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  • The Cider House Rules
  • The Cider House Rules review by Baz from
    Rated - 5.0 stars A Better Upgrade On BLU RAY Than I Expected 14 December 2011
    ... girl who fancies Homer way too much for her own good. Throw in Kathy Baker and Jane Alexander as elderly nurses with an abundance of unconditional paternal heart - and it fe...   Read customer review
  • Feast Of Love
  • Feast Of Love review by from Aylesbury/Bucks/England
    Rated - 4.0 stars A bittersweet romantic drama 18 January 2008
    ...hey have. The best story line in the film is the magic of Morgan Freeman and Jane Alexander, playing the oldest interracial couple I can remember seeing on film. They are ...   Read customer review

Jane Alexander - filmography


  • Dream House (2011)
    Starring: Daniel Craig,  Naomi Watts,  Rachel Weisz
    Director: Jim Sheridan
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Soon after moving into their seemingly idyllic new home, a family learns of a brutal crime committed against former residents of the dwelling.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 66 members
    Due for release on 15th May 2012
  • The Unborn - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Odette Yustman,  Gary Oldman,  Cam Gigandet
    Director: David S. Goyer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Writer/Director David Goyer (Blade: Trinity, The Invisible, Batman Begins) gives a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in The Unborn, a supernatural thriller that follows a young woman pulled into a world of nightmares when a demonic spirit haunts her and threatens everyone she loves. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 2,768 members
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  • The Unborn on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Odette Yustman,  Gary Oldman,  Cam Gigandet
    Director: David S. Goyer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Writer/Director David Goyer (Blade: Trinity, The Invisible, Batman Begins) gives a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in The Unborn, a supernatural thriller that follows a young woman pulled into a world of nightmares when a demonic spirit haunts her and threatens everyone she loves. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 10,318 members
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  • Feast Of Love (2007)
    Starring: Toby Hemingway,  Selma Blair,  Morgan Freeman
    Director: Robert Benton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Love takes on many forms in an adaptation of Charles Baxter's celebrated novel. Starring Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear, this drama shows various romances blooming--and dying--in a small town.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 8,406 members
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  • Testament (2004)
    Starring: Jane Alexander,  Ross Harris,  Roxana Zal
    Director: Lynne Littman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The heartbreaking story of one family's attempt to survive in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Disease, starvation, and radiation are just a few things against which they must contend.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 10 members
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  • The Soul Keeper (2004)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Emilia Fox,  Craig Ferguson
    Director: Roberto Faenza
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In 1905 a nineteen-year-old girl is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich where she has arrived from Russia in desperate condition. The girl suffers from a severe form of hysteria and refuses to eat. A young doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time ever, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 2 members
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  • Sunshine State on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Angela Bassett,  Timothy Hutton,  Edie Falco
    Director: John Sayles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    SUNSHINE STATE, directed and written by John Sayles, takes a close-up and occasionally comic look at the fading community of Delrona Beach, Florida. A dozen local personalities are introduced, each with their own unique challenges. The town's dilapidated houses, its stale Buccaneer Days Festival, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,305 member
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  • Gigantic on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Paul Dano,  Zooey Deschanel,  John Goodman
    Director: Matt Aselton,  Sebastian Schipper
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Gigantic is a funny, oddly romantic love story about the unanticipated anxiety that comes when two crazy people unexpectedly collide. Brian Weathersby (Paul Dano) is a 28 year-old salesman at a high-end Swedish mattress company. The afterthought child to elderly parents (Ed Asner, Jane Alexander), ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 2,480 members
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  • The Cider House Rules on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Delroy Lindo,  Charlize Theron
    Director: Lasse Hallstrom
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    THE CIDER HOUSE RUES, an expertly crafted and intelligent adapation of John Irving's novel, explores themes of disappointment, ideas of moral ambiguity, and, indeed, lessons about life itself, woven into a dramatic story that is neither slow nor sentimental. Tobey Maguire is the immensely likable ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 9,084 members
