Amy Irving
Biography: Amy Davis Irving (born September 10, 1953) is an American actress and singer, who worked in film, stage, and television. Her accolades include an Obie Award, two Golden Globe Award nominations, and one Academy Award nomination. Born in Palo Alto, California, to actors Jules Irving and Priscilla Pointer, Irving spent her early life in San Francisco before her family relocated to New York City during her teenage years. In New York, she made her Broadway debut in The Country Wife (1965–1966) at age 13. Irving subsequently studied theater at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before making her feature film debut in Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976), followed by a lead role in the 1978 supernatural thriller The Fury (1978). In 1980, Irving appeared in a Broadway production of Amadeus before being cast in Yentl (1983), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1988, she received an Obie Award for her Off-Broadway performance in a production of The Road to Mecca, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the comedy Crossing Delancey (1988). Irving went on to appear in the original Broadway production of Broken Glass (1994) and the revival of Three Sisters (1997). In film, she starred in the ensemble comedy Deconstructing Harry (1997), and reprised her role in The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) before co-starring opposite Michael Douglas in Steven Soderbergh's crime-drama Traffic (2000). She subsequently appeared in the independent films Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001) and Adam (2009). From 2006 to 2007, she starred in the Broadway production of The Coast of Utopia. In 2018, she reunited with Soderbergh, appearing in a supporting role in his horror film Unsane. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Irving, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Yentl
1983-11-18
Yentl
Overview: In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-18
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Deconstructing Harry
1997-12-12
Deconstructing Harry
Overview: Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-12
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An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
1991-11-21
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Overview: Some time after the Mousekewitz's have settled in America, they find that they are still having problems with the threat of cats. That makes them eager to try another home out in the west, where they are promised that mice and cats live in peace. Unfortunately, the one making this claim is an oily con artist named Cat R. Waul who is intent on his own sinister plan.
Genres: Animation Family Western Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-21
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Hide and Seek
2005-01-27
Hide and Seek
Overview: David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named 'Charlie', but it isn't long before 'Charlie' develops a sinister and violent side, and as David struggles with his daughter's growing emotional problems, he comes to the frightening realisation that 'Charlie' isn't just a figment of Emily's imagination.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-27
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The Confession
1999-03-26
The Confession
Overview: After his young son dies from the negligence at a hospital, Harry Fertig takes matters into his own hands and kills the doctor, nurse and clerk responsible. Slick lawyer Roy Bleakie, looking only to win a case and not caring of the matters involved, is asked by Fertig's boss to defend him. Shocked to hear that his client wants to plead guilty, the case causes Bleakie to question his own morals by defending an honorable man.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-26
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Adam
2009-07-07
Adam
Overview: Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-07
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Honeysuckle Rose
1980-07-18
Honeysuckle Rose
Overview: Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-18
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The Rage: Carrie 2
1999-03-12
The Rage: Carrie 2
Overview: Following the suicide of her only friend, outcast teen Rachel Lang's life begins a downward spiral that will not only affect her but take everyone around her down in horrifying fashion.
Genres: Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-12
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Carrie
1976-11-03
Carrie
Overview: Withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-03
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Acting 'Carrie'
2001-08-28
Acting 'Carrie'
Overview: In this documentary, director Brian De Palma and the stars from his film "Carrie" (such as Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, Piper Laurie, William Katt, Nancy Allen and others) share stories about the making of the classic horror film 25 years after its release.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-28
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A Mouthful of Air
2021-10-29
A Mouthful of Air
Overview: Julie is a new mom and children's book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post-partum depression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-29
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The Fury
1978-03-10
The Fury
Overview: When a devious plot separates CIA agent Peter Sandza from his son, Robin, the distraught father manages to see through the ruse. Taken because of his psychic abilities, Robin is being held by Ben Childress, who is studying people with supernatural powers in hopes of developing their talents as weapons. Soon Peter pairs up with Gillian, a teen who has telekinesis, to find and rescue Robin.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-10
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Citizen Steve
1987-01-01
Citizen Steve
Overview: On the occasion of the 40th birthday of the almighty filmmaker Steven Allan Spielberg, inquisitive reporter Clip Maxwell attempts to uncover the truth behind his undisputed rise to the throne of the Amblin Empire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Crossing Delancey
1988-08-17
Crossing Delancey
Overview: Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find her a romantic match, Isabelle is courted by a married, worldly author, Anton, yet can't seem to shake the down-to-earth appeal of Sam, a pickle vendor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-17
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Tuck Everlasting
2002-10-11
Tuck Everlasting
Overview: Teenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotective parents, but Winnie longs for a life of greater freedom and adventure.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-11
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Micki + Maude
1984-12-21
Micki + Maude
Overview: TV reporter Rob Salinger longs for a baby. But his career-minded wife, Micki, is too busy for motherhood. A romantic fling with a seductive cellist, Maude, leads to her pregnancy. Rob receives another shock when Micki announces that she's also expecting! In love with both women, he marries Maude and starts leading a double life full of complicated and riotous situations.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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The Competition
1980-12-03
The Competition
Overview: The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-03
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Benefit of the Doubt
1993-06-17
Benefit of the Doubt
