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Sissy Spacek - what members say
review by from Northwich, Cheshire
All star cast gives great film 19 August 2004
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Bit schmaltzy! 11 November 2005
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Carrie 1 May 2005
Sissy Spacek - filmography
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Deadfall
(2012)
Starring: Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, Charlie Hunnam
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
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A thriller that follows two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist, and their unlikely reunion during another family's Thanksgiving celebration.

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from 16 members
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The Help - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Eleanor Henry, Sissy Spacek, Anna Camp
Director: Tate Taylor
Certificate: 
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Drama set against the backdrop of the 1960s American civil rights movement, based on the best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett. It is 1964 and racism is rife in Jackson, Mississippi. Skeeter (Emma Stone), the strong-willed daughter of a well-to-do family, returns to the town from college to take ..read more »

81%
from 8,641 members
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The Help
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard
Director: Tate Taylor
Certificate: 
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Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives and a Mississippi town upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent ..read more »

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from 25,412 members
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Get Low
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Blerim Destani, Sissy Spacek, Linds Edwards
Director: Aaron Schneider
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Director Aaron Schneider helms this feature drama starring Robert Duvall as Felix Bush, a recluse who has resided in a forest in Tennessee for 40 years. When he hears some of the townspeople talking about another hermit who has recently died, Felix decides to arrange his own 'living funeral', with ..read more »

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from 1,774 member
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Four Christmases
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall
Director: Seth Gordon
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Romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn as Kate and Brad, a San Francisco couple whose exotic Christmas holiday plans are scuppered by fog. The pair then face the very scenario they had tried to avoid: the obligatory family Christmas. Owing to the divorces of both their sets of ..read more »

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from 23,439 members
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Four Christmases - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall
Director: Seth Gordon
Certificate: 
Romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn as Kate and Brad, a San Francisco couple whose exotic Christmas holiday plans are scuppered by fog. The pair then face the very scenario they had tried to avoid: the obligatory family Christmas. Owing to the divorces of both their sets of ..read more »

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from 1,212 member
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Hot Rod
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Bill Hader
Director: Akiva Schaffer
Certificate: 
Self-proclaimed stuntman Rod Kimble (Samberg) is preparing for the jump of his life. Rod plans to clear fifteen buses in an attempt to raise money for his abusive stepfather Frank's life-saving heart operation. He'll land the jump, get Frank better, and then fight him, hard.

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from 7,269 members
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Hot Rod - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Will Arnett, Isla Fisher, Bill Hader
Director: Akiva Schaffer
Certificate: 
Comedy about an amateur stuntman's convoluted attempt to win the respect of his stepfather. When his stepfather Frank (Ian McShane) needs an urgent transplant to save his life, inept stuntman Rod Kimble (Andy Samberg) decides to jump the big one (15 buses) in an attempt to raise enough money for ..read more »

66%
from 1,124 member
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Gray Matters
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Molly Shannon, Bridget Moynahan
Director: Sue Kramer
Certificate: 
Rom-com with a twist, in which brother and sister Gray and Sam (Heather Graham and Tom Kavanagh), try to find each other a partner after years living in each others'shoes. When Sam finally finds Charlie (Bridget Moynihan), its not plain sailing, as Gray soon discovers she has feelings she never ..read more »

53%
from 3,595 members
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An American Haunting
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Matthew Marsh, Sam Alexander, Sissy Spacek
Director: Courtney Solomon
Certificate: 
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Based on a true state-documented case that took place during the 1800s, the Bell family of Red River, Tenn., was visited by an unknown presence that haunted the family and eventually caused the death of one of its members. What started as small sounds around the farm and the sighting of a black, ..read more »

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from 15,404 members
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The Ring Two
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Emily Van Camp, Sissy Spacek, Gary Cole
Director: Hideo Nakata
Certificate: 
Horror remake sequel. Six months after the terrifying events of the first film, Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) has taken her son Aidan (David Dorfman) to the peaceful mountain resort of Astoria, where she takes a job on a local newspaper. When she discovers a case of a teenage murder victim, Rachel ..read more »

54%
from 26,825 members
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North Country
(2005)
Starring: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson
Director: Niki Caro
Certificate: 
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Drama starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron. When Josey Aimes (Theron) returns to her hometown in Northern Minnesota after a failed marriage, she needs a good job. A single mother with two children to support, she turns to the predominant source of employment in the region - the iron mines. ..read more »

