Patricia Clarkson

Patricia Clarkson

Date of Birth: 29 Dec 1959

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 76 (Actor)

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    All the Real Girls
    In a small Southern American town, Paul, who is known for having sexual relations with every girl in town, falls in love with his best friend's younger sister who is a virgin. Paul must try to prove to everyone that this time he is in love rather than in lust. (imdb)
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    Dogville
    The beautiful fugitive Grace arrives in the isolated Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom, the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hide her and in return, Grace agrees to work for them.
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    Far from Heaven
    In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
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    The Green Mile
    Set on Death Row in a Southern prison in 1935, this is the remarkable story of a prison guard who develops a poignant, unusual relationship with one inmate who possesses a magical gift that is both mysterious and miraculous. (Castle Rock Entertainment)
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    Heartbreak Hospital
    A talented but struggling actress (Chelsea Altman) lands a role on a soap opera, but a murderer strikes down one of its stars.
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    High Art
    Syd, who lives with her boyfriend James, goes to complain to her neighbor about the leak in the ceiling. Her neigbor is photographer Lucy Berliner and Syd starts to fall in love with her.
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    Joe Gould\
    Filmmaker Stanley Tucci takes viewers into the poignant and sometimes humorous world of New York City in the 1940s. This is the true story of two men, one of whom would tell the other's story: famed "The New Yorker" writer Joseph Mitchell and New York bohemian Joe Gould. (USA Films)
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    Miracle
    The inspiring story of the team that transcended its sport and united a nation with a new feeling of hope. Based on the exciting true story of one of the greatest moments in modern history, the film captures a time and place where differences could be settled by games and a cold war could be put on ice. (Disney)
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    Pieces of April
    Poignant and funny, Pieces of April is an up-close look at an extraordinary day in the life of the not-so-ordinary Burns family. (MGM)
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    The Pledge
    Academy Award-winner Jack Nicholson stars as Jerry Black, a Nevada homicide detective who volunteers for one final investigation on the eve of his retirement. He offers his expertise at a compromised crime scene and ends up making a promise to the young victim's mother that will change his life forever. (Warner Brothers)
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    The Safety of Objects
    Over the course of four days, four suburban families will open up and lean on one another, sharing their burdens and joys, and help each other remember, it is the people we know and love - not the objects we own - that provide real hope and security to face whatever life throws at us. (IFC Films)
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    Simply Irresistible
    A department store executive (Flanery) tries to resist falling in love with a young woman (Gellar), who he believes has possessed magical powers after inheriting a restaurant. (imdb)
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    The Station Agent
    A film about three people with nothing in common, except their shared solitude, until chance circumstances bring their lives together. Before long, from this forgotten depot, this mismatched threesome forges an unlikely bond, which ultimately reveals that even isolation is better shared. (Miramax)
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    Welcome to Collinwood
    Five hapless inner-city low-lifes unsuccessfully attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but wind up gaining more than they lose.
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    Wendigo
    A fluke accident sets off a chain of events that alters the lives of a family forever and conjures up the ferocious spirit of the Wendigo, a Native American Myth made manifest in an eight-year old boy's imagination. (Magnolia Pictures)
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    Good Night, and Good Luck
    The real-life conflict between esteemed television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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    The Dying Gaul
    A fiercely original psychological thriller, The Dying Gaul is a tale of lust, power, corruption, betrayal and revenge set in the seductive world of the Hollywood elite. (Strand Releasing)
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    Playing by Heart
    Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A (imdb)
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    The Untouchables
    Federal Agent Elliot Ness sets out to take out Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team. (imdb)
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    Jumanji
    When two kids play an old magic board-game they found, they release a man trapped for decades in it and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game. (imdb)
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    The Dead Pool
    Dirty Harry Callahan must stop a sick secret contest to murder local celebrities, which includes himself as a target. (imdb)
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    All the King\
    Based on Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All the King's Men tells the story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. (Sony Pictures)
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    The Woods
    Set in 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls school that she was sent to by her estranged parents. (imdb)
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    No Reservations
    Master chef Kate Armstrong lives her life like she runs her kitchen at a trendy Manhattan eatery with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates everyone around her. Kate's perfectionist nature is put to the test when she "inherits" her nine-year-old niece Zoe, while contending with a brash new sous-chef who joins her staff. High-spirited and freewheeling, Nick Palmer couldn't be more different from Kate, yet the chemistry between them is undeniable... (Warner Bros.)
