Virginia Madsen

Virginia Madsen

Date of Birth: 11 Sep 1961

Country: USA

Biography: Virginia Madsen (born September 11, 1961) is an American actress and documentary film producer. She came to fame during the 1980s, having appeared in several films aimed at a teenage audience. Two decades later, she had an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated role in the 2004 film Sideways...(Wikipedia)

Total Credits at Criticker: 78 (Actor)

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    The Hot Spot
    A lowlife drifter (Johnson) who sells used cars in a Texas burg robs the local bank and gets involved with two women: one bad (Madsen), one innocent (Connelly). Based on Charles Williams' 1952 novel "Hell Hath No Fury." (MGM)
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    The Rainmaker
    An adaptation of John Grisham's novel about an idealistic young attorney who takes on the case of a lifetime.
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    Sideways
    Two old friends set off on a wine-tasting road trip only to veer dizzily sideways into a wry, comedic exploration of the crazy vicissitudes of love and friendship, the persistence of loneliness and dreams and the enduring war between Pinot and Cabernet.
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    Firewall
    With his family held for ransom, the head security executive for a global bank is commanded to loot his own business for millions in order to ensure his wife and children's safety. He then faces the demanding task of thwarting the kidnapper's grand scheme, which makes him look guilty of embezzlement. (imdb)
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    Dune
    In the distant future, a man appears who may be the prophet that a long-suffering galaxy has been waiting for.
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    Electric Dreams
    An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman. (imdb)
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    Candyman
    Helen Lyle is a student who decides to write a thesis about local legends and myths. She visits a part of the town, where she learns about the legend of the Candyman, a one-armed man who appears when you say his name five times, in front of a mirror (imdb)
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    Creator
    An eccentric scientist teaches a student in his own manner while he looks for a way to clone his deceased wife. (imdb)
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    Class
    Jonathan, a naive country boy, gets a scholarship to a classy prep school, where he rooms with suave, rich and handsome Skip (imdb)
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    Highlander II: The Quickening
    In the future, Highlander Connor MacLeod must prevent the destruction of Earth under an anti-ozone shield. (imdb)
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    A Prairie Home Companion
    A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren (Streep), and a host of others hold court. (imdb)
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    Crossfire Trail
    Rafe Covington promises a dying friend that he'll watch over the man's wife and ranch after he's gone. When Rafe gets to his friend's ranch, he finds that Barkow, the local power in town, wants not only the ranch but the woman, too, and hires a gang of gunfighters to make sure he gets both.
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    The Prophecy
    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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    Ironclads
    Ironclads (1991) - TV Movie
    A naval battle between two large ships: the "Monitor" and the "Merrimack". (imdb)
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    Hot to Trot
    Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at the stock-market of Chicago. (imdb)
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    Mr. North
    Mr. North, a stranger to a small, but wealthy, Rhode Island town, quickly has rumors started about him that he has the power to heal people's ailments. The rumors are magnified by his tendency to collect negative charges and give shocks to anyone he touches. In his adventures he befriends an old man who is a shut-in and helps him rediscover the world. (imdb)
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    Heart of Dixie
    Alabama, 1957. Pampered Souther belle Maggie DeLoach (Ally Sheedy) and her fellow sorority sisters Delia June (Virginia Madison), Keefi (Francesca Roberts), and chapter president M.A. (Lisa Zane), at Randolph College have lived the cosseted good life, free from worry and the strife that's starting to affect the rest of the Deep South during the Civil Rights movement... (imdb)
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    American Gun
    In his last film, James Coburn plays a father who embarks on a nationwide journey to trace the line of ownership of the gun that killed his daughter. Starting with the gun factory, Martin travels to gun stores, trade shows, and individuals, also searching for his runaway granddaughter. (imdb)
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    The Astronaut Farmer
    From the time he was a child, Charles Farmer (Thornton) had only one goal: to be an astronaut. Even when he is forced to drop out of NASA's astronaut training program to deal with a family situation, he refuses to let anything stand in the way of his dream. When, on the eve of the long-anticipated launch of his barn-built rocket, Farmer faces a new set of obstacles, he is determined o reach his goal no matter the odds. (Warner Bros.)
