Kathy Bates

Kathy Bates

出生 : 1948-06-28, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

略歴

Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and director. She has been the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, she studied theatre at the Southern Methodist University before moving to New York City to pursue an acting career. She landed minor stage roles before being cast in her first on screen role in Taking Off (1971). Her first Off-Broadway stage performance was in the 1976 production of Vanities. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, she continued to perform on screen and on stage, and garnered a Tony Award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Play in 1983 for her performance in 'night, Mother, and won an Obie Award in 1988 for her performance in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Bates' performance as Annie Wilkes in the tense psychological thriller Misery (1990) marked her Hollywood breakthrough, winning her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Further acclaim came for her starring role in Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Waterboy (1998), and supporting roles in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Titanic (1997). Bates received subsequent Oscar nods in the Best Supporting Actress category for her work in Primary Colors (1998), About Schmidt (2002), and Richard Jewell (2019). Bates' television work has resulted in 14 Emmy Award nominations, including two for her leading role on the NBC series Harry's Law (2011–12). She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her appearance on the ninth season of Two and a Half Men (2012) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her portrayal of Delphine LaLaurie on the third season of American Horror Story (2013). She also received accolades for her portrayal of Miss Hannigan in the 1999 television adaptation of Annie. Her directing credits include several episodes of the HBO television series Six Feet Under (2001–03) and the television film Ambulance Girl (2005). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kathy Bates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

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参加作品

A Family Affair
A surprising romance results in major consequences for a young woman, her mother and her movie star boss.
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Sylvia Simon
When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
Hopkins’ career has spanned several decades, which is why we will also use many interviews that he gave throughout his life, allowing us to put him back into the context of each period and will be helpful in understanding his role in the history of cinema, because he was far from following the trends. He never belonged to any film movement; he is a chameleon that has always preferred natural acting, ‘non-acting’ when method acting was the fashion.
Home
Bernadette
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
リチャード・ジュエル
Bobi Jewell
1996年に起こったアトランタ爆破テロにおける免罪事件を、巨匠クリント・イーストウッドが映画化した実録サスペンス。爆弾テロ事件で第一通報者から第一容疑者になった男の悲劇と、無謀弁護士による奮闘を描く。
ザ・テキサス・レンジャーズ
Ma Ferguson
冷酷な銀行強盗ボニーとクライド。彼らの逮捕に駆り出された2人の元テキサス・レンジャーが、経験に裏打ちされた直感を頼りに悪党を追い詰めていく。
ジョン・F・ドノヴァンの死と生
Barbara Haggermaker
A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
ビリーブ 未来への大逆転
Dorothy Kenyon
貧しいユダヤ人家庭に生まれたルース・ギンズバーグは、「すべてに疑問を持て」という亡き母の言葉を胸に努力を重ね、名門ハーバード法科大学院に入学する。1956年当時、500人の生徒のうち女性は9人で、女子トイレすらなかった。家事も育児も分担する夫のマーティの協力のもと首席で卒業するが、女だからというだけで雇ってくれる法律事務所はなかった。やむなく大学教授になったルースは、70年代になってさらに男女平等の講義に力を入れる。それでも弁護士の夢を捨てられないルースに、マーティがある訴訟の記録を見せる。ルースはその訴訟が、歴史を変える裁判になることを信じ、自ら弁護を買って出るのだが──。
Krystal
Vera
A young man living a sheltered life develops a crush on a stripper and joins her Alcoholics Anonymous group just so he can be in the same room with her.
バッドサンタ2
Sunny Soke
Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is chubby and cheery Thurman Merman, a 250-pound ray of sunshine who brings out Willie's sliver of humanity. Issues arise when the pair are joined by Willie's horror story of a mother, who raises the bar for the gang's ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior.
コンプリート・アンノウン 〜私の知らない彼女〜
Nina
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.
