5 Movies Starring Laura Harring

The Forbidden Dance

The Forbidden Dance

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-03-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

3.3 (1239 Reviews)

Director:

Greydon Clark

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Menahem Golan (story)

Roy Langsdon (screenplay)

John Platt (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Filmed during the Lambada dance craze (if there really ever was one), this film tries to have a social conscience. A princess (Laura Herring) in the Amazon rain forests tries to fight a conglomerate threatening the forests by going to Los Angeles. There she links up with a rich kid (Jeff James) who tells her that she must get on tv to succeed with her mission. Quick as a wink the two come up with the idea of winning a lambada dance contest that is getting tv attention. Sid Haig also co-stars as a witch doctor who accompanies the princess and provides some humor.

Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-10-19

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

France, USA

Runtime:

147 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(217268 Reviews)

Director:

David Lynch

Fullplot:

A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio.

Loco Love

Loco Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-03-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (443 Reviews)

Director:

Bryan Lewis

Fullplot:

Just how far would you go to get financing for your business? Donald Chandler (Roy_Werner) is the owner of a restaurant who suddenly finds himself without a business or a job when his wife leaves him, taking the deed to the eatery with her. Eager to start over, Donald goes into a business partnership with Miguel Sanchez (Gerardo_Mejia), a gardener who was taking care of Donald's lawn until he won a fortune in the lottery. Miguel is willing to front Donald the money to open a new restaurant, but there's a catch -- in exchange, Donald has to marry Catalina (Laura_Elena_Harring), Miguel's beautiful but ill-tempered sister who needs an American husband in order to get a green card and stay in California. Loco Love (produced under the title Mi Casa, Su Casa was the first feature film from director Bryan_Lewis.

Willard

Willard

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-03-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada, USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (14747 Reviews)

Director:

Glen Morgan

Cast:

Writer:

Glen Morgan (screenplay)

Gilbert Ralston

Stephen Gilbert (book)

Fullplot:

This is the story of Willard Stiles who is a social misfit taking care of his ill and fragile but verbally abusive mother Henrietta in a musty old mansion that is also home to a colony of rats. Willard then finds himself constantly humiliated in front of his co-workers and is eventually fired by his cruel and uncaring boss, Mr. Frank Martin, a vicious man whose professional interest in Willard extends to a personal financial one.

Walkout

Walkout

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-03-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1013 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Marcus DeLeon (teleplay)

Ernie Contreras (teleplay)

Timothy J. Sexton (teleplay)

Victor Villaseèor (story)

Fullplot:

Based on a true story, student activist and Mexican-American Paula Crisostomo (Vega), tired of being treated unequally, decides to take action and stage a walkout at five East Los Angeles high schools in 1968, to protest educational conditions and complain of anti-Mexican educational bias along with some 10,000 students. Paula Crisostomo (now Romo) is not Mexican- American--she is Filipina-American. She and her husband, then boyfriend were roommates of mine in college. We are very good friends and I see her often.

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