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Jessica Harper is a Actor and Music Consultant American born on 10 october 1949 at Chicago (USA)
Jessica Harper (born October 10, 1949) is an American actress and producer, as well as a singer. Harper made her feature film debut in Inserts (1974), followed by a starring role in Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974). She played the lead role in Dario Argento's horror cult classic Suspiria (1977), for which she is best remembered. Other films include Shock Treatment (1981), The Blue Iguana (1988), Safe (1995), and Minority Report (2002). In addition to acting, Harper is also an author of children's music and books
Jessica Harper a joué dans une vingtaine de films, parmi lesquels Phantom of the Paradise de Brian De Palma, Suspiria de Dario Argento et Shock Treatment, où elle a fait preuve de ses capacités de chanteuse comme d'actrice. Brian De Palma l'a engagée pour Phantom of the Paradise après l'avoir vue dans une pièce Off-Broadway, trouvant sa voix « incroyable. » Comme lui, elle a été formée au Sarah Lawrence College.
Woody Allen l'a dirigée dans Stardust Memories et Guerre et Amour.
En 2002, elle joue au côté de Tom Cruise dans Minority Report de Steven Spielberg.
Sa carrière est actuellement centrée sur les œuvres destinées aux enfants (livres et disques).
Vie familiale
Elle est mariée avec le producteur Tom Rothman depuis le 11 mars 1989 et a eu deux enfants avec lui. Elle a d'ailleurs refusé un rôle dans Fous d'Irène pour voir une de ses filles jouer dans une pièce de théâtre.
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CarrièreJessica Harper a joué dans une vingtaine de films, parmi lesquels Phantom of the Paradise de Brian De Palma, Suspiria de Dario Argento et Shock Treatment, où elle a fait preuve de ses capacités de chanteuse comme d'actrice. Brian De Palma l'a engagée pour Phantom of the Paradise après l'avoir vue dans une pièce Off-Broadway, trouvant sa voix « incroyable. » Comme lui, elle a été formée au Sarah Lawrence College.
Woody Allen l'a dirigée dans Stardust Memories et Guerre et Amour.
En 2002, elle joue au côté de Tom Cruise dans Minority Report de Steven Spielberg.
Sa carrière est actuellement centrée sur les œuvres destinées aux enfants (livres et disques).
Vie familiale
Elle est mariée avec le producteur Tom Rothman depuis le 11 mars 1989 et a eu deux enfants avec lui. Elle a d'ailleurs refusé un rôle dans Fous d'Irène pour voir une de ses filles jouer dans une pièce de théâtre.
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Suspiria (2018)
, 2h32Directed by Luca Guadagnino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Dakota Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Jessica Harper, Sylvie Testud
Roles Anke
Rating67%
L'action se déroule en 1977. La danseuse américaine Susie Bannion déménage à Berlin pour intégrer la prestigieuse compagnie de danse Markos Tanz Company. Susie se perfectionne sous la direction de Madame Blanc et se lie d'amitié avec Sara.
House Broken (2009)
, 1h24Directed by Sam Harper
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Danny DeVito, Katey Sagal, Ryan Hansen, Skyler Stone, Caitlin Crosby, Thomas F. Wilson
Roles DWP Clerk
Rating46%
In order to enjoy his retirement, a father takes drastic measures to get his twenty-something, slacker sons to move out and fend for themselves. They continue to try and make their own film company, called Cathkart productions. Tom Cathkart (Danny DeVito) eventually gets sick of his sons slacking off and he leaves them alone and takes all the food with him, leaving the sons to no option get a job, they decide to open their own bed and breakfast and they let their friends stay at the house for money. Eliot (Ryan Hansen) falls in love with Sarah (Caitlin Crosby) and his brother Quinn (Skyler Stone) gets jealous of his success with the film company. Eliot then leaves and his brother finds it hard to manage without him.
Minority Report (2002)
, 2h25Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Social science fiction, Action, Crime
Themes Films about computing, Transport films, Time travel films, Films about automobiles, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Films based on works by Philip K. Dick, Road movies, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Children's films, Chase films, Anticipation
Actors Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Kathryn Morris, Steve Harris
Roles Anne Lively
Rating75%
In April 2054, Washington, D.C. has a special police force called PreCrime that stops murderers before they act. Murders are predicted using three Precogs, mutated humans who "previsualize" crimes by receiving visions of the future. Over the past six years, PreCrime has successfully reduced the city's murder rate to zero, and the Federal government is on the verge of adopting it, even though the public finds it controversial. Captain John Anderton (Tom Cruise), the head of PreCrime, has been suffering from drug addiction since the unresolved disappearance of his son, Sean, which led to his wife, Lara (Kathryn Morris), divorcing him. With PreCrime poised to go nationwide, the system is being audited by Danny Witwer (Colin Farrell), an agent from the United States Department of Justice. In the middle of the audit, the Precogs generate a new prediction, one saying that Anderton will murder a man named Leo Crow in thirty-six hours. Anderton does not know Crow, but flees the area as Witwer begins a manhunt.
