Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis

Nascimento : 1931-06-20, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

Morte : 2021-05-01

História

Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 – May 1, 2021) was an American actress. She performed in more than 130 stage productions, more than 60 films and in 50 television series. Best known as a screen actress, she started her career in theater. Not long after her arrival in New York City, she won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht's Man Equals Man. She later moved to film acting and won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, among other accolades, for her performance in Moonstruck (1987). She received another Golden Globe nomination for Sinatra (1992) and Emmy Award nominations for Lucky Day (1991), More Tales of the City (1998) and Joan of Arc (1999). Dukakis's autobiography, Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress, was published in 2003. In 2018, a feature-length documentary about her life, titled Olympia, was released theatrically in the United States. Description above from the Wikipedia article Olympia Dukakis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Olympia Dukakis

Filmes

Not to Forget
Judge
A judge sentences a self-centered millennial to take care of his grandmother, who's affected by Alzheimer's. As he realizes the extent of the elderly woman's wealth and becomes her caregiver, the young protagonist gets ever-closer to Grandma and the treasure he's been looking for.
Cher: In Her Own Words
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cher, the star who refused to be boxed in, stood up to conformity, and championed female independence. Proving the doubters wrong with every change of direction. Her influence on women in the industry, and direction of modern music is incalculable.
The New Abolitionists
Producer
Filmmaker Christina Zorich follows abolitionists throughout Southeast Asia that have dedicated their lives to rescuing, rehabilitating, preventing and prosecuting those involved in human sex trafficking.
The New Abolitionists
Self
Filmmaker Christina Zorich follows abolitionists throughout Southeast Asia that have dedicated their lives to rescuing, rehabilitating, preventing and prosecuting those involved in human sex trafficking.
The New Greek Americans
Narrator
A chronicle of the Greek diaspora in the United States, starting from the 60s, when young Greek Americans, despite their conservative and uptight upbringing, started to embrace the flow of change in mentality. Each decade, this community assimilated staggering historical events: from the Civil Rights Movement all the way to the Michael S. Dukakis presidential nomination in 1998, a benchmark for the Greeks population in the USA. Narrated and hosted by Olympia Dukakis, this heartfelt documentary unfolds humorous and touching stories of second and third-generation immigrants, reflecting the multilayered aspects of “growing up Greek” in the USA.
Olympia
Herself
Follow Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis behind the scenes in this affectionate profile of a stalwart New Yorker and beloved stage and screen treasure.
A Mudança Está no Ar
Margaret Lemke
Nesse delicado drama, Wren é uma jovem que se muda para uma pequena cidade onde, pouco a pouco, traz nova vida e mudança à vizinhança. Ao mesmo tempo, seus modos misteriosos e as cartas que recebe todos os dias despertam a curiosidade dos vizinhos.
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Self
Este documentário retrata a vida de Armistead Maupin, autor de “Histórias de uma Cidade”, desde sua origem conservadora à ascensão como expoente da causa LGBTQ.
Conexão Escobar
Aunt Vicky
O agente federal Robert Mazur conseguiu se infiltrar no maior cartel de drogas colombiano usando a identidade de Bob Musella, um empresário especializado em lavagem de dinheiro. Mazur torna-se amigo de Roberto, homem de confiança de Pablo Escobar, e inicia seu grande plano. A verdadeira história da batalha de um homem contra o maior cartel de drogas do mundo.
Starring Austin Pendleton
A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.
Emily & Tim
Emily (Segment 6)
The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.
Sete Irmãos Chineses
Grandma
A trama conta a história de Larry, um homem infeliz e alcoólatra, que se apaixona por sua chefe.
Irene & Marie
Marie
Olympia Dukakis and Rose Gregorio play Greek-American women in their 70s who create stories to avoid the realities of growing older.
