Lee Grant — Actor (41)
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A Billion for Boris (1984) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Billion for Boris
director: Alexander Grasshoff actor: Scott Schutzman Tiler / Mary Tanner Bailey …
other title: Die Glücksritter von Manhattan
In this family-friendly sequel to Freaky Friday, teenaged Boris realizes that his television set is somehow receiving broadcasts from the future, so he starts betting piles of cash on horse races and making himself outrageously rich. Boris is on top of the world...until he discovers that something this good doesn't come without a price.
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Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
director: Jeremy Workman / Henry Alex Rubin actor: Henry Jaglom / Candice Bergen …
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and rare behind-the-scenes footage, this hilarious documentary explores the fascinating question of Who Is Henry Jaglom?
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Down and Out in America (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Down and Out in America
director: Lee Grant actor: Lee Grant
The recession of the 1980s split the country into the haves and have-nots, from family farmers to factory workers and homeless people forced to live in decrepit welfare hotels. On the verge of losing everything, courageous Americans discover the power of community organizing to fight injustice.
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The Willmar 8 (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Willmar 8
director: Lee Grant actor: Lee Grant
Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women begin the longest bank strike in American history.
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Tell Me a Riddle (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Tell Me a Riddle
director: Lee Grant actor: Melvyn Douglas / Lila Kedrova …
Aging couple David and Eva have lost the spark that once infused their marriage. After nearly four decades together, the elderly duo is feel disconnected and lost. When they discover that Eva is sick, they decide to travel across the country to stay with their granddaughter in San Francisco. On the trip, with Eva's possible death looming, the couple rediscovers the passion and love that had been missing from their lives.
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You Can't Go Home Again (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
You Can't Go Home Again
director: Ralph Nelson actor: Lee Grant / Chris Sarandon …
An adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's literary classic, telling of the struggles of a young writer determined to be a success in New York's literary world of the 1920s, his married lover, and the brilliant editor who sees him as a blossoming genius. The story parallels the life of Wolfe himself and his affair with stage designer Aline Bernstein.
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Little Miss Marker (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Little Miss Marker
director: Walter Bernstein actor: Walter Matthau / Julie Andrews …
other title: E io mi gioco la bambina / Ein reizender Fratz …
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in the 1930s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.
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The Big Town (1987) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Big Town
director: Ben Bolt actor: Matt Dillon / Diane Lane …
other title: Braccio vincente / Chicago Blues …
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.
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Plaza Suite (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Plaza Suite
director: Arthur Hiller actor: Walter Matthau / Maureen Stapleton …
other title: Appartamento al Plaza / Hotelgeflüster …
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention and help save their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to seduce his former one-time flame Muriel. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and persuade their daughter, a bride to-be with cold feet, out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding ceremony.
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Teachers (1984) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Teachers
director: Arthur Hiller actor: Nick Nolte / JoBeth Williams …
other title: Professores / Die Aufsässigen …
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.
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The John Garfield Story (2003) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The John Garfield Story
director: David Heeley actor: Julie Garfield / Ellen Adler …
This documentary looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he died at age 39. His difficult childhood in the rough neighborhoods of New York City provided the perfect background for the tough-guy roles he would play on both stage and screen.
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Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
director: Thomas Hamilton actor: Boris Karloff / Sara Karloff …
Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores the life and legacy of a cinema legend, presenting a perceptive history of the genre he personified. Karloff's films were long derided as hokum and attacked by censors, but his phenomenal popularity and pervasive influence endures, inspiring some of our greatest actors and directors into the 21st Century – among them Guillermo Del Toro, Ron Perlman, Roger Corman, and John Landis, all of whom and many more contribute their personal insights and anecdotes.
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Defending Your Life (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Defending Your Life
director: Albert Brooks actor: Albert Brooks / Meryl Streep …
other title: Prossima fermata: paradiso / Um Visto para o Céu …
Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel alive.
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What Sex Am I? (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
What Sex Am I?
director: Lee Grant actor: Lee Grant / Christine Jorgensen …
A group of transgender individuals are struggling to make their way in every stratum of 1980s America. From finding employment to finding acceptance, the first question the world forces them to ask is always, "What Sex Am I?"
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Trial Run (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Trial Run
director: Melanie Read actor: Annie Whittle / Judith Gibson …
other title: Hun løb for livet
Housewife Rosemary Edmonds leaves her family to take up residence in a remote cottage on the Otago coastline so that she can conduct a photographic essay on the yellow-eyed penguin. No sooner has she moved in than she becomes the victim of a series of increasingly more malevolent attacks from an unknown assailant.