Biography: Jacob Vargas (born August 18, 1971) is a Mexican-American actor. He began his acting career when he was discovered breakdancing in a schoolyard at age 12. His introduction to acting came with a bit part as a breakdancer on the hit TV show Diff'rent Strokes (1978). His first movie role was in the TV movie The Children of Times Square (1986). He started to appear in more films including Last Resort (1986), Ernest Goes to Camp (1987), The Principal (1987), Little Nikita (1988), American Me (1992), and Gas Food Lodging (1992). In 1995, he won the very first ALMA Award (for Emerging Artist of the Year) for his work in both Allison Anders' Mi Vida Loca (1993) and Gregory Nava's My Family (1995). He next starred in films including Crimson Tide (1995), Get Shorty (1995), Selena (1997), Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), and the cult favorite Next Friday (2000) as Ice Cube's nemesis, Joker. His next role was Tijuana cop Manolo, 'Benicio del Toro"s partner in Steven Soderbergh's Academy Award- winning film Traffic (2000), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award and another ALMA Award. In 2001, he executive produced and starred in the independent film Road Dogz (2002). He wrote, directed and acted in EDNY (2003). He also co-produced and starred in the stage play "Latinologues", which ran on Broadway in 2005 and is available on DVD. He voiced for Pepito in Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001). Next, he played Sammi the chef in John Moore's Flight of the Phoenix (2004), Marine sniper Juan Cortez in Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes' war drama Jarhead (2005), a straight-arrow DEA agent in the action drama The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2006), a politically charged busboy Miguel in Emilio Estevez's historical drama Bobby (2006), and a psychologically tortured drone pilot Rudy Ramirez in Alex Rivera's sci-fi political love story Sleep Dealer (2008). He had roles in The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007), Are We Done Yet? (2007), Death Race (2008), Cesar Chavez (2014, Heaven is For Real (2014), The Tell-Tale Heart (2016), Plan B, (2021), and Kimi (2022). His major TV roles are as Bob on Surfside Girls, Tony Medina on Mr. Iglesias, Horacio on Mosaic, Domingo Colon on Marvel's Luke Cage, Allesandro Montez on Sons of Anarchy and later on Mayans M.C., Guillermo on Moonlight, Ernesto Tiant on Greetings from Tucson, and Dr. Roberto Martinez on Max Steel. He had recurring roles on Colony, Blue, and Six Feet Under. He has also guest starred on a number of shows including National Treasure: Edge of History, The Mentalist, Burn Notice, Psych, Numb3rs, Medium, CSI: NY, Cold Case, The Pretender, JAG, ER, Full House, and Hunter. He has voiced for characters on animated series including Solar Opposites, Young Justice, and a recurring role on Tarantula.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 18, 1971
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
1998-12-30
Overview: An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier terrain: the human heart.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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2000-12-27
Overview: An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-27
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2000-01-12
Overview: A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles, heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin, to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-12
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2008-08-22
Overview: Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-22
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2008-12-10
Overview: Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-10
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1995-10-20
Overview: Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-20
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2004-12-17
Overview: When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-17
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2005-08-03
Overview: Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-03
Popularity:
1994-06-08
Overview: Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-08
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2007-03-22
Overview: A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-22
Popularity:
2006-08-06
Overview: A celebration of the ever increasing depravity of television in our society-- it's a channel surfing adventure through the most utterly ridiculous spoofed television programming and commercials.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-06
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1993-09-17
Overview: Good-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio when his parents head to Australia for work. There he meets his cousin, Wiley, and together they try to navigate the perils of high school—avoid the bullies, get the girl, and win a little respect.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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1991-06-15
Overview: Coca leaves making their way from Peru to Downtown Los Angeles.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-15
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2008-01-15
Overview: A struggling young couple stumbles upon a cache of dirty money after a shootout in their apartment building.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-15
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2010-09-16
Overview: A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-16
Popularity:
1995-05-03
Overview: Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930s. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A. police in the '50s. As the second generation become adults in the '60s, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-03
Popularity:
1992-07-10
Overview: Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-10
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1990-11-11
Overview: After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaited earthquake--"The Big One"--will strike southern California. With this information, she must battle city officials to release this information to the general public. Also, she hopes that her family is out of harms way when the quake strikes. Subplots show how other families and people cope with the the tremors that strike before the impending "Big One."
