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Rhymes with Banana (2012)
Character: Judith Light
A satire about two struggling actresses who escape into a fantasy world to cope with rejection and hone their craft. Convinced their mysterious new neighbor is a talent agent, they take him hostage and demand acting careers as ransom.
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Rush It (1978)
Character: N/A
A female bicycle messenger is looking for love in New York City and becomes involved with two very different men.
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Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End (1997)
Character: N/A
Narrated by Linda Hunt, this documentary examines the life of the late author and gay rights activist Paul Monette. Born in 1945 to a well-off Massachusetts family, Monette grows up unable to accept his homosexuality, for years hiding it from his loved ones while struggling to develop as a writer. In 1978, Monette publishes his first novel, which allows him to come out to his parents. After losing one lover to AIDS in 1986, he becomes a ferocious advocate for awareness of the disease.
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The Ryan White Story (1989)
Character: Jeanne White
The story of Ryan White, a 13-year-old haemophiliac who contracted AIDS from factor VIII, which was used to control this disorder.
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Men Don't Tell (1993)
Character: Laura MacAffrey
This movie shows another side to spousal abuse that not too many people thought is possible--the husband being abused and the wife the abuser.
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Intimate Agony (1983)
Character: Marsha
Anthony Geary (General Hospital) stars as a compassionate doctor who must treat an STD outbreak at an upscale vacation resort. Judith Light (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) co-stars as an afflicted resident whose heart is broken by this personal tragedy. A despicable real estate tycoon played by Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) is determined to keep the scandal from the press, thus protecting his investment.
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Betrayal of Trust (1994)
Character: Barbara Noël
A woman has been to a psychiatrist for years for drug and alcohol addiction, and whose treatment includes being injected with a drug that knocks her out. One day, she was coming around when she notices that the doctor is molesting her. She then tries to get some justice by suing him, and reporting him to the licensing bureau, and the American psychiatric association. And also seeing another psychiatrist to try and figure out what's wrong with her.
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Ms. White Light (2019)
Character: Val
Lex Cordova is a young woman who counsels terminally ill clients that have trouble letting go. While proving uniquely talented in her ability to connect with the dying, Lex is at a total loss when dealing with everyone else.
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Lady Killer (1995)
Character: Janice Mitchell
Married woman has brief affair with younger man who turns violent when she breaks it off.
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Murder at My Door (1996)
Character: Irene McNair
In a quiet neighborhood, a suburban family is shocked when their son is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a neighbor's daughter.
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Against Their Will: Women in Prison (1994)
Character: Alice Needham
Behind prison walls, corruption, sex and power make criminals out of the guards and heroes out of the guarded. For more than a decade, the lawless guards inside a maximum security women's prison have reigned with impunity - rape, sex for money and illegal favors have become the norm until one woman decides to battle the system. Leading a group of inmates on a risky life-or-death struggle for justice, a ten year silence is finally broken, exposing the twisted truth to the world and enabling the prisoners the freedom to live without fear.
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In Defense of a Married Man (1990)
Character: Laura Simmons
When a defense lawyer's adulterous husband becomes the prime suspect in the murder of the woman he was cheating with, his wife chooses to defend him. Can she overcome his betrayal while searching for the truth?
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Down Low (2023)
Character: Sandy
A repressed gay man develops an unlikely friendship with a young masseur who teaches him to embrace life.
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Transparent: Musicale Finale (2019)
Character: Shelly Pfefferman
When the Pfeffermans face a life-changing loss, they begin a journey hilarious and melancholy, brazen and bold. As they face this new transition, they confront grief and come together to celebrate connection, joy, and transformation.
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Last Weekend (2014)
Character: Veronika Goss
When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
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A Step Toward Tomorrow (1996)
Character: Anna Lerner
A divorcee moves her family cross-country to take her paralyzed son to a pioneer neurosurgeon.
