Amanda Peet
Biography: Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972) is an American actress, writer and producer. She began her career with small parts on television, and made her feature film debut in Animal Room (1995). Her portrayal of Jill St. Claire in The Whole Nine Yards (2000) brought her wider recognition, and she has since appeared in a variety of films, such as Saving Silverman (2001), High Crimes; Changing Lanes; Igby Goes Down (all 2002), Something's Gotta Give (2003), Identity (2003), Melinda and Melinda (2004), A Lot Like Love (2005), Syriana (2005), Battle for Terra (2007), Martian Child (2008), The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008), Please Give (2010), Gulliver's Travels (2010), The Way, Way Back (2013), Identity Thief (2013), and Trust Me (2013). On television, Peet starred as Jacqueline Barrett on The WB's Jack & Jill (1999–2001), as Tina Morris on HBO's Togetherness (2015–2016), as Jules on IFC's Brockmire (2016–2020), and as Betty Broderick on the second season of Dirty John in 2020. She wrote and co-executive produced the Netflix series The Chair that was released in 2021. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amanda Peet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: January 11, 1972
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Syriana
2005-11-23
Syriana
Overview: The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-23
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The Whole Nine Yards
2000-02-18
The Whole Nine Yards
Overview: After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a couple of his new neighbours figure out his true identity and come knocking to see if he'd be up for one more hit—suburban style.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-18
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The Whole Ten Yards
2004-04-07
The Whole Ten Yards
Overview: Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past unexpectedly shows up on Jimmy and Jill's doorstep; it's Oz, and he's begging them to help him rescue his wife, Cynthia.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-07
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Playing by Heart
1998-12-30
Playing by Heart
Overview: In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak in L.A., where passions collide and truths unfold, revealing that the heart's desires often lead us where we least expect.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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Takedown
2000-03-15
Takedown
Overview: Kevin Mitnick is quite possibly the best hacker in the world. Hunting for more and more information, seeking more and more cyber-trophies every day, he constantly looks for bigger challenges. When he breaks into the computer of a security expert and an ex-hacker, he finds one - and much more than that...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-15
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Identity
2003-04-25
Identity
Overview: Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-25
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$5 a Day
2008-09-06
$5 a Day
Overview: After being released from jail, the son of a con man joins his father on the road.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-06
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Saving Silverman
2001-02-09
Saving Silverman
Overview: A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up their Neil Diamond cover band.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-09
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Martian Child
2007-11-02
Martian Child
Overview: A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-02
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Animal Room
1995-01-01
Animal Room
Overview: Cynical and intelligent Arnold Mosk, a known drug user, is put into a disciplinary program at his high school meant for the seriously disturbed where he becomes the main target of the psychopathic Doug Van Housen and his gang.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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High Crimes
2002-04-05
High Crimes
Overview: A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-05
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One Fine Day
1996-12-20
One Fine Day
Overview: Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other, but end up needing to rely on each other to watch the children as each must save his job. Humor is added by Sammy's propensity for lodging objects in his nose and Maggie's tendency to wander.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-20
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Something's Gotta Give
2003-12-12
Something's Gotta Give
Overview: When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also plans to stay for the weekend. Erica is scandalized by the relationship and Harry's sexist ways. But when Harry has a heart attack while there, and the doctor prescribes bedrest, his only option is to stay at the Barry home. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-12
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Whipped
2000-09-01
Whipped
Overview: Three to one may sound like fairly good odds, but it depends on the game. When the "one" is one very irresistible woman and the "three" are three hopelessly smitten guys, the deck is pretty stacked. In the battle of the sexes, the first rule is to never underestimate the power of a woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-01
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Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
2010-09-17
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
Overview: Dave, a young photon, who is forced out of the Sun on a journey of discovery. He must get to the Cassini Space Craft and save it from the forces of the Void, only Dave does not know exactly what he must do or even where the Cassini Space craft is or what it is. The forces of the Void must destroy Cassini before it sends its great discoveries back to Earth and Dave is the only thing that stands between them and victory.
