Alan Ruck
Biography: Alan Douglas Ruck (born July 1, 1956) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Cameron Frye in John Hughes's film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), as well as television roles as Stuart Bondek on the ABC sitcom Spin City (1996–2002) and Connor Roy on the HBO series Succession (2018–2023), the latter earning him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. His other film credits include Bad Boys (1983), Three Fugitives (1989), Young Guns II (1990), Speed (1994), and Twister (1996).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 01, 1956
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Star Trek: Generations
1994-11-18
Star Trek: Generations
Overview: Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-18
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Twister
1996-05-10
Twister
Overview: An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by Dr. Jo Harding, attempt to release a groundbreaking device that will allow them to track them and create a more advanced warning system. They are joined by Jo's soon to be ex-husband Bill, a former tornado chaser himself, and his girlfriend Melissa.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-10
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Speed
1994-06-09
Speed
Overview: Jack Traven, an LAPD cop on SWAT detail, and veteran SWAT officer Harry Temple thwart an extortionist-bomber's scheme for a $3 million ransom. As they corner the bomber, he flees and detonates a bomb vest, seemingly killing himself. Weeks later, Jack witnesses a mass transit city bus explode and nearby a pay phone rings. On the phone is that same bomber looking for vengeance and the money he's owed. He gives a personal challenge to Jack: a bomb is rigged on another city bus - if it slows down below 50 mph, it will explode - bad enough any day, but a nightmare in LA traffic. And that's just the beginning...
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-09
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Class
1983-07-22
Class
Overview: Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby Chicago, where he meets and beds the alluring Ellen, who unfortunately turns out to be Skip's mother. The division between the friends is further deepened when a cheating scandal engulfs the school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-22
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Three Fugitives
1989-01-27
Three Fugitives
Overview: On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank to raise money so that he can keep his daughter, Meg, and get her the treatment she needs. Dugan, a detective, assumes Lucas helped plan the robbery, and hence Lucas, Perry and Meg become three fugitives.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-27
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The Happening
2008-06-11
The Happening
Overview: When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliot Moore and his wife Alma flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister?
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-11
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Young Guns II
1990-08-01
Young Guns II
Overview: Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group of government agents led by Pat Garrett.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-01
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986-06-11
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Overview: After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-11
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Bad Boys
1983-03-25
Bad Boys
Overview: Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-25
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Don't You Forget About Me
2010-07-13
Don't You Forget About Me
Overview: Throughout the ’80s John Hughes defined the teen movie genre and spoke not only to that generation’s teens, but every generation that has followed. Then in 1991 he hung up his director’s hat and disappeared into obscurity ala J.D Salinger. In 2008, a group of young Canadian filmmakers set out to complete a documentary about the man with what they hoped would culminate with an interview, which would be his first since 1999.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-13
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Wind River: Rising
Wind River: Rising
Overview: Terror has escalated on the Wind River reservation as a series of ritualistic murders remain unsolved. The FBI therefore enlists the aid of Hanson, a newly minted tracker for the U.S. Fish & Game, who becomes embroiled in a desperate and dangerous fight between the authorities, a vigilante and the Reservation he calls home.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
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Eavesdrop
2008-08-01
Eavesdrop
Overview: Two chess players face off at a busy café, studying both the pieces on the board and the unfolding dramas at the neighboring tables. While a young couple fumbles through an uncomfortable blind date, a longtime marriage begins to crumble. Meanwhile, a pair of film noir fans suspect they're witnessing a real-life murder. This is an ensemble drama about conversations overheard in a bustling New York City bistro. With every whispered word, we gain a greater understanding of the big picture being formed all around us. From lovers' quarrels to artistic musings and hushed confessions, a crowded restaurant is the perfect place to discover just what strangers will say when they think no one else is listening.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-01
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I Love You, Beth Cooper
2009-07-10
I Love You, Beth Cooper
Overview: A valedictorian's declaration of love for a high-school cheerleader launches a night of revelry, reflection and romance for a group of graduating seniors.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-10
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989-11-03
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Overview: This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather live than die. In another story, Harriet's parrot is killed, and she has problems dealing with her loss. Then, there is a gambler, "Regret", who has bloodhounds on his trail when he becomes a murder suspect. Finally, "The Brain" is bleeding profusely, and his friends search for a way to save his life through a blood transfusion.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-03
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Shooter
1988-09-11
Shooter
Overview: "Shooter," aka Matt Thompson aka Gruwald is a photographer in 1967 Saigon, Vietnam. Working out of a news agency for a major magazine, Thompson gets involved in the lives of the soldiers he meets and "shoots." There's Ngoc, the Vietnamese photo lab tech; Klause, a German photographer swiping Buddhas; Rene, a French photographer who carries an AK-47; Stork, Matt's superstitious roommate who is also a photographer; Rizzo, the irascible editor; Lan, an American-educated Vietnamese reporter and Tracey an embassy worker who is Matt's former flame.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-11
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Shanghai Calling
2012-05-03
Shanghai Calling
Overview: When ambitious New York attorney Sam is sent to Shanghai on assignment, he immediately stumbles into a legal mess that could end his career. With the help of a beautiful relocation specialist, a well-connected old-timer, a clever journalist, and a street-smart legal assistant, Sam might just save his job, find romance, and learn to appreciate the beauty and wonders of Shanghai.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2012-05-03
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John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast
2012-11-06
John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast
Overview: A tribute to John Hughes, featuring an archive interview with him from 1986 and those that have worked with him, including Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Jon Cryer, Lea Thompson, as well as producers and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-06
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Three for the Road
1987-04-10
Three for the Road
Overview: A crafty political aide and his soft-spoken pal are assigned the job of delivering a senator's out-of-control teenage daughter to an institution.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-10
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The Burial
2023-10-06
The Burial
Overview: When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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Zombie Night
2013-10-08
Zombie Night
Overview: Zombies come out at night and two families must survive until morning.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-08
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First Steps
1985-03-19
First Steps
Overview: Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new research by Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, about using external electric stimulations to enable paralyzed people to use their frozen muscles. She enters the research as a test subject and gets her reward when she walks up to receive her college diploma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-19
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Interpersonal Exopolitics
Interpersonal Exopolitics
Overview: Mankind's relationship with Extraterrestrials, itself, and its vices are explored through sex, song & soda.
