Roberta Maxwell
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roberta Maxwell (born 1942) is a Canadian actress. She began studying for the stage at the age of 12. She joined John Clark for 2 years as the child co-host of his Junior Magazine series for CBC Television, before becoming the youngest actress apprentice at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, ready to pursue an acting career, where she appeared as Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing, Lady Anne in Richard III, Olivia in Twelfth Night, and Anne in The Merry Wives of Windsor, before going on to England, where she spent three years in repertory. She made her West End debut with Robert Morley and Molly Picon in A Majority of One. She debuted on Broadway in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1968, going on to five more plays with the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. In 1974 she was back on Broadway playing the role of Jill in Equus, which starred Anthony Hopkins. In 1982, she starred as Rosalind in the Stratford Festival's stage production of Shakespeare's As You Like It, a production which was videotaped and telecast on Canadian television in 1983. Those, and many more plays, took her on to a successful television and film career. In 2009 and 2010 she appeared in two episodes of the Syfy series Warehouse 13. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roberta Maxwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: June 17, 1941
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Dead Man Walking
1995-12-29
Dead Man Walking
Overview: A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-29
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Popeye
1980-12-12
Popeye
Overview: Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-12
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Philadelphia
1993-12-22
Philadelphia
Overview: Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-22
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Psycho III
1986-04-02
Psycho III
Overview: When Maureen Coyle, a suicidal nun who resembles Norman's former victim, Marion Crane, arrives at the motel, all bets are off and "Mother" is less than happy.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-02
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The Killing Floor
2007-05-10
The Killing Floor
Overview: A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment. Next he receives a series of stalker videotapes that document his every move.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-10
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The Postman
1997-12-25
The Postman
Overview: In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the United States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare, and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-25
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The Changeling
1980-03-28
The Changeling
Overview: After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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Fall
1997-06-20
Fall
Overview: For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels in love. But Sarah has more than just passion on her mind; she also has a husband and a glamorous lifestyle that she can't seem to leave behind. Torn between her feelings for Michael and the security of her marriage, Sarah is forced to make a realistic decision about the sacrifices that must be made to be truly and totally in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-20
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Last Night
1998-10-23
Last Night
Overview: Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-23
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The Dinosaur Hunter
2000-08-05
The Dinosaur Hunter
Overview: A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-08-05
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Special Bulletin
1983-03-20
Special Bulletin
Overview: A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-20
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The Mermaid Chair
2006-09-09
The Mermaid Chair
Overview: A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-09
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Rich Kids
1979-08-17
Rich Kids
Overview: Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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The Other Side of Victory
1979-06-12
The Other Side of Victory
Overview: This film dramatizes the problems facing ordinary American soldiers during the Revolutionary War, explaining why most ultimately chose to stay and fight.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-12
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When Innocence Is Lost
1997-04-07
When Innocence Is Lost
Overview: When Erica French opts to keep the baby she conceived in high school, she never dreamed that one day she would be fighting for custody against the child's father, Scott Stone. Scott Stone initially fought for custody when Erica threatened to cut off his access to their daughter. Scott continues to try to be a part of his daughter's life, but when Molly first breaks her arm at the playground then Scott's mother finds mysterious bruises on her granddaughter, Scott again fights for custody of young Molly, and this time he wins because the court feels his family can provide a more stable environment for Molly than a public daycare can.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-07
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Forget Me Never
1999-10-03
Forget Me Never
Overview: Diane McGowin was employed as an administrative assistant for a group of attorneys in private practice. She found herself forgetting things, especially losing short term memory. She suspected that something was wrong and went to the doctor. After many tests, the diagnosis was Alzheimer's. Diana did not want to tell her husband, Jack McGowin because she thought her husband, Jack, would be worried about money since she made more money than he did.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-03
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Hungry Hearts
2015-01-15
Hungry Hearts
Overview: The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-15
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A Touch of the Poet
1974-01-02
A Touch of the Poet
Overview: Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former days as a nobleman and decorated officer in the British army during the Napoleonic wars. Impoverished now, he struts about in his uniform and plots to make money by manipulating the love of his daughter for the son of a wealthy manufacturer. His daughter sees through his façade and his chicanery and begins to plot for herself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-02
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Full Disclosure
2001-05-15
Full Disclosure
Overview: A reporter discovers a woman who is a suspected terrorist.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-15
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Shadow Lake
1999-01-01
Shadow Lake
Overview: A writer's mysterious disappearance on an ice-covered lake holds the clues to a missing gemstone and a grisly murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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A Great Big Thing
1968-06-23
A Great Big Thing
Overview: A 23-year-old Canadian wanders aimlessly throughout his wasted life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-23
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Our Town
1989-04-01
Our Town
Overview: This classic American play, performed on an almost-bare stage, is about the mundane but rather pleasant lives of the Gibbs family, the Webb family, and their neighbors in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, early in the 20th century.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-01
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Booky Makes Her Mark
2006-06-01
Booky Makes Her Mark
Overview: The Thomsons, like many families, have hit hard times as Thomas can't find steady work. Fifteen year old Booky takes the family situation in stride, being matter-of-fact about being poor. Beyond her loving family, there are some things about her life she likes, such as being the president of her local Deanna Durbin fan club, and going out with a boy named Lorne.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-01
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Mistrial
1996-11-02
Mistrial
Overview: When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-02
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Riding the Bus with My Sister
2005-05-01
Riding the Bus with My Sister
