Barbara Turner

Writing

Barbara Turner

Born 1936-07-14 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Gloria Rose "Barbara" Turner (July 14, 1936 – April 5, 2016) was an American screenwriter and actress.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Cujo poster
6.2

A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

Cujo

1983

Hemingway & Gellhorn poster
6.1

Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

Hemingway & Gellhorn

2012

The Company poster
5.2

Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.

The Company

2003

Sharing the Secret poster
6.2

A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.

Sharing the Secret

2000

Pollock poster
6.7

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.

Pollock

2000

Georgia poster
5.7

Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tendencies and rampant drug abuse — that keeps her spiraling down the drain.

Georgia

1995

Georgia poster
5.7

Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tendencies and rampant drug abuse — that keeps her spiraling down the drain.

Georgia

1995

Eye on the Sparrow poster
7.0

True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.

Eye on the Sparrow

1987

Eye on the Sparrow poster
7.0

True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.

Eye on the Sparrow

1987

Those Secrets poster
4.0

A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.

Those Secrets

1992

The Dark Side of Innocence poster
9.0

A suburban housewife's feeling that her life is standing still causes her to divorce her husband. This causes tension with her daughter, who bitterly resents her walking out on the family, and her mother, whose own beliefs about marriage and family are jolted by her daughter's divorce.

The Dark Side of Innocence

1976

The Affair poster
3.8

A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.

The Affair

1973

Out of Darkness poster
9.0

A paranoid schizophrenic woman finds treatment to her mental illness after 18 years of suffering.

Out of Darkness

1994

Deathwatch poster
4.5

Based on a play by Jean Genet, a small-time thief battles with his gay cellmate over a third illiterate, muscular convict.

Deathwatch

1966

Freedom poster
7.5

Talented musician and free spirit Libby chafes under the rule of her divorced journalist mother, so she seeks emancipation from her parents and hits the road, soon joining the ranks of a traveling carnival. She gains the freedom she has longed for but learns some hard lessons along the way.

Freedom

1981

The War Between the Tates poster
NR

A college professor's well-ordered life is disrupted when his wife discovers he is having an affair with one of his students.

The War Between the Tates

1977

Sessions poster
6.5

High-priced call girl Lee Churchill examines her life via therapy 'sessions'. Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and the 'straight' man with whom she falls in love.

Sessions

1983

Somebody's Daughter poster
3.7

A stripper and her bodyguard become involved in a murder.

Somebody's Daughter

1992