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Shirley MacLaine - what members say
review by from Scotland
She was so good in 31 July 2004
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Ahhhh! 1 March 2006
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29 December 2003
Shirley MacLaine - filmography
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In Her Shoes
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Curtis Hanson
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In this screen adaptation of Jennifer Weiner's bestselling novel, Toni Collette (MURIEL'S WEDDING) is Rose Feller, an overweight, overworked, and painfully undersexed lawyer who fills an emotional void with pints of Haagen-Dazs and a closetful of expensive shoes that she never wears. Little sis ..read more »
 
64%
from 54,118 members
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Rumour Has It...
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Rob Reiner
Certificate:
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Aniston stars as Sarah Huttinger, whose return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her, and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers. Join sarah as she uncovers secrets that suggest that her family are neither sedate nor ..read more »
57%
from 37,477 members
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Bewitched
(2005)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Nora Ephron
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Director Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail) breathes new life into the classic television show BEWITCHED in this romantic comedy of the same name. Movie star Jack Wyatt (Will Ferrell) had it all until he made a few bad films and his wife left him. Now, the washed up star is slated ..read more »
49%
from 42,354 members
Not currently released
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Carolina
(2003)
Starring: Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine, Alessandro Nivola
Director: Marleen Gorris
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In this romantic comedy, Carolina (Julia Stiles) loves her crazy family, but wants a more normal life. She sets off from the South to move to California, where she hopes for peace and calm, but things soon become chaotic again when two attractive suitors fight for her affections.
64%
from 24 members
Currently unavailable
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The Dress Code
(2000)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Gary Sinise
Director: Shirley MacLaine
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Bruno is the story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno (Alex D. Linz), whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey. By the time he reaches his final destination, Bruno's story becomes a fable of the importance of each person's uniqueness and ..read more »
20%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
(1997)
Starring: Bobby Short, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland
Director: Allan Albert
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Hosted and narrated by renowned entertainer and Cole Porter devotee Bobby Short, You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story probes the many facets of Porter's persona. One of the most skillful composers ever, Porter created such Broadway and Hollywood hits as Kiss Me Kate, Anything Goes, Silk Stockings ..read more »
52%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Mrs Winterbourne
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Ricki Lake, Shirley MacLaine, Brendan Fraser
Director: Richard Benjamin
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Connie Doyle (Ricki Lake) is pregnant and homeless after a fight with her deadbeat boyfriend (Loren Dean). A train wreck and a case of mistaken identity leads her to the opulent Massachusetts mansion of the Winterbourne family, lead by the stately Grace (Shirley MacLaine). Thought to be the wife of ..read more »
64%
from 1,125 member
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The Evening Star
(1996)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis
Director: Robert Harling
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The indomitable Aurora Greenway's struggles with her family and her love life continue in this long-awaited sequel to TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. In her own inimitable style, she continues to struggle with her family, neigbors, and her decidedly unconventional love life.
52%
from 21 members
Currently unavailable
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Guarding Tess
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage, Richard Griffiths
Director: Hugh Wilson
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Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine) is the widow of a former United States President. A quarrelsome older woman, she's known for her belligerent manner and her blatant disregard for protocol. For Doug Chesnic (Nicolas Cage), the Secret Service agent assigned to the widow, standing watch over the ..read more »
62%
from 2,490 members
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Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
(1993)
Starring: Richard Harris, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Duvall
Director: Randa Haines
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Two elderly, retired men become friends despite their dissimilarities. As they are invigorated and challenged by the time they spend together, they come to new insights about themselves and the women who occupy various roles in their lives.
51%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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Wrestling Earnest Hemmingway
(1993)
Starring: Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Randa Haines
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hey're retirees who are anything but retiring. Robert Duvall and Richard Harris deliver "two of the year's most spectacular performances" (Bob Campbell, Newhouse Newspapers) as a reserved ex-barber and a salty former sea captain, beached in a quiet Florida town and living solitary lives. But after ..read more »
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Used People
(1992)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy
Director: Beeban Kidron
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At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley Maclean), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. For 23 years he, now a widower, has secretly loved Pearl...
