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Boys on the Side (1995) - Starring as Jane Deluca |
| Jane Deluca is a night club singer and is out of work. Robin (Mary-Louise Parker) is a quirky real estate agent looking for a ride-share to accompany her to California. Her advertisement is answered by Jane, who at first was uncertain about her. A stop in Pittsburgh picks up Holly Pulchik-Lincoln (Drew Barrymore), who is escaping a violent and drug-dealing partner. Girls on the road, reaching understanding, respect, and care for each other. Jane is a lesbian, Robin is suffering with AIDS, and Holly is running from her past. |
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Moonlight and Valentino (1995) (TV) - Starring as Sylvie Morrow |
| This is a story of a woman coming to terms with the death of her husband and of her relationship with her supportive friends and family. Rebecca Trager Lott's (Elizabeth Perkins) husband is killed in a morning jog. As her sister (Gwyneth Paltrow), best friend and stepmother (Kathleen Turner) try to give her comfort, she has a degree of difficulty in trying to get on with her life. The emotionless widow immediately distances her character from the viewer. |
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Bordello of Blood (1996) - Starring as a Hospital Patient |
Tales from the Crypt presents this Bordello of Blood movie about a bounty hunter who returns Lilith, queen of the vampires, to life and lords over her using a magical talisman. Later, Caleb Verdoux (Corey Feldman) and one of his buddies go to a mortuary that doubles as a brothel. Caleb's sister, Katherine (Erika Eleniak), who works for Reverend Current (Chris Sarandon), hires private dick Rafe Guttman (Dennis Miller) to track down her brother. Soon, Rafe finds himself in the boudoir of Lilith's bordello, armed with a holy-water squirt gun and fighting to save Erika from the glamorous but deadly vampire. |
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Muppets Tonight (1996) (TV) - Starring as Herself in "Episode #1.9" |
The Muppet Show depicted a song-and-dance variety show, as well as the backstage antics. Most of the shows revolved around Kermit The Frog and Miss Piggy, as well as keep the human guest stars.
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The Associate (1996) - Starring as Laurel Ayres |
Laurel Ayres is a bright financial analyst with more brains than most of her male colleagues. She's fed up with following the rules to get ahead, and when she's passed over for a well-deserved promotion, Laurel decides the fairer sex has played fair long enough. She sets about creating the perception that she's formed a partnership with a powerful financial whiz. The deception works, and while the speculators are musing about the identity of her enigmatic associate, Laurel maneuvers a number of successful financial deals and proves that men don't have a monopoly on creative enterprise. |
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Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) - Starring as Myrlie Evers |
Medgar Evers is a black civil rights activist in Mississipi, who was shot to death. It is suspected that Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods), is the racist killer and he is tried a couple of times, but end in hung juries. After 20 years, Evers widow believes that she has what it takes to bring him to trial again. However, most of the evidence in the old trial has disappeared, but Bobby De Laughter (Alec Baldwin) an assistant D.A. decides to do what he can to help her despite being warned that it might hurt his political aspirations and the strain it's causing on his marriage. |
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A Knight in Camelot (1998) (TV) - Starring as Doctor Vivien Morgan |
Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court" In this romantic fantasy adventure, a lady scientist's computer malfunction whisks her back to King Arthur's court with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court. While there, the plucky lass proves that modern women are as tough as medieval men, and she soon becomes the mythical king's most favored knight. - Doctor Vivien Morgan is the scientist that travels back in time. |
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Alice in Wonderland (1999) (TV) - Starring as Cheshire Cat |
| Stage fright leads Alice down the rabbit hole, through the looking glass, and into the pool of tears of Wonderland. Here she meets the oddest creatures imaginable, where doors lead into trees and claustrophobic halls where you shrink to three inches or grow to ten feet and get stuck in a vault. You can take tea with a Mad Hatter and play croquet with a Queen made-up as a playing card, listen to singing trees and talking flowers, or get advice from a hallucinating veteran caterpillar. But everything has a purpose, and the purpose here is to make Alice confident; it's not all fun and games. |
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The Deep End of the Ocean (1999) - Starring as Candy Bliss |
Beth Cappadora (Michelle Pfeiffer) is married to Pat (Treat Williams). Beth takes her three children to a high school reunion in Chicago, and while checking in, her three-year-old boy, disappears. Despite a search and media coverage, the boy is not found, and Beth falls apart. Nine years later, the family moves to Chicago, and when a boy knocks on the door, Beth notices he looks like the time-elapsed photo of her son constructed by the police. It seems Ben was abducted by an unbalanced woman who was Beth's high school classmate; the boy was eventually adopted by George when he married "Sam's" new mother, and she later committed suicide, leaving no one to blame. Beth and Pat must find a way to deal with their now living son. |
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The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999) (TV) - Starring as The Grand Banshee |
| American businessman Jack Woods (Randy Quaid) rents a cottage on the enchanted Emerald Isle which is occupied by a family of leprechauns. Leprechaun Seamus Muldoon's son and son's friends crash the fairies' costume ball and Muldoon's son falls in love with fairy Princess Jessica. Their love re-ignites a feud between the leprechauns and the fairies, which escalates into a war. The Grand Banshee warns of terrible consequences and Jack Woods is chosen to make peace. Woods interrupts his own romance with an Irish beauty to help, and becomes involved in a strange and wonderful magical adventure. |
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Girl, Interrupted (1999) - Starring as Valerie Owens, RN |
Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) tries to kill herself and gets admitted to a mental hospital. At the hospital she meets many different characters.Like daisy (Brittany Murphy) who is sexually abused by her father, Georgina who is a pathological liar, Polly who got a serious burn injury as a young child and Janet Webber who is anorexic, but the character she gets the best contact with after a while is the sociopath Lisa (Angelina Jolie). Susanna and Lisa escape one night, trying to head to Disneyland. Susanna goes back to the hospital, and the police find Lisa, but she is different. After an 18 month stay Susanna gets to go home.
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The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000) - Starring as Judge Cameo |
35 years after The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show's cancellation, Rocky has lost his ability to fly. Meanwhile, at the home of Boris (Jason Alexander), and Natasha (Rene Russo), the Iron Curtain has fallen, and the villains dig a tunnel all the way to the TV of a Hollywood Producer (Janeane Garofalo). She signs them to a contract for a movie, and accidentally pulls them out of the TV, turning them into humans! Now, they have an evil plan to hypnotize America, but Rocky and Bullwinkle come to life also, and head to New York to stop Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro) and save America!
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