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  • Donnie Darko
  • Donnie Darko review by daemonicus1980 from London, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars one of my Top 10 faves! 1 February 2004
    ...rilliant performances from everyone especially Jake Gyllenhaal, Beth Grant, and Mary McDonnell....   Read customer review
  • Passion Fish
  • Passion Fish review by from Coventry.
    Rated - 5.0 stars Brilliant performances, great film. 6 January 2008
    ...ut don't think its ever going to happen, so this vanilla release is about it. Mary McDonnell was deservedly Oscar nominated, but all the performances are excellent. Wonderf...   Read customer review
  • Battlestar Galactica - Season 2
  • Battlestar Galactica - Season 2 review by from Birmingham
    Rated - 3.0 stars Too much religion.... 22 February 2007
    ...y Edward James Olmos) also suffer from terminal stupidity, and the 'president' (Mary McDonnell) is so pathetic, both in terms of the character and the acting, that sometimes ...   Read customer review

Mary McDonnell - filmography


  • Margin Call - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Stanley Tucci,  Simon Baker,  Jeremy Irons
    Director: J.C. Chandor
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Investment-firm analyst Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) uncovers sensitive information that could easily plunge the entire business into peril, inadvertently destroying the lives and careers of his colleagues in this tense thriller set during the onset of the 2008 financial crisis. Over the course ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 4 members
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  • Margin Call (2011)
    Starring: Zachary Quinto,  Paul Bettany,  Kevin Spacey
    Director: J.C. Chandor
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) is handed an unfinished report into his company's current financials and as he completes it discovers that the place he works in is in huge financial meltdown. Delivering the news to his bosses they conduct a 24 hour meeting to discuss what can be done - to save ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 133 members
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  • Battlestar Galactica - Season 2 (6 discs) on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Edward James Olmos,  Mary McDonnell,  Katee Sackhoff
    Director: Michael Rymer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    After losing the war against the Cylon robots, the Battlestar Galactica crew speed toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth. Galactica Commander Adama (Olmos) and President Laura Roslin (McDonnell) face waning supplies, crushed morale, ... and the credible threat Cylons aboard the ship.
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 12,009 members
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  • The Locket on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Vanessa Redgrave,  Marguerite Moreau,  Chad Willett
    Director: Karen Arthur
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Vanessa Redgrave stars as Esther, a woman who befriends and helps out Michael (Chad Willet), a young man who has had a tough life and could possibly lose out on the love of his life. Through her friendship and guidance, she tries to see Michael through his trying times. In return, she has a favour ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 87 members
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  • Donnie Darko - Blu-ray (2 discs) (2001)
    Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal,  Drew Barrymore,  Noah Wyle
    Director: Richard Kelly
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Writer-director Richard Kelly's bold debut film is a social satire, a dark comedy, a science fiction time-travelling fantasy, and a suburban nightmare about an extremely intelligent, depressive, self-destructive, narcoleptic, gun-toting, sex-crazed, teenaged arsonist: Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal)...read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 2,284 members
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  • Donnie Darko on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal,  Drew Barrymore,  Noah Wyle
    Director: Richard Kelly
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Writer-director Richard Kelly's bold debut film is a social satire, a dark comedy, a science fiction time-travelling fantasy, and a suburban nightmare about an extremely intelligent, depressive, self-destructive, narcoleptic, gun-toting, sex-crazed, teenaged arsonist: Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal)...read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 69,947 members
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  • Mumford on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Loren Dean,  Hope Davis,  Jason Lee
    Director: Lawrence Kasdan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mumford (Dean) relocates to a small town named, ironically enough, Mumford. He sets up shop as a psychologist and begins meeting the various lonely, troubled souls in the community. Pretty soon he's the most popular psychologist in town, for no concrete reason, other than his approach is not like ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 346 members
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  • Two Small Voices on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Gail O'Grady,  Mary McDonnell,  Richard Gilliland
    Director: Peter Levin
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    After two seemingly disparate women undergo breast surgery they find themselves falling gravely ill. Realising that the silicone implants are to blame for their condition, they join forces and take on the medical industry.
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 10 members
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  • Independence Day on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Will Smith,  Bill Pullman,  Mary McDonnell
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    With a $71 million budget and mind-blowing special effects, INDEPENDENCE DAY is a grand, high-tech throwback to such films of the 1950s as THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and WAR OF THE WORLDS. Here, aliens, in numerous gargantuan spaceships, arrive without warning and hover over the world's most ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 39,263 members