Overview: Twenty two years earlier, Karen helped convict her father, Frank, for the murder of her mother. With his new freedom, thanks to parole, Frank returns home to seek revenge. Having always pleaded his innocence, Frank soon works his way back into Karen's life.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-17
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The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
1994-05-19
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Overview: James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959) series. In "The Theatre," a young woman attends a movie only to find that her life story is being revealed on the screen. In "Where the Dead Are," a Boston surgeon in 1868 searches for a scientist who may have the answer to a medical mystery.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Mystery Horror Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-19
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Carried Away
1996-01-26
Carried Away
Overview: Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his dying mother and teaches at a two room schoolhouse with Rosealee, his lover and his best friend's widow. Joseph, who lacks a college degree, learns that he will lose his teaching job at the end of the year when the school district expands into his town. Meanwhile, he is seduced by 17-year-old Catherine, a new student in his class. His affair with Catherine and losing his teaching job forces Joseph to take a look at his previously dull life and to decide how he wants to live the rest of it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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I'm Not Rappaport
1996-12-24
I'm Not Rappaport
Overview: Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-24
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Rumpelstiltskin
1987-04-01
Rumpelstiltskin
Overview: A musical version of the classic story about a miller's daughter who recieves help from a mischievous dwarf, then ends up over her head. Now, she and a mute servant girl may be the only hope for her baby son, John.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-01
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2001-09-02
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Overview: The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-02
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Bossa Nova
2000-02-18
Bossa Nova
Overview: After a chance encounter on the elevator, the lives of Mary Ann, a widowed English teacher, and Pedro, a recently divorced man, intersect against the hot backdrop of Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-18
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The Turn of the Screw
1989-08-12
The Turn of the Screw
Overview: A governess is hired to look after two neglected children, who show signs of having been corrupted by the insidious influence of the groom Peter Quint. Quint, although hanged for murder, still makes an appearance among the shadows of the manor house along with Miss Jessel, a previous governess who took her own life.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-12
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Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
2000-12-19
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-19
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Voices
1979-03-14
Voices
Overview: An up-and-coming nightclub singer falls in love with a shy young deaf teacher who aspires to be a dancer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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Blue Ridge Fall
1999-10-07
Blue Ridge Fall
Overview: After a boy kills his father he must turn to his frinds to cover his tracks with tests their loyality and friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-07
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The Velveteen Rabbit
1988-01-01
The Velveteen Rabbit
Overview: A stuffed toy rabbit yearns to become real through the love of the boy who owns him.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Panache
1976-05-15
Panache
Overview: A stylish comedy swashbuckler mixing romance, masterful swordplay, political treachery, and 20th-Century pratfalls in 17th-Century France, this film was a pilot for an unrealized series.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-15
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One Tough Cop
1998-10-09
One Tough Cop
Overview: A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-09
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Dynasty
1976-03-13
Dynasty
Overview: The story of a pioneer family in the early 1800s that seeks its fortunes on the Ohio frontier.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-13
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A Show of Force
1990-05-11
A Show of Force
Overview: In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-11
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James Dean
1976-02-17
James Dean
Overview: A dramatization of the story of legendary movie actor James Dean. The film's writer, William Bast, had roomed with Dean in the early '50s, when both were trying to break into films as actors, and was his lover for a time.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-17
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Unsane
2018-03-22
Unsane
Overview: A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-22
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She's Having a Baby
1988-02-05
She's Having a Baby
Overview: Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-05
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Traffic
2000-12-27
Traffic
Overview: An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-27
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988-06-21
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Overview: 'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-21
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Kleptomania
1995-01-07
Kleptomania
Overview: Diana is a troubled, bulimic socialite who lives with her loving husband and shoplifts to get herself off. Julie is an unstable, homeless rape victim who lives with a corrupt priest and steals to survive. They form an uneasy friendship.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-07
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I'm a Fool
1977-04-05
I'm a Fool
Overview: Traveling from town to town during the summer of 1919, young Andy (Ron Howard) has left his Ohio home in search of adventure and romance as a horse trainer on the country fair racing circuit. Ashamed of his occupation, Andy leads Lucy to believe he's wealthy. Soon one deception leads to another... until there is no way to tell Lucy the truth.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-05
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Confetti
2020-12-04
Confetti
Overview: How far would a mother go to reverse her child’s fate? Based on writer/director Ann Hu’s story, that’s the question facing Lan (Zhu Zhu), who travels with her 9-year-old daughter Meimei (Harmonie He) from their small town in China to New York City.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-04
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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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Casualties of War
1989-08-18
Casualties of War
Overview: During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-18
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King on Screen
2023-08-11
King on Screen
Overview: 1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more than 80 films and series, making him now, the most adapted author still alive in the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-11
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