Karen Arthur
Nacimiento : 1941-08-24, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Historia
Karen Arthur (born August 24, 1941) is an American film director, producer, and actress. Arthur has directed three feature films, including Lady Beware (1987) and The Mafu Cage (1978), but the majority of her work has been in television, where she has had a long and prolific career directing television movies and series. In 1985, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series.
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After three years, Nick's estranged daughter Holly returns home to find the spirit of Christmas in Santaville has dwindled, taking the family business with it. What starts out as an attempt to bail out her dad, ends up rekindling Holly's belief in Christmas all over again.
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El doctor Nathan Andrews (Neil Patrick Harris) sufre una crisis cuando muere uno de sus pacientes en la mesa de operaciones. El joven decide regresar a su ciudad natal para reflexionar sobre si continuar o no con su trabajo como médico.
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A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered woman - and as time passes, he becomes obsessed with reuniting her with her long-lost true love.
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When prim and proper New England college professor Gwen Barry (Titanic's Frances Fisher) hires handsome young prison inmate Dalton Roy (Derwin Jordan) to tend her yard through a prison work furlough program, their mentor-student relationship soon turns into a passionate love affair. But when Dalton completes his prison sentence, meets a pretty young college student (Kandyse McClure), and attempts to start over again on his own, Gwen becomes obsessed with remaining a part of Dalton's life or destroying it completely.
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Knowing the past changes the future. Seeking a connection to her heritage, Rebecca Hoffman sets out on a journey of discovery following the deaths of her adoptive parents. She finds that connection with her birth family in the Navajo community. But cultures clash when her husband is rejected as an outsider. Rebecca and her family experience rebirth in a rich culture and renewal as a family in this dramatic film based on the autobiography Looking for Lost Bird by Yvette Melanson (with Claire Safran).
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Annie, a 36-year-old, single woman, desperately wants to have a child. Her best friend, Mickey, a gay man who had tried unsuccessfully to adopt a child, also feels the pangs of parental yearning. The couple decides to have a naturally conceived child together. Mickey moves in with Annie, but she then meets Gordon, the man of her dreams with whom she has a passionate fling. Annie finds herself pregnant and not exactly sure which of the two men in her life is the father. But commitment-shy Gordon wants nothing to do with the child. Mickey eventually assures Annie that no matter what, he will help raise the child as his, together as a family with Annie.
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La Madre Madalyn es la Superiora de las hermanas de Loretto, en Santa Fe, Nuevo México. Su regalo a Dios es una bella capilla. Pero un descuido del contratista y el arquitecto no es posible acceder al coro mayor del la Iglesia, cuyas pequeñas dimensiones no permiten añadir una escalera convencional. De repente, aparece Joad, un misterioso desconocido, que con herramientas sencillas y madera consigue resolver el problema construyendo una escalera circular nunca vista. Tal como llegó desapareció, dejando una gran paz en todos lo que lo conocieron
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Janice tiene dos hijos, Ray de seis años y Tony de nueve, éste es ciego y mudo y con un posible daño cerebral. El padre de sus hijos les abandonó cuando estaba embarazada del segundo. Un día, Tony comienza a tocar el piano que hay en la casa donde trabaja Janice y habla por primera vez. A partir de este momento, Janice comienza a ahorrar con el único objetivo de llevar a su hijo al mejor colegio para ciegos.
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Actress Mia Farrow's personal life takes a turn for the worse when she engages in a long relationship with Woody Allen.
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Behind prison walls, corruption, sex and power make criminals out of the guards and heroes out of the guarded. For more than a decade, the lawless guards inside a maximum security women's prison have reigned with impunity - rape, sex for money and illegal favors have become the norm until one woman decides to battle the system. Leading a group of inmates on a risky life-or-death struggle for justice, a ten year silence is finally broken, exposing the twisted truth to the world and enabling the prisoners the freedom to live without fear.
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Joe and Christina's marriage is in trouble when they take a sailing trip with their married best friends. On the trip, Christina vanishes and is presumed dead. Joe is suspected of her murder, but he believes Christina isn't dead at all when strange things begin to happen. Joe isn't sure whom he can trust as he discovers disturbing information about his missing wife.
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Mostly on account of a pride struggle, Mike Dunmore has lived his whole life keeping a secret which he believed would only cause shame if it came to light. Personal relationships with his son Patrick have been strained as a result. The only ones who ever knew anything about it were his deceased wife and his best friend, Thurgood who he works with, who both agreed to help keep it covered up for him as long as they could. However, when his treasured grandson begins experiencing the same problems, Mike realizes that he can't hide his secret any longer, or if he tried to, it would be most difficult. Even more so when he is endorsed and volunteers to run as a candidate for local election.
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Charlie is a young woman who is thrilled that her favorite Uncle Charlie is coming home for good. But she soon discovers that her namesake, a "Wall Street financier," has a deep, dark secret. And knowledge of that secret by anyone can prove to be deadly.
