Mary McDonnell
Biography: Mary Eileen McDonnell (born April 28, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She received an Academy Award nomination for her role as Stands With A Fist in Dances with Wolves, and she is also very well known for her performance as President Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica, the President's wife in Independence Day, and for her starring role in Donnie Darko as the title character's mother. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary McDonnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: April 28, 1952
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Donnie Darko
2001-01-19
Donnie Darko
Overview: After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-19
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Dances with Wolves
1990-03-30
Dances with Wolves
Overview: Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-30
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Independence Day
1996-06-25
Independence Day
Overview: Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-25
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Sneakers
1992-09-09
Sneakers
Overview: When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-09
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Mumford
1999-09-24
Mumford
Overview: When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarming frankness, the town's quirkiest citizens scramble for a seat on his couch. As he lightens hearts darkened by old secrets no one realizes he's hiding a whopper of his own, or that he's fallen head over heels for one of his patients!
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-24
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Matewan
1987-08-28
Matewan
Overview: Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-28
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Garbo Talks
1984-10-12
Garbo Talks
Overview: When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother, Estelle, has one last wish: to meet the great Greta Garbo. Gilbert, wanting to do this last thing for her, sets out on a wild goose chase through the streets of New York City to track down the iconic star, at the expense of his personal life and much to the chagrin of his wife, Lisa. Can he find Garbo before it's too late?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-12
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Grand Canyon
1991-12-25
Grand Canyon
Overview: Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds himself in jeopardy in the other's rough neighborhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-25
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Scream 4
2011-04-13
Scream 4
Overview: Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott has put herself back together thanks to her writing. However, her return to Woodsboro sparks the return of the Ghostface Killer.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-13
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Passion Fish
1992-12-11
Passion Fish
Overview: After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-11
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Margin Call
2011-02-11
Margin Call
Overview: A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-11
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Money on the Side
1982-09-29
Money on the Side
Overview: Three middle-class housewives who are having money problems join a prostitution ring.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-29
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Battlestar Galactica: Razor
2007-11-12
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
Overview: The history and adventures of the Battlestar Pegasus, from shortly before the Cylon invasion to shortly after Lee Adama is made commander. The story is told through the eyes of and largely focuses on one particular member of Pegasus's crew, Kendra Shaw.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-12
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Blue Chips
1994-02-18
Blue Chips
Overview: Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-18
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Tiger Warsaw
1988-05-11
Tiger Warsaw
Overview: Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-11
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Courage
1986-09-24
Courage
Overview: A mother in Queens, New York, outraged when she discovers that her son is a drug addict, becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug trade in her neighborhood. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-24
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For All Time
2000-10-18
For All Time
Overview: A man facing middle-age and a failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end of the nineteenth century.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-18
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Two Voices
1997-06-16
Two Voices
Overview: When two women have breast implants for contrasting reasons, they both suffer from frightening side effects. They decide to unite and fight the drug companies who have turned their lives upside down.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-16
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A Father's Choice
2000-01-12
A Father's Choice
Overview: The fast-paced city life of two sisters is turned upside down when they are sent to live in the country with their father after their mother is killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-12
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The American Clock
1993-01-02
The American Clock
Overview: Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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Replacing Dad
1999-03-14
Replacing Dad
Overview: Linda and George live in a small town. He is the school principal. They are about to celebrate their 16th anniversary. She catches him with her daughter's young teacher, and has to deal with the kids, the town and her love to him.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-14
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Broke
Broke
Overview: A bronc rider in denial about his fading rodeo career battles against brain injury and a sudden blizzard while reflecting on how it became so difficult to achieve his dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Woman Undone
1996-02-04
Woman Undone
Overview: When Terri Hansen (Mary McDonnell) emerges from a fiery car crash as a widow, the local sheriff at first believes her account of the accident. But there's a snag in her story. Namely, a bullet in her dead husband. Just what did happen on that dark desert road? Through a series of telling flashbacks, we and the jury learn the bizarre truth. Randy Quaid and Sam Elliott costar in this riveting drama.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-04
