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Winona Ryder
	Date of Birth: Oct 29, 1971 Country: USA Biography: Winona Laura Horowitz better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She made her film debut in the 1986 film Lucas. Ryder's first significant role came in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988) as a goth teenager, which won her critical and commercial recognition. After making various appearances in film and television, Ryder continued her career with the cult film Heathers (1989), a controversial satire of teenage suicide and high school life, which drew...(Wikipedia) Total Films at Criticker: 36 - You've Seen 0
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The Dilemma (2011)

Summary: Ron Howard serves up a delicious comedy about two best friends and business partners -- Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James) -- who are about to land a fantastic deal when Ronny learns something about Nick's wife, Geneva (Winona Ryder), that rocks his world. Ronny turns amateur sleuth to determine whether Geneva's cheating on Nick and learns that telling a friend the truth is even more difficult than concealing it.

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Black Swan (2010)

Summary: BLACK SWAN is a psychological melodrama in which Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman), a dancer in a New York ballet company, hopes desperately to play a greater part in the coming season, a season that choreographer Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) informs the company will include a new production of "Swan Lake."

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When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story (2010)

Summary: Based on the true story of the enduring but troubled love between Lois Wilson, co-founder of Al-Anon, and her alcoholic husband Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. (imdb)

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The Informers (2009)

Summary: A multi-strand narrative set in early 1980's Los Angeles, centered on an array of characters who represent both the top of the heap and the bottom. Connecting the intertwining strands are a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs - and one another - with abandon, never realizing that they are dancing on the edge of a volcano.

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Star Trek (2009)

Summary: A chronicle of the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members. (imdb)

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Stay Cool (2009)

Summary: When writer Henry McCarthy (Mark Polish) returns to his high school to give a commencement address 20 years after his own graduation, he finds nothing has really changed: He still harbors the same unrequited crush (Winona Ryder), and he's still in trouble with the principal (Chevy Chase). Hilary Duff, Jon Cryer, Josh Holloway and Sean Astin star in this ensemble comedy helmed by Michael Polish and written by his twin brother, Mark.

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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)

Summary: After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown. (imdb)

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The Last Word (2008)

Summary: A man (Bentley) who makes his living composing other people's suicide notes enters into a romance with the sister (Ryder) of a recent client. (imdb)

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The Ten (2007)

Summary: The Ten is comprised of ten blasphemous and hysterical stories inspired by the Biblical Commandments, each told in a different style, but with characters and themes that overlap. The film is held together by a narrator who, in turn, has his own moral problems. (THINKFilm)

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Sex and Death 101 (2007)

Summary: A guy's life is turned around by an email, which includes the names of everyone he's had sex with and ever will have sex with. His situation gets worse when he encounters a femme fatale (Ryder) who targets men guilty of sex crime. (imdb)

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The Darwin Awards (2006)

Summary: A forensic detective (Fiennes) and an insurance claims investigator (Ryder) trek to investigate a potential Darwin Award winner. From www.darwinawards.com: "The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways." (imdb)

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A Scanner Darkly (2006)

Summary: Based on legendary science-fiction author Philip K. Dick's own experiences, A Scanner Darkly tells the darkly comedic, caustic, but deeply tragic tale of drug use in the modern world. The film plays like a graphic novel come to life with live-action photography overlaid with an advanced animation process -- a method known as interpolated rotoscoping, first employed in writer/director Richard Linklater's 2001 film "Waking Life" -- to create a haunting version of America, seven years from now. (Warner Independent Pictures)

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Simone (2002)

Summary: The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star--the first totally believable synthetic actress. The "actress" becomes an overnight sensation, with a major singing career as well, and everyone thinks she's a real person. However, as Simone's fame skyrockets, he cannot bear to admit his fraud to himself or the world. (imdb)

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Mr. Deeds (2002)

Summary: When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds. Of course, Deeds' sincere naiveté has Babe falling in love with him instead. Ultimately, Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things, but it doesn't necessarily need to change him. (imdb)

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Autumn in New York (2000)

Summary: He fell in love for the first time... she fell in love forever.

