Movies by Kathy Baker
As part of the cast:
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Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (2012)
Cast: Tom Selleck, William Sadler, Kathy Baker …
Directed by: Robert Harmon
While former Paradise police chief Jesse Stone fights for reinstatement, a mob-related double murder tests his mettle as he unravels a web of false clues and hidden meanings to solve the…
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Take Shelter (2011)
Cast: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham …
Directed by: Jeff Nichols
Michael Shannon stars in this thriller as a small-town family man who, determined to protect his wife and deaf daughter from impending disaster, builds an impenetrable storm shelter in the…
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Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost (2011)
Cast: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth …
Directed by: Robert Harmon
The seventh installation of this popular crime-drama series finds alcoholic former Paradise, Mass. police chief Jesse Stone back investigating the apparent drug-related suicide of a young…
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Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
Cast: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Kathy Baker …
Directed by: Marc Forster
Gerard Butler stars in this true-life story of Sam Childers, a drug dealer who turns his life around to become a spiritual warrior. His mission? Rescuing child soldiers in the Sudan from…
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Good Day for It (2011)
Cast: Robert Patrick, Hal Holbrook, Kathy Baker …
Directed by: Nick Stagliano
Forced to leave town after betraying the ruthless leader of a rural crime gang, a mysterious drifter returns to reunite with his long-lost daughter, only to be confronted by the men who drove…
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Jesse Stone: No Remorse (2010)
Cast: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth …
Directed by: Robert Harmon
After small-town Massachusetts Police Chief Jesse Stone is suspended from his job, he travels to Boston at the request of his friend Capt. Healey, the state homicide commander, to help solve…
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Miss Nobody (2010)
Cast: Leslie Bibb, Adam Goldberg, Kathy Baker …
Directed by: Tim Cox
Plucky paper pusher Sarah Jane McKinney (Leslie Bibb) lands a great promotion after innocently killing her boss, Milo Beeber (Brandon Routh), and soon she's employing her talent for…
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Jesse Stone: Thin Ice (2009)
Cast: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Leslie Hope …
Directed by: Robert Harmon
Tom Selleck returns as Jesse Stone, police chief of sleepy Paradise, Mass., who lands in hot water with the town council when he gets tangled up in a shootout in Boston, during which a state…
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Unstable (2009)
Cast: Kathy Baker, Shiri Appleby, David Alpay …
Directed by: Don McBrearty
After recovering from mental issues caused by the trauma of a violent relationship, affluent Megan Walker (Shiri Appleby) marries a seemingly wonderful man, Woody Monroe (David Alpay). But a…
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Last Chance Harvey (2008)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Kathy Baker …
Directed by: Joel Hopkins
A struggling jingle writer risks losing his job to attend his daughter's London wedding, only to discover that he's not exactly welcome. While in the airport bar, he meets a lonely…
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Shades of Ray (2008)
Cast: Zachary Levi, Fran Kranz, Sarah Shahi …
Directed by: Jaffar Mahmood
While waiting for his girlfriend to respond to his marriage proposal, half-white, half-Pakistani actor Ray attempts to reunite his newly separated parents, falls for a girl who shares his…
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The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Cast: Amy Brenneman, Maria Bello, Emily Blunt …
Directed by: Robin Swicord
Six book club members find their lives resemble a modern-day version of Jane Austen's novels in this drama. For starters, Sylvia's (Amy Brenneman) husband of 20-plus years has…
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Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007)
Cast: Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth …
Directed by: Robert Harmon
Tom Selleck reprises his role as Jesse Stone, chief of police in sleepy Paradise, Mass. In this installment, Stone's investigation into an old rape case is stonewalled as the town tries…
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All the King's Men (2006)
Cast: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet …
Directed by: Steven Zaillian
Sean Penn stars as corrupt Southern politician Willie Stark -- a charismatic man who wins the populist vote but, behind closed doors, is as underhanded as those he smeared -- in this remake…
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Nine Lives (2005)
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman …
Directed by: Rodrigo Garcia, Rodrigo García
This series of revealing vignettes from writer-director Rodrigo Garcia (Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her) peers into the private lives of nine women who are each pointed toward a…