Beneath the Olive Tree
The departure point for this film is a series of notebooks created during the Greek civil war of 1946-49 and first discovered years later, under an olive tree. Inside their pages, diary-like, deported women recount their experiences in Greek concentration camps. Many of them were active in the resistance under Nazi occupation. Actress Olympia Dukakis, who serves as the film’s narrator, was also the individual who originally called director Toska’s attention to the unique documents.
Impulso de Vingança
Doreen
Tess (Maria Bello) é uma famosa escritora de mistério que está parada em uma estrada isolada após seu pneu furar. Ela recebe a ajuda de um homem, mas logo depois descobre que ele é um serial killer. Após ser atacada e deixada à beira da morte, Tess consegue sobreviver, mas fica obcecada por vingança.
A Little Game
Yaya
Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10 year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in the form of an irascible chess-master, who uses the game to teach Max lessons in resilience, perseverance, and how to embrace inevitable change.
The Christmas Spirit
Gwen Hollander
Charlotte Hart, a distinguished journalist, is spending time with her family over the holidays when a real estate developer approaches their small town with quite an offer. Skeptical and looking for the real scoop, Charlotte drives to see the real estate head honcho to question him. While she's en route, she gets into a terrible car accident and wakes up in the hospital only to realize that her body is in a coma, but her spirit is very much awake. She meets another spirit, who just happens to be the greedy developer. It turns out that he was on the other end of the accident and he too is in a coma. With only a few days left before the town votes on the development, Charlotte must try to change the minds of the developer and the town, but that is no easy task when no one can see or hear her. Will her voice be heard?
Montana Amazon
Ira
The Dunderheads are an eccentric Montana family who've been in the mountains for far too long. Now one step ahead of the law, matriarch Grandma Ira flees to Canada with her two wildly dysfunctional teenage grand kids, across the American West into a comic collision with the mainstream world. Montana Amazon is a both funny and poignant fable on the nature of the human family.
Os Últimos Guardiões
Rosmarie Carver
Rhea tem os mesmos problemas que qualquer adolescente, até que se apaixona por um garoto incomum e coisas incríveis começam a acontecer. É por isso que sua família lhe revela um segredo ancestral: a magia faz parte da vida dela.
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—is profiled in this documentary that neither sanctifies nor vilifies him. He brought us free Shakespeare in the Park, Hair and A Chorus Line, and nurtured many of America’s greatest playwrights, directors and actors. His complex personality and mercurial behavior are much in evidence and spoken of with frankness through interviews with some of America’s most celebrated artists, including Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, and James Earl Jones.
Cloudburst
Stella
Um casal de lésbicas septagenárias, cheias de vida e amor para dar, escapa do asilo imposto pela neta de uma delas e parte para o Canadá, onde pretende legalizar a relação de 31 anos. Na estrada, elas dão carona a um pseudo-michê que está indo para a Nova Escócia para lidar com problemas familiares. Ao longo do caminho, eles compartilham problemas do passado e desenvolvem uma nova e improvável amizade.
Birds of a Feather
Olympia
A coming of age film for 40 year olds. Three middle-aged friends reunite to put on a play and find themselves again.
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
John Cazale was in only five films - The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather - Part Two, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter - each was nominated for Best Picture. Yet today most people don't even know his name. I KNEW IT WAS YOU is a fresh tour through movies that defined a generation.
Longe Dela
Marian
Fiona e Grant estão casados há 50 anos e precisam enfrentar o fato de que a distração constante de Fiona é um sintoma do mal de Alzheimer. Ela precisa ser internada em uma casa de repouso especializada, onde se esquece lentamente de Grant e passa a dedicar seu afeto a outro paciente.
Eu e as Mulheres
Phyllis
Carter Webb é um jovem escritor que vai morar em Detroit para tomar conta da avó excêntrica e terminar seu romance. Lá, ele conhece a dona de casa Sarah, que com suas filhas Lucy e Paige vai tocar sua vida de uma forma especial.
