Biography: Bruce Dern had established himself as the movies' premier heavy, playing sociopaths, psychotics and just plain criminals by the time he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Coming Home (1978)". Some perceptive critics had noted that Dern was a finer actor than his roles generally allowed one to believe, repelled as one was by the neurotic persona that Dern was able to ... show all Bruce Dern had established himself as the movies' premier heavy, playing sociopaths, psychotics and just plain criminals by the time he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Coming Home (1978)". Some perceptive critics had noted that Dern was a finer actor than his roles generally allowed one to believe, repelled as one was by the neurotic persona that Dern was able to project and that casting directors capitalized on.
Jack Nicholson, a close friend, claimed that Dern was the best of the new breed of actors who had been born just before World War II and were coming into their own in the 1970s. Unlike his screen image, Dern had come from a patrician background: his grandfather had been governor of Utah and a secretary of war under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. When allowed to step out of his on-screen persona to assay the millionaire Tom Buchanan in the 1974 remake of "The Great Gatsby (1974)", he acquitted himself quite well.
Some critics said that "Gatsby" would have been better if Dern rather than Robert Redford had played the title role. Others pointed to his fine work as Nicholson's brother in "The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)" to establish a case that he was an underappreciated and underutilized talent. By the time Dern appeared as the cuckolded Marine in "Coming Home," a consensus had emerged that Dern was a fine actor. He won an Oscar nod for the role, then fell victim to the infamous "Oscar curse" that has claimed other winners, most famously in the case of 1969 Best Supporting Actor winner Gig Young, Dern's co-star in "They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)".
Dern, like Young before him, was determined to break out of supporting roles. Like Young, who had been cast repeatedly as a light comedian in his career, Dern had also become typecast, but as a psycho, surpassing even Anthony Perkins in those types of roles. Dern was determined to break out of the ghetto he had found himself in before "Coming Home." He failed, and his career suffered.
Up through his Oscar nomination, Dern had starred in 26 films in 11 years since graduating to steady employment in A-pictures with "Waterhole #3 (1967)". After the 1979 Oscar nod, he would appear in only a dozen feature films in the next 11 years, not counting TV movies. None of them brought him stardom or much acclaim, and his attempt at becoming a lead man, "Middle Age Crazy (1980)", flopped badly (he did received a nomination for Best Performance by a Foreign Actor at the 1981 Genie Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Oscars, for his work in that picture). It was back to psychos, this time as a lead, in "Tattoo (1981)". The movie proved to be another flop, and his reputation was further damaged when he bragged that he had actually performed on-screen sexual intercourse with co-star Maud Adams, a boast that Adams heatedly denied. Dern's star was seriously dimmed.
Although he landed a coveted role in the film adaptation of Jason Miller 's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "That Championship Season (1982)", the film was a disappointment with critics and at the box office. He turned in a fine performance three years later in the TV movie "Toughlove (1985) (TV)", but overall, his career was floundering.
Another psycho role, that of Uncle Bud in "After Dark, My Sweet (1990)", started buzz about another possible Best Supporting Oscar nod for him, but the film proved a box-office bust and the nomination never materialized. A predicted career renaissance for Dern faded, just as the careers of his ex-wife, Diane Ladd, and their daughter, Laura Dern, kicked into high gear.
