Alice Drummond
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Birthday: May 21, 1928
Deathday: November 30, 2016
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Known For
Ghostbusters
1984-06-08
Ghostbusters
Overview: After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-08
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Pieces of April
2003-10-17
Pieces of April
Overview: Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her place for Thanksgiving. While her father struggles to drive her family into the city, April -- an inexperienced cook -- runs into kitchen trouble and must ask a neighbor for help.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-17
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In & Out
1997-09-10
In & Out
Overview: A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-10
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Awakenings
1990-12-04
Awakenings
Overview: Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-04
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Motherhood
2009-01-21
Motherhood
Overview: In Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off the event.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-21
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Nobody's Fool
1994-12-23
Nobody's Fool
Overview: A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wife. As his estranged son returns, he faces new family responsibilities, while a banker plots to evict him from his home.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-23
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The Love Letter
1999-05-21
The Love Letter
Overview: In the sleepy New England town of Loblolly By The Sea, a letter has arrived that is going to wake things up. It is a love letter - ardent, sensual... and unsigned. As the letter falls into different hands, residents of the small town to eye one another with renewed interest - wondering who it's for and who it's from. Determined to find the letter's author, Helen MacFarquhar begins a quest that will open her life to a new chapter involving two decidedly different men: George, an old friend from her past, and Johnny, a young man very much in her present. Unexpectedly, one mysterious love note has the power to unlock some startling secrets, leaving a trail of wonderful surprises as it turns an entire town upside down.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-21
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Just the Ticket
1998-02-01
Just the Ticket
Overview: Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't approve of his criminal lifestyle, though, and dumps him when she gets the opportunity to study cooking in Paris. Gary realizes that he has to give up scalping if he has any chance of winning her back. But before he does, he wants to cash out on one last big score. He gets his chance when the pope announces he'll be performing Easter Mass at Yankee Stadium.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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Mitch Albom's For One More Day
2007-12-09
Mitch Albom's For One More Day
Overview: While back in his hometown, a suicidal former baseball player encounters the spirit of his deceased mother, who takes him on a sentimental tour meant to restore his love of life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-09
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Funny Farm
1988-06-03
Funny Farm
Overview: Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-03
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Walking and Talking
1996-07-17
Walking and Talking
Overview: Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-17
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Chronic Town
2008-04-03
Chronic Town
Overview: Truman Korovin is a lonely, sharp-witted cab driver in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1980. The usual routine of picking up fares and spending his nights at his favorite bar, the Boatel, is disrupted when his girlfriend, Emily, dumps him on one of the coldest nights of the year. After an acid trip, Truman winds up in the local loony bin. Imprisoned in a grueling therapy group, Truman gets re-acquainted with loonies who are his old cab fares, which includes a local stripper he has insulted more than once. In this world, Truman must find or lose himself.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-03
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The Rising Place
2001-02-01
The Rising Place
Overview: The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-01
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Money, Power, Murder.
1989-12-10
Money, Power, Murder.
Overview: Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has interest in a missing anchorwoman's story.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-10
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Man on a Swing
1974-02-24
Man on a Swing
Overview: A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to the police, he suspects that the man may be more involved in the case than he lets on.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-24
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Furry Vengeance
2010-04-30
Furry Vengeance
Overview: When real estate developer Dan Sanders finalizes plans to level a swath of pristine Oregon forest to make way for a soulless housing subdivision, a band of woodland creatures rises up to throw a monkey wrench into the greedy scheme. Just how much mischief from the furry critters can the businessman take before he calls it quits?
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-30
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Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
2020-01-07
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
Overview: The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-07
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After.Life
2009-11-07
After.Life
Overview: Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-07
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You Can't Take it With You
1984-11-21
You Can't Take it With You
Overview: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-21
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Office Killer
1997-12-03
Office Killer
Overview: When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.
