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  • Starman
  • Starman review by Mosco from London
    Rated - 3.5 stars Second time around 23 June 2010
    ...well it's really hard to tell. Jeff Bridges arrives from space and turns up at Karen Allens house looking like her deceased husband. She's freaked out and she is forced ...   Read customer review

Karen Allen - filmography


  • White Irish Drinkers on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Karen Allen,  Anthony Amorim,  Zachary Booth
    Director: John Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but ineffective mother are caught up in a life of petty crime. Older brother Danny concocts a daring scheme to steal enough money for the two to escape, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 31 members
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  • When Will I Be Loved? on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Neve Campbell,  Keith Weller,  Ashley Shelton
    Director: James Toback
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Notorious sexual provocateur James Toback (Fingers, The Pick-Up Artist) delivers another ferocious jolt to the senses with When Will I Be Loved, a racy drama that features an eye-opening and bodily revealing performance from Neve Campbell. As in Toback's Black and White, the film takes place on the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 2,140 members
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  • Plain Dirty on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Dominique Swain,  Henry Thomas,  Arie Verveen
    Director: Zev Berman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This Gothic drama, set in the American South, follows the trials and tribulations of young Inez Macbeth (Dominique Swain) as she tries to deal with her abusive husband (Henry Thomas), advances from an unwanted suitor (Arie Verveen), and an affair with a man (James Urbaniak) whom she believes is her ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 283 members
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  • In The Bedroom on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Sissy Spacek,  Tom Wilkinson,  Nick Stahl
    Director: Todd Field
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Todd Field's IN THE BEDROOM is an artistic and realistic portrait of domestic trouble in small-town America. Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson star as Ruth and Matt Fowler, the parents of a recent high school graduate, Frank (Nick Stahl), who has an affair with a married woman, Natalie (Marisa Tomei). ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 5,313 members
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  • The Perfect Storm on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Mark Wahlberg,  Diane Lane,  Karen Allen
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    Based on the engrossing non-fiction work by Sebastian Junger about the Andrea Gail-a commercial sword-fishing boat that was lost at sea in October 1991-Wolfgang Petersen's THE PERFECT STORM brings the pages to life. The movie features a big-name cast (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg) playing the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 10,556 members
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  • The Perfect Storm - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Mark Wahlberg,  Diane Lane,  Karen Allen
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    Based on the engrossing nonfiction work by Sebastian Junger about the Andrea Gail--a commercial swordfishing boat that was lost at sea in October 1991--Wolfgang Petersen's THE PERFECT STORM brings the pages to life. The movie features a big-name cast (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg) playing the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,496 member
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  • The Turning (1997)
    Starring: Karen Allen,  Raymond J. Barry
    Director: L.A. Puopolo
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A white supremacist returns to his hometown for the first time in years to try and save his parents' relationship.
    1.5 stars out of 5 32% from 10 members
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  • King Of The Hill on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Jesse Bradford,  Jeroen Krabbe,  Karen Allen
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A 1930s saga adapted from the memoirs of A.E. Hotchner, based on his own childhood in St. Louis. The story follows twelve-year-old Aaron, who perseveres with his family amid the strange characters and persistent dangers of a transient hotel.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 248 members
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  • The Sandlot Kids on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Thomas Guiry,  Mike Vitar,  Patrick Renna
    Director: David Mickey Evans
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Young Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood and manages to make friends with the ball-playing kids at the local sandlot. Together the gang has a series of hilarious and touching adventures. A terrific movie about growing up for all ages.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,755 member
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  • Scrooged on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Bill Murray,  Karen Allen,  Alfre Woodard
    Director: Richard Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 12,736 members
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  • Starman (1984)
    Starring: Karen Allen,  Charles Martin Smith,  Richard Jaeckel
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Having crashed to Earth, an extraterrestrial space traveller must assume a human identity lest he be captured by the authorities. The alien (Jeff Bridges) chooses the likeness of the recently deceased husband of Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen). At first dumbstruck, Jenny becomes both hostile toward and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,025 members
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  • East Of Eden (3 discs) on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Jane Seymour,  Warren Oates,  Timothy Bottoms
    Director: Harvey Hart
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck considered East of Eden his quintessential novel. At more than six hours, this sumptuous 1981 production brings Steinbeck s bestseller to the screen more fully and faithfully than any other adaptation. Sweeping from Connecticut to California and from the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 48 members
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  • Cruising on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Paul Sorvino,  Karen Allen
    Director: William Friedkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on murders that took place between 1962 and 1979 in New York city, Cruising follows the story of police detective Steve Burns (Al Pacino)as he tries to solve a number of brutal murder cases in the gay community. Cruising received a multitude of publicity when it was released due to the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,260 member
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  • The Wanderers (1979)
    Starring: Ken Wahl,  Karen Allen,  John Friedrich
    Director: Philip Kaufman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The high school scene of the Bronx in 1963 is ruled by rival gangs. The Wanderers are the Italians-only gang, ruled by a group of streetwise, fast-talkin' boys looking for good times and pretty girls in the streets of their tight-knit neighborhood. This charming vignette of 1960s Bronx life, set to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,667 member
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Karen Allen facts

5 most recent films

White Irish Drinkers - 3.0 stars
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - 3.0 stars
When Will I Be Loved? - 2.0 stars
Plain Dirty - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark - 4.0 stars
Scrooged - 3.5 stars
The Sandlot Kids - 3.5 stars
Starman - 3.5 stars
The Wanderers - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Glass Menagerie - 3 stars
The Turning - 1.5 stars
White Irish Drinkers - 3.0 stars
East Of Eden - 3.0 stars
When Will I Be Loved? - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Nellie Bellflower - 4 times - show films
Howard Duff - 4 times - show films
Timothy Bottoms - 4 times - show films
M. Emmet Walsh - 4 times - show films
Anne Baxter - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Steven Spielberg - 4 times - show films
Harvey Hart - 4 times - show films
Wolfgang Petersen - 3 times - show films
Richard Donner - 2 times - show films
John Gray - 2 times - show films