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Genre "Feminist Film" Movies (showing 1 to 21 from 21 total)
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A League of Their Own (1992)
Genre:
Comedy Drama,
Sports Drama,
Ensemble Film,
Americana,
Feminist Film.
Director:
Penny Marshall.
Actors:
Geena Davis,
Tom Hanks,
Lori Petty,
Madonna,
Jon Lovitz,
Rosie O'Donnell,
David Strathairn,
Garry Marshall,
Megan Cavanagh,
Renee Coleman,
Ann Cusack,
Anne Ramsay,
Tracy Reiner,
Bitty Schram,
Freddie Simpson,
Bill Pullman,
Pauline Brailsford,
Justin Scheller,
Eddie Jones,
Lynn Cartwright,
Rae Allen,
Eunice Anderson,
Blair Baron,
Douglas Blakeslee,
Shirley Burkovich,
Kathleen Butler,
Ray Chapman,
Larissa Collins,
Laurel Cronin,
Don S. Davis,
Dolores "Pickles" Dries,
Marvin Einhorn,
Barbara Erwin,
Stephen Feagley,
Brenda Ferrari,
Brian Flannery,
David Franks,
Brian Boru Gleeson,
R.M. Haley,
Lisa Hand,
Joette Hodgen,
Mark Holton,
Ryan Howell,
Vera Johnson,
Cheryl Jones,
Janet Jones,
Cherry Jones,
Robin Knight,
Joe Krowka,
Téa Leoni,
Ellen Lewis,
Amanda Mackey-Johnson,
Stephen Mailer,
Kathleen Marshall,
Eugenia McLin,
Eddie Mekka,
Betty Miller,
Shelly Niemeyer,
Ryan Olsen,
Patti Pelton,
Barbara Pilavin Gelber,
Connie Pounds-Taylor,
Sally Rutherford,
Wantland L. Sandel, Jr.,
Lita Scmitt,
Harry Shearer,
Kelli Simpkins,
Joey Slotnick,
Gregory Sporleder,
Robert Stanton,
Sharon Szmidt,
Neezer Tarleton,
Amanda Walker,
Brenda Watson,
Ellie Weingardt,
Alan Wilder,
Patricia J. Wilson.
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The All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League was founded in 1943, when most of the men of baseball-playing age were far away in Europe and Asia fighting World War II. The league flourished until after World War II, when, with the men's return, the league was consigned to oblivion. Director Penny Marshall and screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel re-create the wartime era when women' ...
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The film zeroes in on two women: Kata, older and widowed, and Anna, a downtrodden young women kept in a children's institution by her unloving parents. Her own sense of self-value strengthened by an unhappy love affair (she realizes that all fault lay with the man), Kata helps free Anna from her family's influence. Anna gets married, while Kata adopts a child from the institution where Anna had pr ...
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Bandidas (2006)
Genre:
Western,
Comedy,
Feminist Film,
Buddy Film,
Revisionist Western.
Director:
Espen Sandberg,
Joachim Roenning.
Actors:
Penélope Cruz,
Salma Hayek,
Steve Zahn,
Dwight Yoakam,
Sam Shepard,
Denis Arndt,
Audra Blaser,
Israel "East" Carlo,
Carlos Cervantes,
Jose Maria Negri,
Joseph D. Reitman.
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Latina heartthrobs Salma Hayek and Penélope Cruz co-headline the rousing indie Western Bandidas. The brainchild of producer/screenwriter Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Big Blue), Bandidas marks one of only a handful of films in its genre (along with Bad Girls, Cattle Annie and Little Britches, and Johnny Guitar) to use women as its principals, and distinguishes itself further by adding hefty dos ...
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Director Sarah Gavron and screenwriter Abi Morgan team to adapt author Monica Ali's award-winning novel about a young girl from Bangladesh who finds the spark in her soul slowly fading after traveling to London for an arranged marriage. As a child, Nazneen (Tannishtha Chatterjee) was always told that she was a survivor. Now, as a young adult, she is leaving behind her mother and sister to start a ...
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Dangerous Beauty (1998)
Genre:
Drama,
Feminist Film,
Period Film,
Biography [feature],
Romantic Drama.
Director:
Marshall Herskovitz.
