Eileen Heckart
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1. The Trip to Bountiful (1953 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
A woman has to live with a daughter in law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side. While the unhappy family lives in a Houston apartment, Carrie Watts dreams of returning to Bountiful, where she was raised.
Director: Vincent J. Donehue | Stars: Lillian Gish, Eileen Heckart, Dennis Cross, Will Hare
Votes: 74
2. Miracle in the Rain (1956)
Approved | 108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Peggie Castle, Fred Clark
Votes: 1,315
3. Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Passed | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart
Votes: 8,843
4. Bus Stop (1956)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.
Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field
Votes: 12,588
5. The Bad Seed (1956)
Approved | 129 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rhoda Penmark seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. After her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic, her mother starts to suspect that Rhoda was responsible.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Gage Clarke, Jesse White
Votes: 15,378
6. The Little Foxes (1956 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, History
A tale of greed, one-upmanship, family distrust, abuse, apathy, and lost love, set in the deep south at the turn of the twentieth century.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Sidney Blackmer, Georgia Burke, Greer Garson, Lauren Gilbert
Votes: 31
7. Hot Spell (1958)
Unrated | 86 min | Drama
A housewife is doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart, a fact she's trying to ignore. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
Directors: Daniel Mann, George Cukor | Stars: Shirley Booth, Anthony Quinn, Shirley MacLaine, Earl Holliman
Votes: 579
8. A Doll's House (1959 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer, Hume Cronyn, Randy Gaynes
Votes: 78
9. Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
Passed | 100 min | Western
Story of theatrical troupe that travels through the Old West.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Margaret O'Brien, Steve Forrest
Votes: 1,485
10. My Six Loves (1963)
Approved | 101 min | Comedy
Broadway musical star arrives home and finds six runaway children living on the property.
Director: Gower Champion | Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, David Janssen, Eileen Heckart
Votes: 589
11. Up the Down Staircase (1967)
Approved | 124 min | Drama
The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Patrick Bedford, Sandy Dennis, Eileen Heckart, Ruth White
Votes: 2,420
12. No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A crafty serial killer plays a game of cat-and-mouse with a harried police detective trying to track him down.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart
Votes: 2,503
13. The Tree (1969)
92 min | Drama
A directionless and emotionally scarred young man kidnaps his niece, the daughter of his sister with whom he has a difficult past.
Director: Robert Guenette | Stars: Jordan Christopher, Eileen Heckart, George Rose, James Broderick
14. All the Way Home (1971 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Mary Follet already has a five-year-old son and is pregnant again. Her husband dies in a car accident. How will she survive?
Director: Fred Coe | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Richard Kiley, Pat Hingle, Eileen Heckart
Votes: 52
15. Butterflies Are Free (1972)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.
Director: Milton Katselas | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart, Paul Michael Glaser
Votes: 5,728 | Gross: $0.25M
16. The Victim (1972 TV Movie)
73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wealthy woman is trapped during a storm in a house with no electricity or phone. A killer has murdered her sister, stuffed the body in the basement, and is now after her.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Eileen Heckart, Sue Ane Langdon, George Maharis
Votes: 814
17. Wedding Band (1974 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Seamstress Julia Augustine should be happy to be celebrating her 10th anniversary with the man she loves. But Herman is white which makes their relationship illegal and dangerous.
Directors: Joseph Papp, Jack Sameth | Stars: Ruby Dee, J.D. Cannon, Eileen Heckart, Rosanna Carter
Votes: 13
18. Zandy's Bride (1974)
PG | 97 min | Drama, Western
An American settler marries an European mail-order bride and together they learn how to thrive in the harsh wilderness while working on their relationship too.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart, Susan Tyrrell
Votes: 1,241 | Gross: $0.14M
19. Lily (1975 TV Special)
60 min | Comedy
Directors: Gary Austin, John Moffitt | Stars: Lily Tomlin, Frank Blair, Valri Bromfield, Richard Dreyfuss
20. The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Robert Foxworth, David Wayne, Kay Lenz, Gary Lockwood
Votes: 81
21. The Hiding Place (1975)
PG | 150 min | Biography, Drama, History
During WWII, a Dutch family caught hiding Jews is sent to a concentration camp where their Christian faith helps them endure the hardships.
Director: James F. Collier | Stars: Julie Harris, Jeannette Clift, Arthur O'Connell, Robert Rietty
Votes: 2,332
22. Burnt Offerings (1976)
PG | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart
Votes: 13,248
23. Sunshine Christmas (1977 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
A musician brooding over the marriage of his sometime girlfriend decides to take his adopted daughter to his home in Texas to celebrate Christmas with his family. While there, he begins to ... See full summary »
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Cliff De Young, Elizabeth Cheshire, Bill Mumy, Corey Fischer
Votes: 93
24. Suddenly, Love (1978 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman from a suburban neighborhood and a wealthy law professor fall in love, despite coming from different backgrounds. Their love leads them to marriage and the birth of their child, and things go well until tragedy strikes.
