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Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970), is an American film actress and former child model who started modeling after a friend of her parents suggested an audition.
She subsequently appeared in magazine, newspaper and television advertising. Connelly made her motion picture debut in the 1984 crime film Once Upon a Time in America, then, while continuing her career as a model, starred as a teenager in films such as Labyrinth and Career Opportunities. She gained critical acclaim following her work in the 1998 science fiction film Dark City and for her portrayal of Marion Silver in Darren Aronofsky's 2000 drama, Requiem for a Dream. In 2002, Connelly won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress along with many other awards for her role as Alicia Nash in Ron Howard's 2001 biopic A Beautiful Mind. Other film credits include the 2003 Marvel superhero film Hulk, the 2005 thriller Dark Water, the drama Blood Diamond, the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still and the romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You. Since 2005, Connelly has served as the Amnesty International Ambassador for Human Rights Education for the United States. Magazines, including Time, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and the Los Angeles Times, have included her on their lists of the world's most beautiful women.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
5.5/10
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.
House of Sand and Fog
7.5/10
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.
Virginia
5.4/10
A sheriff sees his state senate bid slide out onto the ice when his daughter begins to date the son of a charming but psychologically disturbed woman with whom the sheriff has engaged in a two-decade-long affair.
