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Joyce Van Patten is a Actor American born on 9 march 1934 at New York City (USA)
Joyce Benignia Van Patten (born March 9, 1934) is an American stage, film and television actress, best known for the wry, astringent and neurotic characters she portrays.
She is the younger sister of actor Dick Van Patten, half-sister of actor/director Tim Van Patten and aunt to actor Vincent Van Patten. Following a relatively brief marriage to Thomas King at the age of 16 (she gave birth to a son, Thomas, Jr., a year later), she would marry and divorce three more times, including to actors Dennis Dugan and Martin Balsam, by which marriage she had her daughter, actress Talia Balsam.
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Joyce Van Patten
Birth name Joyce Benignia Van Patten
Nationality USA
Birth 9 march 1934 (90 years) at New York City (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 9 march 1934 (90 years) at New York City (USA)
Biography
Van Patten was born in New York City to Josephine Rose (née Acerno), a magazine advertising executive, and Richard Byron Van Patten, an interior decorator. Her mother was of Italian descent, while her father was of Dutch and English ancestry.She is the younger sister of actor Dick Van Patten, half-sister of actor/director Tim Van Patten and aunt to actor Vincent Van Patten. Following a relatively brief marriage to Thomas King at the age of 16 (she gave birth to a son, Thomas, Jr., a year later), she would marry and divorce three more times, including to actors Dennis Dugan and Martin Balsam, by which marriage she had her daughter, actress Talia Balsam.
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God's Pocket (2014)
, 1h28Directed by John Slattery
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Christina Hendricks, John Turturro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eddie Marsan, Richard Jenkins, Eddie McGee
Roles Aunt Sophie
Rating60%
When a blue collar worker's stepson is killed in a mysterious accident, he tries to cover things up, but things become difficult when a reporter won't let the story die.
Directed by Edward Burns
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Christmas films
Actors Kerry Bishé, Edward Burns, Heather Burns, Marsha Dietlein, Anita Gillette, Nick Sandow
Roles Mrs. McGowan
Rating62%
This Must Be the Place (2011)
, 1h58Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies
Actors Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Kerry Condon, Judd Hirsch, Eve Hewson, Harry Dean Stanton
Roles Dorothy Shore
Rating67%
Cheyenne is a wealthy former rock star, now bored and jaded in his 20-year retirement in Dublin. He retired after two of his teenaged fans committed suicide. He travels to New York to reconcile with his estranged father during his final hours, only to arrive too late. The reason he gives for not communicating with his father for 30 years was that his father rejected him when he put on glam rock make-up at the age of 15. He reads his father's diary and learns about his father's persecution in Auschwitz at the hands of former SS officer Alois Lange. He visits a professional Nazi hunter named Mordecai Midler who tells him that Lange is small fry.
, 1h32Directed by Bruce Beresford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Elizabeth Olsen, Chace Crawford, Nat Wolff
Roles Mariam
Rating59%
When her husband tells her he wants a divorce, devastated Manhattan lawyer Diane heads upstate with her two teens to Woodstock to stay with her estranged hippie mother. In this charming village, Diane and her city kids get a new perspective on life: poetry-reading daughter Zoe becomes interested in a sensitive young butcher Cole, nerdy son Jake finds material for his first film project, and Diane herself grows close to a handsome carpenter/singer Jude. Most importantly, Diane finally gets the chance to end the ancient war with the mother she has not seen for decades.
Grown Ups (2010)
, 1h35Directed by Martin Scorsese, Dennis Dugan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Adam Sandler, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, Maria Bello
Roles Gloria
Rating60%
In 1978, five childhood friends win their junior high school basketball championship. During their celebration at a rented lake house, the friends' coach, Bissau (Blake Clark), encourages them to live their lives in a similar way to how they played the game. In 2010, Lenny Feder (Adam Sandler) is an ambitious Hollywood talent agent who is married to fashion designer Roxanne Chase (Salma Hayek), and has three children—one daughter Becky and two sons, Greg and Keith (Jake Goldberg and Cameron Boyce); his sons have become very spoiled much to his annoyance. Eric Lamonsoff (Kevin James) claims he is now a co-owner of a lawn furniture company, is married to Sally (Maria Bello) and has two children, Donna and Bean (Ada-Nicole Sanger and Morgan Gingerich). Much to Eric's chagrin, Sally continues to breastfeed Bean. Kurt McKenzie (Chris Rock) is a stay-at-home father who is married to Deanne (Maya Rudolph), the primary breadwinner of the family, and has two children, Andre and Charlotte (Nadji Jeter and China Anne McClain). Deanne is pregnant with another child and her mother (Ebony Jo-Ann) also lives with the family. Rob Hilliard (Rob Schneider) has been divorced three times and has daughters Jasmine, Amber, and Bridget (Madison Riley, Jamie Chung, and Ashley Loren) from those marriages. His current wife, Gloria (Joyce Van Patten), is 30 years older than him. Marcus Higgins (David Spade) is a slacker and lothario. All five friends regularly harass each other in comedic fashion throughout the film: Lenny for being rich; Eric for being overweight; Kurt for being skinny and not being more useful; Rob for his way of saying "Maize!" and for having a much older wife; and Marcus for being sexually juvenile.
