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Sam Waterston
	Date of Birth: Nov 15, 1940 Country: USA Biography: Samuel Atkinson "Sam" Waterston is an American actor and occasional producer and director. Among other roles, he is noted for his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in 1984's The Killing Fields, and his Golden Globe- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning portrayal of Jack McCoy on the NBC television series Law & Order. He has been nominated for multiple Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild-, BAFTA- and Emmy Awards, having starred in over eighty film...(Wikipedia) Total Films at Criticker: 31 - You've Seen 0
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Le Divorce (2003)

Summary: In this modern-day comedy of manners, American sisters Isabel (Hudson) and Roxy (Watts) come face to face with the complicated social mores of French society. Cultures clash and scandals ensue as the sisters learn what it really takes to be an American in Paris. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

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The Matthew Shepard Story (2002)

Summary: In 1998, a young gay man by the name of Matthew Shepard was robbed, viciously beaten and left tied to a fence to die. Although he was soon found by the police and hospitalized, he soon expired. This film recounts the events after the conviction of the two men responsible for this hate motivated murder... (imdb)

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Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997)

Summary: This film documents the exploration expedition led by Meriwether Lewis William Clark into the interior of North America in the early 19th century. We follow the Corps of Discovery as they winded their way across the unknown territory gained in the Louisana Purchase by the United States in their futile search for the legendary Northwest Passage.

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Thomas Jefferson (1997)

Summary: A biographical film about The United States' influential and profoundly enigmatic Founding Father. (imdb)

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The Journey of August King (1995)

Summary: The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. August King. (imdb)

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The Enemy Within (1994)

Summary: Colonel Casey discovers what appears to be plans by General Lloyd to use fake military excercises to assist Jack Giddings in his plans to remove President Foster from office. Colonel Casey, and President Foster must find evidence that there is a coup planned and stop it, before it takes place. Unfortunately, there isn't much time. (imdb)

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Serial Mom (1994)

Summary: A sweet mother takes a little too much at heart for the defence of her family. (imdb)

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David's Mother (1994)

Summary: Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. Now a social worker discovers that Sally has been dodging 'The System' to keep her son with her, instead of putting him in an institution. Each feels they know what's best for David. But their opinions are not the same. Sally's developing relationship with John Nils is caught in the middle. (imdb)

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The Man in the Moon (1991)

Summary: After handsome 17-year-old Court Foster moves back into the long vacant Foster ranch, 14-year-old Dani Trant falls in love for the first time... (imdb)

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Mindwalk (1990)

Summary: A US politician (Sam Waterston) visits his poet friend (John Heard) in Mont. St. Michael, France. While... (imdb)

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Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

Summary: The film's title indicates the themes of two separate stories: 1) a renowned opthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship...which ends up in murder; and 2) an ethically frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss. (MGM)

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Welcome Home (1989)

Summary: Jake died in Vietnam; his family mourned him, then moved on. When he reappears, quite alive, the question is, what must he do and how will his family respond to him? (imdb)

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Lincoln (1988)

Summary: Abraham Lincoln the man, from his arrival in Washington to his assassination.

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September (1987)

Summary: Everyone is gathering at Lane's place for the weekend, and everyone's in love. Unfortunately, each beloved loves somebody else... (imdb)

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Swimming to Cambodia (1987)

Summary: Gray tells about his participation in the film "The Killing Fields" and the background story about the troubles of Cambodia.

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The Fifth Missile (1986)

Summary: The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is to make its victims hallucinate, and the sub's captain imagines that he has been given an order to actually attack Russia. He prepares to do exactly that (imdb)

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Just Between Friends (1986)

Summary: Lahti plays a crass, cynical TV news reporter who makes friends with aerobics instructor Mary Tyler Moore and is soon having dinner with Moore and her family--only to discover Mary's husband (Ted Danson) is Lahti's secret affair. (imdb)

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Warning Sign (1985)

Summary: In an ultra secret laboratory for the developing of biological weapons, covered as "Biotek", a research center for agriculture, a serious accident occurs, spreading a sinister bacteria in the laboratory. The security guard of the complex, closes and seals the building, with all the personnel inside, making very difficult the struggle for survival, not to mention the actions that the relatives of the enclosed people are thinking to do. (imdb)

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The Killing Fields (1984)

Summary: An American citizen is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody "Year Zero" ethnic cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million "undesirable" civilians. (imdb)

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Heaven's Gate (1980)

Summary: Michael Cimino's bleak anti-western based on events in 1890s Wyoming. Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clashes with a hired gun, Nathan Champion, over the woman they both love (imdb)

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Hopscotch (1980)

Summary: A CIA agent tired of his incompetent colleagues retires and dares them to stop him from publishing an embarrassing book of memoirs. (imdb)

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Eagle's Wing (1979)

Summary: Martin Sheen's inexperienced trapper finds himself fighting with Sam Waterston's nonosyllabic Kiowa warrior over the possession of a beautiful white horse, the Eagle's Wing, across a harsh and primitive landscape in a time "before the legends began." (imdb)

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Capricorn One (1978)

Summary: Classic conspiracy tale about the first manned mission to Mars. All appears to be going well until the astronauts are pulled off the ship just before launch by shadowy government types and whisked off to a film studio in the desert. It transpires that the space vehicle has a major defect which NASA just daren't admit. (imdb)

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Sweet Revenge (1976)

Summary: A young woman with a long rap sheet who steals cars for a living is befriended by a public defender who tries to steer her straight. But her goal is to steal and subsequently sell enough cars (sometimes the same car more than once) to buy a new Ferrari. (imdb)

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Journey Into Fear (1975)

Summary: This remake of the Orson Welles film stars Sam Waterston as a researcher who finds himself entangled in intrigue and danger in Turkey. (allmovie.com)

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Rancho Deluxe (1975)

Summary: Two drifters, of wildly different backgrounds, become cattle rustlers in modern-day Montana. (imdb)

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The Great Gatsby (1974)

Summary: Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. (imdb)

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Reflections of Murder (1974)

Summary: The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.

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The Glass Menagerie (1973)

Summary: Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a "gentleman caller" appears, things move to crisis point. (imdb)

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Cover Me Babe (1970)

Summary: Student filmmaker lets nothing stand in the way of his getting a studio contract. (imdb)

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Three (1969)

Summary: Two college friends, traveling in Europe, find themselves rivals for the attentions of a mysterious woman.

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