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  • The Entity
  • The Entity review by Buzios from HAYLING ISLAND
    Rated - 4.0 stars 13 August 2004
    ... gripping pshycological thriller/horror depicting the repeated rape of a woman (Barbara Hershey) by an unseen supernatural attacker. Very creepy and disturbing, somehow even m...   Read customer review
  • Lantana
  • Lantana review by from Kent
    Rated - 5.0 stars Tight and gripping 23 February 2004
    ...hing is great in this as are the other main players including Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey who hasn't been in anything this good in a while. I'd thoroughly recommend it f...   Read customer review
  • Swing Kids
  • Swing Kids review by HD from WEST BROMWICH
    Rated - 3.0 stars 28 May 2004
    ...stance there. Established actors Kenneth Branagh (who goes uncredited here) and Barbara Hershey seem wasted....   Read customer review

Barbara Hershey - filmography


  • Answers to Nothing (2011)
    Starring: Dane Cook,  Elizabeth Mitchell,  Julie Benz
    Director: Matthew Leutwyler
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Set against the backdrop of a missing girl case, the film tells interweaving stories of several Los Angelenos trying to do the right thing. Directed by Matthew Leutwyler (Dead and Breakfast), who co-wrote the script with Gillian Vigman, Answers to Nothing was produced by Amanda Marshall and Sim ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 63% from 3 members
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  • Black Swan - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Natalie Portman,  Vincent Cassel,  Mila Kunis
    Director: Darren Aronofsky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Psychological thriller set in the American ballet world starring Natalie Portman in an award-winning performance. Nina (Portman) is a dancer in a New York City ballet company. Still living with her domineering and obsessive mother Erica (Barbara Hershey), a former ballerina herself, Nina barely has ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 887 members
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  • Black Swan on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Natalie Portman,  Vincent Cassel,  Mila Kunis
    Director: Darren Aronofsky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Psychological thriller set in the American ballet world starring Natalie Portman in an award-winning performance. Nina (Portman) is a dancer in a New York City ballet company. Still living with her domineering and obsessive mother Erica (Barbara Hershey), a former ballerina herself, Nina barely has ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 59,945 members
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  • Insidious - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Patrick Wilson,  Rose Byrne,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: James Wan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    James Wan directs this supernatural suspense horror starring Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne. Josh (Wilson) and Renai (Byrne) move with their three children to a beautiful new family home. But their happy, carefree existence soon spirals into unmitigated terror when their son Dalton (Ty Simpkins) is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 6,378 members
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  • 11:14 on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Barbara Hershey,  Rachael Leigh Cook,  Hilary Swank
    Director: Greg Marcks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    At 11:14 PM on one fatal evening, previously unconnected lives connect for the first time, with fatal consequences for some. This is the premise behind director Greg Marcks's inventive drama, 11:14, which draws on an impressive cast that includes Hilary Swank (BOYS DON'T CRY), Patrick Swayze (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 17,526 members
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  • Lantana (2001)
    Starring: Rachael Blake,  Barbara Hershey,  Anthony La Paglia
    Director: Ray Lawrence
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    With complex relationships and believable characters, this intelligent well-acted film is more than another cop thriller. A Sydney police detective is having an affair while trying to solve a murder mystery. As it involves all the people in his life, he's forced to examine his future as a family ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 8,073 members
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  • Portrait Of A Lady on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Barbara Hershey,  Martin Donovan,  Richard E. Grant
    Director: Jane Campion
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jane Campion directed this expressive adaptation of the classic novel by Henry James. Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman) is a young American woman who, after the death of her parents, has been sent to England to visit relatives. While her family's tragedy has left her penniless, Isabel's beauty has ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 2,492 members
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  • Last Of The Dogmen on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Kurtwood Smith,  Steve Reevis,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: Tab Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Tom Berenger stars as a bounty hunter hired to track down three escaped convicts in the Rockies. He comes to the conclusion that the fugitives have been murdered by an ancient tribe of Cheyenne Indians; aided by anthropologist Lillian Sloan (Barbara Hershey), he follows the Indians' trail, putting ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 403 members
