Actor
Sheila McLaughlin
8 films
Sheila McLaughlin (born 1950) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and photographer. She wrote and directed the controversial film, She Must Be Seeing Things (1987). Her debut feature film, Committed (1984), which she co-directed with writer Lynne Tillman, is an experimental narrative of the life of Frances Farmer, shot on a low budget of $45,000. McLaughlin's films have been described as presenting "a grasp of a developing new feminist language of cinema."
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First watchBorn in Flames19836.2as Other leaderIn near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.View filmFilmography
8 films as actor- 1988The Meadow of Things
- 1988The Big BlueMyrna
- 1986Seduction: The Cruel WomanJustine
- 1984CommittedFrances Farmer
- 1983Born in FlamesOther leader
- 1982Ordinary Sentence
- 1981How to Fly
- 1978Splits