Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis

Nacimiento : 1931-06-20, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

Muerte : 2021-05-01

Historia

Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 – May 1, 2021) was an American actress. She performed in more than 130 stage productions, more than 60 films and in 50 television series. Best known as a screen actress, she started her career in theater. Not long after her arrival in New York City, she won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht's Man Equals Man. She later moved to film acting and won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, among other accolades, for her performance in Moonstruck (1987). She received another Golden Globe nomination for Sinatra (1992) and Emmy Award nominations for Lucky Day (1991), More Tales of the City (1998) and Joan of Arc (1999). Dukakis's autobiography, Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress, was published in 2003. In 2018, a feature-length documentary about her life, titled Olympia, was released theatrically in the United States. Description above from the Wikipedia article Olympia Dukakis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Olympia Dukakis

Películas

Not to Forget
Judge
A judge sentences a self-centered millennial to take care of his grandmother, who's affected by Alzheimer's. As he realizes the extent of the elderly woman's wealth and becomes her caregiver, the young protagonist gets ever-closer to Grandma and the treasure he's been looking for.
Cher: In Her Own Words
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cher, the star who refused to be boxed in, stood up to conformity, and championed female independence. Proving the doubters wrong with every change of direction. Her influence on women in the industry, and direction of modern music is incalculable.
The New Abolitionists
Producer
Filmmaker Christina Zorich follows abolitionists throughout Southeast Asia that have dedicated their lives to rescuing, rehabilitating, preventing and prosecuting those involved in human sex trafficking.
The New Abolitionists
Self
Filmmaker Christina Zorich follows abolitionists throughout Southeast Asia that have dedicated their lives to rescuing, rehabilitating, preventing and prosecuting those involved in human sex trafficking.
The New Greek Americans
Narrator
A chronicle of the Greek diaspora in the United States, starting from the 60s, when young Greek Americans, despite their conservative and uptight upbringing, started to embrace the flow of change in mentality. Each decade, this community assimilated staggering historical events: from the Civil Rights Movement all the way to the Michael S. Dukakis presidential nomination in 1998, a benchmark for the Greeks population in the USA. Narrated and hosted by Olympia Dukakis, this heartfelt documentary unfolds humorous and touching stories of second and third-generation immigrants, reflecting the multilayered aspects of “growing up Greek” in the USA.
Olympia
Herself
Follow Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis behind the scenes in this affectionate profile of a stalwart New Yorker and beloved stage and screen treasure.
Change in the Air
Margaret Lemke
Cuando una mujer atractiva se muda al barrio, el vecindario se agita, sacando a la luz todos sus secretos.
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Self
'The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin' homenajea a uno de los narradores más alabados del mundo, siguiendo su evolución desde sus orígenes conservadores hasta su lucha por los derechos de los homosexuales.
Infiltrado
Aunt Vicky
Basada en una historia real ocurrida en los años 80, narra cómo un policía estadounidense se infiltra en una banda de narcos colombianos. Para lograr ese objetivo, Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) se infiltrará junto Kathy Ertz (Diane Kruger), quien fingirá ser su futura esposa y Emir Abreu (John Leguizamo), un policía con métodos poco tradicionales para codearse con la cúpula de la organización criminal y ser parte de la mayor operación encubierta antidroga de la historia.
Starring Austin Pendleton
A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.
Emily & Tim
Emily (Segment 6)
La película, dividida en seis actos, se centra en la historia de la relación de Emily y Tim desde que se conocen en 1950, cuando ella era una estudiante de enfermería y él un aficionado a los libros. La pareja se va ajustando a la vida matrimonial mientras que en cada acto se transforman en personajes diferentes cambiando de raza, de sexualidad o de personalidad.
7 Chinese Brothers
Grandma
Larry, que tras ser despedido de su trabajo, con la ayuda de su amigo, las regañinas de su abuela y su amor por el alcohol, intenta encontrar un trabajo estable. Al final termina como técnico de Quick Lube y termina enamorándose de su jefa. Para esta tarea cuenta con la compañía de Tunde Adebimpe, Olympia Dukakis y Eleanore Pienta.
