Colleen Dewhurst
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Colleen Rose Dewhurst (June 3, 1924 — August 22, 1991) was a Canadian-American actress known for a while as "the Queen of Off-Broadway." In her autobiography, Dewhurst wrote: "I had moved so quickly from one Off-Broadway production to the next that I was known, at one point, as the 'Queen of Off-Broadway'. This title was not due to my brilliance but rather because most of the plays I was in closed after a run of anywhere from one night to two weeks. I would then move immediately into another." Dewhurst was a renowned interpreter of the works of Eugene O’Neill on the stage, and her career also encompassed film, early dramas on live television, and Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Colleen Dewhurst, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: June 03, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 22, 1991
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Annie Hall
Overview: New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-19
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The Dead Zone
Overview: Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
Genres: Thriller Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-21
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The Boy Who Could Fly
Overview: Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, but Milly finds a friend in Eric, her autistic next door neighbor. Eric has a fascination with flight, and as the story progresses, he exerts an enthralling force of change on all those around him.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-15
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Dying Young
Overview: After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-20
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The Nun's Story
Overview: After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-18
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Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
Overview: Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She acts as Diana's maid of honor, develops a relationship with Gilbert Blythe, and finds herself at Kingsport Ladies' College. But while Anne enjoys the battles and the friends she makes, she finds herself returning to Avonlea.
Genres: Family Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-19
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The Cowboys
Overview: When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-13
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When a Stranger Calls
Overview: A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasingly terrifying and threatening calls that lead to a shocking revelation.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-28
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Anne of Green Gables
Overview: At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-01
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A Fine Madness
Overview: A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-29
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Man on a String
Overview: U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-20
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Ice Castles
Overview: Alexis is on top of the world until a tragic accident dashes her hopes and dreams of becoming a world-class figure skater. Only with the help of those who love her can she prove to the world — and herself — that she still has the potential to realize her dreams.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-31
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The Last Run
Overview: A former mob getaway driver from Chicago has retired to a peaceful life in a Portuguese fishing village. He is asked to pull off one last job - to drive a dangerous crook and his girlfriend to France.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-07
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Death Penalty
Overview: A strong-willed psychologist tries to rehabilitate a member of a Pittsburgh street gang who has been found guilty of the murder of two other teenagers in a playground rumble.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-22
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You Can't Take it With You
Overview: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-21
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Between Two Women
Overview: When shy school teacher Val and Harry, the son of an aged opera singer, get married, Val quickly discovers that Harry's mother, Barbara, is not very happy with their union. In fact, Barbara tries to separate the couple. But, when Barbara suffers a debilitating stroke, Val's compassion and empathy mend the rift between two women, giving Barbara the will to survive. But will Barbara learn to love her daughter-in-law?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-10
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A Moon for the Misbegotten
Overview: A cynical, self-hating, failed actor visits the gruff, earthy daughter of his scheming Irish tenant farmer and passes a soul-baring night of guilt-ridden confessions, tenderness, and absolution.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-27
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Tribute
Overview: A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-15
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The Story of Jacob and Joseph
Overview: This film recounts the tales of the Biblical figures, Jacob and Joseph. The first part tells the story of Jacob fleeing his tribe when he cheats his brother out of his birthright, gets cheated himself in his exile years while learning of the need to make amends. The second part is of the story of Jacob's favorite son, Joseph. Betrayed and sold into slavery by his brothers, he meets and overcomes all adversity to become the Prime Minister of Egypt, second only to the Pharaoh.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-07
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Bed & Breakfast
Overview: Life changes for three women who run a failing hotel when a mysterious man washes up at the beach.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-22
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Tennessee Williams' South
Overview: The brutes and the belles. The gadflies and the good ol' boys. The taboos and the profound truths. They're all part of a tennessee state of mind -- a realm of places, personalities and ideas. Williams is front and center for this exploration, reading from his works, placing them in the context of his life, and serving as guide in visits to his career-shaping refuge in New Orleans and his later-day writing quarters in Key West. Also, dramatizations by distinguished actors -- including Jessica Tandy, Broadway's original Blanche DuBois, in a recreation of her A Streetcar Named Desire triumph -- give flesh-and-bone immediacy to some of the writer's famed works. In his own words. In his own places. The resilient character and memorable characters of one of our greatest writers reside in Tennessee Williams' South.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Burning Bright
Overview: In this acclaimed production of John Steinbeck's classic morality tale, award-winning actress Colleen Dewhurst stars as Mordeen, a wife driven to desperate measures to give her aging circus performer husband a child. Dana Elcar, Donald Madden and Tony Award winner Myron McCormick round out the talented cast of this televised Broadway Theatre Archive production, produced by Lewis Freedman and Henry Weinstein.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-26
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Split Cherry Tree
Overview: Split Cherry Tree is a 1982 short film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. A father learns the importance of education and gains an understanding of his son and an insight into his dreams and ambitions. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Third Walker
Overview: Twins Etienne and Andrew are separated at birth--an error that years later will wrench apart two loving families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Bigfoot
Overview: A family goes to the mountains for a few days, and there they meet... Bigfoot!