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Spring Break Shark Attack (2005)
Cast: Kathy Baker, Justin Baldoni, Riley Smith …
Directed by: Paul Shapiro
After arriving in sunny Florida for spring break, college coed Danielle Harrison (Shannon Lucio) hooks up with nice guy Shane Jones (Riley Smith). But when the two set off on an overnight…
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13 Going on 30 (2004)
Cast: Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer …
Directed by: Gary Winick
It's 1987, and geeky Jenna wants to be popular. When her 13th birthday party goes awry, and she makes a wish that she could just be 30 already, she wakes up to discover she's…
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Frankie and Johnny Are Married (2004)
Cast: Mandy Patinkin, Kathy Baker, Leslie Moonves …
Directed by: Michael Pressman
Filmmaker Michael Pressman and his wife, Lisa Chess, thought that working together on a production of the famous play "Frankie and Johnny at the Clair de Lune" would work wonders for their…
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Fathers and Sons (2004)
Cast: Bradley Whitford, Samantha Mathis, Ron Eldard …
Directed by: Rob Spera, Rodrigo Garcia, Rodrigo García …
A father bonds with his son over the course of 30 years in the first story in this collection of tales about three families who live on the same street. The second tale reveals the affairs of…
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Cold Mountain (2003)
Cast: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger …
Directed by: Anthony Minghella
This epic tale of love and loss follows a wounded Civil War soldier making a long, treacherous journey home. All the while, his faraway love fights for her own sanity and survival on her…
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Ten Tiny Love Stories (2002)
Cast: Radha Mitchell, Alicia Witt, Lisa Gay Hamilton …
Directed by: Rodrigo Garcia, Rodrigo García
A heartfelt, racy and honest look into the female heart, director Rodrigo Garcia's second film presents a series of monologues from 10 women about the man in their past who made the…
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Door to Door (2002)
Cast: William H. Macy, Kyra Sedgwick, Kathy Baker …
Directed by: Steven Schachter
This inspiring made-for-cable movie tells the story of salesman Bill Porter (William H. Macy), who came into contact with many people during his decades of knocking on doors. Porter,…
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Assassination Tango (2002)
Cast: Robert Duvall, Luciana Pedraza, Rubén Blades …
Directed by: Robert Duvall
Enticed by a tidy sum, a veteran hit man interrupts his domestic life to travel to Argentina to ice a brutal retired general. As the assassin waits for the right moment to take out his…
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A Little Inside (2002)
Cast: Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Benjamin King, Kathy Baker …
Directed by: Kara Harshbarger
This charming family film stars Benjamin King as Ed Mills, a talented baseball player who is on the verge of attaining fame but decides to put his dreams on hold in favor of raising his baby…
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Too Young to Be a Dad (2002)
Cast: Kathy Baker, Paul Dano, Katie Stuart …
Directed by: Eva Gardos
While her burned-out spouse, Dan (Bruce Davison), and indolent daughter drive Susan Freeman (Kathy Baker) to distraction, she takes solace in 15-year-old son Matt (Paul Dano), whose stellar…
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The Glass House (2001)
Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård …
Directed by: Daniel Sackheim
After the untimely death of her parents, Ruby (Leelee Sobieski) and her brother (Trevor Morgan) move in with family friends (Diane Lane and Stellan Skarsgård). But how could Ruby know…
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Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her (2000)
Cast: Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart …
Directed by: Rodrigo Garcia, Rodrigo García
A series of vignettes explores the unseen intricacies of modern women to create this thoughtful examination of perception, authenticity and femininity. From a fortune-teller to a doctor to an…
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Ratz (2000)
Cast: Kathy Baker, Ron Silver, Jake Seeley …
Directed by: Thom Eberhardt
Like lots of young ladies their age, Marci (Vanessa Lengies) and Summer (Caroline Elliott) have boys on their feverish brains. But the closer the girls get to their school's Spring Fling…
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Boston Public: Season 1 (2000)
Cast: Chi McBride, Loretta Devine, Jessalyn Gilsig …
Teachers' personal and professional lives drive the storyline in creator David E. Kelley's Emmy Award-winning ensemble drama, which follows the lives of 10 faculty members working…
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The Cider House Rules (1999)
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Michael Caine, Charlize Theron …
Directed by: Lasse Hallström
A surrogate son and protege to a kindly physician who runs an orphanage in rural Maine, itchy Homer Wells sets off wide-eyed to see the world -- but cold reality soon intrudes on his youthful…
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Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
Cast: Liv Tyler, Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup …
Directed by: Pat O'Connor
This coming-of-age love story set in the 1950s introduces the three Abbott sisters (Liv Tyler, Jennifer Connelly and Joanna Going), who are the epitome of beauty, wealth and success -- at…
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To Gillian on her 37th Birthday (1996)
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Baker, Claire Danes …
Directed by: Michael Pressman
Two years after his wife, Gillian (Michelle Pfeiffer), died in a boating accident, David (Peter Gallagher) still fantasizes his wife is alive and talks with her "ghost" on the beach every…
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Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Bill Murray …
Directed by: John McNaughton
A brilliant cast makes Mad Dog and Glory sparkle. Wayne (Robert De Niro) is a cop who'd rather be an artist. Frank (Bill Murray) is a gangster who'd rather be a comedian. When Wayne…
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Jennifer 8 (1992)
Cast: Andy Garcia, Lance Henriksen, Uma Thurman …
Directed by: Bruce Robinson
Detective John Berlin is pulled into a grisly murder investigation in which eight unidentified blind women are victims of a killer's gruesome handiwork. John works to uncover the mystery…
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Article 99 (1992)
Cast: Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker …
Directed by: Howard Deutch
Ray Liotta and Kiefer Sutherland star in this medical thriller about a band of renegade doctors at Kansas City's Veteran's Administration Hospital who decide to circumvent the…
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Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest …
Directed by: Tim Burton
An inventor dies before developing hands for his creation, a boy named Edward who instead has scissors at the end of each arm. Edward lives a monastic existence until an Avon lady adopts him…
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The Image (1990)
Cast: Kathy Baker, Albert Finney, Swoosie Kurtz …
Directed by: Peter Werner
Jason Cromwell (Albert Finney) is a powerful TV news anchor who turns his investigative sights on a bank, eventually driving its president to suicide. The fallout from the death forces…
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Mister Frost (1990)
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Alan Bates, Kathy Baker …
Directed by: Philippe Setbon
Psychiatrist Sarah Day and detective Felix Detweiler watch as a series of unexplainable events occurs after a man who refuses to speak is charged with the serial murder of 24 victims, found…
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Dad (1989)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis …
Directed by: Gary David Goldberg
Family bonds are revived after a father is diagnosed with cancer in this bittersweet drama. Dutiful son John (Ted Danson) cares for his aging father, Jake (Jack Lemmon), but not without…
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Jacknife (1989)
Cast: Kathy Baker, Charles S. Dutton, Ed Harris …
Directed by: David Jones
Megs (Robert De Niro) is a traumatized and volatile Vietnam veteran trying to deal with his postwar anxiety, while his Army buddy Dave (Ed Harris) drowns nightmares in a bottle of booze. When…
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Clean and Sober (1988)
Cast: Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman …
Directed by: Glenn Gordon Caron
Michael Keaton received a Best Actor award from the National Society of Film Critics for his turn as Daryl Poynter, a big-time Philadelphia realtor with a hefty cocaine addiction, in this…
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Permanent Record (1988)
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alan Boyce, Michelle Meyrink …
Directed by: Marisa Silver
David was bright, talented, popular ... one of the ruling elite of his high school. So why did he kill himself, leaving a despondent family and stunned friends? Enter Chris, who delves into…
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Street Smart (1987)
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Kathy Baker, Mimi Rogers …
Directed by: Jerry Schatzberg
Christopher Reeve stars as under-the-gun magazine writer Jonathan Fisher, who -- unable to find a willing subject for an article about a pimp -- meets his deadline by concocting the life…
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Killing Affair (1986)
Cast: Bill Smitrovich, Kathy Baker, John Glover …
Directed by: David Saperstein
Peter Weller stars as Baston Morris, a drifter who arrives in an Appalachian town and confesses to widow Maggie Grisham (Kathy Baker) that he murdered her husband (Bill Smitrovich), a…
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Nobody's Child (1986)
Cast: Marlo Thomas, Ray Baker, Caroline Kava …
Directed by: Lee Grant
Marlo Thomas won an Emmy for her performance of a mentally ill woman in this fact-based made-for-TV movie. After trying to commit suicide at age 16, Marie Balter (Thomas) spends the next 20…
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The Right Stuff (1983)
Cast: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris …
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Director Philip Kaufman and a stellar cast -- including Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn and Ed Harris -- chronicle NASA's early transition from breaking the sound barrier in 1947 to the…