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Jill Clayburgh
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One of today's most gifted and brilliant actresses, Jill Clayburgh, brings her special sensitivity to the role of Barbara Gordon, a successful television documentary producer who became hopelessly dependent on tranquilizers. But this is much more than a story of addiction and withdrawal; it is an examination of the success syndrome that affects the lives of people whose career triumphs are achieved at great personal sacrifice. It is the dramatic and...
4) Shy People
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Journalist Diana Sullivan is fed up with life in the fast lane in New York City and decides to take her teenage daughter to the backwoods of Louisiana in search of their family roots and a simpler life. What she finds instead is a nightmare of danger and suspense in the dark swamp of family secrets deep in the bayou country.
5) Hustling
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Fran Morrison, an investigative reporter for a New York City magazine, starts working on an in-depth exposé uncovering the dangerous world of street prostitutes in the city and who really profits from the multi-million-dollar industry. She investigates how the prostitutes work, who their pimps are, and even who their clients are. As she learns more and more about that world, she discovers that many of the sex workers have powerful ties to the...
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From best-selling novelist Michael Crichton (ER, Disclosure) comes the chilling thriller of a risky experiment gone awry as a brilliant scientist becomes The Terminal Man. After an automobile accident causes irreversible brain damage, Harry Benson (George Segal) elects to have a microcomputer implanted in his brain to control the fierce outbursts he later cannot recall. But when Harry escapes police custody, his violent seizures turn murderous, and...
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Manhattan psychiatrist Ann Hecker (Annabella Sciorra, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Jungle Fever) is haunted by secret fantasies - recurring erotic dreams inspired by the bondage-and-sex confessions of a lustful patient (Deborah Unger). Seeking help, Ann approaches her university mentor, Dr. Leo Green (Alan Alda). But real treatment comes when Ann meets Doug McDowell (Jamey Sheridan), a ruggedly handsome pilot whose attentions spark a love affair...
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Burt Reynolds plays Phil Potter, a low-key, contented magazine writer who tries to put his life back together after his wife (Candice Bergen) opts for independence as a singer-songwriter. Jill Clayburgh, a wacky nursery school teacher, tries to help him surmount the emotional hurdles, but it's rough going in this delightful contemporary tale; he's still hung up on his ex-wife. Starting Over is sprinkled with comedy, from Bergen's cacophonous singing...
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Walter Matthau and Jill Clayburgh star in this dramatic comedy that centers around the appointment of the first woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. She is aggressive, witty, magnetic-and an arch-conservative. He is wry, opinionated and roundly liberal. One hundred and one men have preceded the new female justice to seats on the bench of the nation's highest court, but now it's eight men and her. All unanimously accept their new colleague-except Matthau,...
