Phyllis Somerville
Also Known As: Phyllis Jeanne Somerville
Biography: Phyllis Jeanne Somerville (December 12, 1943 – July 16, 2020) was an American stage, film, and television actress. She is best known for her roles in Little Children (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Surviving Family (2012), The Big C (2010–2013), and Outsiders (2016–2017).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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Birthday: December 12, 1943
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: July 16, 2020
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Little Children
Overview: The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-06
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Overview: Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Swimfan
Overview: Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Ben's rock-solid, promising future and romance are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison Bell. Madison, the new girl in town, quickly sets her sights on the impressionable Ben. While their first few meetings are innocent enough, the obsessive and seductive Madison wants more ... much more.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-06
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Just Like the Son
Overview: A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-29
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Montana
Overview: A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to overthrow the Boss and this routine task gets very complicated.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-16
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Restless
Overview: Moshe Amar is a once poet and now a "businessman" who left his wife with their new born in Israel twenty years ago and spent them in the land of limitless possibilities trying to leave a mark of immortality but, up to that point, only got the marks that frantic debt collectors are more than happy to give. Tsach is the abandoned son who is now a skilled sniper in the Israeli Army. Tsach resents his father for both abandoning his mother for 21 years and not attending her funeral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2008-05-29
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Stoker
Overview: After India Stoker's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-28
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One Fall
Overview: Set in the rustic Midwestern town of One Fall, the film tells the story of a man, James (Marcus Dean Fuller), who miraculously survived a horrific fall from a spectacular 200 foot-high cliff and was never heard from again. However, three years after vanishing James chooses to return to his hometown of One Fall -- but he returns a changed man. For an incomprehensible reason James has developed supernatural healing abilities since the fall. He must decide whether to use his abilities to help the ones he once turned his back on, or to continue running from his mysterious past.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-02
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The Double
Overview: An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-03
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Trouble on the Corner
Overview: Jeff, a troubled therapist, suffers a breakdown when he spies on his sexy neighbor Ericca, a beautiful model that rollerblades around her apartment in red gloves and a kimono. When he confuses his erotically bizarre patients' most perverse neuroses with his own, the fine line between reality and fantasy erodes with lethal consequences. Darkly comedic, Trouble on the Corner takes you into the depths of one man's decent into madness and races toward the murderous conclusion of this tale of a modern urban nightmare.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-09
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The Brooklyn Heist
Overview: Three teams of criminals share the same Brooklyn block, but each exists in a separate genre of film. The Amateurs are trapped in a 1970's anti-hero movie. The Sputniks live in black and white. The Moolies can't escape their rap video life.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-27
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Weakness
Overview: About a suburban high school teacher who loses his wife and his moorings during a summer break.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-24
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Forgetting the Girl
Overview: Kevin is obsessed with finding a girl who can help him forget his unpleasant past. However, all his encounters with the opposite sex inevitably go afoul. As the rejections mount, Kevin's futile search for happiness and love becomes overwhelmingly turbulent, forcing him to take desperate measures.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-11
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Surviving Family
Overview: Terry hasn't seen or spoken with her family in 2 years. When she shows up unannounced on her father's doorstep - with her fiancé and a plan to get married in 5 days - she learns that she's not the only one with secrets.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-15
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Simply Irresistible
Overview: After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredients, she is given a magical crab by mysterious Gene O'Reilly. Afterward, Amanda's dishes suddenly become excellent, inducing strong emotional reactions in everyone who eats them. Tom Bartlett, who is preparing to open his own eatery, tries her cooking and falls in love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-05
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Detours
Overview: A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her widowed dad, her mom's ashes in a coffee can, and a GPS with a mind of its own.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-20
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Lucky You
Overview: A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-01
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Above Freezing
Overview: A commitment-phobic flower shop wholesale worker struggles with his live-in girl friend in this standard sitcom-styled film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-01
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Our Souls at Night
Overview: Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower, have lived next to each other for years. The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes when Addie tries to make a connection with her neighbour.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-29
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Stuff
Overview: Trish and Deb Murdoch are in a rut. After 14 years together and raising two daughters, they find themselves in a mid life crisis where grief and attraction threaten their domestic nucleus.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-12
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Better Living
Overview: A comedy about families, the elements that bind them together, and about hope in the face of hardship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-02
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Leap of Faith
Overview: Jonas Nightengale is a fraudulent Christian faith healer who makes a living travelling around America holding revival meetings and conducting 'miracles' with the help of his friend and manager, Jane, and their entourage.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-18
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Diane
Overview: Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-28
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3rd Street Blackout
Overview: A technology-obsessed couple is forced to examine their relationship during a blackout
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-13
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Messengers
Overview: Dr. Sarah Chapel returns to the small town of Brighton Mills when her father Dr. Robert Chapel unexpectedly dies. His clients and friends miss him, and Sarah discloses that all of them have perfect health; they hear voices when they are sleeping; and they are addicted to the stimulant Tributol. Her further investigation discloses a dark secret about the haunting voices.
Genres: Horror Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-27
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Poms
Overview: After moving to a retirement community, loner Martha eventually befriends her fun-loving neighbor, Sheryl, and forms a cheerleading club for young-at-heart seniors, though they face roadblocks along the way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-09
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Arthur
Overview: Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-17
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Bringing Out the Dead
Overview: Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-22
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A Bird of the Air
Overview: A man in search of his past, and a woman who lives in the moment, are brought together when they pursue the origins of a stray parrot in this comedic and romantic drama.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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Broken English
Overview: Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has children. Nora is in her thirties, alone with job she's outgrown and a mother who constantly reminds her of it all. Not to mention her best friend Audrey's "perfect marriage". But after a series of disastrous dates, Nora unexpectedly meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman who opens her eyes to a lot more than love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-22
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Just One Time
Overview: When the fiancé of a fireman reluctantly agrees to participate in a ménage à trois with another woman, she does so on the condition that he reciprocate the favor with another man, which ultimately puts their impending marriage in jeopardy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-13
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The Mighty Macs
Overview: In the early 70s, Cathy Rush becomes the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college. Though her team has no gym and no uniforms -- and the school itself is in danger of being sold -- Coach Rush looks to steer her girls to their first national championship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-21
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Curtain Call
Overview: A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment.
Genres: Romance Science Fiction Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-05
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The Impostors
Overview: Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find themselves pursued by the law aboard a cruise ship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-02
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Revolution #9
Overview: A handsome and successful young man with a lovely fiancée, James Jackson seems to have everything going for him, but his life begins to unravel when he develops an acute sense of paranoia. At first, he notices little things at his office that he takes as signs that people are out to get him, but soon things escalate, with Jackson convinced that a perfume ad on television holds sinister messages aimed at him. Is Jackson losing his mind, or are the threats real?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-15
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