Brittany Murphy
Biography: Brittany Anne Murphy-Monjack (née Bertolotti; November 10, 1977 – December 20, 2009) was an American actress and singer. Born in Atlanta, Murphy moved to Los Angeles as a teenager and pursued a career in acting. Her breakthrough role was as Tai Frasier in Clueless (1995), followed by supporting roles in independent films such as Freeway (1996) and Bongwater (1998). She made her stage debut in a Broadway production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge in 1997 before appearing as Daisy Randone in Girl, Interrupted (1999) and as Lisa Swenson in Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999). In the 2000s, Murphy appeared in Don't Say a Word (2001) alongside Michael Douglas, and alongside Eminem in 8 Mile (2002), for which she gained critical recognition. Her later roles included Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), Spun (2002), Just Married (2003), Uptown Girls (2003), Sin City (2005), and Happy Feet (2006). Murphy also voiced Luanne Platter on the animated television series King of the Hill (1997–2010). Her final film, Something Wicked, was released in April 2014. On December 20, 2009, Murphy died under disputed circumstances at the age of 32. The coroner's verdict was pneumonia, exacerbated by anemia and addiction to various prescription medicines. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brittany Murphy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: November 10, 1977
Deathday: December 20, 2009
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8 Mile
2002-11-08
8 Mile
Overview: For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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Sin City
2005-04-01
Sin City
Overview: Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-01
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Girl, Interrupted
1999-12-21
Girl, Interrupted
Overview: Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-21
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999-07-23
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Overview: In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-23
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MegaFault
2009-10-10
MegaFault
Overview: When miner Charley 'Boomer' Baxter sets off a series of massive mining detonations in West Virginia, a gigantic earthquake is soon rocking the North Atlantic, exposing a deep seismic fault that runs the length of the North American continent. Joining forces with government seismology expert Dr Amy Lane, Boomer must now race against time to stop the chasm that is threatening to tear America - and the entire world - in half.
Genres: TV Movie Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-10
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Riding in Cars with Boys
2001-10-19
Riding in Cars with Boys
Overview: In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-19
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Freeway
1996-08-23
Freeway
Overview: Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-23
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Across the Hall
2009-08-27
Across the Hall
Overview: Convinced that his fiancee is cheating on him, a man follows her to a hotel and calls his best friend to help him avoid a calamity.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-27
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Sidewalks of New York
2001-11-23
Sidewalks of New York
Overview: The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with scenes from the six characters' lives, the film weaves a humorous and biting commentary on the game of love -- easy to start, hard to finish.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-23
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Good Boy!
2003-10-10
Good Boy!
Overview: An intergalactic dog pilot from Sirius (the dog star), visits Earth to verify the rumors that dogs have failed to take over the planet.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-10
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Love and Other Disasters
2006-09-09
Love and Other Disasters
Overview: Flighty Emily "Jacks" Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her devoted ex-boyfriend, James Wildstone, and lives with Peter Simon, a gay screenwriter. When Jacks meets Argentinian photographer's assistant Paolo Sarmiento, she assumes he is gay and tries to bring him and Peter together, unaware that Paolo is straight and in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-09
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Neverwas
2005-09-09
Neverwas
Overview: Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L. Pierson, spent many years of his life.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-09
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The Devil's Arithmetic
1999-03-28
The Devil's Arithmetic
Overview: An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death camp in 1941. There she meets a young girl named Rivkah, a fellow captive in the camp. As Rivkah and Hannah struggle to survive in the face of daily atrocities, they form an unbreakable bond.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-28
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Trixie
2000-06-28
Trixie
Overview: Passed over at work and numbed after she witnesses a colleague's murder, security guard Trixie Zurbo takes a relatively easy job at a lakefront casino, working undercover keeping an eye out for pickpockets. Trixie meets an assortment of colorful regulars: Kirk Stans, the casino's lounge act who drinks too much and is a dead-on mimic; Ruby Pearli , a glamorous, young and knowledgeable barfly; and Dex Lang, a raffish ladies' man who pays attention to Trixie in a way that's hard for her to ignore.
