Sonny Shroyer
Biography: Sonny Shroyer was born in Valdosta, Georgia, a small city on the Georgia-Florida border. Shroyer, whose given name is Otis Burt Shroyer Jr., grew up steeped in the traditions of the deep South. He worked in the tobacco warehouses pushing tobacco buggies and helped his father in their fruit stand-ice cream parlor business. His prowess in high school football landed him a football scholarship at Florida State University (he later ended up playing football in the movie The Longest Yard (1974) with another FSU football player, Burt Reynolds). However, his football career was cut short by an injury, and Shroyer finished his education at the University of Georgia, where he earned his degree in business.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 28, 1935
Deathday: N/A
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A Love Song for Bobby Long
2004-09-02
A Love Song for Bobby Long
Overview: A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-02
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The Farmer
1977-03-08
The Farmer
Overview: Decorated soldier Kyle Martin returns home after WW2 to discover his family farm is in foreclosure. With only a silver star to his name, Kyle is in dire straits until gambler Johnny O' offers to give him money in exchange for killing a gangster.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-08
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Summer of My German Soldier
1978-10-30
Summer of My German Soldier
Overview: Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family and is unable to understand why her father can't seem to love her. Her town eventually becomes host to a prisoner of war camp. A young German soldier escapes from this camp, and Patty finds him hiding in her secret place in the woods outside of town. After getting to know him, she ends up harboring him from his captors and, in the way of many adolescents, falls in love with him. Patty knows what she is risking by helping him, but in his company, she feels important, special, and respected as she has never been. In the end, his regard lifts her self-esteem and helps her to face the heartbreaking events to come.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-30
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The Devil and Max Devlin
1981-03-06
The Devil and Max Devlin
Overview: When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to Hell. But the Devil Barney makes him an offer: if he manages to get three innocent youths to sell him their souls in the next two months, he may stay on Earth. Max accepts, and returns to Earth, equipped with special powers. However, his task is harder than expected, especially when seven year old Tobi demands that he marry his mother.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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The Way Home
2010-10-01
The Way Home
Overview: An inspirational true story about how a rural community rallied around a distraught family to search for their missing two year-old boy and through doing so changed the lives of many of those involved.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-01
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Payday
1973-09-22
Payday
Overview: Country singer Maury Dann lives life in the fast lane, counting on his rakish charm and raw talent to excuse his reckless behavior. Touring on the road in the rural south with his dedicated manager, his loyal driver and his long-suffering girlfriend, Maury seduces groupies, brawls and breaks the law, brashly relying on his team to cover for him. Heedlessly alienating all those who care for him, Maury blindly keeps the pedal to the metal.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-22
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The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
1997-04-25
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
Overview: Mama Josephine Max wants to build a theme park in Hazzard, right on the Duke family farm! To stop her, Bo and Luke have to win a cross-country moonshine race. Because that's how things get settled in Hazzard.
Genres: TV Movie Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-25
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The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
2000-06-05
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
Overview: The Duke Boys and company travel to Hollywood to sell some musical recordings in order to raise money to build a new hospital in Hazzard County. However, when their recordings and money are stolen, they wind up on the run from mysterious hitmen, sleazy record producers, Russian gangsters, and vicious loan sharks.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-05
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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
1978-12-01
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Overview: Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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The Longest Yard
1974-08-21
The Longest Yard
Overview: A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-21
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Santa's Magic Book
1996-12-15
Santa's Magic Book
Overview: Coots, an alligator, is cleaning his chimney the day after Christmas when Santa's book tumbles down. Coots seeks counsel from the Critters, a family of raccoons, on how to get the book back to its owner. Before the owner is located, Greasy Weasel and Balmy Bear snatch the book while Coots and the Critters are swimming in a lake. Then, Santa enters the picture and...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-15
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The Ernest Green Story
1993-01-17
The Ernest Green Story
Overview: Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-17
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Diggity: A Home at Last
2002-01-22
Diggity: A Home at Last