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Original Language: en
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Kickin' It Old Skool
2007-04-27
Kickin' It Old Skool
Overview: In 1986, a young breakdancer falls into a coma after hitting his head in a talent show. 20 years later, he awakens and attempts to revive his dance team's short-lived career in order to support his parents' failing yogurt shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-27
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Deathly
2015-08-30
Deathly
Overview: Following the tragic death of his wife, a man is unsettled by chilling events in their house.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-30
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Goodbye Baby
2007-03-12
Goodbye Baby
Overview: An ambitious young woman who can't afford to pay for college throws caution to the wind by moving to New York City and attempting to break into the toughest stand-up comedy circuit in the country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-12
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Carnage Park
2016-07-01
Carnage Park
Overview: Part crime caper gone awry, part survival horror film, this 1970s set thriller depicts a harrowing fight for survival after a pair of wannabe crooks botch a bank heist and flee into the desert, where they inexplicably stumble upon Carnage Park, a remote stretch of wilderness occupied by a psychotic ex-military sniper.
Genres: Action Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-01
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Born to Be Wild
1995-03-31
Born to Be Wild
Overview: Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventurous journey to get her out of the country.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-31
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Dreamland
2016-04-14
Dreamland
Overview: Part-time pianist Monty Fagan begins a May-December romance that upends his home life.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-14
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Star Trek: Of Gods and Men
2007-12-22
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men
Overview: It is the year 2306. Thirteen years have passed since Captain James T. Kirk was swept away by the Nexus, after saving the crew of the USS Enterprise-B. The remaining crew members of the original USS Enterprise have gone their separate ways. Captain Nyota Uhura and Captain Pavel Chekov, along with Captain John Harriman of the Enterprise-B, come together for a special dedication in honor of Kirk's Enterprise. Their reunion is cut short when they receive a distress call from a mysterious planet, that presses the three friends to embark on a mission that will change their lives forever.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-22
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Hard Knox
1984-08-04
Hard Knox
Overview: A retired fighter pilot becomes the head of his alma matter military high school for two weeks with hilarious consequences. He shapes up the school and raises morale so that they are able to win the "brass-axe" competition versus another local military academy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-04
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Everything Put Together
2001-11-02
Everything Put Together
Overview: In a quiet suburban community where everything is peaceful and in its place, a single crack has just appeared. Angie and Russ are a young married couple with a bright future. Angie is pregnant and expecting to join her circle of friends in happy motherhood, but fate has other plans.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-02
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War Machine
2017-05-26
War Machine
Overview: A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true story of General Stanley McChrystal.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-26
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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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Extraordinary Measures
2010-01-21
Extraordinary Measures
Overview: Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children are diagnosed with Pompe disease—a condition that prevents the body from breaking down sugar. With the support of his wife, John ditches his career and teams with unconventional specialist, Dr. Robert Stonehill to found a bio-tech company and develop a cure in time to save the lives of his children. As Dr. Stonehill works tirelessly to prove the theories that made him the black sheep of the medical community, a powerful bond is forged between the two unlikely allies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-21
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Crust
2024-09-13
Crust
Overview: A depressed has-been child actor and owner of a dingy laundromat, becomes powerfully vengeful when his collection of lone socks transforms into a protective, cute, murderous monster named Crust.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-13
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Five
2011-10-10
Five
Overview: An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-10
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Goats
2012-08-10
Goats
Overview: Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father has meant 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: a goat-trekking, marijuana-growing sage called 'Goat Man'. When Ellis decides to leave the alternative ways of his desert homestead for a stuffy East Coast prep school, major changes are in store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-10
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Gringo
2018-03-08
Gringo
Overview: An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-08
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Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
2018-09-07
Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
Overview: A case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl in high school and the biggest loser must come together to win over their crushes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-07
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Fixed
2018-02-13
Fixed
Overview: Allan is a married father of three whose sex life takes another hit when his wife can no longer take the pill. He soon finds himself with an appointment for a vasectomy and a nagging identity crisis. Although he is by all reasonable accounts a good, responsible man, the thought of getting "fixed" drives him to lose himself to an action-packed midlife crisis along with his best friends. Allan will refuse to grow up anymore.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-13
