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Sheila McLaughlin
Acting
Biography
Sheila McLaughlin (born 1950) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and photographer. She wrote and directed the controversial film, She Must Be Seeing Things (1987). Her debut feature film, Committed (1984), which she co-directed with writer Lynne Tillman, is an experimental narrative of the life of Frances Farmer, shot on a low budget of $45,000. McLaughlin's films have been described as presenting "a grasp of a developing new feminist language of cinema."
Known for

Seduction: The Cruel Woman
Justine

Ordinary Sentence
1982

The Meadow of Things
1988

Committed
Frances Farmer

Splits
1978

Born in Flames
Other leader

The Big Blue
Myrna
How to Fly
1981

She Must Be Seeing Things
Director

Inside Out
Director
Filmography
- 1988The Meadow of Things
- 1988The Big BlueMyrna
- 1987She Must Be Seeing ThingsDirector
- 1986Seduction: The Cruel WomanJustine
- 1984CommittedFrances Farmer
- 1983Born in FlamesOther leader
- 1982Ordinary Sentence
- 1981How to Fly
- 1978Splits
- 1978Inside OutDirector
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