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Dennis Letts is a Actor American born on 5 september 1934 at Oklahoma City (USA)
Dennis Letts (September 5, 1934 – February 22, 2008) was an American college professor and actor. In his final months Letts made his Broadway debut in the production of his son Tracy's Pulitzer and Tony winning play August: Osage County.
^ "Dennis Letts, 73, a Professor Who Became Broadway Actor, Dies". Associated Press (The New York Times). 2008-02-25. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
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Dennis Letts
Nationality USA
Birth 5 september 1934 at Oklahoma City (USA)
Death 22 february 2008 (at 73 years) at Tulsa (USA)
Birth 5 september 1934 at Oklahoma City (USA)
Death 22 february 2008 (at 73 years) at Tulsa (USA)
^ "Dennis Letts, 73, a Professor Who Became Broadway Actor, Dies". Associated Press (The New York Times). 2008-02-25. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
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Infamous (2006)
, 2h1Directed by Douglas McGrath
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about capital punishment, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis
Roles Judge Tate
Rating69%
Truman Capote, known in New York City society for his wit and fashion flair as much as he is recognized in literary circles as the celebrated writer of Other Voices, Other Rooms and Breakfast at Tiffany's, reads a brief article about the murder of a farming family in Holcomb, Kansas, in the back pages of the New York Times of November 16, 1959.
Christmas Child (2004)
, 1h36Directed by Bill Ewing
Origin USA
Themes Christmas films, Films about religion
Actors Steven Curtis Chapman, William R. Moses, Megan Follows, Juli Erickson, Dennis Letts, Muse Watson
Rating61%
Nine months after the death of his adoptive father, Jack Davenport, a Chicago journalist, obtains some of his possessions which lead Jack to discover his past. Jack receives an assignment to do a story in Dallas, Texas. Jack leaves days before Christmas Eve and decides to stay in Clearwater, Texas, his birthplace. One of the possessions left by his adoptive father was a mysterious photograph of Clearwater's oldest churches, taken in 1963. The church has a life-sized, wood carven nativity scene, that was carved by Joe Ottolman during the 1950s. He meets several townspeople along his search, such as Michael Curtis (the reverend of the church who has adopted a little girl from China, much like Steven Curtis Chapman did in real life); Naomi Williams, a Clearwater newspaper writer; Vanessa, a County Courthouse employee; Jimmy James, Clearwater's sheriff; the judge; and a maintenance worker at the church. Jack is told by the judge that releasing the identity of an adoptee's parents can cause suffering, as he points out that one adopted girl died three years earlier. Jack goes on to research the story of Joe Ottolman, who was in a car accident in 1945 that killed his wife, but his daughter survived. Joe worked for ten years on the Nativity carving. In 1963, Joe made the same mistake and was in a car accident again. His daughter Carmen Ana Ottolman, gave birth to a boy on December 24, 1963, but Carmen died two days later. Joe set his grandson up for adoption, then he disappeared from the presses and no one knew whether or not he was alive. Naomi, who helped Jack gather information from previous newspapers, tried to get Jack's birth records with the help of her friend, Venessa, who works there, but they are gone. When Jack finds this out, he discovers that the judge was trying to hide them from him. The judge then reveals that Carmen Ottolman was his mother. On his 40th birthday, Jack is still in shock of hearing this. He sleeps on the bench near the church, in front of the nativity scene. When the maintenance worker discovers him there, he brings him inside the church for some coffee. The maintenance worker then reveals himself to be Joe Ottolman, Jack's grandfather. That night, Jack's wife Megan arrives in Texas, and Jack tells her everything that happened. Megan reveals that they are going to be parents. On Christmas Night, the townspeople of Clearwater gather around the nativity scene while the reverend talks about it. After this, Jack tells his grandfather that he is going to be a great-grandfather.