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from 11,931 members
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A Home At The End Of The World
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Dallas Roberts, Colin Farrell
Director: Michael Mayer
Certificate: 
Drama based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham. The story follows the lives of Bobby (played by Andrew Chalmers, Erik Smith and Colin Farrell) and Jonathan (Harris Allan and Dallas Roberts), two childhood friends who meet as students in a suburban Ohio school. From the ..read more »

55%
from 6,423 members
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Tuck Everlasting
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Jonathan Jackson, Alexis Bledel
Director: Jay Russell
Certificate: 
Set in 1914, Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) is a teenage girl growing up with her caring but overprotective parents in the small town of Winesap. All Winnie (Bledel) wants is a life of freedom and adventure. When she finds herself lost while exploring the woods one day, she finds the Tuck Family. ..read more »

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from 1,249 member
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In The Bedroom
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: William Mapother, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl
Director: Todd Field
Certificate: 
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Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a choral music teacher. Their only child, Frank, home from school for the summer, is working as a part-time lobsterman to earn money for graduate school in the fall. He is involved in a love affair ..read more »

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from 5,507 members
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Blast From The Past
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: David Foley, Alicia Silverstone, Sissy Spacek
Director: Hugh Wilson
Certificate: 
1962. Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) is a brilliant scientist who has built a self-sufficient bunker in his suburban home. When a plane crashes nearby he mistakes the roar for a nuclear attack and flees to the bunker with his pregnant wife (Sissy Spacek). Their son Adam (Brendan Fraser) is born ..read more »

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from 6,428 members
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The Straight Story
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: John Farley, Sissy Spacek, John Lordan
Director: David Lynch
Certificate: 
From director David Lynch comes a lyrical portrait of one man's real journey across America's Heartland. Filmed along the 260-mile route that the actual Alvin Straight traversed in 1994 from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wisconsin, "the Straight story" chronicles Alvin's patient odyssey and those he ..read more »

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from 8,867 members
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Affliction
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Nick Nolte
Director: Paul Schrader
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James Coburn won an Academy Award for his performance as an abusive father in this high-tension thriller. Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) is a small-town cop struggling to scrape together a living with a series of menial jobs, trying to provide a solid moral ground for his daughter and attempting to ..read more »

57%
from 853 members
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Ring 2
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Emily Van Camp, Sissy Spacek, Gary Cole
Director: Hideo Nakata
Certificate: 
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In this sequel to the original Japanese horror hit, journalist Mai Takano (Miki Nakatani) begins her own investigation into the mysterious haunted videotape which kills all those who see it. Along the way she discovers that Youichi, the son of tape victim Ryiji, has begun to develop many of the ..read more »

57%
from 7,525 members
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The Grass Harp
(1998)
Starring: Joe Don Baker, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen
Director: Charles Matthau
Certificate: 
Edward Furlong stars in this adaptation of a Truman Capote novella. Following the death of his mother, Collin Fenwick (Furlong) goes to live with his two maiden aunts. He prefers the sweet-natured Dolly (Piper Laurie) to the self-centred Vera (Sissy Spacek), and sides with the former when she ..read more »

50%
from 154 members
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Beyond The Call
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Lindsay Murrell, Sissy Spacek, David Strathairn
Director: Tony Bill
Certificate: 
Made-for-TV movie about a woman who finds that her childhood sweetheart is on death row for murdering a policeman. Happily married mother-of-two Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek)'s life turns upside down when she finds that her first love Russell Cates (David Strathairn) is facing a death sentence for ..read more »

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from 51 members
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If These Walls Could Talk
(1996)
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Demi Moore, Cher
Director: Nancy Savoca, Cher
Certificate: 
The tale of three women, played by Demi Moore, Sissy Spacek and Cher, each of whom faces an unplanned pregnancy. The stories take place in 1952, 1974 and 1996, and are set in the same home.

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from 669 members
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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
Certificate: 
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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A Place For Annie
(1993)
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Jack Noseworthy, Joan Plowright
Director: John Gray
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Nurse Susan (Sissy Spacek) fights to keep Annie, her adopted HIV-positive baby, against the claims of the baby's natural mother, a drug-addicted AIDS sufferer. Helping her is an Irish widow (Joan Plowright) who has become Annie's nanny.

