Deirdre O'Connell

Deirdre O'Connell

Born: January 1, 1951
Deirdre O'Connell is an American character actress who has worked extensively on stage, screen, and television. O'Connell began her career at Stage One, an experimental theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts. She made herBroadway debut in the 1986 revival of The Front Page, and was nominated for the 1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in the off-Broadway production Love and Anger. She is the recipient of two Drama-Logue Awards and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her stage work in Los Angeles. O'Connell made her screen debut in Tin Men. Additional film credits include State of Grace, Straight Talk, Leaving Normal,Fearless, City of Angels, Hearts in Atlantis, Imaginary Heroes, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wendy and Lucy,What Happens in Vegas, Secondhand Lions, and Synecdoche, New York. O'Connell's first television credit was Fernwood 2 Night in 1977. She was a regular on L.A. Doctors and has made numerous guest appearances on series such as Kate & Allie, Chicago Hope, Law & Order, The Practice, Six Feet Under,Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Nurse Jackie. (Wikipedia)

Movies for Deirdre O'Connell...

Title: The Big Door Prize
Character: Eloise Hubbard
Released: March 28, 2023
Type: TV
A small town is forever changed when a mysterious machine appears, promising to reveal everyone's true potential. Soon residents start changing jobs, rethinking relationships, and questioning long-held beliefs—all in pursuit of a better future.
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Ghostwritten
Title: Ghostwritten
Released: June 19, 2022
Type: Movie
Clinging to the reputation of his one hit novel, writer Guy Laury accepts a winter residency on a reclusive island whose residents seem friendly at first. The discovery of a lost manuscript and its possible ties to a longstanding local murder case, however, throw into question the intentions of everyone around him.
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Title: Outer Range
Character: Patricia Tillerson
Released: April 14, 2022
Type: TV
A rancher fighting for his land and family stumbles upon an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness, forcing a confrontation with the Unknown in ways both intimate and cosmic in the untamable American West.
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The Requin
Title: The Requin
Character: Anne
Released: January 28, 2022
Type: Movie
A couple on a romantic getaway find themselves stranded at sea when a tropical storm sweeps away their villa. In order to survive, they are forced to fight the elements, while sharks circle below.
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Title: Stars in the House
Character: Self - Winner
Released: March 16, 2020
Type: TV
In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley have created Stars in the House, a daily live streamed series to support The Actors Fund and its services.
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I Am a Seagull
Title: I Am a Seagull
Character: Didi / Arkadina
Released: November 4, 2019
Type: Movie
Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" is interpreted by a handful of top-shelf stage actors from New York City as they converge in an upstate lakeside retreat. Surrounded by a menagerie of paper lanterns, circus tents, ten-foot tall puppets and floating furniture, the players merge with the reckless choices of their characters.
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Diane
Title: Diane
Character: Donna
Released: March 28, 2019
Type: Movie
Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
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Lez Bomb
Title: Lez Bomb
Character: Rose Anderson
Released: November 9, 2018
Type: Movie
A closeted young woman brings her girlfriend home for Thanksgiving, only to have her coming-out efforts thwarted by the unexpected arrival of her male roommate.
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The Boy Downstairs
Title: The Boy Downstairs
Character: Amy
Released: February 16, 2018
Type: Movie
A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.
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The Holdouts
Title: The Holdouts
Character: Annie
Released: June 29, 2017
Type: Movie
A comedy about New Yorkers who can’t afford to live in New York anymore
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In the Radiant City
Title: In the Radiant City
Released: September 11, 2016
Type: Movie
A man must return home to rural Kentucky where he and his family, fragmented and haunted, still carry the stigma of a murder his brother committed 20 years ago.
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Detours
Title: Detours
Character: Beth
Released: April 20, 2016
Type: Movie
A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her widowed dad, her mom's ashes in a coffee can, and a GPS with a mind of its own.
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Title: Marvel's Daredevil
Character: Anna Nelson
Released: April 10, 2015
Type: TV
Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.