Overview: Raymond is the family black sheep, relying on handouts from his half-brother, Otis. He's lost his job, his apartment, and all his confidence until word comes that he has inherited an English countryside property. Otis gladly purchases a one-way ticket for the new "Lord of the Manor". Except Raymond discovers his inheritance is no manor house, but a small, crumbling stone church that's the center of a scheme by the village scrooge, Malcolm Slee, in his frantic search for a valuable chest of gold hidden in the village by King Charles at the end of the English Civil War. Raymond initially accepts Slee's offer to purchase the church, but has second thoughts when he learns from the local Bed & Breakfast owner Rachel that a family with children lives on the property. As Raymond and Rachel begin to bond, Raymond is singled out by a mysterious young orphan named Diggity, who believes that if he helps Raymond find his way in life, he will earn his wings as an angel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-22
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Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
1996-04-02
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
Overview: The biography of Jimmy Valvano, American sports reporter and basketball coach, who died of cancer in 1993.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-02
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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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Freedom Road
1979-10-29
Freedom Road
Overview: Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-29
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Wild America
1997-07-02
Wild America
Overview: Three brothers - Marshall, Marty and Mark dream of becoming naturalists and portraying animal life of America. One summer their dream comes true, they travel through America, filming alligators, bears and moose.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-02
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The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
2000-03-19
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
Overview: Georgia Potter, an old-fashioned widow who lives in a small Southern town, whose life changes drastically when her estranged daughter and the son-in-law she never met die in a car crash. When she visits her granddaughter Jacey in the hospital, she’s shocked to discover that she’s half black, but conceals her misgivings and decides to raise her by herself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-19
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Scattered Dreams
1993-12-19
Scattered Dreams
Overview: It is about a loving couple which trying to make a living in 1951 Florida. When they are arrested, for a crime they didn't commit. The pair are given long jail terms and ripped from their children, so they begin a stunning fight for justice that has them facing the ruthless sheriff responsible for their incarceration.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-19
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The Rainmaker
1997-11-18
The Rainmaker
Overview: When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-18
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Dead End
2016-01-01
Dead End
Overview: Friends embark on a cross country criminal spree that ends horribly. Reckless actions take them from being ruthless criminals to helpless victims, and survival comes in the form of a washed up Deputy Sheriff.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Paradise Falls
1997-11-01
Paradise Falls
Overview: When the family's North Carolina farm is about to be taken by the banks during the Depression era, two boys decide to start robbing banks and return the money to the people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-01
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The Rosa Parks Story
2002-02-24
The Rosa Parks Story
Overview: A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-24
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The Young Runaways
1978-05-28
The Young Runaways
Overview: Heartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyle, on a family vacation to Alaska, but dump their younger ones, Freddy & Margaret Jean, in a Los Angeles foster home. Infuriated by this, Rosebud talks Joseph T. into running away with her so that they can break their younger siblings out of the system, which sparks a manhunt, and an outburst of sympathy among kids everywhere.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-28
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976-04-22
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Overview: In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe that the boys are innocent and, against all advice from his friends and family, sets them free, which turns the entire community against him.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-22
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The Gingerbread Man
1998-01-23
The Gingerbread Man
Overview: A successful Savannah defense attorney gets romantically involved with a sexy, mysterious waitress troubled by psychopaths and dark family secrets.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-23
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Unconditional
2012-09-21
Unconditional
Overview: Samantha Crawford is living a storybook life: she’s happily married, she lives on a ranch where she keeps her beloved horse, and the stories she’s told and illustrated since childhood have become published books. When her husband Billy is killed in a senseless act of violence, Sam loses her faith and her will to live. But a death-defying encounter with two children leads to a reunion with Joe, her oldest friend. As Sam watches “Papa” Joe care for and love the kids in his under-resourced neighborhood, she begins to realize that no matter life’s circumstances, the love of God is always reaching out to us.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-21
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Gator
1976-08-25
Gator
Overview: After his release from prison, notorious ex-con and moonshine distiller Gator McKlusky moves in with his father in a cabin in the Okefenokee Swamp. His bootlegging plans are cut short, however, when a federal agent tells McKlusky that he will lose custody of his 9-year-old daughter unless he helps bring down local crime lord Bama McCall. McKlusky enlists the help of reporter Aggie Maybank and a few local eccentrics to bring down McCall's empire.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-25
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