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The Four Diamonds (1995)
Character: 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.
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Crazy From the Heart (1991)
Character: 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.
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Gloria: A Life (2020)
Character: 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.
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8 (2012)
Character: Kris Perry
Live chronicle of the landmark federal trial of California's Prop. 8 using the actual court transcripts and first-hand interviews.
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An American Daughter (2000)
Character: 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.
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No Place Like Home (1989)
Character: 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.
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The Good Fight (1992)
Character: 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.
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The Book of Ruth (2004)
Character: Maylene
The tensions that arise when a newlywed has her new husband move into the home of her oppressive mother.
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Love Lives On (1985)
Character: Marilyn
A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer.
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The Last Tenant (1978)
Character: 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.
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Operator (2016)
Character: 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.
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Women vs. Men (2002)
Character: 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.
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A Weekend in the Country (1996)
Character: 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.
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Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman (2004)
Character: 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.
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Hope (1997)
Character: Emma Percy
The story of a town's secret, a family's crisis, and a young girl's struggle to reveal the truth.
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Operating Instructions (2009)
Character: Commander Helen Keller
A sergeant that came back from Iraq traumatized, find out the difficult about working on General hospital in San Diego.
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The Pilot's Wife (2002)
Character: 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.
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Stacking (1987)
Character: Kathleen Morgan
After her father is injured, a teenager and an alcoholic employee struggle to save their financially troubled farm in 1954 Montana.
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Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story (1999)
Character: 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.
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The Henderson Monster (1980)
Character: 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.
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The Fear Inside (1992)
Character: 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...
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Dr. Scorpion (1978)
Character: Tania Reston
A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropical island.
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Lieberman in Love (1995)
Character: 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.
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Open House (2003)
Character: 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.
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Housekeeping (1987)
Character: 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.
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Smart People (2008)
Character: Nancy
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
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Yonkers Joe (2008)
Character: 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.
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Obsessed (2009)
Character: Detective Monica Reese
Things couldn't be better for Derek Charles. He's just received a big promotion at work, and has a wonderful marriage with his beautiful wife, Sharon. However, into this idyllic world steps Lisa, a temporary worker at Derek's office. Lisa begins to stalk Derek, jeopardizing all he holds dear.
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Becks (2018)
Character: 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.
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
Character: Ellen
An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.
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Safelight (2015)
Character: 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.
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Out of the Ashes (2003)
Character: Gisella Perl
The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
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Miss Firecracker (1989)
Character: Clara Archer
Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years before. Despite a lack of support from those close to her Carnelle remains determined. She enlists the help of a seamstress to outfit her for the competition, while rebuffing the advances of predatory men, as she aims to bring home the crown.
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Hateship Loveship (2014)
Character: Eileen
A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's prank.
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Funny About Love (1990)
Character: Meg
As political cartoonist Duffy and his bride Meg fail to conceive, he and sorority girl Daphne succeed.
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The Doctor (1991)
Character: 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.
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Pie in the Sky (1996)
Character: Ruby
A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.
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...And Justice for All (1979)
Character: Gail Packer
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.
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Subway Stories (1997)
Character: Red Shoe Woman (segment "The Red Shoes")
An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.
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Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
Character: 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.
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Desert Bloom (1986)
Character: 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.
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My Name Is Andrea (2022)
Character: Pariah
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.
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Touchback (2011)
Character: Thelma
A former high-school football star loses his shot at a college scholarship due to a devastating gridiron injury, but gets a second chance at living his dream.
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Leaving Normal (1992)
Character: Darly
Darly, a waitress with a past that's weighing her down, decides to drive to Alaska to try and come to terms with her unfortunate history. Along the way, she meets Marianne, an impulsive young woman leaving an abusive relationship. The two hit the road together and keep driving north, bonding over the hardships that they have endured and meeting a number of eccentric characters as they get closer to their destination.
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Just Between Friends (1986)
Character: 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.
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The Steps (2016)
Character: Sherry
Siblings gather to meet their father's new wife and kids.
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Gross Anatomy (1989)
Character: Dr. Rachel Woodruff
Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughest course in med school.
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Running on Empty (1988)
Character: Annie Pope
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.
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Touched with Fire (2016)
Character: Sara
Two young poets with bipolar disorder begin a highly passionate, volatile relationship that threatens both their futures.
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Petunia (2013)
Character: Felicia Petunia
Brothers Charlie, Adrian and Michael try to unlearn everything their psychoanalyst parents have taught them about life, as their family unit teeters on the edge of a collapse.
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Swing Shift (1984)
Character: Hazel Zanussi
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way the two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers. As the war drags on Kay finally dates her trumpet playing foreman and life gets complicated
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Hideaway (1995)
Character: Lindsey
Hatch Harrison, his wife, Lindsey, and their daughter, Regina, are enjoying a pleasant drive when a car crash leaves wife and daughter unharmed but kills Hatch. However, an ingenious doctor, Jonas Nyebern, manages to revive Hatch after two lifeless hours. But Hatch does not come back unchanged. He begins to suffer horrible visions of murder -- only to find out the visions are the sights of a serial killer.
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The Executioner's Song (1982)
Character: Brenda Nicol
In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. As their relationship quickly deteriorates, Gary goes on a murderous rampage, leaving two dead. During his trial, he demands capital punishment; a media circus ensues and outsiders look to profit from his story.
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