メリッサ・マッカーシーinザ・ボス
Ida Marquette
A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Maime Trotter
Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her? When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning to stick around. But cheerful, affectionate Maime Trotter isn’t giving up on Gilly just yet...
Boychoir
Headmistress
A troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school after the death of his single mother. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding Choir Master who recognises a unique talent in this young boy as he pushes him to discover his creative heart and soul in music.
タミー/Tammy
Lenore
仕事はクビ、夫の浮気も発覚したタミーに必要なのは現実逃避の旅。でもお金も車もない彼女は、やむなく酒浸りの祖母パールとドライブ旅行に出かけることに。
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Cadaver
Beth
A cadaver wakes up to say a last goodbye to his wife, but discovers a truth in death that he didn't know in life.
Reflections on Titanic
Self
An enthralling and fast-paced four-part documentary feature that covers the making of one of the last major Hollywood epics; Titanic. Cast and crew speak on setting the sinking of the ship against a classic romance. The feature also examines casting and the young couple headlining the film, DiCaprio's and Winslet's on-set friendship and their differing acting styles, the expansive sets and filming locations, the authenticity of the recreated ship, James Cameron's work and dedication, and budgeting. And many more aspects of the film are overviewed.
ミッドナイト・イン・パリ
Gertrude Stein
ギル(オーウェン・ウィルソン)は婚約者(レイチェル・マクアダムス)と共に、彼女の両親の出張に便乗してパリを訪れる。彼はハリウッドで売れっ子脚本家として成功していたが、作家への夢も捨て切れずにいた。ロマンチストのギルは、あこがれの作家ヘミングウェイや画家のピカソらが暮らした1920年代の黄金期のパリに郷愁を抱いており……。
You May Not Kiss the Bride
Bryan's Mother
Bryan, an unassuming pet photographer has action and adventure thrust upon him when he is forced to wed Masha, a Croatian crime lord's daughter, and she is subsequently kidnapped while on their honeymoon in a tropical paradise.
私だけのハッピー・エンディング
Beverly Corbett
A guarded woman who finds out she's dying of cancer but, when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death.
バレンタインデー
Susan Milton
十数人のアンジェレノが、早朝から深夜までバレンタインデーをナビゲートします。3組のカップルが一緒に目覚めますが、それぞれの関係はうまくいかないでしょう。小学生の男の子は初恋の人に花束を渡したいと思っています。2人の高校3年生は、正午に初めてのセックスを計画します。テレビのスポーツレポーターは、LAでロマンスを見つけるという任務を受ける。クォーターバックのスター選手は、自分の将来について考えている。見知らぬ二人が飛行機の中で出会う。長年連れ添ってきた祖父母が危機に直面する。I Hate Valentine's Day "ディナーは、孤独な人や嘘をついている人を誘う。
しあわせの隠れ場所
Miss Sue
テネシー州メンフィス。裕福な白人家庭の夫人リー・アンは冬の夜、近所の道を薄着で歩くアフリカ系少年マイケルを見かけ、同情して彼を家に泊める。家庭に恵まれないマイケルは最近、私立校に入学させられたが、すっかり落ちこぼれていた。リー・アンと家族は純真なマイケルに感心し、そのまま彼を家に住まわせて家族と同様に接する。やがて学力が改善したマイケルは、競技のルールも知らないまま入ったアメフト部で活躍していく。
Chéri
Madame Peloux
A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes which ended only as the First World War erupted.
Personal Effects
Gloria
Walter is a rising star in the NCAA wrestling world until his life is ripped apart by the brutal murder of his sister. Returning home to console his mother Gloria he seeks vengeance on the man who is accused of the crime. A chance meeting with a beautiful mature woman gives him solace to the situation. Will this unlikely pairing bloom into a romance and heal a wound the world cannot see or will the loss of his sister push him over the edge?