Genres: Horror Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-03
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Jeffrey
1995-08-18
Jeffrey
Overview: Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-18
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Running on Empty
1988-09-09
Running on Empty
Overview: The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-09
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Doubt
2008-12-12
Doubt
Overview: In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-12
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King of the Gypsies
1978-12-20
King of the Gypsies
Overview: Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Synecdoche, New York
2008-10-24
Synecdoche, New York
Overview: A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Eyewitness
1981-02-13
Eyewitness
Overview: NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. There's been a murder in the office building, and Tony suspects that Daryll may have insight into the crime, a notion that he furthers to stay close to her. However, when those behind the killing begin to think that he really knows something, they target the pair to keep their secrets hidden.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-13
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Til There Was You
1997-05-30
Til There Was You
Overview: Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-30
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Money for Nothing
1993-09-10
Money for Nothing
Overview: When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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Hide in Plain Sight
1980-03-21
Hide in Plain Sight
Overview: True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-21
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Commandments
1997-05-02
Commandments
Overview: Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world has been in turmoil. He is despondent, his career has fallen apart, even his house has been destroyed. There seems to be nothing left for him to live for. Confused and angry after two years of suffering, he finally directs his wrath at God from the rooftop of his apartment building in New York City. In the midst of a wild thunderstorm he demands to know why he has been betrayed by the god he has believed in and honored his whole life. God's answer is to strike down Seth's dog in a bolt of lightning. Pushed beyond his limits, Seth decides to respond to his years of torment by breaking each of the biblical Ten Commandments.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-02
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The Honeymooners
2005-06-10
The Honeymooners
Overview: Working class New York bus driver Ralph Kramden is always coming up with get-rich-quick schemes for him and his best friend, Ed Norton, who's always around to help him get in (and out of) trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-10
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I'll Take You There
1999-09-03
I'll Take You There
Overview: Still nursing wounds from a breakup, a woman is forced by her sister into a blind date that turns into a nightmare.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-03
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Daybreak
1993-05-08
Daybreak
Overview: When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death. But a gutsy rebel named Torch sets out to help the afflicted by leading an underground effort to spirit the victims to humane sanctuary.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-08
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Advice From a Caterpillar
1999-02-15
Advice From a Caterpillar
Overview: When it comes to romance, Missy's attitude has always been whatever. After all, her artistic career is flourishing, her spacious New York City loft is fabulous and her relationship with a married man is totally uncomplicated. But then Missy meets Brat, who's sweet, genuine and shares her fondness for 70's sitcoms. Unfortunately, he's also dating her pal Spaz. When Missy and Brat unexpectedly fall for each other, will she lose her identity... and her best friend?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-15
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Earthly Possessions
1999-03-20
Earthly Possessions
Overview: A bored homemaker planning to run away from her minister husband is taken hostage in a bank robbery. However, she sees the thrill in being involved in the chase and becomes an accomplice to the young robber.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-20
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Joe Gould's Secret
2000-01-21
Joe Gould's Secret
Overview: Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-21
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House of D
2005-04-29
House of D
Overview: In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-29
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Where’s Poppa?
1970-11-10
Where’s Poppa?
Overview: When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-10
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Nikki and Alexander
1989-01-01
Nikki and Alexander
Overview: Alexander is a run of the mill New Yorker who meets Nikki, a Russian homeless girl. He agrees to let Nikki spend the night but she ends up moving in....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Secret Service
1977-01-12
Secret Service
Overview: Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-12
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The Suicide Club
1988-05-21
The Suicide Club
Overview: A woman traumatized by her brother's suicide is inducted into a world of games involving murder.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-21
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994-02-04
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Overview: He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-04
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Particular Men
1972-04-15
Particular Men
Overview: A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows several government scientists as they develop the atomic bomb, grapple with the morality of their work, and confront major problems with their superiors. Written by award-winning playwright Loring Mandel, this riveting production stars Stacy Keach, Alice Drummond, Lois Smith, Clifton James and Verna Bloom.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-04-15
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
1990-05-03
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Overview: A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-03
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Sanctuary of Fear
1979-04-23
Sanctuary of Fear
Overview: A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-23
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Animal Behavior
1989-10-27
Animal Behavior
Overview: Biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees. Instead of using machines, she teaches the chimps simple sign language. Her research is overlooked by ignorant colleagues, but one man, Mark, a cellist, helps Alex with her research.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1995-09-07
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Overview: Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-07
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
1982-07-23
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Overview: When a big TV crusader Melvin P. Thorpe threatens to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal and close it down, Miss Mona doesn't go down without a fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-23
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The Dog Lover
1962-01-01
The Dog Lover
Overview: Jack is the fastidious manager of a local supermarket. The harmless but disruptive actions of his customers frequently give him headaches, which he remedies by holding a can of frozen juice against his forehead. At home, however, Jack is consistently kind, loving, and patient with his wife and daughter. One day the child brings home a stray dog, and his life is turned upside down.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Thieves
1977-02-11
Thieves
Overview: Martin and Sally Cramer grew up on the hardscrabble Lower East Side, where Sally still teaches; meanwhile, Martin's the head of a fancy private school. Romantic dalliances with others convince them that they're meant to be together despite their differences, a decision that's cemented, oddly enough, by an over-the-top argument that draws the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-11
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I.Q.
1994-12-24
I.Q.
Overview: Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-24
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