Actors:
Catherine McCormack,
Rufus Sewell,
Jacqueline Bisset,
Oliver Platt,
Moira Kelly,
Fred Ward,
Naomi Watts,
Jeroen Krabbé,
Joanna Cassidy,
Daniel Lapaine,
Jake Weber,
Simon Dutton,
Peter Eyre,
Michael Culkin.
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Marshall Herskovitz directed this look at life in 16th-century Venice, based on Margaret Rosenthal's 1994 book The Honest Courtesan. Positioned outside of the Venetian court, Veronica Franco (Catherine McCormack) hopes to rise above her station, but her interest in nobleman's son Marco Venier (Rufus Sewell) is blocked since his parents forbid their marriage. Following the path taken by her mother, ...
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Erin Brockovich (2000)
Genre:
Comedy Drama,
Docudrama,
Feminist Film,
Courtroom Drama.
Director:
Steven Soderbergh.
Actors:
Julia Roberts,
Albert Finney,
Aaron Eckhart,
Marg Helgenberger,
Cherry Jones,
Veanne Cox,
Conchata Ferrell,
Tracey Walter,
Peter Coyote,
Scotty Leavenworth,
Gemmenne De la Pena,
Jamie Harrold.
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Julia Roberts stars in this legal drama based on the true story of a woman who helped win the largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit. Erin Brockovich (Roberts) is a single mother of three who, after losing a personal injury lawsuit, asks her lawyer, Ed Masry (Albert Finney), if he can help her find a job. Ed gives her work as a file clerk in his office, and she runs across some in ...
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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Genre:
Comedy Drama,
Period Film,
Feminist Film.
Director:
Jon Avnet.
Actors:
Kathy Bates,
Jessica Tandy,
Mary Stuart Masterson,
Mary-Louise Parker,
Cicely Tyson,
Nick Searcy,
Gailard Sartain,
Stan Shaw,
Gary Basaraba,
Jo Harvey Allen,
Nancy Moore Atchison,
Suzi Bass,
Reid Binion,
Haynes Brooke,
Michael Burgess,
David Dwyer,
Tom Even,
Genevieve Fisher,
Fannie Flagg,
Grayson Fricke,
Bob Hannah,
Tres Holton,
Catherine Larson,
Evan Lockwood,
Ted Manson,
James Mayberry,
Ronald McCall,
Macon McCalman,
Wallace Merck,
Carole Mitchell-Leon,
Danny Nelson,
Chris O'Donnell,
Enjolik Oree,
Ginny Parker,
Bob Penny,
Lashondra Phillips,
La Tanya Richardson,
Richard Riehle,
Raynor Scheine,
Timothy Scott,
Constance Shulman,
Lois Smith,
Afton Smith,
Missy Wolff,
Grace Zabriskie.
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A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in this warm comedy-drama. Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is an emotionally repressed housewife with a habit of drowning her sorrows in candy bars. Her husband Ed (Gailard Sartain) barely acknowledges her existence, and while he visits his aunt at a nursing home every week, Evelyn is ...
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Ginger Snaps (2000)
Genre:
Horror,
Coming-of-Age,
Monster Film,
Feminist Film.
Director:
John Fawcett.
Actors:
Emily Perkins,
Katharine Isabelle,
Kristopher Lemche,
Mimi Rogers,
Jesse Moss,
Peter Keleghan,
John Bourgeois,
Nick Nolan.
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In the generic Canadian suburb of Bailey Downs live Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), 15-year-old sisters committed to introversion, menstruation anxiety, and terminal misanthropy. Three years late for their first period, they spend their time staging gruesome death scenes for their own amusement, amidst the willful ignorance of their relentlessly perky mother (Mimi Rogers) ...
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Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
Genre:
Drama,
Biography [feature],
Sports Drama,
Feminist Film.
Director:
Jonathan Kaplan.
Actors:
Bonnie Bedelia,
Beau Bridges,
Leo Rossi,
Hoyt Axton,
Bill McKinney,
Anthony Edwards,
Dean Paul Martin,
Paul Bartel,
Missy Basile,
Michael Cavanaugh,
Ellen Geer,
Nora Heflin,
Tiny Wells,
Jesse Aragon,
Bruce Barlow,
Creed Bratton,
Paul Bryar,
Jill Carroll,
Martin Casella,
Mark Dawson,
Diane Delano,
Sally Dennison,
Thomas A. Duffield,
Mitzi Hoag,
Tim Kimber,
Terence Knox,
Sam Laws,
Paul Linke,
Dick Miller,
Bob Minor,
Harry Northrup,
Catherine Paolone,
Sam Posey,
Robert Ridgely,
Michael Talbott,
Leonard Termo,
Byron Thames,
Brandon Brent Williams.
