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Molly (1999 Film)
''Molly'' is a 1999 romantic comedy-drama film about a 28-year-old woman with autism who comes into the custody of her neurotic executive brother. The film was directed by John Duigan and written by Dick Christie of '' Small Wonder''-fame, and stars Elisabeth Shue as the title character, Aaron Eckhart as her older brother, and Jill Hennessy. Plot A 28-year-old autistic woman named Molly McKay has lived in a mental institution from a young age following her parents' deaths in an automobile accident. When the institution must close on account of budget cuts, Molly is left in the care of her non-autistic older brother, Buck McKay, an advertising executive and perennial bachelor. Molly, who verbalizes very little and is obsessed with lining up her shoes in neat rows, throws Buck's life into a tailspin as she runs away from her nurses and barges into a meeting at Buck's agency naked. Molly's neurologist, Susan Brookes, suggests an experimental surgery in which genetically modi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Duigan
John Duigan (born 19 June 1949) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. He is mostly known for his two autobiographical fiction, autobiographical films ''The Year My Voice Broke'' and ''Flirting (film), Flirting'', and the 1994 film ''Sirens (1994 film), Sirens'', which stars Hugh Grant. Biography Duigan was born in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England to an Australian father, and emigrated to Australia in 1961. He is related to many Australian performers, being the brother of novelist Virginia Duigan (wife of director Bruce Beresford) and uncle of Trilby Beresford. Duigan studied at the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Ormond College and graduated in 1973 with a master's degree in Philosophy. While at university, he worked extensively as an actor and director in theatre, and acted in a number of films (including ''Brake Fluid'', ''Bonjour Balwyn'' and Dalmas (film), ''Dalmas''). He began directing films in 1974, with early successes including ''Mouth to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Traffic Collision
A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision, or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other moving or stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building. Traffic collisions often result in injury, disability, death, and property damage as well as financial costs to both society and the individuals involved. Road transport is statistically the most dangerous situation people deal with on a daily basis, but casualty figures from such incidents attract less media attention than other, less frequent types of tragedy. The commonly used term car accident is increasingly falling out of favor with many government departments and organizations: the Associated Press style guide recommends caution before using the term and the National Union of Journalists advises against it in their Road Collision Reporting Guidelines. Some collisions are intentional vehicle-ramming attacks, staged crashes, vehicu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts goin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
United States Dollar
The United States dollar (Currency symbol, symbol: Dollar sign, $; ISO 4217, currency code: USD) is the official currency of the United States and International use of the U.S. dollar, several other countries. The Coinage Act of 1792 introduced the U.S. dollar at par with the Spanish dollar, Spanish silver dollar, divided it into 100 cent (currency), cents, and authorized the Mint (facility), minting of coins denominated in dollars and cents. U.S. banknotes are issued in the form of Federal Reserve Notes, popularly called greenbacks due to their predominantly green color. The U.S. dollar was originally defined under a bimetallism, bimetallic standard of (0.7734375 troy ounces) fine silver or, from Coinage Act of 1834, 1834, fine gold, or $20.67 per troy ounce. The Gold Standard Act of 1900 linked the dollar solely to gold. From 1934, its equivalence to gold was revised to $35 per troy ounce. In 1971 all links to gold were repealed. The U.S. dollar became an important intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jay Acovone
Jay Acovone (born August 20, 1955) is an American actor.Among his most famous roles is Charles Kawalsky in the TV series ''Stargate SG-1''. Early life Acovone was born in New York City. His family later moved to Mahopac, New York where his parents owned a dry-cleaning business. Career Acovone has over 100 credits to his name spanning four decades of work in film and television. His television appearances include ''Search for Tomorrow'' as Brian Emerson; ''Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV series), Beauty and the Beast'' where he played D.A. Joe Maxwell over the show's three season run; and ''Hollywood Beat''. In a connection to his ''Beauty and the Beast'' co-star Linda Hamilton, he can be seen playing the officer pulling over the T-X, TX Terminator (character), Terminator in ''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator 3''. In 2016, he acted in the motion capture video game ''Mafia III'' (2K (company), 2K Games), playing the role of an Italian Crime boss, Mafia boss and ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sarah Wynter
