Randa Haines
Nascimento : 1945-02-20, Los Angeles, California, United States
História
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Randa Haines (born February 20, 1945 in Los Angeles, California) is a film and television director and producer. She is perhaps most famous for directing the critically acclaimed feature film Children of a Lesser God (1986), which starred William Hurt and Marlee Matlin, for which Matlin won the 1987 Academy Award as best actress. Haines also won the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989, she was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.
Haines received a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for that film and was nominated both for the DGA Award and an Emmy Award in 1984 for the television movie Something About Amelia.
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Director
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Executive Producer
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Producer
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Executive Producer
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Director
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Producer
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Director
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Producer
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Director
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Director
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.
Self
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
Director
História comovente e sensível sobre a relação entre professor e sua aluna surda, que cada vez mais se retrai em seu mundo particular, o que ele tenta impedir ajudando-a a se aproximar daqueles que a cercam. O professor de língua de sinais apaixona-se por sua aluna surda, que tem dificuldades de relacionamento com as pessoas, Sarah (a personagem surda), que é violada pelos amigos da irmã, que leva os rapazes até ela, pois esta era uma boa utilidade a ser dada a quem não ouve. Sarah tem sonhos de se tornar independente, mesmo sendo surda ela acredita no seu potencial e quer buscar o seu espaço.
Director
Counseling helps family deal with the discovery that their child was sexually abused by the closest relative.
Director
Granny Weatherall (Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a spunky old lady of eighty who bosses around her doctor and her children. She seems so strong and in control, and yet she has never had the upper hand in her destiny. One morning, a flood of long-forgotten memories bring her to the realization that of all her accomplishments, she cannot console herself for the shame-filled day she was left standing at the alter. Still, her indomitable will to live and act independently infuses the last day of her life. Adapted from the short story by acclaimed writer Katherine Anne Porter ("Ship of Fools"), The Jilting of Granny Weatherall reminds us of the plight of many women who wait for life to claim them, rather than seek life out for themselves.
Script Supervisor
A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.
Script Supervisor
Roger Pitman is a petty thief who makes a deal with the police to use bait money to trap other criminals. But when he gets the cash, Roger can't resist the temptation and steals part of it. He runs off to Miami Beach, but now lives in fear of the crooks that he set up as well as the police.
Continuity
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Script Supervisor
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