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    The Number 23
    Animal control officer Walter Sparrow (Carrey) has found a book he doesn't dare put down. By reading a mysterious novel, "The Number 23," given to him as a birthday gift by his wife, Walter twists his once placid existence into an inferno of psychological torture that could possibly lead him to his death and the deaths of his loved ones. And all because of a number: The Number 23. (New Line Cinema)
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    Ghosts of Mississippi
    Ghosts of Mississippi is a drama covering the final trial of the assassin, Bryon De La Beckwith (Woods), of the 60s civil rights leader Medgar Evers. It begins with the murder and the events surrounding the two initial trials which both ended in a hung jury... (imdb)
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    Linda
    Linda (1993) - TV Movie
    Two couples, friends for a long time, decide to go away together. Things soon take a turn for the worse when Linda and Jeff spend far to much time together instead of with their respective spouses, Paul and Stella. (imdb)
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    Blue Tiger
    Gena witnesses the murder of her son by a Japanees hit-man. He accidentally shoots the boy during a hit on a rival gang of bus operators. Gena then dedicates her life to revenge, and seeks out the gunman. But are the other (mystical) influences involved ? (imdb)
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    Diminished Capacity
    A Chicago journalist (Broderick) suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural hometown, where he bonds with his Alzheimer's-impaired uncle Rollie (Alda) and his old flame (Madsen). Quickly a plan is hatched for the trio to head to a memorabilia convention in the city, where Rollie hopes to sell a rare baseball card that has gained the attention of local ne'er-do-wells intent on scheming the old man out of a potential fortune. (imdb)
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    The Florentine
    The bar in an old Pennsylvania steel town, housed with many of life's losers and disillusioned men, is the main setting for this slice-of-life film. Michael Madsen is the bar owner, who is deep in debt to the town's book-maker and loan shark Burt Young. Chris Penn is one of the bar's main inhabitants as he hides from his failing marriage to Mary Stuart Masterson... (imdb)
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    Almost Salinas
    A man struggles to overcome the troubles and mistakes of his past, while a film crew begin to make a movie about James Dean at the small-town intersection where Dean was killed.
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    Cutlass
    Cutlass (2007) - Short Film
    After Robin buys her daughter Lacey a new expensive guitar, she reminiscences about the time she got an Olds Cutlass as her first car when she was younger. (imdb)
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    Zombie High
    A woman (Madsen) goes to previously all-male boarding school on a scholarship. She begins to separate herself from her boyfriend in order to devote more time to her new environment. Over a course of time she notices that more and more students have lost their individuality, and approach their activities in a lifeless and automatic manner. Eventually a diabolical plot fostered by the faculty begins to emerge. (imdb)
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    Fire with Fire
    A young woman from a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp fall in love and must runaway together to escape the law, the church and their parents. (imdb)
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    After Sex
    Everything changes... after sex. Surprisingly engaging adult relationship drama (imdb)
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    The Haunting in Connecticut
    After a family is forced to relocate for their son's health, they begin experiencing supernatural behavior in their new home, which turns out to be a former mortuary. (imdb)
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    Wonder Woman
    Wonder Woman (2009) - Direct-to-Video
    In antiquity, the Amazons defeat the war god, Ares, and Zeus charges them to hold him prisoner as eternally young warriors on the hidden island of Themyscira. Centuries later, US Air Force pilot Steve Trevor is lured to crash land on the island and the distraction of that trespass allows Ares to escape. In response, Princess Diana wins the responsibility to both take Trevor home and recapture the fugitive god (imdb)
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    Just Your Luck
    Six million dollars suddenly goes up for grabs when an aged diner's heart fails after he discovers that he has won the lottery... (imdb)
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    Caroline at Midnight
    Victoria is a dealer in the most dangerous game. Playing conveniently into her hand is her husband and his partner, two of the dirtiest cops on the force. Gunning for her is a seductive lethal druglord. But in this game, Victoria's wildest card may be herself. She's falling in love with a reporter, who knows the secrets that could destroy them all. (imdb)
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    Modern Girls
    A tightly wound guy (Rohner) shows up for a date with his dream girl (Madsen), only to spend most of the evening playing chauffeur to her two crazy roommates as the four of them party the night away in LA.