Genres: Family Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-17
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The X Files: I Want to Believe
2008-07-24
The X Files: I Want to Believe
Overview: Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-24
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A Lot Like Love
2005-04-21
A Lot Like Love
Overview: On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-21
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Igby Goes Down
2002-09-13
Igby Goes Down
Overview: Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-13
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Melinda and Melinda
2004-12-22
Melinda and Melinda
Overview: While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-22
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The Ex
2006-12-01
The Ex
Overview: When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to adjust to the demands of a very high-powered job, and he finds himself in an increasingly hostile office rivalry with Chip, Sofia's paraplegic former lover.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-01
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Please Give
2010-04-30
Please Give
Overview: In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-30
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2012
2009-10-10
2012
Overview: Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-10
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Body Shots
1999-10-07
Body Shots
Overview: The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of possibilities, eight 20-somethings take to the clubs seeking good times, companionship and maybe a little sex. But in the harsh light of the morning after, their worlds are thrown into a spin of confusion when hungover Sara accuses hard-partying Mike of date rape. Loyalties are tested as each among them is forced to take sides.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-07
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Griffin & Phoenix
2006-09-12
Griffin & Phoenix
Overview: A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-12
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What Doesn't Kill You
2008-12-12
What Doesn't Kill You
Overview: Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-12
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Gulliver's Travels
2010-12-23
Gulliver's Travels
Overview: Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-23
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Battle for Terra
2007-09-06
Battle for Terra
Overview: A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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Two Ninas
2000-12-01
Two Ninas
Overview: After a long lonely period of involuntary celibacy, Marty Sachs decides that he has had enough of New York and wants to pack up and run the family business in Maine. Yet before he leaves, he meets two available, attractive women, both named Nina. Nina Cohen shares many of the same eccentric interests as Marty, but she has grow gun-shy from one too many bad relationships. Blonde bombshell Nina Harris literally knocks Marty off his feet in an ill-fated attempt at snagging a cab.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-01
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Southie
1998-06-10
Southie
Overview: South Boston Irish bad boy Danny Quinn returns back home from New York and gets stuck between his pals, who are supported by one Irish mafia clan, and his family, which are members of another.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-10
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Isn't She Great
2000-01-28
Isn't She Great
Overview: An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann, the famed writer of "The Valley of the Dolls" and other trashy novels. Facing a failing career, Susann meets a successful promoter who becomes her husband. After several failures to place her in commercials and a TV quiz show, he hits upon the idea for her to become a writer. In the pre-1960s, her books were looked upon as trash and non-printable. But then the sexual revolution hit and an audience was born for her books. The story shows the hidden behind-the-scenes story of Susann's life, including her autistic son and her continuing bout with cancer which she hid up until her death.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-28
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Identity Thief
2013-02-07
Identity Thief
Overview: When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-07
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Whatever We Do
2003-01-16
Whatever We Do
Overview: Twenty margaritas and 10 shots of tequila, with a few ounces of debauchery, bring four friends closer to the truth than they have been for years.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-16
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The Way Way Back
2013-06-06
The Way Way Back
Overview: Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-06
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Grind
1997-04-11
Grind
Overview: When a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his brother in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh start in life, he's sure to be warm for the form of his brother's bored young wife. Things only get worse when he tries to turn a quick buck in a one-time insurance fraud operation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-11
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Trust Me
2013-04-20
Trust Me
Overview: In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holloway must contend with her volatile father, a scheming long-time rival, and a producer and casting director who despise him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-20
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Uta Hagen's Acting Class
2004-04-06
Uta Hagen's Acting Class
Overview: Uta Hagen comments on acting
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-06
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She's the One
1996-08-26
She's the One
Overview: Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fiance Heather is Francis's secret love. Though both brothers have beautiful wives, Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-26
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Touch Me
1997-09-05
Touch Me
Overview: Bridgette is an aspiring actress who teaches aerobics at a local gym that's run by the womanizing Adam. After a tryst with Adam, Bridgette scores a role in a big play, but then learns that a former boyfriend is dying of AIDS. While preparing to get tested, Bridgette suspects Adam of cheating on her, and must face the HIV tests alone, which shockingly come back positive. Building a support network, including a penitent Adam, Bridgette faces her own mortality.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-05
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Sleeping with Other People
2015-06-26
Sleeping with Other People
Overview: Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-26
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Changing Lanes
2002-04-07
Changing Lanes
Overview: A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two complete strangers into vicious adversaries. Their means of destroying each other might be different, but their goals, ultimately, will be the same: Each will systematically try to dismantle the other's life in a reckless effort to reclaim something he has lost.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-07
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Jump
1999-04-17
Jump
Overview: Friends try to dissuade a suicidal man from jumping off a ledge, but they are not much better off than he is.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-17
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The Atheist Delusion
2016-09-30
The Atheist Delusion
Overview: Having to prove the existence of God to an atheist is like having to prove the existence of the sun, at noon on a clear day. Yet millions are embracing the foolishness of atheism. “The Atheist Delusion” pulls back the curtain and reveals what is going on in the mind of those who deny the obvious. It introduces you to a number of atheists who you will follow as they go where the evidence leads, find a roadblock, and enter into a place of honesty that is rarely seen on film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-30
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1999
1997-09-01
1999
Overview: On New Year's Eve 1999, as a group of neurotic characters gather at a Greenwich Village apartment, everyone struggles to come to terms with their identities, relationships, and self-doubts before the millennium turns.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-01
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Simply Irresistible
1999-02-05
Simply Irresistible
Overview: After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredients, she is given a magical crab by mysterious Gene O'Reilly. Afterward, Amanda's dishes suddenly become excellent, inducing strong emotional reactions in everyone who eats them. Tom Bartlett, who is preparing to open his own eatery, tries her cooking and falls in love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-05
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The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016-03-08
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
Overview: Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insights, questions, and anecdotes about the place of women in Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-08
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Origin of the Species
1998-01-01
Origin of the Species
Overview: A weekend in a summer house, where six late twenties friends have reunited. A series of life crises force them to confront their relationships and lives, leading them to discover what it really means to grow up.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Ellen Foster
1998-12-02
Ellen Foster
Overview: After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-02
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2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010-03-02
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
Overview: This documentary features the 2012 film's cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the famed Disaster movie director (i.e. Roland Emmerich.)
Genres: Documentary Action Drama Thriller Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-02
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The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010-03-02
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
Overview: A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the project.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-02
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Finishing The Novel
1997-01-01
Finishing The Novel
Overview: Short film by David Wain, with Amanda Peet
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Zoe Loses It
2000-01-01
Zoe Loses It
Overview: A woman has a phone conversation with her friend recounting her nighttime adventure to discover why a man has not called after their first date.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Fantasy Life
2025-03-08
Fantasy Life
Overview: After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist's three granddaughters. The girls' mother, Dianne, is an actor whose once-promising career has stalled; she's in a difficult marriage to David, a rock bassist. When David goes abroad on tour, Dianne and Sam discover an easy rapport as well as a shared history of mental illness. Sam joins Dianne's family to babysit for the summer on Martha's Vineyard, and he ends up in a house with the woman he pines for, her husband, the three kids, and all four grandparents, including his psychiatrist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-08
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