Janet Wright
Nascimento : 1945-03-08, Farnborough, Hampshire, England, UK
Morte : 2016-11-14
História
Janet Wright was born in 1945 in England and grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was raised in a family of theatre actors. Her siblings are: Anne Wright, John Wright and Susan Wright. Janet had the chance to work with her two sisters, Susan and Anne, in the theater play "Les Belles Soeurs". Besides from her work on television and cinema, Janet has also been involved in several theater projects like: Memoir, The Club, Miss Margarida's Way, Hedda Gabler, The Seahorse, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Lie of the Mind, Not Wanted on the Voyage, Uncle Vanya, Shirley Valentine, King John, In the Ring , Hamlet, The Bacchae, Glengarry Glen Ross, Mabel Leaves Forever and Fool For Love, Dancing at Lughnasa and Wrong for Each Other among others.
Janet Wright was married to Brian Richmond and had a son with him named Jacob Richmond who is a playwright, She has a daughter named Celine Richmond. She is married to Bruce Davis. In 29 December 1991, her 44-year-old sister Susan and her parents, Jack and Ruth, died in a house fire.
Emma Leroy
It’s been a few years, and there’s still not a lot going on 40 kilometers from nowhere. But that’s all about to change as the fine folks of Dog River, Saskatchewan face their biggest crisis ever. Brent and the gang discover that the town’s been badly mismanaged, leaving residents with little choice but to pack up and leave. As residents make one last rally to save Dog River as they know it, they discover a devious plan by a corporate chain that would change life for Dog Riverites forever.
Trish
Uma cidade isolada começa a se desfazer pouco a pouco, conforme as crianças vão desaparecendo sem deixar pistas. De acordo com uma lenda local, o responsável seria um homem alto e misterioso, que vive nos arredores. Mas a enfermeira Julia Denning não acredita em nada disso. Pelo menos até seu filho ser raptado no meio da noite e ela ser forçada a rever seus conceitos e enfrentar seus maiores medos para tentar salvá-lo.
Grandma Kemp
Tentando contradizer sua imagem como encrenqueira irritante, a imaginativa "filha do meio" Ramona Quimby bola várias estratégias para ganhar dinheiro e aliviar os problemas de sua família.
Angie - Patty's Mother
A drama centered around Patty Montanari, the widowed mother of two who went to work for her lover Frank Russo, a captain in a Brooklyn crime family.
Jojo Landro
t's Ginger Shapiro's wedding day. It's going to be perfect even though she's eight-months pregnant, been robbed, kidnapped and thinks her fiancé Henry is dead - he's not - and then there's her grandmother's curse! It's a race to the altar in this escalating comedy of errors where Ginger and Henry might just stand a chance of living happily ever after.
Dr. Fleming
The story of a fictional town suffering from an outbreak of severe water contamination.
Bill Goodman is a slick, wealthy, celebrated psychiatrist, who leads a double life. He has a wife and daughter in New York. At the same time, the bigamist has another wife in London. Despite his long absences on 'business trips', both little families lived in domestic bliss, totally oblivious of each-others existence. Alas the wives find out about each-other place in Bill's well-organized life, and let jealousy get the better of happiness; they even team up and turn on the man who so cunningly made everyone happy for so long...
Alice
In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.
Joan Thomas
New York detective Mike Santini is enjoying a holiday with his family when he spots Eddie Meyers a fugitive from justice who might be the key witness in a high profile case involving money laundering. Santini plays a major role in capturing Meyers which prompts the wiley criminal to request Santini to be the interrogating officer. The two size each other up in the interrogation room in a thriller that provides a number of unexpected twists.
Coach Olga
Em 2005 o esporte mais popular é o rollerball, um jogo violento e por vezes mortal que envolve skates e motos e é jogado em arenas espalhadas ao redor do planeta. Os principais astros do rollerball são Jonathan Cross (Chris Klein), Marcus Ridley (LL Cool J) e Aurora (Rebecca Romjin-Stamos), que decidem denunciar a corrupção existente por trás dos jogos após descobrirem que Aleci Petrovich (Jean Reno), o dono do principal time do rollerball, é capaz de fazer qualquer coisa para manipular os resultados dos jogos ao seu bel prazer. Porém, ao saber da intenção de Jonathan e seus colegas Aleci logo arma um plano para eliminar todas as provas existentes contra ele, incluindo os três jogadores.
Ma Franklin
Matt is haunted by the death of a girl from a car accident he caused years ago. Matt was drunk and as he reached for the car radio, he struck the girl as she crossed the road. The guilt that he feels has altered his sense of reality, making Matt's life a mystery full of shadows and phantoms. Now, years later Matt goes away for weekend with his new girlfriend Dawn. After a wild session of lovemaking, Dawn goes for a walk. While she is away a strange man with an ax comes into the motel room and attacks Matt. After that incident Matt goes into the woods, looking for Dawn. There he encounters Dawn's family who tie him down and put him on trail for the murder of the girl years before. They find him guilty and he is sent back into the forest to be hunted down by the family. The deeper Matt runs into the forest the farther his mind is lost to the Blackwoods.
