James Handy
Biography: James Handy is an actor.
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Every Dog Has Its Day
1998-06-12
Every Dog Has Its Day
Overview: After getting fired from his teaching job and dumped by his girlfriend, Jack, a painter, embarks on a soul searching road trip with his dog, Scout. However, bad weather and bumps in the road quickly cause more problems than he can handle. An impulsive decision to take from a bag full of unknown pills leads him on a drug-fueled journey with no destination in sight, and he soon finds himself making both friends and foes along the way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-12
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K-9
1989-04-28
K-9
Overview: The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee (Officer Lewis), who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his own and works only when he wants to. On the other hand, the dog is quite good at destroying Dooley's car, house and sex-life...
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-28
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Black & White
1999-11-29
Black & White
Overview: Chris O'Brien, devote Catholic and rookie cop with LAPD, is assigned to partner with the hard-edged, street-smart Nora Hugosian. A serial killer is loose, and all the victims are low-life guys whom Nora has dealt with. So, when the tire tracks of a police car are found at a murder scene, she's the prime suspect of internal affairs investigator Simon Hertzel...
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-29
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Arachnophobia
1990-07-20
Arachnophobia
Overview: A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-20
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Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
1986-05-19
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
Overview: Outraged by the treatment of New York City’s unhoused residents, an activist brings national attention to the issue by taking their case to Congress.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-19
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The Verdict
1982-12-08
The Verdict
Overview: Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-08
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Bird
1988-06-01
Bird
Overview: Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-01
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Deterrence
2000-03-10
Deterrence
Overview: The President of the United States must deal with an international military crisis while confined to a Colorado diner during a freak snowstorm.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-10
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Jumanji
1995-12-15
Jumanji
Overview: When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for freedom is to finish the game, which proves risky as all three find themselves running from giant rhinoceroses, evil monkeys and other terrifying creatures.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-15
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Gone in the Night
1996-02-24
Gone in the Night
Overview: A couple is unjustly accused of the murder of their daughter. Based on a true story and book of the same title.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-24
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K-911
1999-12-07
K-911
Overview: LAPD detective Mike Dooley and his dog, the German Shepherd Jerry Lee, have been successfully partnered for ten years, but Jerry’s advancing age has Dooley’s superiors suggesting retirement and they are forced to work with a younger K-9 team: female cop Sergeant Welles and her disciplined Doberman Zeus.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-07
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Mary and Rhoda
2000-02-07
Mary and Rhoda
Overview: The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-07
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Without Warning
1994-10-30
Without Warning
Overview: A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the United States, France and China. At first it seems natural but after interviews by scientists and eyewitness seems to suggest that it is not. Three more meteors are coming and the various Earth governments combine forces to stop them.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-30
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Kojak: The Belarus File
1985-02-16
Kojak: The Belarus File
Overview: Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-16
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Unspeakable Acts
1990-01-15
Unspeakable Acts
Overview: Two psychologists try to demonstrate that a man is a pedophile and has abused many children.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-15
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Popeye Doyle
1986-01-01
Popeye Doyle
Overview: While Popeye Doyle is investigating what appears to be a very simple drug overdose, he becomes involved in international intrigue. The Mosad and various other foreign diplomatic figures turn up everywhere he goes. The drug overdose becomes a very involved murder case.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story
1988-12-16
Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story
Overview: Film that tells the story of Los Gatos (California) high school football coach Charlie Wedemeyer. At 31, onetime football pro Wedemeyer is living the American dream; a winning team, a happy marriage and public adulation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-16
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The Room Upstairs
1987-01-31
The Room Upstairs
Overview: A Boston teacher decides to turn her old home into a boarding house to pull in some much-needed extra money. It turns out her tenants help her in more ways than supplementing her income, and ultimately they become instrumental in turning her life around.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-31
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Top Gun: Maverick
2022-05-21
Top Gun: Maverick
Overview: After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-21
