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JFK

JFK (1991) more movies like this

directed by Oliver Stone
featuring Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman

The November 22, 1963, assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy shocked the nation and the world. The brisk investigation of that murder conducted under the guidance of Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren distressed many observers, even though subsequent careful investigations have been unable to find much fault with the conclusions his ...

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The Straight Story

The Straight Story (1999) more movies like this

directed by David Lynch
featuring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Everett McGill, Jennifer Edwards-Hughes

David Lynch offers an uncharacteristically straightforward and warmly sentimental approach to his material in this film, based on a true story, about an elderly man's journey to reconcile with his brother. Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth) is an ailing widower in his early 70's who lives in Laurens, Iowa with his daughter, Rose (Sissy Spacek), ...

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Carrie

Carrie (1976) more movies like this

directed by Brian De Palma
featuring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt, Nancy Allen, John Travolta

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 fanatical mother, Margaret (Piper Laurie), only ...

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Blast from the Past

Blast from the Past (1999) more movies like this

directed by Hugh Wilson
featuring Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, Dave Foley

In 1962, Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) was a brilliant but somewhat paranoid scientist living with his Donna Reed-esque wife, Helen (Sissy Spacek), in Los Angeles. In the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a plane crashed into the Webber's yard. Mistaking the blast for "the big one," the Webbers moved into their elaborate bomb shelter to wait ...

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Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting (2002) more movies like this

directed by Jay W. Russell
featuring Alexis Bledel, William Hurt, Sissy Spacek, Scott Bairstow, Ben Kingsley

Natalie Babbitt's award winning book for children comes to the screen in a lavish adaptation from Walt Disney Pictures. Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) is a girl in her early teens growing up in the small rural town of Winesap in 1914. Winnie's parents (Victor Garber and Amy Irving) are loving but overprotective, and Winnie longs for a life of ...

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Coal Miner's Daughter

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) more movies like this

directed by Michael Apted
featuring Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm, Phyllis Boyens

Loretta Lynn was one of the first female superstars in country music and remains a defining presence within the genre; with her strong, clear, hard-country voice and tough, no-nonsense songs about husbands who cheat and wives who weren't about to be pushed around, Lynn introduced a feminist mindset to Nashville years before the phrase "women's ...

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The Good Old Boys

The Good Old Boys (1995) more movies like this

directed by Tommy Lee Jones
featuring Tommy Lee Jones, Terry Kinney, Frances McDormand, Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek

Tommy Lee Jones made his directorial debut in this made-for-television movie about an aging cowboy dealing with the changing face of the West. Jones stars as Hewey Calloway, a cowboy who has roamed the West for years, who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads -- torn between the freedom of his lifestyle and the security of a loving family and ...

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Missing

Missing (1982) more movies like this

directed by Costa-Gavras
featuring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi

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 disappears. In trying to find out what has happened, ...

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In the Bedroom

In the Bedroom (2001) more movies like this

directed by Todd Field
featuring Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, William Mapother

Character actor and noted photographer Todd Field made his directorial debut with this emotionally powerful drama, which earned enthusiastic reviews at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Frank Fowler (Nick Stahl) is a handsome and amiable young man who has recently graduated from high school and is spending the summer working as a lobster fisherman ...

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An American Haunting

An American Haunting (2006) more movies like this

directed by Courtney Solomon
featuring Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood, James D'Arcy, Matthew Marsh

The wind whispers ominous warnings of death before a malevolent entity arrives to claim the life of a young girl as director Courtney Solomon brings author Brent Monahan's chilling, fact-based tale of supernatural murder to the screen in this tale of terror starring Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek. The year was 1818 and the Bell family was a ...

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Trading Mom (1994) more movies like this

directed by Tia Brelis
featuring Sissy Spacek, Anna Chlumsky, Aaron Michael Metchik, Asher Metchik, Maureen Stapleton

The Mommy Market originated as a fey satirical novel by Nancy Brelis. In the film version, Anna Chlumsky plays the oldest of three siblings who are fed up with their impossible mother (Sissy Spacek). Through methods too complicated to go into here, the kids are able to make Mom completely disappear. They then head to the local "Mommy Market" to ...

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Crimes of the Heart (1986) more movies like this

directed by Bruce Beresford
featuring Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Tess Harper

Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Beth Henley (who also penned the screenplay), Crimes of the Heart stars three high-powered actresses as three high-strung sisters. Lenny (Diane Keaton), Meg (Jessica Lange) and Babe (Sissy Spacek) gather at Lenny's deep-South home for her birthday. Lenny, the oldest, can't seem to sustain a ...

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North Country (2005) more movies like this

directed by Niki Caro
featuring Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Richard Jenkins, Jeremy Renner, Michelle Monaghan, Woody Harrelson, Sissy Spacek

A fictionalized account of one of America's most groundbreaking sexual harassment lawsuits comes to the screen in this hard-hitting drama. In the late '80s, Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) fled her abusive husband, and needed to find a way to support her two children. Aimes returned to her hometown in Minnesota and followed the lead of her old ...

