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Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York to mother Patricia "Addie" Tomei, an English teacher and father Gary Tomei, a lawyer. Marisa also has a brother, actor Adam Tomei. As a child, Marisa's mother frequently corrected her speech as to eliminate her heavy Brooklyn accent. As a teen, Marisa attended Edward R. Murrow High School and graduated in the class of 1982. She was one year into her college education at Boston University when she dropped out for a co-starring role on the CBS daytime drama "As the World Turns" (1956). Her role on that show paved the way for her entrance into film: in 1984, she made her film debut with a bit part in The Flamingo Kid (1984). Three years later, Marisa became known for her role as Maggie Lawton, Lisa Bonet's college roommate, on the sitcom "A Different World" (1987). Her real breakthrough came in 1992, when she co-starred as Joe Pesci's hilariously foul-mouthed, scene-stealing girlfriend in My Cousin Vinny (1992), a performance that won her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Later that year, she turned up briefly as a snippy Mabel Normand in director Richard Attenborough's biopic Chaplin (1992), and was soon given her first starring role in Untamed Heart (1993). A subsequent starring role -- and attempted makeover into Audrey Hepburn -- in the romantic comedy Only You (1994) with Robert Downey Jr. proved only moderately successful. Marisa's other 1994 role as Michael Keaton's hugely pregnant wife in The Paper (1994) was well-received, although the film as a whole was not. Fortunately for Tomei, she was able to rebound the following year with a solid performance as a troubled single mother in Nick Cassavetes Unhook the Stars (1996) which earned her a Screen Actors Guild nomination. Also in 1996, she made a famous guest appearance on the popular sitcom "Seinfeld" (1990) as herself. She turned in a similarly strong work in Welcome To Sarajevo (1997), and in 1998 did some of her best work in years as a sexually liberated, unhinged woman in Slums Of Beverly Hills (1998). Marisa co-starred with Mel Gibson in the hugely successful romantic comedy What Women Want (2000) and during the 2002 movie award season, she proved her first Oscar win was no fluke when she was nominated a second time for the critically acclaimed dark drama, In The Bedroom (2001).
Fresh off her second Oscar nomination, Marisa began acting in more mainstream films, but only a couple of them stuck out. She appeared in the ensemble romantic comedy Animal Attraction (2001) with Ashley Judd, Hugh Jackman, and Greg Kinnear, then in The Guru (2002) and the animated feature The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002). She returned to prominence in the hit comedy Anger Management (2003) with Adam Sandler alongside Jack Nicholson and performed "The Vagina Monologues" onstage in 2004. That same year she appeared opposite Jude Law in a remake of Alfie (2004). Also in 2004, she also made a guest appearance on the animated TV phenomenon "The Simpsons" (1989) as Sara Sloane, a movie star who falls in love with Ned Flanders. In 2006, she went on to do 4 episodes for "Rescue Me" (2004). She played Angie, the ex-wife of Tommy Calvin ( Denis Leary)'s brother Johnny ( Dean Winters). The following year she starred as a sexy bar owner in the comedy Wild Hogs (2007) alongside John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy. The film was a huge box-office hit, and later that year, at age 42, Marisa took on a provocative role in legendary filmmaker Sidney Lumet's melodramatic picture Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007). Usually modest, Marisa did several nude scenes with her costars Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman, including a racy sex scene with Hoffman. After working on War, Inc. (2008) with John Cusack, Marisa then took on another provocative role as an aging stripper in the highly acclaimed film The Wrestler (2008) opposite Mickey Rourke. Her great performance earned her many awards from numerous film societies for Best Supporting Actress, a third Academy Award nomination, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. Many critics heralded this performance as a standout in her career.
