Karen Arthur
Nascimento : 1941-08-24, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
História
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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Depois de passar sua infância em Santaville, um parque temático de Natal criado por seu pai, Holly cansou de festas. Mas quando ela fica sabendo que seu pai sofreu um acidente, voltará a Santaville e enfrentará seu passado.
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Um médico residente volta para a sua cidade natal depois de perder uma adolescente na mesa de cirurgia. Ele se sente culpado e tenta buscar um pouco de conforto. Ali, ele se junta a seu pai em uma oficina mecânica e se torna técnico de basquete de um time de jovens amadores. Ele também acaba conhecendo duas pessoas que estão em pontos cruciais de suas vidas, enquanto um tenta abrir um novo negócio, o outro enfrenta uma doença séria. Essas três vidas estão conectadas e é quando o médico em crise vai encontrar alguém de seu passado, que poderá mudar para sempre a sua vida futura.
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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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A mysterious carpenter appears just as a church is in need of repair.
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Janice is the subject of the town gossips for four reasons: she wears too much lipstick, her hair is too big, she is a single-mother and her two children are strange. Ray (6) is a hellraiser and Tony (9) is autistic. One day, however, Tony sits down at the piano and plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Janice knows there may be hope for him (and them) yet.
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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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Repórter policial junta-se ao ex-marido na busca pelo filho desaparecido. Dois policiais são incumbidos do caso, mas têm poucas pistas. Ela resolve, então, utilizar tudo que aprendeu na profissão para encontrar o menino, antes que seja tarde demais.
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Jim Bakker establishes a large televangelical empire in the 1980s, including Heritage Village. However, they are removed from P.T.L, the ministry that they had established in 1987.
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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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A woman with a hearing problem tries to get het life back together after a car accident that killed her husband.
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Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
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Decoradora monta vitrine para loja de departamentos que contém forte apelo erótico. Excitado pelo Display, um psicopata passa a persegui-la, envolvendo-a num mórbido jogo de gato e rato.
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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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A hostilidade de um policial diante de mulheres que sofrem abusos sexuais muda quando ele é estuprado por bandidos.
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Uma dramatização da investigação secreta de Gloria Steinem sobre as condições de trabalho que as Coelhinhas enfrentavam nos Clubes da Playboy.
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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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Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their late father, locked in a cage. While one of the sisters seems to be keeping her head on straight, as it were, the other appears to be sinking further and further into barbarism and insanity.
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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 is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one - the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther Erding, and strains the relationship with his stepson.
Lady Dinner Partner at Romanoff's
A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.