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from 200 members
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JFK
(1991)
Starring: Jay O. Sanders, Sissy Spacek, Sally Kirkland
Director: Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone's detailed examination of possible answers to unsolved mysteries surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Kevin Costner plays New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who remained unconvinced by the Warren Commission Report and launched his own investigation. This film was ..read more »

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from 15,123 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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Night, Mother
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Anne Bancroft, Ed Berke
Director: Tom Moore
Certificate: 
Powerful psychological drama in which a middle-aged daughter tells her mother she's about to commit suicide. Adapted by Marsha Norman from her own award-winning play, the film follows the struggles of Thelma Cates (Anne Bancroft) as she tries every trick in the book to convince her alcoholic and ..read more »

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from 47 members
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Marie - A True Story
(1985)
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Sissy Spacek, Keith Szarabajka
Director: Roger Donaldson
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Drama based on the true story of Marie Ragghianti, a Tennessee housewife stuck in a violent marriage and caring for a child with long-term health problems. Sissy Spacek plays the courageous Marie, who, determined to turn her life around, leaves her abusive husband and puts herself through college. ..read more »

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from 123 members
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The River
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Scott Glenn, Mel Gibson
Director: Mark Rydell
Certificate: 
Struggling East Tennessee farmer Tom Garvey (Mel Gibson) is forced to break a picket line to earn extra money as a scab labourer. Reviled by the striking workers, Tom has to rekindle a sense of community spirit when all their livelihoods are subjected to a twin threat: the speculations of an ..read more »

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from 302 members
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Missing
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, Jack Lemmon
Director: Costa Gavras
Certificate: 
Costa-Gavras's tense political drama opens in an unspecified South American country (though clearly intended to be Chile) in the throes of a military coup. American activist Charles Horman (John Shea), who has been a thorn in the side of the country's military ever since his arrival, suddenly ..read more »

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from 1,025 member
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Coal Miner's Daughter
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Levon Helm, Beverly D'Angelo
Director: Michael Apted
Certificate: 
Biopic of country singer Loretta Lynn. Starting out life in the mountain town of Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, Loretta (Sissy Spacek) goes on to become one of America's biggest country stars. Marriage to ne'er do well Doolittle 'Mooney' Lynn (Tommy Lee Jones) follows, but fame comes at a price when ..read more »

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from 1,187 member
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3 Women
(1977)
Starring: Ruth Nelson, Sissy Spacek, Robert Fortier
Director: Robert Altman
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Off-beat drama from acclaimed director Robert Altman. In a dusty, isolated and small California town, shy and impressionable Pinky Rose (Sissy Spaceck) takes a job as a nursing home attendant, where she soon falls under the spell of the vivacious nurse Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall), a devotee ..read more »

63%
from 568 members
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Carrie
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: John Travolta, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving
Director: Brian De Palma
Certificate: 
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This classic horror movie based on Stephen King's first novel stars Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, a shy, diffident teenager who is the butt of practical jokes at her small-town high school. Her blind panic at her first menstruation, a result of ignorance and religious guilt drummed into her by her ..read more »

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from 14,809 members
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Carrie - Blu-ray
(1976)
Starring: John Travolta, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving
Director: Brian De Palma
Certificate: 
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Carrie (Sissy Spacek) is a gawky, unloved teenager whose awakening sexuality is at odds with her puritanical mother's fanatical teachings. Physically abused at home and shunned at school, an unexpected Prom invitation seems to be Carrie's first chance at happiness. But when the Prom night ends in a ..read more »

72%
from 12 members
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Katherine
(1975)
Starring: Art Carney, Henry Winkler, Sissy Spacek
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Certificate: 
Hard-hitting made-for-TV movie following the gradual descent into underground politics and violence of a rich society girl outraged by injustice. Based loosely on the life of Diana Oughton, a member of radical organisation the Weather Underground, the film follows Katherine Alman (Sissy Spacek) as ..read more »

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Badlands
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Ramon Bieri, Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek
Director: Terrence Malick
Certificate: 
A garbage collector (Martin Sheen) and his impressionable girlfriend (Sissy Spacek) kill her father when he disapproves of their relationship, and embark on a homicidal trail of destruction across the Midwestern United States. Based on the true case of Starkweather and Fugate in the 1950s, Terrence ..read more »

70%
from 8,473 members
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The Waltons - Season 1
(5 discs)
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Robert Donner, Ronnie Claire Edwards, Sissy Spacek
Director: Walter Alzman
Certificate: 
All 24 episodes from the first season of the classic 1970s US TV series starring Richard Thomas as John-Boy Walton, a youth on the verge of manhood during the Great Depression. John-Boy is a fledgling writer, whose observations are filled with the lessons about love and growing up that he receives ..read more »

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from 937 members
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