peters, and Jeff Cotler as Charlie Peters. A Martinez portrayed the Indian Circling Hawk. Geno Silva played another Indian, Fool's Crow. The episodes are entitled "Sky in the Window", "A Kite for Charlie", and "The Promise of Spring".
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Special Olympics
Title: Special Olympics
Character: Janice Gallitzin
Released: February 22, 1978
Type: Movie
A widowed father struggles to hold together his family of three teenagers, one of whom is intellectually challenged and enrolled in a state school for "special" children where he finds fulfillment in his love of sports, emulating his older, athletic brother.
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Title: Big Hawaii
Released: September 21, 1977
Type: TV
Big Hawaii is an American drama television series that aired from September 21 until November 23, 1977.
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Title: Family
Character: Merilee
Released: March 9, 1976
Type: TV
The lives of the middle-class Lawrence family in Pasadena, California.
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Title: Starsky & Hutch
Character: Joey Carston
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: TV
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
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Title: Police Woman
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.
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Title: ABC Afterschool Special
Character: Beth
Released: October 4, 1972
Type: TV
Dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were either in animated form or presented as documentaries. Topics included illiteracy, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy.
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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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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Martha
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Sheila
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Margaret Ryder
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.