LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Christine Lahti: New York
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Meg Tilly and Christine Lahti costar in this road movie about two women escaping their past, who meet by chance at a bus stop in the middle of the night. Marianne (Tilly) is on the run from an abusive husband, while brassy cocktail waitress Darly (Lahti) wants to begin a new life on land she inherited in Alaska. On the way, the pair encounters a colorful assortment of eccentrics before discovering whether their destiny resides in the northern wilderness. Edward Zwick (GLORY; LEGENDS OF THE FALL) directs this touching tale of self-discovery.
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Kathyrn Lyons' (Christine Lahti) perfect life takes a jolting nose-dive after news of a fatal mid-air explosion aboard Flight 274, piloted by her husband (john Heard. The tension ratchets up a notch when the black box is recovered - revealing shocking rumors that the crash was possibly cause by her husband! Could her husband have secretly been a terrorist? Was her entire life with him a life?
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Synopsis: After his wife Dana (Christine Lahti) walks out on him, Michael (Joe Mantegna) is visited by his friend, Bruce (Paul Reiser). The two discuss the logistics of the fight, and the state of things between men and women in general. Michael had just given Dana a new Cadillac, and Bruce tells him thatRead More
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Lahti most recently appeared on stage opposite Ron Rifkin at New York's Circle Repertory Theater in Three Hotels, a play by Jon Robin Baitz, for which she earned a Drama Desk nomination. Lahti has ... been seen as Heidi Holland in Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Heidi Chronicles, and in the Second Stage revival of Jules Feiffer's Little Murders, for which she received an Obie Award.
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After university, Lahti headed to New York City, where she worked as a waitress and did commercials. Her breakthrough movie was …And Justice for All (1979) with Al Pacino. After starring in a few blockbuster hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, Lahti has chosen to be primarily in movies she wants to act in, rather than take blockbuster roles, and she is adamant about spending time with her three children. She has ... chosen to focus on television, beginning with her role in the 1979 made-for-TV adaptation of The Executioner's Song. She appeared on Broadway in Wendy Wasserstein's seriocomic play, The Heidi Chronicles.
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For her role of “Grace” in Jack & Bobby, the acclaimed WB series, Lahti earned both a SAG and a Golden Globe nomination and received a Prism Award. She ... starred in Revenge of the Middle Age Woman, a well-received production about a woman facing new challenges after believing her life was secured and stable. She received widespread recognition for her strong portrayal in the television movie The Pilot’s Wife, based on the best selling book of the same name by Anita Shreve, which aired the early spring of 2002 and she co-starred opposite Joe Mantegna in the ensemble Showtime feature Women vs. Men. She starred in the tele-film Open House with Daniel Baldwin and Eva Marie Saint in 2003, and captivated audiences in Showtime’s acclaimed Out of the Ashes, as “Gisella Perl,” a Jewish Doctor who survived the Holocaust. She recently starred in The Book of Ruth, based on the book by the same name, a featured selection on Oprah’s Book Club.
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