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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Barbara Hershey, ranked
The film begins in 1947 at the Muroc Army Air Field in California, with civilian and military test pilots flight-testing high-speed aircraft, including the rocket-powered Bell X-1. While horseback riding with his wife, Glennis, the evening before his historic flight, Yeager falls and breaks his ribs, an injury which inhibits his ability to lock the door on the X-1.
Jesus of Nazareth is a carpenter in Roman-occupied Judea, torn between his own desires and his knowledge that God has a plan for him. Judas Iscariot, a friend of Jesus’ originally sent to kill him for collaboration, instead suspects that Jesus is the Messiah and asks him to lead a liberation war against the Romans.
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league in this magical sports fantasy. Hobbs lives the fame he should have had earlier when, as a rising pitcher, he is inexplicably shot by a young woman.
The miniseries picks up several years after the events of the original ‘Lonesome Dove.’ Captain Woodrow F. Call is now a bounty hunter in pursuit of a young Mexican bandit named Joey Garza. The story follows Call’s journey as he recruits a diverse group of individuals to join him in this pursuit, and they embark on a dangerous trek across the American West.
When CC Bloom, a brazen Jewish girl from the Bronx, and Hillary Whitney, a timid and reserved WASP from San Francisco, first met on the beach in Atlantic City at the age of eleven, they had nothing in common. However, they both deeply desired a close friend and began a correspondence that spanned the years.
Candy Morrison, feeling unfulfilled in her role as a spouse and parent in a small community, craves stimulation and discovers it through a romantic liaison with her husband’s intimate acquaintance, Stan Blankenship. However, their intense affair abruptly ends after only a brief period. Shockingly, several weeks later, Stan’s spouse is discovered viciously slain by an ax, marking the town’s first occurrence of such a brutal killing. Astonishingly, Candy becomes the primary suspect in the investigation.
In a small Georgia town in the 1950s, bigoted store owner Paris Trout kills a young black girl when his brother refuses to pay his debts. Lawyer Harry Seagraves arrives to calm the waters in court but is soon caught in crimes of his own, including a dangerous and doomed affair with Trout’s wife.
A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality.
Aspiring crime writer Ann Rule becomes friends with serial killer Ted Bundy while working at a women’s clinic in Seattle in the 1970s. Unknowingly, she spends time with Bundy and is unaware of his heinous crimes until he is arrested and she becomes the lead writer for the case.
Peter is a cocky Harvard law student, who’s tired of being square, so his best friend and theater director John gets him into the drug business. As a fan of the Rolling Stones’ song Sympathy for the Devil, he picks Lucifer as his street name. When they arrive at the station they notice a military officer, who’s overseeing a funeral transport for what seems to be a casket of a dead soldier from Vietnam.
The film narrates the tale of Boxcar Bertha Thompson and ‘Big’ Bill Shelly, a pair of train robbers deeply in love, whose lives become intertwined with the struggles of railroad workers in the Southern United States. However, their lives take a dramatic turn when Bertha is accused of being involved in the murder of a wealthy gambler, forcing them to become fugitives on the run from the law.
Set in 1969, Alan Parker is a young artist, studying at the University of Maine, where his professor believes he is obsessed with death. The next day, when Alan is released from the hospital, Jessica tells him that he has a wall around him, and Alan realizes that Jessica really was going to leave him.