Swoosie Kurtz
Biography: Swoosie Kurtz (born September 6, 1944) is an American actress. She began her career in theater during the 1970s and shortly thereafter began a career in television, garnering ten nominations and winning one Emmy Award. Her most famous television project was her role on the 1990s NBC drama Sisters. She has also appeared somewhat sporadically in films from the late 1970s up until today, including prominent roles in such films as Dangerous Liaisons, Citizen Ruth, and Liar Liar among others. Throughout her career she has remained active in theater, earning five Tony Award nominations and winning two over the last three decades. Description above from the Wikipedia article Swoosie Kurtz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: September 06, 1944
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Dangerous Liaisons
1988-12-21
Dangerous Liaisons
Overview: In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-21
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Liar Liar
1997-03-21
Liar Liar
Overview: Fletcher Reed, a fast-talking, habitual liar, divorced father, is an incredibly successful lawyer who has built his career by lying. He is used to giving priority to his job and always breaking promises to be with his young son Max, but Fletcher often lets Max down, by missing his son's birthday party. But even then at 8:15 Max decides to make him an honest man as he wishes for a whole day where his father can't lie. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday, he only has one wish - for his father to stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his mouth has suddenly become his biggest obstacle
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-21
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Cruel Intentions
1999-03-05
Cruel Intentions
Overview: Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized possession.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-05
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Get Over It
2001-03-08
Get Over It
Overview: When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the help of his best friend Felix's sister Kelly, he follows his ex into the school's spring musical. Thus ensues a love triangle loosely based upon Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", where Berke is only to find himself getting over Allison and beginning to fall for Kelly.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-08
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The Rules of Attraction
2002-10-11
The Rules of Attraction
Overview: The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-11
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Reality Bites
1994-02-18
Reality Bites
Overview: A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize that reality isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-18
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And the Band Played On
1993-09-11
And the Band Played On
Overview: The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-11
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A Shock to the System
1990-03-23
A Shock to the System
Overview: Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife with one thing to look forward to: a well-deserved promotion. But when the promotion is given to a loud-mouthed yuppie associate, Graham unleashes his rage on an overly aggressive panhandler, who he accidently kills by pushing him into the path of an oncoming subway train. He re-thinks his problems with an entirely new solution. First, he arranges an "accident" for his annoying wife. Then he creates another "mishap" for his boss. It seems like the world is once more Graham's oyster…but a missing cigarette lighter and a prying police detective may change all that.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-23
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Against All Odds
1984-03-02
Against All Odds
Overview: She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be nothing less than their lives.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-02
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The World According to Garp
1982-08-13
The World According to Garp
Overview: A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-13
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Duplex
2003-09-26
Duplex
Overview: When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-26
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A Caribbean Mystery
1983-10-22
A Caribbean Mystery
Overview: Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-22
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Ah, Wilderness!
1976-10-13
Ah, Wilderness!
Overview: On the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New England home. Young Richard, 16, is a thoughtful and poetic youth in love with a neighbor girl, Muriel. When Richard's messages of poetry to Muriel upset her prudish father, Muriel is forbidden to see him and forced to write a letter saying she wishes no more to do with him. Richard, devastated, sets out to learn the evil ways of the world and put his broken heart behind him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-13
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True Stories
1986-10-10
True Stories
Overview: A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-10
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Bubble Boy
2001-08-24
Bubble Boy
Overview: Jimmy is a young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom... who pines for the sweet caresses of girl-next-door Chloe. But when Chloe decides to marry her high school boyfriend, Jimmy – bubble suit and all – treks cross-country to stop her.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-24
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Living Proof
2008-10-18
Living Proof
Overview: Dr Dennis Slamon, an American oncologist, discovers a treatment that could possibly cure breast cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. He tries to look for ways to fund the medication.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-18
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Superman: Doomsday
2007-09-18
Superman: Doomsday
Overview: When LexCorp accidentally unleashes a murderous creature, Superman meets his greatest challenge as a champion. Based on the "The Death of Superman" storyline that appeared in DC Comics' publications in the 1990s.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-18
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An Englishman in New York
2009-02-07
An Englishman in New York
Overview: Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclast emigrated to New York in 1981 and lived there until his death. The film observes Crisp in both his public and private lives, from his seemingly cavalier response to the outbreak of AIDS to his tender relationship with his friend Patrick Angus and his own response to growing old.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-07
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Citizen Ruth
1996-11-21
Citizen Ruth
Overview: "Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is a comedy about one woman caught in the ultimate tug-of-war: a clash of wild, noisy, ridiculous people that rapidly dissolves into a media circus.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-21
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Wildcats
1986-02-14
Wildcats
Overview: Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-14
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Guilty Conscience
1985-04-02
Guilty Conscience
Overview: Amid acrimonious divorce proceedings, Louise (Blythe Danner) unwittingly puts her life in danger when she contests the prenuptial agreement she signed before marrying attorney Arthur Jamison (Anthony Hopkins). He plans to kill her to resolve the situation. Armed with information on how her cheating husband conducts his business and personal affairs, she demands more money from him -- but will Arthur have the final word?
