Diana Scarwid

All Movies of Diana Scarwid

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  5.5
  Another Happy Day
  Ellen Barkin stars in this darkly comic story of the emotional rollercoaster of a family gathering. Her estranged son (Michael Werner Deli) wedding, Lynn (Barking), women have always worn her emotions on her sleeve evening to deal...
  Character: Donna

   2011

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  5.6
  Tribute (TV)
  Cilla (Brittany Murphy), a former child star, buys her grandmother's house to rescue it from ruin but her hope for serenity is soon eclipsed by haunting dreams of her famous grandmother, who died of a supposed overdose in the hous...
  Character: Cathy Morrow

   2009

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  6.0
  Dream Boy
  Shy teenager Nathan and his family have moved from one town to another trying to escape the domestic disintegration within their own home. Roy and his family live a quiet life on a farm. When Nathan moves in next door to charismat...
   2008

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  7.7
  Pushing Daisies (TV Series)
  TV Series (2007-2009). 2 seasons. 22 episodes. Once upon a time, Director Barry Sonnenfeld (Men In Black, Get Shorty, The Addams Family) and Writer-Producer Bryan Fuller (Heroes, Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me) created an unprecedented...
  Character:  Mother Superior 4 episodes, 2008-2009

   2007

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  6.0
  Local Color
  "Local Color" is the emotional and inspirational story of a talented, but troubled eighteen-year-old art student (Trevor Morgan) and his mentor (Armin Mueller-Stahl), an elderly alcoholic “Russian Master” who has tur...
   2006

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  5.4
  Party Monster
  Set in the New York club scene of the late 1980's thru the 1990's, a tale which chronicles the rise and fall of club-kid promoter Michael Alig, a party organizer, whose extravagant life was sent spiralling downward when he boasted...
  Character: Elke

   2003

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  Dirty Pictures (TV)
  Fact-based story about the court proceedings that followed Cincinnati art museum director Dennis Barrie after his decision to display a controversial art exhibit by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The proceedings start with an i...
   2000

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  5.7
  What Lies Beneath
  A housewife (Michelle Pfeiffer) married to a scientist (Harrison Ford) gets entangled in a murder mystery, when the ghost of a murdered student appears to her for help.
  Character: Jody

   2000

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  A Will of Their Own (TV Miniseries)
  Character:  Crystal Eastman 1 episode, 1998

   1998

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  7.2
  Bastard Out of Carolina (TV)
  Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride.
  Character: Raylene

   1996

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  6.0
  Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
  A city girl teams up with a tomboy to solve the mystery of Bear Mountain, Molly Morgan, and the buried treasure as well as learn about true friendships. Moving from the big city (LA) to a backwater town is always difficult, but es...
  Character: Lynette Salerno

   1995

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  6.0
  The Neon Bible
  THE NEON BIBLE, writer-director Terence Davies first literary adaptation, is based on John Kennedy Toole’s coming of age story set in the 1930s and 1940s Bible belt. Similar to Davies’s autobiographical TRILOGY, the film is a ...
   1995

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  6.3
  Truman (TV)
  Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decission to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-
  Character: Bess Truman

   1995

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  Night of the Hunter (TV)
   1991

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  5.1
  Brenda Starr
  Mike is a struggling artist who draws the "Brenda Starr" strip for the papers. When Brenda comes to life in the strip and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the strip. To get her back, and keep his job, Mi...
  Character: Libby 'Lips' Lipscomb

   1989

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  7.0
  After the Promise (TV)
  In a small Californian town in the 1930s. After the tragic loss of his wife carpenter Elmer Jackson finds that he will loose his sons. Despite his efforts, he is barred from seeing them when the authorities send the boys to an ins...
   1987

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  5.5
  Psycho III
  Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a n...
   1986

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  6.2
  Extremities
  An intended rape victim manages to escape from her attacker but leaves her purse behind. Worried that he may visit her house and finish what he has started, she contacts the police but they are unable to help, saying that she has ...
  Character: Terry

   1986

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  5.0
  Strange Invaders
  Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he goes to where she grew up--a rural town in the midwest--to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about her or any of her many relatives, the Newmans. He meets aliens; but when he contac...
   1983

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  6.8
  Rumble Fish
  Rusty James (Matt Dillon) is an up-and-coming street hoodlum, lamenting the salad days of the gangs when his older brother (Mickey Rourke), The Motorcycle Boy, ran things as President of the Packers. Before disappearing two months...
  Character: Cassandra

   1983

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  7.0
  Silkwood
  Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood (played by Meryl Streep), the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are s
  Character: Angela

   1983

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  6.5
  Mommie Dearest
  Based on the book about Joan Crawford, one of the great Hollywood actresses of our time, written by her adopted daughter Christina Crawford. Joan decides to adopt children of her own to fill a void in her life. Yet, her problems w...
  Character: Christina Crawford (Adult)

   1981

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  6.8
  Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (TV)
  Based upon the true story of Jim Jones, a self proclaimed prophet. Jim Jones had a loyal following of about 1000 people, who had donated their entire life savings to him to join his commune. When possible illegal activities came t...
  Character: Sheila Langtree

   1980

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  6.5
  Honeysuckle Rose
  A country and western singer jeopardizes his marriage and his career when he has an affair with the young daughter of his longtime musical sidekick.
   1980

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  7.2
  Inside Moves
  The story follows Rory (Savage), a man who has come to the end of his life only to begin life anew amongst the patrons of Max's, a bar in Oakland catering to people "on the cup." Rory learns that phyically crippled pales...
  Character: Louise

   1980

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  6.8
  Pretty Baby
  The inspiration for Malle’s first American film was E. J. Bellocq’s remarkable photographic record of New Orleans’ red-light district, Storyville, in the early years of the twentieth century. A fourteen-year-old (Shields) is...
   1978