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A Place for Annie (1994) more movies like this

directed by John Gray
featuring Sissy Spacek, Mary-Louise Parker, Joan Plowright, Jack Noseworthy

In this touching drama, a kind-hearted pediatric nurse tries to adopt an HIV-positive baby and ends up taking care of its troubled, dying mother as well. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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The Grass Harp (1995) more movies like this

directed by Charles Matthau
featuring Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Edward Furlong, Nell Carter

Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. After the death of his parents, Collin Fenwick (Edward Furlong) finds himself living in a small town with two of his aunts, Dolly (Piper Laurie) and Verena (Sissy Spacek). Verena is the ...

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Hot Rod (2007) more movies like this

directed by Akiva Schaffer
featuring Andy Samberg, Isla Fisher, Jorma Taccone, Bill Hader, Danny R. McBride, Ian McShane, Sissy Spacek

The comedy trio known as Lonely Island attempt their first feature-length comedy with Hot Rod. Andy Samberg stars as Rod Kimble, an inept would-be stuntman who believes his dad worked for daredevil Evel Knievel. His stepfather abuses him at every opportunity, but Rod keeps attempting tricks on his moped. After the stepfather becomes very ill, Rod ...

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Hard Promises (1992) more movies like this

directed by Martin Davidson
featuring William L. Petersen, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin, Mare Winningham, Jeff Perry

William Petersen's High Horse Films produced this romantic comedy that endeavors to recall the glory days of Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. Petersen stars as Joey Coalter, a roving adventurer who has been married to his wife Chris (Sissy Spacek) for almost thirteen years but has rarely been home. During that time Chris has become fed up with Joey's ...

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Raggedy Man (1981) more movies like this

directed by Jack Fisk
featuring Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, William Sanderson, Tracey Walker, Henry Thomas

Sissy Spacek was directed by her husband Jack Fisk in 1981's Raggedy Man. Spacek plays a divorced mother of two who tries to go it alone in mid-1940s Texas. Shunned by the "respectable" townsfolk because of her marital breakup, Spacek must endure the unwanted attentions of every low-life man in the community. Enter Eric Roberts, a young sailor who ...

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Affliction (1998) more movies like this

directed by Paul Schrader
featuring Nick Nolte, James Coburn, Sissy Spacek, Willem Dafoe, Mary Beth Hurt

Nick Nolte and James Coburn deliver some of the finest work of their respective careers in this powerful but troubling adaptation of Russell Banks' novel. Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) is the sheriff in a small New England town; it's a part-time job with few taxing responsibilities, and Wade fills his many free hours by swilling booze, smoking pot, ...

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The River (1984) more movies like this

directed by Mark Rydell
featuring Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, Shane Bailey, Becky Jo Lynch, Scott Glenn

This socially conscious family farm drama from director Mark Rydell was his follow up to the Oscar-winning On Golden Pond (1981). Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek star as Tom and Mae Garvey, struggling Tennessee farmers constantly one step away from foreclosing. Their farm sits next to a river that both nourishes their land and constantly threatens to ...

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Badlands (1973) more movies like this

directed by Terrence Malick
featuring Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Alan Vint, Ramon Bieri

"He wanted to die with me and I dreamed of being lost forever in his arms." A young couple goes on a Midwest crime spree in Terrence Malick's hypnotically assured debut feature, based on the 1950s Starkweather-Fugate murders. Fancying himself a rebel like James Dean, twentysomething Kit (Martin Sheen) takes off with teen baton-twirler Holly (Sissy ...

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A Home at the End of the World (2004) more movies like this

directed by Michael Mayer
featuring Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek

Directed by Michael Mayer and based on The Hours author Michael Cunningham's novel of the same name, A Home at the End of the World chronicles the 1980s reunion of childhood best friends Bobby (Colin Farrell) and Jonathan (Dallas Roberts). Where they were once best pals -- and teenage lovers -- in the suburbs of Cleveland, Bobby has become a ...

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Ginger in the Morning (1973) more movies like this

directed by Gordon Wiles
featuring Mark Miller, Monte Markham, Sissy Spacek, Slim Pickens, Susan Oliver

Veteran art director Gordon Wiles occasionally wielded the directorial megaphone in both films and television with mixed results. Ginger in the Morning is an aggressively "small" picture, its success or failure totally reliant on the rapport between its stars. A young Sissy Spacek plays the title character, a gangly teenaged hitchhiker who thumbs ...

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A Private Matter (1992) more movies like this

directed by Joan Micklin Silver
featuring Sissy Spacek, Aidan Quinn, Estelle Parsons, Sheila McCarthy, Leon Russom

When Sherri Finkbine (Sissy Spacek), the host of the Sixties children's television program Romper Room, learns that her unborn child has been damaged by her use of the drug thalidomide, she and her husband decide to abort the fetus, setting in motion the media controversy that is the subject of Joan Micklin Silver's made-for-cable drama. Jason ...

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Katherine (1975) more movies like this

directed by Jeremy Kagan
featuring Sissy Spacek, Art Carney

Brilliantly constructed in semi-documentary fashion, Katherine is the story of how a young upper-middle-class girl gradually radicalizes into a violence-prone revolutionary. The story is related in flashbacks sparked by "interviews" with Katherine (Sissy Spacek), her troubled parents (Art Carney, Jane Wyatt) and her radical mentor (Henry Winkler). ...

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