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Matthew Cowles is a Actor American born on 28 september 1944 at New York City (USA)
Matthew Cowles (September 28, 1944 – May 22, 2014) was an American actor and playwright.
In 1983 he married actress Christine Baranski with whom he had two daughters, Isabel (born 1984) and Lily (born 1987). In a New York Times profile of his wife, he was described as “the black sheep member of a family with ties" to Drexel banking and the Cowles Publishing Company.
He was an enthusiastic motorcycle rider. Matthew Cowles died from congestive heart failure on May 22, 2014.
Cowles taught religious education at the Church of the Nativity.
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Matthew Cowles
Matthew Cowles (September 28, 1944 – May 22, 2014) was an American actor and playwright.
Biography
The son of actor and theatre producer Chandler Cowles, he was born in New York City.In 1983 he married actress Christine Baranski with whom he had two daughters, Isabel (born 1984) and Lily (born 1987). In a New York Times profile of his wife, he was described as “the black sheep member of a family with ties" to Drexel banking and the Cowles Publishing Company.
He was an enthusiastic motorcycle rider. Matthew Cowles died from congestive heart failure on May 22, 2014.
Cowles taught religious education at the Church of the Nativity.
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Shutter Island (2010)
, 2h10Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Lobotomie
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow
Roles Ferry Boat Captain
Rating82%
In 1954, two U.S. Marshals - Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule - travel to the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island located in Boston Harbor as part of an investigation into the disappearance of patient Rachel Solando, incarcerated for drowning her three children. The sole clue is a note left by Solando, which reads: "The law of 4; who is 67?" Shortly after arrival, a storm prevents their return to the mainland for several days. Daniels finds the staff confrontational: the lead psychiatrist, Dr. John Cawley, refuses to hand over records of the hospital staff; Solando's doctor, Dr. Lester Sheehan, had left on vacation after her disappearance, and they are barred from searching Ward C and told that the lighthouse on the island has already been searched, so there is no need to search it. When a patient is being interrogated by Daniels, with a subterfuge she sends Aule away for a few seconds and scribbles "RUN" in Daniels' notepad.
The Living Wake (2007)
Genres Comedy
Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Jim Gaffigan, Ann Dowd, Jill Larson, Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine, Bryan Brown
Roles Mossman
Rating59%
The film follows the journey of K. Roth Binew, a self-proclaimed genius. After discovering that he has encountered a rare and unnamed terminal disease, he enlists his eccentric rickshaw-riding best and only friend Mills Joaquin (Jesse Eisenberg) to accompany him on his last day to live. Throughout the film, he attempts to find the meaning of life in "a brief, but powerful monologue" that his eccentric father had promised to tell him, but abandoned K. Roth before he could.
The Juror (1996)
, 1h58Directed by Brian Gibson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin, James Gandolfini, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lindsay Crouse, Anne Heche
Roles Rodney
Rating56%
Annie Laird (Demi Moore) is a sculptor who lives in New York with her son Oliver (Joseph Gordon-Levitt); she works a day job as a data entry clerk. Annie is selected to be a juror in the trial of mob boss Louie Boffano (Tony Lo Bianco), who is accused of ordering the murder of Salvatore Riggio.
The Cowboy Way (1994)
, 1h47Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Woody Harrelson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, Ernie Hudson, Cara Buono, Marg Helgenberger
Roles Pop Fly
Rating58%
The Cowboy Way follows two championship rodeo stars and lifelong best friends, Pepper Lewis (Woody Harrelson) and Sonny Gilstrap (Kiefer Sutherland) as they travel from New Mexico to New York in search of their missing friend, Nacho Salazar, who came to the city to pay for his daughter's trip to the U.S. from Cuba. When they discover that he's been murdered, the pair set out to find the killer.
, 1h42Directed by Ken Olin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Wolves in film, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Scott Bairstow, Anthony Ruivivar, Al Harrington, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Lewis, Ethan Hawke
Rating54%
While Jack Conroy (Ethan Hawke) was in San Francisco, White Fang was living and banding together with his master's friend, Henry Casey (Scott Bairstow). While they were sailing to bring their gold to town, they had been washed up. At the Native Americans tribe, Moses ( Al Harrington) had a dream about White Fang with his daughter Lilly (Charmaine Craig). He said that Lilly will guide them the way to finding the wolf due to this dream. Lilly sailed to the river, and then walked through the forest, when she heard White Fang barking. She ran as fast as she could, and she saw White Fang, but White Fang suddenly disappeared, then she saw Henry appearing, leading her to believe that the wolf (White Fang) had changed into Henry. She rescued Henry from the river and placed him inside her small boat, and traveled back to the starving tribe. Then she introduced Henry to her father, when they got back to Lilly's home. While Moses was telling Henry that he is the wolf, Henry said that he is not the wolf, and that the wolf was his friend, White Fang, and that he himself is a human, leading to a laughter from the crowd. In actuality, White Fang was left at the river,but he got out of the waters and onto land. White Fang then walked through the wilderness in the forest, and saw some wolves. He followed them, saw a pack, but he did not socialize with them.