Irene & Marie
Marie
Olympia Dukakis and Rose Gregorio play Greek-American women in their 70s who create stories to avoid the realities of growing older.
Beneath the Olive Tree
The departure point for this film is a series of notebooks created during the Greek civil war of 1946-49 and first discovered years later, under an olive tree. Inside their pages, diary-like, deported women recount their experiences in Greek concentration camps. Many of them were active in the resistance under Nazi occupation. Actress Olympia Dukakis, who serves as the film’s narrator, was also the individual who originally called director Toska’s attention to the unique documents.
Big Driver
Doreen
Una famosa escritora de misterio busca venganza después de un brutal ataque.
A Little Game
Yaya
Condenada al exilio en un nuevo colegio elitista y sacudida por la muerte de su querida abuela, Max es una niña de diez años que encuentra la inspiración en un irascible jugador de ajedrez que utiliza el juego para darle lecciones de resistencia y perseverancia que le ayuden a adaptarse a un cambio inevitable.
Destinos entrelazados
Gwen Hollander
Laurel Springs es un pueblo que recibe una suculenta oferta comercial para un nuevo proyecto que podría traer prosperidad económica a sus habitantes. Pero una periodista local está convencida de que hay gato encerrado. En medio del alboroto, una avería en un semáforo provoca un aparatoso accidente entre dos coches. Los conductores, gravemente heridos son Charlotte, la periodista y el forastero enviado para convencer a todos del nuevo proyecto. Ambos entran en estado de coma, pero es en esa dimensión donde conectan sus espíritus para emprender el camino de regreso a la vida.
Montana Amazon
Ira
The Dunderheads are an eccentric Montana family who've been in the mountains for far too long. Now one step ahead of the law, matriarch Grandma Ira flees to Canada with her two wildly dysfunctional teenage grand kids, across the American West into a comic collision with the mainstream world. Montana Amazon is a both funny and poignant fable on the nature of the human family.
The Last Keepers
Rosmarie Carver
This romantic fantasy movie is about two people who are the last survivors of an ancient line of goddess worshipers, who sell art at a shop. When their teenage daughter Rhea falls in love with a poetically inclined boy , she begins to develop magical powers of her own throwing everything into chaos.
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—is profiled in this documentary that neither sanctifies nor vilifies him. He brought us free Shakespeare in the Park, Hair and A Chorus Line, and nurtured many of America’s greatest playwrights, directors and actors. His complex personality and mercurial behavior are much in evidence and spoken of with frankness through interviews with some of America’s most celebrated artists, including Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, and James Earl Jones.
Cloudburst
Stella
When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a hitchhiker along the way.
Birds of a Feather
Olympia
A coming of age film for 40 year olds. Three middle-aged friends reunite to put on a play and find themselves again.
Descubriendo a John Cazale
Self
John Cazale solo participó en cinco películas: El padrino, La conversación, El padrino, Segunda parte, Tarde de perros y El cazador de ciervos, cada una de las cuales fue nominada a Mejor película. Sin embargo, hoy la mayoría de la gente ni siquiera sabe su nombre. I KNEW IT WAS YOU es un nuevo recorrido a través de películas que definieron a una generación.
Lejos de ella
Marian
Grant y Fiona han estado casados durante años. Ahora jubilados, viven confortablemente en una casa en el campo, pero su felicidad se ve afectada por los problemas de deterioro de memoria de Fiona. Para no cargar a su marido con más trabajo y cuidados, ella insiste en ingresar en una residencia para gente mayor. Esto cambiará su vida y transformará su relación de pareja. Notas
Entre mujeres
Phyllis
Destrozado por la ruptura con su novia Sophia (Elena Anaya), Carter Webb (Adam Brody), un aspirante a escritor, abandona Los Ángeles para irse a vivir con su abuela (Olympia Dukakis) a un suburbio de Detroit. Aunque intenta aislarse para poder escribir, conocerá a sus vecinas las Hardwicke: una familia compuesta por mujeres: Sarah (Meg Ryan) y sus dos hijas: Lucy (Kristen Stewart) y Paige (Makenzie Vega), una precoz niña de once años. Gracias a la relación con su abuela y con estas mujeres, Carter empieza a vislumbrar que lo que le parecía un final no es más que el comienzo de su aventura vital.