40%
from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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Postcards from the Edge
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Dennis Quaid, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Mike Nichols
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An actress with a drug and alcohol problem, recovering from a near fatal overdose, accepts a minor role in a film on the condition that she lives with a responsible person during her rehabilitation. That 'person' is her mother, a big star from the 50's who sees herself in her daughter. Both must ..read more »
63%
from 1,564 member
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Steel Magnolias
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Dolly Parton
Director: Herbert Ross
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The title refers to those seemingly frail Southern belles who survive any and all deprivations through whims of iron. Robert Harling's original stage play was set exclusively in a Louisiana beauty parlor where an all-female cast of characters laughed, cried and compared menfolk. The film expands ..read more »
67%
from 8,234 members
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Madame Sousatzka
(1988)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Peggy Ashcroft, Navin Chowdry
Director: John Schlesinger
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A Russian/American piano tutor living in London encounters a young Indian boy who seems to have an extraordinary musical gift, which she realises can be moulded into genius. Here is her chance to create a world-acclaimed maestro.
58%
from 6 members
Not available for rental
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Terms Of Endearment
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson
Director: James L. Brooks
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TERMS OF ENDEARMENT is a deeply observed drama about the intimate relationship between a mother and daughter, based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger are at their absolute best, with terrific support from Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, and John Lithgow. James L. ..read more »
64%
from 5,805 members
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Loving Couples
(1980)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Susan Sarandon
Director: Jack Smight
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Susan Sarandon gives a sprightly performance in this sex farce involving couples swapping mates. Shirley MacLaine is Evelyn, a doctor, who is spending some quality time horseback riding when she is spotted by Greg (Stephen Collins), who is driving his sports car. Greg looks at her a bit too long ..read more »
90%
from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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A Change Of Seasons
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek
Director: Richard Lang
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A self-centred university lecturer thinks it quite all right that he has taken one of his students as a lover, but is deeply hurt when his wife retaliates by taking a similar approach with a visiting carpenter. His announcement that he is off to the family holiday home for some skiing with his ..read more »
58%
from 34 members
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Being There - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden
Director: Hal Ashby
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BEING THERE is based on Jerzy Kosinski's short comic novel about a simpleton, Chance (Peter Sellers), raised in isolation whose only education came from watching TV. When he's forced out of the house where he worked as a gardener by the death of the wealthy recluse who raised him from infancy, he's ..read more »
72%
from 455 members
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Being There
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden
Director: Hal Ashby
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BEING THERE is based on Jerzy Kosinski's short comic novel about a simpleton, Chance (Peter Sellers), raised in isolation whose only education came from watching TV. When he's forced out of the house where he worked as a gardener by the death of the wealthy recluse who raised him from infancy, he's ..read more »
68%
from 6,354 members
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The Turning Point
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Browne
Director: Herbert Ross
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Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft star in this musical drama and touching portrait of the world of dance in New York City. A ballet star (Anne Bancroft) is reunited with her best friend and rival (Shirley MacLaine) after years apart. Against the engrossing background of the world of ballet, their ..read more »
62%
from 238 members
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Shirley's World - The Complete Series
(1971)
Starring: John Gregson, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Ralph Levy
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Shirley MacLaine stars as a photo reporter in this bubbly sitcom from the Seventies. In this lavish production, Shirley travels around the world for her glamour magazine and gets caught in a series of hilarious adventures. Shot on location over many countries, SHIRLEY'S WORLD also features the ever ..read more »
28%
from 6 members
Not available for rental
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Two Mules For Sister Sara
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, John Kelly
Director: Don Siegel
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Starring Clint Eastwood as mercenary gunfighter Hogan, TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA opens with its star saving a naked women from being gang-raped. He's more than a little surprised when the attractive woman, Sister Sara (Shirley McLaine), dons a habit. It seems she's deeply committed to a group of ..read more »
68%
from 3,530 members
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Woman Times Seven
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Elspeth March, Peter Sellers
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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Shirley MacLaine lights up the screen in this collection of seven sexy stories of love and adultery set against the romantic backdrop of Paris. Whether she's playing an amorous widow, a meek housewife gone wild or a socialite who will literally kill for a dress, Shirley MacLaine displays the ..read more »
48%
from 47 members
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Gambit
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Herbert Lom, Roger C. Carmel, Arnold Moss
Director: Ronald Neame
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Caine, a bumbling but debonair English cat burglar, and MacLaine, a beautiful Eurasian dancer, team up steal a priceless statue--that bears an uncanny resemblance to MacLaine-- from the impregnable mansion of a billionaire recluse. Caine's Hollywood debut.