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Gaga tips Tomei for biopic -
19 February 2011
-Lady Gaga would love to see Marisa Tomei play her in a biopic - because she has a lot of the same traits as the actress.-
-The Poker Face hitmaker is convinced The Wrestler star would be the ideal person to portray her if her life was ever made into a movie, as both
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Marisa Tomei - filmography
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Parental Guidance
(2012)
Starring: Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei, Bailee Madison
Director: Andy Fickman
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Artie and Diane Decker are called in by their daughter to help care for their three grandkids. When their old school methods of parenting collide with their grandchildren's' new school and hyper-scheduled way of life, the once-orderly household spins out of control, and Artie and Diane must employ ..read more »
 
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The Ides of March
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Marisa Tomei
Director: George Clooney
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During the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency.
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Crazy, Stupid, Love
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
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At fortysomething, straight-laced Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is living the dream--good job, nice house, great kids and marriage to his high school sweetheart. But when Cal learns that his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), has cheated on him and wants a divorce, his perfect life quickly unravels. Worse, ..read more »
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The Ides Of March - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Marisa Tomei
Director: George Clooney
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George Clooney goes behind the camera for the fourth time to direct THE IDES OF MARCH, an adaptation of Beau Willimon's play FARRAGUT NORTH. The movie stars Ryan Gosling as Stephen Meyers, an idealistic deputy campaign manager for Governor Mike Morris (Clooney), who is in a major political battle ..read more »
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Crazy, Stupid, Love - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
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At fortysomething, straight-laced Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is living the dream--good job, nice house, great kids and marriage to his high school sweetheart. But when Cal learns that his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), has cheated on him and wants a divorce, his perfect life quickly unravels. Worse, ..read more »
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Cyrus
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jonah Hill, Catherine Keener, John C. Reilly
Director: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
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With his social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, down on his luck divorcée John (John C.Reilly) finally meets the woman of his dreams, Molly (Marissa Tomei), only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Cyrus (Jonah Hill) will go to any lengths to protect ..read more »
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The People Speak
(2009)
Starring: Matt Damon, Marisa Tomei, Morgan Freeman
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Inspired by Howard Zinn's best-seller A People's History of the United States and it's companion book Voices of a People's History of the United States this star studded documentary takes an unguarded look at our nation's decades-long struggle with the pressing issues of war, race, class, and women'..read more »
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Cyrus - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Jonah Hill, Catherine Keener, John C. Reilly
Director: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
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With his social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, down on his luck divorcée John (John C.Reilly) finally meets the woman of his dreams, Molly (Marissa Tomei), only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Cyrus (Jonah Hill) will go to any lengths to protect ..read more »
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The Wrestler
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Ernest Miller, Marisa Tomei
Director: Darren Aronofsky
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The wrestler is the story of retired professional wrestler, Randy "The Ram" Robinson, making his way through the independent circuit, trying to get back in the game for one final showdown with his former rival.
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War Inc.
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, John Cusack, Hilary Duff
Director: Joshua Seftel
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Joshua Seftel's fierce political satire features an all-star cast headed by John Cusack. Set in a fictionalized Middle East, the film takes United States foreign affairs to comic extremes in a world where corporations rule and wars are completely outsourced. At the start of the film, Turaqistan is ..read more »
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The Wrestler - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Ernest
Director: Darren Aronofsky
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Darren Aronofsky directs this searing drama about a past-his-prime wrestler who tries to regain his earlier fame. Mickey Rourke (ANGEL HEART, SIN CITY) continues a career revival of his own as the fighter, while Oscar winner Marisa Tomei (IN THE BEDROOM, MY COUSIN VINNY) and Evan Rachel Wood (..read more »
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Wild Hogs - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Martin Lawrence, John Travolta, William H. Macy
Director: Walter Becker
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Walter Becker (NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VAN WILDER) directs this tale of four friends who hit the open road. Woody (John Travolta), Doug (Tim Allen), Bobby (Martin Lawrence), and Dudley (William H. Macy) are middle-aged suburbanite buddies stuck in a rut. Doug, a dentist, yearns for respect from his pre-..read more »
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Wild Hogs
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Martin Lawrence, John Travolta, William H. Macy
Director: Walter Becker
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Four middle-aged men (Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy) decide to take a road trip from Cincinnati to the Pacific in order to get away from their lives which are leading them nowhere. Taking their motorcycles, these "Wild Hogs" tear up the road and eventually stop in New ..read more »
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Danika
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Marisa Tomei, Regina Hall, Nicki Prian
Director: Ariel Vromen
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Danika Merrick, a young mother of three, has a caring husband, a beautiful house, and a safe, simple life. She does her best to shield her family from a world filled with fears. But despite all of her good intentions, Danika's worries over everyday dangers begin to manifest themselves into strange ..read more »
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Factotum
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Fisher Stevens
Director: Brent Hamer
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Henry Chinaski works in factories and warehouses to support what he really wants to do: drink, bet on the horses, take up with women as rootless as he is and, above all, write stories that no one wants to publish.
