William Hickey
Biography: William Edward Hickey (September 19, 1927 – June 29, 1997) was an American actor. He was best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston 1985 film Prizzi's Honor, as well as the voice of Dr. Finklestein in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 19, 1927
Deathday: June 29, 1997
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Prizzi's Honor
1985-06-14
Prizzi's Honor
Overview: Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sight. But he soon finds that she, too, is a killer for hire. Charley can overlook his suspicions, but he can't turn off his heart. And the couple must remember that even if they love each other, the Prizzis love only money.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-14
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Pink Cadillac
1989-05-26
Pink Cadillac
Overview: A bounty hunter helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-26
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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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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
1989-11-30
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Overview: It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going, knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-30
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Sea of Love
1989-09-15
Sea of Love
Overview: Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993-10-09
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Overview: Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-09
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Puppet Master
1989-10-12
Puppet Master
Overview: Alex Whitaker and three other gifted psychics investigate rumors that the secret of life has been discovered by master puppeteer, Andre Toulon, in the form of five killer puppets uniquely qualified for murder and mayhem.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-12
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The Boston Strangler
1968-10-08
The Boston Strangler
Overview: Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-08
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A Hatful of Rain
1957-07-17
A Hatful of Rain
Overview: A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-17
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The Sentinel
1977-01-07
The Sentinel
Overview: As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building that houses a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants. After experiencing a string of disturbing occurrences, she attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.
Genres: Horror Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-07
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One Crazy Summer
1986-08-08
One Crazy Summer
Overview: An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-08
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June
1971-12-09
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Overview: A hunter back from years in the Amazon finds his wife and life changed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-09
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The Runestone
1991-02-01
The Runestone
Overview: A New York detective takes the case of a bulletproof monster sprung to life from Viking legend.
Genres: Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-01
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Love Is All There Is
1996-05-10
Love Is All There Is
Overview: The Malacicis, a hard-working Italian family recently immigrated from Florence, open a fancy restaurant in the Bronx, N.Y., drawing the ire of another clan. Mike and Sadie Capomezzo, equally hard-working Sicilian caterers from the area, find they cannot stand Piero and Maria Malacici. But things get complicated when the Malacicis' daughter, Gina, and the Capomezzos' son, Rosario, fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-10
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Mob Boss
1990-09-16
Mob Boss
Overview: A nerd becomes the head of his father's crime family.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-16
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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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The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999-01-01
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
Overview: This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his demons and obsessions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Nunzio
1978-05-10
Nunzio
Overview: A mentally-challenged delivery boy indulges in fantasies that he is a superhero in the tough streets of Brooklyn. He lives a life marked with torments from the gang of deadbeats at the corner, overbearing concern from his mother and older brother, and general confusion about women and his burgeoning desires for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-10
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Da
1988-04-29
Da
Overview: A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father. While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-29
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Hairway to the Stars
1989-01-01
Hairway to the Stars
Overview: The arms race goes to the beauty parlor with Bette Davis in The Letter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror
2022-12-30
Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror
Overview: Full Moon's Carnage Collection is here. In the first stunning installment of this ongoing series, we open a "Trunk Full of Terror" and unleash the NASTIEST and GNARLIEST moments from our iconic Puppet Master film franchise. See Blade, Torch, Jester and the rest of the gang maim, mutilate and massacre every unlucky victim that dares cross their path. You wanted carnage? You got it.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-30
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Better Than Ever
1997-01-01
Better Than Ever
Overview: Walter and Hume, roommates in a veterans home, are complete opposites. Walter is a sarcastic wise mouth who loves to speak his mind. Hume is meticulous and quiet but loves to wind Walter up. Tired of being poked, prodded, and placated with pills by the nursing staff, the two escape. Determined to end their lives in quiet dignity, they load their weapons and hail a cab to a remote wooded area.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Between Time and Timbuktu
1972-03-13
Between Time and Timbuktu
Overview: A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-13
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Mikey and Nicky
1976-12-21
Mikey and Nicky
Overview: Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Desperate and terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-21
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Little Big Man
1970-12-23
Little Big Man
Overview: Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
Genres: Adventure Western Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-23
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Operation Mad Ball
1957-08-17
Operation Mad Ball
Overview: In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-17
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The Producers
1968-03-18
The Producers
Overview: Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming wealthy old biddies to invest in a production many times over the actual cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-18
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Hey Stranger
1994-01-01
Hey Stranger
Overview: An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find themselves caught up way over their heads in a dirty political and financial affair, an art smuggling case that touches them merely for the fact that it may separate them, be it through death or exile.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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A Stranger Is Watching
1982-10-28
A Stranger Is Watching
Overview: A twisted man holds a TV newswoman and a girl hostage in the bowels of Grand Central Station.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-28
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Izzy & Moe
1985-09-23
Izzy & Moe
Overview: The adventures of two retired vaudeville performers who become two of the best prohibition agents in the 1920's.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-23
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Wise Blood
1979-10-24
Wise Blood
Overview: A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-24
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My Blue Heaven
1990-08-17
My Blue Heaven
Overview: FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-17
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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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MouseHunt
1997-12-19
MouseHunt
Overview: Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is worth millions. Before they can cash in, they have to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant—a tiny and tenacious mouse.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-19
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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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A New Leaf
1971-03-11
A New Leaf
Overview: After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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Stranded
1986-09-22
Stranded
Overview: Loni Anderson and Perry King are stranded on a desert island.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-22
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Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
1961-10-23
Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
Overview: In 1879, the American Indian lived under severe handicaps: having no legal status as a human being and with the requirement to stay on reservations. Defying the law, Ponca Chief Standing Bear leads his people off their disease-ridden reservation. Though they're captured, the Poncas are given three days to find a lawyer and find a legal way to become their own people once again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-23
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Any Man's Death
1990-05-10
Any Man's Death
Overview: When a photo-journalist vanishes while covering an African civil war, a roll of film holds the only clues to his disappearance. Following the trail found in the photos, a veteran reporter finds himself in the middle of events as they escalate into war, leaving him with two deadly and disastrous options...
