Amy Wright

Amy Wright

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Amy Wright (born April 15, 1950) is an American actress. She has appeared in such films as The Deer Hunter, Breaking Away, The Amityville Horror, Heartland, Wise Blood, Stardust Memories, The Accidental Tourist, Hard Promises, Crossing Delancey and Miss Firecracker. Wright is married to actor Rip Torn and the couple have two daughters. Wright is a graduate of the University of Chicago Laboratory School and Beloit College. She also starred with Eric Schweig in The Scarlet Letter and Tom and Huck (both made in 1995). She starred in the original production of Breakfast with Les and Bess as Shelby. Wright currently is on the faculty of HB Studio in New York City. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Wright, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Amy Wright
  • Popularity: 2.0067
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1950-04-15
  • Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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Amy Wright Movies

  • 1990
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    Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?

    Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?

    5.2 1990 HD

    Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed.

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  • 1988
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    The Accidental Tourist

    The Accidental Tourist

    6.25 1988 HD

    After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, and Macon meets a strange, outgoing woman who brings him 'back down to earth', but his wife soon thinks their marriage is still worth another try.

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  • 1978
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    The Deer Hunter

    The Deer Hunter

    7.978 1978 HD

    Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.

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  • 1986
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    Trapped In Silence

    Trapped In Silence

    5.8 1986 HD

    A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.

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  • 1995
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    Tom and Huck

    Tom and Huck

    5.3 1995 HD

    A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the town alcoholic is accused of the murder. Tom and Huck go through several adventures trying to retrieve evidence.

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  • 1980
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    Inside Moves

    Inside Moves

    6.288 1980 HD

    After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Rory and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits. Will Jerry forget his friends? What about his junkie hooker girlfriend and her pimp?

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  • 1979
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    Heartland

    Heartland

    6.5 1979 HD

    Widowed Elinor Randall and her young daughter Jerrine arrive in a barren stretch of Wyoming in 1910 after Elinor's application for work as a housekeeper is accepted by Clyde Stewart, a rancher. The work is back-breaking and the isolation is brutal, particularly as winter arrives. Elinor begins to think about homesteading her own property near Stewart's ranch, but Stewart tries to dissuade her with explanations about the killing conditions and poor rewards, especially for a woman with no man to help her ranch. Although their temperaments are different and little affection exists, Elinor and Stewart agree to marry and combine homesteads. What lies ahead is the severest test of all.

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  • 1999
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    Joe the King

    Joe the King

    5.933 1999 HD

    A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother.

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  • 2022
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    My Amityville Diaries

    My Amityville Diaries

    1 2022 HD

    A Making-of documentary featuring interviews with screenwriter Sandor Stern, actor Meeno Peluce, actor Don Stroud, actor Marc Vahanian and actress Amy Wright.

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  • 1993
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    To Dance with the White Dog

    To Dance with the White Dog

    7 1993 HD

    When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant.

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  • 1990
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    Largo Desolato

    Largo Desolato

    1 1990 HD

    A fictionalized autobiographical play written by Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel in 1984 upon his release from a four-and-one-half-year prison term for political subversion. The play focuses on two days in the life of a dissident writer who is awaiting the knock at the door that may send him to prison.

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  • 1990
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    Love Hurts

    Love Hurts

    4.313 1990 HD

    The story of Paul Weaver and his strained relationships with women and his family.

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  • 2006
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    The Namesake

    The Namesake

    6.738 2006 HD

    The American-born son of Indian immigrants strives to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.

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  • 1989
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    Miss Firecracker

    Miss Firecracker

    5.6 1989 HD

    Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years before. Despite a lack of support from those close to her Carnelle remains determined. She enlists the help of a seamstress to outfit her for the competition, while rebuffing the advances of predatory men, as she aims to bring home the crown.

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  • 1980
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    Stardust Memories

    Stardust Memories

    6.926 1980 HD

    While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

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  • 1986
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    Off Beat

    Off Beat

    4.7 1986 HD

    Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.

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  • 1979
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    Breaking Away

    Breaking Away

    7.138 1979 HD

    Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends' and parents' annoyance.

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  • 1979
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    Wise Blood

    Wise Blood

    6.4 1979 HD

    A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.

