Lois Smith

All Movies of Lois Smith

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  8.6
  Lady Bird
  The adventures of a student living in Northern California for a year. Saoirse Ronan stars as an artistically inclined young woman trying to define herself in the shadow of her mother (Laurie Metcalf) and searching for an escape ro...
  Character: Sister Sarah Joan

   2017

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  8.3
  Minority Report
  In the year 2054 A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad "Precrime". They use three genetically altered humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to s...
   2002

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  8.2
  East of Eden
  In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, to...
  Character: Anne

   1955

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  7.6
  The Nice Guys
  Set in smoggy 1970s Los Angeles, story follows Jackson Healy (muscle-for-hire, recovering alcoholic) and Holland March (private eye, practicing alcoholic), who are brought together by the suicide of a fading porn star. However, th...
   2016

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  7.4
  Resurrection
  Ellen Burstyn experiences the after-life for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing she discovers that she has the ability to heal physical infirmaties. While m...
   1980

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  7.3
  True Blood (TV Series)
  TV Series (2008-2014). 7 Seasons. 80 Episodes. The series follows Sookie Stackhouse, a barmaid living in Louisianna who can read people's minds, and how her life is turned upside down when the Vampire Bill, walks into her place of...
  Character:  Adele Stackhouse 12 episodes, 2008-2014

   2008

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  7.3
  Five Easy Pieces
  Bobby Eroica Dupea comes from a well-bred family of musicians, and once showed great promise as a concert pianist. By nature a restless, angry individual, Bobby left his family and his music when he could no longer endure the dull...
   1970

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  7.2
  Iron Jawed Angels (TV)
  IRON JAWED ANGELS recounts for a contemporary audience a key chapter in U.S. history: in this case, the struggle of suffragists who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. Focusing on the two defiant women, Alice Paul (Hilar...
  Character: Anna Shaw

   2004

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  7.1
  Tumbleweeds
  Mary Joe Walker (Janet McTeer) is constantly running from town to town in search of a new life (and escape her string of abusive ex's) with her 12 year old daughter Ava (Kimberly J. Brown). They begin to look in San Diego, when Ma...
  Character: Ginger

   1999

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  7.1
  Falling Down
  A laid-off defense worker, kept from seeing his child on her birthday by a restraining order, looks at the landscape of moral decay in Los Angeles on one hot, congested day and, after being mugged, snaps. What follows is his bitte...
   1993

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  7.0
  A Dog Year (TV)
  A guy suffering from a midlife crisis takes in a dog that's crazier than he is.
   2009

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  7.0
  The Pledge
  Detective Jarry Black (Nicholson) is just retiring from his long years on duty. But on his final case, he is determined to find the killer of a mother's (Wright-Penn) young daughter, when the police give up searching. He makes a p...
  Character: Helen Jackson

   2001

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  6.9
  Fatal Attraction
  Happily married New York lawyer Dan Callagher has an affair with his colleague Alex, and the two enjoy a love weekend while Dan's wife and kid are away. But Alex will not let go of him, and she will stop at nothing to have him for...
   1987

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  6.8
  The French Dispatch
  A love letter to journalists set at an outpost of an American newspaper in 20th century Paris and centers on three storylines
  Character: Upshur 'Maw' Clampette

   2021

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  6.8
  Uncle Frank
  In 1973, when 18-year-old Beth and her uncle Frank take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch’s funeral, they’re unexpectedly joined by Frank’s lover Walid. A story about family, f...
  Character: Aunt Butch

   2020

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  6.7
  Midnight Run
  Jack Walsh (De Niro) is a cynical ex-cop turned bounty hunter who is offered 100,000 US dollars to bring Jonathan "the Duke" Mardukas (Grodin) to justice. Jonathan is a sensitive accountant who embezzled from the mob, ga...
   1988

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  6.6
  Next Stop, Greenwich Village
  An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953. He struggles to come to terms with his feelings about his mother's overbearing nature, wh...
  Character: Anita Cunningham

   1976

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  6.6
  Reuben, Reuben
  Meet Gowan McGland, poet. He drinks and lies. Sleeps with other men's wives. He hasn't written a word in years... but every woman he meets falls in love with him.
  Character: Mare Spofford

   1983

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  6.5
  Marjorie Prime
  A service that provides holographic recreations of deceased loved ones and allows a man (Tim Robbins) to come face-to-face with the younger version of his late father-in-law (Jon Hamm).
  Character: Marjorie

   2017

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  6.5
  P.S.
  Louise Harrington (Laura Linney), a divorced, thirty-something admission’s office at Columbia University’s School of Fine Arts is intelligent, pretty, successful, and unfulfilled. That is, until a graduate school application c...
   2004

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  6.3
  Hollywoodland
  The drama, inspired by one of Hollywood's most infamous real-life mysteries, follows a 1950's private detective (Adrien Brody) who, investigating the mysterious death of "Superman" star George Reeves (Ben Affleck), uncov...
  Character: Helen Bessolo

