Amanda Plummer
Date of Birth: 23 Mar 1957
Country: USA
Biography: Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American actress. Plummer began appearing in small to mid size roles in television and films in the early 1980s. Her first movie was the 1981 western Cattle Annie and Little Britches followed by The World According to Garp (1982), Daniel (1983), and The Hotel New Hampshire (1984). However, Plummer's major first successes came from her stage work. She made her Broadway debut as Josephine in the 1981 revival of A Taste of Honey...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 51 (Actor)
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Terry Gilliam's romantic parable The Fisher King delves deep into the nature of love and loss, of guilt and redemption, of character and tragedy. (Tri-Star)
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Focusing on a gang of unique outcasts and misfits living in a downtown Los Angeles fleapit, this is a story of friendship, betrayal and the overwhelming power of unconditional love. (Icon/Road Movies)
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Burdened with the secret that she is dying of cancer, but liberated by her new sense of control, a young woman's emotional journey leads her to unexpected places and gives her life new meaning. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these and other characters prove to be woven together in ways none of them could ever fully understand.
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After his wife dies, 55-year-old businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight and a half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, a maid. Philip throws off his strait-laced and repressed attitudes, immersing himself in pleasure... (imdb)
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A twisted take on 'Little Red Riding Hood' with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker traveling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer/pedophile. (imdb)
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Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women. (imdb)
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When a hypochondriac learns that he is dying, he accepts an offer to throw himself in a volcano at a tropical island, and along the way there, learns to truly live. (imdb)
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It's about several Californian skateboarder's life and relationships with and without their parents. (imdb)
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A San Francisco poet who fears commitment has a girlfriend who he suspects may not be who she appears. (imdb)
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Auto racer Alex Furlong is snatched by time travel, a split second before a fatal explosion, by Vasendak's 21st-century team of techies... (imdb)
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Angels have no souls, but men do. And dark angel Gabriel (Christopher Walken) -- angry because God has allowed humans into heaven -- descends to earth to capture the most evil human soul he can find, planning to use it to defeat his enemies in an apocalyptic battle. While a good-hearted angel (Eric Stoltz) hides the soul in the body of a little girl, a detective (Elias Koteas) on earth tracks Gabriel's every move.
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Leland Gaunt comes to Sheriff Alan Pangborn's pleasant little New England town, and opens a store. What this kindly Satan sells is whatever you need, from a surcease from pain to an object which you have always coveted. (imdb)
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The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. (imdb)
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A naïve young boy uknowingly becomes the pawn of a serial killer. (imdb)
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Mimic: Sentinel (2003) - Direct-to-Video
Marvin Montrose is a sickly 24-year-old man, confined to a bubble apartment room due to his severe asthma, He finds out that the Judas Breed monster roaches that terrorized society are back with a vengeance and are preying on the inhabitants of his apartment complex. So with the help of his sister Rosy and his best friend Carmen, They'll have to destroy the monster roaches and save themselves. (imdb)
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A grieving woman suffers terrifying visions of her own demise after she and her husband move into a country mansion. (imdb)
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Eunice is walking along the highways of northern England from one filling station to another. She is searching for Judith, the woman, she says to be in love with. It's bad luck for the women at the cash desk not to be Judith, because Eunice is eccentric, angry and extreme dangerous... (imdb)
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Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic wand is broken and the fairies convention is threatened by evil witches Claudia and Boots. (imdb)
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A reclusive man sets out for justice and redemption when three troublesome teens kill his dog for no good reason.
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This film combines the realistic and the surreal into a delicious, yet quite believable family drama, with just enough sharp humor to satisfy your funny bone. Ellen Burstyn, always fantastic, is smashing as the mother hen of the brood, with very convincing performances by Amanda Plummer as her confused Bohemian daughter, Mary McDonnell as Burstyn's daughter-in-law, and the wonderful Genevieve Bujold as Joselle, the mysterious nun. (imdb User Comments)
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The Apartment Complex (1999) - TV Movie
A graduate student named Stan becomes the manager of an apartment complex which is quite uncommon. The tenants are all quite eccentric and uncommon characters, and the place is quite run down in certain spots. The previous manager had disappeared in mysterious circumstances. When cleaning the mucky pool, Stan encounters a corpse. The odd detectives that come to investigate seem to blame him. Then more bizarre, potentially deadly occurrences happen. (imdb)
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Last Light (1993) - TV Movie
Movie about a killer who is waiting on death row, and finds an unlikely friend in a prison guard. (imdb)
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Story of the life of the great prognosticator and of his early unwillingness to accept his ability to foresee the future... (imdb)
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A quirky, out-of-of place worker at a crucifix factory in the Bible Belt invents a device he claims can show pictures of Heaven. Discouraged and confused by the inability of those around him to see anything but a screenful of static, he charismatically hijacks a bus of friendly elderly people in order to get media attention for his invention. (imdb)
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A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with prisoners, she is most fascinated by Selina - a medium. Set in the 1870s. (imdb)
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Get a Clue (2002) - TV Movie
Get A Clue tells the story of a budding teen-aged gossip columnist working for her high-school newspaper. When a teacher disappears from campus, Lexy changes hats and becomes an investigative reporter. Teaming up with Jack (Bug Hall, "Adam Szalinski" in Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves and "Buster Stupid" in The Stupids), a hard-nosed reporter from her paper, Lexy will work to sniff out the villain, uncover the mystery, and rescue her teacher. (imdb)
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Two years of sobriety are more than enough to suit Jim (Richard Lewis), a recovering hophead and lifelong elbow-bender. At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a dreary Times Square church cellar, his sponsor prods Jim to again recount his struggle with booze and smack -- which sends him out to find deliverance in his old demons. Meanwhile, his compatriots are left to continue with their tales of substance abuse and self-inflicted misery.