Since the 1990 high point of the second wave of his career, Dern has stayed steadily employed, but has never again generated much critical acclaim, nor made any inroads towards reclaiming his crown as the cinema's premier sociopath. A fine actor, who will be remembered most vividly for such psycho/killer roles such as the rustler leader who gunned down John Wayne in "The Cowboys (1972)", Dern's career serves as a cautionary tale for those actors who try to escape the ghetto of typecasting. While nothing restricts an actor's artistic development as much as typecasting, unless like a Duke Wayne they can turn that type into superstardom, trying to break out of the type can prove to be career suicide. hide |
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| Carry My Cross examines a slice of America rarely seen on the evening news, with a cinema verite style, following Singer/Songwriter Drew Landry through one-year of his life as he records an album, tours, and inevitably fails or succeeds. Through interviews with friends, family, ex-lovers, employers and band members, we capture Landry's essence as well as the disenfranchised America which inspires his politically truthful songs. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Documentary, Music, USA
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| Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy. Search keywords
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Categories: 1974, Drama, Romance, USA
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| Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy. Search keywords
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Categories: 1974, Drama, Romance, USA
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| The beautiful Marnie Edgar is a first-class bookkeeper and the apple of her employers' eyes. She happens also to be a compulsive thief who has taken her last employer, Sidney Strutt, to the cleaners before disappearing into thin air. But with Mark Rutland she attempts robbery once too often. He forces her to marry him, and out of love for her uncovers the mysteries of her past that contribute to her penchant for taking other people's money. Search keywords
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Categories: 1964, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, USA
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| After repeatedly being passed over by the selection committee, Tom Dodge (Grammer), currently 2nd in command of the USS Orlando nuclear submarine, is finally assigned a sub of his own. RAdm Graham (Den), despite heavy lobbying of the committee and several examples of Dodge's unusual and non-conformist approach to command, fails to convince the committee to not award him his own command. Dodge's command, however, is of the newly recommissioned, and only diesel sub in the US Fleet, the USS Stingray. His first orders are to clean up and take out the Stingray, with the worst misfits for a crew that RAdm Graham could find, and complete a 2-part war game. Dodge makes a deal with Vice Adm Winslow (Torn) that he will be assigned a nuclear submarine if he successfully wins the war game. Search keywords
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Categories: 1996, Comedy, USA
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| After repeatedly being passed over by the selection committee, Tom Dodge (Grammer), currently 2nd in command of the USS Orlando nuclear submarine, is finally assigned a sub of his own. RAdm Graham (Den), despite heavy lobbying of the committee and several examples of Dodge's unusual and non-conformist approach to command, fails to convince the committee to not award him his own command. Dodge's command, however, is of the newly recommissioned, and only diesel sub in the US Fleet, the USS Stingray. His first orders are to clean up and take out the Stingray, with the worst misfits for a crew that RAdm Graham could find, and complete a 2-part war game. Dodge makes a deal with Vice Adm Winslow (Torn) that he will be assigned a nuclear submarine if he successfully wins the war game. Search keywords
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Categories: 1996, Comedy, USA
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| When Ruby Baker and her brother Rhett are suddenly orphaned by the death of their parents, their parents' lawyer tells Ruby that they will move in with the Glasses, their former neighbors. They are getting along well with the Glasses and being pampered with new clothes and toys and video games. Suspicions arise when Ruby overhears Terry's business deals, finds some suspicious letters, and sees Terry and Erin doing mysterious things. She then finds out that maybe all the suspicious actions are connected with her $4 million inheritance. Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Thriller, USA
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| A young field administrator (Montgomery Clift) for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Search keywords
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Categories: 1960, Drama, Romance, USA
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| Wil Andersen finds himself with a herd of cattle which he has to get to market before the winter sets in, but he has no men to help him. He turns to a group of young school boys as his last hope to get the job done. There is no better training for these boys than hands-on as they don't know what they are in for. They set out as schoolboys but return as Cowboys Search keywords
