Terry Kiser
Biography: Terry Kiser (born August 1, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the dead title-character in the comedy Weekend at Bernie's, and its sequel, Weekend at Bernie's II. Terry was a regular on two soap operas, The Secret Storm on CBS and The Doctors on NBC. Kiser has guest-starred numerous times on episodic television, particularly sitcoms, though he made a notable appearance as a comedian Vic Hitler (aka, Vic the Narcoleptic Comic) on the drama Hill Street Blues. He also portrayed the conniving Doctor Crews in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood and appeared in Mannequin: On the Move as a sorcerer. He played a jerky lawyer in the volleyball film Sideout. Kiser also had a recurring role as Craven on Night Court, H.G. Wells in Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. He also appeared in three episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will & Grace and The Golden Girls, as well as in two episodes of Three's Company as two different characters. Kiser was a member of Carol Burnett's repertory company on Carol and Company that aired in 1990 and 1991. Description above from the Wikipedia article Terry Kiser, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: August 01, 1939
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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
1988-05-13
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Overview: Tina Shepard, a telekinetic teenage girl, accidentally unchains Jason from his watery grave, allowing him to go on another killing spree in the area.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-13
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Surf II: The End of the Trilogy
1984-01-13
Surf II: The End of the Trilogy
Overview: Evil Nerd Menlo wants to get revenge on some surfers by selling a bad batch of soda called Buzz Cola which turns people into mutant zombies. Its up to Jocko, Chuck, Bob and their surfer buddies to save the day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-13
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Steel
1979-10-21
Steel
Overview: Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world), but an accident left him with a serious fear of heights. Unable to climb the big skyscrapers while under construction, he retired and became a truck driver. But when an old friend needs him to help put up a building, and when the old friend gets harassed and threatened by an Evil Corporate Type, he comes out of retirement and assembles the creme de la creme of the construction world. Together, they race against time to finish the building while the Evil Corporate Type tries to stop them.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-21
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Weekend at Bernie's
1989-07-05
Weekend at Bernie's
Overview: Two young insurance corporation employees try to pretend that their murdered employer is alive by puppeteering his dead body, leading a hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-05
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Weekend at Bernie's II
1993-07-09
Weekend at Bernie's II
Overview: Everybody's favorite stiff is back! Working fools Larry Wilson and Richard Parker have uncovered a dirty, little secret: Their former boss, Bernie Lomax, embezzled $2 million and placed it in a safe deposit box in the Caribbean. Now, the boys are ready to go after the loot, but they can't do it alone -- they need poor Bernie's help. Can the buddies give their ex-boss new life?
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-09
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Mannequin Two: On the Move
1991-05-17
Mannequin Two: On the Move
Overview: Although Jason works as a department store clerk, he is also a reincarnated prince. Long ago, his beloved Jessie was snatched away from him by an evil wizard who used his powers to transform her into wooden statue. Now Jessie is in Jason's department store as a mannequin. When he encounters her, she awakens from her thousand-year sleep. They quickly revive their romance, but the evil wizard has been reincarnated as well, and he's up to no good.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-17
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Rachel, Rachel
1968-08-26
Rachel, Rachel
Overview: Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-26
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Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
1983-02-27
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Overview: Starflight One, a commercial aircraft that can whisk passengers around the globe in a matter of hours, embarks on its maiden voyage. The trip goes horribly awry, however, when the aircraft is forced out of the atmosphere and into outer space. As it is too dangerous to attempt reentry, Captain Cody Briggs, his passengers and his crew brave declining levels of oxygen while NASA scientists scramble to launch a rescue mission in a race against time.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-27
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Mask Maker
2011-04-12
Mask Maker
Overview: A lucky couple hits the jackpot when they purchase a 19th century plantation home for pennies on the dollar. Determined to get rich quick, they invite their friends up for the weekend to celebrate their good fortune. It’s quickly apparent that the plantation home’s former residents have not left and the unlucky youths suddenly find themselves running for their lives!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-12
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Forest Warrior
1996-11-05
Forest Warrior
Overview: John McKenna is a spiritual being who is able to transform into bear, wolf or eagle. He lives in the forests of Tanglewood and has dedicated his life to protect them. One day a gang of evil lumberjacks led by Travis Thorne arrive Tanglewood to chop the forest down. McKenna cannot let this happen, and together with his new friends - Lords of the Tanglewood, a band of children who love to play in the forest - he battles against Thorne and his evil gang.