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  • 1989
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    Settle the Score

    Settle the Score

    4.5 1989 HD

    Katherine Whately, a tough, young Chicago cop, comes home to her small town to settle her teenage rape. She is welcomed by her brother but shunned by her father. Josh, the town doctor, is her only ally in her quest for the truth. Together Katherine and Josh find the bloody trail of a serial murderer and shatter the lie that is two decades old.

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  • 2008
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    Synecdoche, New York

    Synecdoche, New York

    7.544 2008 HD

    A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

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  • 1988
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    The Telephone

    The Telephone

    4.2 1988 HD

    Crazy out of work actress Vashti Blue spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve all her problems with life.

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  • 1994
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    Robot in the Family

    Robot in the Family

    1.75 1994 HD

    A manic search for a valuable relic pits a father, son and trouble-prone robot against a nasty villain.

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  • 1991
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    In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas

    In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas

    5.9 1991 HD

    From the "In the Line of Duty" made-for-television movie series, Manhunt in the Dakotas is based on the true story of cop-killer/white supremacist Gordon Kahl.

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  • 2025
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    A Blind Bargain

    A Blind Bargain

    1 2025 HD

    Set in 1970, A BLIND BARGAIN reimagines the lost 1922 Lon Chaney silent film of the same name. A desperate young man strikes a dark deal with an unhinged doctor, offering his mother as a subject for the physician's twisted experiments.

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  • 1992
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    Hard Promises

    Hard Promises

    5.5 1992 HD

    A man who doesn't like stable work environments has been away for too many years, and finds out his wife has divorced him and is planning to remarry. He comes home to confront her, trying to convince her not to get married, aided by the daughter, who loves him despite his wandering ways. The couple finds out they still have feelings for each other but must decide how best to handle the contradiction of their lifestyles.

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  • 1979
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    The Amityville Horror

    The Amityville Horror

    6.3 1979 HD

    George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

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  • 1978
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    Girlfriends

    Girlfriends

    6.649 1978 HD

    A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.

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  • 2010
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    Please Give

    Please Give

    6.196 2010 HD

    In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.

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  • 2004
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    Messengers

    Messengers

    5.3 2004 HD

    Dr. Sarah Chapel returns to the small town of Brighton Mills when her father Dr. Robert Chapel unexpectedly dies. His clients and friends miss him, and Sarah discloses that all of them have perfect health; they hear voices when they are sleeping; and they are addicted to the stimulant Tributol. Her further investigation discloses a dark secret about the haunting voices.

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  • 1991
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    Deceived

    Deceived

    5.779 1991 HD

    The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling forged treasures to museums. When Jack suddenly dies in a car crash, his wife Adrienne tries to discover what he did on her own. She finds that she knew little about the man she was married to. The more she learns about her husband's possible illegal activities and double life, the more she places her daughter, and herself, in grave danger.

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  • 1976
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    Not a Pretty Picture

    Not a Pretty Picture

    7.6 1976 HD

    Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.

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  • 1988
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    Crossing Delancey

    Crossing Delancey

    5.9 1988 HD

    Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find her a romantic match, Isabelle is courted by a married, worldly author, Anton, yet can't seem to shake the down-to-earth appeal of Sam, a pickle vendor.

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  • 2006
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    The Good Shepherd

    The Good Shepherd

    6.346 2006 HD

    Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

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  • 1991
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    Final Verdict

    Final Verdict

    1 1991 HD

    A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty as charged.

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  • 1993
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    Where the Rivers Flow North

    Where the Rivers Flow North

    6.2 1993 HD

    Sleeper with a top notch cast in the story of a lone wolf logger who fights developers, bankers and the modern world to maintain his way of life.

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  • 1995
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    The Scarlet Letter

    The Scarlet Letter

    6.117 1995 HD

    Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their laws and morals.

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  • 1970
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    Heartland

    Heartland

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.6 1951 HD

    Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

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  • 2001
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    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    7.591 2001 HD

    The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.

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  • 2001
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    Undeclared

    Undeclared

    7.356 2001 HD

    College freshman Steve Karp, his girlfriend and their fellow dorm-mates embark on one the greatest experiences of their lives...unfortunately for Steve, his lonely and recently divorced father is tagging along for the ride.

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