Dossy Peabody
Actor
Dossy Peabody is known for Mermaids (1990), Edge of Darkness (2010) and The Company Men (2010).
Movies11
Movie6.5CrimeDramaAs a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.
Edge of Darkness
2010 · 1.8K votes
Movie6.6DramaHistoryA Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
The Crucible
1996 · 578 votes
Movie6.7ComedyDramaFifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.
Mermaids
1990 · 625 votes
Movie5.5MysteryThrillerA suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
In Dreams
1999 · 205 votes
Movie5.9DramaRomanceFather Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.
The Proposition
1998 · 42 votes
Movie5.6ComedyThis is an update of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" that changes the genders of the main characters. Hannah Higgins attempts to turn blue-collar Boston beer vendor Elliot Doolittle into a viable candidate and inadvertently learns something of Elliot's side of life.
The Makeover
2013 · 80 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryLouisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women," leads a literary double life, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, an identity that remains until the 1940s.
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
2008 · 1 votes
Movie6.4ComedyCrimeDown-and-out lounge singer Johnny Slade is hired by a mystery man to open a hot new club, the catch being he's given a new--and terrible--song to sing each night. Noticing that whenever he sings one a new crime is committed, Johnny gradually realizes his songwriter-benefactor is a powerful mob boss in hiding and his "Greatest Hits" are the only way the man can give orders to his crew...
Meet the Mobsters
2005 · 9 votes
Movie6.5DramaOn Broadway tells the story of Jack O'Toole, a 30-something Boston everyman, who writes a play about his dead uncle as a way to reconnect with his hard-nosed dad. With no money and just his gut to guide him, Jack quits his job as a carpenter so that he can mount a production of his play on the only stage he can afford: in the back room of his neighborhood pub, on a little street called Broadway.
On Broadway
2007 · 2 votes
Movie7.4DocumentaryFilmmaker Peter Kunhardt examines how a one-of-a-kind collection of Abraham Lincoln photos and memorabilia have profoundly shaped the lives and sensibilities of five generations of his family.
Living With Lincoln
2015 · 8 votes
Movie8.0DramaMysteryLife wasn't easy for young Henry. The tragic loss of his mother the day he was born plagued his relationship with his father. Then he began hearing voices whispering in the dark like a long needed friend saying, "Do it for Daddy, show him you care!" What Henry does for daddy sets in motion the most horrific, brutal, psychological monster that Cape Cod has ever seen!
Dirt Boy
2001 · 1 votes