Genres: Action Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-05
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Manimal
1983-09-30
Manimal
Overview: Jonathan Chase is a British college professor at New York University who has the unusual ability to transform into any kind of animal he wants. He decides to use his power to assist the New York Police Department in solving unusual crimes, and in this series pilot, he teams up with cute cop Brooke and war buddy Ty to stop some terrorists from stealing a supply of toxic gas.
Genres: Fantasy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-30
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From a Whisper to a Scream
1987-09-25
From a Whisper to a Scream
Overview: The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life. In the third, a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside. And in the fourth, a group of Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-25
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Six Pack
1982-07-16
Six Pack
Overview: Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out to be six orphan children. He has no recourse to the law, for the corrupt local sheriff takes most of the proceeds of their thievery in exchange for not putting them in an orphanage. They are charming rogues who are in turn charmed by him. Disliking their arrangement with the sheriff, they stow away with him, and he finds himself becoming a reluctant stepfather. Thanks to their enthusiasm and incredible mechanical know-how, he begins to make a name for himself on the racing circuit. But the sheriff doesn't take kindly to losing his extra income...
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-16
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Stream
2024-08-21
Stream
Overview: As the Keenans try to bring their family closer together, they unwittingly enter themselves into a game of life or death. With four deranged killers patrolling the halls of their hotel and competing for the most creative kills, the odds are definitely stacked against them.
Genres: Horror Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-21
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Tammy and the T-Rex
1994-12-28
Tammy and the T-Rex
Overview: An evil scientist implants the brain of a murdered high school student into an animatronic Tyrannosaurus, who later wreaks vengeance on the bullies who killed him, and is reunited with his sweetheart.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-28
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Seven
1979-09-07
Seven
Overview: A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-07
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Alien Tornado
2012-04-21
Alien Tornado
Overview: Aliens attack Earth with deadly electrical tornadoes, and it’s up to a farmer, his smart high-school daughter and a tornado blogger to thwart the horrific invasion.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-21
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Hourglass
1997-02-26
Hourglass
Overview: A business executive gets mixed up with a killer female and her lesbian roommate, who plot to take over his fashion business.
Genres: Thriller Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-26
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The Mutilator 2
2023-10-07
The Mutilator 2
Overview: Many years after its initial 1984 release, The Mutilator is being remade. A wrap party has been scheduled for the night following the final day of shooting. Cast members of the original film have been invited, and everyone is excited. Unfortunately, they are besieged by an unknown killer who favours the use of the same or similarly-flavoured nautical implements of death as used by Big Ed, the original grief-crazed Mutilator maniac.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-07
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A Christmas Tree Miracle
2013-12-24
A Christmas Tree Miracle
Overview: “A Christmas Tree Miracle” is a warm-hearted tale that reminds us that in the holiday season, the best gifts in life are the simple ones, and that miracles do happen, if you believe.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-24
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Laugh
Laugh
Overview: Peter Collymore. A retired veteran from the Afghanistan war is fighting his greatest battle verse himself, his father (Terry Kiser) and a demonic entity they call "Calypso".