El bibliotecario: El mapa del rey Salomón
Margie Carsen
Flynn Carson es en apariencia un sencillo bibliotecario, pero esto tan sólo es una tapadera para su verdadera misión como protector de los grandes secretos de la humanidad, ya que su jefe le da el mapa original de las míticas minas del Rey Salomón. Deberá encontrarlas y destruir un libro que dota de poderes sobrenaturales a quien lo lee, y que puede poner en peligro el futuro de la humanidad...
Day On Fire
Dr. Mary Wade
Day on Fire is an American film which was produced by Lodestar Entertainment and filmed in New York City and Israel in 2006. It is written and directed by Jay Anania, stars Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis, Carmen Chaplin, Alyssa Sutherland and Martin Donovan and is produced by William Fisch and Larry Rattner. The film was scored by John Medeski with vocals by Judy Kuhn. Day on Fire was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival on May 22, 2006.
Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
Self
Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families, which comes from the kitchen, and how a real Italian father is the source of believability for the film.
Jesus, Mary and Joey
Sophia Vitello
Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American family when he is reunited with a childhood schoolmate, Mary O'Callahan. Once mocked as 'Scary Mary' this ugly duckling has blossomed into an irresistible beauty. She's returned to the old neighborhood after an intense bout with cancer. When Joey learns her cure was the result of a miracle, friendship turns to romance as she educates him on the crossroads to the Almighty. Joey challenges his family's faith with his new found revelations and chaos ensues as they all search for a miracle of their own.
Whiskey School
Ellen Haywood
Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he fancies the drink a little too much. In the hopes of saving Leopold's life, his theater friends come together to stage an intervention for him.
3 Agujas
Hilde
Narra tres historias unidas, y situadas en diferentes continentes, sobre la lucha contra el SIDA. En China, Jing Ping (Lucy Liu) instala un banco de sangre móvil en un área rural remota; cuando la gente comienza a enfermarse, un joven granjero intenta descubrir la causa. En Sudáfrica, un grupo de monjas (Chloë Sevigny, Olympia Dukakis y Sandra Oh) intentan salvar almas, pero descubren que la dura realidad cotidiana genera múltiples problemas. En Canadá un joven actor porno, Denys (Shawn Ashmore) se enfrenta a una serie de sucesos que cambiarán su vida.
Esto es todo amigos
Muriel Kleinman
Sam Kleinman , se presenta de noche y por sorpresa en casa de sus hijos en Nueva York; su mujer Muriel se ha ido de casa y lo ha abandonado tras 47 años de matrimonio dejando tras de sí una escueta nota sin demasiadas explicaciones.
New York City
Judy Hillerman
Narra cinco historias independientes ocurridas tras la tragedia del 11 de septiembre en Nueva York.
El bibliotecario: En busca de la lanza perdida
Margie Carsen
Flynn Carsen consigue un trabajo en la biblioteca de Nueva York. Un día, en los sótanos del recinto, descubre almacenados algunos tesoros míticos. A partir de ese momento, Flynn se embarca en la misión de buscar las partes perdidas de la lanza del destino.
Charlie's War
Charlie
Charlie's War is the story of Charlotte Lewis, a woman who is experiencing serious emotional and mental turmoil brought about by nightmares of increasing intensity. In the dreams, she is a young girl, and she runs from unknown terrors. Trying to understand her troubling dreams, Charlotte revisits part of her childhood, which comes back to her in a series of impressionistic memories. Charlie, her sister, Jobie, and her mother move in with her grandmother. It is 1944, and World War II rages in Europe and the Far East. Though Grandma's farm seems to be a peaceful refuge, there is an undercurrent of fear and brooding menace in their surroundings.
