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Shepard to be honoured in New York -
5 September 2011
-Playwright/actor Sam Shepard is to be honoured with the first Ellen Stewart Award in New York.-Shepard will pick up the honour at the La MaMa 50 Gala at the Ellen Stewart Theatre in October (11).- Stewart, the founder and artistic director of La MaMa, died in Janua
Sam Shepard - what members say
review by Lowki from UK
Reach for the Stars 18 June 2004
review by from Reading
superb photography, stilted story 13 August 2004
review by Nootlin from
Bourne again? 10 February 2012
Sam Shepard - filmography
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Darling Companion
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Jay Ali, Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Certificate: 
Lighthearted drama starring Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline as a married couple whose fractious relationship is forced to a point of crisis by the escape of their pet dog. When Beth (Keaton) and her daughter, Grace (Elisabeth Moss), discover an abandoned dog by the roadside their heartstrings are ..read more »
 
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from 195 members
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Killing Them Softly
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Max Casella, Brad Pitt
Director: Andrew Dominik
Certificate: 
Brad Pitt stars in this darkly comic thriller based on a 1974 George V. Higgins crime novel. Jackie Cogan (Pitt) is a professional 'point man' - that is, the investigator who prepares the way for a hitman - who is assigned to track down a pair of junkies who have ripped off a mob-protected poker ..read more »
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from 4,356 members
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Blackthorn - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Stephen Rea, Eduardo Noriega
Director: Mateo Gil
Certificate: 
Sam Shepard stars in this Western as a middle-aged Butch Cassidy. Nearly 20 years on from the infamous standoff in which he and the Sundance Kid supposedly died, an ageing Butch Cassidy (Sam Shepard), now known as Blackthorn, is living a quiet life in Bolivia, keeping his head down and earning his ..read more »
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from 320 members
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Blackthorn
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Stephen Rea, Eduardo Noriega
Director: Mateo Gil
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Sam Shepard stars in this Western as a middle-aged Butch Cassidy. Nearly 20 years on from the infamous standoff in which he and the Sundance Kid supposedly died, an ageing Butch Cassidy (Sam Shepard), now known as Blackthorn, is living a quiet life in Bolivia, keeping his head down and earning his ..read more »
63%
from 441 members
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Inhale
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jordi Mollà, Diane Kruger, Dermot Mulroney
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
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In a desperate attempt to save their daughter Chole from a rare disease, Paul (Dermot Mulroney) and Diane (Diane Kruger) go to dangerous lengths to find her a lung donor. Paul and Diane find themselves involved in the middle of a criminal underworld medical ring in Mexico. As Paul races against the ..read more »
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from 75 members
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Brothers
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire
Director: Jim Sheridan
Certificate:
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Captain Sam Cahill is embarking on his fourth tour of duty, leaving behind his beloved wife and two daughters. When Sam's Blackhawk helicopter is shot down in the mountains of Afghanistan, the worst is presumed, leaving an enormous void in the family. Despite a dark history, Sam's charismatic ..read more »
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from 26,455 members
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Inhale - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Diane Kruger, Dermot Mulroney, Rosanna Arquette
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Certificate:
In a desperate attempt to save their daughter Chole from a rare disease, Paul (Dermot Mulroney) and Diane (Diane Kruger) go to dangerous lengths to find her a lung donor. Paul and Diane find themselves involved in the middle of a criminal underworld medical ring in Mexico. As Paul races against the ..read more »
65%
from 40 members
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Brothers - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Natalie Portman, Sam Shepard, Luce Rains
Director: Jim Sheridan
Certificate:
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Jim Sheridan directs Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman in this remake of Susanne Bier's 2004 Danish drama. Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) is a decorated Marine who goes missing in action while on duty in Afghanistan. In his absence, his younger brother Tommy (Gyllenhaal) - an ex-con drifter recently ..read more »
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from 7,139 members
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Felon - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Marisol Nichols, Val Kilmer
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Certificate:
Prison drama starring Stephen Dorff as Wade Porter, a loving family man who is sentenced to three years in a maximum security prison after accidentally killing the burglar who broke into his home. Forced to share a cell with a mass murderer (Val Kilmer) and subjected to regular beatings by the ..read more »
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from 2,713 members
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The Accidental Husband
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Uma Thurman, Colin Firth, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Director: Griffin Dunne
Certificate:
Dr. Emma Lloyd (Thurman) is a popular New York radio DJ, whose practical love advice is listened to and loved by women everywhere! Off-air, her own love life is running smoothly with Emma planning her wedding to her dependable fiance Richard (Firth). That is until she makes the shocking discovery ..read more »
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from 41,884 members
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Felon
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Marisol Nichols, Val Kilmer
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
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Wade Porter lives a modest but comfortable life with a young family, a fledgling business and a promising future ahead. But in an instant, his life, and that of everyone he loves is threatened and possibly gone forever when he's convicted of killing a man while protecting his fiancée, Laura, and ..read more »
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from 9,713 members
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The Return
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sam Shepard, Darrian McClanahan
Director: Asif Kapadia
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Joanna Mills (Gellar) is haunted by increasingly terrifying visions where she can see and feel the brutal murder of a woman she's never met. With her life spiralling out of control, she follows the relentless nightmares to an eerie small town in Texas - a place where secrets can't be buried, a ..read more »
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from 7,884 members
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Don't Come Knocking
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, Gabriel Mann
Director: Wim Wenders
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Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child ..read more »