Stella (1990)
, 1h49Directed by John Erman, Brian W. Cook
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Bette Midler, John Goodman, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Collins, Marsha Mason, Eileen Brennan
Roles Sid
Rating60%
Stella (Bette Midler) is a feisty woman working in a bar when she meets and falls for the suave charms of the young Dr. Steve Dallas (Stephen Collins). Although from opposite ends of the social spectrum, they start an affair resulting in Stella becoming pregnant. After he proposes half-heartedly, she rejects him and embarks upon raising their child Jenny as a single mother but is always helped and encouraged by her stalwart friend, a local good natured barfly, Ed Munn (John Goodman). Stella is fiercely independent and proud and is determined to do well by this child and take on whatever jobs she must to raise her daughter properly. When Jenny is 4 years old, her father suddenly reappears on the scene and is determined to get to know his daughter. At first reluctant to allow this, Stella is persuaded to allow contact, and a happy bond develops between the father and daughter. As Jenny (Trini Alvarado) grows up, she becomes torn between her fathers rich and well-connected background, and her loyalty and love for her mother who is poor and vulgar but devoted to her daughter. She also despises the perceived relationship she sees developing between Stella and Ed Munn who is now a broken alcoholic. Jenny eventually meets and falls for a boy from her fathers 'world' and Stella realizes that now, the disparities in her own and Jennys father's backgrounds might jeopardize her daughters future happiness. So she makes a heart rending decision towards the end of the film to ensure that this is not going to happen.
Brenda Starr (1989)
, 1h33Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Actors Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Diana Scarwid, Nestor Serrano, Jeffrey Tambor, Charles Durning
Roles Capt. Borg
Rating47%
Mike is a struggling artist who draws the Brenda Starr comic strip for a newspaper. When Brenda comes to life and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the comic. To return her to her rightful place and keep his job, Mike draws himself into the strip.
Stars & Bars (1988)
, 1h34Directed by Pat O'Connor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton, Steven Wright, Kent Broadhurst, Maury Chaykin, Matthew Cowles
Roles Beckman Gage
Rating48%
A British art expert (Day-Lewis) travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting in the South but comes across some crazy characters in the process.
Eddie Macon's Run (1983)
, 1h25Directed by Jeff Kanew
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Kirk Douglas, John Schneider, Lee Purcell, Leah Ayres, Tom Noonan, J. C. Quinn
Rating56%
Eddie Macon (Schneider) was wrongly convicted of a crime. While performing at a prison rodeo in Huntsville, Texas, he escapes and heads for the border, hoping to join his family in Mexico. Marzack (Douglas) is a cop in hot pursuit of Eddie, determined to put him back in jail. Eddie has no transportation, so he takes the journey on foot. He ends up in the woods, where he is nearly killed. He meets Jilly Buck, a bored rich girl who agrees to help him because it's "just a slow Wednesday."
The World According to Garp (1982)
, 2h16Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Mark Soper, Hume Cronyn
Rating70%
T. S. Garp is the illegitimate son of a feminist mother, Jenny Fields, who wanted a child but not a husband. A nurse during World War II, she encounters a dying ball turret gunner known only as Technical sergeant Garp (that being the only sound he is capable of uttering) who was severely brain damaged in combat. Unconstrained by convention and driven by practicality and her desire for a child, Jenny is able to rape Garp due to his priapism, thus impregnating herself. She names the resultant child after Garp and raises him on her own.
Slap Shot (1977)
, 2h3Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Ice hockey films, Sports d'hiver
Actors Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Lindsay Crouse, Jerry Houser, Jennifer Warren
Rating72%
Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) is the aging player-coach of the Charlestown Chiefs hockey team in the fictional Federal League. A perennial loser for years, the team's manager Joe McGrath (Strother Martin) has resorted to extreme cost-cutting techniques and embarrassing promotional antics to keep local interest alive. Dunlop, while not particularly talented as either a player or coach, is a skilled con man, and regularly manipulates the team to his own advantage. During a hopeless season, the Chiefs pick up the Hanson Brothers, bespectacled violent goons with childlike mentalities, complete with toys in their luggage. Horrified at being given players who seem stupid, immature, and unreliable, Dunlop initially chooses not to play them.
The Happy Hooker (1975)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, Striptease
Actors Lynn Redgrave, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Conrad Janis, Tom Poston, George Dzundza, Richard Lynch
Rating38%
As prostitutes are arrested in New York, a flashback begins to the life of one of them, a Dutch secretary Xaviera Hollander (Redgrave) who moved to New York in hopes of marrying her fiancé Carl (Pryor), whom she met whilst visiting her sister in South Africa.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
, 1h42Directed by Peter Yates, Burt Kennedy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco, Mitch Ryan
Rating73%
Eddie Coyle (a.k.a. "Eddie Fingers") is an aging delivery truck driver for a bakery. He is also a low-level gunrunner for a crime organization in Boston, Massachusetts. He is facing several years in prison for a truck hijacking in New Hampshire set up by Dillon, who owns a local bar. Coyle's last chance is securing a sentencing recommendation through the help of an ATF agent, Dave Foley, who demands that Coyle become an informer in return. Unbeknownst to Coyle, Dillon is an informer for Foley.
Crawlspace (1972)
Directed by John Newland, Buzz Kulik
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors John Arthur Kennedy, Teresa Wright, Eugene Roche, Matthew Cowles
Roles Dave Freeman
Rating62%
The plot of this film was very similar to the novel written by Lieberman, (the teleplay, written by Ernest Kinoy, was also based on the novel).
The Hospital (1971)
, 1h43Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Richard A. Dysart, Barnard Hughes, Stephen Elliott, Nancy Marchand
Rating70%
At a Manhattan teaching hospital, the life of Dr. Bock (George C. Scott), the Chief of Medicine, is in disarray: his wife has left him, his children don't talk to him, and his once-beloved teaching hospital is falling apart.