8 Movies Starring Lindsay Crouse

Between the Lines

Between the Lines

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1977-04-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (384 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Fred Barron (screenplay)

Fred Barron (story)

David Helpern (story)

Fullplot:

Story of an underground newspaper in Boston about to be taken over by big business.

Places in the Heart

Places in the Heart

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-10-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (7150 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Benton

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Edna Spalding finds herself alone and broke on a small farm in the midst of the Great Depression when her husband the Sheriff is killed in an accident. A wandering black man, Moses, helps her to plant cotton to try and keep her farm and her kids together. She also takes on a blind boarder, Mr. Will, who lost his sight in the first World War. She must endure storms and harsh labor to try and make her mortgage payment on time.

House of Games

House of Games

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-10-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (15891 Reviews)

Director:

David Mamet

Cast:

Writer:

David Mamet (screenplay)

Jonathan Katz (story)

David Mamet (story)

Fullplot:

A famous psychologist, Margaret Ford, decides to try to help one of her patients get out of a gambling debt. She visits the bar where Mike, to whom the debt is owed, runs poker games. He convinces her to help him in a game: her assignment is to look for "tells", or give-away body language. What seems easy to her becomes much more complex.

Communion

Communion

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-11-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (3798 Reviews)

Director:

Philippe Mora

Cast:

Writer:

Whitley Strieber (book)

Whitley Strieber (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances, are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a horrible dilema; was I abducted or am I going mad? He sees a psychiatrist who tries to use hypnotic regression to discover the truth.

Desperate Hours

Desperate Hours

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-10-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (4966 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Cimino

Cast:

Writer:

Joseph Hayes (novel)

Joseph Hayes (play)

Lawrence Konner (screenplay)

Mark Rosenthal (screenplay)

Joseph Hayes (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Michael Bosworth is a psychotic criminal who is about to go on trial however, he seduces his lawyer into helping him escape. But as they try to make their getaway, she's left behind. He decides to wait for her to come to him, so he decides to hide at the house of the Cornells. Now it appears that the Cornells have problems of their own. The husband and wife are separated. And there's an FBI agent after them who is using the lawyer to lead them to Bosworth.

The Indian in the Cupboard

The Indian in the Cupboard

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-07-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (19572 Reviews)

Director:

Frank Oz

Cast:

Writer:

Lynne Reid Banks (novel)

Melissa Mathison (screenplay)

Fullplot:

On his ninth birthday a boy receives many presents. Two of them first seem to be less important: an old cupboard from his brother and a little Indian figure made of plastic from his best friend. But these two presents turn out to be much more magic than the rest...

The Arrival

The Arrival

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-05-31

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Mexico

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (23850 Reviews)

Director:

David Twohy

Fullplot:

Zane (Charlie Sheen), a young, mild-mannered astronomer discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal. After being fired from his organization for reporting this to his superior, he takes a chance on discovering the truth: that his workplace is not quite what it seems to be and a sinister conspiracy is at work. The aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will stop at nothing to prevent Zane from learning it.

Cherish

Cherish

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-01-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (2297 Reviews)

Director:

Finn Taylor

Fullplot:

In San Francisco, Zoe is a shy and outcast in her working place that adores the love songs she listens to the radio. Zoe goes to a bar with her coworkers and she spends the night talking to a colleague that also like mushy songs. She drinks with him and when she goes to her car to take her cellular to call a taxi, a stalker forces her to drive away. A police officer sees the intruder in her car and asks her to stop the car. However, the guy forces Zoe to run over the policeman that is hit and dies. Zoe has a car accident and the aggressor escapes. Neither the police nor her defense lawyer believes on her words and Zoe is arrested for murdering the policeman. She is confined at home with an ankle bracelet under the surveillance of Daly, a lonely man that falls in love with Zoe. She tries to find a way to leave the spot to chase the criminal and prove her innocence.

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