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Gena Rowlands
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Gena Rowlands - what members say
review by ThomasKus from Cardiff
A mesmerising cinematic masterpiece 12 January 2004
review by Zamy from London
Woody plays Ingmar again 24 January 2005
review by from London, England
Bullock Brilliance 10 March 2005
Gena Rowlands - filmography
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Broken English
(2007)
Starring: Parker Posey, Drea De Matteo, Tim Guinee
Director: Zoe R. Cassavetes
Certificate: 
BROKEN ENGLISH stars Posey as Nora Wilder, a thirtysomething whose disastrous dating experiences in the Big Apple have put her on the verge of giving up all hope when it comes to love and happiness. Constant comparisons to her best friend Audrey’s (Drea de Matteo) seemingly perfect marriage, and ..read more »
 
73%
from 23 members
Currently unavailable
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The Skeleton Key - HD
(2005)
Starring: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt
Director: Iain Softley
Certificate: 
After New Orleans hospice worker Caroline (Kate Hudson) answers a help wanted ad, she finds herself working as the live-in caretaker of Ben Devereaux (John Hurt), a stroke victim who has lost his ability to speak. Ben's wife, Violet (Gena Rowlands), presents Caroline with a skeleton key to open any ..read more »
61%
from 276 members
Not currently released
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The Skeleton Key - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt
Director: Iain Softley
Certificate:
After New Orleans hospice worker Caroline (Kate Hudson) answers a help wanted ad, she finds herself working as the live-in caretaker of Ben Devereaux (John Hurt), a stroke victim who has lost his ability to speak. Ben's wife, Violet (Gena Rowlands), presents Caroline with a skeleton key to open any ..read more »
60%
from 103 members
Not available for rental
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The Skeleton Key
(2005)
Starring: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt
Director: Iain Softley
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A young woman helping care for an invalid in New Orleans finds herself caught in the middle of morbid going-ons centered around a group of Voodoo practitioners.
61%
from 41,907 members
Not currently released
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Hysterical Blindness
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Uma Thurman, Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands
Director: Mira Nair
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A pair of Jersey girls wander through the singles bar scene of the New York City suburb of Bayonne. As they seek lasting relationships amidst the smoky dive bars and Springsteen songs, Debby (Uma Thurman) and Beth (Juliette Lewis) begin to understand that love isn't like the pop songs that are ..read more »
49%
from 282 members
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Taking Lives
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland
Director: D.J. Caruso
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
With superb investigative skills heightened by uncanny natural instincts, Iliana Scott (Angelina Jolie) is not a typical FBI profiler. This beautiful, no-nonsense Special Agent is a cut above the rest, which is why her old friend Captain Le Claire (Tcheky Karyo) calls her to assist his detectives ..read more »
61%
from 26,032 members
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Taking Lives - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland
Director: D.J. Caruso
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
With superb investigative skills heightened by uncanny natural instincts, Iliana Scott (Angelina Jolie) is not a typical FBI profiler. This beautiful, no-nonsense Special Agent is a cut above the rest, which is why her old friend Captain Le Claire (Tcheky Karyo) calls her to assist his detectives ..read more »
66%
from 1,429 member
Not currently released
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Playing By Heart
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Dennis Quaid, Ellen Burstyn
Director: Willard Carroll
Certificate:
A sprawling cast come together to tell this tale of romance and love in the 90's. The ensemble players discuss love and relationships throughout the film, and by the end of the picture, everyone has learned a valuable lesson: never give up on love. A touching romantic drama with several ..read more »
61%
from 1,905 member
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The Mighty
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Sharon Stone, Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton
Director: Peter Chelsom
Certificate: 
Touching story of a young physically challenged boy (Kieran Culkin) with a taste for adventure stories who befriends his physically strong but mentally challenged neighbor (Elden Henson) so that they may act out fantastic adventures. The cast also includes Sharon Stone, Gena Rowlands, Gillian ..read more »
67%
from 566 members
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Hope Floats
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Gena Rowlands
Director: Forest Whitaker
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Birdee (Sandra Bullock) is an unassuming housewife whose life is disrupted when her husband (Michael Pare) reveals his infidelity to her on a Jerry Springer style chat show. She goes home to her mother and the small town in which she grew up where everyone knows of her televised marital collapse. ..read more »