O Guardião 2: Retorno às Minas do Rei Salomão
Margie Carsen
Flynn Carsen, recebe um antigo pergaminho egípcio que contém um misterioso símbolo. Mas antes que ele possa conhecer o verdadeiro valor da relíquia, é atacado e tem o pergaminho roubado. Junto com seu amigo Judson, consegue desvendar o significado do símbolo: trata-se do selo do Rei Salomão. O perigo? Quando aberto, o pergaminho revelará ao seu portador o mapa das minas de Salomão. Sem escolha, eles partem para uma perigosa missão, onde passarão por terríveis provas e armadilhas.
Day On Fire
Dr. Mary Wade
Day on Fire is an American film which was produced by Lodestar Entertainment and filmed in New York City and Israel in 2006. It is written and directed by Jay Anania, stars Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis, Carmen Chaplin, Alyssa Sutherland and Martin Donovan and is produced by William Fisch and Larry Rattner. The film was scored by John Medeski with vocals by Judy Kuhn. Day on Fire was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival on May 22, 2006.
Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
Self
Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families, which comes from the kitchen, and how a real Italian father is the source of believability for the film.
Jesus, Mary and Joey
Sophia Vitello
Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American family when he is reunited with a childhood schoolmate, Mary O'Callahan. Once mocked as 'Scary Mary' this ugly duckling has blossomed into an irresistible beauty. She's returned to the old neighborhood after an intense bout with cancer. When Joey learns her cure was the result of a miracle, friendship turns to romance as she educates him on the crossroads to the Almighty. Joey challenges his family's faith with his new found revelations and chaos ensues as they all search for a miracle of their own.
Whiskey School
Ellen Haywood
Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he fancies the drink a little too much. In the hopes of saving Leopold's life, his theater friends come together to stage an intervention for him.
Unidos Pelo Sangue
Hilde
Histórias sobre a crise da Aids. Uma chinesa vende sangue contaminado no mercado negro, freiras na África cuidam de trabalhadores doentes e no Canadá uma atriz pornô soropositiva rouba o sangue do pai para forjar teste e manter carreira.
Coisas de Família
Muriel Kleinman
Uma trama familiar divertida que revela a crise em que pai (Peter Falk) e filho (Paul Reiser) vivem e as maneiras que encontram de sair dela e permanecerem juntos. O filho é um escritor beberrão que precisa partir, ao lado de seu pai, para uma viagem inesperada. Dessa forma, vários segredos de família antigos são revelados, assim ambos vão cada vez descobrindo mais um sobre o outro, e diminuindo o distanciamento que existia entre eles. Juntos, mais do que nunca, os dois se tornarão grandes amigos e vão se divertir muito nessa viagem.
People - Histórias de Nova York
Judy Hillerman
O filme acompanha cinco histórias envolvendo toda a ansiedade e incerteza da população nova-iorquina no cenário após os ataques terroristas que destruíram o World Trade Center, em 11 de setembro de 2001.
O Guardião: Em Busca da Lança Sagrada
Margie Carsen
A tranqüila vida de Flynn é transformada quando ele é escolhido para integrar uma ordem secreta responsável por manter em sigilo alguns dos grandes segredos da humanidade. Designado a proteger uma suposta coleção de artefatos místicos ele é surpreendido por inimigos de uma irmandade que roubam um dos três fragmentos da Lança Sagrada. Sem saída, Flynn, com a ajuda da sexy Nicole parte para a América do Sul com o objetivo de encontrar o primeiro fragmento sagrado antes de seus inimigos. Mas, com o rapto de Nicole, Flynn logo perceberá que essa é uma missão que ele deverá realizar sozinho e só então descobrir se realmente é a pessoa certa para ser o guardião.
