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Stella Maris 1918 3 stars

    N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marshall Neilan
Cast: Mary Pickford, Conway Tearle, Camille Ankewich, Herbert Standing, Marcia Manon, Ida Waterman, Josephine Crowell, Lou Conley, Gustav von Seyffertitz

  Mary Pickford takes on dual roles in one of her best performances. Both of her characters are in love with the same man (Conway Tearle), and only one will win his love.

Movies Directed By Marshall Neilan

Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918) 2 and a half stars

aka: Chloe
Daddy Long Legs (1919) 2 and a half stars

Stella Maris (1918) 3 stars

The Vagabond Lover (1929) 2 stars

Stella Maris (1918)

Mary Pickford

Oscar: Best Actress for Coquette (1929)

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Imagining Argentina 2003 2 stars

    R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Christopher Hampton
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Ruben Blades, Maria Canals-Barrera, Leticia Dolera, John Wood, Claire Bloom, Anton Lesser, Kuno Becker, Fernando Tielve, Stella Maris, Concha Hidalgo

  During Argentina's military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s, theater director Carlos Rueda (Antonio Banderas) uses psychic powers as he desperately searches for his wife, Cecilia (Emma Thompson), and teenage daughter Teresa (Leticia Dolera). The two women have been abducted and are among Argentina's 30,000 "disaparecidos" who have vanished under the corrupt junta rule.

Truly, Madly, Deeply 1991 3 stars

      PG, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Bill Paterson, Michael Maloney, Jenny Howe, Carolyn Choa, Christopher Rozycki, Keith Bartlett, David Ryall, Stella Maris

  Nina (Juliet Stevenson) and Jamie (Alan Rickman) were devoted lovers and also enjoyed their musical life together. When Jamie dies, Nina can't get over it despite the attempts to cheer her up by friends and neighbors. Then Jamie's ghost shows up, and the couple takes up life again. An interesting little twist on the ghost theme.    1 User Review

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Beautiful, tender, nuanced, funny, poignant, original	Anonymous 03/11/2007

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