Rita Karin
Actor · 1919 – 1993 · Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
She was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series Chicken Soup. Also appeared at the beginning of Sophie's Choice as Yetta, Sophie's (Meryl Streep) landlady. Her voice can be heard singing children's songs from the camps in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
Movies12
Movie7.3DramaRomanceStingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
Sophie's Choice
1982 · 967 votes
Movie5.9ComedyDramaWomanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.
He Said, She Said
1991 · 136 votes
Movie5.9ComedyThrillerPrivate detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
The Big Fix
1978 · 41 votes
Movie6.2ComedyDramaA ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Enemies, a Love Story
1989 · 44 votes
Movie5.2ComedyCrimeA Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
1971 · 24 votes
Movie5.0ComedyDramaHarry Stone always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead, he made "The Pickle" - a teenage sci-fi flick about a flying cucumber. Harry just wanted to get out of debt; now everyone he's ever known, loved and neglected is standing in line for tickets.
The Pickle
1993 · 14 votes
Movie5.7ComedyCrimeA small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
Matilda
1978 · 6 votes
Movie5.9ComedyDramaBored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Up the Sandbox
1972 · 24 votes
Movie2.7ComedyDramaYoung man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business — and finds himself turned into a little old man.
Age Isn't Everything
1991 · 6 votes
Movie6.8CrimeMysteryLt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.
Kojak: The Belarus File
1985 · 4 votes
Movie8.0DramaMusicAspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.
Starstruck
1981 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0DramaTV Movie
A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma of repossession and property without destroying its heritage.
Nicky's World
1974 · 1 votes
Series3
TV6.5DramaDramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were either in animated form or presented as documentaries. Topics included illiteracy, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy.
ABC Afterschool Special
1972 · 15 votes
TV6.1ComedyDramaKate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable response from critics and viewers alike easily convinced CBS to commit to a full season in the fall of 1984. The series was created by Sherry Coben.
Kate & Allie
1984 · 27 votes
TV7.5ComedyChicken Soup
1989 · 2 votes