Bonnie Bedelia
Also Known As: Бонні Беделіа, بانی بدلیا
Biography: Bonnie Bedelia (born Bonnie Bedelia Culkin; March 25, 1948) is an American actress. After beginning her career in theatre in the 1960s, Bedelia starred in the CBS daytime soap opera Love of Life and made her film debut in The Gypsy Moths. Bedelia subsequently appeared in the films They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Lovers and Other Strangers, Heart Like a Wheel, The Prince of Pennsylvania, Die Hard, Presumed Innocent, and Needful Things. For her television work, Bedelia has earned two Emmy Awards nominations. From 2001 to 2004, Bedelia played the lead role in the Lifetime television drama series The Division. She later starred as family matriarch Camille Braverman in the NBC drama series Parenthood (2010–2015). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bonnie Bedelia, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: March 25, 1948
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Gender: Female
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Die Hard
Overview: NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her offices Christmas Party, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-15
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Die Hard 2
Overview: One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-03
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Needful Things
Overview: A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-27
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The Hill
Overview: The story of Rickey Hill, who overcomes his physical disability and repairs his relationship with his father in a quest to become a major league baseball (MLB) player.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-18
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Presumed Innocent
Overview: Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-27
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Anywhere but Here
Overview: Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When Adele decides to pack up and move the two of them from the Midwest to Beverly Hills, Calif., to pursue her dreams of Hollywood success, Ann grows frustrated with her mother's irresponsible and impulsive ways.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-12
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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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Fat Man and Little Boy
Overview: Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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Heart Like a Wheel
Overview: Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-01
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Overview: In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-10
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The Big Fix
Overview: Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-06
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Lovers and Other Strangers
Overview: Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his overly devout Catholic mother Beatrice. Also, Susan's father is carrying on an affair and her sex starved older sister Wilma is going through her troubles with her husband Johnny. All this is going on while Mike's best friend Jerry is trying to bed the maid of honor, Susan's cousin Brenda.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-12
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Speechless
Overview: In the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin Vallick begin a romance, unaware they are working for candidates on opposite sides.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-16
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Sordid Lives
Overview: "Sordid Lives" is about a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of the mother. Among the characters are the grandson trying to find his identity in West Hollywood, the son who has spent the past twenty-three years dressed as Tammy Wynette, the sister and her best friend (who live in delightfully kitschy homes), and the two daughters (one strait-laced and one quite a bit of a loser).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-25
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The Million Dollar Infield
Overview: Four wealthy Long Islanders play for an amateur softball team. All four men suffer from profound personal and professional problems, thus the weekly ball game becomes a method of working out their frustrations. So adept do they become at this cathartic activity that their team makes it to the statewide championship — which leads to yet another crisis.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-02
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Switched at Birth
Overview: This is the story of the two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later when one of the girls gets sick and tests revealed that she was not the daughter of the couple who raised her. Eventually she dies. And the couple most especially the mother, search for their real daughter. Eventually they suspect that it's a widower who has their child. Now while they try to find out if she is their daughter, the widower is advised by his attorney not to be so hasty to cooperate, cause if she is their daughter, he might lose her, and she is all he has.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-28
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The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie
Overview: A traveling salesman is lured by a precocious teenage girl to her shack in the desert for some sexual escapades. However, a scuzzy biker comes along and they both find themselves dominated and tormented by him.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-16
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Locked in Silence
Overview: A story of a young boy who becomes an elective mute after witnessing what he believes to be the killing by his older brother of a teenage boy. The young boy's brother then tells him not to say anything because of the trouble it would cause in the family... so he doesn't say anything again. The problem is that the young boy so enjoys his acceptance by others of his mutism that it brings his family, a loving and caring farm family, to the brink of financial ruin in medical and psychological costs to cure him. Based on a true story, this is the intelligent telling of a family in crisis, and the work of doctors in dealing with this mental illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Manhood
Overview: Filled with both laughter and tears, Manhood is a fascinating exploration of the interpersonal relationships that can define - or destroy - a family. A teenage son rebels against everything his parents hold sacred. A gather tries hard to own up to his responsibilities. A black-sheep brother-in-law revels in the depths of depravity. His estranged wife finds the freedom to explore her sexuality. Together, they create an emotionally charged family dynamic that builds to a powerful - and unexpected - ending.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-23
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A Time For Love
Overview: Time for Love features two stories of love. A businessman has a life style change while a rock singer finds it hard to change his way of life and romance.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-03
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Judicial Consent