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    Lars and the Real Girl
    A delusional young guy strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet. (imdb)
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    Rocket Gibraltar
    A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect. However, he connects with his grandchildren. And he tells them what he wants for his birthday and they do what they can to give it to him. (imdb)
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    Everybody\
    A Louisiana football legend struggles to deal with life's complexities after his college career is over. (imdb)
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    Married Life
    A 1940s-set drama where an adulterous man plots his wife's death instead of putting her through the humiliation of a divorce. (imdb)
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    Elegy
    Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
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    Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture. (imdb)
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    Phoebe in Wonderland
    Confounded by her clashes with the seemingly rule-obsessed world, a little girl seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher.
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    Tune in Tomorrow...
    Pedro Carmichael (Peter Falk) is an outrageous radio drama screenwriter, and he draws influence from Martin and Julia's (Reeves and Hershey) love story, as well as his irrational hatred of Albanians.
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    Carrie
    Carrie (2002) - TV Movie
    Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both classmates at her school, and her own religious, but abusive, mother. (imdb)
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    Whatever Works
    An eccentric man (Larry David) is taken into a series of adventures and encounters with his friends from Greenwich, a young woman from the South (Evan Rachel Wood), and her parents.
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    Blind Date
    Affected by tragedy, a married couple decide to role play a blind date.
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    Cairo Time
    A romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard.
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    Beyond All Boundaries
    A visual, 4-D experience of the battles of World War II featuring stories, archival footage and advanced special effects.
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    Shutter Island
    Two U.S. Marshalls are sent to a federal institution for the criminally insane to capture a violent female escapee.
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    2081
    2081 (2009) - Short Film
    It depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is "finally equal". The strong wear weights, the beautiful wear masks and the intelligent wear earpieces that fire off loud noises to keep them from taking unfair advantage of their brains. It is a poetic tale of triumph and tragedy about a broken family, a brutal government, and an act of defiance that changes everything.
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    For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
    While tanking as a viable livelihood, American film criticism is up to its eyeballs in affectionate, retrospective tributes. For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009)--a documentary mash note directed and written by the critic-scholar and now filmmaker Gerald Peary, a professor of communications and journalism and longtime film critic at The Boston Phoenix--sounds last call at the wake. (Thomas Doherty)
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    Easy A
    High school is the setting for this freewheeling comedic twist on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 19th-century novel The Scarlet Letter. Ambitious student Olive (Emma Stone) decides to boost her popularity by pretending to be the school slut. As the school's swirling rumor mill increases both her notoriety and her finances, Olive enjoys her newfound status but eventually must decide which is more important: popularity or self-esteem.
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    Pharaoh\
    During the American Civil War, a Union Army captain leads his rag-tag cavalry troop up a misty creek to a remote farm to steal enemy (Confederate) livestock... (imdb)
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    Legendary
    A book-smart teenager joins his school's wrestling team as a way to reunite his surviving family members, who split apart after the death of his father, a college wrestling legend, 10 years ago. (imdb)
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    Main Street
    Several residents of a small Southern city whose lives are changed by the arrival of a stranger with a controversial plan to save their decaying hometown... (imdb)
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    One Day
    After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are revisited each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day. (imdb)
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    Friends with Benefits
    This raucous rom-com chronicles the relationship of two busy singles, Dylan (Justin Timberlake) and Jamie (Mila Kunis), who agree to include sex in their friendship -- minus the emotions and commitment. But things get complicated when Dylan (inevitably?) falls for his gal pal. Patricia Clarkson co-stars as Jaime's hip mom and Woody Harrelson plays Dylan's practical confidante, who advises him to man up when he pursues the newly dating Jamie.
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    The Old Man and the Sea
    Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and tries to steal his catch. Santiago battles with the shark for days. He returns to the shore beaten, tattered and torn, and his catch consisting now of mostly bones. (imdb)
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    Prohibition
    Prohibition (2011) - TV Mini-Series
    The rise and fall of the United States Constitution's 18th Amendment.