レボリューショナリー・ロード/燃え尽きるまで
Mrs. Givings
1950年代。新興住宅街《レボリューショナリー・ロード》で暮らすフランクとエイプリルは、可愛い子ども2人がいる理想的夫婦。だが元陸軍兵のフランクは事務機会社のセールスマンという自身の立場に未来が無いと感じ、かつて女優を志願したエイプリルも今は平凡な主婦であることが悩み。突然、家族そろってパリに引っ越そうと言い出した妻の考えに同意して辞職を決めたフランクだが、自分に昇進のチャンスがあると知る。
地球が静止する日
Regina Jackson
ある夜、プリンストン大学で教諭をする地球外生物学者、ヘレン・ベンソン博士の自宅にアメリカ政府のエージェントが突然やってきた。強制的にある非常事態への協力を求められたヘレンは1年前に他界した夫の連れ子であるジェイコブを隣人に預け、あわただしく公用車に乗り込む。すでに政府は軍を総動員出動させ警戒態勢を敷き、町は異様なまでに静まり返っていた。政府がヘレンのほかに核物理学・天文学・地質学などの権威を招集したのは、木星の外側で観測された謎の物体への対策を講じるためだった。小惑星と思われるその物体は想定外の進路を信じがたい速度で移動し、マンハッタンへと迫っているのだった。
The Family That Preys
Charlotte Cartwright
Alice Pratt, a hard working Christian woman, raised her two daughters while managing a simple diner of her own. Her snobbish and arrogant daughter Andrea graduated in Economic Science and works in a construction corporation while her sister Pam stayed with Alice and worked in the diner. Andrea is married to construction worker Chris, who works in the same corporation as his wife but dreams of starting up his own business. However she is being unfaithful to him - with their boss William Cartwright. William is the son of Alice's best friend, the wealthy Charlotte Cartwright. While Alice travels with Charlotte on a road trip, the ambition and infidelity of William triggers a series of events that will affect relationships in both families.
ライラの冒険 黄金の羅針盤
Hester (voice)
われわれが住む世界と似ている並行世界の中の英国オックスフォード。幼いころに両親を亡くし、オックスフォード大の学寮で育った12歳の少女ライラだが、彼女の叔父アスリエル卿は“ダスト”と呼ばれる謎の粒子の秘密を調べるべく、北の地へ探検に向かう。そんなライラに上流社会の実力者コールター夫人が接近してくる一方、ライラの周囲で子どもが次々と失踪する。ついにライラの親友の少年ロジャーまでもが失踪してしまう。
P.S. アイラヴユー
Patricia
情熱的なアイルランド人のジェリーと相思相愛の仲で結ばれ、NYで幸せな日々を送っていたホリー。ところが、脳腫瘍に冒されたジェリーは、ある日あっけなくこの世を去り、悲しみに暮れたホリーは、以後すっかり引きこもりの状態に陥ることに。ところが、彼女の30歳の誕生日に、意外な品がホリーのもとに届く。それはなんと、亡き夫からの贈り物だった。その後も、彼からのラブレターが定期的に届いて、ホリーは励まされる。
ブラザーサンタ
Mother Claus
サンタクロースことニコラス(ポール・ジアマッティ)の兄フレッド(ヴィンス・ヴォーン)は、弟とは大違いのダメ人間。努力はしたもの弟のような善人にはなれず、悪事を働き刑務所に入ってしまう。兄思いのニコラスは「北極でクリスマス用のおもちゃ作りを手伝うこと」を条件に、フレッドの保釈金を立て替えるが……。 聖人サンタクロースのデキの悪い兄が引き起こす大騒動を描いた爆笑コメディー。製作をヒットメーカー、ジョエル・シルヴァーが手掛け、『シャンハイ・ナイト』のデヴィッド・ドブキンが監督を務める。サンタの兄フレッドに『ドッジボール』のヴィンス・ヴォーン、模範的な弟のサンタクロースを実力派ポール・ジアマッティが好演。さらにレイチェル・ワイズ、キャシー・ベイツ、ケヴィン・スペイシーらオスカー俳優が共演する豪華キャストも見逃せない。
ビー・ムービー
Janet Benson (voice)
大学を出たばかりのバリーは蜂蜜をつくる仕事についたが不満を持っていた。ミツバチの世界では1度決めた仕事は一生変わることができない。ある日バリーは決まりを破って巣の外に出る。殺されそうなところをヴァネッサに助けられ交友を築くが、彼女とともに行ったスーパーマーケットで棚に大量のミツバチが並んでいるのを見つける。蜂蜜が人間に横取りされていると知ったバリーは訴えを起こして蜂蜜をミツバチのもとに取り戻す。しかしミツバチが働かなくなったことで世界中の花が枯れてしまう。困ったバリーとヴァネッサはパサデナで開かれるフラワー・フェスティバルに出品される最後の花を受粉しに向かう。
Christmas Is Here Again
Miss Dowdy (voice)
When the evil Krad steals Santa's toy bag, he crushes the holiday spirit- and over time, the world's children forget all about Christmas. Now, a wide-eyed orphan and her band of friends will embark on the polar adventure of a lifetime, as they try to stop Krad from destroying Christmas once and for all!
