My Own Country
My Own Country
1998
Drama
TV Movie
1h 35m
An Indian doctor in rural Tennessee, Abraham Verghese, who treats the first AIDS patients diagnosed there. The victims include a conservative Christian couple who have hid their disease for fear of rejection, as well a trucker's wife who has contracted the disease from her husband. Obviously, the disease causes severe turmoil for these people, who have to come to grips not only with the disease, but how they contracted it and how they will be viewed once people know they have it.
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Directed by:
Mira Nair
Writers:
Sooni Taraporevala
8 total credits
Credits include: The Namesake, Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala, Such a Long Journey and Yeh Ballet
5 total credits
Credits include: Thieves, My Own Country, Close to Home and Skin
Starring:
Marisa Tomei
75 total credits
Marisa Tomei (pronounced /məˈrɪsə toʊˈmeɪ/; born December 4, 1964) is an American stage, film and television actress. Following her work on As The World Turns, Tomei came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World in 1987. After appearing in a few films, her breakthrough came in 1992, with the comedy My Cousin Vinny, in which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress...(Wikipedia)
41 total credits
Credits include: Don Jon, Dick Tracy, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Mr. Holland's Opus
53 total credits
Credits include: Planet Terror, The English Patient, Lost, The Brave One and Rollerball
57 total credits
Credits include: Liar Liar, Cruel Intentions, Dangerous Liaisons, Bubble Boy and Duplex
69 total credits
Credits include: A History of Violence, Cinderella Man, Crash, Frequency and The Kid Detective
69 total credits
Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. is an American actor. His television roles include Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo. He is also known for his role in the 2007 film Into the Wild, for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award. He has also done a one man show as Mark Twain. He also had a multi-episode arc on The Event, an American television series, airing on NBC...(Wikipedia)
3 total credits
Credits include: Swing, My Own Country and By the Rivers of Babylon
19 total credits
Credits include: Suture, Babylon 5: A Call to Arms, Shriek of the Mutilated, Bar Girls and I Love You, Don't Touch Me!
8 total credits
Credits include: Slasher, Cottage Country, The Glow, Black and Blue and Lola
7 total credits
Credits include: The Descent: Part 2, Visiting Hours, Bear Island, Her Desperate Choice and The Truth About Alex
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Directed by:
Mira NairWriters:
Sooni Taraporevala 8 total credits
Credits include: The Namesake, Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala, Such a Long Journey and Yeh Ballet
5 total credits
Credits include: Thieves, My Own Country, Close to Home and Skin
Starring:
Marisa Tomei 75 total credits
Marisa Tomei (pronounced /məˈrɪsə toʊˈmeɪ/; born December 4, 1964) is an American stage, film and television actress. Following her work on As The World Turns, Tomei came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World in 1987. After appearing in a few films, her breakthrough came in 1992, with the comedy My Cousin Vinny, in which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress...(Wikipedia)
41 total credits
Credits include: Don Jon, Dick Tracy, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Mr. Holland's Opus
53 total credits
Credits include: Planet Terror, The English Patient, Lost, The Brave One and Rollerball
57 total credits
Credits include: Liar Liar, Cruel Intentions, Dangerous Liaisons, Bubble Boy and Duplex
69 total credits
Credits include: A History of Violence, Cinderella Man, Crash, Frequency and The Kid Detective
69 total credits
Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. is an American actor. His television roles include Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo. He is also known for his role in the 2007 film Into the Wild, for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award. He has also done a one man show as Mark Twain. He also had a multi-episode arc on The Event, an American television series, airing on NBC...(Wikipedia)
3 total credits
Credits include: Swing, My Own Country and By the Rivers of Babylon
19 total credits
Credits include: Suture, Babylon 5: A Call to Arms, Shriek of the Mutilated, Bar Girls and I Love You, Don't Touch Me!
8 total credits
Credits include: Slasher, Cottage Country, The Glow, Black and Blue and Lola
7 total credits
Credits include: The Descent: Part 2, Visiting Hours, Bear Island, Her Desperate Choice and The Truth About Alex
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