Jill Hennessy
Biography: Jill Hennessy's confidence and maturity propelled her to early success in the long-running crime drama series "Law & Order." She portrayed Assistant District Attorney Claire Kincaid for three seasons. Despite her nomadic childhood, Hennessy refused to limit her creative endeavours. She took on roles in films like "The Paper" and "I Shot Andy Warhol." After leaving "Law & Order," she appeared in smaller roles in movies such as "A Smile Like Yours" and "Most Wanted." Hennessy returned to television in the miniseries "Nuremberg" before starring in her own series, "Crossing Jordan." In this show, she played a determined medical examiner seeking justice for the deceased. Following the conclusion of "Crossing Jordan," Hennessy continued to take on film roles, including in movies like "Wild Hogs" and "Lymelife." Currently, she can be seen in Showtime's "City on a Hill" and has appeared in other series such as "Shots Fired," "Crawford," and the pilot episode of "Yellowstone." Jill, a singer/songwriter, wrote all the songs on her first album "Ghost In My Head" and also performed on the Lilith Tour with Sarah McLachlan, The Indigo Girls, and the Dixie Chicks. She was even featured on The Indigo Girls' live album "Staring Down The Brilliant Dream". Jill went on to write all the songs on her second album "I Do" and is currently working on her third album. Although not widely known, Jill's talent and charm have enabled her to pursue both practical and personal projects.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 25, 1968
Deathday: N/A
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Lymelife
2008-09-08
Lymelife
Overview: A coming of age dramedy where infidelity, real estate, and Lyme disease have two families falling apart on Long Island in the early eighties. Scott, 15, is at the point in his life when he finds out that the most important people around him, his father, his mother, and his brother, are not exactly who he thought they were. They are flawed and they are human.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-08
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Komodo
1999-07-04
Komodo
Overview: During the 70's, some Komodo Dragon eggs were dumped on an North Carolina island. Somehow, the baby Komodos survived, and twenty years later they have grown up and taken over the island for themselves. Young Patrick has lost his parents and his dog to the lizards, but didn't see them himself, which has left him traumatized. Now, with his therapist Victoria, they return to confront his fears.
Genres: Adventure Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-04
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The Road to Galena
2022-07-08
The Road to Galena
Overview: Cole Baird has everything—a beautiful wife, successful career, large home, country club membership and expensive toys. Behind the facade, however, is a man trapped by his surroundings and falling ever behind in the pursuit of his life's dream. Not strong enough to confront his father's expectations, he left his true love, his best friend and his vision of life in small town America, and set off on a legal career—intent to, one day, return. Now the rising star in Washington social circles, and the youngest Managing Partner in the history of a powerhouse DC law firm, he is given the choice—continue the path of success in a life to which he never aspired, or return to the community that raised him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-08
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Most Wanted
1997-10-10
Most Wanted
Overview: A Marine on death row is recruited by a shadowy U.S. military officer as part of a top-secret ops team, then gets framed for murder when the team and its officer set him up as the fall guy for the assassination of the First Lady.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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Molly
1999-10-22
Molly
Overview: Molly McKay is a profoundly autistic twenty-something woman who has lived in an institution from a young age following her parents' death in a car accident. When the institution must close due budget cuts, Molly is left in the care of her neurotypical, older brother, Buck McKay, an advertising executive and perennial bachelor. Buck makes her undergo an experimental medical treatment, with unexpectedly drastic results.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-22
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Small Town Murder Songs
2010-09-14
Small Town Murder Songs
Overview: A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-14
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Love in the Time of Money
2002-11-01
Love in the Time of Money
Overview: New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-01
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Roadie
2012-01-06
Roadie
Overview: After 20 years on the road with Blue Oyster Cult, Jimmy Testagros returns to his hometown to life with his ailing mother. Complications arise when he falls for an old friend, who is now married to his longtime nemesis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-06
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Dawn Rider
2012-05-29
Dawn Rider
Overview: A gripping story of vengeance and passion set in the American West. When the father of gunslinger John Mason is shot to death by masked bandits, Mason sets out with guns blazing to track down those who killed him. During his quest, he finds himself involved in a grim love triangle when he falls for Alice, the determined and beautiful woman also adored by John’s best friend. Based on the timeless John Wayne adventure, Dawn Rider is a riveting saga of retribution, duty and valor in the American West.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-29
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The Making of Exit Wounds
2002-03-14
The Making of Exit Wounds
Overview: Behind the scenes of Andrzej Bartkowiak's 'Exit Wounds'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-14
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Game of Life
2007-04-14
Game of Life
Overview: In Game of LIfe, a children's soccer team is the common link for a multi-layered story giving a candid look into the intersecting lives of five families living in Los Angeles. Game of LIfe examines the complexities of racial and class divisions, and reveals that despite the fragile volatility of human relationships, family is what holds us together and unites us all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-14
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
2012-02-12
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Overview: Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on the shores of Lake Wissanotti with its notoriously leaky holiday steamer. It is a town similar to many other small towns in Canada with its odd assortment of residents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-12
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RoboCop 3
1993-01-21
RoboCop 3
Overview: The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of the area have no intention of abandoning their homes simply for desires of the company. To this end, OCP have decided to force them to leave by employing a ruthless mercenary army to attack and harass them. An underground resistance begins and in this fight, RoboCop must decide where his loyalties lie.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-21
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Wild Hogs
2007-03-02
Wild Hogs
Overview: Restless and ready for an adventure, four suburban bikers leave the safety of their subdivision and head out on the open road. But complications ensue when they cross paths with an intimidating band of New Mexico bikers known as the Del Fuegos.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-02
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Autumn in New York
2000-08-11
Autumn in New York
Overview: Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together the pair pursue a passionate affair that forces them both to reevaluate what they want out of life, even as fate threatens to steal away their future.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-11
