A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.

The Escape Artist

1982

English

6.1

♡ 4

80%

64%

Action

based on novel or book

Caleb Deschanel Director

Joan Hackett as Aunt Sibyl

Harry Anderson as Harry Masters

Raul Julia as Stu Quiñones

John P. Ryan as Vernon

The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from prison within an hour. What follows is a flashback showing his childhood with his uncle and aunt, who are 'vaudeville'-artists themselves.

The North Avenue Irregulars

1979

English

6.7

♡ 6

88%

Bruce Bilson Director

Susan Clark as Anne

Douglas Fowley as Delaney

Marjorie Bennett as Mother Thurber

Joan Hackett as (uncredited)

When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are willing to do anything, no matter how wacky, to get them out.

Mackintosh and T.J.

1975

English

7.0

♡ 6

83%

Marvin J. Chomsky Director

Dean Smith as Bent

James Hampton as Cotton

Joan Hackett as Maggie

Dennis Fimple as Schuster

Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up.

Support Your Local Sheriff!

1969

English

7.4

♡ 14

80%

Burt Kennedy Director

Walter Burke as Fred Johnson

Paul Sorensen as Man Installing Jail Cell Bars

Joan Hackett as Prudy

Jerry Gatlin as Street Brawler

In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.

The Group

1966

English

6.5

♡ 4

75%

based on novel or book

Drama

female friendship

graduation

Sidney Lumet Director

Richard Mulligan as Dick Brown

Joan Hackett as Dottie

Robert Emhardt as Mr. Andrews

Peter Boyle as (uncredited)

It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.

The Terminal Man

1974

English

5.6

♡ 11

50%

Mike Hodges Director

Joan Hackett as Dr. Janet Ross

Victor Argo as Orderly

Fred Sadoff as Police Doctor

Ian Wolfe as Priest

As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.

Will Penny

1967

English

7.0

♡ 9

93%

Tom Gries Director

Lee Majors as Blue

Roy Jenson as Boetius Sullivan

Joan Hackett as Catherine Allen

Bruce Dern as Rafe Quint

Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.

Treasure of Matecumbe

1976

English

6.0

♡ 3

47%

Vincent McEveety Director

Valentin de Vargas as Charlie

George Lindsey as Coahoma Sheriff

Rex Holman as Informant

Joan Hackett as Lauriette Paxton

In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret, a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle of Matecumbe.

The Last of Sheila

1973

English

7.2

♡ 16

90%

Herbert Ross Director

Ian McShane as Anthony

James Coburn as Clinton

Joan Hackett as Lee

James Mason as Philip

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game — but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

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Only When I Laugh

The Escape Artist

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Mackintosh and T.J.

Support Your Local Sheriff!

The Group

The Terminal Man

Will Penny

Treasure of Matecumbe

The Last of Sheila