Charlie's War
Charlie
Charlie's War is the story of Charlotte Lewis, a woman who is experiencing serious emotional and mental turmoil brought about by nightmares of increasing intensity. In the dreams, she is a young girl, and she runs from unknown terrors. Trying to understand her troubling dreams, Charlotte revisits part of her childhood, which comes back to her in a series of impressionistic memories. Charlie, her sister, Jobie, and her mother move in with her grandmother. It is 1944, and World War II rages in Europe and the Far East. Though Grandma's farm seems to be a peaceful refuge, there is an undercurrent of fear and brooding menace in their surroundings.
Mafia Doctor
Rose Dellarusso
Growing up poor on the streets of New Jersey, Frank Siena (Danny Nucci) has little hope of realizing his dream of becoming a doctor. But "fate" has a way of intervening. Now a brilliant, successful cardiac surgeon, Frank seems to have it all, except for one terrible secret: Before he swore to save lives and do no harm, Frank took another oath... to mob boss Nicola Delarusso (Paul Sorvino), who paid his way through medical school in exchange for absolute loyalty. And when Delarusso demands payment in full Frank suffers a crisis of conscience that could cost him his job, his wife... and his life!
The Event
Lila Shapiro
An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay community in New York's fashionable Chelsea district. Nick, a district attorney investigating the most recent case, a suspicious apparent suicide, and her interviews with friends and family of the deceased trigger extensive and intricately interwoven flashbacks that reveal surprising facts about the man's life and death.
The Intended
Erina
A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.
Guilty Hearts
Amanda Patterson
Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the manipulative and charming Dr. Stephen Carrow, who is also deacon of her church and a married man. Someone kills Carrow's wife after she learns of the affair between Jenny and her husband. The murderer is caught and confesses, but that confession leads to new lies which tear apart Jenny Moran's life.
Ladies and The Champ
Sara Stevens
Two retired women (Olympia Dukakis, Marion Ross) find their lives rejuvenated when they decide to train a street thug (David deLuise) to become a prize fighter.
My Beautiful Son
Esther Lipman
Drama - A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and some answers. - Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl
Borough of Kings
Helen Manners
Toil and trouble. Jimmy, an aspiring actor, wants out of South Brooklyn where hoods run the show. Since the death of his firefighter father, Jimmy's family has been the guys at the station house and Tommy, a mobster who owns a gym where Jimmy works. Tommy encourages Jimmy's dreams, and Jimmy gets the part of Banquo in a Joseph Papps production of "Macbeth." He goes to tell Tommy the good news and walks in on a mob hit. Tommy protects him temporarily from Nunzio, a murderous Mamaluc, but soon the cops get word Jimmy knows something. Can Jimmy succeed as an actor, be a stand up guy for Tommy, avoid Nunzio, and get closer to Anna, a woman he falls for at the theater?
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Dinah
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.
Crimes of Honour
Narrator
Throughout the Islamic world, each year hundreds of women are shot, stabbed, strangled or burned to death by male relatives because they are thought to have “dishonoured” their families. They may have lost their virginity, refused an arranged marriage or left an abusive husband. Even if a woman is raped or merely the victim of gossip, she must pay the price. Crimes of Honour documents the terrible reality of femicide – the belief that a girl’s body is the property of the family, and any suggestion of sexual impropriety must be cleansed with her blood. We meet women in hiding from their families, a brother who describes his reasons for killing the sister he loved, and a handful of women who have committed themselves to the protection of young women in danger of losing their lives.
Crimes of Honour
Throughout the Islamic world, each year hundreds of women are shot, stabbed, strangled or burned to death by male relatives because they are thought to have “dishonoured” their families. They may have lost their virginity, refused an arranged marriage or left an abusive husband. Even if a woman is raped or merely the victim of gossip, she must pay the price. Crimes of Honour documents the terrible reality of femicide – the belief that a girl’s body is the property of the family, and any suggestion of sexual impropriety must be cleansed with her blood. We meet women in hiding from their families, a brother who describes his reasons for killing the sister he loved, and a handful of women who have committed themselves to the protection of young women in danger of losing their lives.
Better Living
Nora
A comedy about families, the elements that bind them together, and about hope in the face of hardship.
