Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.

Aunt Mary

1979

English

7.3

♡ 2

Peter Werner Director

Robert Emhardt as Berwick

Martin Balsam as Harry Strasberg

Jean Stapleton as Mary Dobkin

Terry Wills as Mr. Jessup

The true-life drama about a handicapped Baltimore woman living on welfare who organized a sandlot baseball team and ended up coaching more than 50,000 boys and girls over nearly 40 years.

Bells Are Ringing

1960

English

6.9

♡ 6

82%

Vincente Minnelli Director

John Indrisano as Bookie

Roy Jenson as Cop

Ruth Storey as Gwynne

Jean Stapleton as Sue

Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients. They include an out-of-work Method actor, a dentist with musical yearnings, and in particular playwright Jeffrey Moss, who is suffering from writer's block and desperately needs a muse.

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You

2016

English

7.3

♡ 1

86%

Heidi Ewing Director

Jon Stewart as Self

George Clooney as Self

Jean Stapleton as Self

Bud Yorkin as Self

Arguably the most influential creator, writer, and producer in the history of television, Norman Lear brought primetime into step with the times. Using comedy and indelible characters, his legendary 1970s shows such as All In the Family, Maude, Good Times, and The Jeffersons, boldly cracked open dialogue and shifted the national consciousness, injecting enlightened humanism into sociopolitical debates on race, class, creed, and feminism.

Lily Dale

1996

English

5.1

Action

based on play or musical

Peter Masterson Director

Stockard Channing as Corella

Jean Stapleton as Mrs. Coons

Sam Shepard as Pete Davenport

John Slattery as Will Kidder

In 1910, 19-year-old Horace Robedaux, still bitter toward his stepfather, goes to Houston to be reunited with his mother, Corella, and his sister, Lily Dale, following a long estrangement. He has not seen either since he was 12 because his wicked stepfather, Pete Davenport (whom his mother married after his father drank himself to death) believes a boy ought to be self-reliant.

Up the Down Staircase

1967

English

7.3

♡ 2

78%

69%

based on novel or book

teacher student relationship

Robert Mulligan Director

Florence Stanley as Ella Friedenberg

Eileen Heckart as Henrietta Pastorfield

Roy Poole as Mr. McHabe

Jean Stapleton as Sadie Finch

Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.

Dead Man's Folly

1986

English

6.3

♡ 8

43%

based on novel or book

Clive Donner Director

Jean Stapleton as Ariadne Oliver

Kenneth Cranham as Detective Inspector Bland

Leslie Schofield as Mr. Tucker

Harry Fielder as Tombola Man

During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.

Michael

1996

English

5.7

♡ 30

38%

Nora Ephron Director

Carla Gugino as Bride

Andie MacDowell as Dorothy Winters

John Travolta as Michael

Jean Stapleton as Pansy Milbank

Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.

You've Got Mail

1998

English

6.7

♡ 103

69%

Nora Ephron Director

Jean Stapleton as Birdie Conrad

Steve Zahn as George Pappas

Tom Hanks as Joe Fox

Katie Finneran as Maureen, the Nanny

Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.

The Last Laugh

2016

English

6.8

♡ 16

98%

political correctness

taboo

woman director

Ferne Pearlstein Director

Jean Stapleton as Herself

Cheryl Hines as Herself

Lorne Michaels as Himself

Liam Neeson as Himself

Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.

Klute

1971

English

7.1

♡ 34

94%

Alan J. Pakula Director

Jean Stapleton as Goldfarb's Secretary

Kevin Dobson as Man at Bar

Richard Jordan as Man kissing Jane Fonda in night club

Charles Cioffi as Peter Cable

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World

1998

English

4.8

♡ 45

Tom Ellery Director

Frank Welker as Flit

Billy Zane as John Rolfe

Jean Stapleton as Mrs. Jenkins

Danny Mann as Various

When news of John Smith's death reaches America, Pocahontas is devastated. She sets off to London with John Rolfe, to meet with the King of England on a diplomatic mission: to create peace and respect between the two great lands. However, Governor Ratcliffe is still around; he wants to return to Jamestown and take over. He will stop at nothing to discredit the young princess.

Damn Yankees

1958

English

7.0

♡ 4

79%

Stanley Donen Director

Rae Allen as Gloria Thorpe

Ray Walston as Mr. Applegate

Jean Stapleton as Sister Miller

John Roy as Trial Spectator

Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.

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Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World

Damn Yankees