Genres: Action Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-28
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Spun
2003-02-07
Spun
Overview: Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up with his old girlfriend, Amy.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-07
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Just Married
2003-01-08
Just Married
Overview: Although Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney come from different worlds, they are both unexpectedly swept off their feet after their first meeting. They quickly fall in love and plan to get married, despite opposition from Sarah's uptight, rich family. After their wedding, the happy couple sets off - with the highest of hopes and ideals about love and marriage - on what they expect will be the perfect honeymoon in Italy. Thanks to a relentless string of bad luck with one disaster after another, and an impromptu visit from Sarah's wealthy one-time ex-lover Peter Prentiss, the newlyweds experience the honeymoon from hell that tests the limits of their young love. Is it worth throwing away their love and marriage?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-08
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Don't Say a Word
2001-09-28
Don't Say a Word
Overview: When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he is horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a young woman, suffering from PTSD, who knows a secret six digit code number.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-28
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Deadline
2009-10-05
Deadline
Overview: A screenwriter travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-05
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Drive
1997-08-06
Drive
Overview: A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-06
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The Prophecy II
1998-01-20
The Prophecy II
Overview: In this direct-to-video sequel, Gabriel returns to try to destroy the human race he despises so much, with the help of a suicidal teen and the opposition of the angel Daniel.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-20
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Cherry Falls
2000-08-25
Cherry Falls
Overview: When students in the town of Cherry Falls hear that a serial killer is targeting virgins, they realize that the only way to protect themselves is to begin planning a "Pop Your Cherry" party.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-25
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Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
2008-06-30
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
Overview: Fresh off ripping space-time a new one at the end of "Bender's Big Score," the Planet Express crew is back to mend the tear in reality, or (hopefully) at least not make it worse. Beyond the tear, though, lurks a being of inconceivable...tentacularity. What will become of Earth, and indeed, our universe, when faced with the Beast with a Billion Backs?
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-30
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Summer Catch
2001-08-22
Summer Catch
Overview: Local boy Ryan Dunne, now a pitcher for Boston College, meets Tenley Parrish, the daughter of a wealthy couple who summer on the Cape. Ryan and Tenley fall in love, much to the chagrin of their families, while Ryan clings to one last hope of being discovered and signed to a pro baseball contract.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-22
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Clueless
1995-07-19
Clueless
Overview: Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-19
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Happy Feet
2006-11-16
Happy Feet
Overview: Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-16
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Phoenix
1998-09-04
Phoenix
Overview: Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their heads.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-04
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The Dead Girl
2006-11-07
The Dead Girl
Overview: The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-07
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Little Black Book
2004-08-06
Little Black Book
Overview: Determined to learn about her boyfriend's past relationships, Stacy -- who works for a talk show -- becomes a bona fide snoop. With her colleague, Barb, Stacy gets the names of Derek's ex-lovers and interviews them, supposedly for an upcoming show. But what she learns only adds to her confusion, and her plans begin to unravel when she befriends one of the women.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-06
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Bongwater
1998-04-18
Bongwater
Overview: David is an artist and a pothead. He's fallen in love with the beautiful and sexy Serena, and things are going simply splendidly until poor David's house burns down. Serena doesn't need the bad vibes, so she splits the scene and runs off to New York with rocker and junkie Tommy. Lonely David finally turns to the sweet, sweet comfort of marijuana and his strange menagerie of friends to forget about his lost home and love
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-18
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Nora Roberts' Tribute
2009-04-11
Nora Roberts' Tribute
Overview: A former child star buys her grandmother's house to rescue it from ruin but her hope for serenity is soon eclipsed by haunting dreams of her famous grandmother, who died of a supposed overdose in the house more than 30 years ago.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-11
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Uptown Girls
2003-08-15
Uptown Girls
Overview: Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored daughter of a music executive she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-15
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The Groomsmen