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    Just Ask My Children
    When Brenda and Scott Kniffen are accused of child molestation and physical abuse, the couple's impressionable children are coerced into testifying against their parents. The Kniffens are sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes they didn't commit, and 12 years pass before the truth of the case is finally revealed and the original verdict is reversed. But has irreparable damage already been caused by a justice system out of control?
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    Gotham
    Gotham (1988) - TV Movie
    Eddie is a private detective. When a client asks him to help persuade his ex-wife to leave him alone, Eddie says yes. Nothing strange about that ?, well 'ex' refers to the fact that she died 10 years ago. Eddie thinks this will be an 'easy money' case, but soon falls for the beautiful woman who insists she's no ghost. (imdb)
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    Slam Dance
    A cartoonist who had an affair with a girl who is murdered gets himself embroiled in a high-level cover-up of a sex scandal involving his lover. By using his artistic talent to try and reconstruct the scandal, he attracts attention to himself by the people involved, and becomes a target himself. (imdb)
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    Red Riding Hood
    This spooky reimagining of the classic dark-woods folk tale stars Amanda Seyfried as Valerie, a village girl who's confronting a tumultuous romantic situation when a legendary werewolf slaughters her sister. Valerie enlists the help of a veteran demon hunter (Gary Oldman) to destroy the creature, but as each cycle of the moon brings fresh deaths, Valerie begins to realize that the murderous beast may be closer to her than she'd ever dreamed.
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    Being Michael Madsen
    Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles.
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    Full Disclosure
    Full Disclosure (2001) - Direct-to-Video
    A reporter discovers a woman who is a suspected terrorist. (imdb)
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    Long Gone
    Long Gone (1987) - TV Movie
    Story of the Tampico Stogies, a low minor-league baseball team, and its star player and manager, Stud' Cantrell, as they battle for the league championship amidst the corruption and racism of the American south. (imdb)
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    Third Degree Burn
    Scott Weston is a private investigator who is supposedly hired by a rich businessman to determine whether or not his beautiful wife is fooling around behind his back... (imdb)
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    Ambushed
    Jim Natter, the leader of a violent Kuk Klux Klan lodge, is shot dead. His teenage son Eric Natter is found nearby, and taken into police custody for his protection pending the investigation. While four cops drive him to a safe-house, they are ambushed. Three of them shot dead, including Deputy Lawrence, and his black partner Jerry Robinson is accused of the murders. (imdb)
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    Victim of Love
    A psychiatrist (Williams) and her patient (Madsen) are involved with the same man. (imdb)
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    The Magic of Belle Isle
    In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.
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    The Hearst and Davies Affair
    Story of the decades-long affair between married newspaper magnate and movie producer William Randolph Hearst and actress and former "Ziegfeld Follies" showgirl Marion Davies. (imdb)
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    The Hot Flashes
    An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current arrogant high school girls' state champs to a series of games to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as these marginalized women go to comic extremes to prove themselves on and off the court, and become a national media sensation. (imdb)
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    Love Kills
    Love Kills (1991) - TV Movie
    In this made-for-cable thriller, Virginia Madsen portrays a photographer who discovers that her husband has hired a hit man to rub her out. (allmovie)
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    Lying in Wait
    Young bachelor Babee is looking after his dead mother's estate when married couple Keith and Vera move in. Babee becomes attracted to them by the beautiful Vera and the risk taking Keith. However at a party Vera crashes her car, putting Keith into a coma. When Keith comes out he is in a semi-vegetative state and must rely on Vera to look after him. Keith can't move or speak but reveals to Babee that he can still talk and starts to kill those that wronged him with Babee's help. (imdb)
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    Anna Nicole
    Anna Nicole (2013) - TV Movie
    Anna Nicole Smith (Agnes Bruckner) was a single mother from Texas who became the biggest supermodel in the world, but her sudden catapult to fame came with a price, as drugs, alcohol and reckless behavior led her down a tragic path. Now you get to see the whole story in this compelling original film, as Anna Nicole?s sexual desires, crippling addictions and her overwhelming need to be famous lead her from incredible fame and fortune to her unfortunate descent. (imdb)
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    Jake Squared
    A filmmaker sets out to make a new project in order to figure out how he's screwed up every relationship he's ever had. (imdb)
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    The Last Keepers
    As part of a family of artists and free spirits, teenager Rhea (Zosia Mamet) has always embraced her status as a misfit. But when she learns that her coming of age also means the coming of magical powers, Rhea finds herself responsible for the fate of the whole world... even the losers at school. (watch.nowtv.com)
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    Crazy Kind of Love
    A broken family finds their relationships to one another changed by a new arrival in the household. (imdb)
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    Returning Lily
    A married woman becomes attracted to a young man after she takes the ashes of her nanny to Hawaii.
