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Melissa Leo
	Date of Birth: Sep 14, 1960 Country: USA Biography: Melissa Chessington Leo (born September 14, 1960), is an American actress. After appearing on several television shows and films in the late '80s, her breakthrough role came in 1993 as Det. Sgt. Kay Howard on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street for the show's first five seasons from 1993 – 1997. Having previously been a regular on All My Children and The Young Riders, her breakthrough film role was in the 2003 film, 21 Grams as Marianne Jordan...(Wikipedia) Total Films at Criticker: 27 - You've Seen 0
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Predisposed (2012)

Summary: When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure. (imdb)

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Red State (2011)

Summary: A horror film in which a group of misfits encounter fundamentalism gone to the extreme in Middle America.

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Mildred Pierce (2011)

Summary: Divorced single mom Mildred Pierce decides to open a restaurant business, which tears at the already-strained relationship with her her ambitious elder daughter, Veda. (imdb)

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Conviction (2010)

Summary: Convinced that her brother, Kenneth (Sam Rockwell), has been unjustly convicted of murder and incompetently defended by court-ordered attorneys, high school dropout Betty Anne Waters (Hilary Swank) puts herself through law school in order to represent him in his appeal.

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The Fighter (2010)

Summary: A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.

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Don McKay (2010)

Summary: Don McKay, a high school janitor who leaves his hometown after a tragedy, returns 25 years later to rekindle a romance with his old flame, who is dying, but this homecoming brings McKay more than he bargained for.

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Welcome to the Rileys (2010)

Summary: On a business trip to New Orleans, a damaged man seeks salvation by caring for a wayward young woman.

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Dear Lemon Lima (2009)

Summary: While rallying her fellow misfits to compete in their school's Snowstorm Survivor competition, an awkward Alaskan teen discovers her Yup'ik heritage.

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Greta (2009)

Summary: A young suicidal and rebellious teen gets sent to her Grandparents for the summer where life takes an unexpected turn. (imdb)

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True Adolescents (2009)

Summary: Sam (Mark Duplass) is a 30-something rocker who never quite grew out of his teenage years. He's unkempt, unfocused, and unsure of who he is or wants to be. In other words, he has a lot in common with his 14-year-old cousin Oliver (Bret Loehr) and friend Jake (Carr Thompson). When changing circumstances in Oliver's home life force the unlikely trio to head off on an unplanned camping trip together, they are forced to grow in ways they never imagined. (imdb)

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Veronika Decides to Die (2009)

Summary: Veronika is a woman who wakes up in a mental institution after a failed suicide attempt. She discovers that she has a weakened heart and only days to live. The film follows her recovery as she finds true love and a newfound will to survive. (imdb)

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The Alphabet Killer (2008)

Summary: Based on the true story of the double initial killings in Rochester, NY.

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Lullaby (2008)

Summary: An American mother receives word that her drug addled son has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom by a drug lord operating in South Africa. She makes the journey to South Africa to pay the ransom only to run into violent and dangerous obstacles as she faces the kidnappers in the mean streets of Johannesburg. Her only chance to get her son back alive is to work with her son's pregnant girlfriend who is fighting her own battle against the drug lord. (imdb)

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Frozen River (2008)

Summary: Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage.

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Hollywood Dreams (2007)

Summary: Hollywood Dreams follows the journey of a young woman from a small town in Iowa who arrives in Los Angeles deeply scarred by certain events in her childhood and profoundly obsessed with a life-long dream of achieving fame and stardom. (Rainbow Releasing)

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Racing Daylight (2007)

Summary: RACING DAYLIGHT is a ghost story, a murder mystery and a love story which crosses time. What happens when time collides? Sadie thinks she's going insane. Edmund's sure he's being haunted. And Henry, well Henry's racing daylight. (racingdaylightthemovie.com)

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Black Irish (2007)

Summary: A teenage boy (Angarano) longs to win the attention of his emotionally distant father

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Stephanie Daley (2006)

Summary: This film weaves two parallel journeys into a sublime masterpiece about the absolute nature of truth. (Regent Releasing)

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Hide and Seek (2005)

Summary: This is the story of a young girl named Emily Callaway, which her games of Hide and Seek with an imaginary friend by the name of "Charlie" have become anything but simple and innocent. Instead, she finds herself in the middle of a series of increasingly nightmarish acts that even her father David cannot stop. Who--or what--is Charlie?! David wonders. How can an...â¿¿imaginaryâ¿¿ entity have this kind of hold on her? Maybe Charlie is not imaginary at all, but instead a flesh-and-blood, malevolent presence? (imdb)

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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)

Summary: A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of West Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Peter Perkins (Jones), a local ranch foreman kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule, Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico. (Sony Pictures Classics)

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21 Grams (2003)

Summary: They say we all lose 21 grams at the moment of our death.

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Fear of Fiction (2000)

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Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995)

Summary: It concerns a large theatrical family spending the last weekend of their summer together at the decades-old family retreat which economic circumstances have forced them to put on the market.

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The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)

Summary: This is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. (imdb)

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A Time of Destiny (1988)

Summary: Josie elopes with Jack against her father's wishes. Her father follows her to the hotel where they are staying and forces Josie to go with him. Jack in turn follows resulting in an accident that leaves her father dead. Marty her brother, who was despised by their father over something he did years ago, sees Jack while grieving over his father and then follows him to Europe where they were fighting the war and was about to kill Jack, when something happened that prevented him. (imdb)

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Deadtime Stories (1986)

Summary: A babysitting uncle tells his charges three horror stories--about a killer witch, Little Red Riding Hood and a werewolf, and a story about "Goldi Lox" and the three bears. (imdb)

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Always (1985)

Summary: A middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital troubles, assemble at their house for a 4th of July Weekend party.

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