Cast Away (2000)
, 2h23Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on Robinson Crusoe, Children's films
Actors Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Chris Noth, Jenifer Lewis, David Allen Brooks
Roles Dennis Larson
Rating77%
In 1995, Chuck Noland is a time-obsessed systems engineer, who travels worldwide resolving productivity problems at FedEx depots. He is in a long-term relationship with Kelly Frears, with whom he lives in Memphis, Tennessee. Although the couple wants to get married, Chuck's busy schedule interferes with their relationship. A Christmas with relatives is interrupted when Chuck is summoned to resolve a problem in Malaysia. While flying through a violent storm, his plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Chuck escapes the sinking plane and is saved by an inflatable life-raft but loses the raft's emergency locator transmitter. He clings to the life-raft, loses consciousness, and floats all night before being washed up on an island. After he awakens, he explores the island and soon discovers that it is uninhabited.
Where the Heart Is (2000)
, 2hDirected by Matt Williams
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, Joan Cusack, James Frain, Dylan Bruno
Roles Sheriff
Rating67%
At seventeen years old and seven months pregnant, Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) sets off on a road trip from Tennessee to California with her boyfriend, Willy Jack Pickens (Dylan Bruno). His car is a dilapidated 1963 Plymouth with a leaking fuel line and no floor.
A Face to Kill for (1999)
, 1h27Directed by Michael Toshiyuki Uno
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Crystal Bernard, Doug Savant, Claire Rankin, Dennis Letts, Patti Yasutake, Barry Corbin
Roles Buchanan
Rating57%
La vie dorée de Terry Chance bascule le jour où elle est arrêtée pour un crime qu'elle n'a pas commis. En prison, elle est victime d'une terrible agression qui la laisse défigurée. Après une intervention chirurgicale réussie, ses cicatrices disparaissent pour laisser place à un nouveau visage et à un nouvel espoir. À sa sortie de prison, elle décide d'utiliser son nouveau visage pour mettre au point un stratagème et prouver son innocence.
Fire Down Below (1997)
, 1h45Directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Adventure, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Environmental films, Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Marg Helgenberger, Steven Seagal, Harry Dean Stanton, Stephen Lang, Brad Hunt, Levon Helm
Roles Doctor Schultz
Rating51%
In the peaceful Appalachian hills of eastern Kentucky, toxins are being dumped into abandoned mines, causing environmental havoc, but the locals, mindful of their jobs and the power of the mine owners, can do nothing. EPA CID agent Jack Taggart (Steven Seagal) is sent to investigate, after a fellow agent is found dead, probably not by accident. The EPA has received an anonymous letter from the town of Jackson, Kentucky, and Taggart goes there undercover to continue his colleague's investigations.
Keys to Tulsa (1997)
, 1h53Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Eric Stoltz, James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, James Coburn, Joanna Going, Michael Rooker
Rating51%
The story revolves around a perpetual loser and slacker named Richter Boudreau (Eric Stoltz). Richter is from a privileged background in Tulsa, Oklahoma and works as a movie reviewer at a local newspaper only because his sour mother Cynthia (Mary Tyler Moore) pulled strings for him to land the job. He is dissatisfied with the direction that his life has taken; his girlfriend Trudy (Cameron Diaz) had just broken up with him after another disastrous date, he is about to be fired from his job because he can't meet deadlines, he lives in a dilapidated farmhouse, he uses and sells drugs behind the scenes for some extra cash, and he is so irresponsible with life in which he has gotten so far behind on his bills that his electricity has just been cut off.
Little Boy Blue (1997)
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Ryan Phillippe, Nastassja Kinski, Tyrin Turner, John Savage, Shirley Knight, Brent Jennings
Roles Sgt. Phillips
Rating62%
Living in the backwoods of Texas is the dysfunctional and apparently incestuous West family: a psychotic war veteran father, Ray (John Savage), a compliant wife, Kate (Nastassja Kinski), and a 19-year-old son, Jimmy (Ryan Phillippe); who is relegated to a warehouse outside the family home. Ray and Kate seem to be a normal couple running their bar, raising their two sons (around 3 and 5 year-old), but as they return home from work Ray turns violent and abusive. At his insistence Kate and Jimmy have a supposedly incestuous relationship. Ray goes even so far as to call Jimmy "Little boy blue" and to shout that 'he knows' Jimmy likes it.
