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Ask Max (1986)
Character: Jennifer
A 12-year-old genius, poor Max is a washout socially. To impress his girlfriend, he sells the design of his latest invention-a jumping bike-to a major toy company.
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Father Figure (1980)
Character: Mariella Flynn
Following their parents' divorce and their mother's subsequent suicide, a teenager and his younger brother are resentful of having to live with the father from whom they have long been estranged, and the struggle to reestablish a relationship is explored.
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Of Mice and Men (1981)
Character: Mae
George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always watch over his intellectually disabled friend, and keep him out of danger, both to himself and to others. After they take a new job at a ranch, Lenny gets into far more trouble than George can talk his way out of, leaving George to decide whether to help him, or leave him to his fate.
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The Seeding of Sarah Burns (1979)
Character: Karen Lovell
A young woman volunteers to carry an embryo transplant for a couple that has tried and failed to have a baby. Soon, however, she begins to have second thoughts about giving up the baby after it's born.
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Having Babies II (1977)
Character: Paula Plotkin
The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them.
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Mark, I Love You (1980)
Character: Marylyn
A distraught widower is caught in a bitter custody battle with his late wife's parents over his 10-year-old son, following his plans to remarry and move off to California with the boy.
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I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore (1992)
Character: Melinda
Bernie Fishbine is overweight. He stops at the neighborhood store to buy some chocolate kisses every day. This is where he meets Theresa Garabaldi. Then they take the same bus route every evening. Theresa invites Bernie to see her play piano at her father's restaurant. It is here that she gets him to join a gym. Theresa is in college and gets the idea to write about Bernie's weight problem for her thesis. She does this without telling Bernie. Meanwhile, Bernie is falling in love with Theresa, and vice versa.
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The Gift of Life (1982)
Character: Louise Rutledge
A young woman is faced with local disapproval and strain on her marriage when she agrees to serve as a surrogate mother.
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Blue Bayou (1990)
Character: Rosemary Angeli
A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.
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Love Thy Neighbor (1984)
Character: Judy Lister
When Danny’s wife and Linda’s husband run away together, the two neighbors form an unlikely bond.
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Convoy (1978)
Character: Violet
Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But conniving Sheriff Wallace is hip to the truckers' tactics, and begins tricking the drivers through his own CB broadcasts. Facing constant harassment from the law, Rubber Duck and his pals use their radios to coordinate a vast convoy and rule the road.
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Who'll Save Our Children? (1978)
Character: Lurene Garver
A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable court battle.
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Perry Mason Returns (1985)
Character: Barbara Scott
When his former secretary is accused of a murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.
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The Haunted (1991)
Character: Dorie
When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out it's haunted.
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St. Helens (1982)
Character: Linda Steele
Centers on the events leading up to the cataclysmic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington, with the story beginning on the day volcanic activity started on March 20, 1980, and ending on the day of the eruption, May 18, 1980.
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A Caribbean Mystery (1983)
Character: Lucky Dyson
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.
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Unfaithfully Yours (1984)
Character: Carla Robbins
A composer—who suspects his wife of cheating—plots to kill her and frame it on her lover, but things don't turn out as planned.
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The Osterman Weekend (1983)
Character: Betty Cardone
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
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Rolling Thunder (1977)
Character: Candy
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.
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Moment of Truth: Stalking Back (1993)
Character: Sandi Boyer
A teen girl is stalked and harassed by a perverted man ten years older than she is, but despite help from her family, there's little the police can do to get rid of him.
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F.I.S.T. (1978)
Character: Molly
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
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The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
Character: Martine
Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles lifetime.
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Guns & Lipstick (1995)
Character: Shirley
A female private investigator's latest client turns up murdered, and she is thrust into a deadly underworld of bi-sexual strippers, a Chinese Godfather with a taste for young girls and the hunt for one very elusive gem.
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The Evil (1978)
Character: Mary Harper
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
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FM (1978)
Character: Laura Coe
When a liberal music station's owners decide to introduce army recruitment ads, despite the protests of its manager, the rebellious DJs are determined to fight back, no matter the cost.
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