Sarah Wynter (born 15 February 1973) movies2.nytimes.com; accessed 13 January 2016. is an Australian actress, known for her roles on American television – such as Kate Warner (24 character), Kate Warner on the television drama ''24 (TV series), 24'', as Beth on ''Windfall (TV series), Windfall'', and as Keitha on ''Flight of the Conchords (TV series), Flight of the Conchords''. Early life Wynter was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, the daughter of Helen Cummings, a worker in the Newcastle registry of the Family Court of Australia and lately author, and Stuart Wynter, a physician. Her grandmother, Joy Cummings, was the Lord Mayor of Newcastle (New South Wales), Lord Mayor of Newcastle – Australia's first female Lord Mayor. In 1984, her father kil ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lucy Liu
Lucy Alexis Liu (; born December 2, 1968) is an American actress, producer, and artist. Widely regarded as a trailblazer for Asian Americans in arts and entertainment, Asian American representation in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood, she is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Critics' Choice Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. A prominent sex symbol in the late 1990s and early 2000s, she has been recognized for shifting feminine beauty ideal, Western mainstream beauty standards. In 2019, Liu became the second Asian American woman to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Liu had her breakthrough role as Ling Woo in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox legal comedy-drama series ''Ally McBeal'' (1998–2002). She received further recognition for starring in the action comedy film ''Charlie's Angels (2000 film), Charlie's Angels'' (2000) and its sequel ''Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle'' (2003), and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Michael Paul Chan
Michael Paul Chan (born June 26, 1950) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Lieutenant Michael Tao on the Turner Network Television, TNT series ''The Closer'' and ''Major Crimes (TV series), Major Crimes''. Chan also acted in ''U.S. Marshals (film), U.S. Marshals'', playing an assassin. Early life and education A third-generation Chinese American, Chan was born in San Francisco, California. His brother was the late Jeffery Paul Chan, an author and academic. Chan is a graduate of San Francisco State University and the American Conservatory Theater. He is a founding member of the Asian American Theater Company. Career Chan's television work has included roles such as Judge Lionel Ping on ''Arrested Development (TV series), Arrested Development'', Detective Ron Lu on ''Robbery Homicide Division (TV series), Robbery Homicide Division'', the voice of Jimmy Ho on ''The PJ's'', Mr. Chong on ''The Wonder Years'', a Japanese investor in the 1990 ''Northern Exposure'' epis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Elaine Hendrix
Katherine Elaine Hendrix (born December 28, 1970) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in ''Dynasty,'' '' Superstar'', '' Romy and Michele's High School Reunion'', the 1995 ''Get Smart'' series, the 1998 remake of '' The Parent Trap'', '' Inspector Gadget 2'', and the 2004 pseudoscience film '' What the Bleep Do We Know!?'' Early life Hendrix was born and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Her father was serving in the Vietnam War at the time of her birth and had little input into her name. Her mother named her Katherine Elaine, but most of her relatives called her by her middle name, and the practice stuck. Career Dancing and modelling In her senior year of high school, Hendrix won a model search and became a professional dancer with the Gary Harrison Dance Company. She soon split her time as a professional model and dancer for such companies as Nike, Levi's, Mattel, and Sun Microsystems, and for a number of hip-hop artists including Whodini, Keith Sweat and MC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Robert Harper (actor)
Robert Francis Harper (May 19, 1951 – January 23, 2020) was an American stage, film, and television actor. Early life Raised in Middletown Township, New Jersey, he attended Mater Dei High School. He graduated with honors from Rutgers University with a degree in English literature. Career Following his college graduation, Harper took a job at Arena Stage, where he performed in plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Miller, and Wilder.He appeared on Broadway in a revival of '' Once in a Lifetime'' (directed by Tom Moore), ''The Inspector General'', and the original cast of Arthur Miller's '' The American Clock''. Harper was perhaps most well known for his role as Sharkey in ''Once Upon a Time in America''. He also portrayed Charlie Gereson in '' Creepshow''. Other film credits include '' Wiseguy'', ''Final Analysis'', '' The Insider'', ''Deconstructing Harry'', and '' Molly''. Harper played lawyers on several occasions and said he had an interest in the law. He played Bubba Weisb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Elizabeth Mitchell
Elizabeth Mitchell (born Elizabeth Joanna Robertson; March 27, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known for her lead role as Juliet Burke on the ABC mystery drama series '' Lost'' (2006–2010), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Mitchell also had lead roles on the television series '' V'' (2009–2010), ''Revolution'' (2012–2014), '' Dead of Summer'' (2016), and '' The Santa Clauses'' (2022–present), for which she received a Children's and Family Emmy Award nomination. She had recurring roles on the television series '' ER'' (2000–2001), ''Once Upon a Time'' (2014), '' The Expanse'' (2018, 2021), and ''Outer Banks'' (2021–present). Mitchell has appeared in numerous films, including '' Gia'' (1998), ''Frequency'' (2000), '' Nurse Betty'' (2000), '' The Santa Clause 2'' (2002), '' The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause'' (2006), '' Running Scared'' (2006), '' Answers to Nothing'' (2011), '' The Purge: Election Year'' (2016), and '' Queen Bees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
