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- Biography: Laurie Collyer is an American film director. She is best known for writing and directing Sherrybaby, for which actress Maggie Gyllenhaal received a Golden Globe nomination. She also directed the film Nuyorican Dream in 1999.
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Laurie Collyer Takes the Reins on Luna
comingsoon.net –
2008-09-05
At the Toronto junket for Rian Johnson's excellent crime caper movie The Brothers Bloom , which is premiering at the annual Toronto International Film Festival next week, Rachel Weisz told ComingSoon.net that the next film she does will be the... ... Full Article
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3blackchicks.com –
2006-09-08
SYNOPSIS : Sometimes life gets in the way of your best intentions.Even if you have everything going for you, an emotional wound from childhood can reemerge as a monster in your adult life and swallow you whole. ... Full Article
Karlovy Vary Dispatch. 3.
greencine.com –
2006-07-09
It's hard to have much faith in film festival juries.Based on the evidence that I have seen, festival jurors don't have a much better record than the jury in the OJ Simpson murder case. ... Full Article
Sherrybaby Director: Laurie Collyer Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Brad William Henke, Sam Bottoms, Kate Burton, Giancarlo Esposito (Universal Studios, 2006) Rated: R US DVD release date: 23 January 2007 (Screen Media Films)
popmatters.com –
2006-01-15
The best performance by an actress in a 2006 movie that you most likely havent seen was by Maggie Gyllenhaal in Sherrybaby . After debuting at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006, the low-budget independent film had a small... ... Full Article
Reviewed by Noel Murray September 8th, 2006 When it comes to movies about American lowlifes, there's the truth and then there's "truth." The truth is, people really do get hooked on drugs, lose custody of their children, get sexually abused... ... Full Article
Following the plight of one family over five years, this TV documentary pulls few punches in showing the daily struggles of Puerto Ricans living in New York (aka Nuyoricans). ... Full Article