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Taken Away (TV Series)
''Taken Away'' is a 1989 American made-for-television film starring Valerie Bertinelli, Kevin Dunn, Anna Maria Horsford and Juliet Sorci. The film was directed by John Patterson and premiered on CBS on November 5, 1989. Synopsis Stephanie Monroe ( Valerie Bertinelli) is a single mother raising her eight year old daughter, Abby Monroe (Juliet Sorci). On one night, Stephanie has to go to school and Abby begs her mother to stay at home alone, rather than going to a babysitter's house. When Abby falls down, she gets scared and calls the police, thinking that they will bring her to her mother. The police arrives and instead places Abby in protective custody of the court. Stephanie must fight with the state to get her daughter back. Cast * Valerie Bertinelli as Stephanie Monroe * Juliet Sorci as Abby Monroe * Kevin Dunn as Mr. Lombardi * Anna Maria Horsford Anna Maria Horsford is an American actress, known for her performances in television comedies. Horsford is best kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Patterson (director)
John Tiffin Patterson (April 4, 1940 – February 7, 2005) was a television director known for his work on drama series, who also made television films. He directed thirteen episodes of ''The Sopranos'', including the first five season finales. Patterson was born in Buffalo, New York. Biography Aged 19, Patterson joined the United States Air Force where he navigated B-52 bombers for the Strategic Air Command. He resumed his college studies while a reservist and graduated from the University at Buffalo. He earned a master's degree at Stanford University in 1970, where he was a classmate of ''The Sopranos'' creator David Chase. He was nominated for the Emmy award in 2002 and 2003 for his work on ''The Sopranos'' and won The Directors Guild of America award for the show in 2002. As a director, Patterson worked for several television studios, including HBO and CBS. He directed episodes of ''The Sopranos'', ''Providence'', ''The Practice'', ''Carnivàle'', ''Family Law'', '' Six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Bertinelli
Valerie Anne Bertinelli (born April 23, 1960) is an American actress. She first achieved recognition as a child actress, portraying Barbara Cooper Royer on the sitcom ''One Day at a Time (1975 TV series), One Day at a Time'' (1975–1984) for which she won two Golden Globe Awards for Golden Globe Awards, Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film. She subsequently earned adult stardom as Gloria on the religious drama series ''Touched by an Angel'' (2001–2003) and Melanie Moretti on the sitcom ''Hot in Cleveland'' (2010–2015), the latter of which gained her a Screen Actors Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2012, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Bertinelli has hosted several programs for Food Network, such as the cooking shows ''Valerie's Home Cooking'' (2015–present) and ''Kids Baking Championship'' (2015–present), winning two Daytime Emmy Awards for the former out of six nominations. In December 2021, Bert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Dunn
Kevin Dunn (born August 24, 1956) is an American actor who has appeared in supporting roles in a number of films and television series since the 1980s. Dunn's roles include White House Communications Director Alan Reed in the political comedy ''Dave'', U.S. Army Colonel Hicks in the 1998 version of ''Godzilla'', a role he reprised for the animated adaptation of Godzilla, Alan Abernathy's father Stuart in ''Small Soldiers'', Sam Witwicky's father Ron in the ''Transformers'' film series, Oscar Galvin in the 2010 action thriller ''Unstoppable'', and misanthropic White House Chief of Staff Ben Cafferty in ''Veep''. He has also had recurring roles on ''True Detective'' in 2014 and on the TV series adaptation of '' The Mosquito Coast'' in 2021. Early life and education Dunn was born in Chicago, the son of John Dunn, a musician and poet, and his wife Margaret (née East), a nurse. His sister is actress/comedian Nora Dunn. He also has a brother, Michael Dunn, a High school history te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Maria Horsford
Anna Maria Horsford is an American actress, known for her performances in television comedies. Horsford is best known for her roles as Thelma Frye on the NBC sitcom ''Amen'' (1986–91), and as Dee Baxter on the WB sitcom ''The Wayans Bros.'' (1995–99). She had dramatic roles on the FX crime drama ''The Shield'' playing A.D.A. Beth Encardi, and CBS daytime soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' as Vivienne Avant, for which she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series in 2016 and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2017. Horsford appeared in a number of movies, most notable as Craig Jones' mother Betty in 1995 comedy film ''Friday'' and its sequel ''Friday After Next'' (2002). Her other film credits include ''Times Square'' (1980), '' The Fan'' (1981), '' Presumed Innocent'' (1990), '' Set It Off'' (1996), '' Along Came a Spider'' (2001), ''Our Family Wedding'' (2010), and '' A Madea Christmas'' (2013) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliet Sorci
Juliet Sorci (born July 4, 1979) is an American actress best known for her numerous roles as a child actress. Early life Born and raised in Bakersfield, California, Sorci graduated from William S. Hart High School in Santa Clarita in 1997. Career Sorci studied with many acting teachers which include Howard Fine, Lesly Kahn, and Stan Kirsch; she also studied the Alexander Technique with Jean-Louis Rodrigue and Kristof Konrad and voice control with Robert Corff. Starting out in Hollywood as a child actress, Sorci has appeared in guest roles on numerous TV shows, which include '' Quantum Leap'', ''The Tracey Ullman Show'', '' Baywatch'', '' In The Heat of the Night'' (1993). After a 12 year pause, she returned in her first adult role, in a 2005 episode of '' Zoey 101''. Personal life , Sorci lived in Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Film
A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for initial showing in movie theaters, and direct-to-video films made for initial release on home video formats. In certain cases, such films may also be referred to and shown as a miniseries, which typically indicates a film that has been divided into multiple parts or a series that contains a predetermined, limited number of episodes. Origins and history Precursors of "television movies" include ''Talk Faster, Mister'', which aired on WABD (now WNYW) in New York City on December 18, 1944, and was produced by RKO Pictures, and the 1957 ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'', based on the poem by Robert Browning, and starring Van Johnson, one of the first filmed "family musicals" made directly for television. That film was made in Technicolor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS Network Films
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global. Its headquarters is at the CBS Building in New York City. It has major production facilities and operations at the CBS Broadcast Center and the headquarters of owner Paramount Global at One Astor Plaza (both also in that city) and Television City and the CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles. It is also sometimes referred to as the Eye Network in reference to the company's trademark symbol which has been in use since 1951. It has also been called the Tiffany Network which alludes to the perceived high quality of its programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBS's first demonstrations of color television, which were held in the former Tiffany and Company Building in N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Television Films
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a large Exxon Valdez oil spill, oil spill; The Fall of the Berlin Wall begins the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and heralds German reunification; The United States United States invasion of Panama, invades Panama to depose Manuel Noriega; The Singing Revolution led to the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union; The stands of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where the Hillsborough disaster occurred; 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Students demonstrate in Tiananmen Square, Beijing; many are killed by forces of the Chinese Communist Party., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1989 Loma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Films
The year 1989 involved many significant films. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1989 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events * Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million. Basinger would lose the town to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech Corp., in 1993 after being forced to file for bankruptcy when a California judge ordered her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the film ''Boxing Helena''. * A director's cut of ''Lawrence of Arabia'' is released with a 227-minute length. The restoration was undertaken by Robert A. Harris under the supervision of director David Lean. * April 23 – ''Field of Dreams'', starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, and Burt Lancaster, is released. * May 24 – '' Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' is released. It is the third installment of the Indiana Jones series. * June 13 – The James Bond film ''Licence to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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