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Jessica Tandy
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Jessica Tandy - filmography
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Nobody's Fool
(1994)
Starring: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith
Director: Robert Benton
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Paul Newman earned an Oscar nomination plus Best Actor honors from the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Circle for his portrayal of Sully, a likeable working stiff who's made a lifetime of bad decisions. But he unexpectedly has a chance to make right on some of them when ..read more »
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72%
from 90 members
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Driving Miss Daisy
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd
Director: Bruce Beresford
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Director Bruce Beresford's affinity for the subtleties of southern life is apparent in this adaptation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Starring Jessica Tandy as Daisy Werthan and Morgan Freeman as Hoke Colburn, the film opens in late-1940s Atlanta. Since Miss Daisy is becoming a ..read more »
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70%
from 5,972 members
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Cocoon The Return
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Don Ameche, Courteney Cox, Wilford Brimley
Director: Daniel Petrie
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When the space travellers return to Earth on a special rescue mission, they are reunited with their own families and friends who they left behind when they were offered the gift of eternal youth by benevolent aliens. To their delight they soon realise that Earth isn't the worst planet in the galaxy.
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58%
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The House On Carroll Street
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin
Director: Peter Yates
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Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument beign conducted largely in German ina neighbouring house, the more so since one of those ..read more »
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54%
from 114 members
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Batteries Not Included
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae
Director: Matthew Robbins
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Set in New York's Lower East Side, this amusing story tells of a group of poor tenants with nothing more than determination to stop the destruction of their building, who are more than delighted when a few friends from outer space drop in to help out...
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69%
from 3,746 members
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Cocoon
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn
Director: Ron Howard
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A group of senior citizens residing in a rest home find their lives turned upside down after they are offered the gift of eternal youth by benevolent aliens in Ron Howard's wonderful tribute to the human spirit. Brian Dennehy is Walter, an alien who returns to earth to rescue 20 of his friends now ..read more »
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63%
from 4,549 members
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The Bostonians
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy
Director: James Ivory
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Director James Ivory brings Henry James's classic novel THE BOSTONIANS to the screen in this evocative, historical adaptation filled with exciting, exacting performances. The story centers on the fight between an ardent feminist and a southern gentleman for a charismatic faith healer's daughter. ..read more »
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49%
from 269 members
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Honky Tonk Freeway
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Beau Bridges, Teri Garr, Beverly D'Angelo
Director: John Schlesinger
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Merchants and residents of a small Florida hamlet called Ticlaw are up in arms over the construction of a major freeway that's scheduled to bypass their town, funnelling much needed tourism thirty-two miles up the road to the freeway's nearest exit. Mayor Kirby T. Calo attempts to bribe highway ..read more »
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52%
from 79 members
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Butley
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Georgina Hale
Director: Harold Pinter
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This adaptation of Simon Gray's BUTLEY was part of the American Film Theatre series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau and meant to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold in advance. Alan Bates stars as Ben Butley, a bitter and repressed English literature professor ..read more »
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57%
from 240 members
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The Birds
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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In THE BIRDS, Alfred Hitchcock's heart-pounding followup to PSYCHO, the director couples a tone of rigorous morality with dark humor to create a thriller that begins as a light comedy and ends as an apocalyptic allegory. Wealthy, reformed party girl Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) enjoys a brief ..read more »
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71%
from 13,376 members
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The Desert Fox
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy
Director: Henry Hathaway
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James Mason delivers a strong performance in the title role of this sympathetic study of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. In the early '40s, Rommel's juggernaut Afrika Korps dominated North Africa. But as the tide turned and he came to the painful realization that his Fuhrer, to whom he had sworn ..read more »
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68%
from 627 members
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Overwhelming, compelling... 9 February 2005
...aked display of emotions. Kathy Bates shows once again the power of her acting. Jessica Tandy is incomparable, a fine actress that has inspired too many generations. It's a ...
Not terribly interesting 24 November 2004
