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Polly Platt is a Actor, Scriptwriter, Producer, Production Design, Costume Design and Stunt Double American born on 29 january 1939 at Fort Sheridan (USA)
Mary Marr "Polly" Platt (January 29, 1939–July 27, 2011) was an American film producer, production designer and screenwriter.
(1989)
(Executive Producer)
(1983)
(Production Design)
(1976)
(Production Design)
(1987)
(Executive Producer)
(1987)
(Production Design)
(1973)
(Production Design)
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Birth name Mary Marr Platt
Nationality USA
Birth 29 january 1939 at Fort Sheridan (USA)
Death 27 july 2011 (at 72 years) at New York City (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 29 january 1939 at Fort Sheridan (USA)
Death 27 july 2011 (at 72 years) at New York City (USA)
Mary Marr "Polly" Platt (January 29, 1939–July 27, 2011) was an American film producer, production designer and screenwriter.
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(1989)(Executive Producer)
(1983)(Production Design)
(1976)(Production Design)
(1987)(Executive Producer)
(1987)(Production Design)
(1973)(Production Design)
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A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
, 2h18Directed by Richard LaGravenese, Ted Demme
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary, Romance
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Robert Altman, John G. Avildsen, Warren Beatty, Peter Bogdanovich, Linda Blair, Marshall Brickman
Roles Self
Rating75%
Un documentaire sur le renouveau du cinéma américain dans les années 70
Sugar Town (1999)
, 1h32Directed by Allison Anders, Kurt Voss
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Ally Sheedy, Rosanna Arquette, Lucinda Jenney, John Taylor, John Doe, Martin Kemp
Roles Maggie
Rating59%
Real rock stars play the roles of Clive (Duran Duran bassist John Taylor), Jonesey (former Spandau Ballet bassist Martin Kemp), and Nick (singer/actor Michael Des Barres), who form an aging supergroup built of refugees from other bands. They and their producer Burt seek backing from Jane (Beverly D'Angelo), a rich investor who will only help if the singer will sleep with her.
Say Anything... (1989)
, 1h40Directed by Cameron Crowe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney, Lili Taylor, Joan Cusack, Polly Platt
Roles Mrs. Flood
Rating72%
Set in Seattle, Washington, the film features Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack), an average student and aspiring kickboxer, who attempts a relationship with the sweet valedictorian Diane Court (Ione Skye) immediately after their graduation from the same high school. Diane has just won a major fellowship to study in England, and will be going there at the end of the summer. Highly intelligent yet socially naive, Diane is intrigued by Lloyd's charming persona and confidence to take a chance on someone like her. She agrees to Lloyd's request for a date, and the two of them begin seeing each other regularly.
Scriptwriter
A Map of the World (1999)
, 2h5Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Chloë Sevigny, Marc Donato, Sara Rue
Rating64%
Alice Goodwin (Sigourney Weaver) is a school nurse who lives with her husband Howard (David Strathairn) and two girls on a small dairy farm in Wisconsin. After the death of the daughter of her friend Theresa Collins (Julianne Moore) on Alice's property, the couple watch helplessly as the community turns against them. To make matters worse, Alice finds herself fighting charges of child abuse.
Lieberman in Love (1995)
, 39minutesDirected by Christine Lahti
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Danny Aiello, Christine Lahti, Nancy Travis, Allan Arbus, Lisa Banes, Beth Grant
Roles Teleplay
Rating65%
At a resort, Joe Lieberman is attracted to a guest named Shaleen, who turns out to be a prostitute. They begin a professional relationship, which continues even after Joe develops a romantic interest in a woman who sells him a condo, Kate, who is married.
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
, 1h45Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about virginity
Actors Anne Heywood, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn, Earl Holliman, Carolyn Jones, Ronee Blakley
Rating58%
In 1954 in Freedom, a fictional small Kansas town, Evelyn Wyckoff, a lonely and greatly depressed 35-year-old high-school Latin teacher, no longer finds any satisfaction in her work, in spite of being well-liked by students and colleagues. Attractive but still a virgin, on the verge of premature menopause, her physician Dr. Neal thinks her problems would be solved if she got a love life. He directs her to Dr. Steiner, a Jewish psychiatrist in Wichita. The talks with Steiner help her to alleviate her grief and slowly she acknowledges her craving for love. She starts flirting with Ed Eckles, the friendly bus driver in her trips to Wichita. Ed cares for her and suggests they should have a love affair. She was hesitant about that because Ed was married and of a lower status. When she finally was willing to, Ed had left town for good and she felt distraught.
Pretty Baby (1978)
, 1h50Directed by Louis Malle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about children, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about pedophilia, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Antonio Fargas, Diana Scarwid, Barbara Steele
Roles Story
Rating65%
In 1917, during the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, Hattie is a prostitute working at an elegant brothel run by the elderly, cocaine-sniffing Madame Nell. Hattie has given birth to a baby boy and has a 12-year-old daughter, Violet, who lives in the house. When photographer Ernest J. Bellocq comes with his camera, Hattie and Violet are the only people awake. He asks to be allowed to take photographs of the women. Madame Nell agrees only after he offers to pay.
