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  • Heading South
  • Heading South review by SAI81 from tonbridge
    Rated - 3 stars Haeding South 20 July 2006
    ...ip between Ellen (Rampling) and Legba (Menothy Cesar) by the arrival of Brenda (Karen Young). Rampling may get top billing but the real star of the film is Karen Young, w...  

Karen Young - filmography


  • Factotum on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Matt Dillon,  Lili Taylor,  Fisher Stevens
    Director: Brent Hamer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This screen adaptation of Charles Bukowski's most acclaimed novel stars Matt Dillon as Henry Chinaski, the heavy-drinking, gambling, womanising antihero who nevertheless wins everybody over with his sleazy charm.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 6,856 members
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  • Mercy (2000)
    Starring: Ellen Barkin,  Wendy Crewson,  Peta Wilson
    Director: Damian Harris
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Detective Catherine Palmer investigates a series of sexually gruesome serial murders and becomes embroiled in a world of lesbianism and bondage after she becomes obsessed with one of the victims' paramours.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 16 members
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  • Birdy on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Matthew Modine,  Nicolas Cage,  John Harkins
    Director: Alan Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In Alan Parker's adaptation of William Wharton's acclaimed novel, the title character is a Vietnam vet hospitalized for postwar trauma. Lying in a state of amentia, Birdy (Matthew Modine) fantasizes about birds in flight, an obsession that has haunted him since childhood. Now this fascination acts ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,735 member
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  • Handgun (1983)
    Starring: Karen Young,  Clayton Day,  Suzie Humphreys
    Director: Tony Garnett
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Karen Young gives a powerful performance in this thriller as Kathleen Sullivan, a timid Dallas high school teacher who is raped at gunpoint by her date, a well-known Dallas lawyer. When she goes to both the police and her church, Kathleen finds that few care about or believe her story. Growing more ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 3 members
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Karen Young facts

5 most recent films

Heading South - 2.5 stars
Factotum - 2.5 stars
Mercy - 2.0 stars
Daylight - HD DVD Version - 3.0 stars
Jaws 4 - The Revenge - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Birdy - 3.0 stars
Daylight - HD DVD Version - 3.0 stars
Maria's Lovers - 2.5 stars
9.1/2 Weeks - 2.5 stars
Factotum - 2.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Mercy - 2.0 stars
Handgun - 2.5 stars
Jaws 4 - The Revenge - 2.0 stars
Heading South - 2.5 stars
Factotum - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Wendy Crewson - 1 times - show films
Roderick Cook - 1 times - show films
Stan Shaw - 1 times - show films
John Harkins - 1 times - show films
Jennifer Pinto - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Joseph Sargent - 1 times - show films
Alan Parker - 1 times - show films
Adrian Lyne - 1 times - show films
Damian Harris - 1 times - show films
Andrei Konchalovsky - 1 times - show films