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Martha "Red" Tierney used to be a hot-shot reporter, but that was before alcohol took over her life. One morning Martha's son, Jonathan, leaves for school, stopping first to meet his father for breakfast. But Jonathan never meets his dad. Instead, he is picked up by Lawrence, a pedophile who has been watching him. Now Martha must overcome her alcoholism and her bitterness towards her ex-husband and use her old investigative skills to find her son before it's too late.
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En la década de los 80, el televangelista y fundador del PTL Club Jim Bakker (Kevin Spacey) decide llevar más lejos su programa junto a su esposa Tammy (Bernadette Peters) y crear un parque de atracciones bautizado como Heritage USA. Sin embargo, ambos estaban siendo investigados por varios actos escandalosos, entre ellos el fraude fiscal, y Bakker termina en prisión por ello y por drogar y abusar de su secretaria Jessica Hahn
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A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.
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A mechanical man with a moral code and soul looking for adventure and his creator after escaping the military. He attempts to discover the reasons why he was created. An action-adventure pilot for ABC, a series that never happened.
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La vida de Peg Lawrence, una mujer sorda, se ve trágicamente golpeada de la noche a la mañana en un accidente de tráfico que la deja gravemente herida y en el que, además, muere su marido John, también sordo. Debido a las secuelas físicas y psicológicas, Peg cree que lo mejor es que sus padres se hagan cargo de su hija durante un tiempo. Mientras intenta rehacer su vida y su carrera con la ayuda de su viejo amigo Dan, Peg descubre que su madre ha emprendido acciones legales para conseguir la custodia de su nieta
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Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
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La joven y atractiva emprendedora Katya Yarno, una escaparatista moderna con proyectos revolucionarios, tiene una oportunidad en los almacenes Home's. Su primer escaparate tiene un éxito inmediato. Tanto es así que consigue que un periodista se interese por ella de manera sentimental. Pero además del periodista, un curioso se ha enamorado de la bella artista, causándole incomodidades y molestias por sus constantes acosos sexuales. Cansada de tanta persecución, Katya decide pasar a la ofensiva contra el maníaco, pegando unas fotos en la calle donde vive con un cartel en el que se podía leer "pervertido". (FILMAFFINITY)
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17-year-old track star, John Owens, has never used any drug stronger than pot, until he meets an older woman who introduces him to crack cocaine. He quickly becomes addicted but is able to hide his problem from all except his best friend, Chris.
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The tables turn for cynical police officer Richard Beck when he's viciously attacked by two homicidal crooks. Having never been empathetic toward the victims he's dealt with on a daily basis, Beck must now confront the tough system he was a part of. As he struggles to regain his status at work, he also must make sure those responsible for his attack are prosecuted.
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A dramatization of Gloria Steinem's undercover investigation of the working conditions Bunnies faced at the Playboy Clubs.
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Before stalking was a well-known crime in North America, there was Theresa Saldana's story. A drifter from the U.K., Arthur Jackson, flies to the U.S. to seek Saldana out. His twisted mission: Jackson planned to murder Saldana, then request the death sentence for himself so he "could join her in paradise". The psychopathic Jackson confronts Saldana on the street in front of her home, and stabs her violently several times. No one comes to Theresa's aid except water deliveryman Jeff Fenn, who overpowers Jackson and gets the knife away from him. Jackson is arrested & charged with attempted murder...and Theresa Saldana tells her story of terror and survival as herself in this TV movie.
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Stella Farrell is a southern belle in 1860's Charleston, South Carolina who is determined to hang onto her aristocratic family's mansion following the Civil War.
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Ellen, una astrónoma de éxito, cuida de su hermana Cissy, enferma mental, que tiene una variedad de primates en la casa que heredaron de su padre antropólogo. Cuando Ellen comienza un romance, los celos de Cissy resultan mortales.
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Director Karen Arthur's 1976 tale of a woman's mental breakdown stars Joan Hotchkis.
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Director Karen Arthur's 1976 tale of a woman's mental breakdown stars Joan Hotchkis.
Miss Dairy Queen
Frank Capua, piloto de coches de carreras se casa y adopta a Charlie, el hijo de su mujer. Su matrimonio parece ir bien, a pesar de los continuos viajes de circuito en circuito. También la relacion entre Charlie y Frank se va estrechando con el paso del tiempo. Hasta que un dia, Frank descubre que su esposa le está engañando con Lou, su rival y compañero de escuderia. Y esto sucede en vísperas de la competicion más importante de la temporada: las Quinientas Millas de Indianapolis.
Lady Dinner Partner at Romanoff's
Walter Matthau interpreta a un hombre felizmente casado desde hace doce años pero que comienza a sentirse inquieto, especialmente cuando observa a las bellezas que le rodean por todas partes en Los Ángeles. Su mejor amigo es también un hombre casado, pero tiene amantes desde hace doce años y decide aconsejar a su amigo de cómo tener una sin que se entere la esposa.