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-10
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The Telephone Book
1971-10-03
The Telephone Book
Overview: A sexually voracious young woman receives a dirty phone call from a stranger; so satisfied by the experience, she sets out to find him somewhere in New York City.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-03
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The Name of the Rose
1986-09-24
The Name of the Rose
Overview: 14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence – which is considerable.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-24
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92 in the Shade
1975-08-22
92 in the Shade
Overview: A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-22
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It Had to Be You
1989-10-27
It Had to Be You
Overview: A has-been actress lures a TV commercial director to her apartment to seduce him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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Sons
1990-01-01
Sons
Overview: A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre
2018-09-26
Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre
Overview: In an unknown dystopian future, a drifter with an unusually high tolerance to pain is held captive in a horrific hospital by The Circle of Psycho Surgeons, a clandestine crew of medical deviants experimenting with human suffering. Suddenly, our shackled hero hears the call of "The Gore Collector," a sadistic curator of carnage who is well past his prime and now seeks an heir to take over his evil operation. Escaping from the lurid lab, the drifter enters the underground lair of The Gore Collector and there, the perverse programmer pops in a vile videotape and begins the process of trying to warp the man's mind with the goriest moments from Full Moon's most iconic film franchise.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-26
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Tales from the Crypt Volume 3
1990-06-10
Tales from the Crypt Volume 3
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-10
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Androcles and the Lion
1967-11-15
Androcles and the Lion
Overview: The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-15
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Knocking on Death's Door
1999-03-01
Knocking on Death's Door
Overview: In a New England village, two newlywed students of the paranormal enter Hillside House to document the activities of a legion of ghosts. They uncover a murderous history that leads them into the clutches of a mysterious doctor.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-01
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The Maddening
1996-06-18
The Maddening
Overview: David and Cassie Osborne have an argument one night. So the next morning after David goes to work, Cassie runs off to her sister's house for a few days with their daughter Samantha. Only they never get there. David starts looking for them, and her sister, Joanne, thinks David had something to do with their disappearance, and calls the police. Actually Samantha and Cassie are with Roy and Georgina Scudder, and their daughter Jill. Roy picked them up after their car broke down. The only problem is, the Scudders, who seem a little odd at first, won't let them leave or call anyone.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-18
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
1985-10-11
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Overview: An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S. President.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-11
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Major Payne
1995-03-24
Major Payne
Overview: Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin' machine, but the wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield. A career Marine, he has no idea what to do as a civilian, so his commander finds him a job - commanding officer of a local school's JROTC program, a bunch of ragtag losers with no hope.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-24
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Forget Paris
1995-05-19
Forget Paris
Overview: Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-19
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Puppet Master: The Legacy
2003-12-16
Puppet Master: The Legacy
Overview: A rogue agent named Maclain breaks into the lab of Eric Weiss, who has spent his entire life fascinated by Andre Toulon's supernatural ability to breathe life into his carefully crafted figurines.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-16
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Puppet Master : Axis of Evil
2010-01-15
Puppet Master : Axis of Evil
Overview: Following the murder of Andre Toulon by Nazi assassins during the height of World War II, a young Danny Coogan finds his crate of mysterious puppets, and discovers their plan to attack a secret American manufacturing plant.
Genres: Horror Fantasy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-15
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A Hobo's Christmas
1987-10-20
A Hobo's Christmas
Overview: A hobo played by Barnard Hughes decides it's time to go home. Drifting from place to place, Hughes finds himself in his hometown of Salt Lake City at Christmas time. Here he hopes to close old wounds and be reunited with his unforgiving son played by Gerald McRaney, and get to know the grandchildren he has never met. McRaney, still resenting the fact that Hughes ran out on his family 25 years earlier, gives his father only one day with his grandkids; after that, he's expected to leave and never come back. All the while Hughes' friends warn him that his son and the past are memories that are best left alone, and should leave, but he has to find out for himself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-20
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