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  • Return to Lonesome Dove (2 discs) on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Oliver Reed,  Barbara Hershey,  Jon Voight
    Director: Mike Robe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jon Voight heads the cast in this US television sequel to 'Lonesome Dove', the historical mini-series from 1988. Ex-Ranger Captain Woodrow Call (Jon Voight) has just buried his friend Gus and decides to drive a herd of mustang from Texas to Montana and set up a new homestead with the help of Gideon ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 892 members
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  • Swing Kids on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Robert Sean Leonard,  Barbara Hershey,  Frank Whaley
    Director: Thomas Carter
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Glossy musical portrayal of Nazi Germany produced by Disney, in which a group of teenagers calling themselves the 'Swing Kids' express their rebellion against Hitler's regime by adopting American and British fashion, modes of speech and the swing music prevalent in the US in the late 30s and early ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 623 members
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  • Falling Down - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Tuesday Weld,  Rachel Ticotin,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A traffic jam proves to be the last straw for an unemployed defence industry worker (Michael Douglas), who goes on the rampage, dishing out revenge on all those he believes have conspired to make his life a misery. As the death toll mounts, easy-going cop Martin Prendergast (Robert Duvall) is ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 2,200 members
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  • Falling Down on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Tuesday Weld,  Rachel Ticotin,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A traffic jam proves to be the last straw for an unemployed defence industry worker (Michael Douglas), who goes on the rampage, dishing out revenge on all those he believes have conspired to make his life a misery. As the death toll mounts, easy-going cop Martin Prendergast (Robert Duvall) is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 13,397 members
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  • Paris Trout (1991)
    Starring: Dennis Hopper,  Barbara Hershey,  Ed Harris
    Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Paris Trout is a vile Southern bigot. He owns a store and is a loan-shark. He often sues people, and so his lawyer, Harry Seagraves, eventually meets Paris' wife Hannah. A former schoolteacher, she made the mistake of her life when she married Paris, who brutalizes her. Soon Paris goes beyond the ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 88% from 5 members
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  • Evidence of Love (1990)
    Starring: Daphne Eckler,  Lee Garlington,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A woman is looking for a new start in a small town, but when she's brutally murdered, no suspects or witnesses to the killing are found. Based on the novel 'Evidence Of Love' by John Bloom.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 126 members
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  • Tune In Tomorrow on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Patricia Clarkson,  Keanu Reeves,  Peter Falk
    Director: Jon Amiel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Quirky romantic comedy based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel 'Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter' and transposed to New Orleans. Set in the 1950s, the film stars Keanu Reeves as Martin Loader, a young newswriter for a struggling local radio station which, in an attempt to boost its ratings, has just ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 194 members
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  • A World Apart (1988)
    Starring: Jodhi May,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: Chris Menges
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on a true story, in 1963 South Africa, a white, female journalist defies the government and is arrested under the new 90-day Detention Act.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 20 members
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  • Beaches on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Barbara Hershey,  Lainie Kazan,  John Heard
    Director: Garry Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Modern weepie which traces the ups and downs of unlikely friends C.C. (Bette Midler), a brash singer, and Hillary (Barbara Hershey), a conservative rich girl. Meeting as children on a beach in Atlantic City, the two swear lifelong friendship, but don't meet up again until they are in their twenties...read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 8,185 members
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  • Tin Men on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Richard Dreyfuss,  Barbara Hershey,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the year 1963, Bill 'B.B.' Babowsky (Richard Dreyfuss) accidentally backs his car into that of Ernest Tilley (Danny DeVito), who has been distracted by an argument he is having with his wife, Nora (Barbara Hershey). Each man blames the other for the collision, and when it transpires that they ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 731 members