Mafia Doctor
Rose Dellarusso
Growing up poor on the streets of New Jersey, Frank Siena (Danny Nucci) has little hope of realizing his dream of becoming a doctor. But "fate" has a way of intervening. Now a brilliant, successful cardiac surgeon, Frank seems to have it all, except for one terrible secret: Before he swore to save lives and do no harm, Frank took another oath... to mob boss Nicola Delarusso (Paul Sorvino), who paid his way through medical school in exchange for absolute loyalty. And when Delarusso demands payment in full Frank suffers a crisis of conscience that could cost him his job, his wife... and his life!
The Event
Lila Shapiro
An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay community in New York's fashionable Chelsea district. Nick, a district attorney investigating the most recent case, a suspicious apparent suicide, and her interviews with friends and family of the deceased trigger extensive and intricately interwoven flashbacks that reveal surprising facts about the man's life and death.
The Intended
Erina
A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.
Guilty Hearts
Amanda Patterson
Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the manipulative and charming Dr. Stephen Carrow, who is also deacon of her church and a married man. Someone kills Carrow's wife after she learns of the affair between Jenny and her husband. The murderer is caught and confesses, but that confession leads to new lies which tear apart Jenny Moran's life.
Ladies and The Champ
Sara Stevens
Two retired women (Olympia Dukakis, Marion Ross) find their lives rejuvenated when they decide to train a street thug (David deLuise) to become a prize fighter.
My Beautiful Son
Esther Lipman
Drama - A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and some answers. - Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl
Borough of Kings
Helen Manners
Toil and trouble. Jimmy, an aspiring actor, wants out of South Brooklyn where hoods run the show. Since the death of his firefighter father, Jimmy's family has been the guys at the station house and Tommy, a mobster who owns a gym where Jimmy works. Tommy encourages Jimmy's dreams, and Jimmy gets the part of Banquo in a Joseph Papps production of "Macbeth." He goes to tell Tommy the good news and walks in on a mob hit. Tommy protects him temporarily from Nunzio, a murderous Mamaluc, but soon the cops get word Jimmy knows something. Can Jimmy succeed as an actor, be a stand up guy for Tommy, avoid Nunzio, and get closer to Anna, a woman he falls for at the theater?
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Dinah
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.
Crimes of Honour
Narrator
Throughout the Islamic world, each year hundreds of women are shot, stabbed, strangled or burned to death by male relatives because they are thought to have “dishonoured” their families. They may have lost their virginity, refused an arranged marriage or left an abusive husband. Even if a woman is raped or merely the victim of gossip, she must pay the price. Crimes of Honour documents the terrible reality of femicide – the belief that a girl’s body is the property of the family, and any suggestion of sexual impropriety must be cleansed with her blood. We meet women in hiding from their families, a brother who describes his reasons for killing the sister he loved, and a handful of women who have committed themselves to the protection of young women in danger of losing their lives.
Crimes of Honour
Throughout the Islamic world, each year hundreds of women are shot, stabbed, strangled or burned to death by male relatives because they are thought to have “dishonoured” their families. They may have lost their virginity, refused an arranged marriage or left an abusive husband. Even if a woman is raped or merely the victim of gossip, she must pay the price. Crimes of Honour documents the terrible reality of femicide – the belief that a girl’s body is the property of the family, and any suggestion of sexual impropriety must be cleansed with her blood. We meet women in hiding from their families, a brother who describes his reasons for killing the sister he loved, and a handful of women who have committed themselves to the protection of young women in danger of losing their lives.
Better Living
Nora
A comedy about families, the elements that bind them together, and about hope in the face of hardship.
Mafia. ¡Estafa como puedas!