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  • In Love And War on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Jane Alexander,  James Woods
    Director: Paul Aaron
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Shot down and taken prisoner early in the Vietnam Conflict, Navy Pilot Jim Stockdale is one of the few who know the truth about the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Knowing an admission would be explosive, Jim has remained silent despite eight nightmarish years of torture and inhuman treatment.
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 26 members
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  • City Heat (1984)
    Starring: Burt Reynolds,  Jane Alexander,  Madeline Kahn
    Director: Richard Benjamin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Kansas City 1930's. Prohibition rules and the mobs run the streets. Clint Eastwood is hard-nosed Lt. Speer, a cop with an unhealthy disrespect for Private Investigators who do things their own way. Burt Reynolds is Mike Murphy, a P.I. who does what he likes and doesn't mind letting Speer know it. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 922 members
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  • Playing for Time (1980)
    Starring: Vanessa Redgrave,  Jane Alexander,  Maud Adams
    Director: Daniel Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When Jewish songstress Fania Fénelon (Vanessa Redgrave) is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task: using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers. Daniel Mann directs this Emmy-..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 1 member
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  • Brubaker on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  Yaphet Kotto,  Jane Alexander
    Director: Stuart Rosenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Brubaker (Robert Redford) comes to a small state prison to be its new warden, he's horrified by what he sees. Prisoners are sold as slaves, and even decent food can't be obtained without cold, hard cash. So the enraged warden tries to set matters right...but the more he reforms, the more ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,148 member
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  • Kramer vs Kramer - Blu-ray (1979)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Meryl Streep,  Justin Henry
    Director: Robert Benton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Joanna Kramer, a Manhattan housewife, can no longer face life with her husband Ted. She walks out leaving her son Billy in Ted's charge. Ted has to adjust his life and face up to his new found responsibilities. Just as he starts to find his feet, Joanna returns, intent on fighting for custody of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 484 members
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  • Kramer vs Kramer on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Justin Henry,  Meryl Streep
    Director: Robert Benton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Robert Benton's Oscar-winning adaptation of Avery Corman's bestseller takes on contemporary problems of divorce and shifting gender roles, as a jilted husband learns how to be a nurturing father. Manhattan housewife Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) walks out on her workaholic ad man husband Ted (Dustin ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 9,429 members
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  • The Betsy (1978)
    Starring: Laurence Olivier,  Robert Duvall,  Katharine Ross
    Director: Daniel Petrie
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The patriarch of a family-owned corporation hires a young race car driver to help him design a fuel efficient car in secrecy. They face resistance from the president of the company (the patriarch's grandson), who wishes to eliminate the motor car division because of bad blood between himself and ..read more »
    0.5 stars out of 5 10% from 1 member
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  • All The President's Men on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  Dustin Hoffman,  Jason Robards
    Director: Alan J. Pakula
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation into one of the hit films of Bicentennial year 1976. While researching a story about a botched 1972 burglary of Democratic Party headquarters at the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 11,642 members
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Jane Alexander facts

5 most recent films

Dream House - 3.5 stars
Dream House - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Unborn - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
The Unborn - 3.0 stars
Feast Of Love - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Kramer vs Kramer - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
All The President's Men - 3.5 stars
The Cider House Rules - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Brubaker - 3.5 stars
Kramer vs Kramer - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Betsy - 0.5 stars
In Love And War - 2.0 stars
The Great White Hope - 2.5 stars
Testament - 2.5 stars
The Soul Keeper - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Dustin Hoffman - 6 times - show films
Robert Redford - 5 times - show films
Martin Balsam - 4 times - show films
Hal Holbrook - 4 times - show films
Meredith Baxter - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alan J. Pakula - 4 times - show films
David S. Goyer - 3 times - show films
Robert Benton - 3 times - show films
Lasse Hallstrom - 2 times - show films
Richard Benjamin - 2 times - show films