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
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The Pitchfork Retreat
The Pitchfork Retreat
Overview: Three writers arrive by boat on a private island for a horror writer retreat where they are told they will compete for a life changing writing competition. They're in for a hell of a surprise.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
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Cops and Robin
1978-03-28
Cops and Robin
Overview: A veteran street cop and his partner, a robot programmed to be the perfect policeman, are assigned to protect the five-year-old daughter of the widow who witnessed the killing of her police officer husband and now is stalked by the gangster who murdered him.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-28
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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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The Body Sculptor
The Body Sculptor
Overview: Dr. Jason Stone had everything a man could want. The perfect wife, 2 beautiful children and a successful Plastic Surgery Practice. Life was perfect until an unexpected diagnosis turned his life inside out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Benny & Barney: Las Vegas Undercover
1977-01-19
Benny & Barney: Las Vegas Undercover
Overview: Two undercover cops find their avocation -- a musical act -- helpful in tapping informants on the Las Vegas Strip regarding the alleged kidnapping of a top entertainer in this pilot for a series that never materialized.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-19
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Divorce: A Contemporary Western
1998-10-19
Divorce: A Contemporary Western
Overview: A look at the dysfunctional relationships of three couples as seen from the male point of view.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-19
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Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story
1995-10-03
Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story
Overview: A young man begins to suspect that his mother may have murdered his father.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-03
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Rich Kids
1979-08-17
Rich Kids
Overview: Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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Half Nelson
1985-03-24
Half Nelson
Overview: Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor. However, when he gets there, the directors think that he is too short to be an actor. He is then approach by someone who offers him a job at a Hollywood security agency, cause he would fit in there being an ex-cop and while working there he could come in contact with some Hollywood heavy-weights who could give him the break he needs. And at the same he gets to live in Dean Martin's guest-house.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-24
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Making Love
1982-02-12
Making Love
Overview: A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when Zach confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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Girls on Tap
Girls on Tap
Overview: Finally the naked truth about the girls that raise the bar. Patrons expect hot food, cool drinks and devastatingly attractive bartenders and servers, but these women are far more than just passive eye candy or mere objects of affection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider
1979-05-01
Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider
Overview: A World War I deserter competes in the first long-distance motorcycle race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-01
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Loving Deadly
1994-01-01
Loving Deadly
Overview: A guy is smuggling babies across the border, and he gets busted. When he's in jail, his crime boss wants to keep him happy, so they arrange conjugal visits with a hooker, and they fall in love, then plot to get back at the crime boss, and they accidentally kill the crime boss's identical twin brother.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Lapin 360
1972-10-08
Lapin 360
Overview: Delia Peletier has been paid to have a child for a wealthy man who wants an heir. She has the baby and turns it over to her "employer," but subsequently decides she wants the child back. She hires three men to kidnap the child. The quartet hides out in the house of Bernard Lapin, a nuclear scientist they believe to be away on business. Lapin returns, however, and becomes romantically involved with Delia. Meanwhile, her three kidnappers turn on her when they learn she actually wants the child and not the ransom money as she claimed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-08
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Into the Sun
1992-01-01
Into the Sun
Overview: Paul Watkins is an American pilot stationed in the Middle East, who is taken away from his normal duties of protecting the skies to show an actor everything he needs to know about being a pilot in the Air Force. The actor, Tom Slade, is about to start filming an Air Force movie and wants to "get the feeling" for the part. When Watkins takes Slade for a ride in an F-16 fighter, some other American jets are attacked and the pair comes to the rescue. However, it does not go according to the plan.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Side Out
1990-03-30
Side Out
Overview: A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-30
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An Eye for an Eye
1981-08-14
An Eye for an Eye
Overview: Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-14
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Looker
1981-10-30
Looker
Overview: Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-30
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Pet Shop
1994-12-23
Pet Shop
Overview: Disguised aliens set up a pet shop in a dusty Arizona town, hoping to lure local children with their adorable extraterrestrial critters.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-23
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Farmer of the Year
2018-04-13
Farmer of the Year
Overview: When Hap Anderson, a widowed 83-year-old Minnesota farmer that thinks he's still quite the ladies' man, sells his family farm, he finds himself adrift and staring a short future in the face. Driven by the possibility of showing up with an old flame and impressing his old army buddies, he sets out to attend his 65th WWII reunion in California with his directionless and unreasonably self-confident granddaughter, Ashley. Each with their own issues and agendas, they head west in a dilapidated Winnebago. Encountering oddball tourist attractions and eccentric characters, they find themselves in seemingly impossible situations with only each other for support. As the journey progresses so does their relationship and they begin to understand and appreciate each other as individuals while discovering that being young and being old, aren't all that different.
