Laura Linney

Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy

Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy

Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy

IMDb: 6.5
2020
76min

What do Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Patti LuPone and Alex Sharp have in common? They are but a few of the extraordinary actors who have studied under Moni Yakim at Juilliard, United States’ greatest performing arts school. This compelling portrait of the master teacher – the sole remaining founder of the school’s legendary Drama Division – takes us inside the drama classes where Moni and his wife Mina pour their love and passion into preparing the next generation of actors for the spotlight.

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Falling

Falling

Falling

IMDb: 6.7
2020
112min

John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father Willis from Los Angeles who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.

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Driving Lessons

Driving Lessons

Driving Lessons

IMDb: 5.9
2006
98min

A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.

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The Roads Not Taken

The Roads Not Taken

The Roads Not Taken

IMDb: 6.6
2020
85min

The film follows 24 hours in the life of father and daughter Leo and Molly as she grapples with the challenges of dealing with her father’s chaotic mental state. But as they weave their way around New York City, their ordinary but stressful day takes on a hallucinatory and epic quality, for Leo is seamlessly flowing in and out of several parallel lives; a passionate marriage with his childhood sweetheart Dolores in Mexico; a struggling career as a drummer in Manhattan with his more successful lover, Adam; and a life of solitude on a remote Greek island, where a chance encounter with two young tourists unmasks the uncomfortable truths of a family life left behind…

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The Big C

The Big C

The Big C

IMDb: 6.9
2010
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A suburban mother faces her cancer diagnosis while trying to find humor and happiness as well.

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Tales of the City

Tales of the City

Tales of the City

IMDb: 7
2019
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Mary Ann returns to present-day San Francisco and is reunited with her daughter and ex-husband, twenty years after leaving them behind to pursue her career. Fleeing the midlife crisis that her picture-perfect Connecticut life created, Mary Ann is quickly drawn back into the orbit of Anna Madrigal, her chosen family and a new generation of queer young residents living at 28 Barbary Lane.

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You Can Count on Me

You Can Count on Me

You Can Count on Me

IMDb: 7.7
2000
111min

A single mother’s life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

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The Laramie Project

The Laramie Project

The Laramie Project

IMDb: 7.3
2002
95min

“The Laramie Project” is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of “The Laramie Project,” the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town’s citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe’s visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.

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Ozark

Ozark

Ozark

IMDb: 9.7
2017
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A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.

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The Dinner

The Dinner

The Dinner

IMDb: 4.9
2017
120min

Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As the quartet debate their options, the conversation reopens old wounds between the siblings.

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John Adams

John Adams

John Adams

IMDb: 8.6
2008
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John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling most of U.S. President John Adams’ political life and his role in the founding of the United States. Paul Giamatti portrays John Adams. The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper. Kirk Ellis wrote the screenplay based on the book John Adams by David McCullough. The biopic of John Adams and the story of the first fifty years of the United States was broadcast in seven parts by HBO between March 16 and April 20, 2008. John Adams received widespread critical acclaim, and many prestigious awards. The show won four Golden Globe awards and thirteen Emmy awards, which is more than any other miniseries in history.

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Nocturnal Animals

Nocturnal Animals

Nocturnal Animals

IMDb: 7.5
2016
116min

Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

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Sully

Sully

Sully

IMDb: 7.5
2016
96min

On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ when Captain ‘Sully’ Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

IMDb: 6.0
2016
112min

After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.

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Mr. Holmes

Mr. Holmes

Mr. Holmes

IMDb: 6.9
2015
103min

The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and rising detective son. But then he finds himself haunted by an unsolved 50-year old case. Holmes’ memory isn’t what it used to be, so he only remembers fragments of the case: a confrontation with an angry husband, a secret bond with his beautiful but unstable wife.

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Hyde Park on Hudson

Hyde Park on Hudson

Hyde Park on Hudson

IMDb: 5.9
2012
94min

The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.

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The Details

The Details

The Details

IMDb: 6.2
2011
96min

When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy’s backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.

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Arthur Christmas

Arthur Christmas

Arthur Christmas

IMDb: 7.1
2011
97min

Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in one night. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one – Arthur. Arthur Claus is Santa’s misfit son who executes an unauthorized rookie mission to get the last present half way around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.

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Sympathy for Delicious

Sympathy for Delicious

Sympathy for Delicious

IMDb: 5.8
2010
96min

A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.

