Broken 2007  R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Alan White
Cast: Heather Graham, Jeremy Sisto, Tess Harper, Linda Hamilton, Michael A. Goorjian, Jake Busey, Mark Sheppard, Randall Batinkoff, Bianca Lawson, Joe Hursley, Marc Lynn, Jessica Stroup
Hope (Heather Graham) had left Cleveland and moved to Los Angeles hoping to become a successful recording artist. But that dream was not to be, and Hope is now working the night shift at a diner. She recalls the last few months during which her drifter ex-boyfriend Will (Jeremy Sisto) introduced her to heroin. Now, successions of quirky customers enter the diner–each one representing good and bad phases of her life. Meanwhile, Will is racing back to Los Angeles in a stolen car with plans to recover his relationship with Hope. What more could happen to Hope on this night of nights?
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Broken Bridges 2006  PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Steven Goldmann
Cast: Toby Keith, Kelly Preston, Lindsey Haun, Burt Reynolds, Willie Nelson, Tess Harper, Anna Maria Horsford, Josh Henderson, Katie Finneran, Steve Coulter, Daniel Newman, Leland L. Jones
Washed-up country music star Bo Price (Toby Keith) returns home for the funeral of his young brother who died during a military training exercise. Angela (Kelly Preston), along with 16-year-old daughter Dixie Leigh (Lindsey Haun), is returning to the home of her parents–Jake and Dixie Rose (Burt Reynolds and Tess Harper) for the funeral of her brother who was killed in the same accident. Bo had abandoned pregnant Angela years before when she was a teenager. During the next few days, broken hearts are mended among the three generations of unhappy souls.
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Chiefs 1983   TV, 200 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Jerry London
Cast: Charlton Heston, Paul Sorvino, Billy Dee Williams, Keith Carradine, Brad Davis, Stephen Collins, Danny Glover, John Goodman, Tess Harper, Leon Rippy
This made-for-TV miniseries is filled with suspense as a small town's police chief (Billy Dee Williams) reopens a 40-year-old murder case that his predecessors were unable to bring to conclusion. 3 User Reviews
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| | BEST MOVIE | Anonymous 11/12/2009 | | I was only a youngster at the time my family and I sat down to watch this movie in the 80s considering I was born in 1980. This movie left me stunned, captivated!! I remeber this movie so vividly in my mind. I've only seen it once in my life and I would love to purchase this movie buy dvd,vhs... |
| | It was an excellent movie I would love to purchase it. | mshelen3 02/22/2007 | | |
| | to buy Chiefs | Lorilee 01/28/2007 | | i would like to buy or rent this movie |
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Crimes of the Heart 1986 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Tess Harper, David Carpenter, Hurd Hatfield, Beeson Carroll, Tom Mason
Upon release from prison after shooting her husband, Babe Magrath (Sissy Spacek) returns to the family home, where she joins her eccentric sisters (Diane Keaton and Jessica Lange). In spite of pressures and problems, the sisters use humor to continue on with their lives. Spacek and Tess Harper (who plays their cousin) were nominated for Oscars for Best Actress and Supporting Actress, respectively.
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Criminal Law 1989  R, 113 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Karen Young, Tess Harper, Joe Don Baker, Sean McCann, Ron Lea, Karen Woolridge, Tyrone Benskin
After an attorney (Gary Oldman) successfully defends an accused murderer, he discovers that not only was he indeed guilty, but he intends to kill again.
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Daddy 1987  TV, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Herzfeld
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Patricia Arquette, John Karlen, Tess Harper, Trey Ames, Danny Aiello, J.J. Cohen, Darren Dalton, Stuart Fratkin, Micole Mercurio, Edan Gross, Noelle Parker
High-schooler Bobby's (Dermot Mulroney) girlfriend Stacy (Patricia Arquette) is pregnant, and neither is ready for parenthood as their naivete becomes prominent in this made-for-TV drama.
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Daddy's Dyin'...Who's Got the Will 1990 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Jack Fisk
Cast: Beau Bridges, Beverly D'Angelo, Tess Harper, Judge Reinhold, Amy Wright, Patrika Darbo, Bert Remsen, Molly McClure, Keith Carradine, Molly McClure, Newell Alexander, Justin Smith
Four oddball siblings, along with their spouses/friends, gather at their father's Texas home on the eve of his death, mainly to find out what is in the will for them. As they bicker, Daddy lets them know that he has lost the will. And the search is on in this adaptation of a stage play.
