Melanie Lynskey — Actor (29)
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Shattered Glass (2003)
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Billy Ray actor: Hayden Christensen / Peter Sarsgaard …
other title: L'inventore di favole / Lüge und Wahrheit - Shattered Glass …
Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September 1998 Vanity Fair article - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.
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Little Boxes (2017)
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Rob Meyer actor: Melanie Lynskey / Nelsan Ellis …
It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and Gina also strive to adjust to small-town living. Equipped for the many inherent challenges of New York, the tight-knit family are ill prepared for the drastically different set of obstacles that their new community presents, and soon find themselves struggling to understand themselves and each other in this new suburban context.
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Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
Sweet Home Alabama
Andy Tennant actor: Reese Witherspoon / Josh Lucas …
other title: Tutta colpa dell'amore / A Diva da Moda …
New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past.
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The Intervention (2016)
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Clea DuVall actor: Natasha Lyonne / Cobie Smulders …
other title: Bis dass die Freunde euch scheiden
A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.
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Detroit Rock City (1999)
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Adam Rifkin actor: Giuseppe Andrews / James DeBello …
other title: Cero en conducta
In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the four teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's amateur-night contest, take on religious protesters, even rob a convenience store!
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Rose Red (2002)
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actor: Nancy Travis / Judith Ivey …
other title: A Mansão de Rose Red / Stephen Kings Haus der Verdammnis …
Dr. Joyce Reardon, a psychology professor, commissions a team of psychics and a gifted autistic girl to find out the truth about an old, supposedly haunted mansion called Rose Red.
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EverAfter (1998)
EverAfter
Andy Tennant actor: Drew Barrymore / Angel …
other title: La leggenda di un amore - Cinderella / For evigt - et kærlighedseventyr …
Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle's stepmother Rodmilla is a heartless woman who forces Danielle to do the cooking and cleaning, while she tries to marry off the eldest of her two daughters to the prince. But Danielle's life takes a wonderful turn when, under the guise of a visiting royal, she meets the charming Prince Henry.
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I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Macon Blair actor: Melanie Lynskey / Elijah Wood …
other title: Já Não Pertenço a Este Mundo / Fremd in der Welt …
When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.
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Our Ex-Wife (2016)
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actor: Robert Webb / Melanie Lynskey …
Jack is a man who has finally found real happiness with his new wife-to-be Sara, but his ex-wife and mother of his children Hillary seems determined to destroy his dreams. Yet, while Jack wants Hillary out of his life, Sara has made it her personal crusade to have everyone getting on for the sake of the kids.
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The Informant! (2009)
The Informant!
★ 5.2 5 ratings
Steven Soderbergh actor: Matt Damon / Scott Bakula …
other title: O Delator! / Der Informant! …
A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.
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Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Heavenly Creatures
★ 7.7 6 ratings
PJ actor: Melanie Lynskey / Kate Winslet …
other title: Creature del cielo / Engel min engel …
Wealthy and precocious teenager Juliet transfers from England to New Zealand with her family, and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. When their parents begin to suspect that their increasingly intense and obsessive bond is becoming unhealthy, the girls hatch a dark plan for those who threaten to keep them apart.
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But I'm a Cheerleader (2000)
But I'm a Cheerleader
★ 8.2 14 ratings
Jamie Babbit actor: Natasha Lyonne / Clea DuVall …
other title: Gonne al bivio / Nunca Fui Santa …
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Lorene Scafaria actor: Adam Brody / Steve Carell …
other title: Cercasi amore per la fine del mondo / Até Que o Fim do Mundo nos Separe …
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
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Coyote Ugly (2000)
Coyote Ugly
David McNally actor: Piper Perabo / Maria Bello …
other title: Le ragazze del Coyote Ugly / Coyote Bar …
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at Coyote Ugly. The "Coyotes" as they are affectionately called tantalize customers and the media alike with their outrageous antics, making Coyote Ugly the watering hole for guys on the prowl.
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Mrs. America (2020)
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Dahvi Waller actor: Cate Blanchett / Rose Byrne …
The true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, aka “the sweetheart of the silent majority.”