Connection
A Will of their Own is a american film of genre Drama directed by Karen Arthur with Lea Thompson
A Will of their Own (1998)
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listA Will of their Own is a 1998 American television mini-series directed by Karen Arthur. The film follows six generations of females within one family, and their struggle for power and independence in America. The film debuted on October 18, 1998 on the NBC network to strong critical reviews. It was released to DVD late 2003.
Synopsis
The film begins in the 1890s and ends in the 1980s. Annie Jermaine (Aylesworth) immigrates from Europe to America where she becomes a housemaid for a wealthy doctor. She breaks class restrictions when she marries the doctor's son and begins training as a nurse. However, she is unable to utilize her knowledge due to the popular belief that women were not capable of practicing medicine.Actors
Lea Thompson
(Amanda Steward)
Ellen Burstyn
(Veronica Steward)
Sônia Braga
(Jessie Lopez De La Cruz)
Reiko Aylesworth
(Annie Jermaine)
Faye Dunaway
(Margaret Sanger)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to A Will of their Own
There are 262 films with the same actors, 16 films with the same director, 61697 with the same cinematographic genres, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked A Will of their Own, you will probably like those similar films :
Fall From Grace (1990)
, 1h40Directed by Karen Arthur
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Kevin Spacey, Bernadette Peters, Richard Herd, Beth Grant, Richard Paul, John McLiam
Rating58%
In the 1980s, televangelist and PTL Club founder Jim Bakker (Spacey), and his wife Tammy (Peters), decide to expand their PTL television ministry to include a village resort with an amusement park, which they christen Heritage USA.
The Rape of Richard Beck (1985)
, 1h40Directed by Karen Arthur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Richard Crenna, George Dzundza, Meredith Baxter, Pat Hingle, Frances Lee McCain, Cotter Smith
Rating65%
Richard Beck (Richard Crenna) is a police detective who believes that rape victims are "asking for it". When he himself is raped by two suspects he is chasing, however, he comes to question that belief.
The Secret (1992)
, 2hDirected by Karen Arthur
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Kirk Douglas, Bruce Boxleitner, Skipp Sudduth, Brock Peters, Anne Twomey, Laura Harrington
Rating60%
À Hollywood, pour le tournage d'une grande série télévisée, hommes et femmes luttent avec acharnement afin d'appartenir à la prestigieuse équipe du producteur Mel Weschler. Tout semble aller pour le mieux mais toute existence a ses secrets et, si bien gardés soient-ils, un jour la vérité explose.
True Women (1997)
, 2h34Directed by Karen Arthur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Historical, Romance, Western
Actors Dana Delany, Annabeth Gish, Angelina Jolie, Julie Carmen, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tina Majorino
Rating65%
The story starts with young Euphemia Texas Ashby (Tina Majorino) and her older sister Sara McClure (Dana Delany). When Euphemia gets back to the house from picking flowers she finds out that Sam Houston is coming to the house. Santa Anna is on his way so they must head east in the Runaway Scrape. While they attempt to cross a river Sara suffers from a miscarriage while her young son Little Johnnie dies in Euphemia's arms. Many other young and old Texans die and Euphemia is almost lost in a sea of graves. After a month and a week, Sam Houston defeats Santa Anna's army and Texas is reborn as the Republic of Texas. They now live in a new home with their horses. Their sisters Fannie and Jane Isabella come to live with them after their father dies at sea. They are very different from Sara and Phemie (Annabeth Gish) and must adapt to their new brutal life.
The Locket (2002)
, 1h40Directed by Karen Arthur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Marguerite Moreau, Chad Willett, Lori Heuring, Lourdes Benedicto, Terry O'Quinn
Rating69%
Esther (Redgrave) is a disillusioned and bitter nursing home resident who shares much with her attendant, Michael (Willett), in terms of personal sacrifices that they have both made. Esther also hides a dark secret. Michael has spent the last several years of his life looking after his cancer-stricken late mother and now faces rejection from his fiancee's father. Michael makes it his mission to improve the last years of Esther's life.
The Christmas Blessing (2005)
, 1h36Directed by Karen Arthur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Neil Patrick Harris, Rebecca Gayheart, Rob Lowe, Angus T. Jones, Shaun Johnston, Max Morrow
Rating62%
When a doctor, Nathan (Neil Patrick Harris) loses a patient on the operating table, he decides that being a doctor isn't meant for him, and he wants to give it up. He decides to take a vacation to his hometown, and stay with his father (Hugh Thompson). While volunteering at the local grade school, he meets Charlie (Angus T. Jones), a young boy who has also lost his mother, and Meghan (Rebecca Gayheart), Charlie's teacher. Charlie and his father have also just arrived in town, to work at estates doing chores. Nathan, searching for the shoes he gave his mother the Christmas she died (Even though in the "17 years later" epilogue of The Christmas Shoes he left them on her grave and walked away), learns that Charlie now has them. And Meghan, wanting to buy a house for those in need, may not be able to. Soon after his arrival, Nathan learns that Charlie is ailing from an irregular heart defect, and Meghan has cirrhosis of the liver, and will die unless she has a transplant. In the end, it is Charlie who saves her life, by giving her his liver. As a dying wish, he asks Nathan, whom he calls coach, to give her the shoes. And Robert (Rob Lowe), Meghan's friend, buys the house for her. In honor of Charlie, Meghan names the house after him.
Directed by Karen Arthur
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors John Stamos, Kim Delaney, CCH Pounder, Robert Carradine, Dimitra Arliss, Tom Hodges
Rating58%
Au-dessus de tout soupçon (1995)
, 3h5Directed by Karen Arthur
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ken Olin, Lindsay Frost, Annette O'Toole, John Terry, Sherilyn Lawson, Marlyn Mason
Rating66%
Âgé d'une quarantaine d'années, Brad Cunningham a toujours eu ce qu'il voulait : les plus belles femmes, comme les plus puissants bolides. Marié cinq fois et père de six enfants, il a aimé, puis abandonné, toutes celles qui ne cédaient plus à ces caprices.
Labor of Love (1998)
, 1h36Directed by Karen Arthur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Marcia Gay Harden, David Marshall Grant, Alison Sealy-Smith, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Arnold Pinnock
Rating56%
, 4hDirected by Karen Arthur
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Angela Bassett, Holly Robinson Peete, Margaret Avery, Bumper Robinson, Monica Calhoun
Rating77%
The miniseries stars Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as the Jacksons' patriarch Joseph Jackson, Angela Bassett as the family matriarch Katherine Jackson, Alex Burrall, Jason Weaver and Wylie Draper played Michael Jackson in different eras, while Bumper Robinson and Terrence Howard played Jackie Jackson in different eras, Shakiem Jamar Evans and Angel Vargas played Tito Jackson, Margaret Avery as Katherine's mother Martha Scruse, Holly Robinson Peete as Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams as Berry Gordy and Vanessa L. Williams as Suzanne de Passe. The opening titles of the film shows footage of the real Jacksons rehearsing, performing on stage, a few clips from the "Can You Feel It" music video, album covers, magazine covers and pictures of the family.