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Piper Laurie
Rosetta Jacobs, better known as Piper Laurie (born January 22, 1932), is an American academy award nominee actress of stage and screen noted for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks and the film Carrie.
Laurie was born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan, to Jewish parents, Charlotte Sadie...
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Carrie
Carrie is a 1976 American horror film directed by Brian De Palma and written by Lawrence D. Cohen, based on the novel Carrie by Stephen King. The film and the novel deal with a socially outcast teenage girl, Carrie White, who discovers she possesses...
Children of a Lesser God
Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 film that tells the story of a speech teacher at a school for deaf students who falls in love with a deaf woman who also works there. It stars William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, and Philip Bosco.
The movie,...
Dream a Little Dream
This page is about the 1989 movie. For the Farscape episode of the same title, see Dream a Little Dream (Farscape episode), for the music album by Cass Elliot see Dream a Little Dream (Cass Elliot album).
Dream a Little Dream is a 1989 teen film...
Eulogy
Eulogy is a 2004 comedy film directed by Michael Clancy. The US release was a limited theatrical release.
After Edmund Collins dies, his granddaughter, Kate Collins, is tasked with giving the eulogy at his funeral. As the Collins family joins their...
Possessed
Possessed is the name of a 2000 Showtime original movie starring Timothy Dalton, based on events appearing in the book Possessed by Thomas B. Allen which inspired the novel The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty.
The film was released on DVD in the...
Return to Oz
Return to Oz is a 1985 film which is the semi-sequel to Victor Fleming's The Wizard of Oz. It was made by Walt Disney Pictures without the involvement of MGM, the studio that made the 1939 film. However, no approval was necessary, because by 1985,...
The Faculty
The Faculty is a 1998 horror/science-fiction film, written by Kevin Williamson, writer of Scream and its sequel, and directed by Robert Rodriguez, director of Desperado and From Dusk till Dawn. The film stars Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy...
The Hustler
The Hustler is a 1959 novel by American writer Walter Tevis, later made into a 1961 film of the same title. It tells the story of a young pool hustler, Edward "Fast Eddie" Felson, who challenges the legendary Minnesota Fats (a fictional character,...
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Trauma
Trauma is a 1993 film directed by Dario Argento who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film can be described as a giallo, that is a film with influences from the horror, mystery, and thriller genres.
An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric...
Dangerous Mission
Dangerous Mission is a 1954 American dramatic thriller film starring Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, Vincent Price and William Bendix. The movie was produced by Irwin Allen, directed by Louis King and released by RKO Pictures. It is remembered today...
The Hustler
The Hustler is a 1961 American drama film. It tells the story of small-time pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson and his desire to prove himself the best player in the country by beating legendary pool player "Minnesota Fats." After initially losing to...
Appointment With Death
Appointment with Death is a 1988 mystery film, made by Golan-Globus Productions and produced and directed by Michael Winner. It is an adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel of the same name featuring the detective Hercule Poirot. The screenplay was...
Tim
Tim (1979) is an Australian romance movie directed by Michael Pate. It is the story of the developing relationship between an older woman (played by Piper Laurie) and a younger, developmentally disabled man (played by Mel Gibson). The movie is...
Rainbow
Rainbow is a television movie about the early life of actress Judy Garland that first aired in 1978 on American television.
The early life and struggles of Judy Garland (Andrea McArdle) , and of the film star's trials as a youngster in dealing with...
Saving Grace
Saving Grace B. Jones is an independent feature written, produced, and directed by Connie Stevens. The film made its world premiere in the Philadelphia Film Festival/Cinefest on March 28, 2009 and will be screening in the 18th annual St. Louis...
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway is a 1993 drama-romance film directed by Randa Haines and written by Steve Conrad starring Richard Harris, Robert Duvall, Sandra Bullock, Shirley MacLaine, and Piper Laurie.
Frank is a retired Irish seaman. Walter is a...
Francis Goes to the Races
Francis Goes to the Races is a 1951 comedy film about a talking mule and his human sidekick at the racetrack. It is a sequel of Francis and stars Donald O'Connor, Piper Laurie, and Cecil Kellaway.
The Last Sunset
The Last Sunset is a 1961 western movie starring Rock Hudson and directed by Robert Aldrich. The film was released by Universal studios, shot in Eastman color. The screenplay was adapted from Howard Rigsby's novel "Sundown at Crazy Horse" by Dalton...
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? is a 1952 film comedy starring Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Lynn Bari, Charles Coburn, and (in a small part) James Dean.
The film is set in the 1920s, and is in fact named after one of the most popular jazz tunes of that...
The Golden Blade
The Golden Blade is an adventure film from 1953 directed by Nathan Juran and starring Rock Hudson as Harun Al-Rashid and Piper Laurie as Princess Khairuzan. It is set in ancient Bagdad and borrows from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One...
Intensity
Intensity is a 1997 made for TV mini-series based on the novel by Dean Koontz, starring legendary film-star Piper Laurie, plus John C. McGinley, Molly Parker, and Tori Paul. It originally aired in the United States on the Fox Network.
Intensity is...
The Grass Harp
The Grass Harp is a 1995 dramatic-comedy film directed by Charles Matthau and starring Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Edward Furlong, and Nell Carter. Piper Laurie won the Best Supporting Actress award from the Southeastern Film Critics...
Until They Sail
Until They Sail is a 1957 American drama film directed by Robert Wise. The screenplay by Robert Anderson, based on a story by James A. Michener included in his 1951 anthology Return to Paradise, focuses on four New Zealand sisters and their...
Other People's Money
Other People's Money is a 1991 drama/romantic comedy film starring Danny DeVito, Penelope Ann Miller and Gregory Peck. It is based on the play of the same name by Jerry Sterner. The director was Norman Jewison and the screenplay was credited to...
Go Toward The Light
Go Toward The light is a television film starring Linda Hamilton, Joshua Harris and Richard Thomas. It was released on November 11, 1988
A young couple face the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS. The young couple (Linda...
Terror in the Aisles
Terror in the Aisles is a 1984 horror film documentary featuring clips from Friday the 13th I and/or II, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween I and II, Jaws 1 and 2, Alien, John Carpenter's The Thing, The Shining and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and...
Hounddog
Hounddog is a 2007 American drama film written, directed, and produced by Deborah Kampmeier and starring Dakota Fanning, Robin Wright Penn, and Piper Laurie, among others. Robin Wright Penn also serves as an executive producer. The film was produced...
Hesher
"A mysterious, anarchical trickster descends on the lives of a family struggling to deal with a painful loss."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