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from 1,381 member
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Stealth
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Joshua Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx
Director: Rob Cohen
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Action adventure starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel and Jamie Foxx as U.S. Navy pilots who are part of a close-knit elite division of test pilots flying highly classified stealth fighter jets, referred to only as Talons. They're the best of the best and they know it. Then their commanding officer ..read more »
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from 40,603 members
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Blind Horizon
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Amy Smart, Val Kilmer
Director: Michael Haussman
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Psychological thriller about a man with no memory who struggles to make sense of the troubling details that are still stuck in his mind. Frank (Val Kilmer) wakes up in a small town in the New Mexico desert with most of his memory gone. However, he is convinced that someone is planning to ..read more »
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from 4,735 members
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Leo
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Amie Quigley, Sam Shepard, Mary Stuart Masterson
Director: Mehdi Norowzian
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Film drama loosely based on characters from James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. Stephen (Joseph Fiennes) is a writer just released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence for murder. He takes a job in a Mississippi diner under the watchful eye of manager Vic (Sam Shepard), and the more searing glare of '..read more »
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from 82 members
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Black Hawk Down - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Kim Coates, Gabriel Casseus
Director: Ridley Scott
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State-of-the-art war movie from director Ridley Scott, based on the US military blunders which took place in Somalia in 1993. Following a series of attacks by warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid on a Red Cross distribution centre, a group of US Rangers are sent on a mission to capture two of Aidid's close ..read more »
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from 5,782 members
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Swordfish - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry
Director: Dominic Sena
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
In present day California, computer hacker Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) is visited by the mysterious Ginger (Halle Berry), who asks him to help out with a complex plan organized by rogue government agent Gabriel Shear (John Travolta). Jobson has already been convicted once, and a second offence ..read more »
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from 3,659 members
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Swordfish
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry
Director: Dominic Sena
Certificate:
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In present day California, computer hacker Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) is visited by the mysterious Ginger (Halle Berry), who asks him to help out with a complex plan organized by rogue government agent Gabriel Shear (John Travolta). Jobson has already been convicted once, and a second offence ..read more »
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from 25,388 members
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Black Hawk Down
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Kim Coates, Gabriel Casseus
Director: Ridley Scott
Certificate:
State-of-the-art war movie from director Ridley Scott, based on the US military blunders which took place in Somalia in 1993. Following a series of attacks by warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid on a Red Cross distribution centre, a group of US Rangers are sent on a mission to capture two of Aidid's close ..read more »
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from 30,928 members
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The Pledge
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Sam Shepard, Aaron Eckhart
Director: Sean Penn
Certificate:
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On the day of his retirement, Nevada homicide detective Jerry Black lingers in his office one last time. But when the body of a murdered 8-year-old girl is discovered in the snow-blanketed mountains, the reluctant retiree is unable to step aside. Jerry offers his expertise at the crime scene, and ..read more »
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from 3,664 members
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Hamlet
(2000)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber
Director: Michael Almereyda
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Modern day update of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, relocated to the business world of New York. Following the death of the King of Denmark Corporation, his brother Claudius (Kyle MacLachlan) marries grieving widow Gertrude (Diane Venora) - much to the displeasure of her son, Hamlet (Ethan Hawke). ..read more »
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from 885 members
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All the Pretty Horses
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Ruben Blades, Lucas Black
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Billy Bob Thornton directs this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed novel. After the sale of the ranch where he grew up, John Grady Cole (Matt Damon) decides to head for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas). Soon after crossing the Rio Grande the pair become involved in an ..read more »
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from 1,866 member
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The Only Thrill
(1997)
Starring: Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Diane Lane
Director: Peter Masterson
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Academy Award winner Diane Keaton (The First Wives Club, Annie Hall) and Sam Shepard (Steel Magnolias) are paired as two ill-fated lovers who risk a chance at happiness for fear of commitment. Reece McHenry (Shepard) runs a clothing store where he meets Carol (Keaton), a seamstress and single ..read more »
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from 32 members
Not currently released
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Larry McMurtry's Streets Of Laredo
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: James Garner, Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek
Director: Joseph Sargent
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Television miniseries based on the western novel by Larry McMurtry. Woodrow Call (James Garner) is a former US Ranger who has set himself up as a bounty hunter and is hired by a nervous rail baron to track down Joey Garza (Alexis Cruz), a ruthless young killer who murders his victims from a ..read more »
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from 301 members
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Safe Passage
(1994)
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Sam Shepard, Nick Stahl
Director: Robert Allan Ackerman
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A mother with seven sons feels like she's losing control of her life and her family. But personal pain and a troubled marriage fade into the background as news comes that one of her sons might have died in an accident.
