6 Movies Starring Cathy Moriarty

Raging Bull

Raging Bull

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-12-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

129 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

8.3 (213488 Reviews)

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Cast:

Writer:

Jake LaMotta (based on the book by)

Joseph Carter (with)

Peter Savage (with)

Paul Schrader (screenplay)

Mardik Martin (screenplay)

Fullplot:

When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family's love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it's his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone.

Matinee

Matinee

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-01-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (6175 Reviews)

Director:

Joe Dante

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Jerico (story)

Charles S. Haas (story)

Charles S. Haas (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalises on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.

Casper

Casper

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-05-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(77764 Reviews)

Director:

Brad Silberling

Cast:

Writer:

Joseph Oriolo (characters)

Sherri Stoner

Deanna Oliver

Fullplot:

Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the rickety mansion to seek her claim, she is frightened away by a wicked wave of ghosts. Determined to get her hands on this hidden fortune, she hires afterlife therapist Dr. James Harvey to exorcise the ghosts from the mansion. Harvey and his daughter Kat move in, and soon Kat meets Casper, the ghost of a young boy who's "the friendliest ghost you know." But not so friendly are Casper's uncles--Stretch, Fatso and Stinkie--who are determined to drive all "fleshies" away. Ultimately, it is up to Harvey and Kat to help the ghosts cross over to the other side.

Gloria

Gloria

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-01-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.1 (4260 Reviews)

Director:

Sidney Lumet

Cast:

Writer:

John Cassavetes

Steve Antin (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Sharon Stone plays a street-wise, middle-aged moll standing up against the mobs, all of which is complicated by a 6 year old urchin with a will of his own who she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.

Casper Meets Wendy

Casper Meets Wendy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-11-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (4376 Reviews)

Director:

Sean McNamara

Cast:

Writer:

Jymn Magon (screenplay)

Jymn Magon (story)

Rob Kerchner (story)

Fullplot:

Living under the care of his uncles: The Ghostly Trio, Casper has been letting them push him around and making his afterlife miserable by having him do choirs for them while they are scaring "fleshes" for their amusement. Whenever Casper would try to stand up to them, he gets to timid to do so. While they are on vacation in a place called Sunnybrite Resorts, Casper meets with a good little witch girl name Wendy, whom she and her bewitching aunts are on the run from an evil warlock: Desmond Spellman who attempts on destroying her after discovering that she will be a greater witch than him. Like Casper, Wendy is a kind witch who also have her relatives mistreating her. Casper and Wendy have become good friends as they discover that ghosts and witches are each others worst enemies, so they come up with a plan to make their elders pair up to one another. Once Desmond comes into town, he determines to destroy Wendy at once. It is now up to Casper to do what he can to save his friend from the villainous warlock.

Crazy in Alabama

Crazy in Alabama

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-10-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Germany

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (5721 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Mark Childress (novel)

Mark Childress (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A backwoods Alabama boy named Peejoe -short for Peter Joseph- gets a quick education in grown-up matters like freedom in 1965. The catalyst is an unlikely source - his glamorous, eccentric Aunt Lucille, who escapes from her abusive husband and takes off for Hollywood to pursue her dreams of TV stardom.

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