2006-06-09
The Groomsmen
Overview: Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with his groomsmen. Brother Jimbo, cousin Mike, and his pals fill the reunion with drinking, boys-will-be-boys antics and a few unexpected personal confessions. But, when the bonding devolves into accusations and regret, Paulie has to decide whether he's ready to tie the knot and take this big step into adulthood.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-09
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Abandoned
2010-08-24
Abandoned
Overview: Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-24
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The Ramen Girl
2008-02-08
The Ramen Girl
Overview: An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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Gone Before Her Time: Brittany Murphy
2023-04-19
Gone Before Her Time: Brittany Murphy
Overview: Scene-stealing starlet Brittany Murphy was destined for Hollywood’s A-list until her untimely and mysterious death turned out the lights on her lifelong dreams.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: eo
Release Date: 2023-04-19
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Common Ground
2000-01-29
Common Ground
Overview: This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy", a woman joins the Navy during the 1950's and discovers lesbianism. In "Mr. Roberts", a teacher in a 1970's classroom struggles with his closeted gay status. Finally in "Amos and Andy", a father wrestles with his own emotional acceptance of a present day wedding between his son and another man.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-29
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Falling Sky
1999-11-01
Falling Sky
Overview: Pulling up stakes for a fresh start in Las Vegas, aspiring singer Reese and daughter Emily are looking forward to the future with optimism. But mom's problem drinking and her struggles to pay the bills threaten the pair's plans for a better life. Frequently cast in the role of mothering her own mother, teenage Emily must learn to hold on to hope in this poignant coming-of-age drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-01
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David and Lisa
1998-11-01
David and Lisa
Overview: A psychiatrist tries to treat an emotionally disturbed teenage boy who has a pathological fear of being touched. The only person who can communicate emotionally with the young patient is a girl suffering from split personalities who speaks in rhymes and withdraws from anyone who refuses to do the same.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-11-01
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Zack and Reba
1998-11-01
Zack and Reba
Overview: Two young adults who are coping with the deaths of their partners try to move forward with their lives and start a relationship with each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-01
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The Making of '8 Mile'
2003-03-18
The Making of '8 Mile'
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-18
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Something Wicked
2014-04-04
Something Wicked
Overview: A young couple embark upon their honeymoon against the chilling landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. But when tragedy strikes, gruesome secrets from their past collide with sinister forces of the present...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-04
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Family Prayers
1993-03-19
Family Prayers
Overview: This coming of age story set in the 1960s takes a look at the effects of a couple's break-up on a sensitive, thirteen year old Jewish boy in the 1960s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-19
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Double Jeopardy
1996-01-30
Double Jeopardy
Overview: A naive 16 year old waitress falls for a corrupt, married police officer. When she falls pregnant, her lover plots her murder.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-30
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Angels!
2000-07-08
Angels!
Overview: Three glamorous "female" private investigators from an elite Los Angeles Detective agency are brought back to life after 25 years of slumber in a freeze drying chamber. Frozen by evil villains in 1977, the Angels are brought back to fight crime in the new millenium.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-08
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I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust
2005-05-05
I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust
Overview: Brings to life the diaries of young people who witnessed first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Through an emotional montage of archival footage, personal photos, and text from the diaries themselves, the film celebrates a group of brave, young writers who refused to quietly disappear.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-05
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Because of the Wonderful Things It Does: The Legacy of Oz
2005-10-25
Because of the Wonderful Things It Does: The Legacy of Oz
Overview: A featurette about The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-25
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Brittany Murphy: An ID Mystery
2020-05-26
Brittany Murphy: An ID Mystery
Overview: A new TV special from Investigation Discovery, “Brittany Murphy: An ID Mystery," will revisit the circumstances of her death. Murphy's husband, Simon Monjack, died at their home in 2010 just five months after the actress died.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-26
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The Audition
2000-12-09
The Audition
Overview: A woman’s unhealthy addiction towards Daniella, a young celebrity that she watched at an audition.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-09
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