James Lorinz
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. James Lorinz (born May 22, 1964) is an American writer/director/actor whose most famous roles include Street Trash, Frankenhooker and The Jerky Boys. He has also had smaller parts in Last Exit to Brooklyn, Robocop 3 and King of New York. Lorinz was born in Flushing, Queens, close to Shea Stadium and the 1968 World's Fair Grounds. Lorinz worked as a dispatcher at his father's short-lived car service company while a student at School of Visual Arts in New York City. While still a film student and aspiring writer, James became close friends with author Pete Hamill. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Lorinz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: May 22, 1964
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RoboCop 3
1993-01-21
RoboCop 3
Overview: The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of the area have no intention of abandoning their homes simply for desires of the company. To this end, OCP have decided to force them to leave by employing a ruthless mercenary army to attack and harass them. An underground resistance begins and in this fight, RoboCop must decide where his loyalties lie.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-21
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Street Trash
1987-02-22
Street Trash
Overview: A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor and the killer.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-22
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Frankenhooker
1990-06-01
Frankenhooker
Overview: A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel room so he can collect body parts to reassemble her.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-01
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The Last Big Thing
1998-09-23
The Last Big Thing
Overview: From a bland tract house on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Simon Geist (with occasional help from his platonic girlfriend Darla) wages war against all of modern American popular culture. Geist starts up a magazine called "The Next Big Thing", which he uses to confront and insult upcoming actors, comics, models and rock bands. As Geist's mysterious Underground Agenda escalates, will he become the "last big thing", or be co-opted by the very forces he is railing against? Written by Van Film Fest
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-23
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Who Do I Gotta Kill?
1994-09-23
Who Do I Gotta Kill?
Overview: A struggling writer takes a job for his mobster uncle in order to obtain first-hand material for a book on conspiracy plots and the JFK assassination. They often say that a good writer lives what he writes, but what happens when the life that the writer is living could likely get him killed?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-23
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Love Bomb
2024-11-08
Love Bomb
Overview: A mysterious dating app designed for one night stands brings three strangers together with deadly consequences.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-08
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The Overnight
2022-06-03
The Overnight
Overview: After a romantic weekend gets sidetracked, a young couple find themselves at an outdated hotel, caught up in murderous death-loops, and as bait for a demon.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-03
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Punch the Clock
1989-05-12
Punch the Clock
Overview: She's a world class car thief. He's a bail interviewer. When they met, danger fired their passion. When they fell in love it was a matter of life and death.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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Bridge of Spies
2015-10-15
Bridge of Spies
Overview: During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-15
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Your Date's on a Plate: The Making of Frankenhooker
2012-01-02
Your Date's on a Plate: The Making of Frankenhooker
Overview: Director Frank Henenlotter, actor James Lorinz and special effects wizard Gabe Bartalos speak about the making of the cult classic Frankenhooker. Released on the Arrow Video Blu Ray edition of Frankenhooker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-02
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Swirlee
1989-02-06
Swirlee
Overview: Tells the story of Mr. Softee, a mutant hybrid with an ice cream cone for a head, who was the victim of the anti-miscarriage drug "Nodroppinum" which changed the pregnant mother's child into whatever food she craved at the time (a parody of the Thyladimide scandal from the 60s.) Softee was the head of an ice cream company, until he was forced out of business by the artificial ice cream mafia, led by Don Tofutti.
Genres: Comedy Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-06
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The Jerky Boys
1995-02-03
The Jerky Boys
Overview: When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the "Jerky Boys" of crank call fame) are wanted by the local mafia, the police, and their neighbor.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-03
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Red Lipstick
2000-02-16
Red Lipstick
Overview: Incorporating the manic approach of The Monkees and the camp aesthetic of the 60s Batman TV series, this heist movie in drag is a laugh-riot from wigs to stilettos. Starring, Hedda Lettuce and Miss Understood as a pair of none-too-glam dragqueens, down on their luck and living the low life in New York City circa 1992. A not particularly bright scheme to reinvent themselves as Bonnie and Bunny, bank robbers in daring frocks, rockets them to fame and finally gives them enough cash to hire a posh, Eastern European, interior decorator, specializing in rococo. But all is not feather boas and sequins. The envy of Brenda, bitchy Morticia Adams clone, and Violet, a whip-wielding dominatrix, scheme to ruin the party.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-16
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King of New York
1990-07-18
King of New York
Overview: A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-18
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The Transfiguration
2016-04-14
The Transfiguration
Overview: When troubled teen Milo, who has a fascination with vampire lore, meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to blur Milo's fantasy into reality.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-14
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
1989-07-26
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Overview: A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-26
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The Irishman
2019-11-01
The Irishman
Overview: Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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Mr. Wonderful
1993-10-15
Mr. Wonderful
Overview: Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfil a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends, but first he must find his ex-wife a new husband so he can stop paying alimony.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-15
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The Sweet Life
2003-04-24
The Sweet Life
Overview: Sensitive but unsuccessful New York magazine columnist Michael (James Lorinz King of New York, Frankenhooker) looks on with hopeless envy as his self-confident, shallow brother Frankie catches all the women, makes all the money and never feels a pang of remorse at his amoral behavior. Enter Lila (Barbara Sicuranza), a tough, sexy bartender. Initially Frankie's got her, and Michael gets fixed up with her biker chick roommate (Joan Jett, of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts). Then, through a twist of fate, Michael finds himself vying with Frankie for Lila's affections, and the results are both riotously funny and touching. Filmmakers Roy Frumkes and Rocco Simonelli (writers of the cult hit The Substitute) have created a romantic comedy... for people who hate romantic comedies!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-24
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