Laurie Metcalf — Actor (28)
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Always Outnumbered (1998) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Always Outnumbered
director: Michael Apted actor: Laurence Fishburne / Daniel Williams …
other title: Vite difficili / La rage de survivre …
An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.
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Mistress (1992) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mistress
director: Barry Primus actor: Robert Wuhl / Martin Landau …
other title: Amanti, primedonne / Hollywood Mistress …
A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.
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Making Mr. Right (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Making Mr. Right
director: Susan Seidelman actor: John Malkovich / Ann Magnuson …
other title: Cercasi l'uomo giusto / Making Mr. Right - Ein Mann à la Carte …
When image consultant Frankie Stone is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s “Ulysses Robot” how to be a man, she winds up developing very real feelings for the faux human.
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Blink (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Blink
director: Michael Apted actor: Madeleine Stowe / Aidan Quinn …
other title: Occhi nelle tenebre / Blink - Num Piscar de Olhos …
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.
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A Wedding (1978) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Wedding
director: Robert Altman actor: Desi Arnaz Jr. / Carol Burnett …
other title: Un matrimonio / Eine Hochzeit …
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Dino's grandma expires in bed just as the reception starts. Could be quite an occasion.
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Internal Affairs (1990) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Internal Affairs
director: Mike Figgis actor: Richard Gere / Andy Garcia …
other title: Affari sporchi / Interne Affærer …
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.
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Q-Force (2021) [TV] TMDB Skybridge IMDb
Q-Force
director: Gabe Liedman actor: Sean Hayes / Gary Cole …
other title: Queer Force / Comando Queer
A gay superspy and his scrappy LGBTQ squad fight to prove themselves to the agency that underestimated them. Today, West Hollywood… tomorrow, the world!
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Uncle Buck (1989) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Uncle Buck
director: John Hughes actor: John Candy / Jean Louisa Kelly …
other title: Io e zio Buck / Onkel Buck …
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his older niece Tia, loyal girlfriend Chanice, and just about everyone else who crosses his path.
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Georgia Rule (2007) [Movie] TMDB
Georgia Rule
director: Garry Marshall actor: Jane Fonda / Lindsay Lohan …
other title: Donne, regole... e tanti guai! / Ela é a Poderosa …
Rebellious, uncontrollable teenager, Rachel is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her estranged grandmother, Georgia. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding that - regardless what happens - the ties that bind can never be broken.
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The Pixar Story (2007) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData Skybridge
The Pixar Story
director: Leslie Iwerks actor: Stacy Keach / Dave Foley …
other title: A História da Pixar / Die Pixar Story …
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company's relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits. The contributions of John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs are profiled. The decline of two-dimensional animation is chronicled as three-dimensional animation rises. Hard work and creativity seem to share the screen in equal proportions.
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U Turn (1997) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
U Turn
director: Oliver Stone actor: Sean Penn / Nick Nolte …
other title: U Turn - Inversione di marcia / Sem Retorno …
When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle. Caught between a married couple, he’s faced with deadly contracts to kill them both.
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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Skybridge
Desperately Seeking Susan
director: Susan Seidelman actor: Rosanna Arquette / Anna Thomson …
other title: Cercasi Susan disperatamente / Helt vild med Susan …
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.
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Meet the Robinsons (2007) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Skybridge
Meet the Robinsons
director: Stephen J. Anderson actor: Daniel Hansen / Jordan Fry …
other title: I Robinson - Una famiglia spaziale / Min skøre familie Robinson …
Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when he meets Wilbur Robinson and his family.
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Toy Story 4 (2019) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB Fantastika WikiData Skybridge
Toy Story 4
7.7 (15 ratings) director: Josh Cooley actor: Thomas Jeffrey Hanks / Tim Allen …
other title: Toy Story 4 - Alles hört auf kein Kommando / 玩具总动员4 …
Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.