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Drive Like Lightning
1992-01-08
Drive Like Lightning
Overview: In this road drama, a depressed ex-daredevil is hired to drive an experimental stunt car across the country to L. A. He is accompanied by a country-singer
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-08
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Doubletake
1985-11-24
Doubletake
Overview: Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investigating. Meanwhile, Janek is trying to find out why an old friend and colleague committed suicide, which eventually leads to a romantic situation with photographer Caroline Wallace and the discovery of some major corruption among his superiors, all of which has little or nothing to do with the murder story.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-24
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The Rocketeer
1991-06-21
The Rocketeer
Overview: A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-21
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False Arrest
1991-11-03
False Arrest
Overview: A luxury home, a handsome husband and terrific children. But it all comes crashing down when she is accused of being a mastermind behind a brutal triple-homicide and is arrested and handcuffed in front of her own children. A gripping story of passion and betrayal as a woman fights to clear her name and avoid the death penalty for a crime she didn't commit.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-03
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Time Served
1999-08-05
Time Served
Overview: When a boy kills his abusive stepfather in self-defense, his mother takes the blame and gets sentenced to a long prison term. The warden is corrupt and forces hot inmates to work as strippers in a local nightclub. Is it a way out?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-05
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Burglar
1987-03-20
Burglar
Overview: Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burglary, it's discovered that a dead body was in the house she burgled. As she's the only one who can be placed at the scene of the crime, she has to use her criminal skills to clear her name of the murder AND avoid getting charged with the burglary.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-20
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Majority Rule
1992-10-27
Majority Rule
Overview: A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of power.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-27
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Gang Related
1997-10-08
Gang Related
Overview: Two corrupt cops have a successful, seemingly perfect money making scheme- they sell drugs that they seize from dealers, kill the dealers, and blame the crimes on street gangs. Their scheme is going along smoothly until they kill an undercover DEA agent posing as a dealer, and then try to cover-up their crime.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-08
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Goodnight Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston
1990-09-25
Goodnight Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston
Overview: Dramatic recounting of the true story of Bostonians Charles and Carol Stuart and the events before and after October 23, 1989, the night of the latter's murder, supposedly, as the husband related to police, by a young black man out to rob them while they were spending a night on the town.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-25
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Appearances
1990-06-17
Appearances
Overview: A drama centering on the joys, conflicts, and crises on a middle-class family and on its ex-football star father's efforts to keep it on track and intact despite the death of a child and the strain between his wife and father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-17
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Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
1994-05-18
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
Overview: Still in mourning over the loss of his wife, former cop Jonathan stone moves to Washington. However, he is soon falsely accused of murder, and with the help of socialite Annie Hayes, he sets out to prove his innocence.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-18
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15 Minutes
2001-03-01
15 Minutes
Overview: When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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Rave Review
1995-09-13
Rave Review
Overview: A dark comedy set in the L.A. theatre scene, as director Steve Maletti accidentally causes the death of a legendarily harsh critic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-13
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The Preppie Murder
1989-09-24
The Preppie Murder
Overview: This is the story of a young woman who was found dead. Now the police investigate, and evidence points to a man she was seen leaving a party with. Now when questioned, he claims that her death was accidental, as a result of rough sex. Now her family doesn't believe this, so they press the district attorney's office to try him for murder, but he has a good lawyer who plays his defense right down to putting the dead girl on trial.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-24
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Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986-12-26
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Overview: Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-26
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1991-09-22
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Overview: A teenage high school drop-out Bobby McLaughlin is accused of the murder of a local drug dealer he says he didn’t commit. When he is convicted with little evidence, his father begins a fierce struggle to free his son from prison.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-22
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Who Is Julia?
1986-10-26
Who Is Julia?