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Heart Like a Wheel stars Bonnie Bedelia as real-life racing champion Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney. Overcoming sexist hurdles, Shirley works hard to qualify for the major auto race competitions of America. Firmly in her cheering section is her dad (Hoyt Axton), and—at least at first—her husband, mechanic Jack Muldowney (Leo Rossi). When Jack, jealous of Shirley's succes ...
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If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
Genre:
Drama,
Gay & Lesbian Films,
Feminist Film.
Director:
Anne Heche,
Jane Anderson,
Martha Coolidge.
Actors:
Vanessa Redgrave,
Marian Seldes,
Paul Giamatti,
Elizabeth Perkins,
Jenny O'Hara,
Donald Elson,
Michelle Williams,
Chloë Sevigny,
Nia Long,
Natasha Lyonne,
Heather McComb,
Amy Carlson,
Lee Garlington,
Rashida Jones,
Kirk Trutner,
Sharon Stone,
Ellen DeGeneres,
Regina King,
Kathy Najimy,
Mitchell Anderson,
George Newbern,
Lucinda Jenney.
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This three-part drama, produced for HBO, examines the changing tides of the lives of lesbians in America, both politically and personally, as we eavesdrop on three stories taking place in the same house over a span of five decades. In 1961, the house is home to Edith (Vanessa Redgrave) and Abby (Marian Seldes), an elderly lesbian couple whose lifestyle is not accepted or acknowledged by their fami ...
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In the Cut (2003)
Genre:
Thriller,
Erotic Thriller,
Feminist Film,
Psychological Thriller.
Director:
Jane Campion.
Actors:
Meg Ryan,
Mark Ruffalo,
Kevin Bacon,
Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Nick Damici,
Sharrieff Pugh,
Sunrise Coigney,
Micheal Nuccio,
Dominick Aries,
Alison Nega,
Susan Gardner,
Heather Litteer,
Daniel T. Booth,
Cordell Clyde,
Funda Duyal,
James Fiero,
Ami Goodheart,
Frank Harts,
Tim House,
Michelle Hurst,
Yaani King,
Theo Kogan,
Nancy La Scala,
Julius Le Flore,
Dana Lubotsky,
Arthur Nascarella,
Patrice O'Neal,
Upendran Paniker,
Jacinto Taras Riddick,
Karen Riggins,
Sharon Riggins,
Hal Sherman,
Sebastian Sozzi,
Vinny Vella,
Sandy Vital,
Zach Wegner,
Kendra Zimmerman.
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Jane Campion directs the erotic thriller In the Cut, based on the best-selling suspense novel by Susanna Moore. Set in New York City during the summertime, the film is centered on Frannie Avery (Meg Ryan), a middle-class English teacher in the midst of researching a book project about colloquial language. One night she accidentally witnesses a sexual situation involving a suspected killer, which m ...
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Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
Genre:
Drama,
Feminist Film,
Docudrama,
Biography [feature],
Period Film.
Director:
Katja von Garnier.
Actors:
Hilary Swank,
Frances O'Connor,
Julia Ormond,
Anjelica Huston,
Molly Parker,
Patrick Dempsey,
Laura Fraser,
Brooke Smith,
Vera Farmiga,
Lois Smith,
Margo Martindale,
Joseph Adams,
Adilah Barnes,
Carrie Snodgress,
Bob Gunton,
Trevor Gagnon.
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German filmmaker Katja von Garnier directs the HBO original movie Iron Jawed Angels, inspired by a pivotal chapter in American history. Hilary Swank plays Alice Paul, an American feminist who risked her life to fight for women's citizenship and the right to vote. She founded the separatist National Woman's Party and wrote the first equal rights amendment to be presented before Congress. Together w ...
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Lianna (1983)
Genre:
Drama,
Gay & Lesbian Films,
Erotic Drama,
Feminist Film.
Director:
John Sayles.
Actors:
Linda Griffiths,
Jane Hallaren,
David de Vries,
Jo Henderson,
Jessica Wight MacDonald,
Jesse Solomon,
John Sayles,
Stephen Mendillo,
Betsy Julia Robinson,
Nancy Mette,
Maggie Renzi,
Amanda Carlin,
Madelyn Coleman,
Chris Elliott,
Madeleine Lee Gilford,
Rochelle Oliver,
Jean Passanante,
Robyn Reeves,
Marisa Smith,
Maggie Task,
Deborah Taylor.
