Biography: Janet Wright was born in 1945 in England and grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was raised in a family of theatre actors. Her siblings are: Anne Wright, John Wright and Susan Wright. Janet had the chance to work with her two sisters, Susan and Anne, in the theater play "Les Belles Soeurs". Besides from her work on television and cinema, Janet has also been involved in several theater projects like: Memoir, The Club, Miss Margarida's Way, Hedda Gabler, The Seahorse, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Lie of the Mind, Not Wanted on the Voyage, Uncle Vanya, Shirley Valentine, King John, In the Ring , Hamlet, The Bacchae, Glengarry Glen Ross, Mabel Leaves Forever and Fool For Love, Dancing at Lughnasa and Wrong for Each Other among others. Janet Wright was married to Brian Richmond and had a son with him named Jacob Richmond who is a playwright, She has a daughter named Celine Richmond. She is married to Bruce Davis. In 29 December 1991, her 44-year-old sister Susan and her parents, Jack and Ruth, died in a house fire.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 08, 1945
Deathday: November 14, 2016
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2000-06-29
Overview: In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-29
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2002-02-08
Overview: In this fast action-packed thriller, Jonathan, Marcus, and Aurora compete in a dangerous, fierce sport called Rollerball. Although, Johnathan and Marcus try to quit, cruel and vindictive promoter Alexi Petrovich encourages them to still participate.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-08
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2001-10-25
Overview: Matt is haunted by the death of a girl from a car accident he caused years ago. Matt was drunk and as he reached for the car radio, he struck the girl as she crossed the road. The guilt that he feels has altered his sense of reality, making Matt's life a mystery full of shadows and phantoms. Now, years later Matt goes away for weekend with his new girlfriend Dawn. After a wild session of lovemaking, Dawn goes for a walk. While she is away a strange man with an ax comes into the motel room and attacks Matt. After that incident Matt goes into the woods, looking for Dawn. There he encounters Dawn's family who tie him down and put him on trail for the murder of the girl years before. They find him guilty and he is sent back into the forest to be hunted down by the family. The deeper Matt runs into the forest the farther his mind is lost to the Blackwoods.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-25
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1982-10-01
Overview: Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-01
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2002-02-13
Overview: New York detective Mike Santini is enjoying a holiday with his family when he spots Eddie Meyers a fugitive from justice who might be the key witness in a high profile case involving money laundering. Santini plays a major role in capturing Meyers which prompts the wiley criminal to request Santini to be the interrogating officer. The two size each other up in the interrogation room in a thriller that provides a number of unexpected twists.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-13
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2003-01-01
Overview: In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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1998-03-15
Overview: Tucker recently got out of prison, but is soon sought after by other bad men. So to escape them, he disguises himself as the new Headmistress of an all-girl school.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-15
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1987-08-17
Overview: When six friends fly off on a weekend getaway and are suddenly plagued by engine trouble, they're forced to land on a remote island. Looking for shelter, they're grateful to encounter Ma and Pa and their children - an eccentric family living in the island's backwoods. But what begins as simple hospitality turns into a terrifying race for survival as the friends start disappearing one by one ... and turning up dead.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-17
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1991-08-09
Overview: Bingo, the runaway circus dog, is off the leash and saving Chuckie's life! Bingo and the boy become the best of friends in this canine comedy featuring doggy disguises and skateboarding, pinball and prison. Chuckie and his parents are moving house, a thousand miles away, but Bingo won't be allowed to join them.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-09
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2012-03-19
Overview: When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-19
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1988-03-06
Overview: With a glittering cast that includes Katharine Hepburn and Karen Austin in lead roles, Laura Lansing Slept Here is a humorous family movie. Hepburn plays Laura Lansing, a novelist who undergoes an identity crisis as, despite her fame and fortune, she feels something is missing from her life. Entering into a quest to return a degree of normalcy to her life, Lansing's attempts provide many comedic moments, as well as a salient lesson for the famous author.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-06
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2001-03-01
Overview: A brutal drive-by shooting of a Croatian woman who works at an abortion clinic sends two homicide detectives out onto the streets of one of the world's most culturally diverse cities. Their first suspect has ties to the pro-life movement. But a sudden turn of events, a fresh trail of clues and a suicide attempt by the victim's Serbian husband lead the detectives into the impenetrable world of Balkan politics and prejudices. As they hunt for the killer, they uncover an ethnic war between Croatians and Serbians amid the urban backdrop of downtown Toronto.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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1985-05-28
Overview: A businessman is stalked by his murderous twin brother, who has just been released from a mental hospital.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-28
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1983-12-05
Overview: The Herdmans – Gladys, Claude, Imogene, Leroy, Ollie and Ralph – are undeniably the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, cheat, bully and overall terrorize their small community. But this Christmas, they’re taking over their local church Pageant – and they just might unwittingly teach a shocked little town the true meaning of Christmas.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-05
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1996-06-23