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Title: The Affair
Character: Athena Bailey
Released: October 12, 2014
Type: TV
The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart after the two meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher with one novel published (book entitled A Person who Visits a Place) and he is struggling to write a second book. He is happily married with four children, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of the tragic death of her child. The story of the affair is told separately, complete with distinct memory biases, from the male and female perspectives.
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St. Vincent
Title: St. Vincent
Character: Linda
Released: October 9, 2014
Type: Movie
A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
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The Quitter
Title: The Quitter
Character: Kathleen Lembo
Released: September 12, 2014
Type: Movie
When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.
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Gabriel
Title: Gabriel
Character: Meredith
Released: April 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Convinced that reuniting with his old girlfriend will bring his dreams to fruition, Gabriel risks it all in a desperate and increasingly obsessive pursuit.
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Being Flynn
Title: Being Flynn
Character: Frowzy Woman
Released: March 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
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Title: Person of Interest
Character: Joan
Released: September 22, 2011
Type: TV
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars. 
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You Don't Know Jack
Title: You Don't Know Jack
Character: Linda
Released: April 14, 2010
Type: Movie
Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
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A Dog Year
Title: A Dog Year
Character: Donna Brady
Released: September 3, 2009
Type: Movie
Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends him a border collie that's undisciplined because of abuse. Despite a series of mishaps, Jon decides to keep trying with the dog, and he rents a dilapidated farm house to give the dog room to run. A local handyman refers Jon to a woman who might be able to help him train the dog. Reluctantly, Jon gives her a try. Is the dog the problem, or the owner?
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Title: Nurse Jackie
Character: Helen
Released: June 8, 2009
Type: TV
Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to take a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a handful of secret strategies to relieve the pain, and stay one step ahead of total disaster.
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Wendy and Lucy
Title: Wendy and Lucy
Character: Deb (voice)
Released: April 8, 2009
Type: Movie
A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.
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The Greatest
Title: The Greatest
Character: Joyce
Released: February 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out she's pregnant, she winds up at the Brewer's door. She needs their help, and although they can't quite admit it, they each need her so they can begin to heal.
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Synecdoche, New York
Title: Synecdoche, New York
Character: Ellen's Mother
Released: October 24, 2008
Type: Movie
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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What Happens in Vegas
Title: What Happens in Vegas
Character: Mrs. Fuller
Released: May 7, 2008
Type: Movie
During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other after a night of drunken abandon. They are then compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.
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American Loser
Title: American Loser
Character: Cynthia
Released: June 14, 2007
Type: Movie
A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get it together.
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Stephanie Daley
Title: Stephanie Daley
Character: Jane
Released: April 20, 2007
Type: Movie
Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. Despite Stephanie's insistence that her child was stillborn and that she had no idea that she was pregnant, she is arrested for the murder of the child.
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Winter Passing
Title: Winter Passing
Character: Deirdre
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: The Closer
Character: Liz Provenza
Released: June 13, 2005
Type: TV
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.
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Imaginary Heroes
Title: Imaginary Heroes
Character: Marge Dwyer
Released: September 14, 2004
Type: Movie
Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with mixed results.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Title: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Character: Hollis Mierzwiak
Released: March 19, 2004
Type: Movie
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
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Secondhand Lions
Title: Secondhand Lions
Character: Helen
Released: September 19, 2003
Type: Movie
The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
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Dragonfly
Title: Dragonfly
Character: Gwyn
Released: February 22, 2002
Type: Movie
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Nina Lipton
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Hearts in Atlantis
Title: Hearts in Atlantis
Character: Mrs. Gerber
Released: September 28, 2001
Type: Movie
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
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Just Ask My Children
Title: Just Ask My Children
Character: Landry
Released: September 10, 2001
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of a modern-day witch hunt, in which a couple is falsely accused and imprisoned for molesting their own children.
