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Randa Haines is a Director, Producer and Continuity American born on 20 february 1945 at Los Angeles (USA)

Randa Haines

Randa Haines
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Nationality USA
Birth 20 february 1945 (79 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Randa Haines (born February 20, 1945 in Los Angeles) is a film and television director and producer. She is perhaps most famous for directing the critically acclaimed feature film Children of a Lesser God (1986), which starred William Hurt and Marlee Matlin, for which Matlin won the 1987 Academy Award as best actress. Haines also won the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989 she was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2002 she was a member of the jury at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival.

Haines received a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for that film and was nominated both for the DGA Award and an Emmy Award in 1984 for the television movie Something About Amelia.

Best films

Children of a Lesser God (1986)
(Director)

Usually with

Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall
(2 films)
Piper Laurie
Piper Laurie
(3 films)
William Hurt
William Hurt
(3 films)
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Filmography of Randa Haines (13 films)

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Director

The Ron Clark Story, 1h36
Directed by Randa Haines
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Matthew Perry, Ernie Hudson, Brandon Mychal Smith, Hannah Hodson Rose, Micah Stephen Williams, Melissa De Sousa
Rating74% 3.7483653.7483653.7483653.7483653.748365
The Ron Clark Story follows the inspiring tale of an energetic, creative and idealistic young teacher who leaves his small North Carolina hometown to teach in a New York City public school. Through his passionate use of special rules for his classroom, highly innovative teaching techniques and an undying devotion to his students and helping them cope with their problems, Clark is able to make a remarkable difference in the lives of his students. For one young girl trying to attend school while helping to raise her 3 children, he offers a chance for her to overcome her situation and become the top student of the class. For a young man with a penchant for graffiti, he offers an ideal outlet for artistic expression. Even when he is almost overcome by pneumonia, Clark continues to work with his students, hoping that he can raise their test scores to an acceptable level, or possibly even higher.
The Outsider, 1h59
Directed by Randa Haines
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Timothy Daly, Naomi Watts, Keith Carradine, David Carradine, Thomas Curtis, John Noble
Rating66% 3.343793.343793.343793.343793.34379
The Western, The Outsider, takes place in Montana of the late 19th century. Wounded outlaw Johnny Gault (Tim Daly) is given refuge by widowed sheep farmer Rebecca Yoder (Naomi Watts). This puts Rebecca on the outs with her own people, a pacifist religious group, that resembles the Amish. They incur the wrath of a ruthless cattle baron who wants the land of the religious group. He was also responsible for the death of Rebecca's husband.
Dance with Me, 2h6
Directed by Randa Haines
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Musical films
Actors Vanessa Williams, Chayanne, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Plowright, Jane Krakowski, Beth Grant
Rating59% 2.962532.962532.962532.962532.96253
After burying his mother, Rafael Infante (Chayanne) comes from Santiago, Cuba to Houston, Texas to work for a man named John Burnett (Kris Kristofferson) as a handyman in Burnett's dance studio. It soon becomes clear to the audience that Burnett is the father Rafael never knew. While there he finds himself falling for a dancer and instructor Ruby Sinclair (Williams), who incidentally brought him to the studio.
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, 2h3
Directed by Randa Haines
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Buddy films
Actors Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, Piper Laurie, Sandra Bullock, Shirley MacLaine, Marty Belafsky
Rating69% 3.493563.493563.493563.493563.49356
Frank is a retired Irish seaman. Walter is a retired Cuban barber. They are two lonely old men living in Florida, trapped in the emptiness of their own lives.
The Doctor
The Doctor (1991)
, 2h2
Directed by Randa Haines
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Mandy Patinkin, Elizabeth Perkins, Adam Arkin, Charlie Korsmo
Rating68% 3.44583.44583.44583.44583.4458
Dr Jack McKee is a successful surgeon at a leading hospital. He and his wife have all the trappings of success, although Jack works such long hours that he rarely has time to see their son and has become somewhat emotionally dead to his wife. His "bedside manner" with his patients, in many cases seriously ill, is also quite lacking. The decorum in the operating theater is very casual, loud country and rock music, and the chatter between him and his partner, Dr. Murray Kaplan, not particularly professional. (When a patient with a chest scar mentions her husband is not close anymore, Jack responds that she should tell him that she is just like a "Playboy centerfold, because she has the staple marks to prove it.
Children of a Lesser God, 1h59
Directed by Randa Haines
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about education, Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, Personne sourde ou muette, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco, Linda Bove, Bob Hiltermann
Rating71% 3.597353.597353.597353.597353.59735
Sarah Norman (Marlee Matlin) is a troubled young deaf woman working as a cleaner at a school for the deaf and hard of hearing in New England. An energetic new teacher, James Leeds (William Hurt), arrives at the school and encourages her to set aside her insular life by learning how to speak aloud.
Something About Amelia, 1h40
Directed by Randa Haines
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Ted Danson, Glenn Close, Olivia Cole, Melissa Francis, Roxana Zal, Lane Smith
Rating67% 3.3861253.3861253.3861253.3861253.386125
La honte et la peur ont gardé Amelia Bennett silencieuse au sujet de l'agression sexuelle qu'elle subit aux mains de son père, Steven. Mais comme Amelia commence à croire que Steven pourrait faire du mal à son jeune frère de la même manière, elle se libère de son terrible secret. Confrontée à cette nouvelle horrible, la femme de Steven, Gail, n'arrive pas à croire que ce soit vrai, et il professe son innocence. Mais à mesure que de nouveaux détails apparaissent, la famille est profondément secouée.

