| Biography: In 1974, she won both the Drama Desk (Vernon Rice) award and Obie for the off-Broadway "The Sea Horse." |
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| Inept Salman comes to help his sister-in-law tend to his holy terror nephews while Salman's brother is off fighting in Iraq. Salman must take a humiliating job as a giant blue corporate mascot in order to help make ends meet and hold the family together. Search keywords
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Categories: 2007, Comedy, USA
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| Little Red Riding Hood for the 1990's: After her mom and step-dad are arrested, 15-year-old Vanessa Lutz decides that instead of once again being put into a foster home, she'd rather go and search for the grandmother she's never met, and live with her. "On the way to grandma's house," (actually a trailer park) Vanessa's car breaks down, and she's picked up from the side of the road by Bob Wolverton, a counselor at a school for troubled boys. Bob slowly earns Vanessa's trust, and eventually convinces her to talk about her sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather. When Vanessa realizes that Bob is enjoying what she's saying, she realizes that he's "The I-5 Killer," from the news. She tries to get out of his truck, but the inside door handle has been removed... Search keywords
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Categories: 1996, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA
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| Howard Beale (Peter Finch) is an ageing TV anchorman for UBS who is fired, effective in two weeks, after his ratings have been steadily deteriorating. He reacts to this by sensationally announcing on live television his intention to commit suicide on air. In doing so, Beale becomes a major TV icon and one of the most valuable assets to the Communications Corporation of America (CCA), the company that is gradually taking control of UBS. As a result he is given his own show as 'the mad prophet of the air-waves'. He appears live on television every week-day evening to tell the real truth to the people of America. The programme is a huge success but Beale uses his power to make startling revelations about CCA, leaving the company executives with a serious problem. Search keywords
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Categories: 1976, Drama, USA
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| Erin Brockovich is a jobless single mother, desperately to find a job, but has no luck. This run of bad luck stretches itself out even up to a fruitless legal case against a doctor in a car accident in which she was. Without alternative schüchtert them successfully her lawyer one to give her one job in the compensation of the loss. While nobody she, with her worthless clothes and crude manners takes seriously, this soon changes if she begins to examine a distrustful real estate case, the Pacific gas & Electric Company encloses. What she discovers, is that the society tries quietly to buy country which was contaminated by hexavalent chrome, a terribly toxic waste that the society unloads improperly and unlawfully and poisons alternately the inhabitants in the area. Because she deeper digs, Erin, point finds in a row of the events leading which would enclose theirs lawfirm in one of the biggest class action legal cases in the American history against a milliard dollar union.
Erin Brockovich ist eine arbeitslose einzelne Mutter, verzweifelt, um einen Job zu finden, aber hat kein Glück. Diese Pechsträhne streckt sich sogar bis zu eine erfolglose Rechtssache gegen einen Arzt in einem Autounfall aus, in dem sie war. Ohne Alternative schüchtert sie erfolgreich ihren Rechtsanwalt ein, um ihr einen Job in der Entschädigung für den Verlust zu geben. Während keiner sie, mit ihrer wertlosen Kleidung und derben Manieren ernst nimmt, ändert sich das bald, wenn sie beginnt, einen misstrauischen Immobilien-Fall zu untersuchen, der Pacific Gas & Electric Company einschließt. Was sie entdeckt, ist, dass die Gesellschaft ruhig versucht, Land zu kaufen, das durch hexavalent Chrom, eine schrecklich toxische Verschwendung verseucht wurde, dass die Gesellschaft unpassend und ungesetzlich ablädt und abwechselnd die Einwohner im Gebiet vergiftet. Weil sie tiefer gräbt, findet Erin, Punkt in einer Reihe von Ereignissen führend, die ihren lawfirm in eine der größten Klassenhandlungsrechtssachen in der amerikanischen Geschichte gegen eine Milliardendollarvereinigung einschließen würden. Search keywords
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Categories: 2000, Biography, Drama, USA
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| If Longfellow act, a small-urban pizzeria owner and writer, 40$ of milliards from his died uncle inherit, he begins fast to roll a different kind of the money. To itself to the big town, act motively, the whole shooting is found besieged from opportunists for her piece of the cake. Baby, a television popular daily reporter, is economical on an innocent small-urban girl to act exposé on acts. Of course the frank innocence of acts has the baby which falls in love with him, instead. Finally, act comes to think that money has sincerely the power to change things, but it does not need to change him necessarily.
Wenn Longfellow Akte, ein kleinstädtischer Pizzeria-Eigentümer und Dichter, $ 40 Milliarden von seinem gestorbenen Onkel erben, beginnt er schnell, eine verschiedene Art des Geldes zu rollen. Sich zur großen Stadt, Akte bewegend, findet sich belagert von Opportunisten das ganze Schießen für ihr Stück des Kuchens. Baby, ein Fernsehboulevardblatt-Reporter, gibt für ein unschuldiges kleinstädtisches Mädchen aus, um einen exposé auf Akten zu tun. Natürlich hat die aufrichtige Arglosigkeit von Akten Baby, das sich in ihn stattdessen verliebt. Schließlich, Akte kommt, um zu finden, dass Geld aufrichtig die Macht hat, Dinge zu ändern, aber es braucht nicht ihn notwendigerweise zu ändern. Search keywords
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Categories: 2002, Comedy, Romance, USA
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| In a castle high on top on a hill the biggest development of an inventor - Edward, a close-whole person lives. The creator died, before he could finish the hands of Edward; instead of this Edward will leave with the metal scissors for hands. Edward has lived always alone, until a friendly lady discovers called Peg Edward and welcomes him in her house. First every Edward welcomes in the community, but things soon begin to take a change for the worse one.
In einem Schloss hoch oben auf einem Hügel lebt eine größte Entwicklung eines Erfinders - Edward, eine nah-ganze Person. Der Schöpfer starb, bevor er die Hände von Edward beenden konnte; statt dessen wird Edward mit der Metallschere für Hände verlassen. Edward hat immer allein gelebt, bis eine freundliche Dame genannt Peg Edward entdeckt und ihn in ihr Haus begrüßt. Zuerst begrüßt jeder Edward in die Gemeinschaft, aber bald beginnen Dinge, eine Änderung für das schlechtere zu nehmen. Search keywords
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Categories: 1990, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, USA
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