Marley & Me (2008)
, 1h55Directed by David Frankel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin, Haley Hudson
Roles Mrs. Butterly
Rating70%
Soon after their wedding, John and Jenny Grogan (Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston) escape the brutal Michigan winters and relocate to a cottage in South Florida, where they are hired as reporters for competing newspapers. At The Palm Beach Post, Jenny immediately receives prominent front-page assignments, while at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, John finds himself writing obituaries and two-paragraph articles about mundane news like a fire at the local garbage dump.
Infinity (1996)
, 1h59Directed by Matthew Broderick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Actors Matthew Broderick, Patricia Arquette, Peter Riegert, James LeGros, Joyce Van Patten, Josh Keaton
Roles Aunt Ruth
Rating61%
The film follows the book What Do You Care What Other People Think? fairly closely in terms of the stories told.
Maid for Each Other (1992)
, 1h33Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Nell Carter, Joyce Van Patten, Garret Morris, Dinah Manoff, Timothy Stack, Robert Costanzo
Roles Leila
Rating61%
A recently widowed Beverly Hills socialite is left broke and homeless. Seeking refuge at her mothers and gaining a job as a maid for a flamboyant jazz singer the two form an unlikely bond and soon find themselves neck deep in mayhem and trouble.
The Haunted (1991)
Directed by Robert Mandel
Genres Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Sally Kirkland, Jeffrey DeMunn, Louise Latham, George D. Wallace, Joyce Van Patten, Diane Baker
Roles Cora Miller
Rating62%
The Smurl family move into their new home on Chase Street only to find that it is plagued with three spirits and a demon. The demon wants to destroy their family and they are constantly desperate until they find the Warren family to get rid of them.
Trust Me (1989)
Directed by Robert Houston
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Talia Balsam, David Packer, Joyce Van Patten, Barbara Bain, William De Acutis, Kimmy Robertson
Roles Nettie Brown
Rating60%
Monkey Shines (1988)
, 1h53Directed by George A. Romero
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Medical-themed films, Natural horror films, Films about apes, Films about disabilities, Comedy horror films
Actors Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Stephen Root, Stanley Tucci
Roles Dorothy Mann
Rating61%
Monkey Shines tells the story of an athlete, Allan Mann (Jason Beghe), who is rendered quadriplegic when struck by a truck. Mann fails to adjust to his condition, becoming suicidal and despondent. When Geoffrey, a scientist friend of his (John Pankow), who has been experimenting with the injection of human brain tissue into monkeys, learns this, he is prompted to supply one of the experimental monkeys, named "Ella" (played by Boo, whose vocal effects are provided by Frank Welker), to Allan as a helper.
Blind Date (1987)
, 1h31Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger, John Larroquette, William Daniels, Phil Hartman, Mark Blum
Roles Nadia's Mother
Rating59%
Walter Davis (Willis) allows his brother, Ted (Phil Hartman), to set him up on a blind date with his wife's cousin, Nadia (Basinger).
Billy Galvin (1986)
, 1h39Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Karl Malden, Alan North, Lenny Von Dohlen, Joyce Van Patten, Toni Kalem, Paul Guilfoyle
Roles Mae Galvin
Rating62%
St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
, 1h50Directed by Joel Schumacher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Teen movie
Actors Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy
Roles Mrs. Beamish
Rating63%
Recent graduates of Georgetown University Alec, girlfriend Leslie, Kevin, Jules, and Kirby are waiting to hear about the conditions of their friends Wendy, a sweet-natured girl devoted to helping others, and Billy, a former frat boy and now reluctant husband and father, after a car accident. At the hospital, Kirby sees a medical student named Dale, with whom he has been infatuated since college.
Malice in Wonderland (1985)
, 1h34Directed by Gus Trikonis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Alexander, Richard A. Dysart, Joyce Van Patten, Jon Cypher, Leslie Ackerman
Roles Dema Harshbarger
Rating63%