Carlin Glynn
Biography: Carlin Glynn (February 19, 1940 - July 13, 2023) was an American singer and Tony Award-winning actress. She was married to writer/director/actor Peter Masterson in 1960 until his death in 2018. They had 3 children: actress Mary Stuart Masterson, cinematographer Peter Masterson Jr., and former actress Alexandra 'Lexie' Masterson. She wa best known for her roles as Mae Barber in Three Days of the Condor (1975), Brenda Baker - mother to Molly Ringwald's character in Sixteen Candles (1984), Jessie Mae in The Trip to Bountiful (1985) (directed by her husband), First Lady Meg Tresch alongside George C. Scott's character President Samuel Tresch on FOX's TV series Mr. President, and Lady Bird Johnson on the miniseries A Woman Named Jackie. Her other film credits include roles in Resurrection (1980), Continental Divide (1981), The Escape Artist (1982), Gardens of Stone (1987) (where her husband and daughter also had roles), Blood Red (1989), Night Game (1989), Convicts (1991), Judy Berlin (1999), and Whiskey School (2005). A life member of The Actors Studio, she made her belated but Tony Award-winning Broadway debut - as 1979's Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical - portraying "Mona Stangley" in the original production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, a musical comedy adapted by her husband and fellow Studio member, Peter Masterson, from a non-fiction article published in Playboy, in collaboration with the article's author, Larry L. King, and songwriter Carol Hall, and developed at length in workshop performances at the Studio.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 19, 1940
Deathday: July 13, 2023
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The Escape Artist
1982-05-28
The Escape Artist
Overview: The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from prison within an hour. What follows is a flashback showing his childhood with his uncle and aunt, who are 'vaudeville'-artists themselves.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-28
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Continental Divide
1981-09-18
Continental Divide
Overview: A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-18
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Judy Berlin
1999-10-06
Judy Berlin
Overview: Judy Berlin is an aspiring actress whose idealism is at odds with her small suburban community, where a solar eclipse induces town inhabitants (a lonely housewife, a frustrated schoolteacher, and a struggling filmmaker) to search for solace and understanding in themselves and one another.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-06
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Lost Junction
2003-02-14
Lost Junction
Overview: A hitchhiker gets a ride with an oddball woman who has her husband's body in the trunk of the car.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-14
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Resurrection
1980-09-26
Resurrection
Overview: The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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Whiskey School
2005-09-11
Whiskey School
Overview: Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he fancies the drink a little too much. In the hopes of saving Leopold's life, his theater friends come together to stage an intervention for him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-11
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Blessing
1994-01-20
Blessing
Overview: Set on a Wisconsin dairy farm, Randi, the daughter, is trying to find a way to escape the farm, but her devotion to her family especially Clovis her younger brother is preventing her from doing that; until, that is, she met the local milk truck driver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-20
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Blood Red
1989-08-18
Blood Red
Overview: Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-18
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West of Here
2002-06-09
West of Here
Overview: Finding his only escape in music, Gil Blackwell (Josh Hamilton) decides to leave his monotonous business life in Boston when his cousin dies in a car accident. Gil ignores his father's disapproval and takes the family's antique truck for the promised land of California, but on the way a chance encounter reunites him with an old college flame, Genevieve (Fried Green Tomatoes' Mary Stuart Masterson), who joins his journey.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-09
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Convicts
1991-01-01
Convicts
Overview: In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty old Confederate who owns the plantation and depends on convict labor to keep his farm running, takes a liking to Horace. However, Soll is aging and sinking into senility, making the possibility of Horace ever getting his pay increasingly unlikely. On Christmas Eve, as Soll becomes obsessed with his own mortality, he makes a grand promise... forcing Horace to confront his fear of death and the harsh truths of a decadent society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Day-O
1992-05-03
Day-O
Overview: A five-year-old named Grace creates an imaginary friend, because her parents only pay attention to the new baby, Tony. Now at 35, his sole friend reappears to help her.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-03
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Sixteen Candles
1984-05-04
Sixteen Candles
Overview: With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake, but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior. Meanwhile, she must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy Ted, who is unfortunately the only boy in school who seems to take an interest in her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-04
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The Trip to Bountiful
1985-12-20
The Trip to Bountiful
Overview: Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-20
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Gardens of Stone
1987-05-05
Gardens of Stone
Overview: A sergeant; stationed in Arlington, Virginia in the late 1960s; must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-05
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Three Days of the Condor
1975-09-24
Three Days of the Condor
Overview: A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-24
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Night Game
1989-09-15
Night Game
Overview: A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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The Exonerated
2006-03-06
The Exonerated
Overview: Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-03-06
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