Barbara Turner

Writer

July 14, 1936 (79 years)

† April 5, 2016

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Gloria Rose "Barbara" Turner (July 14, 1936 – April 5, 2016) was an American screenwriter and actress.

Filmography

6.2

Cujo

A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

6.1

Hemingway & Gellhorn

Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

6.0

Petulia

Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye of Petulia Danner, a charming, free-spirited young woman. Petulia's vibrant personality hides her fear of her abusive husband, David, whose father is a powerful society figure. As Petulia and Archie's feelings for each other grow, they must decide what it is they truly want.

5.2

The Company

Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.

6.7

Pollock

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.

6.2

Sharing the Secret

A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.

4.0

The Affair

A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.

5.7

Georgia

Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tendencies and rampant drug abuse — that keeps her spiraling down the drain.

7.5

Freedom

Talented musician and free spirit Libby chafes under the rule of her divorced journalist mother, so she seeks emancipation from her parents and hits the road, soon joining the ranks of a traveling carnival. She gains the freedom she has longed for but learns some hard lessons along the way.

9.0

Out of Darkness

A paranoid schizophrenic woman finds treatment to her mental illness after 18 years of suffering.

6.5

Sessions

High-priced call girl Lee Churchill examines her life via therapy 'sessions'. Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and the 'straight' man with whom she falls in love.

10.0

Widow

A woman is left on her own to raise her two children after the unexpected death of her husband.

4.0

Those Secrets

A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.

3.7

Somebody's Daughter

A stripper and her bodyguard become involved in a murder.

9.0

The Dark Side of Innocence

A suburban housewife's feeling that her life is standing still causes her to divorce her husband. This causes tension with her daughter, who bitterly resents her walking out on the family, and her mother, whose own beliefs about marriage and family are jolted by her daughter's divorce.

4.5

Deathwatch

Based on a play by Jean Genet, a small-time thief battles with his gay cellmate over a third illiterate, muscular convict.

7.0

Eye on the Sparrow

True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.

N/A

The War Between the Tates

A college professor's well-ordered life is disrupted when his wife discovers he is having an affair with one of his students.

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