Highest rated movie: Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021)
Lowest rated movie: Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption (2013)
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Movies starring Terrence McNally have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 57%.
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It - released in 2021 - is Terrence McNally's highest rated movie, with a score of 75% based on 20 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Terrence McNally is Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption - released in 2013 - with a score of 40% based on 2 reviews.
Terrence McNally (November 3, 1938 – March 24, 2020) was an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter.
Described as "the bard of American theatre" and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theatre world has yet produced," McNally was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996. He received the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest recognition of artistic merit in the United States.
He received the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class, as well as the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime. His other accolades included an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Obie Awards, and three Hull-Warriner Awards.
His career spanned six decades, and his plays, musicals, and operas were routinely performed all over the world. He also wrote screenplays, teleplays, and a memoir. Active in the regional and off-Broadway theatre movements as well as on Broadway, he was one of the few playwrights of his generation to have successfully passed from the avant-garde to mainstream acclaim. His work centred on the difficulties of and urgent need for human connection. He was vice-president of the Council of the Dramatists Guild from 1981 to 2001.
He died of complications from COVID-19 on March 24, 2020, at a hospital in Florida.
Terrence McNally has acted in films with Norman Lear, Morgan Freeman, Steven Spielberg and Marlon Brando.
Terrence McNally has worked with these film directors: Nic Arnzen, Mariem Pérez Riera and James Brandon.
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