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Aidan Quinn
Aidan Quinn (born March 8, 1959) is an American actor.
Quinn was born in Rockford, Illinois to devoutly Catholic Irish parents. He was raised in Chicago and Rockford, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly in Ireland. His father was a professor in literature and his mother a homemaker. He has...
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Avalon
Avalon (1990) is a feature film directed by Barry Levinson. It is a mostly autobiographical story of a family of Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the United States who settle in Baltimore, Maryland, at the beginning of the 20th century. The...
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Benny & Joon
Benny & Joon is a 1993 romantic comedy about how two misfits, Sam (Johnny Depp) and Juniper/Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson), find each other and fall in love. The film is perhaps best known for Depp's humorous physical comedy routines (which are based...
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Desperately Seeking Susan
Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna. This movie was rated PG-13 in the USA & 15 in the UK
Arquette plays Roberta, an unfulfilled suburban housewife living in Fort Lee, New...
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Stolen Summer
Stolen Summer is a 2002 American film about a Catholic boy who befriends a terminally ill Jewish boy and tries to convert him, believing it is the only way he will get to Heaven. Directed by first time writer/director Pete Jones, Stolen Summer is...
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The Exonerated
The Exonerated is a film that dramatizes the stories of six people who had been wrongfully convicted of murder, but were later exonerated and freed after varying years of imprisonment, where many were subjected to further brutality and degradation....
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is a 1990 film adaptation of the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff the film stars Natasha Richardson (Kate/Offred), Faye Dunaway (Serena Joy), Robert Duvall (The Commander, Fred), Aidan Quinn ...
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The Mission
The Mission is a 1986 British film about the experiences of a Jesuit missionary in 18th century South America. The film was written by Robert Bolt and directed by Roland Joffé. It stars Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn, Cherie...
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The Assignment
The Assignment is a 1997 spy thriller film directed by Christian Duguay and starring Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, and Ben Kingsley. The film, written by Dan Gordon and Sabi H. Shabtai, is set mostly in the late 1980s and deals with a CIA plan to...
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Music of the Heart
Music of the Heart is a 1999 dramatic film. This film was produced by Craven-Maddalena Films and Miramax Films, and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution.
This film stars Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Gloria Estefan, and Angela Bassett. It was...
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Dark Matter
Dark Matter (simplified Chinese: 暗物质) is the first feature film by opera director Chen Shi-zheng, starring Liu Ye, Aidan Quinn and Meryl Streep. It won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Liu Ye plays a young scientist...
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The Stars Fell on Henrietta
The Stars Fell on Henrietta is a 1995 drama film from Warner Bros., directed by James Keach and produced by Clint Eastwood.
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) is a drama film directed by Hector Babenco adapted from the 1965 novel of the same name by American author Peter Matthiessen. The screenplay was written by Babenco and Jean-Claude Carrière. The 3-hour, 9...
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Michael Collins
Michael Collins is a 1996 historical biopic about General Michael Collins, the Irish patriot and revolutionary who died in the Irish Civil War. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
In 1916, the Easter Rising ends tragically and...
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A Private Matter
A Private Matter is a 1992 film made for television (HBO) drama based on the true 1963 story of Sherri Finkbine, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona in the first trimester of her fifth pregnancy. She was the popular hostess of the locally produced...
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Evelyn
Evelyn is a 2002 drama film, loosely based on the true story of Desmond Doyle and his fight against the Irish courts to be reunited with his children. The film stars Sophie Vavasseur in the title role, Pierce Brosnan as her father and Aidan Quinn,...
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Stakeout
Stakeout is a 1987 movie directed by John Badham and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, and Forest Whitaker. Although the story is set in Seattle, Washington, the movie was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia....
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a 2008 television film adapted from the book of the same name by Dee Brown. The film was written by Daniel Giat, directed by Yves Simoneau and produced by HBO Films. The book on which the movie is based is a history...
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In Dreams
In Dreams is a psychological thriller directed by Neil Jordan, released in 1999. The film has a running time of 1 hour and 40 minutes.
In Dreams has the distinction of being the last film Robert Downey, Jr. completed before being sent to Corcoran...