Overview: A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-01
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As You Like It
1983-01-01
As You Like It
Overview: Shakespeare's As You Like It is a delightful romantic comedy , lavishly staged by the renowned Stratford Festival. A favorite with audiences throughout the centuries, this fairy tale is a brilliant magical celebration of romance, passion and unity. Pitting young love against the vanity of the court. It is the familiar story of exiled lovers reunited, of woodland meanderings, of mistaken identity and disguise, and of political wrongs set right. As in all of Shakespeare's plays, this is a story rich in mythology which deals with the transformation of souls from evil to good.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
1974-05-08
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
Overview: Mrs. Holroyd is married to a loutish miner, who drinks, patronizes prostitutes, and apparently brutalizes her. When a gentlemanly neighbor makes romantic advances to her, she wishes her husband dead. Sooner than she hoped, her wish comes true—when her husband dies in a mining accident. When Charles Holroyd's body is brought home from the mine, and his wife and mother must wash him and lay him out for his funeral, we see for the first time the other side of the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Holroyd—now, when it's too late.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-08
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Unearthing
2016-04-20
Unearthing
Overview: Healy James and Fisher Hart share a deep secret, but they don't know what it is. While Healy is tormented by compulsions he doesn't understand, Fisher studies the science of love, and avoids Healy, who triggers feelings she can't explain. When Healy suspects the answers to their mystery are buried on a suspected killer's property, his curiosity turns reckless, and Fisher must choose between a life in hiding and a frightening truth.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-20
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Kingsgate
Kingsgate
Overview: A literature student (Elizabeth Dancoes) and her professor lover (Duncan Fraser) meet her folks, then visit a famous writer and his wife (Barbara March).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Water Damage
1999-07-30
Water Damage
Overview: One year after the drowning death of his young son, Paul Preedy (Daniel Baldwin) receives an invitation to a reunion at his prep school. Paul decides to go, taking his remaining son with him. When they arrive, they find that only two other people had been invited and a new nightmare is about to begin.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-30
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The Tale of the Frog Prince
1982-09-11
The Tale of the Frog Prince
Overview: A spoiled, selfish princess's fate becomes entwined with a zany and witty frog with a secret past.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-11
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Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
1982-02-17
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
Overview: A poorly-educated housewife fights companies polluting her hometown's water table in upstate New York during the 1970s.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-17
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Life in a Day
1999-05-20
Life in a Day
Overview: A scientific experiment in rapid-cell growth goes awry when a lab assistant steals the developed serum and injects it into his pregnant girl friend. The result is a child that grows through adulthood and will die within days, if a cure cannot be found.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-20
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The Inherited
2015-01-20
The Inherited
Overview: Eve has married the man of her dreams but when they return to live in the house willed to him by his first wife who died under horrific circumstances, it becomes a waking nightmare as Eve falls into a spiral of suspicion and madness.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-20
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Brokeback Mountain
2005-10-22
Brokeback Mountain
Overview: In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-22
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What We Have
2014-09-12
What We Have
Overview: What We Have is is the tale of Maurice, a prisoner of his past who is unable to connect with the people in his new Northern Canadian small town, a community that is only too ready to welcome this European misfit into their arms.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-12
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Percy
2020-10-09
Percy
Overview: Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer, gets sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds. With little resources to fight a legal battle, Percy joins forces with up-and-coming attorney Jackson Weaver and environmental activist Rebecca Salcau for a monumental case that leads all the way to the Supreme Court.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-09
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Gracie's Choice
2004-01-12
Gracie's Choice
Overview: For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-12
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The Ten-Year Lunch
1987-09-28
The Ten-Year Lunch
Overview: The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-28
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Hungry
2017-03-22
Hungry
Overview: Hungry is the first in a three-play cycle introducing us to the Gabriels of Rhinebeck, New York. These three plays unfold in real time and track the lives of the Gabriels throughout the coming presidential election year. To the rhythm of peeling, chopping and mixing, Hungry places us in the center of the Gabriel’s kitchen. The family discusses their lives and disappointments, and the world at large and nearby. As they struggle against the fear of being left behind, the family attempts to find resilience in the face of loss.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-22
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What Did You Expect?
2017-03-23
What Did You Expect?
Overview: Back in the kitchen of the Gabriel family, the country is now in the midst of the general election for President. In the course of one evening in the house they grew up in, history (both theirs and our country's), money, politics, family, art, and culture are chopped up and mixed together, while a meal is made around the kitchen table.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-23
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Women of a Certain Age
2017-03-24
Women of a Certain Age
Overview: Eight months after we first meet the Gabriels, Patricia, the family matriarch, joins her children and daughters-in-law as they prepare a meal from the past and consider the future of their country, town and home. Paying tribute to the difficult year behind them, the Gabriels compare notes on the search for empathy and authenticity at a time when the game seems rigged and the rules are forever changing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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What Makes a Family
2001-01-22
What Makes a Family
Overview: Janine and Sandy are a lesbian couple who decide to have a baby, but after a few years Sandy dies. This tragedy is exploited by Sandy's parents to snatch the girl from Janine's care. But then, and despite having the laws against her, Janine decides to fight in order to regain custody of her daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-22
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Vinegar Hill
2005-03-06
Vinegar Hill
Overview: Family secrets surface when a married couple returns to the husband’s hometown, where his overbearing family interferes with their imagined new start.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-06
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Gwendolyn Green
2017-09-21
Gwendolyn Green
Overview: Inspired by true events, this is the story of Gwendolyn Green, an aging widow who spends her days in solitude inside a fenced-in Palm Springs residence, as if trapped in another era. When her lack of social skills and isolation begin to suffocate her, she picks up the phone and calls 911 in search of human connection. Gwendolyn forms a special bond with the officer who answers, and finds in him the care and connection to the modern world that she craves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-21
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