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    All the Wilderness
    James has shut himself off from his surroundings, falling into a world of imagination and darkness. Visits with his psychiatrist have proven unhelpful - though he takes a liking to fellow patient, Val. As James begins to rebel against his single mother, he ventures into the night where he meets a mysterious kid who welcomes him into an eccentric city. Relationships are put to the test as James navigates unfamiliar territory, wrestling with the reality of his own personal wilderness. (imdb)
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    Walter
    A ticket-taker at the local cinema believes he is the son of God. He has agreed to decide the eternal fate of everyone he comes in to contact with. (imdb)
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    Dead Rising: Watchtower
    A group of people fight to survive in a zombie infested town. (imdb)
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    Joy
    Joy is the story of a family across four generations and the woman who rises to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty. (imdb)
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    Burning Bodhi
    Lifelong friends stumble back home after high school when word goes out on Facebook that the most popular among them has died.
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    American Playhouse
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    Burn Your Maps
    A family in emotional turmoil is taken by surprise in this quirky adventure where an eccentric 8-year-old American boy, Wes, has an existential epiphany - He believes that he is in fact a Mongolian goat herder. When Wes befriends a similarly displaced Indian immigrant they both decide it's their destiny to connect the child's dream to his reality through the use of crowdfunding. (imdb)
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    Better Watch Out
    On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion. (imdb)
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    Smith
    Smith (2006) - TV Series
    A drama about the lives of a crew of professional criminals. (imdb)
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    Artworks
    A police chief's daughter, a sales agent for a home-security firm, meets an art gallery owner. Love and envy lead them to hatch a plot to steal overlooked but valuable paintings from her wealthy clients. (imdb)
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    1985
    A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family. (imdb)
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    A Change of Heart
    Hank is a frustrated man fearful of diversity, but his Central Florida town is adhering less and less to the white, straight profile with which he's comfortable. But after suffering a heart attack, Hank's life is saved by a transplant from a Puerto Rican drag queen, after which he starts taking steps in a new direction.
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    Spare Room
    When a young widow rents a room to a mysterious veteran, their attraction sparks unforeseen circumstances. (imdb)
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    Her Smell
    A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success. (imdb)
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    Swamp Thing
    Swamp Thing (2019) - TV Series
    Abby Arcane returns home to Marais, Louisiana to investigate a deadly swamp-borne virus, only to discover the dark, terrifying mysteries of the swamp. (imdb)
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    Father of Invention
    Robert Axle, an eccentric inventor turned ego maniacal infomercial guru, loses it all when one of his inventions maims thousands of customers. After 8 years in maximum security prison, Axle is ready to redeem his name and rebuild his billion dollar empire. But first he must convince his estranged 22 year old daughter to let him live with her and her quirky, over protective roommates. (imdb)
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    The Haunting
    When Eleanor, Theo, and Luke decide to take part in a sleep study at a huge mansion they get more than they bargained for when Dr. Marrow tells them of the house's ghostly past. (imdb)
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    The Practice
    The Practice (1997) - TV Series
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    American Gothic
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    Prey for the Devil
    A nun prepares to perform an exorcism and comes face to face with a demonic force with mysterious ties to her past (imdb)
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    One Day As A Lion
    Jackie Powers will stop at nothing to prevent his son from following him into a life of crime. With his mob employer in pursuit, a chance encounter at a roadside diner charts a new path.
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    The Portrait
    After her husband is devastated by a tragic accident, a devoted wife obsesses over a mysterious portrait that resembles him as he was; but when it starts to terrorize her, she must decide if it's possessed or if she's losing her mind.
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    Lola
    Lola James works to save enough money to get her little brother, Arlo, out of their toxic home. Arlo keeps her hopeful, until one tragic night, when her whole world gets uprooted. From that moment on, nothing will ever be the same. (imdb)
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