Darkman
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- In Sam Raimi: The Quick and the Dead and A Simple Plan
…with the superhero genre in Darkman (1990) before completing the Evil Dead trilogy with Army of Darkness (1992).
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McDormand
- In Frances McDormand
…girlfriend in Raimi’s fantasy thriller Darkman (1990). She appeared in Robert Altman’s sketch collection Short Cuts (1993) as well as the minor films Beyond Rangoon and Palookaville (both 1995). McDormand’s portrayal of the methodical, folksy, and very pregnant police chief Marge Gunderson in the Coen brothers’ celebrated
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Neeson
- In Liam Neeson
…motion picture lead came in Darkman (1990), but the film failed to garner much notice. In 1992 he made his Broadway debut in a revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie, costarring with Natasha Richardson. (The couple married in 1994; Richardson died in 2009 after sustaining a head injury in a…
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superheroes
- In superhero: Multimedia superheroes and the digital revolution
…in his cult classic movie Darkman (1990), starring Liam Neeson as the title character, a disfigured scientist who gains enhanced strength and uses masks of synthetic skin to impersonate other people. A cult following also arose around Brad Bird’s computer-animated blockbuster for Pixar, The Incredibles (2004). And on television, NBC’s…
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