Máfia!
Sophia
Depois de sofrer uma tentativa de assassinato, o Grande Chefão escolhe o filho caçula para cuidar dos negócios da família e se vingar dos inimigos em meio a muita confusão. Uma sátira dos famosos filmes de máfia.
Máquina de Guerra
Madam Chairwoman, Armed Services Committee
História de um encobrimento nas forças armadas.
O Último Pedido
Dotty
Viúva se junta às duas filhas para realizar o último desejo do falecido marido e, nesta jornada, elas reencontram a esperança de viver.
Paixão de Ocasião
Rita
Kate Mosley (Jennifer Aniston) tem 28 anos, mora sozinha e trabalha numa firma de publicidade. Apesar de ter tido a idéia para uma nova campanha, ela é preterida numa promoção por não ser estável o bastante, ser solteira e não ter vínculos fortes com a agência, pois há o perigo dela se relacionar bem com um bom cliente e levar sua conta para outra empresa. Diante deste quadro Darcy O'Neil (Illeana Douglas), uma colega de trabalho, "fabrica" um noivo para ela ao mostrar uma fotografia, que nada mais era que um jovem homem, Nick (Jay Mohr), que filmava um casamento. Isto não é desmentido pela "noiva", mas tudo se complica quando ele se torna herói ao salvar uma criança. Esta situação começa a lhe abrir algumas portas na empresa, mas surge um problema quando seu chefe diz que quer conhecer Nick. Temendo ser desmascarada, Kate pede que ele continue a farsa, mas algo inesperado acontece.
Mamãe Quer Que Eu Case
Helen Rosner
Depois que descobriu ter câncer, Helen só pensa em encontrar a esposa perfeita para seu filho.
Milk & Money
Goneril Plogg
When David drops out of medical school, he finds out what life isn't really like. He meets beautiful women, holds a box, helps make a movie, and takes care of 21 cows in Manhattan.
Jerusalem
Mother (Mrs. Gordon)
Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.
Em Nome da Justiça
Rose
Quatro colegas se toleram pela amizade ao recém-falecido Peter. Quando é levantada a questão de quem vai pagar o funeral do amigo, eles procuram o gerente da clínica onde este estava internado e descobrem que foi dada uma procuração a ele e que os bens do falecido sumiram. O grupo decide investigar.
Mr. Holland: Adorável Professor
Principal Jacobs
Em 1964, o jovem compositor Glenn Holland decide dar aulas de música, enquanto economiza para dedicar todo seu tempo à composição de sua sinfonia. Os alunos estão longe das expectativas de Glenn.
Poderosa Afrodite
Jocasta
Em Nova York, um casal adota um menino e com o tempo o pai adotivo (Woody Allen) decide saber quem é a mãe biológica de seu filho. Ele descobre que ela é uma prostituta chamada Linda (Mira Sorvino), que em filmes pornográficos usa o nome Judy Cum e que nem sabe quem é o pai do garoto. O pai adotivo decide então aconselhá-la a abandonar este tipo de vida.
Jeffrey - De Caso com a Vida
Mrs. Marcangelo
Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.
Dead Badge
Dr. Doris Rice
After a cop dies, his shield goes back on duty. They call it a "dead badge" - a way to honor a fallen officer. Badge #2424 used to belong to Many Torres - a cop who died of a heroin O.D. Now it belongs to Dan Sampson... and it's haunting him.
Young at Heart
Rose Garaventi
A matriarch of three generations born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, discovers that her recently-deceased husband has lost their bar and home to a gambling debt.
Mother
Mrs. Jay
Weisser is a young college bound man whose future is threatened when his mother interferes with his love life and a pending scholarship. He also discovers that his mother's best friend wishes to get closer to him, even if it means murder.
Adoro Problemas
Jeannie
Veterano jornalista é enviado para cobrir desastre de trem. No dia seguinte, descobre que bela novata que conheceu no local deu furo de reportagem: o desastre foi fruto de sabotagem. Começam a investigar paralelamente, com direito a alfinetadas um no outro, até os perigos da vida os levam a unir forças.