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-13
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The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
1979-11-20
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
Overview: A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a gang of horse thieves and train and bank robbers with their arch enemy, Detective Will Smith, constantly on their heels.
Genres: Western Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-20
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Young Lust
1984-04-27
Young Lust
Overview: A soap opera parody along the lines of Young Doctors in Love (1982).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-27
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Vampire Riderz
2013-01-01
Vampire Riderz
Overview: The vampires roam the streets, and the vampire hunters must hunt down and destroy the Day Walker.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1987-05-17
The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
Overview: Ten years after his retirement from the government, Colonel Steve Austin must again team up with Jaime Sommers to stop a terrorist group. Complicating matters for Austin are his estranged son Michael, who struggles for his father's acceptance as he graduates from flight school, and Jaime, who must cope with her and Steve's past. When Michael is severely injured in a crash, Steve must make the same decision about fitting him with bionics that he had to make with Jaime years ago after her accident.
Genres: Science Fiction Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-17
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The Kingsbury Run
2018-04-01
The Kingsbury Run
Overview: 75 Years after the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run's killing spree, bodies have begun to turn up again. A private investigator, Camila Ramsay, enlists Leo Zhukov, a true crime author and former cop, to solve the crimes before more people are killed and left scattered around Northeast Ohio.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-01
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Prime Suspect
1982-01-20
Prime Suspect
Overview: A respectable businessman becomes the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of several young girls. He is hounded by the media and disowned by his friends and neighbours.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-20
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Your Place... or Mine?
1983-03-02
Your Place... or Mine?
Overview: Karen (Tyne Daly) is a San Francisco real estate broker and best friend of psychiatrist Alexandra Benedict (Bonnie Franklin) whose boyfriend leaves her. Karen's husband Phillip (Peter Bonerz) plays rugby with gardener Nick Richmond (Robert Klein) who Karen thinks is the perfect match for Alexandra, but circumstances stop Alexandra from meeting Nick until the last minutes of the narrative.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-02
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All Night Long
1981-03-06
All Night Long
Overview: Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban housewife Cheryl Gibbons, who is a distant cousin, Cheryl tries to seduce George. At home, in front of his mother, Freddie accuses his dad of stealing his girl, because he found Cheryl serving George a meal in the middle of the night, while her husband Bobby was on duty at the fire station. George then separates from his wife Helen, quits his job, moves into a warehouse, and asks Cheryl to move in with him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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Dark Circles
Dark Circles
Overview: Martin Malone, a lonely voyeur who is caught and arrested following a misstep. As he nears the end of his court-mandated rehabilitation, Martin suspects that someone or something far more sinister is watching him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
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Dead Start
2009-10-30
Dead Start
Overview: Ann and Mark Savin slowly discover through live TV reports that zombies are attacking. After accepting the unbelievable, they must make life or death decisions before it is too late. Do they leave their life behind and go on the run or do they stay and fight?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-30
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Chameleons
1989-12-20
Chameleons
Overview: Shelley, a slightly-crazy heiress, discovers that her eccentric millionaire uncle Jason Carr was rather more eccentric than even she had thought--he was a costumed superhero in his spare time, half of a duo calling itself "Captain Chameleon and the Paraclete of Justice." Now Shelley must find out exactly who murdered her uncle, with the help of her uncle's mysterious and handsome partner in fighting crime.
Genres: Comedy Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-20
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