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Relative Evil
Title: Relative Evil
Character: Phyllis
Released: September 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Relative Evil (aka Ball in the House) - When JJ (Jonathan Tucker) returns home from rehab, he is greeted by a conniving family who are plotting to cash in on a life insurance policy before his 18th birthday
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Just Looking
Title: Just Looking
Character: Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher
Released: October 21, 1999
Type: Movie
It's 1955. Lenny is a 14-year old boy who is totally fascinated by sex. He is too scared to "do it," so he dedicates his summer to seeing two other people do it. Easier said than done. Caught in the act of spying, his mother and stepfather ship him off to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in "the country" -- Queens. His plan looks like a bust and his summer seems destined for boredom, until he meets a whole new group of friends -- young teens who have a "sex club."
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Judge N. Owens
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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Murder in a Small Town
Title: Murder in a Small Town
Character: Kate Faxton
Released: January 10, 1999
Type: Movie
A widowed theatre director moves to a small Connecticut town where he gets involved in solving the murder of a millionaire, who was the most despised man in town.
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Title: From the Earth to the Moon
Character: Barbara Young
Released: April 5, 1998
Type: TV
The story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972.
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Breast Men
Title: Breast Men
Character: Lacey
Released: December 13, 1997
Type: Movie
We follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. However, when success and money come their way, they split up and follow different paths. One becomes the surgeon of the everyday woman while the other's career freefalls and has to settle with strippers and actresses. The film covers their history and their inventions, from the sixties until today.
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A Deadly Vision
Title: A Deadly Vision
Character: Marilyn Middleton
Released: April 21, 1997
Type: Movie
A waitress who has psychic visions of murders before they happen is asked by a police detective to help find a serial killer.
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Lifeform
Title: Lifeform
Character: Dr. Gracia Scott
Released: September 24, 1996
Type: Movie
When the Viking space capsule suddenly returns to Earth from its long ago trip to Mars, it brings with it an intelligent visitor that is part "Alien" and part "ET". Encased in armor, it extends a human like form from its shell to examine its surroundings and shows an interest in humans including a soft caress of a female scientist prior to the Army killing it. This only enrages its sibling.
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Chasing the Dragon
Title: Chasing the Dragon
Character: Doris
Released: June 19, 1996
Type: Movie
Working class mother becomes addicted to heroin, and soon her life falls apart.
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Our Son, the Matchmaker
Title: Our Son, the Matchmaker
Character: Winona
Released: May 8, 1996
Type: Movie
As seen in flashback, this is the story of 43-year-old Julie a beautician who when 15 was forced by her mother to give up her baby for adoption. Her son, now 28, a minister, with his wife expecting, begins to search for his biological mother to find out his family medical history. She hears of his search and reunites.
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Title: Second Noah
Character: Shirley Crockmeyer
Released: February 5, 1996
Type: TV
Second Noah is a television drama that was broadcast in the United States on ABC television from February 5, 1996 to June 8, 1997
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Trial by Fire
Title: Trial by Fire
Character: Roberta
Released: October 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A high-school teacher tries to help one of her troubled male students, who misinterprets her interest.
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Kansas
Title: Kansas
Character: Holly
Released: July 27, 1995
Type: Movie
When a single mother and high-powered Chicago ad executive returns to her home town in Kansas to care for her ailing father, she rediscovers the joys and hardships of farm life.
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Smoke
Title: Smoke
Character: Sue the Waitress
Released: June 9, 1995
Type: Movie
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
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Fighting for My Daughter
Title: Fighting for My Daughter
Character: Peggy
Released: January 9, 1995
Type: Movie
Unable to get the police to help, a woman launches her own investigation to save her daughter from a dangerous prostitution ring.
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Title: Chicago Hope
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: TV
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.
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Fearless
Title: Fearless
Character: Nan Gordon
Released: October 15, 1993
Type: Movie
After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is wracked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.
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Daybreak
Title: Daybreak
Character: Mom
Released: May 8, 1993
Type: Movie
When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death. But a gutsy rebel named Torch sets out to help the afflicted by leading an underground effort to spirit the victims to humane sanctuary.
