Stanley DeSantis
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Stanley DeSantis (July 6 1953 – August 16, 2005) was an American actor and businessman. He appeared in 15 motion pictures, the last of which being The Aviator, in which he portrayed Louis B. Mayer. He also made many television appearances. His passing was credited in a dedication for the season two finale of Entourage, in which had guest starred. When not acting, DeSantis owned and managed a clothing-and-memorabilia business, Passing 4 Sane, and a novelty soap company, Bubbletown, both of which were primarily involved in the licensed characters. He died in 2005 of a heart attack and was never married or had kids. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stanley DeSantis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 06, 1953
Deathday: August 09, 2005
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Ed Wood
1994-09-28
Ed Wood
Overview: The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-28
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Fools Rush In
1997-02-14
Fools Rush In
Overview: After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-14
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Candyman
1992-10-16
Candyman
Overview: The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-16
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Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
1980-10-30
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
Overview: Based on the well-publicized Oregon criminal case of the late 1970s, this film dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the prosecution of her husband, John, charging him with raping her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-30
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Vital Signs
1990-04-13
Vital Signs
Overview: As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide what they intend to specialize in. Somehow, they must impress the Chief of Surgery while learning how to survive the life-and-death area of medicine and the complexity of their everyday lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-13
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Head Over Heels
2001-02-02
Head Over Heels
Overview: Ordinary single girl Amanda Pierce unexpectedly finds herself sharing an awesome Manhattan apartment with four sexy supermodels. Determined to bring Amanda into their world, the models give her the ultimate makeover. The plan works fabulously as Amanda connects with next door charmer Jim Winston. That is, until one night while spying on him, Amanda thinks she sees the man of her dreams committing a cold blooded crime.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-02
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Witch Hunt
1994-12-10
Witch Hunt
Overview: Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-10
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The Man Who Wasn't There
2001-10-26
The Man Who Wasn't There
Overview: A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-26
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Something New
2006-01-29
Something New
Overview: Kenya McQueen, a corporate lawyer, finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spirited landscaper.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-29
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Bulworth
1998-05-15
Bulworth
Overview: A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-15
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Clockwatchers
1997-06-12
Clockwatchers
Overview: The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-12
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The Beneficiary
1997-01-03
The Beneficiary
Overview: Lust, desire and money motivate a greedy woman to murder her philandering rich husband.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-03
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Lansky
1999-02-27
Lansky
Overview: Organized crime boss Meyer Lansky remembers his life as he is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the USA have put out an extradition order for him.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-27
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Postcards from the Edge
1990-09-14
Postcards from the Edge
Overview: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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Human Nature
2001-09-12
Human Nature
Overview: Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised in the wild. As Nathan trains the wild man in the civilized ways of the world, Lila fights to preserve the man’s natural state. In the power struggle that ensues, an unusual love triangle emerges.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-12
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Broken Trust
1995-08-06
Broken Trust
Overview: A scrupulously honest judge finds he's a pawn in a federal sting to ferret out corrupt members of the bench, many of whom are his friends.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-08-06
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The Aviator
2004-12-17
The Aviator
Overview: A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-17
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See Jane Run
2001-02-23
See Jane Run
Overview: Jane, a formerly suicidal Los Angeles waitress, decides her life does have meaning after all when she finds a gun that was thrown away after a convenience store robbery, starting a life of crime.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-23
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I Am Sam
2001-12-28
I Am Sam
Overview: Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a parent start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam convinces high-priced lawyer Rita to take his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-28
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The Truth About Cats & Dogs
1996-04-26
The Truth About Cats & Dogs
Overview: A successful veterinarian and radio show host with low self-esteem asks her model friend to impersonate her when a handsome man wants to see her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-26
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Taking Care of Business
1990-08-16
Taking Care of Business
Overview: An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-16
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Caged Fear
1991-05-17
Caged Fear
Overview: After a jewelry theft Tommy Lane can hardly free. His girlfriend Kristen has less luck and is arrested. She's sentenced to jail in an ill-reputed female prison in Oklahoma. Tommy doesn't let her down; he manages to get into the prison - on the other side of the bars - to force the ruthless director to let her go.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-17
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Boogie Nights
1997-10-10
Boogie Nights
Overview: Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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Die, Mommie, Die!
2003-10-31
Die, Mommie, Die!
Overview: Angela Arden is a washed up, has-been singing star who is trapped in a hateful marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. In an attempt to escape her marriage so that she can be with a hunky layabout, she poisons her husband. However, Angela's manipulative daughter, gay son and alcoholic maid are not going to make it easy for her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-31
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Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
1994-09-08
Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
Overview: Spoof-miester, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante debacles
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-08
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Good Grief
1983-01-11
Good Grief
Overview: An indie tape by Susan Rogers shown at EZTV, featuring actress Lois Chiles of "Dallas"
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-11
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Rush Hour
1998-09-18
Rush Hour
Overview: When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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Heartwood
1998-04-19
Heartwood
Overview: When a large corporation threatens to take over a small town's primary business and put half of the town's population out of work, sawmill owner Logan Reeser is the only one who can stand in their way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-19
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Black Moon Rising
1986-01-10
Black Moon Rising
Overview: An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-10
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Doppelganger
1993-03-01
Doppelganger
Overview: After being implicated in a murder, a young woman flees New York City and moves to Los Angeles, where she rents a room from a writer. They begin an affair, but it seems she's been followed by a homicidal duplicate of herself.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-01
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The Fan
1996-08-15
The Fan
Overview: When the San Francisco Giants pay center-fielder, Bobby Rayburn $40 million to lead their team to the World Series, no one is happier or more supportive than #1 fan, Gil Renard. When Rayburn becomes mired in the worst slump of his career, the obsessed Renard decides to stop at nothing to help his idol regain his former glory—not even murder.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-15
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The Barefoot Executive
1995-11-11
The Barefoot Executive
Overview: A young man working in the mailroom of a television network rises to the top of the company after he discovers that his girlfriend's chimp is capable of picking hit shows.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-11
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The Birdcage
1996-03-08
The Birdcage
Overview: Middle-aged gay life partners, Armand Goldman, a Jewish drag club owner, and Albert, the club's flamboyant star attraction, live in the eclectic community of South Beach and have raised a straight son. Now, their newly engaged son, 20-year-old Val, wants to bring his fiancée, Barbara, and her ultraconservative parents home to meet his family for the first time. By Val's request, Armand pretends to be straight, not Jewish and attempts to hide his relationship with Albert, in order to please Barbara's father, controversial right-wing Republican Sen. Kevin Keeley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-08
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Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful
1991-12-01
Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful
Overview: In this made for Showtime television spoof of Madonna's "Truth or Dare" documentary, comedienne Julie Brown portrays Medusa, an egocentric, hyper-sexual (and not particularly talented) pop star on an international five-day world tour, "The Blonde Leading the Blonde" show. Brown painstakingly duplicates costumes, sets and hairstyles while spoofing Madonna's seeming self-obsession. Madonna visits the cemetery where her mother is buried; Medusa visits the pet cemetery where her dog Buster is laid to rest. (Or is it "Boomer"?) Madonna performs fellatio on a bottle, at the dare of a friend; Medusa does it on a watermelon. And so on...
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-01
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