Joan Hackett

Joan Hackett
Total Credits at Criticker: 16 (Actor)
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Support Your Local Sheriff!
In the old west, a man becomes a sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough. In the end, he uses ingenuity instead. (imdb)
+9
The Escape Artist
The young and self-confident Danny (Griffin O'Neal) blufs at the local police-station that he will escape out of prison within one hour. What follows is a flashback about his childhood with his uncle and aunt, which are 'vaudeville'-artists themselves (imdb)
Only When I Laugh
A boozy Broadway actress (Marsha Mason) comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends (James Coco, Joan Hackett) as well as her needy daughter (Kristy McNichol). She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze. (imdb)
The Terminal Man
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful. (imdb)
The Last of Sheila
Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run car accident following a party one night. A year later her multi-millionaire husband, Clinton, invites a group of her friends to spend a week on a his yacht. He's a notorious practical joker and insists his guests play a mystery game where each has been assigned a crime for the others to discover.(imdb)
+2
How Awful About Allan
After a fire which killed his father Kent ("Cat People") Smith and scarred his sister (Julie "The Haunting" Harris), a gilt-ridden victim of psychosomatic blindness (Anthony "Psycho" Perkins) is released from a mental hospital and goes to stay with his estranged sister. However, it appears that someone is out for revenge and wants to drive him crazy. Teleplay by Henry Farrell ("What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"). Directed by Curtis Harrington ("What's the Matter With Helen?"). (imdb)
+10
Dead of Night
This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she bargained for. (imdb)
Assignment to Kill
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder. (imdb)
+2
Reflections of Murder
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.
The Group
It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows. (imdb)
+11
Rivals
Scott Jacoby, as a boy with an unhealthy and pathological attachment to his divorced mother, becomes increasingly jealous of the new man in his mother's life (Robert Klein). After his mother remarries, his rage and misery overwhelm him and he plots to kill his stepfather. (imdb)
Treasure of Matecumbe
This adventure chronicles two boys' search for a treasure buried somewhere in the Florida Keys during the mid 1800s. The children are assisted by three adults, who each have the their own agendas for finding the cache. The hunters are followed by a greedy gang of villains. (allmovie.com)
Flicks
A parody of TV and old movies in the tradition of Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon. The genres skewered here include cartoons (featuring a Cat and Mouse team from the 40's now living in a retirement home and crabbing about cartoons nowadays), old serial adventures, horror movies and science fiction flicks. (imdb)
Mackintosh and T.J.
Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up. (imdb)
+6
The Possessed
A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school. (imdb)
One Trick Pony
Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage. (imdb)