Lisa Pelikan
Nascimento : 1954-07-12, San Francisco, California, USA
História
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Lisa Pelikan (born July 12, 1954) is an American stage, film and television actress.
She was born in Berkley, California, the daughter of American parents Helen L., a psychologist, and Robert G. Pelikan, an international economist who served as the minister-counselor from the United States at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. She attended the Juilliard School with a full scholarship to its drama division. Pelikan is primarily a stage actor and director, but is also known to film audiences for her film debut as the younger version of Vanessa Redgrave's title character in Julia (1977) (for which Redgrave won an Oscar), and her role as the widowed mother Sarah Hargrave in the film sequel Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991).
Pelikan's first regular Television work was as maid Kate Mahaffey on the CBS soap opera Beacon Hill. Other high points in her career include her performances as the lusty Lucy Scanlon in the Television miniseries Studs Lonigan (1979), and the title character of the horror film Jennifer (1978). She also won a Drama-Logue Award for her one-woman play about Zelda Fitzgerald entitled "Only a Broken String of Pearls".
She was married to fellow actor Bruce Davison, with whom she has one son, Ethan. She and Davison are divorced.
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The Cancer Survivor
50 estranhos acordam e se veem presos numa misteriosa e enorme câmara, sem nenhuma lembrança de como chegaram lá. Organizados em um grande círculo e incapaz de se moverem, eles rapidamente descobrem que a cada dois minutos um deles deve morrer, executado por um estranho aparelho no centro da sala. A princípio, os ataques parecem aleatórios, mas logo os estranhos perceber que, como um grupo, têm o poder de decidir quem será o próximo a ser morto. Mas como eles escolhem quem merece morrer? E o que acontecerá quando restar apenas uma pessoa?
Anna Hesse
Um cometa atinge a Terra, afastando-a do Sol. Entre os poucos sobreviventes está a família Beck, obrigada a enfrentar a violência e os perigos da vida.
Virginia Doyle
Katelyn 'Kate' Weston, a country girl who became a lawyer and joined an L.A. law firm years ago, specializes in defending minors having committed violent crimes who nobody else takes on. She gradually got estranged from her family, but then her older brother Ryan asks her to return to the farm he runs with their dad Thane who has become impossibly absentminded. By the time he is formally diagnosed with serious Alzheimer, she realizes how badly she really knew her family, having ran from her past after the trauma of witnessing her mother's suicide at age seven, and tries to talk it trough with Ryan and dad while he still has lucid moments.
Leslie Saxon
An attorney uncovers a political conspiracy in the brutal killing of a wealthy young woman.
Sarah Hargrave
Em virtude da cólera, Sarah, uma viúva, é deixada em um barco com um marinheiro e dois bebês: Lilli, sua filha, e Richard, filho de Emmeline, que tinha sido resgatado há poucos dias de um barco à deriva, onde seus pais foram encontrados mortos. Depois de vários dias o marinheiro pensa em matar os bebês para economizar água, mas Sarah não aceita tal atitude e mata o marujo. Depois de muitos dias ela chega com os bebês em uma bela ilha. Ela educa as crianças e quando elas têm quase 8 anos, ela morre. Quando Lilli e Richard se tornam jovens, se apaixonam e se "casam". Quando um navio chega na ilha alguns problemas acontecem, mas o principal é que um dos marujos tenta estuprar Lilli. O casal então questiona se quer ou não voltar para a civilização.
Sarah Carstairs
A bounty hunter searches the west for a wanted outlaw named Red Roundtree.
Hélène Gaultier
Lyon Gaultier abandona a Legião Estrangeira no Norte da África quando recebe a notícia da morte de seu irmão em Los Angeles. Depois de conseguir escapar de dois legionários enviados para trazê-lo de volta, Lyon está determinado a encontrar o assassino de seu irmão. Para isso, ele mergulha no submundo do circuito das lutas de rua para conseguir dinheiro e ajudar a família de seu irmão.
Lee
Uma dramatização da investigação secreta de Gloria Steinem sobre as condições de trabalho que as Coelhinhas enfrentavam nos Clubes da Playboy.
Rebecca
Um jovem e sua namorada se mudam para a antiga mansão do homem, onde ele se torna possuído por uma necessidade de controlar demônios antigos.
Violet Mulligan
A Segunda Guerra Mundial vista pela ótica dos trabalhadores de uma fábrica de implementos de guerra. Duas mulheres e um trumpetista, todos três sem nenhuma experiência neste tipo de trabalho, vivem dias de grande aventura longe do front.
Jo Miller
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
Gail Powell
Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures.
Kyla
A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women who help her find her own voice.
Anne
Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However the deceased is not his son but an individual who was using his passport so Dupree begins a frantic search for his son who happens to be wanted by the local mob.
Mattie Ross
The further adventures of 'True Grit' Rooster Cogburn which has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent on reforming him.
Jennifer Baylor
Ostracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student is tormented to the point where her only remaining recourse is revenge, using the only method she knows: her psychic control over snakes!
Annie Cavagarno
Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe.
Young Julia
Na década de 30, a escritora americana Lillian Hellman tenta reencontrar Julia, amiga de infância que se juntou ao movimento de resistência contra os nazistas. Ela acaba contrabandeando dinheiro para ajudar na fuga das vítimas do nazismo.
Miranda
A 15-year-old girl becomes pregnant by her boyfriend and decides to keep the baby and raise her on her own, instead of initially choosing abortion at the insistence of her boyfriend, or raising the baby at home with her meddling mother.
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
Nancy
Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't interfere.
