02 Oct 1998
Silberdisteln
No overview found
They steal a train -- they'll steal your heart.
Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads a revolt by the other goated senior citizen residents against the establishment.
Harry Landers
J.D. Ashcroft
Ms. Davis
Mr. Scott
Marjorie Crane
Dr. Zoltan Polos
Captain Taylor
Lavinia Leventhal
Colonel Riddle
Sheriff
Milton Cohen
Alke Elam
Rapist
Jean Wallace
Tom Wallace
02 Oct 1998
No overview found
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A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.
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01 Jan 1973
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05 Dec 2007
No overview found
18 Oct 2007
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13 Jan 1991
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.