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Earl W. Wallace is a Scriptwriter and Producer American
Earl W. Wallace est un scénariste américain, connu notamment pour avoir coécrit le scénario de Witness, ce qui lui a valu un Oscar en 1986.
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Borrowed Hearts (1997)
, 1h31Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Roma Downey, Eric McCormack, Héctor Elizondo, Cody Jones
Roles Writer
Rating67%
Sam Field (Eric McCormack) is a high-powered businessman and scion of a rich industrialist family with his own factory. Though a workaholic, Sam manages to enjoy a playboy lifestyle, having one girlfriend after the other, while struggling with never having lived up to his father's expectations. One day, his spokesman and best friend Dave Hebert (Shawn Alex Thompson) explains that a wealthy potential buyer of his company believes that Sam is a loyal family man. Even though he is not amused by having to pretend to be a married father, he agrees to the scheme of hiring actors to play his wife and son. After some unsuccessful rehearsals with his hired family, Sam is about to give up all hope of landing the deal, when a 7-year-old girl suddenly enters his house.
Rose Hill (1997)
, 1h39Directed by Christopher Cain
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Jennifer Garner, Jeffrey D. Sams, Zak Orth, Casey Siemaszko, David Newsom, Justin Chambers
Roles Teleplay
Rating64%
Four Boston street urchins adopt a young infant that they discovered in a wagon when they made their escape from the police. They named the baby girl Mary Rose. As they grow up together, the five eventually settle in Blue Belle, Montana. In Blue Belle, Mary Rose and her four brothers (Adam, Cole, Douglas, and Travis) have a free-range cattle farm by the name of Rose Hill near a lake. There, Mary Rose grows up and longs to find her real family, as well as learn about her true identity.
If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
, 1h37Directed by Cher, Nancy Savoca
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality, Political films
Actors Demi Moore, Shirley Knight, Catherine Keener, Jason London, CCH Pounder, Kevin Cooney
Roles Story
Rating68%
The 1952 segment deals with Claire Donnelly (Demi Moore), a widowed nurse living in suburban Chicago, who becomes pregnant by her brother-in-law (Jason London) and decides to undergo abortion in order not to hurt her late husband's family. However, abortion at the time is strictly illegal. Claire eventually finds another nurse (CCH Pounder) who provides her the phone number of a woman who can find her someone to perform the abortion. The woman on the phone tells Claire that the only trustworthy abortionist she knows is located in Puerto Rico, and Claire cannot afford the travel costs. After a failed attempt to end her pregnancy with a knitting needle, Claire eventually contacts a man who comes to her home and performs a clandestine procedure on her while she lies on top of a kitchen table. Claire finally manages to abort, but dies shortly afterwards due to hemorrhage.
The Broken Chain (1993)
, 1h33Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Pierce Brosnan, Graham Greene, Eric Schweig, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Wes Studi, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
Roles Writer
Rating58%
L'histoire de 2 frères Iroquis pris dans la tourmente de la guerre révolutionnaire.
Witness (1985)
, 1h52Directed by Peter Weir
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Danny Glover, Jan Rubes, Alexandre Godounov
Roles Story
Rating73%
Rachel Lapp (McGillis), a young Amish widow, and her 8-year-old son Samuel (Haas) are traveling by train to visit Rachel's sister. Samuel is amazed by the sights in the big city, but at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, he witnesses two men attack and murder a third. Detective John Book (Ford) is assigned to the case and he and his partner, Sergeant Elton Carter (Jennings), question Samuel. Samuel is unable to identify the perpetrator from mug shots or a police lineup, but notices a newspaper clipping with a picture of narcotics officer James McFee (Glover) and recognizes him as one of the killers. John remembers that McFee was previously responsible for a drug raid on expensive chemicals used to make amphetamines, but the evidence had mysteriously disappeared.
, 1h41Directed by Philip Leacock
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Priscilla Barnes, Joan Collins, Lee Horsley, Donny Osmond, Morgan Brittany, Phyllis Davis
Roles Writer
Rating52%
In Civil War-era Southern Missouri, Dr. Maggie McCullough (Priscilla Barnes) travels to the aid of her ailing Aunt Annie (Joan Collins), the town's madame, in the lovely community of Sweetwater. With all of the men away at war, Maggie coordinates a truce between Aunt Annie's girls and the respectable women of the town. While Maggie contemplates the love triangle that's formed with an injured Union fighter (Donny Osmond) and a captured Confederate doctor (Lee Horsley), a demented faction of soldiers invade Sweetwater and the women must spring into action to defend their homes.
She's in the Army Now (1980)
Directed by Hy Averback
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Kathleen Denise Quinlan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Melanie Griffith, Julie Carmen, Janet MacLachlan, Steven Bauer
Roles Writer
Rating46%
Cass (Quinlan), Rita (Curtis), Sylvie (Griffith), Virginia (Blanchard) and Yvette (Carmen) are five beautiful Women's Army Corps recruits attached to the United States Army's 3rd Platoon of Alpha Company at Fort Jackson. Although they are raw recruits, their drill sergeant, Sgt. Reed (MacLachlan), sees them as future soldiers. The proposal relates the women's efforts to train to become soldiers while also dealing with their personal problems. During and by the end of their basic training, they discover that a soldier's life is more than a uniform and that strength doesn't always depend on the size of their muscles.
, 3hDirected by Dan Curtis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Cliff Potts, Randy Quaid, Larry Wilcox, Royal Dano, Mills Watson, Sharon Farrell
Roles Writer
Rating56%
À la suite de l'assassinat de leur frère aîné, Frank, les Dalton commencent une nouvelle vie tout en poursuivant leur quête de fortune qui finira par le raid de la ville de Coffeyville dans le Kansas. Avec à leur poursuite le détective Will Smith.
Wild and Wooly (1978)
, 1h44Directed by Philip Leacock
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Charles Siebert, Ross Martin, David Doyle, Elyssa Davalos, Vic Morrow, Doug McClure
Roles Writer
Rating72%
Curse of the Black Widow (1977)
, 1h40Directed by Dan Curtis
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Horror, Crime
Actors Anthony Franciosa, Donna Mills, June Allyson, June Lockhart, Vic Morrow, Patty Duke
Roles Teleplay
Rating56%
For the past four years, Los Angeles has been terrorized by a series of mysterious murders, in which several men have been found dead with huge puncture wounds in their chests. The latest happens when private detective Mark Higbie (Franciosa) is visiting a bar. A dark-haired woman with a German accent needs help with her car, and one of Higbie's friends goes out to help her. The woman makes a pass at him, but is turned down. Minutes later, the man is found dead.
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Wild and Wooly (1978)
, 1h44Directed by Philip Leacock
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Charles Siebert, Ross Martin, David Doyle, Elyssa Davalos, Vic Morrow, Doug McClure
Roles Producer
Rating72%