Ma Keller
The story follows a troubled woman and her search for identity. She is given a choice between a return to the dysfunction of the past, or a new life in self assumed identity.
Sonia
A brutal drive-by shooting of a Croatian woman who works at an abortion clinic sends two homicide detectives out onto the streets of one of the world's most culturally diverse cities. Their first suspect has ties to the pro-life movement. But a sudden turn of events, a fresh trail of clues and a suicide attempt by the victim's Serbian husband lead the detectives into the impenetrable world of Balkan politics and prejudices. As they hunt for the killer, they uncover an ethnic war between Croatians and Serbians amid the urban backdrop of downtown Toronto.
Ethel Shatford
Pessoas corajosas arriscam suas vidas colocando seus barcos de pesca e navios de resgate contra as forças da natureza. Seus piores temores se tornam realidade no Halloween de 1991, quando são confrontados pela maior tempestade da história.
Naomi Bascombe
Tucker sai da prisão e, para fugir a outros bandidos do seu passado que o perseguem, resolve se disfarçar de Diretora de um Colégio Interno Feminino.
Gladys McKenzie
Jury has to decide on a murder case but some of the jurors have their own agendas or are biased. Sounds like '12 Angry Men' but this is not a remake. It's a totally fresh take on the theme. Totally different case, for example. There is no question about the identity of the culprit, the jury has to decide between manslaughter and murder. - Written by Holger Hellmuth hellmuth@ira.uka.de
Fran
Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is stunned to learn this and does not believe he could commit such a crime. She writes to him much to the dismay of her husband Keith and becomes obsessed with the case, exploring every avenue that may still be open to the doomed man. The trips to the prison take a toll on both her marriage and her family.
Martha Jane
Two brothers' lives are changed forever when they hit the road to a snowbound Alaskan village. Brother Ray and Pete had been feuding for years. So, when their ailing father asks them to drive a semitruck full of gifts and supplies from California to the isolated Alaskan village of Willow Creek, they agree ---- reluctantly. Along the way, they pick up trouble when they're joined by Jessie, who is Ray's estranged wife and Pete's ex-girlfriend. Then, a blizzard strands the truck deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Miles from help, with time running our fast, they realize only a miracle can save them. But, as they are about to be reminded, Christmas...is the season for miracles.
Elmer Jackson é um carpinteiro em uma pequena cidade californiana na década de 1930. Lutando para criar 4 meninos após a morte de sua esposa, ele fica horrorizado quando o governo (citando acusações forjadas de negligência dos pais) coloca os meninos em vários lares adotivos e instituições, sem saber do abuso que os meninos seriam submetidos. para. As condições impostas pelo tribunal e as dificuldades causadas pela Depressão tornam a busca determinada e vigorosa de Jackson para encontrar seus filhos extremamente difícil.
Fanny
When six friends fly off on a weekend getaway and are suddenly plagued by engine trouble, they're forced to land on a remote island. Looking for shelter, they're grateful to encounter Ma and Pa and their children - an eccentric family living in the island's backwoods. But what begins as simple hospitality turns into a terrifying race for survival as the friends start disappearing one by one ... and turning up dead.
Narrator (voice)
The women who seek help at Aurora House share a common illness: they are physically and psychologically dependent on alcohol, prescription drugs, street drugs, or a combination of these. This documentary focuses on the lives of five women at various stages of their rehabilitation. In the supportive and healing atmosphere of women helping other women, they are confronting the issues and feelings they had previously drunk or drugged out of consciousness.
Helen Armstrong
This is a made for tv adaptation of Barbara Robinson's novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Loretta Swit of M*A*S*H stars as Grace Bradley who inherits the job of running her church's Christmas pageant when the woman who usually does it breaks her leg tripping over the extremely long wire she has on her telephone.Not only does Grace inherit this disaster it gets worse when the Herdman kids - all six of them. The Herdmans are notorious for abusing each other and stealing from and abusing other kids as well. They smoke, steal, lie, bully and generally create havoc in their town.Their father disappeared years earlier and mother works two shifts at the shoe factory to support herself and the kids while the kids run wild.But this WILL be the best Christmas pageant ever when the Herdman kids learn the Christmas story and about the true meaning of Christmas.
Brenda
Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable court battle.
A middle-aged theatre manager imagines his life situation to be reflected in the wolves at the local zoo.
Eunice
Logo após ao início do século XX John McCabe (Warren Beatty), um homem com um passado misterioso, vai até um remoto povoado do oeste americano para montar o primeiro prostíbulo da comunidade. Inicialmente pensa em algo simples, mas então aparece Constance Miller (Julie Christie), uma cafetina, que lhe convence que se o bordel for mais luxuoso os clientes, após experimentarem algo melhor, gostarão de ter uma prostituta mais bonita e camas com lençóis de linho. Constance propõe que McCabe entrasse com o dinheiro e ela administraria o prostíbulo. Ela então usa o dinheiro de John para construir um bordel que se torna o principal centro de crescimento da localidade, mas isto chama a atenção de forasteiros que querem comprar por o negócio de McCabe.
