Joyce Van Patten
Joyce Van Patten (born March 9, 1934) is an American stage, film and television actress.
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God's Pocket
A boozy lowlife (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist (Richard Jenkins) and the young man's mother complicate matters.
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
The adult siblings of the Fitzgerald family prepare for their estranged father to return home for Christmas for the first time since he walked out on his family 20 years ago.
This Must Be the Place
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's executioner, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.
Grown Ups
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Infinity
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
The Haunted
When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out its haunted.
Monkey Shines
A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master.
Blind Date
Blind Date is a romantic comedy by star director Blake Edwards starring Kim Basinger as a boozer and Bruce Willis as a rich bachelor.
The Falcon and the Snowman
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
St. Elmo's Fire
A Group of friends, just out of college, struggle with adulthood. Their main problem is that they're all self-centered and obnoxious.
Picking Up the Pieces
A sheltered wife of a surgeon suddenly finds herself thrust into the middle of a messy divorce.
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles deals with the exploration of Mars and the inhabitants there.
You Can't Take It with You
Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about a slightly daft family who do exactly as they please.
The Bad News Bears
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Mikey and Nicky
Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…
Mame
Following the death of his father, an orphan is sent to live with his free-spirited aunt.
Bone
A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as happily married as they appeared.
Something Big
A man kidnaps the wife of a cavalry commander in order to exchange her for a Gatling gun that's being sold by a gun runner.
The Trouble with Girls
Chautauqua manager Walter Hale and his loyal business manager struggle to keep their traveling troupe together in small town America.
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
Harold Fine is a self-described square - a 35-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who's not looking forward to middle age nor his upcoming wedding. His life changes when he falls in love with Nancy, a free-spirited, innocent, and beautiful young hippie.
The Goddess
Booze, pills and loneliness mark a young actress' rise to stardom.
Fourteen Hours
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.