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Dirty Laundry 1996  R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Normand, Robert Sherwin
Cast: Jay Thomas, Tess Harper, Tresa Hughes, Michael Marcus, Stanley Earl Harrison, Erin Underwood, John Driver, Michael Mulheren, Antoinette LaVecchia, Stuart Burney
Joey (Jay Thomas) struggles through a midlife crisis with his wife, Beth (Tess Harper), in this comedy about male impotence. Pass the Viagra, please!
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Far North 1988 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sam Shepard
Cast: Jessica Lange, Charles Durning, Tess Harper, Donald Moffat, Ann Wedgeworth, Patricia Arquette, Nina Draxten
A Minnesota farming family deals with adversity, showing how each member has different values, especially when Bertrum (Durning) is nearly killed by a runaway horse. Good cast, bad movie.
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Flashpoint 1984 R, 94 min.
Genre: Action / Mystery
Director: William Tannen
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams, Rip Torn, Kevin Conway, Miguel Ferrer, Jean Smart, Roberts Blossom, Tess Harper, Kurtwood Smith, Mark Slade
An unsolved mystery becomes the focus of Texas border patrolmen Bob Logan (Kris Kristofferson) and Ernie Wyatt (Treat Williams) after they stumble upon a skeleton and $800,000 in buried treasure.
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Her Alibi 1989 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels, James Farentino, Hurd Hatfield, Victor Argo, Patrick Wayne, Tess Harper, Bill Smitrovich
A mystery writer (Tom Selleck) gives a murder suspect (Pauline Porizkova) an alibi. Later, when strange things begin to happen to him, he begins to doubt her innocence.
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The In Crowd 2000 PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Mary Lambert
Cast: Susan Ward, Lori Heuring, Matthew Settle, Ethan Erickson, Nathan Bexton, Kim Murphy, Laurie Fortier, Katharine Towne, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Tess Harper
This is one of those exploitation thrillers that lacks real thrills. The plot revolves around a misfit, Adrien Williams (Lori Heuring), who is released from a mental hospital to work at a posh country club. Once there, she meets and falls in with the spoiled In Crowd of members' sons and daughters. It isn't long before Adrien becomes the target of the Brittany (Susan Ward) whose evil deeds are kept secret by her snobbish friends.
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Ishtar 1987  PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Elaine May
Cast: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin, Jack Weston, Tess Harper, Carol Kane, Matt Frewer
Singer-songwriters (Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman) are booked into a cafe in Morocco. On the trip there, they visit Ishtar and get swept into a political overthrow. This much awaited, very costly film just didn't measure up.
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The Jackal 1997 R, 119 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Diane Venora, Sidney Poitier, Mathilda May, Tess Harper, J.K. Simmons, Richard Lineback, Jack Black, Leslie Phillips, John Cunningham, Sophie Okonedo, Stephen Spinella, David Hayman
In this remake of 1973's "The Day of the Jackal," the Russian Mafia has paid The Jackal (Bruce Willis) 70 million dollars to assassinate a high-ranking American government official. When the FBI figures out the plot, they hire imprisoned, IRA sniper Declan Mulqueen (Richard Gere) because he is the only person who can identify The Jackal. Now, FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (Sidney Poitier) and Mulqueen work together in their attempt to prevent the assassination plans of The Jackal from being carried out.
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Loggerheads 2005 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tim Kirkman
Cast: Tess Harper, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Kelly, Michael Learned, Kip Pardue, Ann Pierce, Chris Sarandon, Valerie Watkins, Robin Weigert, Joanne Pankow, Michael Harding, Trevor Gagnon
Three stories come together involving adoption, homosexuality, and drug use in three areas of North Carolina during a three year period. Two mothers–adoptive mother Elizabeth (Tess Harper) and birth mother Grace (Bonnie Hunt)–come to terms with their feelings about the son (Kip Pardue) they unknowingly "share."
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The Man in the Moon 1991  PG-13, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Jason London, Emily Warfield, Gail Strickland, Bentley Mitchum, Ernie Lively, Dennis Letts, Earleen Bergeron, Anna Chappell, Sandi & Brandi Smith, Derek & Spencer Ball
It is Summer in 1957, and teenage sisters Dani (Reese Witherspoon) and Maureen (Emily Warfield) both fall in love with Court Foster (Jason London) who has just moved into their rural Louisiana neighborhood. Maureen must decide whether or not to accept Court's love and betray her sister. Meanwhile, Dani must deal with her jealousy. Then, fate steps in with a tragedy, and Dani and Maureen must use their love for each other to get through the crisis.