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  • Independence Day - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Will Smith,  Bill Pullman,  Mary McDonnell
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    With a 71 million dollar budget and mind-blowing special effects, INDEPENDENCE DAY is a grand, high-tech throwback to such films of the 1950s as THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and WAR OF THE WORLDS. Here, aliens, in numerous gargantuan spaceships, arrive without warning and hover over the world's ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 4,978 members
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  • Blue Chips (1994)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Mary McDonnell,  Matt Nover
    Director: William Friedkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When a college basketball coach (Nick Nolte) has his first losing season, he must decide between his personal sense of values and the value of a winning team. Does he "buy" hot prospects and win, only to lose his self-respect? Featuring cameo appearances by real-life basketball legends Bobby Knight,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 120 members
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  • Passion Fish (1992)
    Starring: Mary McDonnell,  Alfre Woodard,  Lenore Banks
    Director: John Sayles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A soap-opera star who, paralysed after a car accident, sinks into a routine of drinking and watching TV all day at the Louisiana house where she grew up. Chantelle, the hired nurse, takes her on a journey of self-exploration and renewal.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 61 members
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  • Sneakers on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  Dan Aykroyd,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Phil Alden Robinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A computer expert (Robert Redford) heads a team of renegade hackers who test security systems. His past comes back to haunt him when government agents blackmail the "Sneakers" into carrying out a covert operation: track down an elusive black box filled with national security secrets.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,226 members
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  • Grand Canyon on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Steve Martin,  Danny Glover,  Kevin Kline
    Director: Lawrence Kasdan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon is a gathering of random events, uniting the film's wildly divergent protagonists. Driving home from an LA Lakers game, Mack (Kevin Kline), an immigration attorney, is stranded in an unsavory part of town when his car breaks down. He is rescued from a gang of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 784 members
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  • Dances With Wolves on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Kevin Costner,  Rodney A. Grant,  Mary McDonnell
    Director: Kevin Costner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1865, Civil War hero Lt. John Dunbar asks to be reassigned to the western frontier before it disappears. At his isolated post he develops a relationship with the peaceful Lakota Sioux and a white woman who lives among them, finding greater kinship with them than with his own people.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 18,500 members
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  • Dances With Wolves - Blu-ray (1990)
    Starring: Kevin Costner,  Rodney A. Grant,  Mary McDonnell
    Director: Kevin Costner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1865, Civil War hero Lt. John Dunbar asks to be reassigned to the western frontier before it disappears. At his isolated post he develops a relationship with the peaceful Lakota Sioux and a white woman who lives among them, finding greater kinship with them than with his own people.
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 1,069 member
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  • Matewan (1987)
    Starring: Chris Cooper,  James Earl Jones,  Mary McDonnell
    Director: John Sayles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The year is 1920, the setting Matewan, West Virginia, where the town's coal miners labor under miserable, unhealthy conditions. Enter Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper), a rebellious union leader who wants to organize the West Virginian miners, as well as the Italians and blacks brought in as workers. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,190 member
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  • Tiger Warsaw on DVD
    Starring: Patrick Swayze,  Piper Laurie,  Lee Richardson
    Director: Amin Q. Chaudhri
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Chuck 'Tiger' Warsaw returns to his home town after an absence of 15 years, precipitated by an act of irresponsibility which destroyed his sister's wedding and left his father mentally unstable. His home-coming is shunned by his family, but he tries desperately to overcome the problems.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 118 members
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Mary McDonnell facts

5 most recent films

Margin Call - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Margin Call - 3.5 stars
Battlestar Galactica - The Complete Series - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Battlestar Galactica - Season 4 - 4.0 stars
Battlestar Galactica - The Final Season - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Battlestar Galactica - The Complete Series - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Battlestar Galactica - Season 3 - 4.5 stars
Battlestar Galactica - Season 2 - 4.5 stars
Battlestar Galactica - Season 4 - 4.0 stars
Battlestar Galactica - The Final Season - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Margin Call - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Two Small Voices - 3.0 stars
The Locket - 2.5 stars
Behind The Mask - 2.5 stars
Tiger Warsaw - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jamie Bamber - 58 times - show films
Edward James Olmos - 51 times - show films
Katee Sackhoff - 51 times - show films
Tricia Helfer - 49 times - show films
James Callis - 44 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Rymer - 50 times - show films
Marita Grabiak - 40 times - show films
Allan Kroeker - 33 times - show films
Richard Kelly - 7 times - show films
Edward James Olmos - 7 times - show films