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-08
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As Is
Overview: Story of a homosexual man who finds out he has AIDS and how people react. Ex-lovers are brought together when the former is stricken with AIDS. Often humorous and never morose, author William Hoffman doesn't pull his punches with either his portrayal of a gay lifestyle or of the emotional toll the disease takes.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-27
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The Women's Room
Overview: A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women who help her find her own voice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-14
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The Price
Overview: After the Great Depression, Victor Franz gave up going to college to support his father. After 30 years, Victor returns to sell his parents’ estate. His wife, Esther, his brother, Walter, and a canny furniture dealer have their own agendas. Victor must finally deal with his sacrifice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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Kevin Sullivan's Classic
Overview: A look at the Anne of Green Gables film trilogy by Kevin Sullivan - Anne of Green Gables (1985), Anne of Avonlea (1987) and Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Baby Comes Home
Overview: In this sequel to "And Baby Makes Six," a middle-aged couple deals with familial upheaval after giving birth to an unplanned fourth baby --- 17 years after their last child.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-16
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Medea
Overview: A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-12
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-03
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Escape
Overview: The true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced to fortress-like Lecumberri Prison where he endured brutal conditions. With the help of his wife, Barbara, he escaped the prison by disguising himself as a woman. He was the first prisoner to escape Lecumberri since Pancho Villa.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-20
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A Few Days at Weasel Creek
Overview: Serio-comic road movie about a feisty girl who sets out for California and hitches a ride for herself and her house trailer with a runaway farm boy and accompanies him on a side trip to visit his aunt in the Southern hamlet of Weasel Creek.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-21
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McQ
Overview: Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-04
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Final Assignment
Overview: An intrepid television journalist sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Union has trouble sticking to her assignment when she unearths a horrific experimental drug trial involving children. Determined to prepare a video that will show the world exactly what's been going on, she dodges the long arm of the KGB and falls into bed with a Communist bureaucrat.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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Almos' a Man
Overview: Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930s, this 15-year-old's problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. "Almos' A Man", yet still treated like a child, he struggles for an identity. There's one thing, one symbol of manhood, Dave thinks, that could guarantee him instant respect: a gun.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-05
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Those She Left Behind
Overview: Scott and Sue Grimes are a happily married and affluent young couple who are about to start a family together. Unfortunately, that plan gets turned completely upside-down when Sue dies suddenly and unexpectedly while giving birth to their daughter. Now in the aftermath, Scott not only has to deal with the loss of his wife, he also has the daunting task of raising his daughter all alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-06
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Night of 100 Stars II
Overview: This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-10
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Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story
Overview: Based on the life of Kitty O'Neil, a young girl who overcame her deafness to become one of the top stuntwomen in Hollywood, and the holder of the women's land-speed record for driving a rocket-powered racing car.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-24
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Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith
Overview: A religious drama about Christ's parents, the events leading up to his birth, and the effect on the lives of the well-known biblical figures of the time.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-09
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The Glitter Dome
Overview: Al Mackey and Marty are homicide cops in Hollywood and hot on the trail of the murderer of a movie mogul that was moonlighting by making child porno pictures. Willie is one of several suspects with motive, opportunity and the evil means to carry out this act. A medal should be in order instead of being arrested
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-18
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Termini Station
Overview: Termini Station is a Canadian made drama, released in 1989 and directed by Allan King. The film stars Colleen Dewhurst and Megan Follows as Molly and Micheline Dushane, a mother and daughter living in a small Northern Ontario town. Molly is an alcoholic, which creates tension between her and Micheline and inspires Micheline's fantasies of escaping her stifling small-town life. The cast also includes Gordon Clapp and Debra McGrath as Molly's son and daughter-in-law. Termini Station was the only film besides the Anne of Green Gables movies in which Follows and Dewhurst worked together. The film was nominated for six awards at the 11th Genie Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress nods for both Dewhurst and Follows. Filmed on location in Kirkland Lake Ontario.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-21
