"The brand new… All new" 15 July 1987 Drama, History, Music 43 mins
The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
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Merrill Gruver as Karen (voice)
Michael Edwards as Richard (voice)
Melissa Brown as Mother (voice)
Rob LaBelle as Dad / Mr. A&M (voice)
Cynthia Schneider as Dionne Warwick (voice)
Todd Haynes as Todd Donovan
Bruce Tuthill as Narrator (voice)
Gwen Kraus as Narrator (voice)
Nannie Doyle as Cherry Boone
Larry Kole as Announcer
Joanne Barrett as Self-Singer
Michelle Manenti as Michelle Hoyt, Musician
Moira McCarty as (voice)
Todd Haynes Screenplay
Cynthia Schneider Writer
Todd Haynes Director
Gina Garan Costume Design
Cynthia Schneider Producer
Todd Haynes Producer
Barry Ellsworth Director of Photography
Karen Carpenter Music
Richard Carpenter Music
Todd Haynes Editor
United States 15 July 1987
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An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.
03 June 1987
Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.
13 November 1987
A veteran inmate takes a newcomer under his wing as the pair confront both other violent inmates and the prison's corrupt wardens.
11 March 1987
This film recounts the murder of Vincent Chin, an automotive engineer mistaken as Japanese who was slain by an assembly line worker who blamed him for the competition by the Japanese auto makers that were threatening his job.
14 September 1987
A young woman marries a rich man and begins a new life in a little town in the Spain of the 20s. Feeling trapped and bored, she begins a relationship with her husband's stepbrother.
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A newlywed couple arrive at their hotel only to be held captive by a criminal who's bombed the parking garage and has another ticking time bomb in this Greek shot-on-video comedy.
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Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead.
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A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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