15 Movies Starring Kathleen Turner

Body Heat

Body Heat

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-09-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (21696 Reviews)

Director:

Lawrence Kasdan

Fullplot:

Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull it off?

Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-10-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (4359 Reviews)

Director:

Ken Russell

Fullplot:

The thirty year-old hard-worker Bobby Grady is married with two children with the frigid Amy Grady and their marriage is in crisis. Bobby is invited to work in the night shift for the owner of a fashion designer studio that believes that his talented designer Joanna Crane, who is very introspective, is selling his designs to competitors. Bobby accepts the job to make money and please Amy with a bathtub and follows Joanna after hours. He discovers that she has a double life, working as a fifty-dollar hooker called China Blue in the red light district and practicing kinky sex with her clients to satisfy their fantasies. Bobby becomes obsessed by China Blue and when the true thief is found, he has sex with her and they have a crush on each other. Meanwhile the insane preacher Rev. Peter Shayne (Anthony Perkins) decides to save Joanna's soul and stalks her everywhere.

Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-03-30

Languages:

English, Spanish, French

Countries:

USA, Mexico

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (59403 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Zemeckis

Fullplot:

Joan Wilder, a mousy romance novelist, receives a treasure map in the mail from her recently murdered brother-in-law. Meanwhile, her sister Elaine is kidnapped in Colombia and the two criminals responsible demand that she travel to Colombia to exchange the map for her sister. Joan does, and quickly becomes lost in the jungle after being waylayed by Zolo, a vicious and corrupt Colombian cop who will stop at nothing to obtain the map. There, she meets an irreverent soldier-of-fortune named Jack Colton who agrees to bring her back to civilization. Together, they embark upon an adventure that could be straight out of Joan's novels.

Prizzi's Honor

Prizzi's Honor

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-06-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

130 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (17476 Reviews)

Director:

John Huston

Cast:

Writer:

Richard Condon (novel)

Richard Condon (screenplay)

Janet Roach (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Charley Partanna is a hit-man who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime syndicate families in the country. Unbeknownst to Charley,the Prizzis just hired Irene Walker, a free-lance killer, to eliminate someone who double-crossed them. When Irene and Charley fall in love their jobs become complicated. Their jobs become impossible when each is given a contract that neither can go through with.

Peggy Sue Got Married

Peggy Sue Got Married

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-10-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (25604 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jerry Leichtling

Arlene Sarner

Fullplot:

A 43-year-old mother and housewife who's facing divorce is thrust back in time when she attends her high-school reunion. Given the chance to change the course of her life, she finds herself making many of the same choices.

Julia and Julia

Julia and Julia

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-02-05

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (629 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Del Monte

Genres:

DramaFantasy

Cast:

Writer:

Peter Del Monte (screenplay)

Silvia Napolitano (screenplay)

Sandro Petraglia (screenplay)

Silvia Napolitano (story)

Joseph Minion (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Julia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day. Six years later, Julia inexplicably finds herself sliding in time between two different worlds, where in one she is still struggling with her grief over Paolo's death, and in the other she is married to Paolo. In the latter time-line, Paolo is alive and well with their five year old son, and Julia is having an affair with a British gentleman named Daniel. The frequent supernatural sliding between these two worlds threaten to drive Julia crazy, as she begins having difficulty in telling them apart, and as she learns which world she is currently living in.

The Accidental Tourist

The Accidental Tourist

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-01-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

121 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (11648 Reviews)

Director:

Lawrence Kasdan

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Anne Tyler (book)

Frank Galati (screenplay)

Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay)

Fullplot:

After the death of his son, Macon Leary, a travel writer, seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife, seems to be having trouble too, and thinks it would be best if the two would just split up. After the break up, Macon meets a strange outgoing woman, who seems to bring him back down to earth. After starting a relationship with the outgoing woman, Macon's wife seems to think that their marriage is still worth a try. Macon is then forced to deal many decisions

Switching Channels

Switching Channels

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-03-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (2576 Reviews)

Director:

Ted Kotcheff

Genres:

ComedyCrime

Cast:

Writer:

Ben Hecht (play)

Charles MacArthur (play)

Jonathan Reynolds (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Sully is the producer of a cable news network program. Christy is his ex-wife and best reporter. Her desire to quit the news business and marry Blaine, a sporting goods manufacturer comes as an innocent man is about to be executed. Sully's attempts to keep her in town and break up her upcoming marriage happen against the backdrop of a botched execution, a prison break and a possible pardon.

The War of the Roses

The War of the Roses

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-12-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (34874 Reviews)

Director:

Danny DeVito

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Warren Adler (novel)

Michael Leeson (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far..

V.I. Warshawski

V.I. Warshawski

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1991-07-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

89 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.8 (3769 Reviews)

Director:

Jeff Kanew

Cast:

Writer:

Sara Paretsky ('V.I. Warshawski' novels)

Edward Taylor (screen story)

Edward Taylor (screenplay)

David Aaron Cohen (screenplay)

Nick Thiel (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective type, she makes the murder her next case. In doing so she befriends the victim's daughter, Kat, and together they set out to crack the case.

House of Cards

House of Cards

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-06-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

Italy, USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (2125 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Lessac

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Lessac (story)

Robert Jay Litz (story)

Michael Lessac (screenplay)

Fullplot:

When Ruth Matthews's husband is killed in a fall at an archaeological dig, her daughter Sally handles her father's death in a very odd manner. As Sally's condition worsens, Ruth takes her to see Jake, an expert in childhood autism. Jake attempts to bring Sally out of her mental disarray through traditional therapy methods, but Ruth takes a different route. She risks her own sanity by attempting to enter her daughter's mind and make sense of the seemingly bizarre things that Sally does, including building a wondrous house of cards.

Serial Mom

Serial Mom

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-04-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (19956 Reviews)

Director:

John Waters

Fullplot:

A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase, and the police get closer to the truth, threatening the family's picture perfect world.

The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-05-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (108522 Reviews)

Director:

Sofia Coppola

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Jeffrey Eugenides (novel)

Sofia Coppola

Fullplot:

The lives of an eclectic group of men who live in an affluent Detroit suburb in the '70s are forever changed by their obsession with five sisters.

Beautiful

Beautiful

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-09-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (3169 Reviews)

Director:

Sally Field

Genres:

DramaComedy

Fullplot:

Sometimes you have to give up the life of your dreams, to discover the dream of your life... On her journey to become the next Miss American Miss, a young woman is forced to reevaluate her life's goal and, in the process, discovers what's really important and what it truly means to be... Beautiful.

Marley & Me

Marley & Me

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-12-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (108087 Reviews)

Director:

David Frankel

Cast:

Writer:

Scott Frank (screenplay)

Don Roos (screenplay)

John Grogan (book)

Fullplot:

After their wedding, newspaper writers John and Jennifer Grogan move to Florida. In an attempt to stall Jennifer's "biological clock", John gives her a puppy. While the puppy Marley grows into a 100 pound dog, he loses none of his puppy energy or rambunctiousness. Meanwhile, Marley gains no self-discipline. Marley's antics give John rich material for his newspaper column. As the Grogans mature and have children of their own, Marley continues to test everyone's patience by acting like the world's most impulsive dog.

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