シャーロットのおくりもの
Bitsy the Cow (voice)
危うく処分されかけた小さな子ブタは、エラブル家の娘ファーンに引き取られ、ウィルバーと名付けられる。やがて、ウィルバーは向かいの農場に預けられ、他の動物たちと一緒に暮らし始める。だがそんなある日、ウィルバーは、春に生まれたブタはクリスマスのハムになる、という話を聞いてしまう。怯えるウィルバーの前に、賢く心優しいクモのシャーロットが現われ、「あなたを守ってあげる」と約束する。
Bonneville
Margene
Three women take a road trip to Santa Barbara in order to deliver the ashes of one of their dead husbands to his resentful daughter. Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden hijacks her two best friends and sets off in a vintage '66 Bonneville convertible.
Relative Strangers
Agnes Menure
An uptight professional meets his lower-class biological parents for the first time.
恋するレシピ ~理想のオトコの作り方~
Sue
Tripp, an attractive man in his thirties, is still living with his parents Al and Sue. Tripp's best friends Demo and Ace are also still living in their parents' homes and seem proud of it. Al and Sue are not happy, however, and are fascinated when friends whose adult son has recently moved away from home reveal they hired an expert to arrange the matter and couldn't be happier with the result.
Guilty Hearts
The Judge
Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter future.
迷い婚 -すべての迷える女性たちへ-
Aunt Mitsy (uncredited)
Sarah Huttinger's return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her – and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers – as she uncovers secrets that suggest the Huttingers are neither sedate nor proper.
Six Feet Under: In Memoriam
Herself
A eulogy for the groundbreaking HBO series.
Ambulance Girl
Jane Stern
The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.
Ambulance Girl
Director
The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.
Warm Springs
Helena Mahoney
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
Hansel and Gretel
Narrator (voice)
The classic story of a woodcutter's two lost children, who find a house in the forest made of sweets and candy that belongs to a hungry witch.
ポパイの大冒険~海にひそむ謎を追え!
Siren / Sea Hag (voice)
Popeye, Olive and Bluto head out to find Popeye's long lost Pappy.
Little Black Book
Kippie Kann
Determined to learn about her boyfriend's past relationships, Stacy -- who works for a talk show -- becomes a bona fide snoop. With her colleague, Barb, Stacy gets the names of Derek's ex-lovers and interviews them, supposedly for an upcoming show. But what she learns only adds to her confusion, and her plans begin to unravel when she befriends one of the women.
