Sam Anderson
Biography: Sam Anderson (born April 2, 1947) is an American actor. He is best known for his character roles such as Sam Gorpley on Perfect Strangers, Holland Manners on Angel, dentist Bernard Nadler on Lost, Happy Days-loving Doctor Harad who delivered Phoebe's triplets in Friends' 100th episode, and in film, as the principal in Forrest Gump.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 02, 1947
Deathday: N/A
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Critters 2
1988-04-29
Critters 2
Overview: Three bounty hunters from space fly back to the town of Grovers Bend, hoping to save local residents from a new batch of Critter eggs.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-29
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The Puppet Masters
1994-10-21
The Puppet Masters
Overview: The Earth is invaded by alien parasites—AKA 'slugs'—that ride on people's backs and control their minds.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-21
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The Independent
2000-11-10
The Independent
Overview: A notorious B-movie director tries for a comeback by seeking out the film rights to the life story of a serial killer who wants his biography film to be a musical.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-10
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Dark Angel
1990-01-26
Dark Angel
Overview: Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner gets killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene...
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-26
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Water for Elephants
2011-04-15
Water for Elephants
Overview: In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-15
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The Pentagon Wars
1998-02-28
The Pentagon Wars
Overview: From the director of “Made In America” and “The Money Pit” comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 years and almost as many billion dollars have gone into devising the BFV (Bradley Fighting Vehicle). There's only one problem. . . it doesn't work.
Genres: Comedy Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-28
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Devil's Due
2014-01-08
Devil's Due
Overview: An unexpected pregnancy takes a terrifying turn for newlyweds Zach and Samantha McCall.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-08
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Breaking the Girls
2013-07-26
Breaking the Girls
Overview: A naive college student loses a scholarship at the hands of a classmate and makes a pact with a mysterious friend to kill off each other's enemies.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-26
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What I Did for Love
1998-06-17
What I Did for Love
Overview: A man falls in love from afar with a woman who has just broken up acrimoniously with her husband and is disgusted with all men except her gay friends.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-17
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Sonic Impact
2000-11-14
Sonic Impact
Overview: A dangerous criminal hijacks a plane with his fellow prisoners and threatens to crash it into a populated area. The agent who captured him sets out to stop him.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-14
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The Swap
1979-10-12
The Swap
Overview: Vito gets out of jail after serving ten years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-12
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Where the Crawdads Sing
2022-07-14
Where the Crawdads Sing
Overview: Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instantly branded by the local townspeople and law enforcement as the prime suspect for his murder.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-14
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Dirty Habit
2006-07-29
Dirty Habit
Overview: A crack-addicted prostitute and a nun get stuck on an elevator. One is going to, one is coming from, a meeting with a killer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-29
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NetForce
1999-02-01
NetForce
Overview: Set in the year 2005, a division of the FBI, called "NetForce" has been initiated to investigate Internet crime. A Bill Gates-type character finds a loophole in his new web browser which enables him to gain control of the Internet. Net-Force, headed by Kristofferson and Bakula's characters set out to stop him.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-01
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Touched
2005-11-01
Touched
Overview: A romantic drama about a man who awakes from a coma without his sense of touch and the nurse who comes to his aid.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-01
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Perfect Game
2000-04-18
Perfect Game
Overview: An eleven-year-old boy finds a way of overcoming life's obstacles with the help of a grumpy coach who aids him in having the best summer of his life.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-18
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A Place To Be Loved
1993-04-04
A Place To Be Loved
Overview: Gregory Kingsley, a boy passed off onto social services by his natural mother and abused by his natural father, finds the foster family he is put into to be the type of family he needs and takes his natural mother to court to have her parental rights revoked so that he can be adopted by the Russes. The story is based on the real case of the boy who really did have to take this action to avoid being sent back into an unacceptable situation.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-04
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Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
1996-01-01
Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
Overview: Explores sexuality and censorship over a hundred years of motion pictures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Forrest Gump
1994-06-23
Forrest Gump
Overview: A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-23
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The Lift
2024-03-16
The Lift
Overview: Following the loss of his husband, a grief-stricken retiree finds renewed connection with a mysterious young woman who’s attempting to terminate a pregnancy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-16
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Song of Back and Neck
2018-04-23
Song of Back and Neck
Overview: A hapless man seeking treatment for his crippling back pain discovers a very unusual talent and unexpected love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-23
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Joe Dancer III: The Big Trade
1983-06-05
Joe Dancer III: The Big Trade
Overview: The last of Robert Blake's three "Joe Dancer movies" finds the private investigator framed for manslaughter as he tries to uncover a Hollywood scandal that could ruin a studio and destroy a top star's career.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-05
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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016-10-20
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Overview: In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-20
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Secret Santa
2003-12-14
Secret Santa
Overview: Newspaper reporter Rebecca Chandler, who feels she got no fair chance to prove her worth in her thee years career, looks forward to a Hawaian holiday with her fiancé Ryan, but instead of a ring he brings her- walking orders, he found better. So she accepts again to be the bachelor on duty in the Christmas season, and write the annual romantic non-news feel good-story, once more about the elusive Secret Santa in small-town Hamden, where the Christmas spirit it said to last all year. Bad luck follows her from Indianapolis: her car breaks down, she can only get lodgings in a home for the elderly without Internet, and nobody wants to help her unmask the secret Santa. Soon she guesses it must be the only rich philanthropist, but the popular Mr. John Martin Carter doesn't grant her an interview and isn't tricked either, in fact meets her at the worst repeatedly without her knowing him...
Genres: TV Movie Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-14
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La Bamba
1987-07-24
La Bamba
Overview: Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-24
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Permanent Midnight
1998-09-16
Permanent Midnight
Overview: Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-16
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3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom
2012-10-12
3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom
Overview: Frank Bartlett has been tortured, embarrassed, and humiliated by his brother Bruce — usually on film — his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. They are not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-12
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Do You Take This Man
2017-07-07
Do You Take This Man
Overview: When a gay couple's impending wedding hits a snag, the grooms must rely on their friends and family to see them through.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-07
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Slackers
2002-02-01
Slackers
Overview: Dave, Sam and Jeff are about to graduate from Holden University with honors in lying, cheating and scheming. The three roommates have proudly scammed their way through the last four years of college and now, during final exams, these big-men-on-campus are about to be busted by the most unlikely dude in school. Self-dubbed Cool Ethan, an ambitious nerd with a bad crush, enters their lives one day and everything begins to unravel.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-01
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Policewoman Centerfold
1983-10-17
Policewoman Centerfold
Overview: A policewoman loses her job after she poses naked for an erotic magazine. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-17
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The Man Next Door
1996-01-18
The Man Next Door
Overview: Residents of a small town struggle when a paroled rapist moves into the area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-18
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Movers & Shakers
1985-05-03
Movers & Shakers
Overview: Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman, a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane to help him create a movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-03
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Maybe Someday
2017-04-01
Maybe Someday
Overview: Hal Donnelly, a hopeless 20-something slacker, gets his life back on track with the help of a teenage girl claiming to be his daughter from the future
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-01
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Memoirs of an Invisible Man
1992-02-28
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Overview: After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-28
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The Tragedy of King Lear
1982-12-31
The Tragedy of King Lear
Overview: Mike Kellin as Lear.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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