Overview: Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is stunned to learn this and does not believe he could commit such a crime. She writes to him much to the dismay of her husband Keith and becomes obsessed with the case, exploring every avenue that may still be open to the doomed man. The trips to the prison take a toll on both her marriage and her family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-23
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2014-12-03
Overview: It’s been a few years, and there’s still not a lot going on 40 kilometers from nowhere. But that’s all about to change as the fine folks of Dog River, Saskatchewan face their biggest crisis ever. Brent and the gang discover that the town’s been badly mismanaged, leaving residents with little choice but to pack up and leave. As residents make one last rally to save Dog River as they know it, they discover a devious plan by a corporate chain that would change life for Dog Riverites forever.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-03
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1978-12-16
Overview: A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable court battle.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-16
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2003-03-16
Overview: The story of a fictional town suffering from an outbreak of severe water contamination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-16
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1996-10-16
Overview: Jury has to decide on a murder case but some of the jurors have their own agendas or are biased. Sounds like '12 Angry Men' but this is not a remake. It's a totally fresh take on the theme. Totally different case, for example. There is no question about the identity of the culprit, the jury has to decide between manslaughter and murder. - Written by Holger Hellmuth hellmuth@ira.uka.de
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-16
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2003-02-10
Overview: Bill Goodman is a slick, wealthy, celebrated psychiatrist, who leads a double life. He has a wife and daughter in New York. At the same time, the bigamist has another wife in London. Despite his long absences on 'business trips', both little families lived in domestic bliss, totally oblivious of each-others existence. Alas the wives find out about each-other place in Bill's well-organized life, and let jealousy get the better of happiness; they even team up and turn on the man who so cunningly made everyone happy for so long...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-10
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1974-04-12
Overview: A middle-aged theatre manager imagines his life situation to be reflected in the wolves at the local zoo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-12
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2010-07-23
Overview: Ramona is a little girl with a very big imagination and a nose for mischief. Her playful antics keep everyone in her loving family on their toes, including her older sister Beezus, who's just trying to survive her first year of high school. Through all the ups and downs of childhood, Ramona and Beezus learn that anything's possible when you believe in yourself and rely on each other.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-23
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2001-04-26
Overview: The story follows a troubled woman and her search for identity. She is given a choice between a return to the dysfunction of the past, or a new life in self assumed identity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-26
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1987-10-11
Overview: Elmer Jackson is a carpenter in a small Californian town in the 1930s. Struggling to bring up 4 young boys after the death of his wife, he is horrified when the Government (citing trumped-up charges of parental neglect) places the boys into various foster homes and institutions, unaware of the abuse that boys would then be subjected to. The conditions imposed by the court and the difficulties caused by the Depression make Jackson's determined and vigorous quest to find his boys extremely difficult.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-11
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2008-02-01
Overview: t's Ginger Shapiro's wedding day. It's going to be perfect even though she's eight-months pregnant, been robbed, kidnapped and thinks her fiancé Henry is dead - he's not - and then there's her grandmother's curse! It's a race to the altar in this escalating comedy of errors where Ginger and Henry might just stand a chance of living happily ever after.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-01
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1971-06-24
Overview: A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-24
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2008-03-15
Overview: A drama centered around Patty Montanari, the widowed mother of two who went to work for her lover Frank Russo, a captain in a Brooklyn crime family.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-15
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1987-12-20
Overview: Two brothers' lives are changed forever when they hit the road to a snowbound Alaskan village. Brother Ray and Pete had been feuding for years. So, when their ailing father asks them to drive a semitruck full of gifts and supplies from California to the isolated Alaskan village of Willow Creek, they agree ---- reluctantly. Along the way, they pick up trouble when they're joined by Jessie, who is Ray's estranged wife and Pete's ex-girlfriend. Then, a blizzard strands the truck deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Miles from help, with time running our fast, they realize only a miracle can save them. But, as they are about to be reminded, Christmas...is the season for miracles.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-20
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1984-01-02
Overview: The women who seek help at Aurora House share a common illness: they are physically and psychologically dependent on alcohol, prescription drugs, street drugs, or a combination of these. This documentary focuses on the lives of five women at various stages of their rehabilitation. In the supportive and healing atmosphere of women helping other women, they are confronting the issues and feelings they had previously drunk or drugged out of consciousness.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-02
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2000-02-01
Overview: Redwall is a compelling tale of fantasy, courage and adventure; the fable of a daunting quest to recover a legendary lost weapon and the classic strugle between good and evil. The delightful world of Redwall - a place of peace and beauty, companionship and courage - has captured the dedication of millions of readers worldwide. See the story brought to life!
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-01
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