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Title: Sirens
Character: Heidi Schiller
Released: March 10, 1993
Type: TV
Sirens focused on the work and lives of three rookie female Pittsburgh Police officers. Officer Sarah Berkezchuk is dealing with her failing marriage, Officer Lynn Stanton is a single mom, and second-generation cop Officer Molly Whelan has a bad attitude which starts to interfere with her job. Each rookie officer worked under a veteran cop, and each grows and becomes more focused as a result.
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Cool World
Title: Cool World
Character: Isabelle Malley
Released: July 10, 1992
Type: Movie
A bizarre accident lands Frank Harris in Cool World, a realm of cartoons. Years later, cartoonist Jack Deebs, who's been drawing Cool World, crosses over as well. He sets his lustful sights on animated femme fatale Holli Would, but she's got plans of her own to become real, and it's up to Frank to stop her.
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CrissCross
Title: CrissCross
Character: Shelly
Released: May 8, 1992
Type: Movie
Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out about her activities and tries to convince her to stop, to no avail. A local restaurant owner hires him to collect fish from a boat out in the bay, and the boy discovers that the restaurant owner is using the fish to bring drugs in to shore. He steals one load and goes about selling it so his mother can afford to quit her job.
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Leaving Normal
Title: Leaving Normal
Character: Ellen
Released: April 29, 1992
Type: Movie
Darly, a waitress with a past that's weighing her down, decides to drive to Alaska to try and come to terms with her unfortunate history. Along the way, she meets Marianne, an impulsive young woman leaving an abusive relationship. The two hit the road together and keep driving north, bonding over the hardships that they have endured and meeting a number of eccentric characters as they get closer to their destination.
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Straight Talk
Title: Straight Talk
Character: Lily
Released: April 3, 1992
Type: Movie
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth. Problem is, the more he is around her the more he fancies her.
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Falling from Grace
Title: Falling from Grace
Character: Sally Cutler
Released: February 21, 1992
Type: Movie
Rock singer John Mellencamp makes his screen and directorial debut in this story by "Lonesome Dove" author, Larry McMurtry. The story, not too separated from Mellencamp's real life, finds him as a country music star whose meanderings and philandering has thrown his life into turmoil. Returning to his native Indiana to try to reestablish a normal life. Instead he takes up with an old lover (Lenz), ignoring his loving wife (Hemingway), and duplicating the lifestyle of his womanizing father (Akins).
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Pastime
Title: Pastime
Character: Inez Brice
Released: November 8, 1990
Type: Movie
A veteran minor league pitcher in 1957 tutors a young phenomenon.
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State of Grace
Title: State of Grace
Character: Irene
Released: September 14, 1990
Type: Movie
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Joanna Wilder
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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Title: Law & Order
Character: Jane Schuman
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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Title: Law & Order
Character: Valerie Knight
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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Brain Dead
Title: Brain Dead
Character: Mrs. Halsey
Released: January 16, 1990
Type: Movie
In a battle of man versus machine, Martin, a top neurosurgeon who's studying brain malfunctions that cause mental illness, delves deep into his own mind to save himself from a megalomaniacal corporation.
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Misplaced
Title: Misplaced
Character: Ella
Released: September 14, 1989
Type: Movie
The story of a strong-minded Polish mother, Halina Nowak who desperately wants her talented son, Jacek to have a life in the free world.
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Stars & Bars
Title: Stars & Bars
Character: Shanda Gage
Released: March 18, 1988
Type: Movie
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
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Anna
Title: Anna
Character: Assistant #2
Released: November 28, 1987
Type: Movie
Czech refugee Krystyna travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna. After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna finds that celebrity often doesn't travel well, and she must go through a battery of humiliating auditions to try and get work in her adopted land. But when Krystyna and Anna finally meet, they provide a support structure for each other.
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Tin Men
Title: Tin Men
Character: Nellie
Released: March 6, 1987
Type: Movie
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
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Eddington
Title: Eddington
Character: Dawn
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Follows a small-town New Mexico sheriff with higher aspirations.
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Title: The Penguin
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Witness the The Penguin's rise to power in Gotham's criminal underworld in the aftermath of the Riddler killings.