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My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys 1991 PG, 106 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Cast: Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, Ben Johnson, Tess Harper, Balthazar Getty, Mickey Rooney, Gary Busey, Clarence Williams III, Dub Taylor, Clu Gulager
This is a contemporary Western in which an aging rodeo bull rider goes home to recover from a serious rodeo injury. In the process, he saves his father from a nursing home, falls in love, and decides to try one last ride on the bull that almost killed him.
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My New Gun 1992 R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stacy Cochran
Cast: Diane Lane, James LeGros, Stephen Collins, Tess Harper, Bruce Altman, Maddie Corman, Bill Raymond, Suzzy Roche, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Patti Chambers, Stephen Pearlman
Life for suburban housewife Debbie (Diane Lane) turns to chaos after her husband, Gerald (Stephen Collins), brings a .38 revolver home, and their oddball neighbor Skippy (James LeGros) helps himself to the gun.
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 No Country for Old Men 2007 R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Tess Harper, Barry Corbin, Stephen Root, Rodger Boyce, Beth Grant, Ana Reeder, Boots Southerland
Based on Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel, this story, set in Texas during 1980, is about Vietnam veteran Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) who comes across a truckload of drugs and a case containing $2 million in the middle of a half dozen murdered bodies. Moss picks up the $2 million and takes off with the cache. But, escape will not be easy. In hot pursuit are Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) who is outmatched by sadistic, psychopathic killer Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) who stays on Moss' trail across Texas. In this film, the Coen brothers give us a masterful story. The film received four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director(s), and Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem). Four other nominations were received.
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Promises to Keep 1985 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Noel Black
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Christopher Mitchum, Bentley Mitchum, Tess Harper, Claire Bloom, Merritt Butrick, Peter Hobbs, Jane Sibbett, Verna Bloom, George Cheung
A man (Robert Mitchum) returns to his family after abandoning them for 30 years. Of interest is that Robert Mitchum plays the neglectful patriarch while his real-life son (Christopher Mitchum) plays the movie son and his real-life grandson (Bentley Mitchum) plays the grandson.
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The Rising Place 2001 PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Rice
Cast: Laurel Holloman, Elise Neal, Mark Webber, Liam Aiken, Bill Campbell, Gary Cole, Alice Drummond, Frances Fisher, Mason Gamble, Beth Grant, Tess Harper, S. Epatha Merkerson
Set in the 1940s along the Mississippi Delta, this story unfolds when Virginia (Frances Fisher) visits her Aunt Millie (Alice Drummond) and discovers letters written during the World War II years that reveal the struggles of two young women–white, single, pregnant Millie (Laurel Holloman) and black, spirited Wilma (Elise Neal)–who, despite the odds, find purpose in their lives.
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Tender Mercies 1983 PG, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin, Lenny von Dohlen, Paul Gleason, Norman Bennett, Allan Hubbard, Michael Crabtree, Glen Fleming, Andrew Scott Hollon, Rick Murray, Stephen Funchess, James Aaron
Robert Duvall won the Oscar for his portrayal of Mac Sledge, a has-been country singer, who hits bottom in a drunken stupor in a Texas motel. To earn payment for the room, he agrees to work for the motel manager Rosa Lee (Tess Harper). Mac and Rosa fall in love and marry, and Mac becomes a father to Rosa's young son, Sonny (Allan Hubbard). When the opportunity appears for Mac to make a comeback as a singer, he must decide between family and career. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Picture and Director.
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| 1. Amityville 3-D (1983)
aka: Amityville III: The Demon
2. Broken (2007)
3. Broken Bridges (2006)
4. Chiefs (1983)
5. Crimes of the Heart (1986)
6. Criminal Law (1989)
7. Daddy (1987)
8. Daddy's Dyin'...Who's Got the Will (1990)
9. Dirty Laundry (1996)
10. Far North (1988)
11. Flashpoint (1984)
12. Her Alibi (1989)
13. The In Crowd (2000)
14. Ishtar (1987)
15. The Jackal (1997)
16. Loggerheads (2005)
17. The Man in the Moon (1991)
18. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991)
19. My New Gun (1992)
20. No Country for Old Men (2007)
21. Promises to Keep (1985)
22. Reckless Disregard (1985)
23. The Rising Place (2001)
24. Tender Mercies (1983)
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