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Destroyer
2014-08-20
Destroyer
Overview: A desperate husband performs a last-ditch act of love to persuade his wife that there's still something left between them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-20
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Captive State
2019-03-15
Captive State
Overview: Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored. In a working-class Chicago neighborhood occupied by an alien force for nine years, increased surveillance and the restriction of civil rights have given rise to an authoritarian system -- and dissent among the populace.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-15
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Ghost Town
2008-09-19
Ghost Town
Overview: Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-19
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Inside Story: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2011-11-15
Inside Story: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Overview: An inside look at the making of the 1986 film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-15
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The Ransom of Red Chief
1998-01-01
The Ransom of Red Chief
Overview: Two hoboes strike on a get-rich quick scheme to kidnap an overly-energetic 9 year old son of a local banker. Based on the classic story by O. Henry.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Family TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Freaky
2020-11-12
Freaky
Overview: A mystical, ancient dagger causes a notorious serial killer to magically switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-12
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InAlienable
2008-01-19
InAlienable
Overview: Still guilt-ridden over the accident that took his family's lives, Eric Norris discovers that his body is host to a parasite from another world. Except, it is more than a parasite: it carries his DNA.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-19
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Who Is Ferris Bueller?
2006-01-10
Who Is Ferris Bueller?
Overview: A short documentary that looks at the qualities that define the title character in the classic film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," told through interview clips and film footage.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-10
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Close-Up
2011-06-07
Close-Up
Overview: told through the eyes of a failed Philadelphia actor who has succumbed to drug addiction. Our story follows him during the Holidays as he desperately tries to regain everything he has lost in his life; his wife and child, his job, and his pride, before it's too late. Over the course of one day on New Years Eve in New York City, a young vibrant woman, Freebird, shows him how to stand up, discover himself and move on with his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-07
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Cheaper by the Dozen
2003-12-24
Cheaper by the Dozen
Overview: The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands pull the parents away from home, leaving the kids bored -- and increasingly mischievous.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-24
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The Impostor
1984-11-08
The Impostor
Overview: After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When she rebuffs him, he fakes his past in order to get hired as the principal of the school where she teaches, in the hopes of winning her back. Cade soon begins to take a sincere interest in the welfare of his students, and enlists the help of his friend Matthew to break a drug-dealing network that has infested the school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-08
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My Dinner with Hervé
2018-10-20
My Dinner with Hervé
Overview: An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-20
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Walking to the Waterline
1998-06-13
Walking to the Waterline
Overview: Once a successful television sitcom star, Francis McGowan is now a struggling actor who returns to his family home on the Jersey Shore to sell it following his father's death. While there, he interacts with his agent Michael Woods, his childhood friend Duane Hopwood, and tour guide Lucy Bammer, with whom he drifts into a casual affair while his wife and children wait for him to return home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-13
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False Creek Stories
2010-10-23
False Creek Stories
Overview: This is False Creek, perhaps an insignificant point on a map. Its happenings won't splash across the front page of your morning newspaper, but the daily affairs of this little neighborhood are the main headlines to the people that live here. Their source for these stories is Bill, a wheelchair bound man with paraplegia who devotes his time and ambition to seek out those local chronicles that his neighbors so desire. But with Bill's responsibility to entertain comes certain jealousy from Igor, who thinks he's better suited for the job. And from Doug, who just craves the respect it brings. Today, dressed with a shirt he found in the free-box, and with hope in his heart, Doug sets out to gain that respect.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-23
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Doctor Detroit
1983-05-06
Doctor Detroit
Overview: A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-06
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People We Meet on Vacation
People We Meet on Vacation
Overview: Free-spirited Poppy and routine-loving Alex, who have been unlikely best friends for a decade, lives in different cities but spends every summer vacation together. The careful balance of their friendship is put to the test when they begin to question what has been obvious to everyone else—could they actually be the perfect romantic match?
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
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In Memoriam
In Memoriam
Overview: A veteran Hollywood actor becomes obsessed with securing a spot in the Oscars’ “In Memoriam” montage after he receives a terminal cancer diagnosis. This leads to a heartfelt journey of self-exploration as well as ego, humility, and legacy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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