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Categories: 1972, Drama, USA, Western
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| 'The Cake Eaters' is a quirky, small town, ensemble drama that explores the lives of two interconnected families coming to terms with love in the face of loss. Living in rural America, The Kimbrough family is a normally odd bunch; Easy, the patriarch and local butcher, is grieving over the recent loss of his wife, Ceci, while hiding a secret ongoing affair for years; Beagle, his youngest son who was left to care for his ailing mother, works in the local high school cafeteria by day but has a burning passion inside that manifests itself through painting street signs; and the eldest son, Guy, has been away from the family for years while pursuing his rock star dream in the big city until the day he learns of his mother's passing and that he's missed the funeral. Upon Guy's return home, relationships between the characters begin to unravel; Beagle's pent up emotions connect with Georgia Kaminski, a terminally ill teenage girl wanting to experience love before it's too late; Easy's long time affair with Marg, Georgia's eccentric grandmother, is finally exposed to the Kimbrough children; and Guy discovers that, in his absence, his high school sweetheart, Stephanie, has moved on and started a family of her own. Through it all, The Kimbroughs and Kaminski's manage to establish a new beginning in the face of their greatest fears. Search keywords
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Categories: 2007, Drama, USA
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| A young lady returns to her southern hometown to learn that her estranged father is in hiding, accused of murder in the swamps. But when the real culprit emerges, an inhuman, killing mass of mud and vines, more surprises emerge from the bog those of a town healer, of a secret buried years ago, and of the true identity of the vengeful Swamp Devil. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Canada, Horror
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| Although Paul Weston and Roger Hargitay don't know each other, they have the same problem. They both owe a lot of money, have no conceivable way to pay it back and the clock is ticking. When each gets the opportunity to join a different gang of thieves for a heist that will clear their respective debts, what choice do they possibly have? The good thing is that - it will be an easy robbery - an inside job. Unfortunately, it turns out to be the same robbery, at the same time. Suddenly this used car salesman and this yuppie stock broker find themselves in a gun battle with each other and the police, leaving them no other choice but to team up in order to get away. The hard easy takes place in a dark world where nothing is as it seems and only the lucky survive. Search keywords
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Categories: 2005, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA
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| Gloria (Jane Fonda) is a young woman of the Depression. He has his birthday and beyond feels his life is without hope, who has been deceived and betrayed many times in his past. Fantasy film, which sees itself as an actress and decided to head to Hollywood, having had the idea of a film to be recovered, while the magazine in the hospital from a suicide attempt, which led to another unfortunate story ' love. Robert (Michael Sarrazin), a city desperate for Hollywood, without success, trying to become a director, never doubting that he may do so. Robert and Gloria meet and decide to enter a dance marathon, one of the crazes of the Thirties. The grueling dancing takes its toll on Gloria, already weakened the spirit, and she tells Robert that it would be better dead, that his life is hope - all the while acting cruel and bitter, alienating those around her, trying to convince him to shoot her and put her out of her misery. After all, we shoot horses, do not they?
Gloria (Jane Fonda) è una giovane donna della Depressione. Ha il suo anno di età al di là e si sente la sua vita è senza speranza, che è stato ingannato e tradito molte volte nel suo passato. Fantasticherie su film, che vede se stessa come attrice e decide di testa di Hollywood, dopo aver avuto l'idea di un film da recuperare, mentre la rivista in ospedale da un tentativo di suicidio, che ha portato da un altro infelice storia d'amore. Robert (Michael Sarrazin), un cittadino disperato di Hollywood, senza successo, cercando di diventare un regista, mai dubitare che egli eventualmente farlo. Robert e Gloria si incontrano e decidono di inserire una maratona di danza, una delle inaspettate degli anni Trenta. Il grueling danza prende il pedaggio su Gloria, già indebolito lo spirito, e lei dice a Robert che sarebbe meglio morti, che la sua vita è speranza - tutti i pur agendo crudele e amara, alienante quelle intorno a lei, cercando di convincere lui a sparare lei e la sua messa fuori della sua miseria. Dopo tutto, si spara i cavalli, non è così? Search keywords
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Categories: 1969, Drama, USA
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| A veteran of the war insane plot to kill thousands of Americans at the Superbowl in Miami with a dart-gun specially designed for the Goodyear blimp that flies over the stadium. However, a harsh Middle Eastern anti-terrorism agent has discovered some of the plots and was arrested.