   2006

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  6.3
  On Becoming a God in Central Florida (TV Miniseries)
  TV Miniseries (9 Episodes). Year 1992. A recently widowed, impoverished Orlando water park employee schemes and cons her way up the ranks of the multi-billion dollar pyramid scheme which ruined her financially in the first place. ...
   2019

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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: Madge Wallace Gates

   1995

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  6.3
  Twister
  The house rips apart piece by piece. A bellowing cow spins through the air. Tractors fall like rain. A 15,000-pound gasoline tanker becomes an airborne bomb. A mile-wide, 300 miles-per-hour force of total devastation is coming at ...
  Character: Meg Greene

   1996

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  6.2
  How to Make an American Quilt
  Director Jocelyn Moorhouse's film adaptation of the novel by Whitney Otto stars Winona Ryder as Finn Dodd, a Berkeley graduate student on summer hiatus at her grandmother's home to work on her thesis and ponder a marriage proposal...
  Character: Sophia

   1995

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  6.2
  Black Widow
  An attractive woman appears to have made her goal in life to marry rich men and collect the inheritance when they die. Nothing new there, except that to speed up the process she kills each of her husbands with a poison that leaves...
  Character: Sara

   1987

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  6.1
  The Odd Life of Timothy Green
  A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.
  Character: Aunt Mel

   2012

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  6.1
  Run All Night
  Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon (Neeson), once known as The Gravedigger, has seen better days. Longtime best friend of mob boss Shawn Maguire (Harris), Jimmy, now 55, is haunted by the sins of his past—as well...
  Character: Margaret Conlon

   2015

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  5.9
  Green Card
  With the help of his lawyer, Georges (Gérard Depardieu), a composer and one-time petty thief who grew up in poverty, attempts to escape his life in Paris and begin anew in America by illegally marrying Bronte (Andie MacDowell), a...
   1990

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  5.7
  Killshot
  Carmen Colson (Diane Lane) is a real estate agent happily married to the unemployed Wayne (Thomas Jane). She successfully convinces her stubborn, blue-collar husband into an interview with her own firm. When Wayne shows up for his...
  Character: Lenore

   2008

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  5.5
  Please Give
  In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in apartment the couple owns. Kate (Catherine Keener) and Alex (Oliver Platt), a married couple who run a successful business r...
   2010

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  5.4
  Turn the River
  Gulley is in middle school, he lives with his father and step-mother; his paternal grandmother dominates the family's life. In secret, he's recently been in touch with his mother, Kailey, a pool hustler, who wants to win big and t...
  Character: Abby

   2007

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  5.4
  Holy Matrimony
  A young couple, Havana & Peter, rob a county fair of its daily receipts and escape to Canada to hide out in the Hutterite community where Peter was raised. While there, they get married to satisfy the conservative elders in th...
  Character: Orna

   1994

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  5.1
  The Comedian
  A look at the life of an aging insult comic.
  Character: Miriam

   2016

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  5.0
  Switched at Birth (TV Miniseries)
  This is the story of the two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later when one of the girls gets sick and tests revealed that she was not the daughter of the couple who raised her.
   1991

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  4.0
  Mack & Rita
  A woman in her 30s is struck by lightning and wakes up as a 65-year-old, which isn't like what she imagined.
   2022

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  Roadie
  After 20 years of touring, a roadie for a defunct 80s hair band returns home to live with his mother.
   2011

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  Sweet Land
  When Lars Torvik’s grandmother Inge dies in 2004, he is faced with a decision – sell the family farm on which she lived since 1920, or cling to the legacy of the land. Seeking advice, he turns to the memory of Inge and the sto...
   2005

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  The Best Thief in the World
  The story of a young boy (Izzy) and his family, living in New York. His father (Paul) has recently had a stroke, completely debilitating him mentally and physically. Izzy tries to escape the reality of it all by breaking into near...
   2004

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  The Hire: Powder Keg (S)
  The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of hostile territory. While they are leaving Jacobs tells the Driver about the horrors he saw as a photographer, but he regrets his ...
   2001

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  Going to California (TV Series)
  Kevin, nicknamed Space, and buddy Hank decide to abandon the routine life to drive across the country. Whatever situation they encounter they adapt and their plans are defined by no rules, no map, just go.
   2001

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  Trance (The Eternal: Kiss of the Mummy)
  As with Almereyda's previous films, this one deals with a gothic subject in a modern context. Lushly filmed it concerns an alcoholic womans return to her Irish roots, only to turn into a film about a woman whose soul is desired by...
   1998

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  Sarah, Plain and Tall: Skylard (TV)
  Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
   1993

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  The Execution of Raymond Graham (TV)
  Character: Mary Neal

   1985

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  Reckless
   1984

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  Rage of Angels (TV)
  Based on Sidney Sheldon's novel. A young assistant district attorney (Parker) is used by a ruthless attorney (Morell) to get his client off. She is fired and almost disbarred, but fights back to become a top attorney, torn between...
   1983

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  Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (TV)
   1967