Randa Haines
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Biography
Filmography
Notes
"I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way."--Randa Haines ("New York Times," August 16, 1991)
"You're always balancing what you see in your head and what everybody is capable of giving you with the fact that the sun is going down, there are only so many days in the schedule and someone's in a bad mood. At the moment the camera rolls, everything has to be operating a its best. The actors have to feel the most nourished and stimulted . Your will is the driving energy."--Randa Haines on directing ("People Magazine Extra," Spring 1991)
Biography
Former off-off Broadway actress and script supervisor, and a graduate of the AFI's Directing Workshop for Women, whose student film, "August/September," won her a writing job on the TV series "Family" in the late 1970s. Haines then directed several episodes of "Hill Street Blues," "Knots Landing" and "Tucker's Witch," as well as "Under This Sky," a PBS historical epic starring Irene Worth; "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," starring Geraldine Fitzgerald; and the award-winning drama about incest, "Something About Amelia" (1984).
Haines' feature debut, "Children of a Lesser God" (1986), was based on Mark Medoff's Tony award-winning drama about a dedicated speech teacher (William Hurt) and the stubborn deaf woman (Marlee Matlin) with whom he falls in love; the film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Her second film, "The Doctor" (1991), again starred Hurt, this time as a callous heart surgeon humanized by his own hospitalization for cancer. Haines had less popular success with the sometimes endearing but uneven study of the friendship of two older men, "Wrestling Ernest Hemingway" (1993).
Filmography
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Life Events
1979
Directing debut for TV historical epic, "Under This Sky" (for PBS)
1984
Helmed the acclaimed TV-movie "Something About Amelia", which dealt with father-daughter incest
1986
Directed first feature, "Children of a Lesser God", starring William Hurt and Marlee Matlin
1991
Reteamed with Hurt for "The Doctor", about a medic suffering with cancer
1993
Helmed "Wrestling Ernest Hemingway"
1998
Directed the light but enjoyable "Dance With Me"
2002
Produced "Antwone Fisher" directed by and starring Denzel Washington
2006
Directed Matthew Perry in "The Ron Clark Story" (TNT), earned a nomination from the Directors Guild of America
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Notes
"I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way."--Randa Haines ("New York Times," August 16, 1991)
"You're always balancing what you see in your head and what everybody is capable of giving you with the fact that the sun is going down, there are only so many days in the schedule and someone's in a bad mood. At the moment the camera rolls, everything has to be operating a its best. The actors have to feel the most nourished and stimulted . Your will is the driving energy."--Randa Haines on directing ("People Magazine Extra," Spring 1991)
