Christine Lahti
Nascimento : 1950-04-04, Birmingham, Michigan, U.S.
História
Christine Ann Lahti (born April 4, 1950) is an American actress and filmmaker. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1984 film Swing Shift. Her other film roles include ...And Justice for All (1979), Housekeeping (1987), Running on Empty (1988), and Leaving Normal (1992), and The Fear Inside. For her directorial debut with the 1995 short film Lieberman in Love, she won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
Lahti made her Broadway debut in 1980 as a replacement in Loose Ends, and went on to star in the Broadway productions of Present Laughter (1982) and The Heidi Chronicles (1989). An eight-time Golden Globe nominee and six-time Emmy Award nominee, she won a Golden Globe for the 1989 TV movie No Place Like Home, and won a Golden Globe and an Emmy in 1998 for her role as Kate Austin in the CBS series Chicago Hope (1995–99). She returned to Broadway in 2009 to star in God of Carnage. She also had a recurring role as Sonya Paxton in the NBC series Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (2009–11), as Doris McGarrett in the CBS series Hawaii Five-0 (2012–19), and Laurel Hitchin in NBC's The Blacklist (2015–17).
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A rousing portrait of feminist writer Andrea Dworkin, one of the most controversial and misunderstood figures of the 20th century, who fought passionately for justice and equality for women.
Gloria Steinem
Christine Lahti leads a cast composed of women to tell the story of Gloria Steinem's quest for women's equality and equality rights for others.
Ellen
Fred Rogers foi o criador de Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, um programa infantil de TV muito popular na década de 1960. Em 1998, Tom Junod, até então um cínico jornalista, aceitou escrever o perfil de Rogers para a revista Esquire. Durante as entrevistas para a materia, Junod mudou não só sua visão em relação ao seu entrevistado como também sua visão de mundo, iniciando uma inspiradora amizade com o apresentador.
Ann
After a crushing breakup with her girlfriend, a Brooklyn musician moves back in with her Midwestern mother. As she navigates her hometown, playing for tip money in an old friend's bar, an unexpected relationship begins to take shape.
Beth Larsen
Joe, a programmer and obsessive self-quantifier, and Emily, a budding comedy performer, are happily married until they decide to use one another in their work. A dark comedy about love, technology, and what can’t be programmed.
Sherry
Siblings gather to meet their father's new wife and kids.
Sara
Dois escritores maníaco-depressivos, Carla (Katie Holmes) e Marco (Luke Kirby) acabam no mesmo hospital psiquiátrico. Eles se aproximam e isso faz com que suas emoções tornem-se mais intensas, o que agrava a doença de cada um. Os médicos e familiares tentam separá-los, porém, cada vez mais o romance destrutivo deles se intensifica.
Peg
A teenage boy and girl discover a renewed sense of possibility as they go on a road trip to photograph lighthouses along the California coast.
Eileen
A tímida Johanna Parry (Kristen Wiig) é contratada para tomar conta de um homem idoso e da pré-adolescente Sabitha (Hailee Steinfeld). Esta adulta solitária cai na invenção de Sabitha, que simula o interesse amoroso de seu pai (Guy Pearce), um homem dependente de drogas, pela nova babá. Johanna embarca neste amor platônico...
Felicia Petunia
Essa família de ricos e desajustados enfrenta diversas dúvidas, a própria vida, seus relacionamentos e o amor próprio são temas que os assombram. Cada um lidando com uma questão, eles devem reunir as peças desse vaso quebrado que chamam de família e tentar, finalmente, se entenderem como indivíduos e também como unidade.
Helen
Kris Perry
"8"—a new play by Academy-award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar)—demystifies the debate around marriage equality by chronicling the landmark trial of Perry v. Schwarzenegger. A one time show was done live on youtube with a superstar cast
Thelma
Murphy (Brian Presley) estava entre os jogadores de futebol americano mais talentosos e promissores do país. Porém, o atleta se feriu gravemente no último lance de uma partida que iria definir sua carreira. Quinze anos mais tarde ele leva uma vida simplória, como fazendeiro, e enfrenta problemas financeiros. Como num truque de mágica, Murphy é levado de volta ao passado e pode recomeçar sua carreira nos campos, mas a nova oportunidade lhe trará dilmeas que só ele pode solucionar.
Detective Monica Reese
Derek (Idris Elba) trabalha como vice-presidente de uma conceituada empresa, é casado com Sharon (Beyoncé Knowles), com quem tem um filho, e acaba se mudar para uma casa confortável. Um dia, ao chegar no trabalho, ele conhece no elevador Lisa (Ali Larter), uma funcionária temporária. Eles trocam gentilezas e há um nítido interesse de Derek por ela. Lisa percebe e passa a se informar sobre a vida de Derek. Ela aproveita a festa de Natal da empresa para incentivá-lo a beber e então agarrá-lo. Entretanto, Derek se recusa a ter algo com ela e se afasta. Sem aceitar a situação, Lisa passa a persegui-lo cada vez mais.