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  • Hannah And Her Sisters on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Lloyd Nolan,  Maureen O'Sullivan,  Woody Allen
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A Woody Allen Manhattan mosaic, Hannah and Her Sisters concerns the lives, loves, and infidelities among a tightly-knit artistic clan. Hannah (Mia Farrow) regularly meets with her sisters Holly (Dianne Wiest) and Lee (Barbara Hershey) to discuss the week's events. It's what they don't always tell ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 7,866 members
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  • Hoosiers on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Barbara Hershey,  Dennis Hopper,  Gene Hackman
    Director: David Anspaugh
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    An unexpected late-1986 box-office hit, Hoosiers tells the true story of a group of underdogs who become champions. Set in the 1950s, Hoosiers is about a hard-luck, unemployed college basketball coach (Gene Hackman) who gets a chance to coach a small-town Indiana high-school basketball team. Facing ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 607 members
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  • The Natural on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Glenn Close,  Barbara Hershey,  Robert Duvall
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    The film version of The Natural pulls off the neat trick of conveying the spirit of the Bernard Malamud novel upon which it is based, even while changing both the outcome and the meaning of Malamud's closing chapters. In his first film appearance in four years, Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs, a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,658 member
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  • The Entity (1982)
    Starring: Barbara Hershey,  Ron Silver
    Director: Sidney J. Furie
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A young woman (Barbara Hershey) is continuosly attacked and raped by a demonic invisible entity and no one believes her. She is referred to a psychiatrist who thinks it's all in her mind, but some parapsychologists manage to isolate the creature. Based on events which were alleged to have taken ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,696 members
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  • The Stunt Man on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Chuck Bail,  Peter O'Toole,  Philip Bruns
    Director: Richard Rush
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A Vietnam vet is on the run and accidentally ends on a film set where he kills the leading stunt man. But the director, in order to keep him away from the police, offers the man an ultimatum - to take the place of the stuntman. Peter O'Toole was nominated for an Oscar.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 358 members
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  • The Last Hard Men (1976)
    Starring: Charlton Heston,  James Coburn,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A former lawman must return to his guns when his daughter is threatened in this dark-themed western. Zach Provo (James Coburn) was a notorious outlaw who was finally put behind bars by sheriff Sam Burgade (Charlton Heston), who also killed Provo's wife in the midst of a gun battle. Provo is ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 3 members
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  • Boxcar Bertha on DVD (1972)
    Starring: John Carradine,  Bernie Casey,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese, Boxcar Bertha is a Bonnie and Clyde-like yarn set during the Depression. The title character, played by Barbara Hershey, links up with union organizer David Carradine (Hershey's real-life lover at the time) after the death of her father. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 711 members
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  • With Six You Get Eggroll on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Pat Carroll,  Barbara Hershey,  George Carlin
    Director: Howard Morris
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Doris Day comedy, about Abby McClure (Day), a successful widow with three children who meets Jake Iverson (Brian Keith) at a party. When the two fall for each other, they get married and move their families in together, a situation that leads to plenty of conflict between the children. Matters come ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 359 members
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Barbara Hershey facts

5 most recent films

Answers to Nothing - 2.5 stars
Black Swan - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Insidious - 3.5 stars
Black Swan - 3.5 stars
Insidious - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Falling Down - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Black Swan - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Beaches - 3.5 stars
Hannah And Her Sisters - 3.5 stars
Falling Down - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Love Comes Lately - 2.0 stars
Passion - 2.0 stars
Answers to Nothing - 2.5 stars
The Last Hard Men - 2.5 stars
A World Apart - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Robert Duvall - 4 times - show films
Chuck Bail - 3 times - show films
Sebastian Stan - 3 times - show films
Peter O'Toole - 3 times - show films
Rachel Ticotin - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Philip Kaufman - 3 times - show films
Stephen Gyllenhaal - 3 times - show films
Darren Aronofsky - 3 times - show films
Joel Schumacher - 3 times - show films
James Wan - 3 times - show films