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Ellen Burstyn
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Ellen Burstyn - what members say
review by A customer from United Kingdom
The Excorcist - Directors cut 22 November 2004
review by from CHELTENHAM
27 November 2003
review by crispin40 from Stirling, Scotland
A wee gem of a film 1 June 2005
Ellen Burstyn - filmography
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W.
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Josh Brolin, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn
Director: Oliver Stone
Certificate: 
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Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. In an unprecedented undertaking, acclaimed director Oliver Stone is bringing the life of our 43rd president to the big screen as only he can. W takes viewers ..read more »
 
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from 18,034 members
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W. - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Josh Brolin, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn
Director: Oliver Stone
Certificate:
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Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. In an unprecedented undertaking, acclaimed director Oliver Stone is bringing the life of our 43rd president to the big screen as only he can. W takes viewers ..read more »
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from 3,461 members
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Surviving Summer
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Hilary Duff, Melissa Leo
Director: Nancy Bardawil
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Indie drama starring Hilary Duff, Ellen Burstyn and Michael Murphy. Greta (Duff) is a troubled New York teen who is sent to New Jersey to live with her grandparents (Burstyn and Murphy) for the summer. When she takes a job as a waitress in a local restaurant, she falls in love with the restaurant's ..read more »
60%
from 2,289 members
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The Stone Angel
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Christine Horne, Cole Hauser
Director: Kari Skogland
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Drama based on the bestselling novel by Margaret Laurence. Ellen Burstyn stars as Hagar Shipley, a feisty octogenarian with a turbulent, unconventional past and a fierce sense of pride who goes on the run when her son and daughter-in-law express their wish to find her a place in a nursing home. ..read more »
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from 216 members
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The Wicker Man
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Frances Conroy, Kate Beahan, Ellen Burstyn
Director: Neil LaBute
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Reworking of Anthony Shaffer's 1973 cult classic. Upon receiving a letter from his one-time fiancee, Willow (Kate Beahan), imploring him to search for her missing daughter on the secluded island of Summersisle, California highway patrolman Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) quickly makes his way to the ..read more »
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from 28,102 members
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The Elephant King
(2006)
Starring: Tate Ellington, Jonno Roberts, Florence Faivre
Director: Seth Grossman
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"The Elephant King" is a provocative and stirring story of two American brothers, Oliver and Jake Hunt, adrift in an exotic world they don't fully understand. When a domineering mother dispatches her young, introverted son Oliver off to Thailand to do everything he can to lure his reckless, older ..read more »
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from 5 members
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The Fountain - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Sean Patrick Thomas, Ethan Suplee, Mark Margolis
Director: Darren Aronofsky
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Darren Aronofsky directs this elegaic time-travelling odyssey, in which Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz star in a series of storylines about a man's struggle to save the woman he loves. In one storyline, 16th-century Spanish conquistador Tomas Creo (Jackman) sets out to find the fabled Tree of Life ..read more »
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from 2,606 members
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The Wicker Man - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Frances Conroy, Kate Beahan, Ellen Burstyn
Director: Neil LaBute
Certificate:
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Reworking of Anthony Shaffer's 1973 cult classic. Upon receiving a letter from his one-time fiancee, Willow (Kate Beahan), imploring him to search for her missing daughter on the secluded island of Summersisle, California highway patrolman Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) quickly makes his way to the ..read more »
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from 156 members
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The Fountain
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ethan Suplee, Cliff Curtis, Sean Gullette
Director: Darren Aronofsky
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"The Fountain" is an odyssey about one man's eternal struggle to save the woman he loves. His epic journey begins in 16th-century Spain, where conquistador Tomas (Hugh Jackman) commences his search for the Fountain of Youth, the legendary entity believed to grant immortality. As modern-day ..read more »
53%
from 21,790 members
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Brush With Fate
(2003)
Starring: Kelly MacDonald, Glenn Close, Phyllida Law
Director: Brent Shields
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Brent Shields' made-for-television film is based on Susan Vreeland's novel 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue' and is said to be one of the most expensive productions for the Hallmark Hall of Fame series. An eccentric history teacher (Glenn Close) has devoted her life to researching the history of a mysterious,..read more »
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from 98 members
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The Yards
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Steve Lawrence, James Caan, Faye Dunaway
Director: James Gray
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Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) is fresh out of prison and keen to put his life in order. Returning to the bosom of his family, he manages to get a job with his influential uncle Frank (James Caan), and is also reunited with his best friend Willy (Joaquin Phoenix) and Willy's girlfriend Erica (Charlize ..read more »
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from 2,252 members
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Requiem for a Dream
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Jared Leto, Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly
Director: Darren Aronofsky
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Sara Goldfarb is a lonely widow who is revitalized by the prospect of appearing on television as a game show contestant, while her son Harry, his girlfriend Marion, and his friend Tyrone have devised an illicit shortcut to wealth and ease. Lulled by early successes, Sara, Harry, Marion and Tyrone ..read more »
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from 29,330 members
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Playing By Heart
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson
Director: Willard Carroll
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Written and directed by Willard Carroll, this romantic drama focuses on the lives and loves of a seemingly disparate group of Los Angelinos. Paul (Sean Connery) and Hannah (Gena Rowlands) have been married for forty years, and are coming to terms with a recent diagnosis which identified him as ..read more »
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from 2,051 members
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Liar
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Michael Rooker, Renee Zellweger, Ellen Burstyn
Director: Jonas Pate
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Detectives Braxton (Chris Penn) and Kenneshaw (Michael Rooker) are interrogating textile heir Wayland (Tim Roth) over the murder of a prostitute. Certain that they have their man, they place Wayland under a lie detector test. Although he admits to meeting the murdered woman, while drunk, Wayland ..read more »
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from 465 members
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Room Mates
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Jan Rubes, Peter Falk, D.B. Sweeney
Director: Peter Yates
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'Columbo' star Peter Falk appears here as aged, irascible Rocky Holeczek, who sets up house with his yuppie grandson Michael (D.B. Sweeney). The two are initially at each other's throats, but gradually settle into quiet domesticity. When Michael falls for a woman, Rocky doesn't like it.