Targets (1968)
, 1h30Directed by Peter Bogdanovich, Gilles de Turenne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about television, Serial killer films
Actors Boris Karloff, Peter Bogdanovich, Monte Landis, Mary Jackson, Mike Farrell, James Brown
Roles Story
Rating72%
The story concerns a quiet, clean-cut young insurance agent and Vietnam War veteran named Bobby Thompson (Tim O'Kelly) who murders his young wife, his mother and a grocery delivery boy at home, then goes on an afternoon shooting rampage from atop a San Fernando Valley oil storage tank. Several motorists and passengers are wounded or killed on the nearby freeway. When the police respond and start to close in on him, he flees and takes refuge in a Reseda drive-in theater where aging horror film icon Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff) is about to make a final in-person promotional appearance before retiring from show business. Thompson, perched on the framing inside the screen tower, resumes his killing spree after sunset, randomly shooting theater patrons as they sit in their cars watching the film. In a climactic confrontation, the elderly Orlok slaps the murderer into submission. As the police take him away Thompson remarks with apparent satisfaction that he "hardly ever missed".
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Have Dreams, Will Travel (2007)
, 1h26Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Cayden Boyd, AnnaSophia Robb, Lara Flynn Boyle, Matthew Modine, Heather Graham, Dylan McDermott
Roles Executive Producer
Rating71%
A boy named Ben Reynolds (Cayden Boyd) lives with his parents, who, for the most part, ignore him. One day, a car accident occurs near their home. Cass Kennington (AnnaSophia Robb), a girl around Ben's age, survives, but her parents both die in the crash. Cass stays in the Reynolds' house while she recovers, and she and Ben develop a romantic relationship. The two soon decide to leave and set off on their own with a suitcase and some money. Ben and Cass get "married" while staying at someone's farm. Their journey eventually takes them to Cass' aunt and uncle, where Cass suffers a nervous breakdown and gets taken to a psychiatric ward. Ben breaks into the place at night, and Cass reveals to him that she caused the car accident that killed her parents because she was being abused by her father. Ben convinces her to leave with him, and the couple spends the rest of their lives together.
The Evening Star (1996)
, 2h9Directed by Robert Harling
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis, Miranda Richardson, Ben Johnson, Scott Wolf
Roles Producer
Rating59%
Years have passed since the death of her daughter. Aurora Greenway is still her usual strong, willful self, but all is not well with the three grandchildren she raised after Emma's death, particularly eldest boy Tommy, who is serving time in jail on a drug charge.
Bottle Rocket (1996)
, 1h32Directed by Wes Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Buddy films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, James Caan, Lumi Cavazos, Ned Dowd, Andrew Wilson
Roles Producer
Rating68%
In Arizona, Dignan "rescues" Anthony from a voluntary psychiatric unit, where he has been staying for self-described exhaustion. Dignan has an elaborate escape planned and has developed a 75-year plan that he shows to Anthony. The plan is to pull off several heists, and then meet up with a Mr. Henry, a landscaper and part-time criminal known to Dignan.
I'll Do Anything (1994)
, 1h56Directed by James L. Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about films, Films about television
Actors Nick Nolte, Albert Brooks, Julie Kavner, Whittni Wright, Joely Richardson, Tracey Ullman
Roles Producer
Rating55%
In 1980, on the night he fails to win an Emmy Award, Matt Hobbs proposes to his longtime girlfriend Beth. He says the only thing holding him back is his dedication to his career, one which may not always work out, and Beth says that's one of the things she loves most about him. Little more than a year later, with a baby crying and no job for Matt, Beth is overflowing with resentment. By 1993, the pair have been divorced for several years and are living on opposite coasts. Matt auditions for a role in pompous, self-absorbed, and clueless film producer Burke Adler's new project but fails to get the part. He does however agree to chauffeur Adler occasionally. Matt flies to Georgia to pick up his daughter Jeannie for what he believes is a brief visit and discovers Beth is facing a prison term and Jeannie will be living with him for the duration of her sentence. The two return to Hollywood and struggle with their new circumstances and building a relationship (Matt hasn't seen the six-year-old since she was four). When Matt goes in to make a screen test for a lead in a film, he leaves Jeannie with a friend at the studio, and when he picks her up he's stunned to learn she's been cast in a sitcom. There are multiple sub-plots, including one focusing on Matt's relationship with staff script-reader Cathy Breslow and another concerning test screening analyst Nan Mulhanney and her tumultuous relationship with Adler. While a large part of the film is a satire of the film industry, it also skewers relationships from various angles.
The War of the Roses (1989)
, 1h56Directed by Danny DeVito
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, Dan Castellaneta, Sean Astin
Roles Executive Producer
Rating68%
Lawyer Gavin D'Amato is in his office discussing a divorce case with a client. Noticing the man's determination to divorce his wife, Gavin decides to tell him the story of one of his clients, a personal friend of his.
Say Anything... (1989)
, 1h40Directed by Cameron Crowe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney, Lili Taylor, Joan Cusack, Polly Platt
Roles Producer
Rating72%
Set in Seattle, Washington, the film features Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack), an average student and aspiring kickboxer, who attempts a relationship with the sweet valedictorian Diane Court (Ione Skye) immediately after their graduation from the same high school. Diane has just won a major fellowship to study in England, and will be going there at the end of the summer. Highly intelligent yet socially naive, Diane is intrigued by Lloyd's charming persona and confidence to take a chance on someone like her. She agrees to Lloyd's request for a date, and the two of them begin seeing each other regularly.
Broadcast News (1987)
, 2h13Directed by James L. Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about television, Children's films
Actors William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack
Roles Executive Producer
Rating72%
The film revolves around three characters who work in television news. Jane Craig (Hunter) is a talented, neurotic producer whose life revolves around her work. Jane's best friend and frequent collaborator, Aaron Altman (Brooks), is a gifted writer and reporter ambitious for on-camera exposure who is secretly in love with Jane. Tom Grunick (Hurt), a local news anchorman who until recently was a sports anchorman, is likeable and telegenic, but lacks news experience and knows that he was only hired for his good looks and charm. He is attracted to Jane, although he is also intimidated by her skills and intensity.