Derek McGrath
Biography: Derek McGrath was born on June 4, 1951 in Porcupine, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor, known for My Secret Identity (1988), Charlie Bartlett (2007) and Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 04, 1951
Deathday: N/A
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Take Me Up to the Ball Game
1980-09-01
Take Me Up to the Ball Game
Overview: In this interplanetary baseball story, a group of friends are playing a sandlot game on Earth that is noticed by Irwin, an outer space promoter of baseball. The haphazard team consists of an eagle, a beaver, a bear, a kangaroo, and a mole. Irwin invites the Earth team to play against the Outer Space All-Stars, an awesome team that has never lost a game, of that matter, been scrored upon. Their secret: they are the biggest cheaters in the universe.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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Drive Like Lightning
1992-01-08
Drive Like Lightning
Overview: In this road drama, a depressed ex-daredevil is hired to drive an experimental stunt car across the country to L. A. He is accompanied by a country-singer
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-08
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Mr. Mom
1983-07-22
Mr. Mom
Overview: Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living when Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't have a clue...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-22
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An American Dream: The Education of William Bowman
2016-12-01
An American Dream: The Education of William Bowman
Overview: William Bowman is a small town boy with small town dreams. And like any average teenager, when approached with the subject of his future, Bowman would often retreat into the safe recesses of his mind. When a concussion seemingly sends William to an uncertain future, what follows is a series of hilarious capers from William’s status as an average teenager to a nationwide media phenomenon. Is William a product of bad luck? Good luck? Or is his future subject to miracles and unlikely circumstances?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-01
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Northpole: Open for Christmas
2015-11-21
Northpole: Open for Christmas
Overview: A successful businesswoman, Mackenzie, inherits her beloved aunt's inn, and chooses to restore the hotel to its original grandeur only to sell it right before Christmas. Unbeknownst to Mackenzie, she receives some unexpected help from a team of elves headed by the cheerful Clementine, who helps Mackenzie rediscover the true meaning of Christmas.
Genres: TV Movie Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-21
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Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet
1979-11-01
Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet
Overview: With a new twist on an old holiday, Intergalatic Thanksgiving or Please Don't Eat the Planet is a delightful animated special combining space age fantasy with the old and revered traditions that make Thanksgiving a great festive holiday.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-01
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Stuart Bliss
1998-04-18
Stuart Bliss
Overview: After his frustrated wife abruptly walks out on him, Stuart Bliss, a wizard at inventing campaigns for surplus military materials, believes he's catching the warning of a coming apocalypse. Descending into paranoia, he then begins to perceive every subtle change in his office as a sign of intrusion, imagining that he's being watched and possibly polluted with a contaminated substance.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-18
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Fairfield Road
2010-05-20
Fairfield Road
Overview: Noah McManus is leaving his job with the Boston mayor's office for a dream gig in Washington, D.C. But in a single day, he finds out his new boss in Washington can no longer employ him and that his girlfriend has been cheating on him. Devastated, Noah travels to a quaint Cape Cod town and unexpectedly finds himself at home.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-20
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Nothing Personal
1980-03-28
Nothing Personal
Overview: Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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Thanksgiving
2023-11-16
Thanksgiving
Overview: After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-16
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The Last Precinct
1986-01-26
The Last Precinct
Overview: In this spoof of TV cop shows, which served as the pilot to the subsequent short-lived series, a bunch of bumbling misfits and rejects from the police academy, all assembled under a straitlaced but dimwitted captain, fumble their way to success cracking a drug ring run by a blind mobster.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-26
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The Safety of Objects
2002-10-25
The Safety of Objects
Overview: In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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Fir Crazy
2013-12-12
Fir Crazy
Overview: When marketing executive Elise MacKenzie decides to help sell Christmas trees at her family’s Christmas tree lot, she discovers a newfound fondness for the holidays. But all could be lost when the store owner who hosts the tree lot on his block wants to shut it down, and it’s up to Elise to find a way to rekindle his Christmas Cheer.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-12
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She's Out of Control
1989-04-14
She's Out of Control
Overview: A Los Angeles radio-station manager's girlfriend shows his teenage daughter how to be sexy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-14
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Heathcliff: The Movie
1986-01-17
Heathcliff: The Movie
Overview: One rainy day, Heathcliff babysits and recounts old stories while his nephews are reluctantly forced to listen.
Genres: Comedy Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-17
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Christmas Magic
2011-12-11
Christmas Magic
Overview: Carrie Bishop, a successful event planner in New York City, is left unconscious after a car accident. In order to "pass over" to Heaven, she must help Scott Walker and his daughter Abby save their restaurant and find their Christmas spirit.
