Movies by Diana Scarwid
As part of the cast:
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Another Happy Day (2011)
Cast: Ellen Barkin, Ezra Miller, Ellen Burstyn …
Directed by: Sam Levinson
Upper-crust family dysfunction takes center stage in this drama, which stars Ellen Barkin as a divorcée attending the highbrow wedding of the son she barely knows and trying to hold her own…
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Tribute (2009)
Cast: Brittany Murphy, Jason Lewis, Christian Oliver …
Directed by: Martha Coolidge
Former child star Cilla McGowan (Brittany Murphy) moves to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to restore a mansion that belonged to her grandmother, a legendary actress. But once there, she…
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Dream Boy (2008)
Cast: Maximillian Roeg, Stephan Bender, Diana Scarwid …
Directed by: James Bolton
Shortly after his family moves to a backwater Louisiana town, shy teen Nathan (Stephan Bender) makes advances toward his handsome fellow student, Roy (Maximillian Roeg), and soon their…
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Local Color (2006)
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Trevor Morgan, Ray Liotta …
Directed by: George Gallo
A struggling 18-year-old art student meets a well-known painter many years his senior whose life has been consumed by alcoholism, and the two forge a friendship that helps both of them to…
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Valley of the Heart's Delight (2006)
Cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Bruce McGill, Diana Scarwid …
Directed by: Tim Boxell
Loosely based on the true story of a 1933 kidnapping in San Jose, Calif., this fictionalized version of events follows a dogged reporter (Gabriel Mann) as he fights to prevent the lynching of…
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A Guy Thing (2003)
Cast: Jason Lee, Julia Stiles, Selma Blair …
Directed by: Chris Koch
The morning after his bachelor party, prospective groom Paul Morse awakens next to a pretty girl who's not his fiancée. Though his memory is unclear, Paul assumes he cheated on his…
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Party Monster (2003)
Cast: Seth Green, Macaulay Culkin, Diana Scarwid …
Directed by: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Michael Alig leaves the Midwest for the Big Apple and becomes a fixture of the New York City club scene -- until his luck changes. This drama based on true events traces Alig's rise as a…
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The Angel Doll (2003)
Cast: Betsy Brantley, Diana Scarwid, Keith Carradine …
Directed by: Alexander Johnston
Whitey (Cody Newton) and Jerry (Gil Johnson), two boys who become close friends while delivering newspapers in the 1950s South, set out on a difficult adventure to find a special angel doll…
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Path to War (2002)
Cast: Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland, Bruce McGill …
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Director John Frankenheimer's searing and insightful film tells the inside story of how "the best and the brightest" advisors in the Lyndon Johnson (Michael Gambon) administration…
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What Lies Beneath (2000)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Katharine Towne …
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire investigates, she…
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Dirty Pictures (2000)
Cast: James Woods, Craig T. Nelson, Diana Scarwid …
Directed by: Frank Pierson
When Robert Mapplethorpe's sadomasochistic photography exhibit "A Perfect Moment" was shown at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center in 1990, it was quickly deemed obscene, and…
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A Will of Their Own (1998)
Cast: Lea Thompson, Thomas Gibson, Ellen Burstyn …
Directed by: Karen Arthur
A family of strong-willed and courageous women struggle to overcome personal and political prejudice over the course of several generations in this heartfelt miniseries inspired by a novel by…
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Ruby Bridges (1998)
Cast: Chaz Monet, Penelope Ann Miller, Kevin Pollak …
Directed by: Euzhan Palcy
Director Euzhan Palcy brings to the screen events that helped shape American history: the integration of an all-white school in the 1960s by first-grader Ruby Bridges (Chaz Monet).…
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Bastard out of Carolina (1996)
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ron Eldard, Glenne Headly …
Directed by: Anjelica Huston
Angelica Huston follows dad John Huston into the field of directing with this adaptation of Dorothy Allison's autobiographical bestseller, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh as a single mom…
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Neon Bible (1995)
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Denis Leary, Diana Scarwid …
Directed by: Terence Davies
Academy Award nominee Gena Rowlands stars in director Terence Davies's bittersweet trip into the American South of the 1940s, based on the book by John Kennedy Toole. David (jointly…
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Truman (1995)
Cast: Gary Sinise, Diana Scarwid, Richard Dysart …
Directed by: Frank Pierson
Gary Sinise owns the screen with his performance as U.S. president Harry S. Truman. Coming to power in the shadow of the legendary Franklin Roosevelt, Truman survived near-certain defeat in…
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The Cure (1995)
Cast: Joseph Mazzello, Brad Renfro, Aeryk Egan …
Directed by: Peter Horton
Rejected by his peers, an 11-year-old Minnesota boy who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion develops a kinship with his new neighbor. When the duo reads about a New Orleans'…
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Brenda Starr (1989)
Cast: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Anthony Peck …
Directed by: Robert Ellis Miller
After springing to life from her comic strip, reporter Brenda Starr (Brooke Shields) finds herself on her most perilous assignment as she heads to the Brazilian jungle to locate a scientist…
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Psycho III (1986)
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey …
Directed by: Anthony Perkins
And you thought it was safe to go back in the shower! Anthony Perkins recreates his most famous role and makes his directing debut in this second sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's legendary…
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Extremities (1986)
Cast: Farrah Fawcett, James Russo, Alfre Woodard …
Directed by: Robert M. Young
Farrah Fawcett stars as a sexual assault victim who graduates from helplessness to empowerment -- through sheer force of will -- when she takes revenge on her attacker in this riveting film…
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Heat (1986)
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Karen Young, Peter MacNicol …
Directed by: Dick Richards
Las Vegas is the backdrop for this film's torrid action when hard-hitting bodyguard Nick Escalante (Burt Reynolds) puts his heart and soul into protecting his friends. Crippled by his…
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Rumble Fish (1983)
Cast: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane …
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
In Francis Ford Coppola's black-and-white adaptation of the S.E. Hinton novel, Rusty James (Matt Dillon) is the leader of a small, dying gang once led by his now-absent brother,…
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Silkwood (1983)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher …
Directed by: Mike Nichols
While working at a nuclear power plant, Karen Silkwood becomes heavily involved in union work, but her evidence of the company's safety violations may never make it to the right people.
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Strange Invaders (1983)
Cast: Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid …
Directed by: Michael Laughlin
When Charlie's (Paul Le Mat) ex-wife disappears, he goes searching in her rural hometown. He gets suspicious when no one in town claims to know her family, but suspicion becomes terror…
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Mommie Dearest (1981)
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest …
Directed by: Frank Perry
Based on Christina Crawford's scandalous tell-all memoir, Mommie Dearest paints a portrait of a Joan Crawford the public never knew. The film portrays Crawford as a wicked, abusive…
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Inside Moves (1980)
Cast: John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid …
Directed by: Richard Donner
After a failed suicide attempt resulting in a crippled leg, Roary (John Savage) finds comfort, friendship and revelation at -- of all places -- Max's Bar, a local watering hole. There,…
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Pretty Baby (1978)
Cast: Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon …
Directed by: Louis Malle
A 12-year-old Brooke Shields stars as Violet in this controversial Louis Malle film. It's 1917, and Violet lives in the red-light district of New Orleans known as Storyville with her…