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Elaine Miles is a Actor American born on 7 april 1960 at Pendleton (USA)
Elaine Miles (born April 7, 1960, in Pendleton, Oregon) is an American actress best known for her role as Marilyn Whirlwind in the television series Northern Exposure.
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Elaine Miles was born in Pendleton, Oregon, of Cayuse/Nez Perce ancestry, and lived to the age of three on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in eastern Oregon. Her family then moved to Renton, Washington, where her father was a Boeing machinist. She learned many of the traditional skills in her youth—storytelling, beading, pottery and weaving—and is a prize-winning traditional dancer.Usually with
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Wyvern (2009)
, 1h30Directed by Steven R. Monroe
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about dragons
Actors Nick Chinlund, Erin Karpluk, Barry Corbin, Don S. Davis, Tinsel Korey, Elaine Miles
Roles Deputy Susie Barnes
Rating47%
The small Alaskan town of Beaver Mills is located just north of the Arctic Circle, meaning that the sun does not set during the summer solstice. As the town prepares for its annual celebration of this event, a wyvern is awakened by the melting of the ice caps, and attacks a fisherman. Jake (Nick Chinlund), a handyman fixing the cafe where Claire (Erin Karpluk), hurts his hand and David (David Lewis), the town's doctor, examines it. While driving back to town, David is attacked by the wyvern. The next morning, Sheriff Dawson (John Shaw) and Jake hear gunshots and find Haas (Barry Corbin), a redneck attacked by the wyvern. Colonel (Don S. Davis), who has seen the Wyvern, goes to town to warn the citizens; but they disbelieve him, and he goes to kill it. Dawson radios to his Deputy Susie (Elaine Miles) to watch the town, but fails to convey his meaning. Dawson finds his friend dead, and returns. At the town, the wyvern kills Susie and several other people. Jake, Claire, Haas, and the eccentric Edin (Karen Austin) take shelter in the cafe. Later, Hampton (Tinsel Korey), who runs the town's radio, and Farley (Simon Longmore), another citizen, hide in the cafe. Sheriff Dawson is killed by the wyvern. Jake and Claire track the wyvern into the woods, where they find the Colonel, and discover the wyvern is killing anyone on the Interstate. Farley is injured trying to get supplies. The wyvern then uses David, still alive, as bait to draw people from the cafe. Jake goes to rescue him, and Farley distracts the wyvern to save them, but is eaten. David tells the group the Wyvern has eggs, and dies of his injuries. The survivors decide to electrify the nest, but the wyvern kills Haas. Jake takes a truck left on the side of the road and, using the eggs as bait, kills the wyvern. Jake, Claire, Colonel, Hampton, and Edin try again to radio for help.
Tortilla Heaven (2008)
, 1h34Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors José Zúñiga, Elpidia Carrillo, Alexis Cruz, Olivia Hussey, Judy Herrera, Lupe Ontiveros
Roles Caridad
Rating53%
A tiny town in New Mexico is turned upside down when the image of Christ appears - burned onto a tortilla - in the community's only restaurant, "Tortilla Heaven." Chaos ensues among the townfolk.
The Business of Fancydancing (2002)
, 1h43Directed by Sherman Alexie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Evan Àdams, Cynthia Geary, Elaine Miles, Leo Rossi
Rating65%
Skins (2002)
, 1h27Directed by Chris Eyre
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Eric Schweig, Graham Greene, Gary Farmer, Misty Upham, Michelle Thrush, Gil Birmingham
Rating69%
Rudy and Mogie Yellow Lodge are Lakota Sioux brothers on the Beaver Creek Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Mogie, unemployed and with a teenage son. Rudy, a police officer, struggles to care for his brother, nephew and the rest of the town through the hands of law. Mogie resists Rudy's attempts, preferring to drink and joke about the depressed state of their people and town. As a child, Rudy had been bitten by a spider, and Mogie told him it was Iktomi, the trickster spider; this spider re-appears to Rudy early in the film and Rudy's attempts to help begin to wander outside the lines of the law.
Smoke Signals (1998)
, 1h29Directed by Chris Eyre
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Adam Beach, Evan Àdams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal, Simon Baker
Rating71%
Victor (Adam Beach) and Thomas Builds-the-Fire (Evan Adams) live on the Coeur D'Alene Indian Reservation in Plummer, Idaho. Thomas is an eccentric storyteller and Victor is an angry young man who enjoys playing basketball.
Mad Love (1995)
, 1h33Directed by Antonia Bird
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Transport films, Films about psychiatry, Road movies
Actors Chris O'Donnell, Drew Barrymore, Matthew Lillard, Joan Allen, Jude Ciccolella, Jude Ciccolella
Roles Housekeeper
Rating52%
In Seattle, straight-laced Matt Leland (O'Donnell) falls in love with Casey Roberts (Barrymore), the new girl at their high school who's from Chicago. They begin a sexual relationship. His father disapproves of this and her parents try to stop them from continuing to see each other. She deliberately sets off the fire alarm at school, knowing that there is no fire there, and is subsequently suspended. She has an argument with her parents when they tell her they are sending her to a boarding school. She takes an overdose and her parents subsequently arrange to have her committed. He helps her escape from an acute psychiatric ward, and as they run away they both deal with her bipolar disorder.