Corra que a Polícia Vem Aí! 33⅓: O Insulto Final
Olympia Dukakis (uncredited)
Na última parte da trilogia, o Tenente Frank Drebin é acionado novamente. Desta vez, a cerimônia do Oscar corre o risco de ir pelos ares, e o policial mais maluco da história é o único capaz de prender o responsável. Mesmo enferrujado e ainda aposentado, Frank assume mais uma divertida missão.
Olha Quem Está Falando Agora
Rosie
Perto do Natal Mollie Ubriacco (Kirstie Alley) é despedida, mas em compensação James Ubriacco (John Travolta) consegue emprego como piloto do avião particular de Samantha D'Bonne (Lysette Anthony), uma empresária muito rica que também está interessada em James, que sem desconfiar trabalha em dobro para impressioná-la. Paralelamente os Ubriacco adotam dois cachorros: o primeiro é Rocks, uma cão de rua que estava prestes a ser sacrificado, e o outro é Daphne, uma poodle esnobe, que foi dada de presente por Samantha. Esta por sua vez fez um plano para ficar sozinha com James na véspera de Natal em uma cabana nas montanhas, onde pretende seduzi-lo.
Digger
Bea
A young boy is sent to live with relatives when his parents break up. He befriends a dying boy who has an eerie connection with nature.
O Clube das Viúvas
Doris Silverman
The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
Over the Hill
Alma Harris
Alma can't stand to have one more birthday without seeing her estranged daughter, Elizabeth, who lives in Sydney, Australia.
Fire in the Dark
Emily Miller
A 75-year old widow with battles herself as she struggles with being a burden to those she loves. Though determined not to rely on her children, she is forced to move in with her daughter after a serious fall, and the family learns to face the future with dignity and hope.
Jogos de Emoções
Katherine Campbell
Após Alisson ganhar dois milhões de dólares num jogo de loteria a vida de sua família vira de cabeça para baixo.
Olha Quem Está Falando Também
Rosie
O pequeno Mikey consegue unir sua mãe ao taxista James Ubriacco e surpreende-se com o resultado: a chegada da irmãzinha, Julie. Os dois pequenos tagarelas enfrentarão diversos dilemas infantis e a tensão da rivalidade.
In the Spirit
Sue
A woman moves back to New York and hires a ditzy New Age woman to redecorate her apartment in this Odd Couple styled comedy. The movie takes a turn as the two escape to a New Age retreat in upstate New York to get away from a murderer who is pursuing them.
Flores de Aço
Clairee Belcher
Um filme sensível sobre um grupo de amigas numa pequena cidade do estado de Louisiana. São mulheres de temperamento, idade e classes sociais diferentes, mas que se mantém unidas durante os momentos difíceis da vida.
Meu Pai, Uma Lição de Vida
Bette Tremont
Um executivo de Wall Street resolve passar um tempo com seus pais, que já estão velhos. Com a convivência, ele começa a se entender melhor com a família e a rever seus valores, o que o aproxima de seu filho adolescente.
Olha Quem Está Falando
Rosie
Abandonada pelo parceiro, Mollie entra em trabalho de parto e é ajudada pelo taxista James. Ele se apaixona por ela e pelo bebê, Mikey, mas Mollie continua procurando o homem perfeito. Mikey faz comentários sarcásticos que a audiência ouve.
Uma Secretária de Futuro
Personnel Director
Tess McGill tem tudo para subir na vida. Charme, beleza e ambição. Menos as roupas certas, o penteado certo, a atitude certa e o mais importante: o emprego certo. Mas ela não desiste facilmente. Mesmo que tenha que fazer o jogo do sistema e da sedução. Aliada ao belo Jack Trainer, essa simples secretária vai provar que vale tudo para se chegar ao topo.