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After helping to kick-start the independent film movement in America with The Return of the Secaucus Seven, John Sayles wrote, directed, and edited his second feature, about a woman who finds herself staring life over after coming out of the closet as a lesbian. Lianna (Linda Griffiths) is a woman in her early thirties who's married to Dick (Jon DeVries), who teaches film at a college in Boston. L ...
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Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Genre:
Drama,
Period Film,
Coming-of-Age,
Feminist Film.
Director:
Mike Newell.
Actors:
Julia Roberts,
Kirsten Dunst,
Julia Stiles,
Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Juliet Stevenson,
Dominic West,
Ginnifer Goodwin,
Topher Grace,
John Slattery,
Marcia Gay Harden,
Jordan Bridges,
Marian Seldes,
Donna Mitchell,
Terence Rigby,
Laura Allen,
Lauren Adler,
Tori Amos,
Jennifer H. Anderson,
Katherine Argo,
Daisy Baldwin,
Janine Barris,
Emily Bauer,
Kirstie Bingham,
Paul Vincent Black,
Shelby Bond,
Christopher Bonomo,
Jennifer Bowen,
Lou Brock,
Rob Buntzen,
Chris Burke,
James Callahan,
Michael Choi,
Angelique Claire,
Rony Clanton,
Nikki Coble,
Kristen Connolly,
Kristyn Coppola,
Melissa Deles,
Dorothy Dwyer,
Kimberly Ehly,
Jennie Eisenhower,
Laura M. Flahive,
Megan Marie Ford,
John D. Fowler,
Lauren Fruchter,
Nicole Frydman,
Noelle Gibson,
Lisa Roberts Gillan,
Maria Vicens Girau,
Kate Glass,
Natalie Gomez,
Sid Grant,
Larry Grenadier,
Amanda Gruss,
Madeleine Hackney,
Stella Hao,
Walker Hays,
Betina Hershey,
Michele Hillen,
Yuval Hod,
Kristen Marie Holly,
Devon Jencks,
Christopher Braden Jones,
Richard Jones,
Jerry Jordan,
Carrie Ann Kaye,
Nickolay Khazanov,
Canedy Knowles,
Nadia Kravets,
Maria Levinstein,
Lily Lodge,
Leslie Lyles,
Kellydawn Malloy,
Annika Marks,
Brad Mehldau,
June Miller,
Chuck Montgomery,
Amy Montminy,
Ebon Moss-Bachrach,
Melanie Angelique Moyer,
Annette Nicole,
Richard O'Rourke,
Lance Olds,
Kevin Osborne,
Aleksa Palladino,
Joel Palmer,
Mary S. Pascoe,
Elise Passamani,
Ed Peed,
Christian Perry,
Daniel Ponickly,
Lily Rabe,
Katherine Reilly,
Erin E. Richardson,
Krysten Ritter,
Taylor Roberts,
Peter J. Rowan,
Jackie Sanders,
Tony Scheppler,
John Scurti,
Emily R. See,
Solomon Singer,
Charles Techman,
Liliane Thomas,
Brandy Tipton,
Trisha Trokan,
Megan Tropea,
Gabriel Vaughan,
Becky Veduccio,
Kim Villanueva,
Julie Wagner,
Maja Walpvszyl,
Dan Weltner,
Sarah Billings Wheeler,
Lindsey White,
Denise Zadroga.
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Set in 1953, Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a new young art history professor at Wellesley College, an all-female campus with a prestigious reputation for academic excellence. Unfortunately for free-minded Berkeley grad Watson, her East Coast teaching stint comes during a less-progressive time that finds most of her students — among them Betty Warren ...
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Orlando (1992)
Genre:
Drama,
Fantasy,
Period Film,
Feminist Film.
Director:
Sally Potter.
Actors:
Tilda Swinton,
Billy Zane,
Lothaire Bluteau,
John Wood,
Charlotte Valandrey,
Quentin Crisp,
Heathcote Williams,
Peter Eyre,
Jimmy Somerville,
Dudley Sutton,
Simon Russell Beale,
John Byrne,
Sarah Crowden,
Robert Demeger,
John Grillo,
Roger Hammond,
Barbara Hicks,
Thom Hoffman,
Kathryn Hunter,
Toby Jones,
Mary McLeod,
Ned Sherrin,
Jerome Willis.