80デイズ
Queen Victoria
イギリスに住む発明家のフィリアス・フォッグは、過激な実験に執事を無理矢理協力させることもしばしば。そんな彼に愛想を尽かし、執事はとうとう出て行ってしまってフォッグが困り果てていたところ、屋敷の庭に一人の男が落ちてきた。彼の名はラウ・シン。中国にある故郷の村から秘宝を盗み出した盗賊を追ってイギリスにやってきた彼は、盗賊から秘宝を奪い返し、町中を逃げ回っていたのだった。ラウはとっさに「パスパルトゥー」という偽名を名乗り、フォッグの家の執事兼実験台として雇われることになった。
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Marquesa
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Narrator (voice)
Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.
Declaration of Independence
Self
Famous actors and actresses read the declaration of independence of the USA.
Misery Loves Company
Self
A documentary presenting the behind the scenes of Rob Reiner's classic "Misery", with Reiner himself, Kathy Bates, James Caan, Frances Sternhagen, writer William Goldman, Barry Sonnenfeld (the film's cinematographer) presenting their views on the film years later of its release and the impact "Misery" had in their professional lives.
Love Liza
Mary Ann Bankhead
Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to huffing gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law.
アバウト・シュミット
Roberta Hertzel
定年退職、妻の死、娘の結婚。すべてを失いかけたとき、人生最高の贈り物が届く……。名優ジャック・ニコルソンと新鋭アレクサンダー・ペインが、すべての人々におくる深い感動のストーリー。
Unconditional Love
Grace Beasley
After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the lover of the dead pop star, and convinces him to come back to Chicago with her to figure out who killed the singer.
Dragonfly
Mrs. Belmont
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
My Sister's Keeper
Christine Chapman
Two sisters take a journey of discovery and reconciliation based on the memoirs of Margaret Moorman. Christine has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and must rely on others for support even though she longs for and independent and ordinary life. When her mother dies, her sister Judy becomes responsible for her care. The two are left to face the struggles of finding common ground.
アメリカン・アウトロー
Ma James
When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs. They will become the object of the biggest manhunt in the history of the Old West and, as their fame grows, so will the legend of their leader, a young outlaw by the name of Jesse James.
ラットレース
The Squirrel Lady (uncredited)
In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild dash for $2 million jammed into a locker hundreds of miles away. The tycoon and his wealthy friends monitor each racer's every move to keep track of their favorites. The only rule in this race is that there are no rules.
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
Frances Marion (voice)
This documentary tells of the life and career of screenwriter Frances Marion. By the mid-1920s, she was the most respected and highest paid scriptwriter in Hollywood.
Bruno
Mother Superior
The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
アニー
Miss Agatha Hannigan
Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. It's an adventure that takes her from the cold, mean streets of New York to the warm, comforting arms of bighearted billionaire Oliver Warbucks - with plenty of mischief and music in between.
Baby Steps
Mrs. Mellon
Baby Steps depicts the encounter of a single gay school teacher with a midwestern adoption agent.
Dash and Lilly
Director
Biographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman shared in 1940 and 50's Hollywood. Refusing to marry, but deeply in love, the two engaged in many affairs and battled alcoholism.
シビル・アクション
Bankruptcy Judge (uncredited)
ジョン・トラヴォルタ演じるクールな弁護士が、金のための戦いから正義のための戦いへと変化するさまを描く辛口の法廷劇。公害から白血病になってしまった家族に依頼され、弁護士は巨大企業を相手に戦うことになるが……。
The Waterboy
Mama Helen Boucher
Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
The Effects of Magic
パーフェクト・カップル
Libby Holden
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.