Commander Helen Keller
A sergeant that came back from Iraq traumatized, find out the difficult about working on General hospital in San Diego.
Nancy
A relação do professor de inglês viúvo Lawrence Wetherhold com seus filhos James e Vanessa Wetherhold. Lawrence, inconformado com a morte de sua esposa, se torna uma pessoa depressiva e amarga, mas encontra em Janet a possibilidade de um novo amor.
Janice
Yonkers Joe tells the story of a dice hustler whose determination to make one last grab for a big score in Vegas is complicated by the reappearance of his estranged, mentally challenged son into his life.
Rose
A middle-aged woman has what she believes is a great life. She's been married for 25 years, she is the book editor at a newspaper where her husband is the editor and they have a great family. That all comes to a screeching halt one day when her husband announces that he is leaving her for a younger woman. Not only that, but the younger woman is her assistant. Not only that, but he's taking the newspaper in "a new direction" and won't need her anymore. It's then that she finds out who her friends and the people who love her really are, and she gets a surprise when she runs into a man from her past.
Maylene
The tensions that arise when a newlywed has her new husband move into the home of her oppressive mother.
Gisella Perl
The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
Samantha Morrow
To make ends meet in this romantic drama, a devoted wife and mom takes in boarders and, while starting her life over, falls for the most unlikely of men, a warm-hearted blue-collar worker, in this adaptation of Elizabeth Berg's bestselling book.
Dana
Seeking the excitement that was once part of their married lives, Bruce and Michael slip out one night to a gentleman's club. When their wives, Dana and Brit, discover this boys-night-out activity, the husbands are booted from their homes. In the men's ensuing efforts to get back into their wives' good graces, their previously unspoken views about marriage and women begin to surface to disturbing effect for their wives.
Kathryn Lyons
Kathryn is distraught at the news of her husband's death delivered by a stranger from the airline for whom he was a pilot. She starts however to uncover information which leads to her arrival in London for further investigation...and further devastation.
Mall Patron
Uma garota de 17 anos de língua ferina, tatuada, cheia de piercings e fissurada em cemitérios resolve se candidatar a emprego de vendedora em butique conservadora para ficar independente. Aos poucos se aproxima do chefe solitário e certinho.
Director
Uma garota de 17 anos de língua ferina, tatuada, cheia de piercings e fissurada em cemitérios resolve se candidatar a emprego de vendedora em butique conservadora para ficar independente. Aos poucos se aproxima do chefe solitário e certinho.
Lyssa Dent Hughes
A Senator's daughter seems to have a lock on a nomination as the US Surgeon General, until a background check reveals she once neglected to return a jury-duty notice. Then she makes a mistake in comments about her homemaker mother that leaves her open to a media blitz and her sure-fire nomination suddenly appears shaky.
Ellie Nesler
Fact-based story about a Bible-quoting woman who in 1990 murdered a camp counselor, whom she learned molested her 7 year old son. Seeking revenge, she turns to murder when she learns the man had previously been convicted of the same crime in 1983 and got off with probation.
A making-of short about Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains featuring interviews with cast and crew.
Emma Percy
The story of a town's secret, a family's crisis, and a young girl's struggle to reveal the truth.
Red Shoe Woman (segment "The Red Shoes")
O metrô de Nova York serve de palco para uma série de sketches enfocando, ora de forma dramática, ora de forma cômica, ou mesmo romântica, o cotidiano das milhões de pessoas que passam por ali diariamente. Grande elenco que compõe as histórias, sob grandes direções.
Ruth Oakley
Six people. One weekend. The possibilities are endless when city meets country in this roundelay of old flames, new flings, and last chances.
Ruby
A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.
Dr. Burke / Sorceress Reptannehan
Christopher Millard was 14 years old when he died of cancer in 1972. Shortly before losing his battle, Chris wrote a story about a great knight named Sir Millard who sought out the four diamonds of Courage, Wisdom, Honesty and Strength in order to be released from the grips of an evil sorceress. These diamonds symbolized the attributes that Chris believed were necessary to overcome cancer.
Lindsey
Hacth, a esposa Lindsey e a filha Regina voltam para casa após um fim de semana na montanha. Um ano antes, a filha mais nova havia morrido e o relacionamento entre eles está cada vez mais frio. O silêncio é interrompido quando o carro escapa ao controle e cai nas águas geladas de um rio. Lindsey cai junto com o marido e luta ferozmente para salva-lo. Quando chega o socorro, Hatch é dado como morto. Num centro hospitalar ultra-moderno ele é trazido de volta à vida pelo Dr. Jonas Nyebern. Enquanto os médicos lutavam para salvar sua a vida, ele sonha com a filha morta e vê que ela está feliz. Mas outras visões começam a perturba-lo. Ele presencia crimes sendo cometidos por um brutal assassino e passa a ter um comportamento violento. O que ele percebe e a esposa não acredita é que voltou á vida ligado ao criminoso chamado Vassago, podendo ver e sentir o que o assassino vê e faz. Mas Vassago também enxerga através dos olhos de Hatch, e o que vê são novas vítimas: Lindsey e Regina.