Two Mothers for Zachary (1996)
, 1h36Directed by Peter Werner
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Valerie Bertinelli, Vanessa Redgrave, Lou Perryman, Colleen Flynn, Kim Dickens, Marco Perella
Roles Judge Crawford
Rating63%
Nancy (Redgrave) disapproves of her daughter, Jody Ann's (Bertinelli) lesbianism and resolves to seek custody of her grandson, Zachary. However, a Virginia court grants custody of the boy to Jody Ann and now she is desperate to keep hold of her son.
Frequent Flyer (1996)
, 1h32Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jack Wagner, Shelley Hack, Nicole Eggert, Joan Severance, Dennis Letts
Roles Mickey Braddock
Rating58%
Gordy (1995)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Films about pigs, Musical films, Buddy films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Afemo Omilami, Tom Lester, Doug Stone, Ted Manson, Hamilton Camp, Frank Welker
Roles Governor
Rating38%
A spunky piglet named Gordy lives a happy life on Meadow Brook Farm somewhere near Hope, Arkansas. Unfortunately, the farm's farmer has gone bankrupt, and thus must sell everything, starting with Gordy's family. Two men arrive in a truck to take Gordy's father, but Gordy is alerted of this by the farm's rooster. Gordy tries to stop his father from leaving by following the truck taking his father, but his father tells him to go home and look after the family. When Gordy returns he finds that his mother and siblings were taken in another truck while he pursued his father. Determined to locate his family and return to the farm, Gordy sets out alone to find them. He eventually ends up in the care of Jinnie Sue MacAllister, a young country singer who lives in a camper van with her also country singer father, Luke, and their "manager", Cousin Jake. Jinnie Sue, not knowing Gordy's name, calls him Pinky.
Her Hidden Truth (1995)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Kellie Martin, Antonio Sabàto, Jr., Ken Howard, Reed Diamond, Bruce Weitz, Cindy Pickett
Roles the Prosecutor
Rating59%
Young teenager Billie Calhoun is wrongly accused of setting a deadly arson fire that killed her mother and sister. After years in a juvenile detention center, she requests an early release around the age of 18, but it is denied. During the journey back to the center, she escapes the prison van to find the real killer of her mother and sister. Out on her own, she disguises herself and befriends a young cop named Matt Samoni, and together they set out to uncover the truth.
Frank & Jesse (1994)
, 1h45Directed by Robert Boris
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about families, Gangster films
Actors Rob Lowe, Bill Paxton, William Atherton, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Alexis Arquette, Maria Pitillo
Roles Railroad C.E.O.
Rating56%
Following the American Civil War the two James brothers, along with the Younger brothers - Cole Younger (played by Randy Travis) and Bob Younger (Todd Field), Bob Ford (Jim Flowers) and Charles Ford (Alexis Arquette), Clell Miller (John Pyper-Ferguson), and Arch Clements (Nick Sadler), begin to feel oppressed by the Chicago railroad investors. They set off on a trail of bank robberies, train heists, and stage holdups while evading the dogged pursuit of Allan Pinkerton (William Atherton) and his detective agency.
A Perfect World (1993)
, 2h18Directed by Clint Eastwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about children, Psychologie, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, T.J. Lowther, Keith Szarabajka, Leo Burmester
Rating74%
In 1963 Texas, convicts Robert "Butch" Haynes (Kevin Costner) and Jerry Pugh (Keith Szarabajka) escape from the state penitentiary in Huntsville. Fleeing, the pair stumble into a house where eight-year-old Phillip Perry (T.J. Lowther) lives with his devout Jehovah's Witness mother and two sisters. Needing a hostage to aid their escape, Butch grabs the boy, who meekly accompanies them. The trio's journey starts off on an unpleasant note as Butch shoots Jerry, following the latter's attempt to molest the child. With his partner out of the way, the convict and his young victim take to the Texas highway in a bid to flee from the pursuing police.
The Ernest Green Story (1993)
, 1h41Directed by Eric Laneuville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Morris Chestnut, Monica Calhoun, Avery Brooks, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Omar Gooding
Roles Gov. Marvin Griffin
Rating73%