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Mary McDonnell
	Date of Birth: Apr 28, 1952 Country: USA Biography: Mary McDonnell (born April 28, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She received an Academy Award nomination for her role as Stands With A Fist in Dances with Wolves, and she is also well known for her performance as President Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica, the President's wife in Independence Day, and for her starring role in Donnie Darko as the title character's mother...(Wikipedia) Total Films at Criticker: 21 - You've Seen 0
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Margin Call (2011)

Summary: A thriller that revolves around the key people at a investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.

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Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)

Summary: The Cylons began as humanity's robot servants. They rebelled and evolved and now they look like us. Their plan: destroy the race that enslaved them. This film tells the story of two Cylon leaders, working separately, and their determination to finish the task.

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Mrs. Harris (2005)

Summary: Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris. (imdb)

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Crazy Like a Fox (2004)

Summary: When big-city speculators cheat him out of his farm, old-time, eccentric Virginian Nathaniel Banks leaves his family and makes a new home in a cave on the creek, inspiring a community-wide rebellion as he eventually forces his way back home. Nat won't go down without a fight! (Delphi Film Foundation)

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Nola (2003)

Summary: An urban fairy tale-romantic comedy, in which Nola, an aspiring songwriter, leaves an abusive Kansas home and journeys to New York to find her biological father. Once there, she finds more than she expected. (imdb)

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Battlestar Galactica (2003)

Summary: A re-imagining of the original series in which a "rag-tag fugitive fleet" of the last remnants of mankind flees pursuing robots while simultaneously searching for their true home, Earth. (imdb)

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Donnie Darko (2001)

Summary: A genre-busting fable that blasts the American suburban drama into a wildly imaginative realm of time travel, alternative universes and the manipulation of one's fate.

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For All Time (2000)

Summary: Male facing middle-age and failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end of the nineteenth century. (imdb)

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Mumford (1999)

Summary: Dr. Mumford (Dean) has a talent for listening. He's only been in town four months, but he's already the most popular psychologist around. He listens to his clients' problems, gets involved in their lives -- and helps them in unexpected ways. But the man who hears the secrets has the biggest secret of all. (Touchstone Pictures)

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You Can Thank Me Later (1998)

Summary: This film combines the realistic and the surreal into a delicious, yet quite believable family drama, with just enough sharp humor to satisfy your funny bone. Ellen Burstyn, always fantastic, is smashing as the mother hen of the brood, with very convincing performances by Amanda Plummer as her confused Bohemian daughter, Mary McDonnell as Burstyn's daughter-in-law, and the wonderful Genevieve Bujold as Joselle, the mysterious nun. (imdb User Comments)

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Evidence of Blood (1998)

Summary: When a Pulitzer prize winning author of true crimes returns to his hometown in Georgia, it isn't long before he is involved in a forty year old case of a teenage girl who had been murdered. Together with the daughter of the man convicted of the crime, they find themselves caught up in a conspiracy of devastating proportions... but even more, as the story moves on to its terrifying climax, it also reveals something very personal about his own family. (BOB STEBBINS)

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Independence Day (1996)

Summary: Mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies. But wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with a determined band of survivors, uniting for one last strike against the invaders - before it's the end of all mankind. (20th Century Fox)

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Woman Undone (1996)

Summary: Terri Hansen is discovered in the desert beside the blackened husk of her car which contains the charred corpse of her husband. When forensic evidence makes her out to be her husband's murderer, she quietly protests her innocence, but makes no effort to mount a defense. Terri doesn't expect to be believed. Was it self-defense or murder? While Terri acts strangely indifferent to her own fate, her attorney tries to reconstruct what happened... (imdb)

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Blue Chips (1994)

Summary: A college basketball coach is forced to break the rules in order to get the players he needs to stay competitive. (imdb)

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The American Clock (1993)

Summary: This film is based on Arthur Miller's recollection of the events of the 1930's Depression. In the film, John Rubinstein, Mary McDonnell, and Loren Dean are all members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the Stock Market crashes. Dean, a college age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country. (imdb)

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Passion Fish (1992)

Summary: May-Alice Culhane was a successful soap opera star, but a car accident has left her bound to a wheelchair... (imdb)

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Sneakers (1992)

Summary: Complex but lighthearted thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage, secrets and deception and betrayal. (imdb)

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Grand Canyon (1991)

Summary: Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles.

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Dances with Wolves (1990)

Summary: Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. Dunbar (Costner) wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. He is assigned to an adandoned fort, where a sioux tribe is his only neighbor. Overcoming the language barrier and their mutual fear and distrust, Dunbar and the proud Indians gradually become friends. Eventually, he falls in love with the beautiful Stands With a Fist (McDonnell), a white woman raised by the tribe. (MGM)

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Tiger Warsaw (1988)

Summary: Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness. (imdb)

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Matewan (1987)

Summary: A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company. (imdb)

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