Katherine Borowitz
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Birthday: July 05, 1954
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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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The Mother
1994-11-19
The Mother
Overview: Paddy Chayefsky's 1954 play set in the Bronx tells the story of a recently widowed 66-year-old woman who seeks a job after 40 years of being a homemaker.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-19
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Romance & Cigarettes
2005-09-13
Romance & Cigarettes
Overview: Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly younger woman, Tula, he starts an affair with her, much to the chagrin of his wife, and his life is thrown into upheaval. Kitty kicks Nick out of the house, and he is forced to make some difficult decisions.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-13
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Harry & Son
1984-03-02
Harry & Son
Overview: Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina as he does not approve of her husband. When Harry is fired from his job, his life changes drastically as he is made to focus on the relationships around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-02
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Illuminata
1998-05-21
Illuminata
Overview: It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's not finished, and intrigue starts that involves influential critic Bevalaqua, theatre star Celimene, young lead actors and other theatre residents
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-21
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Men Of Respect
1990-10-01
Men Of Respect
Overview: In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame on others. However, with power comes consequences that are also predicted by the seer.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-01
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Seize the Day
1986-09-09
Seize the Day
Overview: Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-09
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Two Thousand and None
2000-07-07
Two Thousand and None
Overview: A paleontologist is diagnosed with a fatal brain disease and, rather than falling into a depression, explodes into life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-07
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The Search for One-eye Jimmy
1994-11-09
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
Overview: While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a local resident and the strange characters who are conducting the search to find him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-09
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Quiz Show
1994-08-25
Quiz Show
Overview: Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.
Genres: History Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-25
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1-900-TONIGHT (Somewhere Tonight)
2011-07-08
1-900-TONIGHT (Somewhere Tonight)
Overview: 1-900-TONIGHT (Somewhere Tonight) is an urban fable that tells the story of two lonely New Yorkers trying to find companionship over an adult chat phone line. John Turturro plays Wooly, a simple, curiously odd bike messenger hoping to hear a bit of 'spicy' talk from Patti (Katherine Borowitz), an agoraphobic shut-in. Although each is not what the other hopes they will be, together they prove that wisps of enchantment can be found in even the most overlooked of hearts. And that hope takes on many unexpected shades. Inspired by slain Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh's 06. Written by Michael Di Jiacomo
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-08
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Secret Passage
2004-01-01
Secret Passage
Overview: Isabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews must either convert to Catholicism, go into exile or face trial and execution. Although forcibly baptized, the sisters are chased through Christendom until they arrive in Venice. It is in this great maritime empire, where opulence rhymes with tolerance, that Isabel organizes secret passages for refugees fleeing the Inquisition while Clara falls in love with a Venetian noble, Paolo Zane. Isabel intends for her family to go to Istanbul, the only place where Jews can live freely, but Clara is reluctant to leave. She challenges Isabel's authority and is prepared to break her family ties and sacrifice her faith for love. Caught in this battle of wills is Clara's daughter, Victoria, who finds she is about to be married into the same faith that murdered her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Fellow Traveller
1989-09-29
Fellow Traveller
Overview: In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept into Tinseltown, it drove one out of the country and the other to suicide.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-29
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Baby Boom
1987-10-07
Baby Boom
Overview: J.C. Wiatt is a talented and ambitious New York City career woman who is married to her job and working towards partner at her firm. She has a live-in relationship with Steven, a successful investment broker who, along with J.C., agreed children aren't part of the plan. J.C.'s life takes an unexpected turn when a distant relative dies and the will appoints her the caretaker of their baby girl, Elizabeth. The baby's sudden arrival causes Steven to leave, breaking off their relationship. Juggling power lunches and powdered formula, she is soon forced off the fast track by a conniving colleague and a bigoted boss. But she won't stay down for long. She'll prove to the world that a woman can have it all and on her own terms too!
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-07
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Internal Affairs
1990-01-12
Internal Affairs
Overview: Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-12
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A Serious Man
2009-10-02
A Serious Man
Overview: It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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Just Like in the Movies
1989-10-04
Just Like in the Movies
Overview: A divorced private eye keeps in touch with his son and spies on an actress who has jilted him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-04
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Mac
1992-09-17
Mac
Overview: Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers in 1950s Queens. Mac is a construction builder, a trade he learned from his late father, and helps put his brothers on the job. When they can no longer take working for Polowski, who does shoddy work and is abusive to his staff, Mac and his brothers set up their own company. Together, Vitelli Brothers Construction builds houses with pride and care. But Mac turns out to be an overbearing workaholic, with obsessive concern about the quality of their work and incredible attention to detail. His intensity and driven ambition precludes a happy family life and begins to drive his brothers away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-17
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The Man Who Wasn't There
2001-10-26
The Man Who Wasn't There
Overview: A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-26
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Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
2015-02-13
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Overview: Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status.
Genres: Romance Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-13
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