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-02
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The White River Kid
1999-01-01
The White River Kid
Overview: Two con men are traveling through the American South when they are held hostage by a serial killer who is running from the authorities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
1993-04-10
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
Overview: A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on the cheerleading squad.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-10
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Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes
2000-11-05
Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes
Overview: Insurance agent Hutch Rimes spends a lot of time at the Sleep Easy Hotel, taking long lurid lunch breaks with a string of sexy secretaries who he hires for their "special talents". Ten years ago, one of his office honeys tried to get him to kill her abusive husband. The plan backfired when the hubby killed her by mistake, got sent up the river, and lucky Hutch made a fortune buying off a piece of his ranch. But now it's trouble time -- there's a stalker in the suburbs who wants Hutch dead. Is it the cold-blooded killer just out of jail, the jealous husband of his latest fling, or another psycho enemy he's made along the way? Steven Weber (Wings), Swoosie Kurts (Sisters) and Gail O'Grady (NYPD Blue) star in this hilariously sinister thriller that proves the worst thing in life can also be the funniest.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-05
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The Image
1990-01-27
The Image
Overview: When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own methods and life in general.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-27
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Outside Ozona
1998-12-18
Outside Ozona
Overview: A widowed trucker fends off isolation in the company of a dog named Girl, two bickering sisters try to reconcile their differences and a down-and-out circus clown and his stripper girlfriend must fight the temptation of crime on the road. Their common companion is an angry disc jockey at odds with a desperate boss. All these people will find their lives intertwined by the hand of fate. And before the night gives way to day, some will breathe their last breath... Outside Ozona.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-18
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My Own Country
1998-07-12
My Own Country
Overview: An East Indian physician works with AIDS patients as an epidemic of the disease hits in Tennessee.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-12
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One Christmas
1994-12-19
One Christmas
Overview: Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-19
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Oliver's Story
1978-12-15
Oliver's Story
Overview: Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, especially when he finds that his leftist views conflict with those of the senior partners at the firm. Eventually, Oliver's inconsolable grief begins to alienate those around him, until he finds new love with Marcie Bonwit, the wealthy and beautiful heiress to the Bonwit Teller fortune. Despite his affection for her, Oliver finds it difficult to leave the memory of Jenny behind, which causes major problems in their relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-15
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Harvey
1996-10-19
Harvey
Overview: An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see. All's well until Elwood's social-climbing sister, Veta, and her teenage daughter, Myrtle Mae, come to live with him and fear his odd behavior will undermine their ambitions. When Elwood disrupts the ladies' first afternoon tea party by introducing wealthy Aunt Ethel Chauvenet to Harvey, Veta sees that something must be done right away. She takes compliant Elwood to the Chumley Rest Home, leaving him in the car while she tells a Dr. Sanderson all about Elwood and Harvey. Sanderson concludes that Veta is the psychotic one and has her carted off to be committed. Meanwhile Elwood is treated with respect and dignity in light of his sister's mental state. When Dr. Chumley, head of the rest home, returns and hears of the case, he draws the opposite conclusion-that Elwood in fact hallucinates.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-19
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Uncommon Women and Others
1979-06-20
Uncommon Women and Others
Overview: While at an impromptu reunion lunch, five women reminisce and relive their college days at Mount Holyoke, and weigh their goals and aspirations against their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-20
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Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
1997-01-18
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
Overview: A gymnast moves to a gym where the top coach in the US is and has difficulties adjusting.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-18
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Betrayed: A Story of Three Women
1995-03-19
Betrayed: A Story of Three Women
Overview: Joan Bixler and Amanda Nelson have known each other for several years and lead successful and seemingly functional families. However, their friendship is ripped to shreds and their families shattered when the husband of one of the women has an affair with the other woman's daughter.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-19
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Vice Versa
1988-02-25
Vice Versa
Overview: A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-25
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Storybook
1994-01-01
Storybook