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from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Silent Tongue
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Richard Harris, Sheila Tousey, Alan Bates
Director: Sam Shepard
Certificate:
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Silent Tongue was the last River Phoenix film to be released - a year after his premature death - and has never been out before on UK DVD. Written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard, the film is a haunting Western about a plainsman who will do anything to help his son get over the ..read more »
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from 699 members
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The Pelican Brief
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Embroiled in an affair with Thomas Callahan (Sam Shephard), her alcoholic professor, precocious 24-year-old Tulane University law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) writes up an insightful theory about the recent murder of two Supreme Court justices, one of whom, Abraham Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn), ..read more »
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from 9,593 members
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The Pelican Brief - Blu-ray
(1993)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Adapted from a John Grisham best seller, this film stars Julia Roberts as sharp-witted law student Darby Shaw, who finds herself the target for murder when her thesis determining why two US justices were killed falls into the wrong hands. Supported by Washington-based journalist Gray Grantham (..read more »
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from 768 members
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Thunderheart
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward
Director: Michael Apted
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Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) is an FBI agent with Sioux ancestry who is assigned to investigate a murder on an Indian reservation. Teamed with an older operative (Sam Shepard), Levoi finds his loyalties divided when he discovers the indifference of the local sheriff (Graham Green), and learns more of his ..read more »
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from 544 members
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Steel Magnolias
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah
Director: Herbert Ross
Certificate: 
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 »
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from 8,474 members
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Baby Boom
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Pat Hingle, Sam Shepard, Zoe Wanamaker
Director: Charles Shyer
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J.C. Watt (Diane Keaton) is an ambitious New York adwoman who inherits a relative's 13-month-old baby girl and finds that juggling her career with motherhood isn't as easy as she had thought! Thanks to her bigoted and sexist boss, she finds herself out of work, but decides to fight her way back ..read more »
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from 2,692 members
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Crimes Of The Heart
(1986)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek, Diane Keaton
Director: Bruce Beresford
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This film version of Beth Henley's Pulitzer prize-winning play sees three southern sisters reunited in their family home when one of them is released from prison - where she has served out her sentence for shooting her husband. A bittersweet tale starring Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek ..read more »
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from 227 members
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Fool For Love
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Randy Quaid, Kim Basinger
Director: Robert Altman
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Robert Altman directs this adaptation of Sam Shepard's play, taking the characters off the stage and placing them deep in barren New Mexico. Shepard himself stars as Eddie, an enigmatic cowboy drifter who returns to the seedy El Royale Motel in the hope of resuming his romance with the love of his ..read more »
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from 124 members
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The Right Stuff
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Lance Henriksen, Charles Frank
Director: Philip Kaufman
Certificate:
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Covering some 15 years, The Right Stuff recounts the formation of America's space program, concentrating on the original Mercury astronauts. Scott Glenn plays Alan Shepard, the first American in space; Fred Ward is Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; and Ed ..read more »
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from 3,360 members
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Frances
(1982)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Kevin Costner
Director: Graeme Clifford
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This biography of actress Frances Farmer (Jessica Lange) traces her early success, her self-destructive streak, her fall from grace in Hollywood (where her politics were unacceptable) and subsequent nervous breakdown. Forgotten, she became a helpless inmate in an asylum, where she was forced to ..read more »
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from 437 members
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Days Of Heaven
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Robert J. Wilke, Sam Shepard, Stuart Margolin
Director: Terrence Malick
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Bill and Abby, a young couple who to the outside world pretend to be brother and sister are living and working in Chicago at the beginning of the century. They want to escape the poverty and hard labour of the city and travel south. Together with the girl Linda (who acts as the narrator in the ..read more »
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from 3,600 members
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Bronco Bullfrog - Blu-ray
(1969)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Ann Gooding, Del Walker
Director: Barney Platts-Mills
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Barney Platts-Mills made this cult film on just £17,000 back in 1969; using kids from the East-End (and their parents) with no background in acting, black and white film (because he couldn't afford colour) and real locations in the now destroyed homes of the East End and docks. Two young teenagers, ..read more »
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from 83 members
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Bronco Bullfrog
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Ann Gooding, Del Walker
Director: Barney Platts-Mills
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Barney Platts-Mills made this cult film on just £17,000 back in 1969; using kids from the East-End (and their parents) with no background in acting, black and white film (because he couldn't afford colour) and real locations in the now destroyed homes of the East End and docks. Two young teenagers, ..read more »
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from 282 members
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Stealth - Blu-ray
Starring: Joshua Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx
Director: Rob Cohen
Certificate:
Action adventure starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel and Jamie Foxx as U.S. Navy pilots who are part of a close-knit elite division of test pilots flying highly classified stealth fighter jets, referred to only as Talons. They're the best of the best and they know it. Then their commanding officer ..read more »
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Sam Shepard facts
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...with a mature and intellgient approach and with an all star cast (Ed Harris and Sam Shepard are both excellent but Dennis Quaid's cocky pilot steals the show)
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