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Set in 1893 as a gang led by longtime outlaws Bill Doolin and Bill Dalton is on the verge of falling apart due to time and fatigue. Two teenage girls who long to be part of the outlaw mythos of the west meet up with Dalton and Doolin: Jenny and Annie. The girls brings an unexpected second wind to the gang, as they help them plot a new series of robberies and escapes, but this burst of new activity also attracts the attention of law officer Tilghman, who is determined to put them behind bars. (allmovie.com)
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Modern day samurai revenge flick styled like a spaghetti western in which a blind swordsman (with the help of a white drifter) must battle his way past 7 deadly assassins to get vengeance on the man who murdered his wife and daughter.
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In this offbeat drama, a group of people who have nothing in common are having breakfast at the same diner, with Denise the waitress (Amanda Plummer) serving them coffee. As we view the unrelated strands of their lives, the patrons are suddenly and dramatically brought together when a lunatic with a gun opens fire on the diner, as a SWAT team attempts to bring him down and restore order while protecting the lives of the people inside. (allmovie.com)
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Simon is a fairly normal young man, dedicated to his teaching job and ailing mother. Underneath, however, things are not what they seem. Simon hunts online chat rooms, searching for young, suicidal women. Simon has a particular condition: he craves blood. (berlinale.de)
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Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which every decision will be made on a flip of a coin. Meanwhile, Sandra Thomas, disenchanted professional, is en route to pick up her flunked out sister, Alice. After being forced off the road by a mysterious assailant, however, Sandra is picked up by Jake, who's coin flipping amoral attitude quickly excites her own desire to break a few rules. (imdb)
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A group of high school kids enjoy many adventures throughout their formative tenth grade year.
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Franklin Franklin is dreaming of Switzerland and waiting for cassette tape instructions from a brother confined in a mental hospital, but he has a problem: his evil landlord's dead body is lying on the floor of his seedy LA apartment.
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The inmates of an insane asylum are subjected to experiments using collective consciousness and surgically implanted chips in an attempt to create perfect citizens. (imdb)
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Kojak: None So Blind (1990) - TV Movie
After a flighty young woman accidentally witnesses a Mob hit in an Italian restaurant, New York Police Inspector Theo Kojak must both protect her from an unscrupulous Dutch hitman, and bring Mob kingpin Tony Salducci to justice. (imdb)
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Miss Rose White (1992) - TV Movie
Rose is a modern young career woman in post-World War II New York City. Born in Poland but fortunate enough to escape the country before the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust wiped out her family, she is stunned to learn her older sister somehow survived the horror and is coming to America. The sisters' reunion is complicated by memories of her struggles to survive and the revelation of past family secrets. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Abigail Harm is a woman living in a fictionalized New York City, who, after being granted a wish by a strange visitor, asks for love and learns of a creature who might provide it. Inspired by the Korean folktale "The Woodcutter and the Nymph." (Anonymous)
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After learning she only has three months to live, Morgan flips her conservative protected life upside down. That is where she meets Jordan, a rebellious gender-defying artist, who takes her on adventure of a lifetime.
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The daughter of a billionaire tech mogul questions her own memories about her mothers death after being kidnapped by a stranger.
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Loïe Fuller was the toast of the Folies Bergères at the turn of the 20th century and an inspiration for Toulouse-Lautrec and the Lumière Brothers. The film revolves around her complicated relationship with protégé and rival Isadora Duncan. (imdb)
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The Dollmaker (1984) - TV Movie
During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly accompanying Colvis is his long-suffering wife, Gertie, a talented woodcarver set in her traditional ways. When the perils of city life and Colvis' reckless squandering of money send the Nevels into precarious financial straits, Gertie starts a business making hand-carved dolls in order to provide for her family.
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When the brilliant but sexually inexperienced computer science student PIET is turned down by bright and beautiful KLARA, he is deeply hurt. He takes a dose of a sleep medication, leading to a tumultuous night during which he loses his innocence in more ways than one. Written by Schattenkante
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During the Victorian age, a young woman falls in love with a man whom her father considers a "wild boy." Against the wishes of her strict parents, she becomes increasingly independent in an era when nice girls didn't buck the system. (Netflix)
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Canada 1960: An atmospheric condition allows teenage Parry to receive a radio from New York. He believes the radio-contest is his ticket out. When Debbie from California arrives Parry discovers love, loss, and the magic of rock and roll.
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A young man with Down syndrome romantically pursues a small-town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend. (imdb)
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Ratched (2020) - TV Series
A young nurse at a mental institution becomes jaded, bitter and a downright monster to her patients. (imdb)
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A mother joins an underground band of vigilantes to try and rescue her daughter from a state-run institution.
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Lives intertwine and connect when Francesca navigates through the living world by encountering strangers at the exact moment she needs to. All while she secretly searches for a loved one that she never had the chance to say goodbye to.
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A sculptor preparing to open a new show must balance her creative life with the daily dramas of family and friends, in Kelly Reichardt's vibrant and captivatingly funny portrait of art and craft.
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