Sada Thompson
6 titles
Filmography
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Home Fires Burning
(1989)Rated TV-PG. In this drama, set in a small town in Georgia, a curmudgeonly, strongly opinionated local editor is upset by the changes wrought by the end of WW II.
Desperate Characters
(1971)Sophie and Otto Bentwood are set in their ways. And unsettled in their hearts. They're Desperate Characters, trapped in a marriage that no longer works... yet unable to break free. In a performance widely cited as a career breakthrough, Shirley MacLaine portrays Sophie in this compelling grown-up drama that, in its own jolting way, is a love story. "Shirley MacLaine achieves one of the great performances of the year," wrote Roger Ebert in The Chicago Sun-Times. "She proves that we were right, when we saw her in films like The Apartment, to know that she really had it all, could go all the way with a serious role.

Indictment: The McMartin Trial
(1995)A fact-based drama based on the longest and most expensive trial in American history that ended without a single conviction.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(1986)Top-tier talent renders Mark Twainโs beloved, significant classic about a boy on his raft exploring the Mississippi, friendship, and American society.
Bodily Harm
Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner) stars as a suburban family man whose life is upended in this powerful, moving, and redemptive tragicomedy from director Joe Wright (Atonement).

The Patron Saint of Liars
(1998)A woman runs away from her husband when she discovers she is pregnant, enters a Catholic school and marries another man who raises the child as his own. Meanwhile the first husband spends 15 years trying to find her. Based on the novel by Ann Patchett.