Sophia
El joven Vincenzo Cortino, hijo de un cartero siciliano, lleva un paquete para su padre y accidentalmente ve algo que no debería. Se ve obligado a huir del pueblo y a coger un barco rumbo a América. Allí Vincenzo comienza su escalada hasta la cima de los clanes mafiosos. Pero un día su hijo más joven comete un error y tiene que abandonar la ciudad. Más tarde termina como jefe de un casino de Las Vegas. Una disparatada comedia, parodia de las películas de mafiosos.
Juguetes de Guerra
Madam Chairwoman, Armed Services Committee
Durante más de 17 años se ha invertido tiempo, energía y un montón de dinero para crear el vehículo de Lucha Bradley; lo malo es que no funciona. La supervisión del invento se le encomienda al Coronel Burton (Elwes), que descubre falsificaciones y pruebas amañadas que pueden destrozar la carrera de algunos importantes militares.
Las Cenizas De Papá
Dotty
An agoraphobic woman who hasn't left her home in 20 years receives a visit from the spirit of her deceased husband who reminds her of a promise she made to scatter his ashes at his favorite vacation spot. With her daughters unavailable, she sets off to fulfill the promise herself.
Novio de alquiler
Rita
Kate intenta mejorar su posición en la agencia de publicidad donde trabaja, pero no lo consigue ya que no tiene la suficiente estabilidad, pues no tiene novio ni nada que la ate a la compañía. Por ello se inventa una historia sobre su compromiso con Nick, un tipo al que conoció en la boda de unos amigos. Todo parece ir bien para Kate, incluso consigue llamar la atención de un colega por el que se sentía atraída, pero todo se complica cuando tiene que presentar a su novio al jefe.
Una Pareja Hecha En El Cielo
Helen Rosner
A dying widow plays matchmaker to her 32-year-old unmarried son and sets him up with a nurse that she meets.
Milk & Money
Goneril Plogg
When David drops out of medical school, he finds out what life isn't really like. He meets beautiful women, holds a box, helps make a movie, and takes care of 21 cows in Manhattan.
Jerusalem
Mother (Mrs. Gordon)
Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.
Never Too Late
Rose
Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.
Profesor Holland
Principal Jacobs
Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) ve como su trabajo actual como músico en fiestas privadas no da para mucho, mientras sueña con componer su gran obra. Cuando se decide a cambiar de trabajo y se convierte en profesor de una destartalada escuela, descubre su verdadera vocación; enseñar a los jóvenes a entender la vida a través de la música.
Poderosa Afrodita
Jocasta
Nueva York. Una galerista (Helena Bonham Carter) convence a su marido (Woody Allen), periodista deportivo, para adoptar a un bebé. El marido, asombrado por la inteligencia del niño, quiere saber si su madre biológica es también superdotada; así que decide buscarla. Cuando consigue localizarla, resulta que se trata de una tierna prostituta, con muy pocas luces, que aspira a ser actriz (Mira Sorvino).
Jeffrey
Mrs. Marcangelo
Jeffrey juró no tener sexo hasta encontrar al hombre de su vida. Él es gay y está aterrado por el virus del sida. Por ningún motivo quiere contraerlo, y está muy orgulloso de sus votos de castidad: hace algún tiempo que decidió que era mejor no tener sexo con nadie. Vive muy feliz así, hasta que en su camino se atraviesa un bello joven que, casualmente, tiene el virus HIV.
Dead Badge
Dr. Doris Rice
After a cop dies, his shield goes back on duty. They call it a "dead badge" - a way to honor a fallen officer. Badge #2424 used to belong to Many Torres - a cop who died of a heroin O.D. Now it belongs to Dan Sampson... and it's haunting him.
Young at Heart
Rose Garaventi
A matriarch of three generations born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, discovers that her recently-deceased husband has lost their bar and home to a gambling debt.
Mother
Mrs. Jay
Weisser is a young college bound man whose future is threatened when his mother interferes with his love life and a pending scholarship. He also discovers that his mother's best friend wishes to get closer to him, even if it means murder.