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Alfie
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Jude Law, Susan Sarandon, Sienna Miller
Director: Charles Shyer, Elaine Pope
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Jude Law stars in this trenchant dramatic-comedy, a remake of the 1966 British counterculture classic that launched the career of Michael Caine. This version is set in New York City and is pumped up with giddy, cleverly experimental editing. The story has Alfie (Law), a Don Juan-esque limo driver, ..read more »
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Anger Management
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Alan Covert, Kurt Fuller, Lynn Thigpen
Director: Peter Segal
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ANGER MANAGEMENT, directed by Peter 'NUTTY PROFESSOR 2' Segal, looks into the life of Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler), an executive assistant at a pet clothing company. The mild-mannered but overly passive Dave is in love with his girlfriend, Linda (Marisa Tomei), yet his anxious personality keeps him ..read more »
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Anger Management - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Alan Covert, Kurt Fuller, Lynn Thigpen
Director: Peter Segal
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ANGER MANAGEMENT, directed by Peter 'NUTTY PROFESSOR 2' Segal, looks into the life of Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler), an executive assistant at a pet clothing company. The mild-mannered but overly passive Dave is in love with his girlfriend, Linda (Marisa Tomei), yet his anxious personality keeps him ..read more »
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Just A Kiss
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Ron Eldard, Kyra Sedgwick, Marisa Tomei
Director: Fisher Stevens
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Directed by Fisher Stevens with a sharply witty script from writer Patrick Breen, who also stars as the film's antihero, Pete, JUST A KISS is a smart, hip black comedy with an energetic soundtrack, a sexy cast, and expert use of digital animation. The first scenes, while the credits are still ..read more »
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The Guru
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Jimi Mistry, Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei
Director: Daisy Mayer
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THE GURU, from director Daisy von Scherler Mayer, begins with a young Ramu Gupta (Jimi Mistry) in a Delhi movie theater, rejecting the extreme song and dance notions of the local Bollywood cinema for the more glamorous American film musical GREASE. This transformative experience eventually leads ..read more »
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In The Bedroom
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Nick Stahl
Director: Todd Field
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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 »
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Happy Accidents
(2001)
Starring: Marty Davey, Marisa Tomei, Vincent D'Onofrio
Director: Brad Anderson
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Ruby Weaver has man trouble: she tries to fix them, so she's stuck herself with a string of losers. Her current lover, Sam Deed, seems different: he's sweet, tender, just in from Dubuque. But, as Ruby tells her therapist about Sam, in flashbacks we see someone not quite of this world. In fact, Sam ..read more »
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Animal Attraction
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ashley Judd, Hugh Jackman, Greg Kinnear
Director: Tony Goldwyn
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After a series of ill-fated relationships, Jane (Ashley Judd) has finally met Mr. Right, Ray (Greg Kinnear)--he's emotionally available, and not afraid of commitment. Six weeks into their blissful courtship, he asks her to move in with him, and they start looking at apartments. But little by little ..read more »
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King Of The Jungle
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Michael Rapaport, Marisa Tomei, Annabella Sciorra
Director: Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
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A mentally retarded man named Seymour (John Leguizamo) lives in a world of violence. On the basketball ball court, he is held at razor point and forced to speak perversions. At a rally where his activist mother Mona (Julie Carmen) protests against police brutality, Seymour watches a man bleed to ..read more »
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The Watcher
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: James Spader, Marisa Tomei, Keanu Reeves
Director: Joe Charbanic
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A stylish thriller that recalls David Fincher's SEVEN, THE WATCHER is set in the urban landscape of modern Chicago. The story follows Los Angeles transplant Joel Campbell (James Spader), an ex-police detective who has relocated to Chicago in order to escape his past. It appears that a dangerous ..read more »