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Evidence of Blood
1998-04-13
Evidence of Blood
Overview: When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-13
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Mrs. Harris
2006-02-25
Mrs. Harris
Overview: Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-25
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The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003-06-03
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Overview: Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of ‘Sneakers’ (1992).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-03
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Behind the Mask
1999-02-28
Behind the Mask
Overview: Dr. Bob Shushan is an overworked and absent father who runs a centre for the mentally and physically challenged. When Shushan suffers a heart attack, his life is saved by James Jones, a young patient at the center. The two men forge a friendship and help each other rekindle the father-son bond that has been missing in their lives.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-28
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12 Angry Men
1997-08-17
12 Angry Men
Overview: During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-17
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You Can Thank Me Later
1998-05-23
You Can Thank Me Later
Overview: In this Canadian comedy-drama, Shirley Cooperberg heads a Montreal Jewish family. During her husband's operation, her brood arrives at the hospital -- failed writer Eli, neurotic Susan, and successful theatrical producer Edward. An onslaught of one-liners find targets amid sibling rivalries and angst-ridden animosities.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-23
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Mariette in Ecstasy
1996-07-04
Mariette in Ecstasy
Overview: In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century. At summer's end, when she is 17, Mariette Baptiste, educated daughter of the local doctor, enters the cloistered convent of Our Lady of the Afflictions as a postulant. Her religious fervor, understated but determined, makes an impact on the small community of nuns whose days and nights are measured in a round of prayer and farm work changing only with the seasons. Their ordered life is disrupted, however, as Mariette begins to fall into a series of trances from which she awakens with stigmata, which heal as spontaneously as they appear. The feelings of skepticism, jealousy and adoration evoked in the nuns, Mariette's own response and that of the Mother Superior are delicately, indelibly presented.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-04
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Nola
2003-01-01
Nola
Overview: An urban fairy tale-romantic comedy, in which Nola, an aspiring songwriter, leaves an abusive Kansas home and journeys to New York to find her biological father. Once there, she finds more than she expected.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Crazy Like a Fox
2004-10-25
Crazy Like a Fox
Overview: This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his family farm, Greenwood, to a pair of land speculators from Washington, D.C. When the predatory couple manipulates a "legal" real estate transaction that turns into a hostile possession of the manor house, he temporarily loses his mind, leaving his family but not the farm. Instead he hides out in a cave on Goose Creek, waging guerilla warfare against expansionism and the destruction of historic property with the help of his family, friends, and neighbors...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-25
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And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
And the Oscar Goes To...
Overview: The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion
1996-06-30
Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion
Overview: A "mockumentary" of the alien invasion during Independence Day. Barry Nolan hosts the programme, the first 9 minutes of which are a spoof news report of the events of the film. The middle bit is a discussion of the film by cast and crew, and at the end various scientists and politicians discuss what would happen if real aliens arrive on Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-30
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The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996-06-29
The Making of 'Independence Day'
Overview: We take a look at various fields of development for the motion picture, Independence Day (1996). Jeff Goldblum is our guide through 'Area ID4' (a rip-off name of Area 51). He pretends to creep around and give us "secret" information about the film. There is also interviews with the cast and crew, and some other behind the scenes stuff that is only there to impress you, and to make you want to go see the film.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-29
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Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
2003-05-20
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
Overview: A documentary of the making of Dances with Wolves told through interviews with cast and crew. It describes the financial and production details, scouting locations, the buffalo hunt, the Lakota Sioux, and the recognition and success the film achieved.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-20
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The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
1990-11-15
The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
Overview: A documentary about the making of director Kevin Costner's Academy Award-winning directorial debut, Dances With Wolves.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-15
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Donnie Darko: Production Diary
2004-10-04
Donnie Darko: Production Diary
Overview: Behind the scenes look at the making of cult classic Donnie Darko
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-04
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The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
2021-08-22
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
Overview: Escaping from poverty to become a witcher, Vesemir slays monsters for coin and glory, but when a new menace rises, he must face the demons of his past.
Genres: Animation Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-22
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