Swept from the Sea
Miss Swaffer
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
タイタニック
Molly Brown
1912年、処女航海に出た豪華客船タイタニック号。新天地アメリカを目指す画家志望の青年ジャックと上流階級の娘ローズは船上で運命的な出会いを果たす。身分違いの恋を乗り越え強い絆で結ばれていく2人。しかし不沈を誇っていた豪華客船は皮肉な運命に見舞われる‥‥。
The War at Home
Maurine Collier
Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him. He is also at odds with his family, who cannot begin to understand what he has been through. Jeremy's battles with his family finally spiral out of control on Thanksgiving Day, when a bitter secret is revealed
悪魔のような女
Det. Shirley Vogel
全寮制の聖アンセルム男子校。野心家の理事長ガイ・ブランは、生まれつき心臓の弱い学校長の妻ミアと結婚したおかげでその地位と財産を手に入れた男。そのうえ教師の一人、ニコルと、公然の愛人関係にあった。ニコルはガイとのセックスに溺れる一方で、ガイの酷い仕打ちからミアを常に庇っていた。ある嵐の夜、浴室で心臓発作を起こして倒れたミアをガイは冷たく置き去りにした... 。
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Self
A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and hosted by some of its most beloved female icons.
The Late Shift
Helen Kushnick
David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."
The West Side Waltz
Mr. Goo
Margaret keeps her neighbours at a distance and avoids contact except with Cara. She enjoys her company just for making music since Cara plays the violin accompanying Margaret at the piano. Because of her arthritis she accepts the housemaid Robin who wants to become an actress. With this naive pretty girl her life gets suddently really exciting and she makes a lot of new friends.
Angus
Meg Bethune
Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised (along with the rest of the school) that he is chosen to dance with her at the Winter Ball. The only one not surprised is the cool-kid who set him up to fail, but Angus' best friend is going to help him win the heart of Melissa by developing a new look for him
黙秘
Dolores Claiborne
富豪未亡人邸を訪れた郵便配達人が見たものは、血だらけで横たわる女主人の横で棒を手に呆然と立ち尽くす家政婦の姿だった。そして、日食の闇の中で起きた20年前の事件の真相とは……!?
Curse of the Starving Class
Ella Tate
Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm family. Dad's a foul talking drunk and Mom is desperately trying to save what's left of their family life.
North
Alaskan Mom
Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return to his own parents within two months. Thus North starts off on a journey around the world to find parents that really care about him.
Tupperware!
Narrator
The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught sales-woman who built him an empire out of bowls that burped. Brownie was an intuitive marketing genius who trained a small army of Tupperware Ladies to put on Tupperware parties in living rooms across America in the 1950s. She rewarded her sales force with minks and modern appliances at extravagant annual jubilees which the company filmed. her saleswomen earned thousands, even millions, selling Tupperware. And the experience changed their lives.
A Home of Our Own
Frances Lacey
The story is located in Los Angeles in the sixties. An energetic widow, Frances Lacey, with her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. Therefore they leave Los Angeles and head for the countryside, while facing all kinds of difficulties during their journey.
Used People
Bibby Berman
At her husband's funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. For 23 years he, now a widower, has secretly loved Pearl...
Hostages
Peggy Say
True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.
Prelude to a Kiss
Leah Blier
A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.
フライド・グリーン・トマト
Evelyn Couch
ジェシカ・タンディとキャシー・ベイツ、二人のオスカー女優が共演を果たした名作。人生に疲れた中年夫婦が老人ホームで老女と知り合い、南部の田舎町のさまざまな物語を聞き……。年の差を越えて育まれた友情を描く。
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Hazel Quarrier
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?
Shadows and Fog
Prostitute
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
The Road to Mecca
Elsa Barlow
An eldery lady, living in (litterally) the middle if nowhere, and fed up with small minded apartheid ideology starts escaping into her own world of sculpting in her own back yard and along with her (coloured) assistant Malgas, creates a world of wonder in the desert. A true story by playwrite Athol Fugard with great performances all round.
ミザリー
Annie Wilkes
恋愛小説「ミザリー」シリーズのベストセラー作家ポールは純文学に転向しようと、シリーズの主人公の女性ミザリーの死をもってシリーズを完結させる。山中のロッジで私小説第1作を書き上げた彼は吹雪の中、家路を目指すが、車は事故に遭い、彼も重傷を負う。そんなポールは近くに住む元看護師アニーに救われるが、彼女は「ミザリー」の熱狂的ファン。彼を手厚く看護してやるが、出版された「ミザリー」最終刊を読むと豹変する。
White Palace
Rosemary
Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.