Shaleen
Joe Lieberman is attracted to Shaleen. They begin a professional relationship, which continues even after Joe develops a romantic interest in a woman named Kate, who is married.
Director
Joe Lieberman is attracted to Shaleen. They begin a professional relationship, which continues even after Joe develops a romantic interest in a woman named Kate, who is married.
Grace Cragin
Grace Cragin is a bright young lawyer who has a passion for the fight against injustice. Her ex-husband Henry is a lawyer too, but his passion is only to win. The two were divorced ten years earlier when Henry's lust for conquest led him to other women. Now, Grace has a case she cannot win alone and, although she hates to admit it, she needs Henry's help.
Meredith Cole
An agoraphobic children's book illustrator is trapped inside her home by two young psychos-in-love, who terrorize her. It is only when her young son is threatened that she manages to overcome her paralyzing fears and attempt to leave her home to save him...
Darly
Marianne é uma criança por dentro, enquanto todos à sua volta descontam nela a raiva que sentem do mundo. Ela foge e se junta a Darly, na sua viagem pro Alasca.
Charlotte Bain
A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to go out on a date with her school's Hispanic janitor.
Anne
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.
Meg
A história fala de Duffy Berman (Wilder), um famoso cartunista cujo relógio biológico disparou, causando uma crise de meia idade. Duffy quer um filho. Não obtendo nenhum em seu casamento, ele inicia uma busca cômica por realização.
Zan Cooper
A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn't last for long due to the two families not getting along with each other. The family moves from rundown hotels to homeless shelters as Daniel searches work as a electrician while his wife takes waitress jobs to try to make ends meet.
Dr. Rachel Woodruff
Joe Slovak é um estudante de medicina pouco disciplinado, mas brilhante e sempre bem-humorado. Vindo de uma família pobre, ele acaba abalando as estruturas da faculdade ao destacar-se e ir contra algumas das regras da entidade. Sua turma é formada por pessoas bem diferentes. Ele acaba se apaixonando por uma das colegas e conquistando também a admiração de uma de suas professoras, que é quem lhe cobra melhores notas.
Clara Archer
Esta é a história de Cernelle (Holly Hunter), uma mulher que não está feliz com sua vida. Para melhorar seu ânimo, ela se inscreve num concurso de beleza tentando imitar sua prima Elain (Mary Steenburgen). Para a maioria das pessoas, Cernelle não tem nenhuma chance de ganhar o concurso. Mesmo seus parentes e amigos sabem que ela está fora do páreo. Seu primo Delmont (Tim Robbins) acredita que a garota está prestes a passar por um enorme desapontamento. Mas Cernelle sabe que ganhar o concurso de beleza é a porta aberta para sua libertação. Só assim ela poderá deixar sua cidadezinha localizada no Mississipi.
Annie Pope / Cynthia Manfield
Em 1971, casal de ativistas anti-bélicos destrói um laboratório químico que fabricava explosivos para serem utilizados na Guerra do Vietnã. Por causa disso, durante anos eles passaram a vida fugindo do FBI. Mas o fillho deles - agora um jovem - quer se livrar desse passado.
Sylvie Fisher
In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Kathleen Morgan
After her father is injured, a teenager and an alcoholic employee struggle to save their financially troubled farm in 1954 Montana.
Sandy Dunlap
Holly and Sandy strike up an instant friendship; they don't know however that they have more in common than they'd like. When tragedy strikes, their relationship is tested.
Voice of adult "Rose" (narrator)
The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic step-father. Her memories of Robin, her first-love, are much happier and she also recalls her colorful Aunt Starr -- who's visit is fun but also detrimental to her family's health. The setting of 1950s Las Vegas' bomb testing is increasingly significant to the development of the story.
Marilyn
A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer.
Elsie
Men and women gather at local singles bars in search of lasting love or casual action.
Hazel Zanussi
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.
Aunt Linda
Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
Brenda Nicol
A história de Gary Gilmore, um assassino condenado que fez lobby por sua própria execução.
Dr. Clare Scott
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
Dr. Louise Casimir
A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discovers a moody, egotistical scientist is experimenting with DNA and the creation of new life.
Gail Packer
Arthur Kirkland (Al Pacino) é um advogado idealista que já teve vários desentendimentos (inclusive já foi preso por desacato) com Fleming (John Forsythe), um inflexível juiz. Arthur recebe com surpresa a notícia de que o magistrado foi preso, acusado de estupro, e ironicamente Fleming quer ser defendido por ele, pois como todos sabem da rivalidade que existe entre os dois Kirkland só o defenderia se tivesse certeza da sua inocência. Em retribuição, Fleming promete rever um caso no qual Arthur tenta pôr em liberdade um cliente inocente (Thomas G. Waites), que está preso há dezoito meses.
Carol
Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particularly affects the eldest son's life, placing his impending marriage in jeopardy.
Tania Reston
A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropical island.