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What Women Want
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei
Director: Nancy Meyers
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Director, writer, and producer Nancy Meyers's (THE PARENT TRAP) sophomore directorial effort is a lively screwball fantasy featuring Mel Gibson in his first romantic comedy. Gibson plays Nick Marshall, a high-flying chauvinistic Chicago advertising executive who, like his musical idol, Frank ..read more »
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What Women Want - Blu-ray
(2000)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei
Director: Nancy Meyers
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Director, writer, and producer Nancy Meyers's (THE PARENT TRAP) sophomore directorial effort is a lively screwball fantasy featuring Mel Gibson in his first romantic comedy. Gibson plays Nick Marshall, a high-flying chauvinistic Chicago advertising executive who, like his musical idol, Frank ..read more »
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Slums Of Beverly Hills
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Natasha Lyonne
Director: Tamara Jenkins
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This is a coming-of-age comedy about Vivian (Natasha Lyonne, AMERICAN PIE 2) a young jewish girl in 1970's Beverly Hills who must come to terms with her family's constantly changing addresses as well as trying to control her budding sexuality. Marisa Tomei is a cousin who comes to visit (having ..read more »
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Welcome To Sarajevo
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Kerry Fox
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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Documentary footage of the horrific acts of 'ethnic cleansing' combines with the verite-styled story of a cohort of journalists torn between passively chronicling the atrocities and actively resisting them in this powerful film. An obsessive British reporter (Stephen Dillane) fights to keep the ..read more »
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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 »
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The Paper
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei
Director: Ron Howard
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Ron Howard directed this lightning-paced, high-energy drama following one day in the life of Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton), a frantic metro editor for a fictitious New York tabloid. While investigating the apparently race-related killing of two white businessmen found murdered in their car, ..read more »
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Only You
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., Bonnie Hunt
Director: Norman Jewison
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In this romantic comedy an engaged woman goes to Italy to find out if the man her Ouija board said she was meant for actually exists. While there she meets and falls in love with a man who claims to be the one, and she must decide whether or not to trust fate.
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My Cousin Vinny
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Joe Pesci, Fred Gwynne, Marisa Tomei
Director: Jonathan Lynn
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Two carefree pals travelling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer. When Vinny arrives in Alabama with his leather-clad girlfriend, it's a real shock for all of them! Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress-Marisa Tomei.
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Chaplin
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin
Director: Richard Attenborough
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Sir Richard Attenborough's CHAPLIN is a dramatised depiction of the highs and lows in the life of Charlie Chaplin (Robert Downey, Jr. in a highly acclaimed performance), one of the true comic geniuses of the early silver screen. Presented as the memories of an elderly Chaplin, the narrative opens ..read more »
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Untamed Heart
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Christian Slater, Rosie Perez, Marisa Tomei
Director: Tony Bill
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UNTAMED HEART is a tender tale about the romance between Adam (Christian Slater), a severely introverted busboy with a congenital heart problem and Caroline (Marisa Tomei), a waitress with a penchant for men who reject her. Walking home late one night from the Minneapolis diner where she and Adam ..read more »
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Zandalee
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Judge Reinhold, Erika Anderson
Director: Sam Pillsbury
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Sam Pillsbury (KNIGHT RIDER 2010) directs this steamy Bayou drama about how poor, sex starved Zandalee has an affair with her husband's boyhood friend, Johnny (Nicolas Cage). You see, Zandalee's husband (Judge Reinhold) used to turn her on when he was a poet, but he wasn't a very good poet and now ..read more »
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