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Barbara Hershey

Barbara Hershey


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  • The Entity
  • The Entity review by 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3 members
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  • Insidious - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Patrick Wilson,  Rose Byrne,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: James Wan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    From the makers of Paranormal Activity and Saw comes an even more terrifying prospect: Insidious. Josh (Patrick Wilson, Watchmen, Hard Candy) and Renai (Rose Byrne, X-Men: First Class, 28 Weeks Later) are a happily married couple with three young children who have moved into an idyllic new suburban ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 4,810 members
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  • Black Swan on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Natalie Portman,  Vincent Cassel,  Mila Kunis
    Director: Darren Aronofsky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 48,647 members
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  • Black Swan - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Natalie Portman,  Vincent Cassel,  Mila Kunis
    Director: Darren Aronofsky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 751 members
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  • Insidious on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Patrick Wilson,  Rose Byrne,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: James Wan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    From the makers of Paranormal Activity and Saw comes an even more terrifying prospect: Insidious. Josh (Patrick Wilson, Watchmen, Hard Candy) and Renai (Rose Byrne, X-Men: First Class, 28 Weeks Later) are a happily married couple with three young children who have moved into an idyllic new suburban ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 12,244 members
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  • 11:14 on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Barbara Hershey,  Patrick Swayze,  Hilary Swank
    Director: Greg Marcks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    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 17,068 members
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  • Lantana (2001)
    Starring: Geoffrey Rush,  Anthony La Paglia,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: Ray Lawrence
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Ray Lawrence's LANTANA is an intelligent, well-written, well-acted film that is much more than just another cop thriller--it's more like YOU CAN COUNT ON ME with its realistic, complex relationships and believable characters. The film opens with a slow pan over a dead body, eerily reminiscent of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 7,683 members
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  • The Pallbearer on DVD (1996)
    Starring: David Schwimmer,  Gwyneth Paltrow,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: Matt Reeves
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tom has no job, no girlfriend, no appartment and lives with his parents. Out of the blue he is asked to be a pallbearer at the funeral of a schoolfriend and give the eulogy. Some people can do this sort of thing - others just can't...
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 1,093 member
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  • Portrait Of A Lady on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  John Malkovich,  Barbara Hershey
    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 2,401 members
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  • Last Of The Dogmen on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Barbara Hershey,  Kurtwood Smith,  Tom Berenger
    Director: Tab Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A bounty hunter on the trail of three escaped convicts makes a startling discovery deep in the Rockies. He finds evidence of a Native American tribe thought to have been decimated a century ago, and with the help of an anthropologist he races to save the last of the Dog Soldiers from the ravages of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 376 members
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  • Return to Lonesome Dove (2 discs) on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Jon Voight,  Barbara Hershey,  Ricky Schroder
    Director: Mike Robe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Picking up where the beloved saga left off, some familiar characters and some new ones go back to Lonesome Dove. Larry McMurtry served as a consultant on this production. Sequel: "Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo."
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 870 members
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  • Falling Down - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Michael Douglas,  Barbara Hershey,  Rachel Ticotin
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A laid-off defense worker, kept from seeing his child on her birthday by a restraining order, looks at the landscape of moral decay in Los Angeles on one hot, congested day and, after being mugged, snaps. What follows is his bitter and pathetic mission of justice, vengeance and vindication that ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 2,045 members
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  • Falling Down on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Michael Douglas,  Barbara Hershey,  Rachel Ticotin
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    A laid-off defence worker, kept from seeing his child on her birthday by a restraining order, looks at the landscape of moral decay in Los Angeles on one hot, congested day and, after being mugged, snaps. What follows is his bitter and pathetic mission of justice, vengeance and vindication that ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 12,910 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 87% from 4 members
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  • Tune In Tomorrow on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Barbara Hershey,  Peter Falk,  Keanu Reeves
    Director: Jon Amiel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A veteran soap opera writer Pedro Carmichael (Peter Falk) assigned to save a failing radio show finds inspiration when he arrives and meets a young writer Martin Loader (Keanu Reeves) who has fallen madly in love with his older, twice-divorced aunt Julia (Barbara Hershey). Drawing on his ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 186 members
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  • Evidence of Love (1990)
    Starring: Daphne Eckler,  Matthew Posey,  Brian Dennehy
    Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    In a small town a local woman looking for excitement begins an affair with a family friend. Weeks later the man's wife is found brutally murdered by an axe. There are no suspects or witnesses to the killing. Based on the novel 'Evidence Of Love' by John Bloom who based the story on the actual ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 111 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 61% from 17 members
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  • Beaches on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Bette Midler,  Barbara Hershey,  John Heard
    Director: Garry Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    The story of a deep friendship, lasting from childhood to beyond death, between two very different women-Bette Midler plays C.C. Bloom, a poor but ambitious Jewish girl from the Bronx who goes on to become a famous Broadway star, and Barbara Hershey plays Hillary, an attractive WASP from a wealthy ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 7,613 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 1963 two less than honest 'tin men', aluminium cladding salesmen, meet in a traffic accident. Their quick tempers turn the minor crash into an hilarious game of one-up-manship in which their cars become the targets of their mutual hot blood.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 691 members
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  • Hoosiers on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Dennis Hopper,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: David Anspaugh
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: £2.49
    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 65% from 542 members
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  • Hannah And Her Sisters on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Maureen O'Sullivan,  Woody Allen,  Michael Caine
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Woody Allen combined the best parts of his earlier films in creating HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, his 1986 masterwork about the changing relationships among three sisters living in New York City. Hannah (Mia Farrow) has put her acting career aside in order to take care of her family with second husband ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 7,491 members
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  • The Natural on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  Robert Duvall,  Glenn Close
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 1,562 member
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  • The Entity (1982)
    Starring: Barbara Hershey,  Ron Silver
    Director: Sidney J. Furie
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In THE ENTITY, a woman (Barbara Hershey) is tormented by a demonic amorphous blob. Nobody believes her until scientists capture and freeze it. This creepy film is based on a (supposedly) true story.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,606 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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1 member
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  • Boxcar Bertha on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Barbara Hershey,  David Carradine,  John Carradine
    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 675 members
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Barbara Hershey facts

5 most recent films

Answers to Nothing - 3.0 stars
Insidious - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Black Swan - 3.5 stars
Black Swan - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Insidious - 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 - 2.5 stars
A World Apart - 3.0 stars
Answers to Nothing - 3.0 stars
The Last Hard Men - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Robert Duvall - 4 times - show films
Chuck Bail - 3 times - show films
Ty Simpkins - 3 times - show films
Dedee Pfeiffer - 3 times - show films
Dennis Hopper - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Joel Schumacher - 3 times - show films
Philip Kaufman - 3 times - show films
Stephen Gyllenhaal - 3 times - show films
James Wan - 3 times - show films
Richard Rush - 3 times - show films