Movies by Melanie Mayron
As part of the cast:
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Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)
Cast: Melonie Diaz, Nicole Vicius, Bruce Cronander …
Directed by: Jamie Babbit
Set in Los Angeles, this sardonic indie comedy helmed by Jamie Babbit follows the exploits of Anna (Melonie Diaz), a lesbian and plastic surgeon's receptionist who embarks on a wild ride…
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The Naked Brothers Band (2005)
Cast: Nat Wolff, Alex Wolff, Joshua Kaye …
Directed by: Polly Draper
Real-life siblings Nat and Alex Wolff and the rest of their bandmates wrestle with the pitfalls of success in this rockumentary for kids. As the band wins fans, the guys struggle with an…
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Range of Motion (2001)
Cast: Rebecca De Mornay, Henry Czerny, Melanie Mayron …
Directed by: Donald Wrye
Based on the best-selling novel by Elizabeth Berg. Lainey Berman (Rebecca De Mornay) struggles to keep her family together and sane after her husband is injured and lies comatose. Lainey…
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Toothless (1997)
Cast: Kirstie Alley, Dale Midkiff, Ross Malinger …
Directed by: Melanie Mayron
After her untimely death in an accident, self-absorbed dentist Katherine Lewis (Kirstie Alley) strikes a bargain to redeem herself and work her way out of afterlife limbo by taking on the job…
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Ordeal in the Arctic (1993)
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Catherine Mary Stewart, Melanie Mayron …
Directed by: Mark Sobel
When a Canadian Air Force plane crashes within miles of its intended destination at Ellesmere Island, all but five members of its crew die, and the plane's captain, John Couch (Richard…
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My Blue Heaven (1990)
Cast: Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
The FBI's Witness Protection Program is turned funnyside up when Steve Martin and Rick Moranis play mob informant Vinnie Antonelli and agent Barney Coopersmith in this criminally comic…
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Checking Out (1989)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Mayron, Michael Tucker …
Directed by: David Leland
Ray Macklin (Jeff Daniels) has never spent much time thinking about his mortality -- that is, until his best friend dies in the middle of telling a joke. Suddenly, Ray's become a…
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Sticky Fingers (1988)
Cast: Helen Slater, Melanie Mayron, Adam Shaw …
Directed by: Catlin Adams
Ditzy flatmates Lolly (Melanie Mayron) and Hattie (Helen Slater) busk in the subway but can't make ends meet. So when drug-dealing pal Diane (Loretta Devine) stashes a suitcase at their…
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Thirtysomething (1987)
Cast: Timothy Busfield, Polly Draper, Mel Harris …
Groundbreaking and insightful, this Emmy-winning series examines the lives of several suburban friends as they grapple with love, marriage, parenthood, work and the ever-present fear that…
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Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985)
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, Kenneth Colley …
Directed by: Lamont Johnson
Richard Chamberlain stars in this made-for-television drama as real-life Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenburg, a noted humanitarian who shielded thousands of Jews from the horrors of the…
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Missing (1982)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Constantin Costa-Gavras helmed this thriller based on a true story. John Shea plays Charles Horman, an American expatriate living with his wife, Beth (Sissy Spacek), in a South American…
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Heartbeeps (1981)
Cast: Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Randy Quaid …
Directed by: Allan Arkush
While relegated to a factory repair shelf, ValCom 17485 (Andy Kaufman), a robot valet, and hostess robot AquaCom 89045 (Bernadette Peters) experience a connection that blossoms into love.…
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The Great Smokey Roadblock (1978)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan, Robert Englund …
Directed by: John Leone
Elegant John (Henry Fonda) is a soon-to-be-retired trucker who manages to have his precious eighteen-wheeler repossessed just before his very last haul. Already in trouble with the law, he…
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You Light Up My Life (1977)
Cast: Didi Conn, Joe Silver, Michael Zaslow …
Directed by: Joseph Brooks
On her own and independent for the first time, Laurie Robinson (Didi Conn) wants nothing more than to share her voice with the world. But the young singer's dreams of becoming a star…
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Car Wash (1976)
Cast: Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Ivan Dixon …
Directed by: Michael Schultz
This fun-tastic follow-up to Cooly High is a hilarious day-in-the-life look at a ghetto car wash in Los Angeles. At Sully Boyar's car wash, a motley crew of city-dwelling youngsters soap…
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Gable and Lombard (1976)
Cast: James Brolin, Jill Clayburgh, Allen Garfield …
Directed by: Sidney J. Furie
Clark Gable (James Brolin) and starlet Carole Lombard (Jill Clayburgh) developed an enduring love -- rare by Hollywood standards -- that lasted beyond Lombard's tragic death in a plane…
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Hustling (1975)
Cast: Lee Remick, Monte Markham, Jill Clayburgh …
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Reporter Fran Morrison (Lee Remick) pursues a forceful investigation of the Manhattan prostitution industry, delving deep into the world of working girls such as Wanda (Jill Clayburgh), their…
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Harry and Tonto (1974)
Cast: Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, René Enríquez …
Directed by: Paul Mazursky
Ripping a page from John Steinbeck's novel &NFi;Travels with Charley&NFi_;, this bittersweet comedy follows an old codger named Harry as he takes a cross-country trip with his cat,…
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Mean Girls 2 (2011)
Cast: Meaghan Jette Martin, Jennifer Stone, Maiara Walsh …
Directed by: Melanie Mayron
When the father of a high school pariah offers to pay new-girl-in-school Jo's (Meaghan Jette Martin) way through college if she makes friends with his outcast daughter, Abby (Jennifer…
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Campus Confidential (2005)
Cast: Christy Carlson Romano, Keri Lynn Pratt, Katey Sagal …
Directed by: Melanie Mayron
Mad about the way that even teachers kowtow to the popular clique in her new school, feisty transfer student Violet and her pal Cornelia start up a gossip rag to bring the haughty group down…
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Running with the Hitman (2004)
Cast: Danny Aiello, Mercedes Ruehl, Judd Hirsch …
Directed by: Melanie Mayron
Gideon Schub is so distraught by his son-in-law's threats to cut off his visits with his grandson that he decides to hire loan collector Nathan "The Nat" Winkler to ice him.…
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She Gets What She Wants (2002)
Cast: Piper Perabo, Jane McGregor, Trent Ford …
Directed by: Melanie Mayron
At a small-town Texas high school, a newly arrived French foreign-exchange student threatens to usurp the position of the school's reigning diva and throws off everybody's…
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Toothless (1997)
Cast: Kirstie Alley, Dale Midkiff, Ross Malinger …
Directed by: Melanie Mayron
After her untimely death in an accident, self-absorbed dentist Katherine Lewis (Kirstie Alley) strikes a bargain to redeem herself and work her way out of afterlife limbo by taking on the job…
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The Baby Sitters Club (1995)
Cast: Schuyler Fisk, Bre Blair, Rachael Leigh Cook …
Directed by: Melanie Mayron
With summer on the horizon, seven girls who run a booming babysitting service want to branch out with a day camp for youngsters. But their new venture soon hits more than a few snags,…