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In the 1980s, Rayona, 15, half-black, half-Native American, struggles to fit in after her alcoholic mother, Christine, dumps her on her emotionally distant grandmother, Ida's, reservation. In the 1960s, Christine rebels against Ida's coldness by disavowing her heritage and embracing popular culture. In the 1940s, Ida defies tradition as a single mother, while shielding Christine from a family secret.
Keywords: absent-father, african-american, alcoholism, based-on-novel, biracial, drug-abuse, female-lead, grandmother, native-american, parental-neglect
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An anthology of five loosely connected stories dealing with a variety of very different women in dealing with their own life problems. The first story "This is Dr. Keener" features Glenn Close as a doctor looking after her invalid mother who comes to realize that her own life is passing her by. The second story "Fantasies About Rebecca" features Holly Hunter as a wealthy bank manager who doesn't realize that her own life is a sham in dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, a workaholic boyfriend, and an observant street woman who knows more about Rebecca than she herself does. The third, "Someone For Rose" features Kathy Baker as a single mother who debates with herself over starting a romance with a dwarf who moves into the house across her street. The fourth, "Goodnight Lilly, Goodnight Christine" features Calista Flockhart as Christine, a tarot reader who struggles with increasing grief and depression while taking care of her lesbian lover Lilly who's dying from cancer. The fifth, "Love Waits for Kathy" features Amy Brenneman as a police detective who examines her loneliness after her blind sister Carol begins dating while Kathy is on a case of investigating the suicide of an old school friend who was just as lonely as she.
Keywords: abortion, bare-butt, bare-chested-male, blindness, dating, depression, dwarf, dwarfism, episodic-structure, female-nudity
Their faces only begin to tell the story.
A man only sees what a woman wants him to know.
Seeing is deceiving.
Lilly: Look, the neighbors bought birds.::Christine Taylor: Canaries.::Lilly: How can you tell?::Christine Taylor: I can see them. Two males, probably.::Lilly: How do you know?::Christine Taylor: Only the males sing.
Nancy: What does your husband think about this?::Rebecca: I don't have a husband.::Nancy: Show me your ring finger.::[Rebecca shows Nancy her left hand]::Nancy: Are you a lesbian?
Carol: God says to Adam, "Adam, I have something for you, but it's gonna cost you an arm and a leg." Adam thinks for a moment, then decides, "What can you give me for a rib?"::Kathy: That's funny. Where'd you hear it?::Carol: From the Bible.
Nancy: Let me tell you about love. You don't ask, you give.
Carol: Maybe she was just tired of dead ends, phone calls that were never returned, promises that were never kept, tripping over the same stone.
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With the papers of a young doctor who died in a deadly accident, the ambitious male nurse Matthew manages to get hired as a doctor in the casuality department of an hospital in Bristol. Nurse Christine believes it's only his nervousness, which makes him "forget" the most basic procedures. But even her help cannot prevent that his lack of qualification soon has deadly consequences...
Keywords: accidental-death, accidental-murder, anesthesia, assumed-identity, based-on-novel, blackmail, bristol-england, british, car-accident, death
Trust me. I'm a doctor.
He wanted to be a doctor, she wanted to be his lover.
He lived only for revenge...She lived only for his love!
Territorial Marshal Wistful McClintock: You know, Quirt, I always figured on using a new rope when hangin' you... because I kind of respected ya. You never took the best of things and all your men went down looking at ya.
Quirt Evans: I thought you weren't allowed to work on Sunday.::Penelope Worth: Oh, Quirt, there's nothing we're not allowed to do. It's just that we don't believe in doing what we know is wrong.::Quirt Evans: Well, that makes it pretty much each fella's own guess.::Penelope Worth: But each fella knows inside.::Quirt Evans: Well, there's a lot of gents I wouldn't want to give that much leeway to.
Dr. Mangrum: But of course if you're determined to watch over him, Penny, perhaps you'd better take a pencil and paper with you. His first conscious words should be recorded. They may be of great interest to history... or more possibly to the United States Marshal! Who knows what violence is involved with his battered frame and his bullet holes.
Bradley: So that's Quirt Evans. He's quite a man with the gals. He's closed the eyes of many a man... and opened the eyes of many a woman.
Penelope Worth: Surely you can walk to the barn without that.::Quirt Evans: What?::Penelope Worth: The gun!::Quirt Evans: Oh, well, it balances me. One leg's longer than the other. You know, the weight.::Penelope Worth: Thee are a liar.
[last lines]::Bradley: [the marshal picks up Quirt's gun] Hey, Quirt might need that!::Territorial Marshal Wistful McClintock: No. Only a man that carries a gun ever needs one.::Bradley: What are you going to do with it?::Territorial Marshal Wistful McClintock: Hang it on a wall in my office - with a new rope.
Territorial Marshal Wistful McClintock: When are you and Laredo Stevens going to get around to killing one another?::Quirt Evans: Laredo? Well, we water our horses outa the same trough.::Territorial Marshal Wistful McClintock: Well, I'm sure looking forward to hanging the survivor.
Randy McCall: Ah, you know, Quirt, I hate to shoot people. Remember I shot a wattie once up in Montana. I dreamed about it all the next night. And then, of course, there's always witnesses. And then you got to shoot the witnesses.
Quirt Evans: He swung a wide loop in his younger days, I think.::Penelope Worth: A wide loop?::Quirt Evans: He wasn't too careful whose calf he threw his rope at.
Quirt Evans: [reads the plaque on the wall] "Each human being has an integrity that can be hurt only by the act of that same human being and not by the act of another human being."::Quirt Evans: Is that Quaker stuff?::Penelope Worth: Uh huh.::Quirt Evans: You mean nobody can hurt you but yourself?::Penelope Worth: That's a Friend's belief.::Quirt Evans: Well, supposin' someone whacks you over the head with a branding iron? Won't that hurt?::Penelope Worth: Physically, of course. But in reality it would injure only the person doing the act of force of violence. Only the doer can be hurt by a mean or evil act.::Quirt Evans: Are there very many of you Quakers?::Penelope Worth: Very few.::Quirt Evans: I sort of figured that.
Christine Taylor-Stiller (born Christine Joan Taylor; July 30, 1971) is an American actress.
Taylor was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Joan, a homemaker, and Skip Taylor, an owner of a security company. She grew up in neighboring Wescosville, Pennsylvania. Taylor has a brother, Brian, and attended Allentown Central Catholic High School.
Taylor began her acting career in 1989 at the age of 18 on the Nickelodeon children's television series Hey Dude where she played the lifeguard Melody Hanson. She continued in that role through 1991 while making various guest appearances on other programs. In 1995, Taylor was cast as Marcia Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie and later in A Very Brady Sequel.
Following The Brady Bunch Movie, Taylor's career advanced, highlighted by several comedic guest appearances on Ellen, landing the lead role in the television series Party Girl, based on the 1995 film of the same name, and more guest appearances on Seinfeld and Friends. She also played Drew Barrymore's cousin, Holly Sullivan, in the 1998 comedy The Wedding Singer.