On the Edge of Innocence (1997)
, 1h30Directed by Peter Werner
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Kellie Martin, James Marsden, Karen Young, Lisa Jakub, Jamie Kennedy, Vince Vieluf
Roles Alice Walker
Rating60%
Despite being a straight A student, Zoe Tyler (Kellie Martin), a manic-depressive 17-year-old, constantly gets in trouble with her friends including Ann (Clea DuVall) due to angry outbursts caused by her refusal to take her medicine. One day, she skips school to hitchhike to San Francisco, California to visit her father at a piano concert. When the guy giving her a drive attempts to undress her, she screams and leaves the car, running back home where her mother Victoria (Karen Young) expresses her concern over her absence. In response, she runs away home to a nearby carnaval, where she winds up dangling from a Ferris wheel. Her concerned mother decides that now something has to be done, and commits her daughter to a mental institution. Meanwhile, somewhere else Jake Walker (James Marsden), another 17-year-old, has difficulty respecting authority as well, even though he was raised by two forward, highly successful parents, one of whom is a respected lawyer, David (Terry O'Quinn). When he is not sleeping around with girls, Jake spends his day running away from the cops because of misdemeanors. One night, after a concert, he is arrested by the police and the judge advises for Jake to be in a juvenile facility. Preventing these hard measures to be done, David commits his son to the same mental hospital for a period of one month.
Boys (1996)
, 1h26Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Winona Ryder, Lukas Haas, John C. Reilly, James LeGros, Skeet Ulrich, Matt Malloy
Roles Mrs. John Baker
Rating49%
John Baker Jr. (Lukas Haas) is a boy bored with his life at an upper middle class boarding school, and the prospect of his future running the family grocery store chain. He no longer sees the point in school, stating what's the difference if he gets a zero attendance for being three minutes late or skipping the whole class so he might as well skip the class. Now close to graduating from boarding school, his life is turned upside down when he rescues Patty Vare (Winona Ryder), a young woman he finds lying unconscious in a field. Patty regains consciousness that evening in John's dormitory. She stays awake long enough to tell him she will not go to a doctor, and then passes out and does not awaken until the next morning. She seems to recover completely and to be grateful for John's assistance; the two begin a romantic voyage of self-discovery. This is not without its problems, as other boys in the dorm quickly find out she is being hidden in his room, leading up to a dramatic confrontation with Baker's close friends where his 'best friend' becomes enraged and punches a wall, breaking his hand, while the two continue to argue over the reason as to why Baker has hidden her in his room.
Safe (1995)
, 1h59Directed by Todd Haynes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Environmental films, Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films about psychiatry
Actors Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Xander Berkeley, James LeGros, Janel Moloney, Steven Gilborn
Roles Joyce
Rating70%
Set in an affluent neighbourhood of the San Fernando Valley in 1987, the film recounts the life of a seemingly unremarkable homemaker, Carol White (Julianne Moore) who develops multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS, also known as "Twentieth-Century Disease"). MCS is a medically controversial diagnosis in which a person develops mild to severe non-specific symptoms and believes that these symptoms are triggered by chemicals found in everyday household and industrial products.
Mr. Wonderful (1993)
, 1h38Directed by Anthony Minghella
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, Mary-Louise Parker, William Hurt, Vincent D'Onofrio, Luis Guzmán
Roles Funny Face
Rating58%
Gus (Matt Dillon), an electrician, wants to purchase a bowling alley with his friends. The problem is that he still pays alimony to his ex-wife, Leonora (Annabella Sciorra). Gus, realizing that if he can get Leonora to remarry the alimony stops, attempts to match-make Leonora with various men. James Gandolfini has a small part as one of Lenora's would-be suitors.
Big Man on Campus (1989)
, 1h45Directed by Jeremy Kagan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about children
Actors Corey Parker, Cindy Williams, Melora Hardin, Gerrit Graham, Tom Skerritt, Armin Shimerman
Roles Dr. Fisk
Rating60%
The film opens with a news broadcast on the apparent sighting of a "mysterious creature" on the UCLA campus. Among those interviewed are underachieving student Alex Kominski (Corey Parker) and his girlfriend Cathy Adams (Melora Hardin). Although neither claim to believe in the creature's existence, a hunchbacked figure (Allan Katz) is shown looking down from the bell tower, spying on Cathy through a telescope.
Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)
, 1h43Directed by Wayne Wang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Cora Miao, Russell Wong, Victor Wong, Eric Tsang, Philip Chan, Helena Law
Roles American Prostitute (uncredited)
Rating62%
The story begins with exposition of the difficult lives of the first generation of male Chinese-American immigrants who were not allowed to bring their wives and families with them into the United States due to the Chinese Exclusion Act. For decades, these immigrant men have not seen their families they had left back in China. Ben (Russell Wong) is the son of one these immigrants and has just finished serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. Due to the G.I. Bill, he is allowed to bring a bride back from China which he does after an arranged marriage. Mei Oi (Cora Miao), the bride, besides being attracted to Ben also wants to see her father in the U.S., who emigrated to the States before she was born. As one of the first couples of child-bearing age within Chinatown, Ben and Mei Oi have to deal with the expectations of the entire Chinatown community as well as his father (Victor Wong). But the pressures on Ben render him impotent, and in her confusion over his seeming lack of interest, Mei Oi succumbs to the attentions of Ah Song (Eric Tsang). Their affair creates complications not only for their own marriage, but for the reputations of their fathers in the close-knit "bachelor society" of New York's Chinatown.
The Blue Iguana (1988)
, 1h30Directed by John Lafia
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action
Themes Heist films
Actors Dylan McDermott, Jessica Harper, James Russo, Pamela Gidley, Tovah Feldshuh, Yano Anaya
Roles Cora
Rating52%
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Documentary, Anthology film, Horror
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about films
Actors Donald Pleasence, Nancy Allen, Bud Abbott, Michael Ironside, Fred Asparagus, Brooke Adams
Rating62%
Director Andrew J. Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of suspenseful (including humorously so, ex. Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Saturday the 14th) films and strung them together with added commentary, as well as some enacted narrative, to create a compilation of fright-inducing effects. Halloween actor Donald Pleasence and Dressed to Kill star Nancy Allen provide the commentary on topics such as "sex and terror" (Dressed to Kill, Klute, Ms. 45, The Seduction, When a Stranger Calls), loathsome villains (Dracula, Frankenstein, Friday the 13 1 and/or 2, Halloween I and II, Marathon Man, Nighthawks, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Touch of Evil, Vice Squad, Wait Until Dark, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?), "natural terror" (Alligator, The Birds, Frogs, Jaws 1 and 2, Nightwing) and the occult (An American Werewolf in London, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen, Carrie, The Shining). In one segment of the anthology, legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock presents his concepts of how to create suspense in a clip from Alfred Hitchcock: Men Who Made The Movies.
Pennies from Heaven (1982)
, 1h48Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution, Musical films
Actors Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken, Jessica Harper, John McMartin, John Karlen
Roles Joan
Rating64%
In 1934, Chicago sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker (Martin) is having a hard time, both in his business and at home with his wife Joan (Harper). His business and marriage are failing, and Joan refuses to give him the money she inherited from her father to start his own business.
My Favorite Year (1982)
, 1h32Directed by Richard Benjamin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about television
Actors Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna, Bill Macy, Lainie Kazan
Roles K.C. Downing
Rating72%
Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker), the narrator, tells of the summer (in his "favorite year" of 1954) he met his idol, swashbuckling actor Allan Swann (Peter O'Toole). In the early days of television, Benjy works as a junior comedy writer for a variety show starring Stan "King" Kaiser (Joseph Bologna). As a special upcoming guest, they get the still famous (though largely washed-up) Swann. However, when he shows up, they realize that he is a roaring drunk. Kaiser is ready to dump him, until Benjy intervenes and promises to keep him sober during the week leading up to the show.
Shock Treatment (1981)
, 1h34Directed by Jim Sharman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Musical, Black comedy
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Musical films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Jessica Harper, Cliff De Young, Patricia Quinn, Richard O'Brien, Barry Humphries, Ruby Wax
Roles Janet Majors
Rating57%
Continuing from The Rocky Horror Picture Show are the characters of Brad and Janet Majors (now portrayed by Cliff De Young and Jessica Harper, respectively), now married. The film takes place in the town of Denton, USA, which has been taken over by fast food magnate Farley Flavors (also De Young). The town of Denton is entirely encased within a television studio for network DTV (Denton Television). Residents are either stars and regulars on a show, cast and crew, or audience members. Brad and Janet, while seated in the audience are chosen to participate in the game show Marriage Maze by the supposedly blind and kooky host Bert Schnick (Barry Humphries). As a "prize", Brad is imprisoned on Dentonvale, a soap opera that centers upon the local mental hospital run by brother and sister Cosmo and Nation McKinley (Richard O'Brien and Patricia Quinn).
Stardust Memories (1980)
, 1h29Directed by Woody Allen
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault, Woody Allen, Tony Roberts, Daniel Stern
Roles Daisy
Rating71%
The film follows famous filmmaker Sandy Bates, who is plagued by fans who prefer his "earlier, funnier movies" to his more recent artistic efforts, while he tries to reconcile his conflicting attraction to two very different women: the earnest, intellectual Daisy and the more maternal Isobel. Meanwhile, he is also haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend, the unstable Dorrie.