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A Dangerous Woman is a american film of genre Drama directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal released in USA on 3 december 1993 with Debra Winger
A Dangerous Woman (1993)
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Add to a movie listA Dangerous Woman is a 1993 film directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal. The screenplay was written by his then wife Naomi Foner, loosely based on the award winning novel of the same name by Mary McGarry Morris. The feature was co-produced by Amblin Entertainment and Gramercy Pictures and stars Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne and Gyllenhaal and Foner's two children, Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, both of whom would later go into acting.
Debra Winger was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance and also won Best Actress at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
The film has never been released on Region 1 DVD. The film was once released on video in the United Kingdom by First Independent Films.
Synopsis
Martha Horgan (Winger) struggles to have a normal life in spite of being mentally challenged. She is fired from a job at the local dry-cleaner's after accusations of stealing from the cash register, something she believes the boyfriend of her work colleague Birdie (Chloe Webb) has been doing.Actors
Debra Winger
(Martha)
Barbara Hershey
(Frances)
Gabriel Byrne
(Mackey)
Laurie Metcalf
(Anita)
John Terry
(Steve)
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