Olympia Dukakis Trailers
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Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 – May 1, 2021) was an American actress. She performed in more than 130 stage productions, more than 60 films and in 50 television series. Best known as a screen actress, she started her career in theater. Not long after her arrival in New York City, she won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht's Man Equals Man.
She later moved to film acting and won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, among other accolades, for her performance in Moonstruck (1987). She received another Golden Globe nomination for Sinatra (1992) and Emmy Award nominations for Lucky Day (1991), More Tales of the City (1998) and Joan of Arc (1999). Dukakis's autobiography, Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress, was published in 2003. In 2018, a feature-length documentary about her life, titled Olympia, was released theatrically in the United States.
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30 April 2012
Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—is profiled in this documentary that neither sanctifies nor vilifies him.
01 October 1964
Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he meets Lilith Arthur, a charming young woman suffering from schizophrenia, whose fragile beauty captivates all who meet her.
18 October 2014
Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road.
27 October 1989
A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before.
10 March 1991
When 30-year-old Allison Campbell wins a $2 million lottery, her family life turns upside down not just because of her winnings but because Allison is mentally handicapped.
18 March 1994
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes.
22 April 2005
The Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.
26 April 2014
Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10 year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in the form of an irascible chess-master, who uses the game to teach Max lessons in resilience, perseverance, and how to embrace inevitable change.
23 April 1982
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
11 March 2017
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin celebrates one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to reclaim their lives.
09 September 2005
A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his many
26 August 2000
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band.
11 September 2005
Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he fancies the drink a little too much.
30 July 1969
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.
24 July 1998
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
19 October 2018
A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals embrace her, their lives soon improve.
06 June 2002
A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.
26 November 2021
A judge sentences a self-centered millennial to take care of his grandmother, who's affected by Alzheimer's.
14 December 1990
Mollie and James are together and raising a family, which now consists of an older Mikey and his baby sister, Julie.
12 October 1989
Mollie is a single working mother who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James, a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy.
14 August 2015
Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube.
04 May 2007
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease.
15 November 1989
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.
03 February 1993
The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
13 July 2016
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
27 April 1997
A dying widow plays matchmaker to her 32-year-old unmarried son and sets him up with a nurse that she meets.
04 January 2013
This romantic fantasy movie is about two people who are the last survivors of an ancient line of goddess worshipers, who sell art at a shop.
24 July 1974
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
01 January 1995
Weisser is a young college bound man whose future is threatened when his mother interferes with his love life and a pending scholarship.
17 August 1979
Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.
29 December 1995
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus.
01 January 1974
An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Athens Polytechnic (November 1973) by documents, rehearsals, interviews, songs and poems.
14 December 1969
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
16 December 1987
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him.
13 July 1979
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived.
08 March 2013
The Dunderheads are an eccentric Montana family who've been in the mountains for far too long. Now one step ahead of the law, matriarch Grandma Ira flees to Canada with her two wildly dysfunctional teenage grand kids, across the American West into a comic collision with the mainstream world.
12 July 2004
When a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return.
29 August 2015
The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.
26 May 2006
The lives of a Palestinian journalist and a Jewish model become inextricably, and shockingly, intertwined after they meet by accident in New York.
11 November 2018
Follow Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis behind the scenes in this affectionate profile of a stalwart New Yorker and beloved stage and screen treasure.
01 January 2003
Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a musician who had AIDS.
20 December 1988
Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment and even her wardrobe.
06 September 1996
Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.
09 September 2006
After retrieving the Crystal Skull in Utah, Flynn Carsen receives a map in the mail with the secret location of King Solomon's Mines.
16 January 2009
John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter – each was nominated for Best Picture.
02 June 2005
Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she has left.
15 May 1980
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term.
10 February 2002
Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him.
12 December 1971
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.
01 January 2006
Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American family when he is reunited with a childhood schoolmate, Mary O'Callahan.
01 August 1997
A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
05 November 1993
When high-powered executive Samantha LeBon hatches a scheme to spend a romantic Christmas with her new employee – the unsuspecting, blithesome James – his wife, their kids and their two dogs, Rocks and Daphne, must rescue him before he makes a terrible mistake.
01 April 2001
The true story of a woman's suspicious disappearance after ending an affair with a powerful, married attorney.
26 August 1996
Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.
16 March 2003
Growing up poor on the streets of New Jersey, Frank Siena (Danny Nucci) has little hope of realizing his dream of becoming a doctor.
10 October 2020
Filmmaker Christina Zorich follows abolitionists throughout Southeast Asia that have dedicated their lives to rescuing, rehabilitating, preventing and prosecuting those involved in human sex trafficking.
12 March 1995
A matriarch of three generations born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, discovers that her recently-deceased husband has lost their bar and home to a gambling debt.
06 April 1990
After her husband loses his job, Marianne moves from Beverly Hills to a nightmare New York City. She hires ditzy psychic Reva to redecorate her apartment, and they end up being pursued by a crazed killer.
13 September 1995
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too.
14 November 1980
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