Production

Antwone Fisher, 2h
Directed by Denzel Washington
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about children, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about child abuse, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Derek Luke, Malcolm David Kelley, Joy Bryant, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Denzel Washington, Kevin Connolly
Roles Producer
Rating72% 3.647233.647233.647233.647233.64723
The film focuses on Antwone "Fish" Fisher (Derek Luke), a temperamental young man with a violent history who is serving in the U.S. Navy. His father was killed before he was born and his teenage mother, Eva Mae Fisher, ended up arrested soon after and put in jail, where she gave birth to him. He was then placed in an orphanage until such time as she was released and could claim him. Since she had not yet claimed him, at the age of two Antwone was placed in a foster home run by a supposedly religious couple, Mr. and Mrs. Tate (Ellis Williams and Novella Nelson). There, Antwone faced mental and physical abuse by Mrs. Tate for many years until he finally left the home at age fourteen. After living out on the streets for the next few years, he decided to join the U.S. Navy to make something out of his life. However the rough life he had as child caused him to have a violent temper at this point.
The Outsider, 1h59
Directed by Randa Haines
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Timothy Daly, Naomi Watts, Keith Carradine, David Carradine, Thomas Curtis, John Noble
Roles Executive Producer
Rating66% 3.343793.343793.343793.343793.34379
The Western, The Outsider, takes place in Montana of the late 19th century. Wounded outlaw Johnny Gault (Tim Daly) is given refuge by widowed sheep farmer Rebecca Yoder (Naomi Watts). This puts Rebecca on the outs with her own people, a pacifist religious group, that resembles the Amish. They incur the wrath of a ruthless cattle baron who wants the land of the religious group. He was also responsible for the death of Rebecca's husband.
Dance with Me, 2h6
Directed by Randa Haines
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Musical films
Actors Vanessa Williams, Chayanne, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Plowright, Jane Krakowski, Beth Grant
Roles Producer
Rating59% 2.962532.962532.962532.962532.96253
After burying his mother, Rafael Infante (Chayanne) comes from Santiago, Cuba to Houston, Texas to work for a man named John Burnett (Kris Kristofferson) as a handyman in Burnett's dance studio. It soon becomes clear to the audience that Burnett is the father Rafael never knew. While there he finds himself falling for a dancer and instructor Ruby Sinclair (Williams), who incidentally brought him to the studio.
A Family Thing, 1h49
Directed by Richard Pearce
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Irma P. Hall, Michael Beach, Regina Taylor, Grace Zabriskie
Roles Producer
Rating70% 3.542983.542983.542983.542983.54298
The film is a drama about a Scotch-Irish American Southerner (Duvall) named Earl Pilcher, whose late mother makes a shocking revelation in a letter that is given to him after her death. She reveals that Earl's biological mother was a Black American maid named Willa Mae, who was raped by Earl's (white) father and that she died while giving birth to Earl. His adoptive mother's dying wish is that he go to Chicago to meet his half-brother, Raymond Murdoch (Jones). Ray blames Earl's father for his own mother's death and does not want to speak to Earl, whose very presence reminds Ray of the past. But his loving Aunt T. (Hall) welcomes Earl and insists the family accept him.

Direction

Let's Scare Jessica to Death, 1h29
Directed by John D. Hancock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films, Vampires in film
Actors Zohra Lampert, Gretchen Corbett, Barton Heyman, Mariclare Costello, Kevin J. O'Connor
Roles Continuity
Rating63% 3.198843.198843.198843.198843.19884
Wearing just a nightgown, Jessica (Zohra Lampert) sits in a rowboat, staring at the water.
Joe
Joe (1970)
, 1h42
Directed by John G. Avildsen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Susan Sarandon, K Callan, Frank Vitale
Roles Script Supervisor
Rating67% 3.396783.396783.396783.396783.39678
Advertising executive Bill Compton (Patrick), his wife Joan (Audrey Caire), and daughter Melissa (Sarandon) are a wealthy family living in New York's Upper East Side. Melissa has been living with her drug dealer boyfriend. After Melissa overdoses and is sent to a hospital, Compton goes to her boyfriend's apartment to get her clothes. He confronts and kills the boyfriend in a fit of rage. At a nearby bar he hears factory worker Joe Curran (Boyle) ranting about how he hates hippies, and blurts out that he just killed one. Joe reacts favorably, but Compton says it was a joke.