60%
from 6,904 members
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She's So Lovely
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Sean Penn, John Travolta, Robin Wright Penn
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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Written by the late John Cassavettes in 1987 and filmed by his son Nick a decade later, the comic drama She's So Lovely (originally and more appropriately titled She's De Lovely in honor of the Cole Porter composition central to the movie) stars real-life couple Sean Penn and Robin Wright-Penn as ..read more »
50%
from 456 members
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The Neon Bible
(1996)
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Denis Leary, Diana Scarwid
Director: Terence Davies
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THE NEON BIBLE, writer-director Terence Davies first literary adaptation, is based on John Kennedy Toole's coming of age story set in the 1930s and 1940s Bible belt. Similar to Davies's autobiographical TRILOGY, the film is a series of remembrances by 15-year old David (Jacob Tierney), who reflects ..read more »
51%
from 21 members
Currently unavailable
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Unhook the Stars
(1996)
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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Character study about Mildred (Gena Rowlands), an elderly woman who has spent her life caring for others. When her daughter (Moira Kelly) finally leaves home she finds that, for the first time in her life, she has nobody to worry about - but soon becomes involved in the life of Monica (Marisa Tomei)..read more »
40%
from 9 members
Currently unavailable
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Something To Talk About
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Julia Roberts, Robert Duvall
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
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Lasse Hallstrom (THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, MY LIFE AS A DOG) directs this romantic comedy in which Julia Roberts plays Grace, a decent but naive southern woman who, happening to drive by her husband, Eddie (Dennis Quaid), one afternoon, is shocked to discover him locked in a passionate embrace, in ..read more »
54%
from 1,209 member
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Night On Earth
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Rosie Perez
Director: Jim Jarmusch
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Jim Jarmusch's deadpan comedy-of-the-night is a collection of five vignettes taking place in the enclosed space of a cab ride, each occurring simultaneously in five different cities and five different time zones -- Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki. The Los Angeles episode takes ..read more »
69%
from 4,478 members
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Another Woman
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Gene Hackman, John Houseman
Director: Woody Allen
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A university professor, Marion Post is experiencing a type of midlife crisis, so she rents an apartment in order to write a book. The apartment is next to a psychiatrist's office, and she inadvertently hears what transpires between the doctor and some of her patients. She becomes obsessed with the ..read more »
61%
from 1,187 member
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Tempest
(1982)
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Susan Sarandon, Gena Rowlands
Director: Paul Mazursky
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This modernistic fantasy-drama, is about a New York architect Phillip (John Cassavetes), who is fedup with city living. He takes his wife Antonia (Gena Rowlands), an actress, and their daughter, Miranda (Molly Ringwald in her debut), to Greece to a barren island. There he meets a singer and a ..read more »
60%
from 1 member
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The Faerie Tale Theatre
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Herve Villechaize, Jeff Bridges, Joan Collins
Director: Graeme Clifford
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From the vaults of cable TV comes a series where the classic tales of the Brothers Grimm meet some of Hollywood's most notable icons of the 1980s. Malcolm McDowell as the wolf in LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, Herve Villechaize as RUMPELSTILTSKIN, and Gena Rowlands as RAPUNZEL's warden are just a few ..read more »
46%
from 41 members
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Gloria
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Juan Adames
Director: John Cassavetes
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Gloria, the quintessential "tough-talkin' dame" -- complete with time in prison and ties to the mob -- has put those days behind her, now living a quiet, solitary life. That changes when the Mafia marks her neighbors for death and Gloria is asked to care for their young son, Phil. She reluctantly ..read more »
65%
from 583 members
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Opening Night
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara
Director: John Cassavetes