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Lost Souls (2000)

Summary: A small group of Catholics led by an ailing priest believe that Satan intends to become man, just as God did in the person of Jesus. The writings of a possessed mental patient lead them to Peter Kelson, a writer who studies serial killers. They think it's his body Satan will occupy. The youngest in the group, a teacher named Maya Larkin, goes to Peter to investigate further and to convince him to believe in the possibility of Evil incarnate. Other signs come to him as he and Maya them take a journey full of strange occurrences, self-discovery, and an ultimate showdown. (imdb)

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Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Summary: Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s. (imdb)

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Celebrity (1998)

Summary: Lee Simon, unsuccessful journalist and wanna-be novelist, tries to get a foot into the door with celebrities. After divorcing his wife Robin, Lee gets to meet a lot folks of the rich and / or beautiful, partly through journalism, partly because he has a script to offer. But life among those from out-of-this-world is hard, and his putative success always results in defeat. Meanwhile Robin meets a very desirable TV-producer and takes the first steps in the world of celebrities herself. (imdb)

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Alien: Resurrection (1997)

Summary: Ellen Ripley (Weaver) died fighting the perfect predator. Two hundred years and eight horrific experiments later, she's back. A group of scientists has cloned her-along with the alien queen inside her-hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the resurrected Ripley must team up with a band of smugglers, including a mechanic named Call (Ryder), who holds more than a few surprises of her own. (20th Century Fox)

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Boys (1996)

Summary: Patty Vare falls off a horse and is found unconscious by prep school student John Baker. He takes her to his dorm. As he quickly discovers, she is hiding from something. For John this becomes a road to maturity and for Patty it's a way back to love and tenderness.

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The Crucible (1996)

Summary: A 17th-century Salem woman accuses an ex-lover's wife of witchery in an adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. (imdb)

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How to Make an American Quilt (1995)

Summary: Bride-to-be Finn Dodd hears tales of romance and sorrow from her elders as they construct a quilt. (imdb)

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Little Women (1994)

Summary: The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America. (imdb)

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Reality Bites (1994)

Summary: Generation X Graduates face life after college with a filmmaker looking for work and love in Houston. (imdb)

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The House of the Spirits (1993)

Summary: South America before the second world war. The poor Esteban marries Clara and they get a daughter, Blanca... (imdb)

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The Age of Innocence (1993)

Summary: Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer star in a ravishing romance about three wealthy 1870s New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle. (Sony)

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Dracula (1992)

Summary: The vampire comes to England to seduce a visitor's fiance and inflict havoc in the foreign land (imdb)

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Night on Earth (1991)

Summary: A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities.(imdb)

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Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)

Summary: A small town prepares for the homecoming of superstar Roxy Carmichael, as does a young outsider, who believes Roxy is her mother. (imdb) (imdb)

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Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Summary: Edward is a gentle, naive creation with razor sharp scissors for hands. When he is taken home by a kindly Avon lady live with her family, his adventure in the pastel paradise of Suburbia begins!

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Mermaids (1990)

Summary: After another relationship has ended, Mrs. Flax moves to a new town. But now, it's her elder daughter who is love-sick. (imdb)

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Heathers (1989)

Summary: Veronica mingles with Heather I, II and III to be as popular as them, even though she hates them. She hates them enough to wish they were dead, but she would never want to be their cause of death though. When she starts dating Jason Dean, however, she finds herself involved in the murdering of most of her enemies, covered up as suicides. (imdb)

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Great Balls of Fire! (1989)

Summary: The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry, and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the public. (imdb)

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Beetlejuice (1988)

Summary: Michael Keaton is the name in laughter from the hereafter as an obnoxious poltergeist conjured up to bedevil an unwanted family of oddballs. (Warner Bros)

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1969 (1988)

Summary: Two friends, Ralph and Scott live in a small minded town at the onset of the Vietnam war. While Scott's brother enlists, he and Ralph are outspoken in their opposition to the war (imdb)

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Lucas (1986)

Summary: A young nerdy boy hopes to gain acceptance in a high school by not backing down against the school bullies... (imdb)

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