Me gustan los líos
Jeannie
Peter Brackett (Nick Nolte) y Sabrina Peterson (Julia Roberts) son dos competitivos reporteros rivales de Chicago a los que se les encarga la cobertura de un accidente de tren. Él es un reportero cínico y veterano, mientras ella es una novata dispuesta a arriesgar lo que sea por conseguir una noticia. Cuando ambos descubren que hay algo más turbio tras el siniestro, deciden a regañadientes unir sus fuerzas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Agárralo como puedas 33 1/3: el insulto final
Olympia Dukakis (uncredited)
La noche de los Oscar, ¿quién ganará?, ¿quién perderá?, y por favor, ¿puede alguien quitar a ese imbécil del escenario? ¡Esperen! No se trata de un imbécil normal y corriente. Es el teniente Frank Drebin, destrozando la ceremonia para detener un plan terrorista que podría ser su final... Y va a convertirse en el principio de toda una locura.
Mira quién habla ahora
Rosie
Mickey y Julie ya son mayores, y ya hablan con sus propias voces. Sus padres, Mollie y James aún están juntos criando a sus hijos; Mollie se ha quedado sin trabajo y se pasa el día en casa, mientras que James trabaja como piloto privado para una atractiva ejecutiva, Samantha, quien le somete a un implacable acoso. Además han llegado dos nuevos miembros a la familia: Rocks, un perro callejero, y Daphne, una caniche consentida.
Digger
Bea
A young boy is sent to live with relatives when his parents break up. He befriends a dying boy who has an eerie connection with nature.
The Cemetery Club
Doris Silverman
The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
Over the Hill
Alma Harris
Alma can't stand to have one more birthday without seeing her estranged daughter, Elizabeth, who lives in Sydney, Australia.
Fire in the Dark
Emily Miller
A 75-year old widow with battles herself as she struggles with being a burden to those she loves. Though determined not to rely on her children, she is forced to move in with her daughter after a serious fall, and the family learns to face the future with dignity and hope.
Lucky Day
Katherine Campbell
When 30-year-old Allison Campbell wins a $2 million lottery, her family life turns upside down not just because of her winnings but because Allison is mentally handicapped. Kari, her younger sister, has been caring for Alison for 10 years. Problems arise when the girls' mother, Katherine, decides she wants Allison to live with her.
Mira quien habla también
Rosie
John, el taxista que quiere ser piloto de aviones, se ha casado con Molly, la madre de Mickey. Éste ha aprendido a dar sus primeros pasos y a pronunciar sus primeras palabras. También posee la clásica habilidad infantil para tirar cualquier objeto que encuentre a su paso. Por si fuera poco, nace Julie, su hermanita, dotada con idéntico sarcasmo.
In the Spirit
Sue
A woman moves back to New York and hires a ditzy New Age woman to redecorate her apartment in this Odd Couple styled comedy. The movie takes a turn as the two escape to a New Age retreat in upstate New York to get away from a murderer who is pursuing them.
Magnolias de acero
Clairee Belcher
Comedia de carácter coral que refleja la vida cotidiana, no exenta de dramatismo, de un grupo de amigas de diversas edades de una pequeña ciudad sureña. La protagonista, Shelby Eatenton (Julia roberts), es una joven diabética de salud muy precaria que acaba de casarse y a la que los médicos han aconsejado no tener hijos.
Mi padre
Bette Tremont
Jake Tremont, un jubilado que siempre vivió dominado por su esposa y que prestó poca atención a su hijo, repara por primera vez en él cuando su mujer está gravemente enferma. Los cuidados y atenciones de su hijo adulto, un atareado ejecutivo, le devuelven las ganas de vivir. Además, la relación con su nieto, trastornado por la separación de sus padres, lo animará a reconstruir la familia.
Mira quién habla
Rosie
Mollie (Kirstie Alley) se ha quedado embarazada de un hombre casado. Entonces decide criar sola a su hijo y buscar para él un padre perfecto. Pero el niño tiene sus propias opiniones al respecto, y no se priva de hacer todo tipo de comentarios sobre los posibles candidatos. Él quiere como padre al taxista (John Travolta) que le ayudó al nacer.
