
August 15, 1950 · 76 years old
Tessie Jean "Tess" Harper (née Washam; born August 15, 1950) is an American actress. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her first film role in 1983's Tender Mercies, and for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Crimes of the Heart.…

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

Fugitive Jesse Pinkman runs from his captors, the law, and his past.

An imprisoned I.R.A. fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.

Jon, a young wanna-be musician, discovers he's bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.

A coming of age story set in the south of the U.S. when Elvis was King.

After breaking up with her boyfriend, a professional woman gets involved with a man who seems almost too good to be true.

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.

Phil has writer's block after 30 detective novels. In court for inspiration, he sees a cute Romanian murder suspect. He provides her alibi. She stays with him. Will he live to write another novel?

A mentally disturbed young woman takes a job at a posh country club and falls in with a clique of wealthy college kids where she's taken under the wing of the clique's twisted leader, who harbors some dark secrets too terrifying t...

Pressured by his deceased mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and hits the road to Louisiana.

A Boston defense attorney gets his wealthy client off for murder, then suspects him of killing again.

Three southern sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.

When a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan opens in a South Carolina town, the idealistic Reverend Kennedy strives to keep the peace even as he urges the group's Grand Dragon to disavow his racist past.

A Florida couple holding minimum-wage jobs deals with an unexpected pregnancy.

Two U.S. border patrolmen find a buried 20+ year old jeep in the desert with a skeleton, rifle and $800,000. They keep the money. Suddenly, the FBI shows a lot of interest in the car.

A fading country music star (Keith) returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the first time.

Hope thinks of her life, moving from Cleveland to LA, full of hope of making it as a musician to slowly being broken by a life and bad boyfriend going nowhere.

When a teenage boy desperately needs a heart transplant on Christmas Eve, his family and neighbors' forty-year tradition of lining their quaint street with Christmas luminaries is put on hold. When his parents, Ann and Mike, pray ...

An ailing widowed father and his two estranged daughters experience a miracle when their late matriarch returns to spend Christmas with them.

An attractive woman enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a charming man with a secret background who has pushed her to the breaking point.

One night, Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after--poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her temporarily the year before because of an affair. Nancy's brother is especially ...

Three siblings, facing the possibility of prison, take matters into their own hands with a cross-country crime spree of epic proportions.

A young female Sheriff's Deputy in rural Louisiana takes on her town's old money establishment when the woman she loves - an attorney fighting to stop a rail deal that threatens to displace the town's poor - is murdered.

F.B.I. agent Bob Bryant is charged with an operation to arrest Adam Swapp and his brother Jonathan, suspects in the bombing of a Mormon Center in Utah. The brothers and their families hold-up on their farm with provisions and enou...