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Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019)
Character: Matron Grady
An investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who’s on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum, and feigns mental illness in order to be institutionalized to report from the inside. The movie is an account of actual events surrounding Nellie’s stay beginning after she has undergone treatment, leaving her with no recollection of how she came to the asylum or her real identity.
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Out of My Mind (2024)
Character: Mrs. V.
Melody Brooks, a sixth grader with cerebral palsy, has a quick wit and a sharp mind, but because she is non-verbal and uses a wheelchair, she is not given the same opportunities as her classmates. When a young educator notices her student's untapped potential and Melody starts to participate in mainstream education, Melody shows that what she has to say is more important than how she says it.
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tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)
Character: Rosa Stevens
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.
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The Young Wife (2023)
Character: Cookie
On her wedding day, all that stands between a young woman and marital bliss with her soon-to-be husband is surviving the chaos and expectations of family and friends, each intensifying her spiraling panic.
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Wife, Mother, Murderer: The Marie Hilley Story (1991)
Character: Marie Hilley
Based on the true story of an Alabama woman who was convicted of killing her first husband and attempting to poison her daughter. Out on bail, she flees in order to start a new life with two new identities.
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Too Close to Home (1997)
Character: Diana Donahue
A mother is so consumed with a possessive love for her son that she may have committed murder in order to keep him by her side. When the son's new wife is found murdered, the mother is arrested for the crime. In denial about his mother's guilt, the son, a successful lawyer, agrees to defend her. Based on a true story.
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Scrooge & Marley (2012)
Character: Narrator (voice)
A modern day, queer variation on Charles Dickens' classic story of the holidays, "A Christmas Carol." On Christmas Eve, Ben Scrooge, the man who hates the holidays, is given the chance to begin again when he is visited by three spirits - the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. Recounted from a gay sensibility with heart, comedy and music.
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The Menu (2022)
Character: Anne
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
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Before You Know It (2019)
Character: Sherrell Ghearhardt
A pair of sisters find out that the mother they thought was dead is alive and starring on a soap opera.
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Digging for Fire (2015)
Character: Grandma
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn't want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.
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Hot Air (2018)
Character: Judith Montefiore-Salters
A right-wing talk show host's life takes a sudden turn when his 16-year-old niece comes crashing into his life.
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Ira & Abby (2006)
Character: Arlene Black
A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it will work out. Both of the student's parents are analysts, and they provide the happy couple with a gift certificate for a year of marriage counseling as a wedding present.
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We'll Never Have Paris (2014)
Character: Jean
Quinn, a neurotic man, is diagnosed with a harmless eye condition and soon after his life spirals out of control. He second-guesses his plans to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Devon, after his beautiful coworker, Kelsey, confesses that she has a crush on him. After a conversation with his best friend, Jameson, he clumsily tries to explain his doubts to Devon, but his possible proposal turns into a break-up. When Devon flees to Paris, he follows her in a last-ditch effort to win back "the one."
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Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)
Character: Zuleika (voice)
In this animated retelling of the story from the Bible's Book of Genesis, Joseph's gift of dream interpretation and his brilliantly colored coat inspires jealousy in his brothers.
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2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift (2010)
Character: (archive footage)
The team of smart-talkin' toddlers known as Everything Is Terrible! have once again emerged from their VHS cocoons to conjure a jam on culture so culture-jamtastic that we're sorry we can't be there to hold your hand as you watch in dazed amazement. Thousands of hours of brain-boiling footage have been concentrated into an impenetrable jewel of an experience, teach us once and for all that loving well is the best revenge.
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Carriers (1998)
Character: Maj. Carmen Travis
A military woman and a worried mother travel overseas and to New Mexico to investigate a deadly virus.
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Save Me (2009)
Character: Gayle
A sex and drug addicted young man who is forced into a Christian-run ministry in an attempt to cure him of his "gay affliction", where instead he is faced with the truth in his heart and spirit.
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