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Amy Adams - Wikipedia  Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress and singer. She began her ... She received her second Oscar nomination for playing a nun in the 2008 film ... Lois Lane in Man of Steel and a troubled con artist in David O. Russell's film ..... Adams also appeared in Spike Jonze's critically acclaimed film, Her.
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The Grifters (1990) - IMDb  Crime  A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new ... With Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe. ... girlfriend--both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play. ... Nominated for 4 Oscars. ... Eight Men Out ... Martin Blank is a professional assassin.
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Anjelica Huston - Wikipedia  Anjelica Huston is an American actress, director and former fashion model. Huston became the ... Huston earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a con artist in Stephen Frears' The Grifters (1990). She also starred as the lead in her father's final directorial film, The Dead (1987), an adaptation of a James...
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Top 7 Movies About Con Artists - The Cheat Sheet  Aug 17, 2015 ... From the tragic to the comic, here are seven great films about con artists listed ... play a pair of deceptive basketball hustlers in this comedy film ... Despite its rave reviews, Matchstick Men failed to garner any Oscar nominations and was ... Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is about two professional con artists, Freddy...
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The Grifters (film) - Wikipedia  The Grifters is a 1990 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Stephen Frears, produced by Martin Scorsese, and stars John Cusack, Anjelica Huston and ... Lilly Dillon (Angelica Huston) is a veteran con artist. She works for a bookmaker, ... Myra, like Roy and Lilly, plays all the angles. When her landlord demands...
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New The Fugitive Movie On the Way | Collider  May 12, 2015 ... Jones won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role of Samuel Gerard, the U.S. Marshal tasked with hunting down Ford's Dr. Richard Kimble,...
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Jennifer Connelly Wins Oscar for Best Supporting Actress  Mar 25, 2002 ... PDO -- Jennifer Connelly won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the 74th ... Connelly, 31, was lauded for playing the role of the wife of...
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1988 Academy Awards Winners and History - Greatest Films  [Only once in Academy history has a Best Director Oscar been awarded to a director ... Dustin Hoffman (with his sixth nomination) won his second Oscar for his role as ... Two Best Supporting Actress nominees were co-stars from Working Girl: ... one unsuccessful nomination for Best Song, "Calling You"); Gena Rowlands as...
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Hell Of A Guy Al Pacino Advocates A Different Kind Of Devil ...  Hell Of A Guy Al Pacino Advocates A Different Kind Of Devil. October 17, 1997|by AMY LONGSDORF (A free-lance story for The Morning Call) ... has two Tonys, seven Oscar nominations and one Best Actor Oscar ("Scent of a Woman") to his credit. ... who makes an ambitious Southern lawyer (Keanu Reeves) and his wife...
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Houdini (film) - Wikipedia  Houdini is a 1953 Technicolor, fictionalized, biographical film about the life of the magician and escapologist Harry Houdini, played by Tony Curtis, co-starring...
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11 Celebrities Who Were Secretly Total Badasses - Cracked.com  Dec 6, 2010 ... But every now and then, we come across actors whose real lives are even more ... In both cases, he volunteered his helicopter and piloting services free of charge, and also made himself available to the sheriff for future emergencies, ..... For the 1997 film The Boxer, for example, he trained with former...
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L.A. Confidential (film) - Revolvy  However, he supported Hanson's casting decisions and this gave the director ... Exley and White are set up with a trap against Smith and his hitmen. ..... and won two, Kim Basinger for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Curtis Hanson ..... 10th CFCA Awards March 1, 1998 Best Film: L.A. Confidential The 10th Chicago...
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The English Patient: 1996 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 18, 2014 ... ART HOUSE MOVIES $2000: In a 1996 film Jeffrey Wright played this title graffiti artist who ... MOVIE CO-STARS $600: Meryl Streep & this actress were acclaimed for playing sisters in the 1996 film Marvin's Room MOVIE...
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The Dream Behind the Reality: Amiable Lunacy and Blithe Brutality ...  Jun 17, 2014 ... Harvey enjoyed great popularity as a play and a film, and in ... According to Newsweek, Universal paid Mary Chase $1 million for the screen ... The film's repudiation of reality (or sanity, as represented by Veta and the ... Figure 1: Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart) relates to his invisible companion, Harvey.
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - Greatest Films  Laurence Harvey is brilliant as a brainwashed Korean war hero who has been programmed ... Tina Sinatra) as an action-thriller (tagline: "Everything is under control"). ... Streep in the Angela Lansbury role as Shaw's masterminding, competitive, icy mother ... The men show contempt for his coldness: "It's just our Raymond.
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Catch Me If You Can Fan Reviews - anlimara.com  Catch Me If You Can is a story about a man who is arguably the best con man to ... Frank Abagnale Jr.'s exploits are well known from his book that CMIYC is based on, ... Cast Me If You Can: The Casting of the Film breaks down the film into its main ... 'The Great Imposter' portrayed by Tony Curtis in the 1961 film of that title).
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Secret of the Incas Reviews & Ratings - IMDb  27 out of 33 people found the following review useful: ... Charlton Heston is terrific as Harry Steele, an unscrupulous, arrogant, ... Ironically, in one of the earlier scenes, the future NRA president destroys the rifle of the hit man sent to 'scare' him. ... If you haven't seen this film, make sure you catch it the next time it's on TV.
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F This Movie!: Unsung!: Quiz Show  Jun 18, 2013 ... Is this not the highest function of artto invite the audience to consider their own lives? .... I appreciated that the movie had some things on its mind to say, too. ... off with the head of Geritol, played with seductive charm by Martin Scorsese. ... so smart, or so charismatic: "They just wanted to watch the money.
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The Bodyguard (1992 film) - Wikipedia  The Bodyguard is a 1992 American romantic thriller film directed by Mick Jackson, written by Lawrence Kasdan, and starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston.
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The Bodyguard (1992) - IMDb  Action  A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to a pop singer, whose ... Videos. The Bodyguard -- Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston stars in a romantic suspense thriller about The Bodyguard -- hv post...
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How Grease Beat the Odds and Became the Biggest Movie Musical ...  Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta share a moment during the filming of ... It was this last movie, eviscerated by critics but a surprise hit at the box office, that .... Casting Sandy, the good-girl counterweight to Travolta's slick Danny, would ... toothy singer Marie Osmond, who became the front-runner until she objected to...