Linda Manz
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Biography: Linda Manz made her feature film debut at age 15 in Terrence Malick's period drama Days of Heaven (1978), playing an adolescent girl growing up in rural Texas in 1916. She followed this with a supporting role in The Wanderers (1979). Manz earned critical acclaim for her portrayal of a troubled teenage girl from a dysfunctional family in Dennis Hopper's drama film Out of the Blue (1980). Manz stepped away from her acting profession in the mid-1980s and relocated to Southern California, where she lived outside the public eye and focused on raising her three children. She returned to acting in 1997 with small roles in Harmony Korine's film Gummo and David Fincher's thriller The Game. She developed a strong cult following than began in the 1990s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York, New York, U.S.A.
Birthday: August 20, 1961
Deathday: August 14, 2020
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Gender: Female
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The Wanderers
Overview: The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-13
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Days of Heaven
Overview: In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-13
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Out of the Blue
Overview: A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-15
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Buddy Boy
Overview: An introvert relieves the tedium of caring for his invalid mother by spying on his neighbor.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-24
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Gummo
Overview: Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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Longshot
Overview: When one of the foosball team members is injured, a 14-year-old girl takes the champion's place.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Mir reicht's - ich steig aus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-28
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The Game
Overview: In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-12
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Along for the Ride
Overview: A documentary chronicling the filmmaking career of Dennis Hopper.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-03
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Orphan Train
Overview: A dedicated social worker organizes a train trip for a group of slum orphans in 1894, taking them from New York City to the Midwest in search of new families and new lives.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-22
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King of the Gypsies
Overview: Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Boardwalk
Overview: In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not what it used to be, and a gang leader named Strut has decided to make Coney Island his new turf. Strut begins shaking down the merchants in the area, demanding payment for "protection" and using violence to deal with anyone who gets in his way. David refuses to give Strut protection money for the restaurant he owns, and as a result his diner is soon firebombed, while many of his neighbors are attacked and his synagogue is desecrated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-14
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