Un veterano de la guerra demencial parcelas para matar a miles de estadounidenses en la Superbowl en Miami con un dardo especialmente diseñado-gun de la Goodyear dirigible que vuela sobre el estadio. Sin embargo, un duro de Oriente Medio contra el terrorismo agente ha descubierto algunas de las parcelas y está a detenerlo. Search keywords
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Categories: 1977, Action, Drama, Thriller, USA
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| This story takes place in a typical American neighborhood if some new neighbours come to live in the house beside Ray Peterson. These new people are really odd; nobody has one day seen them, her house is a real confusion, and during the night you can hear uncanny noises from her cellar. The only thing which they know is her name: Klopeks. One day Walter (an old man of the neighborhood) disappears suddenly, and everybody starts suspecting the Klopeks.
Diese Geschichte findet in einer typischen amerikanischen Nachbarschaft statt, wenn einige neue Nachbarn kommen, um im Haus neben Ray Peterson zu leben. Diese neuen Leute sind wirklich sonderbar; niemand hat sie jemals gesehen, ihr Haus ist eine echte Verwirrung, und während der Nacht können Sie unheimliche Geräusche von ihrem Keller hören. Das einzige Ding, das sie wissen, ist ihr Name: Klopeks. Eines Tages verschwindet Walter (ein alter Mann der Nachbarschaft) plötzlich, und jeder fängt an, den Klopeks zu verdächtigen. Search keywords
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Categories: 1989, Comedy, Horror, USA
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| Tobe is approximately 16, living with his dad and younger brother in the Vale of San Fernando of. She invites an assistant of petrol station called Harlan to come to the beach with she and his friends. He is from South Dacota, it takes a cowboy's hat, country of conversations, and has been a ranch hand. They amuse themselves, his simple expressions seem to the knowledge, he is attentive and polite, and although it is more than two times his age, she wants to spend the time with him. When his father is opposed, she rebels. Harlan, meanwhile, thinks that she is his perfect spiritual partner, and he begins to do plans of removing it from his father. Are the worlds made hit, but which?.
Tobe es aproximadamente 16, viviendo con su papá y hermano más joven en el Valle de San Fernando del LA. Ella invita a un asistente de gasolinera llamado Harlan a venir a la playa con ella y sus amigos. Él es de Dacota del Sur, lleva un sombrero de vaquero, país de conversaciones, y ha sido una mano de rancho. Ellos se divierten, sus expresiones simples parecen a la sabiduría, él es atento y cortés, y aunque él sea más que dos veces su edad, ella quiere pasar el tiempo con él. Cuando su padre se opone, ella se rebela. Harlan, mientras tanto, piensa que ella es su compañero espiritual perfecto, y él comienza a hacer planes de alejarla de su padre. ¿Los mundos son hechos chocar, pero cuáles?. Search keywords
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Categories: 2005, Drama, Romance, USA, Western
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| Texan Charles Farmer left Aviation as a young man to save the ranch of family when his daddy died. As most American owners of ranch, he owes to his bank. In difference most, he is an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he constructed and wants to take in the space. It is his dream. The federal Detective police forces put him under surveillance when he tries to buy the fuel of rocket; FAA embeds him when he classifies a flight plan - it is post-9 / 11, finally. His wife is furious when she learns that their bank throws seizure. Charlie fears failure and decides, hurriedly, to launch. Are American's dreams of the twenty-first century just a sign of madness? Those are who believe dupe in the dreamers only?.