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Independent filmmaker Sally Potter's gender-bending epic, which views four centuries of sexual politics through the eyes of a sex-switching main character, is based on the 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf. The androgynous title character is played with delicate quietude by Tilda Swinton. The story begins during the reign of the aging Queen Elizabeth I (Quentin Crisp, in a droll turn recalling his The ...
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Do ji-won stars in this tense and cathartic South Korean drama as a battered housewife whose husband's regular beatings drive her to the absolute breaking point. In defiance, she tears away from him and trains as a boxer, then publicly challenges him to an organized fight before an audience of spectators.
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The healing power of the sexual act is the focus of this magic-realist entry, shot in Mexico and produced in Spain by writer-director Laura Mana. Evoking films as disparate as Wings of Desire, Like Water for Chocolate, and Breaking the Waves, Sexo Por Compasion switches from black and white to color as it relays the tale of Dolores (Elisabeth Margoni), a woman who begins a series of affairs after ...
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The Color Purple (1985)
Genre:
Drama,
Period Film,
Feminist Film,
Marriage Drama,
Rural Drama.
Director:
Steven Spielberg.
Actors:
Danny Glover,
Whoopi Goldberg,
Margaret Avery,
Oprah Winfrey,
Willard E. Pugh,
Akosua Busia,
Desreta Jackson,
Adolph Caesar,
Dana Ivey,
Carl Anderson,
Clarence Avant,
Susan Beaubian,
Drew Bundi Brown,
Donna Buie,
Reuben Cannon,
Rae Dawn Chong,
Marcus Covington,
Lillian Njoki Distefano,
Laurence Fishburne,
Margaret Freeman,
Bennet Guillory,
John Hart,
Leonard Jackson,
Hawthorne James,
Jadili Johnson,
Peto Kinsaka,
Lechanda Lathrap,
Marcus Liles,
Lelo Masamba,
Maurice Moore,
Carrie Murray,
April Myers,
Daphaine Oliver,
John Patton, Jr.,
Juliet Poe,
Jeris Poindexter,
Leon Rippy,
Job Seda,
Katie Simon,
Howard Starr,
Phillip Strong,
Ethel Taylor,
David Thomas,
James Tillis,
Arnold Turner.
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her innermost thoughts in letter form to her sister Nettie (Akousa Busia), but Albert has been hiding the lett ...
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The Hours (2002)
Genre:
Drama,
Psychological Drama,
Feminist Film,
Period Film.
Director:
Stephen Daldry.
Actors:
Meryl Streep,
Julianne Moore,
Nicole Kidman,
Ed Harris,
Toni Collette,
Claire Danes,
Jeff Daniels,
Stephen Dillane,
Allison Janney,
John C. Reilly,
Miranda Richardson,
Eileen Atkins,
Margo Martindale,
Linda Bassett,
Jack Rovello,
Daniel Brocklebank,
Christian Coulson,
Michael Culkin,
Carmen de Lavallade,
George Loftus,
Lyndsay Marshal,
Charley Ramm,
Colin Stinton,
Sophie Wyburd.
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Three women, separated by a span of nearly 80 years, find themselves weathering similar crises, all linked by a single work of literature in this film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Cunningham. In 1923, Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is attempting to start work on her novel Mrs. Dalloway, in which she chronicles one day in the life of a troubled woman. But Virginia has d ...
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The Mists of Avalon (2001)
Genre:
Fantasy,
Fantasy Adventure,
Feminist Film.
Director:
Uli Edel.
Actors:
Anjelica Huston,
Julianna Margulies,
Joan Allen,
Samantha Mathis,
Caroline Goodall,
Edward Atterton,
Michael Vartan,
Michael Byrne,
Hans Matheson,
Mark Lewis Jones,
Clive Russell,
Tamsin Egerton,
Edward Highmore,
Christopher Fulford,
John Comer,
Klara Issova.
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This three-hour miniseries adapts Marion Zimmer Bradley's feminist recasting of the Arthurian mythos into a big-budget cable television event. In ancient England, Christianity is spreading and the Saxons are invading. It's up to Viviane (Anjelica Huston) — Lady of the Lake and high priestess of the kingdom's ancient pagan religion — to make sure that the next king will honor bo ...
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