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In Opening Night, ageing Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) begins rehearsals for her role in a play about a middle aged woman living in denial at the onset of her autumn years. A series of pre-show setbacks and disasters threaten preparations and when Myrtle witnesses the accidental ..read more »
67%
from 704 members
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Two Minute Warning
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Beau Bridges
Director: Larry Peerce
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When a crazed sniper hides out in a football stadium waiting for the game, and his killing spree, to start Captain Peter Holly (Heston) is sent in to find and disarm him before anyone gets killed. However, his mission is made harder by the arrival of a rival SWAT team who plan to rush the sniper ..read more »
66%
from 123 members
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Minnie And Moskowitz
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Val Avery
Director: John Cassavetes
Certificate: 
Museum curator Minnie Moore's (Rowlands) life has not turned out how she expected, she s a divorcee who s just turned 40, with a boyfriend Jim (Cassavetes) who's married to someone else. A nasty break-up and a blind date that goes horribly wrong lead to a chance encounter with parking lot-attendant ..read more »
65%
from 50 members
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Faces - Blu-ray
(1968)
Starring: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin
Director: John Cassavetes
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Cassavetes follows the complicated lives of a group of middle class people living in LA and contains some startlingly raw performances from actors Lynn Carlin and John Marley as married couple Maria and Richard who both commit adultery to escape the misery of their loveless marriage. Richard begins ..read more »
35%
from 4 members
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Faces
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin
Director: John Cassavetes
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Cassavetes follows the complicated lives of a group of middle class people living in LA and contains some startlingly raw performances from actors Lynn Carlin and John Marley as married couple Maria and Richard who both commit adultery to escape the misery of their loveless marriage. Richard begins ..read more »
62%
from 766 members
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Tony Rome
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Gena Rowlands
Director: Gordon Douglas
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The tough, dashing private eye who lives on a boat finds his troubles beginning when, after being hired to escort the daughter of a wealthy businessman, the girl's diamond pin is mysteriously missing. The trail leads him to guns, bullets and love.
60%
from 105 members
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A Child Is Waiting
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Steven Hill
Director: John Cassavetes
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John Cassavetes's second effort as a studio director is an engrossing, sobering exposé of society's cruel prejudice toward children afflicted with mental retardation; the film focuses on an institution for those with Down's syndrome. A young boy, Reuben Widdicombe (Bruce Ritchey), arrives at the ..read more »
69%
from 66 members
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Lonely Are the Brave
(1962)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau
Director: David Miller
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Kirk Douglas, as cowboy Jack Burns, breaks jail to help an old friend and heads for the state border with the sheriff, played by Walter Matthau, in pursuit. Based on Edward Abbey's elegiac novel "The Brave Cowboy" and written by Dalton Trumbo, Burns's flight for freedom on his old horse, pursued by ..read more »
66%
from 31 members
Currently unavailable
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Thursday's Child
on DVD
Starring: Don Murray, Tracey Gold, Gena Rowlands
Director: David Lowell
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Life is about to change for young Sam Alden. Home for a traditional Christmas celebration, the usually robust young man worries his family with his drawn appearance and persistent coughing. Subsequent tests reveal the cause - degenerative heart disease. His condition rapidly deteriorates until his ..read more »
50%
from 14 members
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My New Best Friend
on DVD
Starring: Gena Rowlands, James Caan, Leslie Hope
Director: Paul Johansson
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After constant fights, detentions, and suspensions from high school, Charlie Proud is heading in one direction - a prison sentence. However, a disciplinary meeting between Charlie's parents and the School Principal Dewitt (James Caan) convinces the principal that if he can remove the boy from the ..read more »
56%
from 19 members
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Gena Rowlands facts
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...e-up of great actors from around the world is already impressive: Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Beatrice Dalle, Roberto Benigni etc. Add to this a cool T...
