Natasha Richardson
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was an English actress of stage and screen. A member of the Redgrave family, she was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. Early in her career, she portrayed Mary Shelley and Patty Hearst in feature films, and she received critical acclaim and a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in the 1993 revival of Anna Christie. She won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance as Sally Bowles in the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret. Some of her notable films included Patty Hearst (1988), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Nell (1994), The Parent Trap (1998) and Maid in Manhattan (2002). Her first marriage to filmmaker Robert Fox ended in divorce in 1992. In 1994, she married Irish actor Liam Neeson, whom she had met when the two appeared in Anna Christie. The couple had two sons, Micheál and Daniel. Richardson's father died of AIDS-related causes in 1991. She helped raise millions of dollars in the fight against AIDS through the charity amfAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Richardson died in 2009 following a head injury sustained when she fell during a skiing lesson in Quebec. Description above from the Wikipedia article Natasha Richardson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: May 11, 1963
Deathday: March 18, 2009
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Nell
1994-12-23
Nell
Overview: In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell — a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-23
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Waking Up in Reno
2002-12-13
Waking Up in Reno
Overview: Candy and Lonnie Earl are just crazy about each other. The problem: she's married to Roy and he's married to Darlene. So far it's been a secret affair. But that's about to change, because this foursome is driving cross-country and headed for some big surprises.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-13
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The Handmaid's Tale
1990-02-15
The Handmaid's Tale
Overview: In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-15
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Evening
2007-06-09
Evening
Overview: As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick Wilson), who was the love of her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-09
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Maid in Manhattan
2002-12-13
Maid in Manhattan
Overview: Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son. One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall meets Marisa and mistakes her for a wealthy socialite. After an enchanting evening together, the two fall madly in love. But when Marisa's true identity is revealed, issues of class and social status threaten to separate them. Can two people from very different worlds overcome their differences and live happily ever after?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-13
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Asylum
2005-09-09
Asylum
Overview: A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-09
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Widows' Peak
1994-04-15
Widows' Peak
Overview: Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-15
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Gothic
1986-11-30
Gothic
Overview: Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-30
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Fat Man and Little Boy
1989-10-20
Fat Man and Little Boy
Overview: Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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The Parent Trap
1998-07-28
The Parent Trap
Overview: Hallie Parker and Annie James are identical twins separated at a young age because of their parents' divorce. Unknowingly to their parents, the girls are sent to the same summer camp where they meet, discover the truth about themselves, and then plot with each other to switch places.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-28
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Wild Child
2008-08-15
Wild Child
Overview: Sixteen-year-old Poppy has everything her unlimited credit cards can buy, and a spoiled attitude to match. After a final thoughtless prank, her exasperated father ships her off to boarding school in England. There, Poppy meets her match in a stern headmistress and a class full of girls who will not tolerate her selfishness.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-15
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The Comfort of Strangers
1990-11-01
The Comfort of Strangers
Overview: An Italian diplomat's son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-01
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A Month in the Country
1987-09-27
A Month in the Country
Overview: A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church. While living in the quiet village, he forms a close friendship with an archaeologist and begins to come to terms with his trauma.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-27
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In the Secret State
1985-03-10
In the Secret State
Overview: A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his own name and finds he is investigating a murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-10
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Blow Dry
2001-03-01
Blow Dry
Overview: The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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Past Midnight
1992-05-03
Past Midnight
Overview: A man gets out of prison after 15 years for stabbing his wife to death, and his social worker becomes convinced he was innocent. As she researches his case, and interviews other people who were involved, she begins to fall in love with him, as her friends warn her that he's dangerous.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-03
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The White Countess
2005-10-30
The White Countess
Overview: In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia—a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy—and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat, who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.
Genres: Drama History Family Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-30
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Patty Hearst
1988-09-23
Patty Hearst
Overview: The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970's. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and her way of life and she joined forces with the cause that her abductors were fighting for. This created a US scandal and Patty Hearst has become a pop culture fixture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006-03-27
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Overview: Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright -- set within the context of the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped him, and that he in turn struggled all his life to give form to in his art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-27
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The Wildest Dream
2010-08-06
The Wildest Dream
Overview: Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-06
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The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
1991-05-01
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
Overview: A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-01
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Ghosts
1987-06-14
Ghosts
Overview: Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a memorial to him. To mark this occasion, her bohemian painter son Oswald has returned from Paris. Helene plans to take the opportunity to tell Oswald the truth about his father. But ghosts of the past erupt during an eventful evening, bringing the facade of civilised family life crashing down.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-14
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Haven
2001-02-11
Haven
Overview: Based on the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to love and feel sorry for them all, and fights for their rights to live in America.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-11
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Suddenly, Last Summer
1993-01-06
Suddenly, Last Summer
Overview: The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-06
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Zelda
1993-11-06
Zelda
Overview: Famous 1920s modernist writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his eccentric Flapper socialite wife Zelda Sayre's relationship began quite passionately, but he slowly fell into alcoholism and she was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-06
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Hostages
1992-09-23
Hostages
Overview: True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-23
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968-04-10
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Overview: During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-10
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Every Picture Tells a Story
1984-12-01
Every Picture Tells a Story
Overview: James Scott's biopic of his father William Scott, his childhood and his origins as a painter.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-01
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Mastersons of Manhattan
2007-01-01
Mastersons of Manhattan
Overview: A look at the life of two sisters who come from a socially prominent family in New York.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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High Crime
1973-08-12
High Crime
Overview: An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-12
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The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996-03-17
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Overview: A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and hosted by some of its most beloved female icons.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-17
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Chelsea Walls
2001-09-21
Chelsea Walls
Overview: This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-21
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