Frances McDormand — Actor (72)
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Talking With (1995) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Talking With
director: Kathy Bates actor: Frances McDormand / Marcia Gay Harden …
Adapted from the group of stage monologues by the pseudononymous "Jane Martin," this is a series of characters snake handler, daughter, baton twirler, washed-up rodeo cowgirl, tattoed woman, and older woman in the twilight of her years talking with us about their experiences, in the poetic language that Jane Martin is known for bringing to all her stage characters. Kathy Bates does a wonderful job of translating these dead-on characters (talking directly to camera) from stage to screen. "Jane Martin" first came to prominence at the prestigious Louisville-based Humana Theatre Festival it was recently revealed that "she" is none other than the Festival's artistic director, Jon Jory.
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Passed Away (1992) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Passed Away
director: Charlie Peters actor: Bob Hoskins / Blair Brown …
other title: Saluti dal caro estinto / Ein verrückter Leichenschmaus …
Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of familial endurance that soon has them at each other's throats.
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
director: Bharat Nalluri actor: Frances McDormand / Amy Adams …
other title: Un giorno di gloria per Miss Pettigrew / A Vida Num Só Dia …
London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision, a continuous battle between love and fame.
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Johnny Skidmarks (1998) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Johnny Skidmarks
director: John Raffo actor: Peter Gallagher / Frances McDormand …
other title: Primo piano sull'assassino / Skidmarks - Blutspuren …
Johnny Scardino is working for blackmailers, photographing wealthy guys in seedy motels. One such assignment turns the wrong way and blackmailers die one by one. Is Johnny the next on the list?
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Hidden Agenda (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Hidden Agenda
director: Ken Loach actor: Frances McDormand / Brian Cox …
other title: L'agenda nascosta / Geheimprotokoll …
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.
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Crimewave (1985) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Crimewave
director: Sam Raimi actor: Reed Birney / Louise Lasser …
other title: I due criminali più pazzi del mondo / Brdr. Mord …
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.
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Promised Land (2012) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB
Promised Land
director: 格斯·范·桑特 actor: 马特·达蒙 / 本杰明·希勒 …
other title: 应许之地 / 骗地谎言(港) …
A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.
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Wonder Boys (2000) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB NeoDB WikiData
Wonder Boys
director: Curtis Hanson actor: Michael Douglas / Katie Holmes …
other title: Wonder Boys - Prodígios / Die WonderBoys …
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.
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The Butcher's Wife (1991) [Movie] IMDb Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData
The Butcher's Wife
director: 特里·休斯 actor: 黛米·摩尔 / 杰夫·丹尼尔斯 …
other title: 天机梦美人 / 屠夫的灵媒娇妻 …
A clairvoyant woman thinks that she's met her future husband because she's seen him in a dream. They marry and he takes her back to his butcher shop in New York city, where her powers tend to influence everyone she meets while working in the shop. Through her advice, she helps others and eventually finds the true man of her dreams.