66%
from 256 members
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What A Way To Go
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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A classic of 60's film decadence, WHAT A WAY TO GO stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa, a widow four times over who is left with more money than she knows what to do with. When she signs an unsolicited, multimillion-dollar check over to the IRS, however, officials in high places begin to doubt her ..read more »
61%
from 221 members
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Irma La Douce
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi
Director: Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder's adaptation of Alexandre Breffort's stage farce stars Shirley MacLaine as the Parisian prostitute of the title. When Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon) a naive, uncharacteristically honest young gendarme decides to raid Chez Moustache, the bistro which provides a base of operations for many ..read more »
64%
from 1,128 member
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My Geisha
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Yves Montand, Edward G. Robinson, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Jack Cardiff
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Renowned director Paul Robaix (Yves Montand) doesn't want his actress-wife Lucy Dell (Shirley MacLaine) to star in his latest picture, an adaptation of Madame Butterfly. With the help of producer Sam Lewis (Edward G. Robinson), Lucy devises a scheme to convince her husband that she's right for the ..read more »
64%
from 92 members
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The Children's Hour
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner
Director: William Wyler
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Based on the 1934 play by Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour is set at an exclusive girl's school managed by best friends Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. When student Karen Balkin is punished for one of her many misdeeds, the mean-spirited youngster rushes to her wealthy aunt Fay Bainter, ..read more »
67%
from 1,349 member
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The Apartment
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
Director: Billy Wilder
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Winner of numerous Academy and BAFTA Awards, Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT blends his customary harsh cynicism with a humane streak that appears only fleetingly in his films. The movie stars Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, an office clerk who curries favor with the executives in his office by giving ..read more »
74%
from 12,395 members
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Can-Can
(1960)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier
Director: Walter Lang
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Cole Porter's Gay Paree musical about the introduction in Montmartre in 1896 of the notorious Can-Can dance, is brought to the screen, filtered through a Rat Pack sensibility. Shirley MacLaine stars as Simone Pistache, the perky and vivacious owner of a Parisian cafe, who, aided by her swingin' ..read more »
56%
from 8 members
Currently unavailable
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The Matchmaker
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Joseph Anthony
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Endearing romantic comedy farce based on the Broadway play by Thornton Wilder, which was later more famously adapted into the 1964 musical 'Hello Dolly'. Shirley Booth stars as Dolly Levi, a 19th-century matchmaker who harbours a secret desire to get married herself. Shirley MacLaine, Paul Ford, ..read more »
44%
from 19 members
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Some Came Running
(1958)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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After the success of From Here to Eternity, pairing Frank Sinatra with another James Jones novel made perfect sense. Set in the aftermath of World War II, the film stars Sinatra as a recently discharged soldier whose promising writing career has derailed. After a drunken card game, Sinatra finds ..read more »
65%
from 29 members
Currently unavailable
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Around The World In 80 Days
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: David Niven, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Michael Anderson
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production ..read more »
60%
from 1,427 member
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The Trouble With Harry
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, John Forsythe, Edmund Gwenn
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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The trouble with Harry is that he's dead. The scene is a autumnal Vermont village, where a pre-Leave It to Beaver Jerry Mathers stumbles upon Harry's corpse in the woods. Mathers alerts his mother Shirley MacLaine (making her film debut), who recognizes Harry as her ex-husband. Later on, retired ..read more »
63%
from 1,464 member
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Rumour Has It... - Blu-ray
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Rob Reiner
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Aniston stars as Sarah Huttinger, whose return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her, and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers. Join sarah as she uncovers secrets that suggest that her family are neither sedate nor ..read more »
58%
from 1,317 member
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Rumour Has It... - HD
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Rob Reiner
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Aniston stars as Sarah Huttinger, whose return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her, and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers. Join sarah as she uncovers secrets that suggest that her family are neither sedate nor ..read more »
56%
from 547 members
Not currently released
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Shirley MacLaine facts
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...hing films I've ever seen. Based on Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographcal novel, Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep turn in fantastic performances as mother and daughter at war. ...