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Haunted
Haunted is a 1995 British film, directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, Anthony Andrews and John Gielgud. It is based on a novel of the same name by James Herbert. The film was produced by Andrews and Gilbert.
David Ash,...
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Legends of the Fall
Legends of the Fall is a 1994 drama film based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison. It was directed by Edward Zwick and stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinn. The film won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
The...
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Reckless
Reckless is a 1984 love story shot in the Appalachian Mountains and Rust Belt of Steubenville, Ohio, Weirton, West Virginia and Mingo Junction, Ohio. Starring Daryl Hannah and Aidan Quinn. Directed by James Foley and written by Chris Columbus....
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Blink
Blink is a 1994 Neo-noir thriller film starring Madeleine Stowe and Aidan Quinn. Director Michael Apted was nominated for a Crystal Globe award for the film at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and screenwriter Dana Stevens was nominated...
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Song For a Raggy Boy
Song For a Raggy Boy is a 2003 film directed by Aisling Walsh. It is based on the book of the same name by Patrick Galvin and is based on true events.
The film is set in 1939, on the brink of World War II, in the St. Judes Reformatory School, a...
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Practical Magic
Practical Magic is a 1998 family fantasy film directed by Griffin Dunne and starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as witches who carry on a family legacy of witchcraft and tragedy. The film is based on a book of the same name by Alice Hoffman....
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Songcatcher
Songcatcher is a 2000 drama film, directed by Maggie Greenwald. It is about a musicologist researching and collecting Appalachian folk music in the mountains of western North Carolina. Although Songcatcher is a fictional film, it is loosely based on...
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Nine Lives
Nine Lives is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Rodrigo García. The screenplay, an example of hyperlink cinema, relates nine short, loosely intertwined tales with nine different women at their cores. Their themes include parent...
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Bobby Jones: A Stroke of Genius
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is a motion picture based on the life, specifically the golfing career, of Bobby Jones, the first player in the sport to ever consecutively win all four of the men's major golf championships (in that era, before The...
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An Early Frost
An Early Frost was the first major film to deal with the topic of HIV/AIDS. It was first broadcast on the NBC television network on November 11, 1985. It was directed by John Erman and starred Aidan Quinn as Michael Pierson, a Chicago attorney who...
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Miracle Run
Miracle Run is a 2004 Lifetime Television film starring Mary-Louise Parker, Zac Efron, Bubba Lewis, and Aidan Quinn.
In a flashback, a single mother, Corrine Morgan-Thomas (Mary-Louise Parker) drives her five year old twin boys Steven (Zac Efron)...
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Wild Child
Wild Child is a 2008 teen comedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson.
The film starts with Poppy Moore (Emma Roberts) and her friends trashing all her dad's girlfriend's stuff in a wild prank. When her father angrily...
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Two of Us
Two of Us is a 2000 television drama (and the third original VH1 film) which offers a fictionalized account of 24 April 1976 (six years after the break-up of The Beatles), the day in which Lorne Michaels made a statement on Saturday Night Live...
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Crusoe
Crusoe is a 1989 film, a variation on the famous story recounted in the novel of Daniel Defoe, and is directed by Caleb Deschanel. It was Deschanel's second film as a director.
Tidewater, Virginia 1808. The story begins with the main protagonist,...
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Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone
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This Is My Father
This Is My Father is a 1998 Irish-American film directed by Paul Quinn.
The film portrays a tragic love story set in late 1930s Ireland, focusing on the relationship between Fiona Flynn (Moya Farrelly), a beautiful, feisty seventeen-year-old from a...
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The Lemon Sisters
The Lemon Sisters is a 1990 film from Miramax Films directed by Joyce Chopra and written by Jeremy Pikser. The film was both a commercial and critical failure after being shelved for more than a year with extensive revisions.
Three life-long friends...
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The Eclipse
The Eclipse is a 2009 film directed by Conor McPherson.
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Handsome Harry
Handsome Harry is a 2009 film directed by Bette Gordon.
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A Shine of Rainbows
"Synopsis: 8-year-old Tomas has been living a lonely life in an orphanage - sad, friendless and alone. Then Maire O'Donnell comes into his world, whose smile and spirit light up the darkest room - and Tomas's heart. Before he knows it, Tomás is...
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