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Thoroughbred: Born to Run (2011)
Character: Narrator
From foaling barn to finish line, Thoroughbred follows a year in the life of this storied horse, showcasing the beauty of the breed, revealing the people whose lives revolve around the racing industry, and exploring the history and traditions of the Thoroughbred world.
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Bullseye (1987)
Character: Lily Boyd
In the 1860s, two friends, Harry and Bluey, steal a thousand head of cattle and trek it across country from Queensland to Adelaide.
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Mandy's Grandmother (1978)
Character: Susan
A young tomboy and her prim grandmother quickly forget the disappointment of their first meeting and become friends.
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Too Far to Go (1979)
Character: Marion Sales
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.
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Look Homeward, Angel (1972)
Character: Helen Gant
The life of a young man growing up in a small town in the mountains of North Carolina during the early part of the 20th century, based on Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical novel of the same name.
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F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980)
Character: Anna Roosevelt
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.
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O Youth and Beauty! (1979)
Character: Louise Bentley
Cash Bentley and his wife Louise lead an average upper-middle-class life in suburbia, with a nice home and two fine children. But Cash grows increasingly unsettled in his life, yearning for the glories of his athletic youth and watching them fade further in the distance with accumulating age. Louise worries about him as his difficulties with mid-life pull him further away from happiness and comfort with his family.
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Private Sessions (1985)
Character: Claire Braden
A therapist goes outside his office and into his patients' personal lives to help them. He is treating a man who is hearing sounds but apparently there is nothing wrong with him psychologically. And a woman who despite being in a healthy relationship goes around picking up guys and having sex with them. She decides to seek help and what the doctor learns is that the problem goes back to her childhood and her family.
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The House Without a Christmas Tree (1972)
Character: Miss Thompson
A young girl named Addie, living in Nebraska in 1946 wants nothing more for the holidays than a Christmas tree, but her widowed father, is bitter and refuses due to events from the family's past.
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The Thanksgiving Treasure (1973)
Character: Miss Peggy Thompson
Addie tries to invite her father's sworn enemy over for Thanksgiving dinner in the hopes of ending their long-standing feud.
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Emma and Elvis (1992)
Character: Alice
Alice and Eddie, two misfit political activists challenge the problems of their time.
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Valley Forge (1975)
Character: N/A
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
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Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986)
Character: Sarah
A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor. His family is equally shocked.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987)
Character: Marie St. Claire
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
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D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
Character: Dr. Ellen Lamb
Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.
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Special Bulletin (1983)
Character: Susan Myles
A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.
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A Whale for the Killing (1981)
Character: Dr. Linda McFarland
A conservationst, stranded with his family at a Newfoundland coastal resort, flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a trapped whale's slaughter with only the support of his wife and one of the locals.
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The Winds of Kitty Hawk (1978)
Character: Kate Wright
The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
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Family Reunion (1981)
Character: Louisa King
Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher, who desperately tries to keep her family together. While she's traveling through the country and meeting her relatives, back in her hometown, a group of shopping mall developers are planning to take over her family land in order to begin their ambitious project. Now she needs to find ways to stop this construction in time before the town's annual festivities.
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Blade (1973)
Character: Maggie
A homicide detective goes after a woman-hating serial killer, who uses knives to murder his victims.
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Slap Shot (1977)
Character: Anita McCambridge
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
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Girlfriends (1978)
Character: Carpel's Receptionist
A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
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Neighbors (1981)
Character: Enid Keese
One man's quiet suburban life takes a sickening lurch for the worse when a young couple move into the deserted house next door. From the word go it is obvious these are not the quiet professional types who *should* be living in such a nice street. As more and more unbelievable events unfold, our hero starts to question his own sanity... and those of his family.
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Lights Out (1972)
Character: Helen
A toymaker develops a method to create dolls that kill. This was a pilot for a proposed but unrealized TV series to be titled "Light Out!," based on the much earlier radio program of the same name.
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Rich Kids (1979)
Character: Madeline Philips
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.
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