Movies by Mary McDonnell
As part of the cast:
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Margin Call (2011)
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons …
Directed by: J.C. Chandor
An analyst uncovers information that could destroy his employer in this drama about an investment bank early on in the 2008 financial crisis. When he alerts management, the firm must decide…
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Killer Hair (2009)
Cast: Maggie Lawson, Mark Consuelos, Mario Cantone …
Directed by: Jerry Ciccoritti
When a young hair stylist working in a Washington, D.C., salon turns up dead, the cops say she committed suicide over a bad haircut -- but fashion columnist Lacey Smithsonian (Maggie Lawson)…
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Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007)
Cast: Katee Sackhoff, Edward James Olmos, Tricia Helfer …
Directed by: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Examining previous events in the Battlestar Galactica world, this sci-fi drama follows Lee Adama (Jamie Bamber) as he takes over as commander of Battlestar Pegasus, promotes Kendra Shaw…
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Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far (2006)
Cast: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber …
For viewers who want to get up to speed fast on the popular space opera "Battlestar Galactica," The Story So Far incorporates footage from the miniseries and first two seasons to recap the…
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Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Cast: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff …
Deep in the universe, cybernetic Cylons have all but wiped out the human race, laying waste to the Twelve Colonies of Man. Cast out, the few survivors aboard the Battlestar Galactica search…
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Nola (2003)
Cast: Emmy Rossum, Mary McDonnell, Steven Bauer …
Directed by: Alan Hruska
All Nola (Emmy Rossum) can think about is how much her life will improve when she becomes a successful singer. Tired of her abusive stepfather, she travels to New York hoping to find fame and…
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Crazy Like a Fox (2003)
Cast: Roger Rees, Mary McDonnell, Paul Fitzgerald …
Directed by: Richard Squires
The victim of a shady real estate deal, Virginian Nat Banks (Roger Rees) isn't prepared to give up his historic family farm without a fight. When the new property owners, a couple of…
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The Locket (2002)
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Chad Willett, Marguerite Moreau …
Directed by: Karen Arthur
In this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, two love stories are connected by the mystery of one simple locket. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Esther, a woman who befriends Michael (Chad Willett),…
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Tiger Warsaw (2002)
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Piper Laurie, Lee Richardson …
Vietnam veteran Chuck "Tiger" Warsaw (Patrick Swayze) returns home after years of carefully repressing a traumatic family event. As he struggles to reconstruct the pieces of his past, his…
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Donnie Darko (2001)
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell …
Directed by: Richard Kelly
Writer-director Richard Kelly's trippy, mind-bending feature debut stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a troubled Midwestern teenager plagued by incessant sleepwalking, family drama and visions of…
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Donnie Darko: Director's Cut (2001)
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Holmes Osborne, Daveigh Chase …
Directed by: Richard Kelly
In this director's cut edition of the cult hit Donnie Darko, writer-director Richard Kelly revamps his debut film, an edgy psychological thriller about a suburban teen coming…
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Amargosa (2000)
Cast: Mary McDonnell, Ray Bradbury, Tom Willett …
Directed by: Todd Robinson
Soon after a psychic tells her she will give up her dancing career and move to a remote town that starts with the letter &NFi;A&NFi_;, Marta Becket is stranded in Death Valley Junction,…
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A Father's Choice (2000)
Cast: Peter Strauss, Mary McDonnell, Michelle Trachtenberg …
Directed by: Christopher Cain
After their mother's murder, 13-year-old Kelly and her 10-year-old sister, Chris, leave the city to live on a ranch with the dad they've never known, ex-rodeo champ Charlie "Mac"…
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Mumford (1999)
Cast: Ted Danson, Loren Dean, Hope Davis …
Directed by: Lawrence Kasdan
A shrink who makes you think, Mumford (Loren Dean) is a small-town psychologist with an unconventional therapeutic technique that works like a tonic on townspeople such as Hope Davis, Mary…
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Behind the Mask (1999)
Cast: Mary McDonnell, Donald Sutherland, Bradley Whitford …
Directed by: Tom McLoughlin
Based on the real-life experiences of Dr. Robert Shushan and James Jones, Behind the Mask depicts the unlikely bond that is formed when two dissimilar men find that they can help each other…
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You Can Thank Me Later (1998)
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Amanda Plummer, Ted Levine …
Directed by: Shimon Dotan
Based on a stage play by Oren Safdie, this family drama examines a controlling mother (Ellen Burstyn) through the eyes of her three deflated children (Marc Blum, Ted Levine and Amanda…
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Evidence of Blood (1998)
Cast: David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell, Sean McCann …
Directed by: Andrew Mondshein
David Strathairn stars as Jackson Kinley, a successful true crime author who returns to his hometown and is soon drawn into the case of a murder committed 40 years prior -- a crime for which…
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Two Small Voices (1997)
Cast: Mary McDonnell, Gail O'Grady, Richard Gilliland …
Directed by: Peter Levin
California socialite Sybil Goldrich (Mary McDonnell) and Kansas housewife Kathleen Anneken (Gail O'Grady) have little in common, but when their health mysteriously begins to fail, they…
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Independence Day (1996)
Cast: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum …
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
When aliens in enormous spacecraft suddenly arrive in Earth's atmosphere and start blowing things up, it falls to a cocky pilot (Will Smith) and a goofy scientist (Jeff Goldblum) to save…
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Blue Chips (1994)
Cast: Nick Nolte, Mary McDonnell, J.T. Walsh …
Directed by: William Friedkin
College basketball coach Pete Bell (Nick Nolte) knows his squad of underdogs can't win without an infusion of fresh talent. After starting a nationwide search for players, Bell promises…
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Passion Fish (1992)
Cast: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Lenore Banks …
Directed by: John Sayles
May-Alice Culhane (Mary McDonnell) is a soap opera star who's left paralyzed after a car accident and, left with few other options, returns to her Louisiana home. Her heavy drinking and…
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Sneakers (1992)
Cast: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley …
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his offbeat team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking "black box" from a Soviet-funded genius, they…
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Grand Canyon (1991)
Cast: Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin …
Directed by: Lawrence Kasdan
A sequence of random but life-altering incidents conspire to link a group of Los Angeles denizens from disparate economic and social classes, leading to epiphanies about responsibilities and…
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Dances with Wolves (1990)
Cast: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Rodney Grant …
Directed by: Kevin Costner
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) tries to commit suicide -- and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the…
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Matewan (1987)
Cast: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell …
Directed by: John Sayles
Well-intentioned labor leader Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper) arrives in Matewan, W. Va., to unionize the the coal mine workers. But his efforts to organize the coal company workers spark one of…
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Courage (1986)
Cast: Billy Dee Williams, Hector Elizondo, Sophia Loren …
Directed by: Jeremy Kagan
Marianna Miraldo's family is falling apart. Her son's life is being ravaged by his dependency on cocaine and heroin. Finally, Miarianna vows to take desperate measures, and risks…