ディック・トレイシー
Mrs. Green
1930年代、悪がはびこる犯罪都市で心優しきタフな刑事とみなしごキッド少年が正義の為に立ち上がる。しかし2人の行く手を阻むのは、かつてないギャングたちの集結であった・・・。ウォーレン・ベイティ率いる超豪華キャストで贈る『ディック・トレイシー』。特撮シーン満載、ユニークで美しい色彩と映像でつくりあげた、スリルいっぱいのおしゃれなアクション・アドベンチャー!!
Men Don't Leave
Lisa Coleman
After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to do but sell what material possessions she has, such as the family pick-up truck and the house, and move into an apartment in the city, namely Baltimore. Beth just wants to survive by finding a job she doesn't dislike, and keep her family together while trying to maintain her sanity and sense of self-worth
No Place Like Home
Bonnie Cooper
A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn't last for long due to the two families not getting along with each other. The family moves from rundown hotels to homeless shelters as Daniel searches work as a electrician while his wife takes waitress jobs to try to make ends meet.
High Stakes
Jill
A New York hooker tries to keep her daughter out of the clutches of the mobsters she works for.
Roe vs. Wade
Jessie
Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.
Signs of Life
Mary Beth Alder
The closing of a small shipbuilder in New England places stresses on the people involved.
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Mrs. Canby
Arthur, that irrepressible drunk, tries to sober up and get a job. Meanwhile, Ralph Marolla is conniving to trick the hapless boozer into marrying his daughter so he can gain entrée to Arthur's $750 million fortune.
My Best Friend Is a Vampire
Helen Blake
After an encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire.
Summer Heat
Ruth
The young wife of a tobacco farmer falls in love with their handsome hired hand.
Murder Ordained
Bobbi Birk
This is the story of a minister who's feeling unhappy in his marriage who then has an affair with a church employee, who is also married, and who also has affairs, and whose husband is unwilling to divorce her. One day the minister's wife is found dead, in what appears to be an auto accident, but the highway patrolman who investigated the accident doesn't think that it's an accident but doesn't have enough evidence to justify an investigation. Later, when the woman's husband is killed an investigation begins.
モーニングアフター
Woman on Mateo Street
Failed actress Alex Sternbergen wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize, unable to remember the previous evening -- and with a dead body in bed next to her. As she tries to piece together the events of the night, Alex cannot totally rely on friends or her estranged husband, Joaquin, for assistance. Only a single ally, loner ex-policeman Turner Kendall, can help her escape her predicament and find the true killer.
Johnny Bull
Katherine Kovacs
An English girl comes to America to join her American husband in a Pennsylvania coal town in the late 1950's. She faces the ire of her new mother-in-law, a former Hungarian with different ideas about the life and culture that her son should have.
Two of a Kind
Furniture Man's Wife
God has had just about enough of the human's attitude so he will destroy the planet very soon. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank teller, both with very amateur criminal minds, to save the world.
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Stella Mae
The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives.
Straight Time
Selma Darin
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.
Taking Off
Audition Singer
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.
Summer Camp
Follows Nora, Ginny, and Mary, three childhood best friends who used to spend every summer at a sleep away camp together. After years, when the opportunity to get back together for a summer camp reunion presents itself, they all seize it.
The Smack
Rowan Petty, a down-on-his-luck con man who gets an opportunity to make a real score. He teams up with Jade, a woman looking to escape her life just like him, and the pair make their way to L.A., where they get caught up in a dangerous scheme involving a multimillion-dollar score.
Thelma
Thelma
Follows John Kennedy Toole's mother, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole died by suicide before finding a home for his masterpiece, and his mother Thelma, made it her life's mission.
The Miracle Club
Eileen Dunne
Four Dublin women come together on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Lourdes in France, where they discover the solidarity in their friendship and unveil their own personal miracles.