Overview: A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful womans brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Janes husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful womans husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-26
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Logan
2017-02-28
Logan
Overview: In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-28
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Unbreakable
2000-11-22
Unbreakable
Overview: An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-22
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Thru: The Hereafter Remains Unknown
2017-04-30
Thru: The Hereafter Remains Unknown
Overview: A series of massacres at local bars has a neighborhood on edge. With the culprits still at large, it's a dangerous night to be out drinking at Frank's Tavern. Nevertheless, a few die-hard regulars will tempt fate and take their chances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-30
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Woman Child
2017-11-05
Woman Child
Overview: When a teacher at a Christian high school becomes pregnant out of wedlock, she is forced to decide if she should yield to the institution's teachings or fight for her civil liberties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-05
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Sudden Fury
1993-11-21
Sudden Fury
Overview: A teenage boy finds his mother and father murdered in their home but as the story goes on he reveals he knows more than he is letting on.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-21
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Guarding Tess
1994-03-11
Guarding Tess
Overview: Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle—the widow of a former U.S. President, and a close personal friend of the current President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. Doug is crushed, and—after returning—wants off her detail as she is very difficult to guard and makes her detail crazy with her whims and demands.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-11
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure
2002-02-17
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure
Overview: Indy and his girlfriend, Nancy Stratemeyer, whose father created the Nancy Drew mystery series, visit the laboratory of inventor Thomas Edison. The two must contend with dangerous German spies as they struggle to keep Edison's top secret new invention out of the hands of hostile enemy agents. To keep him from getting into any more trouble, Indy is sent to visit his aunt in New Mexico. While there, he is kidnapped by Pancho Villa and swept into the Mexican Revolution. Chaotic, free-wheeling border towns, a "Wild Bunch" style train robbery and a colorful barroom encounter with a young George Patton make for thrilling entertainment in this action-packed movie.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Drama TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-17
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The O.J. Simpson Story
1995-01-31
The O.J. Simpson Story
Overview: Dramatizes some of the more tawdry events in the relationship between O.J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown, up to and including his arrest for Brown's murder.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-31
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The Waiter
2010-03-14
The Waiter
Overview: A man travels through corporate corruption and his own sin to find his soul.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-14
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Obsessed
1992-09-26
Obsessed
Overview: Lorie Brindel works at an insurance company and falls in love with one of her clients, the much older Ed Bledsoe. Spending weeks of passion together, Lorie is convinced that Ed is the man of her life and that he would marry her. When Ed decides to break up the relationship, Lorie does not accept it and tries to win him back, falling from her extreme love into an equally extreme hatred.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-26
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The Donor
2001-04-13
The Donor
Overview: A man falls in love with the surrogate who is carrying his child.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-13
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Suburbicon
2017-10-26
Suburbicon
Overview: In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-26
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Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story
1992-05-18
Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story
Overview: Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing her husband's ex-wife in Milwaukee, WI.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-18
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Bad Sister
2015-08-24
Bad Sister
Overview: As a top student at St. Adeline's Catholic Boarding School, Zoe senses that something is not quite right about the school's new nun-- a sense proven to be true when it is revealed the "good' nun is an imposter with a fatal attraction to Zoe's brother.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-24
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Lifted
2010-08-13
Lifted
Overview: The chance to shine in a singing competition offers much-needed hope for a Southern middle-schooler who's drowning in worries, from bullies in the halls to turmoil at home -- and the news that his reservist father has been called back to Afghanistan.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-13
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Murder in Mind
1997-08-01
Murder in Mind
Overview: The L.A. police find two bodies in a fancy house and suspect the wife of one victim. Dr. Ellis, a hypnotherapist, takes her back in time; with the police listening, a pattern of spousal abuse emerges. When each trance ends, however, the woman, Carolyn Walker, wonders if those repressed memories are true. Dr. Ellis guides her through her trial, testifies himself, and continues treatment after the verdict is in. Carolyn's memory and well-being get worse after the trial, not better. She misses some therapy sessions, and Dr. Ellis comes to see her at home. Snatches of memory come and go. Can he help her remember what really happened? Are the cops satisfied justice has been done?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-01
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Senior Entourage
2021-05-03
Senior Entourage
Overview: Senior Entourage is a wild, wacky "Mockumentary" comedy featuring a zany, multi-racial cast ranging in age from 9 to 90. It's "Seinfeld for seniors" starring Ed Asner, Helen Reddy, Charlie Robinson, Marion Ross and Mark Rydell
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-03
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