Overview: Judge Gwen Warwick becomes involved in the murder trial she has been assigned. Her marriage is on the rocks and the murder victim is an old friend, who rumour has it, had an affair with her.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-21
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Homecoming
Overview: When their mother disappears, a group of siblings are forced to fend for themselves, and make their way on their own. They eventually meet their grandmother, a loner who is reluctant to take them in.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-14
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Sand Castles
Overview: A young man who dies in an auto accident returns from the dead to meet up with the young woman who tried to save him.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-17
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Then Came Bronson
Overview: Jim Bronson is a young newspaperman who quits his job following the suicide of his best friend, and sets out on a cross-country trip on his motorcycle in his quest for the meaning of life in which he befriends a runway bride, another searching soul, in this pilot for the TV series of the same name, and theatrically released in some parts of the world including Spain.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-24
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Violets are Blue
Overview: After fifteen years of traveling around the world, Gussie, a famous photographer, returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up. She meets her high school sweetheart, Henry, who is now married and running the local newspaper he inherited from his father. An awkward and tension-filled romance ensues.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-04
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In Pursuit of Treasure
Overview: In Pursuit of Treasure was shot over 11 weeks in 1970 with Panavision cameras in Kanab, Utah, with union waivers, a $220,000 budget and even logistical help from the state’s National Guard.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-17
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Message to My Daughter
Overview: A confused teenager discovers a stack of tapes recorded years earlier by her dying mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-13
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Alex: The Life of a Child
Overview: Based on true events, 'Alex: The Life of a Child' follows former 'Sports Illustrated' writer Frank Deford and his wife Carole when their happy, all-American family is rocked to the core when their baby daughter Alex is diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. While CF sufferers were almost certainly doomed to an early death in the Seventies, Alex grew into a child who showed remarkable courage and strength in face of her illness. Her loving family were quick to rally around her, determined to show the same bravery as the little girl as they supported and cherished her through life and struggled to move on after her death at the tragically young age of eight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-23
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Heatwave!
Overview: A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-27
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Tourist
Overview: A group of tourists on a "once-in-a-lifetime" European vacation try to rekindle their romances with themselves.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-17
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Picnic
Overview: The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-16
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The Stranger
Overview: Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. She becomes an amnesia victim and although, she doesn't know her own identity, is able to describe the murder, but doesn't remember where it occurred or who was involved.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-04
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Bad Manners
Overview: Wes and Nancy are a married academics couple. One day they host Nancy's long-ago lover Matt and his current sexy girlfriend Kim. Matt is a musician and Kim is a computer specialist who helped Matt to make some discovery in his science. Wes suspects Kim of stealing 50 dollars from him and that starts tension, intrigues, mistrust.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-09
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A Question of Love
Overview: A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-26
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Shadow of a Doubt
Overview: Charlie Sloan is an alcoholic defence lawyer drawn back into the courtroom by Robin Harwell, a woman he once loved who wants him to defend her stepdaughter Angel, who is accused of murder. Sloan is out of his depth as his opponents mount a bitter campaign to portray him as a drunk and the trial becomes a media circus. Can Sloan justify Robin's faith in him?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-03
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When the Time Comes
Overview: A terminally ill woman seeks assistance in taking her life when her husband refuses.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-28
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Gloria
Overview: After serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria stands up against the mobs, which is complicated by a six-year-old urchin with a will of his own, whom she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-22
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The Prince of Pennsylvania
Overview: Set in a remote Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this off-beat comedy follows the relationship between Carla, a hippie woman, and Rupert, a young punk rocker who feels like a pariah. Hoping to leave their current lives behind, the two conspire to kidnap Rupert's father and hold him for ransom.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-10
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Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
Overview: Taut thriller about a photographer who races the clock to clear a man about to be executed.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Death of an Angel
Overview: Grace, a priest, tracks her missing daughter to a religious community where the strange father Angel is keeping a wooden Jesus figure that sheds actual blood. When the cross is stolen, Grace decides to help out to get her daughter back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-07
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Between Friends
Overview: An ex-con, his daughter and her two friends plan the elaborate heist of a nickel mine in Northern Ontario.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-01
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The Picture
Overview: A comedy about a young loser who desperately tries to make it with a blind date, who turns out to be pregnant. She parries his advances by playing solitaire and staying awake until he wearies of pursuit and falls asleep.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-01
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The Scent of Rain & Lightning
Overview: When a young woman learns her parents' killer has been released from jail, she is forced to revisit old wounds while discovering the destructive power of hate and the true cost of family secrets fully revealing themselves.