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from 110 members
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The Babysitter's Club
(1995)
Starring: Brooke Adams, Ellen Burstyn, Colleen Camp
Director: Melanie Mayron
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The film adaptation of Ann Martin's popular series of children's books -- which also became a TV show on HBO. The eponymous clique is comprised of seven pre-teen girls who are the best of friends. Together, they started an enterprise: a club where parents could reach 7 babysitters with just one ..read more »
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from 199 members
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Getting Gotti
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Anthony John Denison, Lorraine Bracco
Director: Roger Young
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Real life drama about New York gangster John Gotti (Anthony John Denison) and Diane Giacalone (Lorraine Bracco), the woman who grew up in the same area as Gotti but went on to become an Assistant US Attorney. Diane swore to bring the murderous mafia don to justice, while he declared a personal ..read more »
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from 54 members
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When A Man Loves A Woman
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lauren Tom
Director: Luis Mandoki
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A dramatic treatment of a family torn apart by alcoholism and recovering from it, this was a star vehicle for popular actress Meg Ryan, who plays Alice Green, a school counselor who has a serious drinking problem. Her husband is Michael (Andy Garcia), an airline pilot. Though she's lighthearted and ..read more »
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from 2,913 members
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Shattered Trust
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Patricia Kalember, Rosemary Dunsmore, Dick Latessa
Director: Bill Corcoran
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Promising young attorney Shari Karney is breaking up under the stress of running her practice. She is neglecting her appearance and her boyfriend, and quarrels with her mother. When she becomes emotionally involved in a child abuse case and physically attacks a witness in court, it appears that she ..read more »
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from 10 members
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The Cemetery Club
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Ellen Burstyn, Danny Aiello
Director: Bill Duke
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The story of three Jewish women in Pittsburgh. In their mid-to-late fifties, they have all recently been widowed, and once a week they meet at their husband's graves then go for coffee to talk about their lives: Doris (Olympia Dukakis) takes her job as a widow very seriously; Lucille (Diane Ladd) ..read more »
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from 127 members
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Twice in a Lifetime
(1985)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Ann-Margret, Ellen Burstyn
Director: Bud Yorkin
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A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy barmaid-and, to his surprise, he finds that she is also ..read more »
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Same Time, Next Year
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Alan Alda, Ivan Bonar, Ellen Burstyn
Director: Robert Mulligan
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Romantic comedy drama based on the successful stage play. George (Alan Alda) and Doris (Ellen Burstyn) meet by chance over dinner at a California inn in the 1950s. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning wondering how they got there. This romantic ..read more »
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from 431 members
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The Exorcist
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Lee J. Cobb, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn
Director: William Friedkin
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Actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) has every reason to be content, having just completed a film with director Burke Dennings (Jack MacGowran). However, she becomes disturbed by the changes taking place in her 12-year-old daughter, Regan (Linda Blair). At first sullen and withdrawn, Regan becomes ..read more »
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from 25,416 members
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The King Of Marvin Gardens
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Bruce Dern, Jack Nicholson
Director: Bob Rafelson
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Dreams die hard in wintry Atlantic City in Bob Rafelson's downbeat character drama. Depressive deejay David Staebler (Jack Nicholson) tends to his grandfather as he philosophizes on late-night Philadelphia talk radio. When his huckster older brother Jason (Bruce Dern) calls out of the blue one day, ..read more »
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from 557 members
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The Last Picture Show
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Cybill Shepherd, Eileen Brennan, Randy Quaid
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
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Produced by Hollywood iconoclast BBS Productions, film critic-turned-director Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 film pays homage to Hollywood's classical age as it chronicles generational rites of passage in Anarene, a fictional one-horse Texas town. In 1951, high school seniors Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and ..read more »
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from 4,837 members
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Ellen Burstyn facts
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...) is a friendy 12-year-old girl who lives with her famous mother Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) in a small house. One day Chris realises strange changes on her daughter. She ...