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A Smile Like Yours
1997-08-27
A Smile Like Yours
Overview: A comedy about a couple who cannot conceive a baby
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-27
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If I Had Wings
2013-12-01
If I Had Wings
Overview: Alex, blind since the age of two, dreams of running for his school's cross-country team. His father, a probation officer, finds a running partner who spends his time 'running' from the law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-01
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The Florentine
1999-04-19
The Florentine
Overview: A slice-of-life story unfolds inside The Florentine, a bar in a Pennsylvania steel town whose brightest days are behind it, leaving behind many of life's disillusioned "losers." Its owner, Whitey (Michael Madsen), is deep in debt to the town's loan shark, Joe McCollough (Burt Young), and desperate for a path forward which won't cost him the bar. His sister, Molly (Virginia Madsen), is days away from her long-awaited nuptials, and then her former fiancé, Teddy (Tom Sizemore), shows up in town for the first time since leaving her at the altar years before. Ne'er-do-well Billy Belasco (Jim Belushi) runs a con on Frankie (Luke Perry) to steal the money for the wedding caterer, while long-time regular Bobby (Chris Penn) becomes a patron-cum-inhabitant as he hides from his fast-crumbling marriage to Vikki (Mary Stuart Masterson). Every plot in this multi-layered story seems to be at its nadir just as a pair of unlikely heroes emerge out of the backdrop to turn everything around.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-19
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Madame Web
2024-02-14
Madame Web
Overview: Forced to confront revelations about her past, paramedic Cassandra Webb forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures...if they can all survive a deadly present.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-14
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Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot
2001-03-04
Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot
Overview: They were more than Washington wives. They were part of an American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image by concealing their private truths. Jackie, Ethel and Joan had little choice. They were Kennedy women. What really unfolded behind the monolith of Kennedy power is revealed for the first time: the true story of the Kennedy reign told through the eyes of the three women who lived it.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-04
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Standing Up, Falling Down
2020-02-21
Standing Up, Falling Down
Overview: An unlikely friendship kindles between a struggling stand-up comedian from L.A. — forced to move back home to Eastern Long Island with his tail between his legs — and a tragically flawed, but charming and charismatic, alcoholic dermatologist. Discovering to be kindred spirits, each helps the other find healing, in addition to the confidence to face the "failures" in their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-21
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I Shot Andy Warhol
1996-05-01
I Shot Andy Warhol
Overview: Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-01
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Exit Wounds
2001-03-16
Exit Wounds
Overview: Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives secretly operating a drug ring, Boyd joins forces with an unlikely ally -- gangster Latrell Walker -- to bring down the rotten cops.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-16
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Chutney Popcorn
2001-01-11
Chutney Popcorn
Overview: Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who is happily married, discovers that she is infertile. Reena offers to be a surrogate mother for her sister's baby, hoping to improve her relationship with their mother, who disapproves of Reena's sexual orientation. Reena has second thoughts when her girlfriend Lisa feels left out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-11
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The Paper
1994-03-18
The Paper
Overview: Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-18
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Dead Ringers
1988-09-23
Dead Ringers
Overview: Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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Don't Sleep
2017-09-29
Don't Sleep
Overview: After moving into a cottage together, two young lovers confront horrors of a forgotten childhood.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-29
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Abby Singer
2003-10-28
Abby Singer
Overview: Chronicles the life of Curtis Clemins, who is torn between the love of his life and accomplishing his dream. When hitting rock bottom during the Sundance Film Festival, Clemins' calls upon his old college chum, Kevin Prouse, giving the now drunken acting instructor in the throes of a divorce, the only clue that will salvage Clemins' rapidly deteriorating life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-28
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Pipe Dream
2002-10-04
Pipe Dream
Overview: A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-04
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Dead Broke
1998-06-01
Dead Broke
Overview: A detective investigates a murder that has taken place outside a debt collection agency in Brooklyn. A motley assortment of suspects includes the employees of the agency.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-01
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Crypto
2019-04-12
Crypto
Overview: A young agent is tasked with investigating a tangled web of corruption and fraud in New York.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-12
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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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Row Your Boat
1999-04-18
Row Your Boat
Overview: Jon Bon Jovi plays Jamey Meadows, a man newly released from prison who has found himself homeless on the crazy streets of New York City. Slowly, he must try to build his life up from the gutter. Resisting constant offers from his brother, played by William Forsythe (Dick Tracy, The Rock, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalo) to rejoin the insidious world of crime, Meadows takes a menial job as a door to door census worker. Among his many encounters throughout this job, he meets a young Chinese immigrant who is just as unhappy in her life as he is in his. These two slowly hit it off and a relationship gradually begins to develop between them. Can Jamey Meadows learn to live in this new life, or will the temptations of his old ways drag him back to where he started?
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-18
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Kiss & Tell
1997-10-17
Kiss & Tell
Overview: A performance artist turns up dead with a carrot up her butt by LAX. Three detectives interview her friends to find out who killed her and why.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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The Acting Class
2000-04-29
The Acting Class
Overview: A comedy about an exceptionally dysfunctional acting class. Playing unsuspecting college students, Liz and Jill set off to find the most influential acting teacher of the decade and soon discover a heralded guru named Kenneth LaPoubelle. After a visit to Ken's class and a series of interviews with his present and former students, they realize that Ken's reputation might exceed his talent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-29
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Lost in Time
2017-03-14
Lost in Time
Overview: In 2004, Evan White was traveling in southern Thailand when a tsunami washed out the island of Ko Phi Phi. Now she is caught in a world between life and death and seeks help from a gifted young psychiatrist.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-14
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