Armas de mujer
Personnel Director
Tess, una inteligente secretaria de origen humilde, descubre que ha sido traicionada por su jefa. Es entonces cuando decide suplantarla durante una baja por enfermedad.
Hechizo de luna
Rose Castorini
Loretta, una viuda de origen italiano que vive en Nueva York, decide contraer matrimonio con Johnny, un solterón de carácter débil al que maneja a su antojo. De repente, Johnny tiene que ir a Sicilia para visitar a su madre enferma; entonces le pide a Loretta que se encargue de invitar a la boda a su hermano Ronnie, del que está distanciado desde hace tiempo.
Flanagan
Mary
Aging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shakespeare sonnet and is facile with accents, but he can't land an agent or a job. During the course of one summing-it-all-up day, he drives his cab around the city dealing with fare evaders, an insolent stage manager determined to keep him from auditioning for his choice director, his estranged wife who has a new lover, his mistress who seems awfully close to her "drawing teacher", and two teenage sons whose bright visions of the future don't seem to include jobs. If he can only cope with all the annoyances of this day, maybe he can deal with the limitations in his abilities and his future.
La gran locura americana
Helena Naxos ("Success Wanters")
La película consta de tres cortometrajes que parodian las películas de desarrollo personal, las telenovelas y las historias policiacas.
The Idolmaker
Mrs. Vacarri
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.
Niños ricos
Lawyer
Dos jóvenes de 12 años, producto de hogares rotos del Upper West Side , luchan para dar sentido a sus vidas y vivir sus propios sentimientos de adolescentes
Las pandillas del Bronx
Joey's Mom
Nueva York, 1963. En la radio suenan The Four Seasons, Smoke Robinson, The Shirelles y Ben E. King. Las cosas no son fáciles en el Bronx. Los chicos forman bandas callejeras, como la de los Wanderers, integrada por los chicos de origen italiano. Las diferencias con las bandas rivales, a veces de otras razas, son irreconciliables. Y la violencia es el camino más directo para resolverlas.
The Seagull
Pauline
Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by John Desmond. Seeking to reform the theater, Konstantin (Frank Langella) has written an experimental play with the lead to be acted by his beloved, Nina (Blythe Danner). He arranges the first performance to take place at a country estate, but the presence of his self-absorbed mother (Lee Grant) and her novelist lover disrupts the production.
El justiciero de la ciudad
Cop at the Precinct (uncredited)
Tras sufrir una brutal agresión su mujer y su hija, Paul Kersey, un ciudadano normal de Nueva York, decide vengarse acosando a todos los delincuentes de la ciudad que actúan por la noche.
Nicky's World
Irene Kaminios
A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma of repossession and property without destroying its heritage.
The Rehearsal
An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Athens Polytechnic (November 1973) by documents, rehearsals, interviews, songs and poems.
Hermanas
Louise Wilanski
El azar de la naturaleza quiso que dos hermanas gemelas siamesas vivieran con sus cuerpos unidos varios años, concretamente hasta la adolescencia. La ciencia, gracias a una complicada intervención quirúrgica, las separará. Mientras la una es una persona amable y dulce, la otra es todo lo contrario: lunática y demente. El problema es que nunca sabes a quién tienes delante.
Made For Each Other
Gig's Mother
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.
John and Mary
John's Mother
John (Dustin Hoffman) conoce a Mary (Mia Farrow) en un bar para solteros de Nueva York. Ambos simpatizan y esa misma noche se acuestan juntos, pero a la mañana siguiente es cuando empiezan a conocerse realmente...
Stiletto
Mrs. Amato (uncredited)
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.
Lilith
Patient (uncredited)
Vincent Bruce, un veterano de guerra, comienza a trabajar como terapeuta ocupacional en Poplar Lodge, un centro psiquiátrico privado para gente rica donde conoce a Lilith Arthur, una encantadora joven que padece esquizofrenia, cuya frágil belleza cautiva a todos aquellos que la conocen.
Twice a Man
Young Mother
A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring physician.