Overview: A young boy and his dog discover a magical story book and enter the enchanted Storyland, ruled by wicked Queen Evilia. They'll need a little help from his literary friends to get back to the real world.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Night of 100 Stars III
1990-05-21
Night of 100 Stars III
Overview: A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-21
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First Love
1977-08-08
First Love
Overview: A college soccer player falls hard for a campus beauty, who is the mistress of an older married attorney.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-08
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Stanley & Iris
1990-02-09
Stanley & Iris
Overview: An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-09
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Bright Lights, Big City
1988-04-01
Bright Lights, Big City
Overview: A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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Nadine in Dateland
2005-06-26
Nadine in Dateland
Overview: Nadine (Garofalo) is a contradiction in terms; she runs a dating service despite being incredibly unlucky in love. Now, facing serious business problems, she needs to find the right guy to turn her fortune around.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-26
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Slap Shot
1977-02-25
Slap Shot
Overview: To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-25
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A Time to Live
1985-10-27
A Time to Live
Overview: The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-27
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Baja Oklahoma
1988-02-20
Baja Oklahoma
Overview: Juanita Hutchins works at Texas bar, but she aspires to be a country songwriter. When she's not looking after her impulsive daughter, Candy, or vouching for her promiscuous friend, Doris Steadman, she's trying to maintain some semblance of a romantic life. As Juanita prepares to make the leap to Nashville, her former boyfriend, Slick Henderson, returns to town, further complicating her situation.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-20
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Category 7: The End of the World
2005-11-06
Category 7: The End of the World
Overview: It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a super storm that threatens to rend the earth with an unprecedented power. Beautiful scientist Faith Clavell, storm chaser Tommy Tornado, and Judith Carr, the head of FEMA, can stop the inevitable from happening-if they have the courage to venture into the roiling blackness of the storm itself.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-06
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Overboard
2018-04-13
Overboard
Overview: A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-13
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A Promise to Carolyn
1996-01-16
A Promise to Carolyn
Overview: When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together they try to uncover the truth.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-16
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Fifth of July
1982-10-11
Fifth of July
Overview: Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken struggles to find meaning in his life. As he contemplates selling the farmhouse, old friends and family members descend for a vacation. Originally broadcast as part of the series "American Playhouse" (season 1, episode 9).
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-11
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Walking Through the Fire
1979-05-15
Walking Through the Fire
Overview: A young wife discovers that she has Hodgkin's Disease. It can be treated, but complicating the situation is the fact that she is pregnant, and the treatment can endanger the life of her unborn baby, as well as herself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-15
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Terror on Track 9
1992-09-20
Terror on Track 9
Overview: A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-20
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Marriage Is Alive and Well
1980-01-25
Marriage Is Alive and Well
Overview: A talented wedding photographer, at a crossroads with his own marriage, reflects on tales of past clients and the hope, adversity and romance that holy matrimony brings. Starring as the photographer, football great Joe Namath narrates the unconventional tales of three couples: Judd Hirsch and Melinda Dillon as a twosome who have married and divorced multiple times and who are on the verge of repeating their mistake; an anxious newlywed who prefers the "freedom" that living together allows; and Jack Albertson as an aging comedian who wants to marry his much younger secretary despite the disapproval of his son.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-25
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The House of Blue Leaves
1987-05-25
The House of Blue Leaves
Overview: On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens, thinks it's time for his life to be blessed, too. He desperately wants to escape his lower middle-class existence and become a popular singer and songwriter, but his life is complicated by an ambitious mistress, a crazy wife and a bomb-making son.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-25
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The Wilde Girls
2001-11-04
The Wilde Girls
Overview: A young girl hopes to follow in her famous singer mother's footsteps, but her mother fears the negative effect fame could have on her daughter's life.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-04
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The Mating Season
1980-12-30
The Mating Season
Overview: They say opposites attract, but could a romance possibly develop between an attorney, successful at work but unlucky in love, and a divorced man whose main interest is birdwatching?
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-30
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