Feitiço da Lua
Rose Castorini
Loretta Castorini, uma contadora do Brooklyn com seus 30 e tantos anos, cujo marido morreu há vários anos em um acidente de ônibus, decide que é hora de se casar novamente. Então, ela aceita a proposta de um agradável, companheiro de meia idade chamado Johnny Cammareri. Loretta está convencida de seu primeiro casamento foi amaldiçoado porque ela e o marido haviam se casado na Câmara Municipal. Então ela está determinada a fazer as coisas direito desta vez, mesmo quando admite para sua mãe, Rose, que não está realmente apaixonada por Johnny. Ao que Rose responde: "Bom. Quando você o amar, ele vai deixá-la louca, porque eles sabem que podem". Rose fala por triste experiência, ela suspeita que seu marido, Cosmo, está traindo. Loretta está convencida de que casar com Johnny é a coisa certa a fazer. Até que ela conhece o irmão mais novo Ronny, que trabalha nos fornos em uma padaria do bairro e é mal-humorado e apaixonado. Então surgem as complicações dignas de uma ópera cômica.
Flanagan
Mary
Aging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shakespeare sonnet and is facile with accents, but he can't land an agent or a job. During the course of one summing-it-all-up day, he drives his cab around the city dealing with fare evaders, an insolent stage manager determined to keep him from auditioning for his choice director, his estranged wife who has a new lover, his mistress who seems awfully close to her "drawing teacher", and two teenage sons whose bright visions of the future don't seem to include jobs. If he can only cope with all the annoyances of this day, maybe he can deal with the limitations in his abilities and his future.
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Helena Naxos ("Success Wanters")
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
The Idolmaker
Mrs. Vacarri
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.
Crianças de Valor
Lawyer
Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.
A Gangue da Pesada
Joey's Mom
Sexo, álcool e brigas são tudo na vida dos membros de algumas gangues, o filme mostra toda a rotina violenta e, às vezes, até romântica por trás das gangues que assolavam as ruas de New York na década de 60.
The Seagull
Pauline
Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by John Desmond. Seeking to reform the theater, Konstantin (Frank Langella) has written an experimental play with the lead to be acted by his beloved, Nina (Blythe Danner). He arranges the first performance to take place at a country estate, but the presence of his self-absorbed mother (Lee Grant) and her novelist lover disrupts the production.
Desejo de Matar
Cop at the Precinct (uncredited)
Em Nova York vive Paul Kersey, um homem pacífico que tem sua vida destroçada quando três marginais invadem seu apartamento, estupram sua filha, que fica em estado gravíssimo, e matam Joanna, sua mulher. Após uma viagem a uma cidade do Arizona, na qual todos andam armados e a criminalidade é mínima, Kersey, decide eliminar qualquer um que o ameace, pois a polícia se mostra incapaz de encontrar os culpados. Assim, Kersey se arma e começa a patrulhar as ruas, matando assassinos e ladrões e ficando obcecado em fazer justiça. Paralelamente ele é caçado por Frank Ochoa, um detetive da polícia que deseja encontrar o homem que está fazendo o trabalho dos tiras.
Nicky's World
Irene Kaminios
A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma of repossession and property without destroying its heritage.
The Rehearsal
An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Athens Polytechnic (November 1973) by documents, rehearsals, interviews, songs and poems.
Irmãs Diabólicas
Louise Wilanski
A jornalista Grace Collier testemunha sua vizinha, a modelo Danielle Breton, assassinando um homem. Mas a polícia não encontra nenhum corpo, e Grace tenta solucionar o crime por conta própria.
Made For Each Other
Gig's Mother
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.
John e Mary
John's Mother
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
Stiletto
Mrs. Amato (uncredited)
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.
Lilith
Patient (uncredited)
Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he meets Lilith Arthur, a charming young woman suffering from schizophrenia, whose fragile beauty captivates all who meet her.
Twice a Man
Young Mother
A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring physician.