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A Prowler in the Heart
Overview: A mystery novelist meticulously creates an alibi to keep her husband from being convicted of murder.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-25
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And Baby Makes Six
Overview: A middle-aged couple with three grown children discovers that they soon will be parents once more and faces a variety of emotional responses from friends and family.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-22
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The Hands of Cormac Joyce
Overview: A savage storm wreaks havoc on a small Irish fishing village.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-17
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Sword of Gideon
Overview: Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-01
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Legend in Granite
Overview: Follows Vince Lombardi's football career from one of Fordham University's legendary "Seven Blocks of Granite" to one of American football's greatest professional coaches.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-14
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The Exorcist III
Overview: On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-17
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The Music School
Overview: This drama is based on a John Updike story and is narrated by the author. It is the tale of an angst-filled hero attending music school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Crucible
Overview: Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-04
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Hitting Home
Overview: Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to New York, only to discover that the crime is not covered by the extradition treaty between Canada and the US. She becomes obsessed with bringing the criminal to justice.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-24
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A Perfect Match
Overview: A successful fashion designer who learns that she has a mysterious illness that threatens her life searches frantically for the one suitable donor for a bone-marrow transplant -- the daughter she, as a teenager, had given up for adoption.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-05
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Simple Gifts
Overview: A collection of animated Christmas shorts: An original Maurice Sendak piece about a boy with nothing to give for Christmas -- An excerpt from the early part of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" set in a time of extreme cold in Tudor England -- A short based on the Toonerville Trolley -- A bittersweet excerpt from Moss Hart's autobiography "Act One" narrated by Jose Ferrer -- A reading from the Christmas day entry from the diary of 11-year-old Teddy Roosevelt -- A reading of a letter by Captain Edward James Hulse describing the surprising Christmas Truce of 1914 -- An animated version by R.O. Blechman of his own book "Tutto Esaurito" (No Vacancy) about the travels of Mary and Joseph.
Genres: Animation TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-03
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Johnny Bull
Overview: An English girl comes to America to join her American husband in a Pennsylvania coal town in the late 1950's. She faces the ire of her new mother-in-law, a former Hungarian with different ideas about the life and culture that her son should have.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-19
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Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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Lantern Hill
Overview: In 1935 Toronto, Jane Stuart's mother has taken ill, and the two of them have temporarily moved in with her rich, snobbish grandmother, where Jane is verbally abused and her mother bullied. Jane is forced into a private academy, in which the other girls tell her that her father, whom Jane believes to be dead, is actually alive. Soon after, Andrew Stuart sends word that he would like to meet his long-lost daughter, so Jane is sent by train to Bright River to stay with him, where she encounters an old mystery that she must help her father overcome, new friends, and the chance to bring her father and mother back together again.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-29
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Kaleidoscope
Overview: A family friend hires gumshoe John Chapman to find and reunite three sisters estranged by fate for 30 years. The circuitous trail leads Chapman from the Big Apple to Beantown to the City of Light. His investigation, however, opens the door to disturbing revelations about a forgotten past.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-15
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Between Two Brothers
Overview: Bob Frazer is a prominent attorney who compulsively tries to make amends with his younger, less polished brother, Russ, who runs the family business and harbors the guilt for their father's recent death.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-09
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Henry James' The Jolly Corner
Overview: Expatriate Spencer Brydon returns to his now-empty childhood home, and finds himself obsessed with what his life would have been, had he not left America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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"Sometimes I Wonder"
Overview: A film that reaches out to children from ages 4 to 84. It is the story about a girl and a boy who leave home because their new baby brother is getting all the attention. They run away to Grandma's ranch where there favorite mare is beginning to foal. Rare film footage captures the live birth of a colt. As a viewer you're there to experience the beauty and wonder of the extraordinary moment.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-03
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