Genres: TV Movie Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-11
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Bloodsport: The Dark Kumite
1999-03-30
Bloodsport: The Dark Kumite
Overview: Agent John Keller goes undercover into the tough prison known as Fuego Penal to find out about the corpses of prisoners disappearing without a trace. There he gets involved in a dangerous tournament arranged by a man named Justin Caesar, where the prisoners are forced fight to death.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-30
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The Funny Farm
1983-02-18
The Funny Farm
Overview: The laughs are nonstop as a gang of ambitious young comics strives to make it in the exciting world of stand-up comedy at the famous comedy club in L.A., The Funny Farm. These budding comedy stars are as crazy offstage as they are on: Miguel, America s funniest illegal alien ; Miles, who can t decide if he s a black comic or a comic who happens to be black; Bruce, whose manic act borders on insanity; and Peter, the intense political satirist. The Funny Farm is a hilarious and insightful look into those who live the lives of comedians.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-18
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Sound of Christmas
2016-12-11
Sound of Christmas
Overview: Lizzie is a young piano teacher working at a music school while trying to save enough money for a Steinway piano. The school is gearing up for their major Christmas fundraiser and she has committed much of her time to plan the event. One afternoon, she meets Brad who takes an interest in her playing and asks if she will teach his uninterested teenage daughter. She begins to break through to the young girl, and sparks begin to fly with Brad, but she is shocked to find out that his interest is not solely in her playing, but in the property that houses the music school. She sets out to save the school and the event, but can she work things out with Brad?
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-11
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Daniel's Daughter
2008-01-12
Daniel's Daughter
Overview: When a woman learns that her father has passed away, she must confront the past (and the town) she left behind.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-12
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The Hungry Squid
2002-02-10
The Hungry Squid
Overview: The Hungry Squid is 2002 animated short film by John Weldon, about a young girl whose homework and personal life is being disrupted by creatures, including a giant ravenous squid.[1] The film was animated using Weldon's personal style of do-it-yourself filmmaking, combining low-budget computer animation with puppets, photos and stop-motion animation in a technique he calls "digital recyclomation." The film's producer, Marcy Page, had coined the term "recyclomation" during production of Weldon's 1991 film, The Lump
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-10
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Draw!
1984-07-15
Draw!
Overview: In the final days of the Old West, a former desperado faces down a now drunken ex-sheriff, who was his long time nemesis.
Genres: Comedy Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-15
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The Last Detail
1973-12-11
The Last Detail
Overview: Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-11
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A Puppy for Christmas
2016-11-25
A Puppy for Christmas
Overview: After breaking up with her boyfriend and losing her job, Noelle full fills her lifelong wish of getting a puppy. But Buster (the puppy) is the perfect pup she imagined and by spending Christmas with her co-workers quirky family she discovers the true spirit of Christmas and what it means to be family.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-25
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From Friend to Fiancé
2019-05-25
From Friend to Fiancé
Overview: When Ted gets engaged to the high school mean girl and asks Jess, his childhood best friend, to plan their wedding, things get complicated. Her true feelings for Ted keep getting in the way.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-25
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Last Chance for Christmas
2015-12-06
Last Chance for Christmas
Overview: When Prancer injures his hoof Santa’s stable hand, John, must find a fill in to ensure Christmas deliveries go off without a hitch. His mission gets complicated when he discovers that Frankie, the perfect substitute reindeer, belongs to a precocious 8-year-old girl and her mother Annie. As he races to get Frankie up to the North Pole, he realizes that he’s actually falling in love with Annie and has to find a way to win her over and save Christmas at the same time.
Genres: Family TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-06
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Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
1987-04-02
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Overview: A new batch of recruits arrives at Police Academy, this time a group of civilian volunteers who have joined Commandant Lassard's new Citizens on Patrol program. Although the community relations project has strong governmental support, a disgusted Captain Harris is determined to see it fail.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-02
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Carrie
2013-10-16
Carrie
Overview: A contemporary take on the horror classic about an awkward, telekinetic teenage girl, whose lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-16
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Aladdin: The Magical Family Musical
2006-01-01
Aladdin: The Magical Family Musical
Overview: A musical adaption of Aladdin
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Charlie Bartlett
2008-02-22
Charlie Bartlett
Overview: Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find them is to appoint himself the resident psychiatrist. He becomes one of the most popular guys in school by doling out advice and, occasionally, medication, to the student body.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-22
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Chameleon
1996-03-26
Chameleon
Overview: An undercover agent uses his rare personality disorder in pursuing the drug-cartel leader responsible for the deaths of his wife and kids.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-26
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Freaked
1993-09-11
Freaked
Overview: A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-11
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True: Friendship Day
2020-09-01
True: Friendship Day
Overview: When a giant Grippity-Grab snags Grizelda's friendship bracelet and turns her into a mermaid, True heads under the sea with magic wishes to save the day.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-01
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Inherit the Wind
1999-05-29
Inherit the Wind
Overview: Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-29
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Full of It
2007-03-01
Full of It
Overview: A teenager tells outrageous lies at his new high school, only to have them suddenly come true.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-01
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The Marijuana Conspiracy
2020-01-18
The Marijuana Conspiracy
Overview: In 1972, young women looking for a fresh start in life endure isolated captivity in a true 98-day human experiment studying the effects of marijuana on females.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-18
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The Romance of Betty Boop
1985-03-20
The Romance of Betty Boop
Overview: In 1930s, hard-working girl Betty Boop sings at nights at her uncle Mischa's popular NY nightclub and dreams of marrying a posh rich playboy, Waldo. Gangster Johnny "Throat" and a nice hard-working ice-seller, Freddy, also woo her.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-20
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