Charles Farmer texan a quitté l'Aviation comme un jeune homme pour sauver le ranch de famille quand son papa est mort. Comme la plupart des propriétaires de ranch américains, il doit à sa banque. À la différence le plus, il est un astrophysicien avec une fusée dans sa grange - un il est construit et veut prendre dans l'espace. C'est son rêve. La Police judiciaire fédérale le met sous la surveillance quand il essaie d'acheter le combustible de fusée; le FAA le cale quand il classe un plan de vol - c'est post-9/11, enfin. Sa femme est furieuse quand elle apprend que leur banque lance la saisie. Charlie craint l'échec et décide, précipitamment, de se lancer. Est-ce que les rêves d'Américain du vingt et unième siècle sont-ils juste un signe de folie ? Sont ceux qui croient dans les rêveurs dupe seulement ?. Search keywords
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Categories: 2006, Adventure, Drama, USA
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| A history sinks based on the true history of Aileen Wuornos, one of the first female serial murderers of America. Wuornos had a cruel and difficult childhood tormented by abuse and use of medicament in Michigan. She became a prostitute by the age of thirteen, the same year she became pregnant. She moved finally to Florida where she began earning a living as a motorway prostitute— the maintenance of desires of drivers of semi-lorry. History concentrates on the period of nine months between 1989 and 1990, during who Wuornos had a lesbian report with a woman called Selby. And during it the very same time, she also began assassinating her customers to accept some money without using sex. It turned tables on rather common phenomena of female prostitutes of motorway being the victims of killers&mdash serial; rather Wuornos, herself, accomplished the acts of a killer with self-control.
Une histoire sombre basée sur la vraie histoire d'Aileen Wuornos, un des premiers meurtriers en série femelles de l'Amérique. Wuornos avait une enfance difficile et cruelle tourmentée par l'abus et l'utilisation de médicament à Michigan. Elle est devenue une prostituée par l'âge de treize, la même année elle est devenue enceinte. Elle a bougé finalement à Floride où elle a commencé à gagner une vie comme une autoroute prostitute— l'entretien des désirs de conducteurs de semi-camion. L'histoire se concentre sur la période de neuf mois entre 1989 et 1990, pendant lequel Wuornos avait un rapport lesbien avec une femme appelée Selby. Et pendant cela très même temps, elle a commencé aussi à assassiner sa clientèle pour recevoir de l'argent sans utiliser le sexe. Cela a tourné les tables sur des phénomènes assez communs de prostituées d'autoroute femelles étant les victimes de killers&mdash sériel; plutôt Wuornos, elle-même, a réalisé les actes d'un tueur à sang-froid. Search keywords
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Categories: 2003, Biography, Crime, Drama, Germany, Romance, Thriller, USA
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| Against the scenery of a nation on the edge of the revolution is uncle darling (John Goodman) and Nina Veronica (Jessica Lange) the slimy advocates who plan an achievement concert. They wish the services of the legendary singer Jack Fate (Bob Dylan), and destiny is soon jumped over by the prison. A rock journalist (played by Jeff Bridges) examines the concert just to determine trying, who will have advantage. Revolution can rage beyond the arena, but Jack Fates and the achievement concert play on, as planned,.
Gegen die Kulisse einer Nation auf dem Rand der Revolution ist Onkel-Schätzchen (John Goodman) und Nina Veronica (Jessica Lange) schleimige Befürworter, die ein Leistungskonzert planen. Sie wünschen die Dienstleistungen des legendären Sängers Jack Fate (Bob Dylan), und bald wird Schicksal vom Gefängnis übersprungen. Ein Felsen-Journalist (gespielt von Jeff Bridges) untersucht das Konzert, versuchend, gerade zu bestimmen, wer Vorteil haben wird. Revolution kann außerhalb der Arena, aber Jack Fates und des Leistungskonzertspieles auf, wie geplant, wüten. Search keywords
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Categories: 2003, Comedy, Drama, Music, UK, USA
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| A new version of the movie of the classic 1963 to "Frequent" on a team of paranormal experts who investigate strange incidents at an infortunate home. By the course of the night someone are going to be disentangled, someone will doubt, and they all will fight for his lives as the house it tries to keep.
Uma nova versão do filme do clássico 1963 "Frequentar" sobre uma equipe de peritos paranormais que investigam ocorrências estranhas em uma casa infortunada. Pelo curso da noite alguns vão se desemaranhar, alguns duvidarão, e todos lutarão pelas suas vidas como a casa tenta reter. Search keywords
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Categories: 1999, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, USA
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