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The City of Your Final Destination

The City of Your Final Destination

The City of Your Final Destination

IMDb: 6.4
2009
114min

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund–his brother, widow, and younger mistress–so he can get authorization to write the biography. Written by Marisa_Gabriella, edited by Krystal Frauendienst

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The Other Man

The Other Man

The Other Man

IMDb: 5.5
2008
90min

The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.

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The Nanny Diaries

The Nanny Diaries

The Nanny Diaries

IMDb: 6.2
2007
106min

A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.

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Breach

Breach

Breach

IMDb: 7.0
2007
110min

Eric O’Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, and to write down everything Hanssen does. O’Neill’s told it’s an investigation of Hanssen’s sexual habits, however Hanssen is really suspected of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia for years and being responsible for the deaths of agents working for the United States.

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Man of the Year

Man of the Year

Man of the Year

IMDb: 6.2
2006
115min

The irreverent host of a political satire talk show decides to run for president and expose corruption in Washington. His stunt goes further than he expects when he actually wins the election, but a software engineer suspects that a computer glitch is responsible for his surprising victory.

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

IMDb: 6.7
2005
122min

When a younger girl called Emily Rose (Carpenter) dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore (Wilkinson) prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trail begins with lawyer Erin Bruner (Linney) representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

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The Squid and the Whale

The Squid and the Whale

The Squid and the Whale

IMDb: 7.4
2005
81min

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980’s.

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Kinsey

Kinsey

Kinsey

IMDb: 7.1
2004
118min

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into the mystery of human behavior.

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The Life of David Gale

The Life of David Gale

The Life of David Gale

IMDb: 7.6
2003
130min

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

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Mystic River

Mystic River

Mystic River

IMDb: 8.0
2003
138min

A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.

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The Mothman Prophecies

The Mothman Prophecies

The Mothman Prophecies

IMDb: 6.5
2002
119min

Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.

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The Truman Show

The Truman Show

The Truman Show

IMDb: 8.1
1998
103min

Truman Burbank is the star of “The Truman Show”, a 24-hour-a-day “reality” TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life — live and in color — without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows — including his wife and his best friend — is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.

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Absolute Power

Absolute Power

Absolute Power

IMDb: 6.7
1997
121min

A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder in which the President of The United States is involved occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run yet may hold evidence that could convict the President. A political thriller from and starring Clint Eastwood and based on a novel by David Baldacci.

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Primal Fear

Primal Fear

Primal Fear

IMDb: 7.7
1996
129min

An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a 3rd person in the room. The intensity builds when a surprise twist alters everyone’s perception of the crime.

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Congo

Congo

Congo

IMDb: 5.1
1995
109min

Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers — some with ulterior motives — stumble across a race of killer apes.

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A Simple Twist of Fate

A Simple Twist of Fate

A Simple Twist of Fate

IMDb: 6.3
1994
106min

When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny’s a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann’s house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann’s distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann’s house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann’s house and into McCann’s life and heart. He names her Matilda, and raises her, finding companionship and a new joy in life with his adopted daughter. But the secret of Matilda’s birth may tear them apart.

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Dave

Dave

Dave

IMDb: 6.8
1993
110min

Bill Mitchell is the philandering and distant President of the United States. Dave Kovic is a sweet-natured and caring Temp Agency operator, who by a staggering coincidence looks exactly like the President. As such, when Mitchell wants to escape an official luncheon, the Secret Service hires Dave to stand in for him. Unfortunately, Mitchell suffers a severe stroke whilst having sex with one of his aides, and Dave finds himself stuck in the role indefinitely. The corrupt and manipulative Chief of Staff, Bob Alexander, plans to use Dave to elevate himself to the White House – but unfortunately, he doesn’t count on Dave enjoying himself in office, using his luck to make the country a better place, and falling in love with the beautiful First Lady…

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Searching for Bobby Fischer

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Searching for Bobby Fischer

IMDb: 7.5
1993
110min

A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

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Genius

Genius

Genius

IMDb: 6.5
2016
104min

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, literary editor at Scribner’s Sons is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer named Thomas Wolfe falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius. Together the two men set out to work on a version for publication and a seemingly endless struggle over every single phrase ensues. During this process, Perkins the gentle family man and Wolfe the eccentric author become close – a relationship eyed with suspicion by their wives. When ‘Look Homeward, Angel’ becomes a resounding success, the writer grows increasingly paranoid.

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