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    The East
    A story centered on contract worker who is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group, only to find herself falling for its leader (imdb)
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    The Dust Bowl
    The Dust Bowl (2012) - TV Mini-Series
    Tells the story of the great drought that befell the Southern plains of the USA in the 1930s and the poor farming practices that made it into something far worse.
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    The Maze Runner
    Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow "runners" for a shot at escape. (imdb)
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    Last Weekend
    When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family. (imdb)
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    Learning to Drive
    As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel. (imdb)
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    Regarding Susan Sontag
    Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. From her early infatuation with books to her first experience in a gay bar, Regarding Susan Sontag is an intimidate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. (Antenna Documentary Film Festival Guidebook)
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    October Gale
    A doctor takes in a mysterious man who washes ashore at her remote cottage with a gunshot wound. Quickly they both learn the killer has arrived to finish the job, while a storm has cut them off from the mainland. (imdb)
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    Wayward Son
    A Southern man in the Depression tries to pick up the pieces of his life after being wrongly imprisoned for eleven years. He is befriended by a farmer whose daughter is emotionally and physically frail because of scarlet fever. A murder triggers the town folks' emotions and forces the ex-con to prove his innocence to escape a lynch mob. (imdb)
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    Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
    After having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of challenges on the open roads of a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles.
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    Caught in the Act
    An unemployed actor is mixed up in a case about a $10,000,000 bank fraud. (imdb)
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    Five
    Five (2011) - TV Movie
    An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.
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    Four Eyes and Six-Guns
    An eye doctor (Judge Reinhold) from New York goes west and takes on outlaws with Marshal Wyatt Earp (Fred Ward) in Tombstone.
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    The Party
    THE PARTY is a comedy wrapped around a tragedy. It starts as a celebration and ends with blood on the floor. (imdb)
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    Sharp Objects
    Sharp Objects (2018) - TV Mini-Series
    A reporter confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to cover a violent murder. (imdb)
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    Wonderland
    Wonderland (2000) - TV Series
    Depicting life in a mental institution from the points of view of both doctors and patients. (imdb)
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    The Bookshop
    Set in a small town in 1959 England, it is the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield. (imdb)
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    Maze Runner: The Death Cure
    Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as the "Flare". (imdb)
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    Jonathan
    Jonathan leaves the office everyday at noon. When he gets home, he goes to sleep. Every morning he wakes up and there is a breakfast prepared for him along with a video telling him about the second part of his day. (imdb)
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    Delirium
    After being released from a Mental Institution, Tom is given thirty days of home arrest and if he gets to pass those days without any trouble he will be free but once he arrives at the house, he will start to doubt his own mental health, not knowing if what all he sees there it is real or not.
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    Out of Blue
    When Detective Mike Hoolihan is called to investigate the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert, Jennifer Rockwell, she is affected in ways she struggles to comprehend. (imdb)
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    State of the Union
    State of the Union follows Louise and Tom who meet in a pub immediately before their weekly marital therapy session. Each episode pieces together how their lives were, what drew them together, and what has started to pull them apart. (imdb)
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    Sell By
    Adam and Marklin’s 5-year relationship has gone from a passionate flame to a simmer, forcing them to reconcile with each other’s shortcomings while their friends endlessly search for love in New York City. (themoviedb.org)
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    Hemingway
    Hemingway (2021) - TV Mini-Series
    Explore the painstaking process through which Hemingway created some of the most important works of fiction in American letters. (imdb)
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    It\
    Short film made for a fashion house. Four women from different backgrounds get ready and go to a concert.
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    Motherlover
    Motherlover (2009) - Direct-to-Video
    Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake sing a song for Mother's Day during their third collaboration.
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    Monica
    The intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. A delicate and nuanced story of a fractured family, the story explores universal themes of abandonment, aging, acceptance, and redemption. (imdb)
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    She Said
    New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood. (themoviedb.org)
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    Gray
    Gray (2023) - TV Series
    Cornelia Gray a CIA spy, is coming in from the cold after 20 years in hiding, dodging the government agents who suspected her of being a traitor. (imdb)
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