Director: Stuart Margolin | Stars: Cindy Williams, Paul Shenar, Eileen Heckart, Joan Bennett
Votes: 80
25. The Honeymooners (I) (1978 TV Special)
60 min | Comedy
Ralph gets another one of his famous get-rich-quick schemes: using his and Ed's life savings on lottery tickets in an attempt to win a million dollars. It's not a Merry Christmas for all.
Director: Jackie Gleason | Stars: Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, Jane Kean
Votes: 68
26. Backstairs at the White House (1979)
540 min | Drama, History
Behind the scenes at the White House during eight administrations, as told by the people who work there.
Stars: Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Hooks
Votes: 469
27. 3 by Cheever (1979– )
59 min | Drama, Romance
Stars: John Harkins, Sigourney Weaver, Edward Herrmann, Baxter Harris
Votes: 18
28. White Mama (1980 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama
A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her ... See full summary »
Director: Jackie Cooper | Stars: Bette Davis, Ernest Harden Jr., Eileen Heckart, Virginia Capers
Votes: 779
29. F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980 TV Movie)
180 min | Biography, Drama
Biopic about the final year of FDR's Presidency, and life.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Jason Robards, Laurinda Barrett, Edward Binns, Vladimir Bondarenko
Votes: 49
30. The Big Black Pill (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Joe Dancer a private detective is given a big money case by Tiffany Farinpour,whose family include powerful politicians. Tiffany needs Joe to find her younger brother David who has left the family under a cloud.
Director: Reza Badiyi | Stars: Robert Blake, JoBeth Williams, Neva Patterson, James Gammon
Votes: 92
31. Table Settings (1982 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy
"Table Settings" was part of a series of stage plays that HBO broadcast in the early 80s. (Others included "Vanities" and "Barefoot in the Park.")
This comedy is about three generations of a... See full synopsis »
Director: Trevor Evans | Stars: Robert Klein, Stockard Channing, Mindy Cohn, Tony Devon
Votes: 62
32. Games Mother Never Taught You (1982 TV Movie)
104 min | Drama
Laura is a woman who works as executive in a bigger firm. There she has to adapt to a working world made by and for men. But she tries to change the system.
Director: Lee Philips | Stars: Christopher Allport, Al Anton, Mary Armstrong, Robert Brown
Votes: 32
33. The Recovery Room (1985 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
A failed sitcom about a "Cheers"-type bar located across the street from a bustling urban hospital, which is owned by an ex-medical student, and an ex-nurse.
Director: Peter Bonerz | Stars: Mark Linn-Baker, Kelly Bishop, Christopher Rich, J. Smith-Cameron
Votes: 11
34. Seize the Day (1986)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama
Tommy Wilhelm is a good honest man who's fallen on hard times after losing his job, but what really gets to Tommy is seeing both his friends and family turning their backs on him one after the other. He tries to seize the day - in vain.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Robin Williams, Richard B. Shull, David Bickford, Glenne Headly
Votes: 1,488
35. Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
R | 130 min | Drama, War
Hard-nosed, hard-living Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, Moses Gunn
Votes: 47,094 | Gross: $42.72M
36. Morning Maggie (1987 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A family lives in and runs a radio station in 1948, producing radio dramas, comedies and music shows while juggling their lives in a crowded postwar household.
Stars: Ellen Greene, Hank Azaria, Marita Geraghty, Eileen Heckart
37. Stuck with Each Other (1989 TV Movie)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
Two luckless New Yorkers, a salesman and a secretary respectively. One morning they come to the office to find that their boss has dropped dead--leaving behind an open safe containing ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Stanford Brown | Stars: Tyne Daly, Richard Crenna, Roscoe Lee Browne, Eileen Heckart
Votes: 35
38. Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story (1993 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Relationship problems between a father and son are intensified by Hurricane Andrew.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Ted Wass, Brynn Thayer, John Getz, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 125
39. Breathing Lessons (1994 TV Movie)
PG | 93 min | Drama
A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.
Director: John Erman | Stars: James Garner, Joanne Woodward, Kathryn Erbe, Joyce Van Patten
Votes: 421
40. Ultimate Betrayal (1994 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
This is based on a true story about two sisters who sue their father for incest and child abuse. As the story unfolds, it is revealed that the father severely abused all six children, and ... See full summary »
Director: Donald Wrye | Stars: Marlo Thomas, Mel Harris, Eileen Heckart, Kathryn Dowling
Votes: 201
41. The First Wives Club (1996)
PG | 103 min | Comedy
Reunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women.
Director: Hugh Wilson | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, Maggie Smith
Votes: 52,914 | Gross: $105.49M
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