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Randa Haines

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Film director, Screenwriter

United StatesDirectorsBorn 1945 · age 81
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Randa Jo Haines is an American film and television director and producer. Haines started her career as a script supervisor on several low-budget features in the 1970s, including Let's Scare Jessica to Death and The Groove Tube.

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Filmography 13

Antwone Fisher2002 · ★ 6.9
The Ron Clark Story2006 · ★ 7.6
Children of a Lesser God1986 · ★ 6.9
Dance with Me1998 · ★ 6.9
The Doctor1991 · ★ 6.5
A Family Thing1996 · ★ 6.5
The Outsider2002
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway1993 · ★ 6.3
Something About Amelia1984
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore2025
Los Zafiros: Music from the Edge of Time2003
Calling the Shots1988
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall1980

24 credits on file

Television 5

Knots Landing1979
Hill Street Blues1981
Tales from the Crypt1989
Tucker's Witch1982
For Love and Honor1983

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About this person

Randa Jo Haines is an American film and television director and producer. Haines started her career as a script supervisor on several low-budget features in the 1970s, including Let's Scare Jessica to Death and The Groove Tube. She is best known for directing the critically acclaimed feature film Children of a Lesser God (1986), which starred William Hurt and Marlee Matlin, for which Matlin won the 1987 Academy Award as Best Actress, and which was nominated for 5 Academy Awards including an Academy Award for Best Picture. Haines also won the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989 she was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2002 she was a member of the jury at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival.

Country
United States
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
living
Dates
Born 1945 · age 81
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