Liz Torres
Biography: Elizabeth Larrieu Torres (born September 27, 1947) is an American actress, singer, and comedian. Torres is best known for her role as Mahalia Sanchez in the NBC comedy series The John Larroquette Show (1993–1996), for which she received two Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations. She is also known for her role as Patricia "Miss Patty" LaCosta in The WB family comedic drama series Amy Sherman-Palladino's Gilmore Girls (2000–07) starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. In the 1970s, she played Julie Erskine on Phyllis and also had a recurring role as Teresa Betancourt on All in the Family. Description above from the Wikipedia article Liz Torres, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: September 27, 1947
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Permanent Midnight
1998-09-16
Permanent Midnight
Overview: Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-16
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The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
1998-01-23
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
Overview: Gomez is a middle-aged man who dreams of buying a gorgeous white suit in a nearby store, but doesn't have enough cash. He finds 4 more people of same size, who each give $20 and get to wear the suit for an hour each in return. But the suit is not just a suit - it makes wishes of the one wearing it come true.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-23
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Just Cause
1995-02-17
Just Cause
Overview: A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-17
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Greyhounds
1994-06-24
Greyhounds
Overview: A retired sheriff, judge, coroner and con-man team up to solve crimes. Pilot.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-24
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Thieves of Fortune
1990-05-31
Thieves of Fortune
Overview: A beautiful woman must perform feats of bravery in order to inherit a $28 million fortune and win the man she loves.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-31
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Maid for Each Other
1992-01-13
Maid for Each Other
Overview: In this hilarious crime caper, a rich woman (Nell Carter) and her maid (Dinah Manoff) happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time -- and now, they're hotfooting it away from vicious mobsters who want to fit them for a couple pairs of cement overshoes. Can they stay free -- and alive -- long enough to gather evidence against the mobsters?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-13
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Storm Chasers: Revenge of the Twister
1998-05-17
Storm Chasers: Revenge of the Twister
Overview: Jamie Marshall (Kelly McGillis) is a "storm chaser" who, having lost her husband in a crash after his plane was struck by lightning, recklessly throws herself into her work. Sent by her boss to Colorado to investigate the cause of a devastating tornado, she meets Will Stanton (Wolf Larson), Field Coordinator for FEMA. One night, while working closely together examining the wreckage of the recent storm, Jamie and Will experience a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon - a ball of lightning falling from the sky connecting with the ground all around them. As Will tries to shield Jamie from the lightning, the two embrace and find themselves in a passionate kiss. The next day Jamie and Will return to the location. What they discover is a facility where waste from scientific experimentation is affecting the atmosphere causing the tornadoes. Armed with the new information and seven new tornadoes on the horizon, Jamie and Will prepare the already tornado ravaged town for another possible disaster!
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-17
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Rescue Me
1992-09-11
Rescue Me
Overview: Fraser's unrequited love for the beautiful and rich Ginny gets a chance to prove itself, when she is suddenly kidnapped. He teams up with rebel Mac, who's got a score to settle with the kidnappers. Together they cross the country, looking for Ginny and the bad guys.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-11
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Utterly Without Redeeming Social Value
1969-01-01
Utterly Without Redeeming Social Value
Overview: A psychologist interviews the members of a therapy group for people with sexual issues as to why they're in the group.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Once Upon A Christmas
2000-12-10
Once Upon A Christmas
Overview: The daughter of Santa Claus vows to transform a single father and his spoiled children to prove that the spirit of Christmas exists.
Genres: TV Movie Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-10
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Lena's Holiday
1991-08-29
Lena's Holiday
Overview: After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Lena, from East Germany travels to Hollywood. After landing she loses her bag and can't find her hotel. She befriends a cab driver who doesn't believe someone is out to get her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-29
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Opposites Attract
1990-10-16
Opposites Attract
Overview: A mayoral candidate (Barbara Eden) for a California town gets romantically involved with her opponent (John Forsythe), a former cowboy star.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-16
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Addicted to His Love
1988-03-27
Addicted to His Love
Overview: Larry Hogan, using various aliases, meets middle-aged women through dating services and personal ads and uses his charm to cheat them out of their money. When a number of his 'victims' compare notes things start to fall apart, leading to his downfall.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-27
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Scavenger Hunt
1979-12-21
Scavenger Hunt
Overview: An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars - which will only be given to the person or team, amongst his family and hired help, who wins a madcap scavenger hunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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Father of Hell Town
1985-03-06
Father of Hell Town
Overview: In this pilot to the short-lived "Hell Town," Robert Blake plays a scrappy, ex-convict-turned-ghetto priest in an impoverished inner-city parish.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-06
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Miracle at Beekman's Place
1988-12-26
Miracle at Beekman's Place
Overview: Following a family tragedy, an idealistic hospital chief of staff dumps his high-paying job to open a storefront inner-city clinic.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-26
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Pinocchio
1976-03-27
Pinocchio
Overview: This musical adaptation of Pinocchio from 1976 features the incomparable talents of Danny Kaye, Sandy Duncan, Flip Wilson, and Clive Revill. Framed by the story of a young theater girl's desire to study and work apart from her father, the story of Pinocchio is presented as a subplay with the young girl as Pinocchio (Sandy Duncan) and her father as Geppetto (Danny Kaye). The famous Carlo Collodi story of a lonely woodcutter whose marionette comes to life is presented faithfully and engagingly.