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-11
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2002-03-26
Overview: "Boyz N the Hood" meets "Blood In, Blood Out" in this gritty tale of life on the streets of East L.A. Danny (Jacob Vargas), Alfonso (Greg Serano) and Raymo (Clifton Collins Jr.) are lifelong friends who have spent their days hanging out and playing basketball. But everything is about to change...when one of them gets involved with a dangerous drug dealer, all their lives are at risk and they must make some life and death decisions.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-26
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2002-02-22
Overview: A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
Genres: Thriller Fantasy Mystery Horror Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-22
Popularity:
2013-11-08
Overview: Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned to be Fontayne’s parole officer — just when she needs help on the wrong side of the law.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-08
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1986-03-31
Overview: A kindly but firm priest mentors a troubled young boy at the famous Boys Town, a residential care community for troubled youth.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-31
Popularity:
2014-03-28
Overview: A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to working people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-28
Popularity:
2014-04-16
Overview: The true story of the 4-year old son of a small-town pastor who, during emergency surgery, slips from consciousness and enters heaven. When he awakes, he recounts his experiences on the other side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-16
Popularity:
1986-03-31
Overview: George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhere, an unhelpful staff, inhospitable accomodation and undesirable holiday makers, but everyone except for George manages to have fun in the sun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-31
Popularity:
2014-05-16
Overview: The ups and downs of female comic Kiki Melendez.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-16
Popularity:
1988-03-17
Overview: Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying to extort the Soviets; to prove he's serious, he's killing their agents one by one, including "sleepers," agents under deep cover awaiting orders. Roy interviews a high school lad, Jeff Grant, an applicant to the Air Force Academy. In a routine background check, Roy discovers that Jeff's parents are sleepers. He must see if Jeff is also a spy, confront the parents yet protect them, and catch his nemesis. Meanwhile, the Soviets have sent their own spy-catcher, the loner Karpov, to reel in Scuba. Alliances shift; it's cat and mouse.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-17
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2005-11-04
Overview: Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-04
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2017-10-26
Overview: Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-26
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2010-01-01
Overview: A couple of Las Vegas police officers live a life almost as wild as the crimes they investigate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
Popularity:
2022-11-25
Overview: When police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as The Traveler, and when they take him to the station for questioning, he tells them those lands are full of magic and talks about the horrors he’s encountered in his long time on this earth, about portals to other worlds, mythical creatures, demons and the undead. Stories about Latin American legends.
Genres: Horror Thriller Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-25
Popularity:
2015-08-06
Overview: Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-06
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2007-07-23
Overview: A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son in tow.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-23
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2014-05-02
Overview: Twin brothers nicknamed "Water" and "Power" from the hard scrabble Eastside streets of Los Angeles rise like prince's through the city's political and police ranks to become players in a complex and dangerous web of the powerful and corrupt of Los Angeles.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-02
Popularity:
2016-04-05
Overview: A haunting account of a tormented man, haunted by the heart of a man he murdered, who continually re-admits himself into a medical facility, in a futile attempt to escape from his pending madness.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-05
Popularity:
2016-05-03
Overview: A young American couple in love, Michael and Olivia vacation in Baja, but things take a frightening turn when Olivia is kidnapped by drug dealer, who demands that Michael smuggle a backpack full of cocaine-stolen from a rival cartel-over the border into the U.S. within twelve hours or else Olivia will be killed. A good Tijuana Cop is on the trail, as Michael navigates the treacherous underworld of Mexico, and he himself becomes a force to be reckoned with...
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-03
Popularity:
2002-01-01
Overview: Rayne Johnson is a shrewd investment company assistant who turns a mob slaying into a golden opportunity for a new improved lifestyle, managing to outsmart the crooked cops who are very eager to see her disappear.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
Popularity:
1997-03-21
Overview: In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-21
Popularity:
2019-04-05
Overview: An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-05
Popularity:
1997-04-25
Overview: Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their façade crumbles quickly.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-25
Popularity:
2016-10-07
Overview: A quiet teenage artist Rafe Katchadorian has a wild imagination and is sick of middle school and the rules that have been put before him. Rafe and his best friend Leo have come up with a plan: break every rule in the school hand book and as you expect trouble follows.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
Popularity:
2007-04-04
Overview: Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor with a bizarre approach to business.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-04
Popularity:
1987-05-22
Overview: Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance counselor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents while stopping a shady strip mining company from closing the camp as well.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-22
Popularity:
2019-02-07
Overview: After his father takes his two brothers and high tails it, Peel is forced to grow up in a state of arrested development. Once his mother dies, he must forge his own path and attempts to find his lost brethren.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-07
Popularity:
2004-09-18
Overview: Meet Blanche Monroe aka The Evil Stepmother, an out-of-work daytime drama queen. When her stunning stepdaughter (Snow White) is discovered by a hotshot Hollywood agent, Blanche wreaks her revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-18
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1992-03-13
Overview: During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old gang buddies force him back into his old habits.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-13
Popularity:
2001-06-22
Overview: A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a protected bear, but there's a problem: the bear's the only bear in the forest, so she can't reproduce. Undaunted, Dolittle persuades a circus bear to help out, but he has to teach him not just the ways of the wild, but the wiles of lady bears too.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-22
Popularity:
1987-09-18
Overview: Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
Popularity:
2020-11-27
Overview: The inspiring tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to live with the only family she knows: her homeless, mentally-ill veteran father who lives on the streets of LA's skid row.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-27
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1997-06-25
Overview: A cop finds that his wife and daughter are involved in a New Age cult when he returns home after eight months.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-25
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1995-05-12
Overview: After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsay insists that the Alabama must act aggressively, Hunter, fearing they will start rather than stop a disaster, leads a potential mutiny to stop him.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-12
Popularity:
2014-03-12
Overview: Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle, and must take to the skies to reclaim his military and personal honor.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-12
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2006-09-05
Overview: In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-05
Popularity:
2022-02-10
Overview: A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: leave her apartment.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-10
Popularity:
2021-04-17
Overview: Puscifer (Maynard James Keenan, Mat Mitchell, Carina Round) perform every song from the 2015 album Money Shot.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-17
Popularity:
2021-06-18
Overview: After a regrettable first sexual encounter, a straight-laced high school student and her slacker best friend have 24 hours to hunt down a Plan B pill in America's heartland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-18
Popularity:
2003-01-01
Overview: A supercharged, brilliant prosecutor leads a team of U.S. attorneys in the Eastern District of New York.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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