Genres: Western Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-16
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The Lady from Yesterday
Overview: A man with a wife, two daughters, and a flourishing career is visited by a woman whom he had an affair with when he was in Vietnam.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-14
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Memorial Day
Overview: An attorney finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam.The reunion stirs up painful memories and disturbing secrets for all involved.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-23
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Any Mother's Son
Overview: A Mother is devastated when her sailor son is murdered by two of his crewmates in a homophobic attack.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-11
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A Very Sordid Wedding
Overview: Del Shores' follow-up to "Sordid Lives" revisits Winters, Texas for a showdown between the gradually liberalizing locals and the new fundamentalist preacher in the wake of the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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Flowers for Algernon
Overview: Charlie Gordon is mentally handicapped and all he wants in life is to be a genius. When he gets picked for experimental surgery it looks like his dream may finally come true. But the surgery has side effects that could could kill Charlie. Can Charlie survive being just plain old "Charlie Gordon" and will his newfound romance survive this test of character?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-20
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A Joyous Christmas
Overview: Just before Christmas, bestselling author Rachel Kennedy returns to her hometown to host an event for her upcoming book. Though being home is difficult since losing her parents and losing touch with her brother, David, she finds strength from unexpected sources, namely her local producer, Jack and a selfless stranger, Joy. Jack and Joy help Rachel connect with the community, reunite with her brother and reevaluate her motivational message. Rachel and Jack develop an undeniable bond, but Rachel is torn between their relationship and career pressure from her manager, Stuart. As the event approaches, Joy reveals a secret from her past that has a lasting impact on Jack, and Rachel must find a message that brings her fans — and herself – lasting joy.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-26
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Munchausen
Overview: A mother, unable to confront the heartbreak of her son leaving for college, delays his departure by making him sick. Unfortunately, she goes too far.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-19
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Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story
Overview: A young man begins to suspect that his mother may have murdered his father.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-03
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Berkeley
Overview: Just as sex, drugs, rock & roll, hippies, and Vietnam enter our consciousness, so it does for Ben Sweet, the shy, 18-year-old son of conservative businessman, Sy. Ben enters UC Berkeley in 1966 to avoid the draft, but finds himself smack in the middle of a home-grown revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-08
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Christmas on the Coast
Overview: Hard-hearted New York novelist Dru Cassadine...known for her holiday romance stories (even though she is antilove and anti-Christmas)...is desperate to get her mojo back after a string of flops (and a not-so-subtle threat by her publisher that he'll drop her if she has another failure). She decides that a change of scenery might get her creative juices flowing and heads south for the winter, landing in a place known as Harbor Pointe. She doesn't quite get what she came for. She gets much more.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-25
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Her Costly Affair
Overview: A professor's casual fling with her graduate student turns deadly when he insists on a more permanent arrangement.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-28
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A Season in Purgatory
Overview: True story about a kid from rich family with political ties who covers up a suspicious death of a young woman. This comes back to haunt him later.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-05
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To Live Again
Overview: A loopy mother locks her teenage daughter in her room after allegedly showing signs of being crazy. Over a decade later, somebody finally investigates, removes the daughter from the mother's care, and attempts to rehabilitate the daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-08
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The Gypsy Moths
Overview: Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.
Genres: Romance Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-29
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Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
Overview: Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a running back for the Steelers in 1968, he was then drafted by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-07
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Violet
Overview: Violet realizes that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything differently to become her true self.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-29
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Walking Through the Fire
Overview: A young wife discovers that she has Hodgkin's Disease. It can be treated, but complicating the situation is the fact that she is pregnant, and the treatment can endanger the life of her unborn baby, as well as herself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-15
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Sordid Lives
Overview: An All-Star reading of the original stage play version of Sordid Lives! A family in a small Texas town is preparing for a funeral. Among the characters are the grandson trying to find his identity in West Hollywood, the son who has spent the past twenty-three years dressed as Tammy Wynette, the sister and her best friend (who live in delightfully kitschy homes), and the two daughters, one strait-laced and one a bit looser.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-31
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The Noel Diary
Overview: Cleaning out his childhood home at Christmas, a novelist meets a woman searching for her birth mother. Will an old diary unlock their pasts — and hearts?
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-24
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A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
Overview: Based on the custody case involving Elizabeth Morgan and the subsequent Elizabeth Morgan Act.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-29
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A Stone in the Water
Overview: A reclusive spinster abducts a pregnant woman to steal her baby. What she doesn't know is that a ruthless murderer is out to kill the mother-to-be. A dark thriller in the spirit of "Misery" and "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-21
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The Nutcracker
Overview: Christmas presentation of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90, featuring Tchaikovsky's ballet performed by the New York City Ballet, choreographed by George Balanchine, and conducted by Robert Irving.
Genres: Fantasy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-25
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