Genres: TV Movie Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-27
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More Wild Wild West
1980-10-07
More Wild Wild West
Overview: Robert Conrad and Ross Martin reprise their roles as Secret Service agents of the 1890s.
Genres: Western Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-07
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Murder Can Hurt You!
1980-05-21
Murder Can Hurt You!
Overview: A private eye spoof that sends up assorted TV detectives from Ironside, Columbo and Kojak to Baretta, McCloud and Starsky and Hutch, as eight bumbling super-sleuths band together in a battle of wits against the devilishly clever Master Criminal.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-21
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Sunset
1988-04-29
Sunset
Overview: Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-29
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Tab Hunter Confidential
2015-03-15
Tab Hunter Confidential
Overview: Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode and destroy him. Tab Hunter himself shares first hand, for the first time, what it was like to be a studio manufactured movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood and the consequences of being someone totally different from his studio manufactured image.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-15
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Bloodfist IV: Die Trying
1992-11-18
Bloodfist IV: Die Trying
Overview: When Danny unknowingly repossesses the car of a powerful arms merchant, it sets off a chain of violent retaliation. After his friends are killed and his daughter is kidnapped, Danny takes matters into his own hands. It does not matter that the CIA and the FBI are also involved the Dragon's fire is in his fists!
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-18
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Expecting Love
2008-02-29
Expecting Love
Overview: A successful Los Angeles lawyer discovers that a short-term affair could have long-term consequences when a woman he had a brief affair with claims that she's currently pregnant with his unborn child.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-02-29
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The Princess and the Barrio Boy
2000-12-08
The Princess and the Barrio Boy
Overview: A teenager who dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer has a romance with a boy from the wrong side of town.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-08
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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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America
1986-10-01
America
Overview: The zany crew of a New York cable TV station accidentally bounce a signal off the moon, bringing them worldwide attention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-01
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Kate's Secret
1986-11-17
Kate's Secret
Overview: A beautiful woman married to a successful lawyer and the perfect suburban mother turns out to be a closeted bulimic.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-17
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The Odd Couple II
1998-04-09
The Odd Couple II
Overview: Brucey, the son of Oscar, calls his father to invite him to his wedding to Felix's daughter next Sunday in California. Oscar and Felix meet again at Los Angeles International Airport and rent a car in order to go to San Malina for the wedding.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-09
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My Mom and the Girl
2017-10-03
My Mom and the Girl
Overview: After dinner with family and friends takes a dark turn, a woman with Alzheimer's is led to a proverbial crossroads where three very desperate women are unpredictably pulled back into the light.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-03
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Taylor
2005-11-01
Taylor
Overview: Mystery woman arrives in small mountain hallmark type town to attend a memorial or perhaps just to find resolve in her own life. She stays at a bed and breakfast run by a recent widower and a relationship develops. Some towns people suspect a romance, others just want this mystery girl to go away for no apparent reason other than she is an outsider. The mystery unravels and the girl's presence is cloaked in a deeper need that she has. What is her connection to this town, these people?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-01
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Sweet 15
1990-01-15
Sweet 15
Overview: Nothing is more important to Mexican-American Marta Delacruz than her quinceanera -- the traditional 15th birthday celebration that symbolically ushers a young girl into adulthood. Marta is understandably angry and resentful when her father cancels the gala event, but her outlook changes completely when she accidentally uncovers her father's secret: He never became a U.S. citizen.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-15
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Her Life as a Man
1984-03-12
Her Life as a Man
Overview: To land a sportswriting job on a national magazine run by a chauvinistic editor, an aspiring female reporter convincingly disguises herself as a man to get the inside story.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-12
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Joe Dirt
2001-04-10
Joe Dirt
Overview: Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks.
Genres: Mystery Adventure Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-10
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A Million to Juan
1994-05-15
A Million to Juan
Overview: Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in 30 days. Initially he uses the check to convince people to extend credit to him. In the meantime he also attracts a woman who is in a dead end relationship with a bossy businessman. At the end of the 30 days, he finds his life in turmoil, the things he got on credit are repossessed, and he is being evicted from his dwelling and being sent back to Mexico.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-15
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