Allan Rich
Biography: Allan Rich (born Benjamin Norman Schultz; (February 8, 1926 – August 22, 2020) was an American character actor, author and activist. Allan Rich was one of the many alleged communist sympathizers blacklisted in the 1950s Hollywood blacklist. He mentored Rene Russo in the world of acting and also played a judge in Hill Street Blues. Rich was the co-founder of non-profit organization We Care About Kids, which produces educational short films for middle and high school youths. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allan Rich, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 08, 1926
Deathday: August 22, 2020
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Rise: Blood Hunter
2007-04-28
Rise: Blood Hunter
Overview: A reporter on the trail of a sinister cult wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the undead. She goes on a personal vendetta for a group a cultists that are responsible for her death.
Genres: Action Adventure Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-28
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A Killing Affair
1977-09-21
A Killing Affair
Overview: A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. During the course of the investigation the two begin to develop an attraction to each other, but the situation is complicated by the fact that he is married.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-21
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Quiz Show
1994-08-25
Quiz Show
Overview: Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.
Genres: History Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-25
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Highlander II: The Quickening
1991-01-13
Highlander II: The Quickening
Overview: In the year 2024, the ozone layer is believed to have been destroyed, and it's up to MacLeod and Ramirez to set things right. Opposition comes from both the planet Ziest (MacLeod and Ramirez's homeworld) and a corporation profiting from the supposed lack of ozone. Also, flashbacks show the story behind MacLeod and Ramirez's exile from Ziest.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-13
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Amistad
1997-12-10
Amistad
Overview: In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
Genres: Drama History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-10
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The Entity
1982-09-30
The Entity
Overview: Single mother Carla Moran is raped and attacked by an invisible force. She begins therapy with Dr. Phil Sneiderman, a psychiatrist who believes Carla's traumatic past is motivating her to commit self-induced injuries, rather than anything supernatural.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-30
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Tail Gunner Joe
1977-02-06
Tail Gunner Joe
Overview: Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-06
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The Gambler
1974-10-02
The Gambler
Overview: New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-02
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Two Much
1995-12-01
Two Much
Overview: Art Dodge is a painter-turned-gallerist drowning in debt. He gets in over his head when a con job leads to an engagement with a rich divorcee. He gets in deeper when he falls for her sister, and invents a twin brother to be her beau; and deeper still when his fiancée's ex-husband comes looking for revenge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-01
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Out to Sea
1997-07-02
Out to Sea
Overview: Care-free Charlie cons his widower brother-in-law Herb into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. The catch is that they are required to be dance hosts! With a tyrannical cruise director, and the luscious Liz and lovely Vivian, our heroes have lots of mis-adventures before they finally return to port.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-02
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The Memory Thief
2007-04-14
The Memory Thief
Overview: A Los Angeles tollbooth clerk becomes obsessed with the Holocaust after meeting a survivor.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-14
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The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
1981-04-12
The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
Overview: A rugged warrior is on a quest to avenge his father's brutal slaying and in search of a legendary sorcerer who can help him. Joining him on his mission is a beautiful enchantress who is also searching for the sorcerer; pursuing him is a malevolent wizard who wants him dead.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-12
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Checking Out
1988-10-26
Checking Out
Overview: When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortality. Convinced that all his aches and pains are an indication of his imminent death, Ray's life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-26
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J.O.E. and the Colonel
1985-09-11
J.O.E. and the Colonel
Overview: Scientists create "the perfect soldier" in a lab experiment by recombining his molecules. He is then sent out on dangerous but vital missions.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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Uncle Joe Shannon
1978-01-01
Uncle Joe Shannon
Overview: A trumpet player, self-destructive after the death of his wife and child in a fire, befriends a crippled youngster and together they battle obstacles through each other's encouragement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Hostage Heart
1977-09-09
The Hostage Heart
Overview: When billionaire industrialist goes into a hospital for a heart operation, some people who claim to be revolutionaries enter the operating room and draw guns and holds the man and the entire surgical staff hostage. They then demand 10 million dollars. The administrator calls the police and the FBI. The police claim jurisdiction over the matter and the man in charge is intent on taking them even if some of the hostages get killed. Eventually they learn that some of the people in hospital are with them.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-09
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Frances
1982-12-03
Frances
Overview: The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-03
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Voices
1979-03-14
Voices
Overview: An up-and-coming nightclub singer falls in love with a shy young deaf teacher who aspires to be a dancer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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Another Chance
1989-11-23
Another Chance
Overview: A womanizer tries to redeem himself to win over the girl of his dreams.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-23
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The Last Laugh
2016-04-18
The Last Laugh
Overview: Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-18
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Miami Hustle
1996-07-21
Miami Hustle
Overview: Marsha, a con artist with a conscience, has agreed to take on an unusual scheme in order to pay off a debt to a lawyer who helped out her brother. An elderly millionaire is about to die, and the entire fortune has been willed to a stripper named Jean, who is unaware of the windfall awaiting her. Marsha's task is to get to know Jean well enough that she can impersonate her at the reading of the will and take the inheritance for herself. Taking a job at the same strip club, the pair soon bond, but will Marsha's feelings for her new friend outweigh her need to help pay off her brother's debt?
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-21
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Gideon's Trumpet
1980-04-30
Gideon's Trumpet
Overview: True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.
Genres: Drama Crime History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-30
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Ragin Cajun
1991-01-01
Ragin Cajun
Overview: After his girlfriend is kidnapped by a vicious mobster, Cage rips into action with a vengeance. Retired from kickboxing to pursue dreams of being an entertainer, Cage is forced into a death match with the brutal doctor death. He must win, or he will die.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Rich Man's Wife
1996-09-13
The Rich Man's Wife
Overview: A rich man's wife finds she has a bad prenuptial agreement with an even worse husband. Over drinks with a stranger, she fantasizes about doing her husband in to void the prenup — but much to her surprise, the stranger decides to turn her imagination into reality.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Scott Free
1976-10-13
Scott Free
Overview: A professional gambler finds himself on the run from the mob, the federal government, and a band of Indians, all of whom have an interest in a piece of land he won in a poker game.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-13
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Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence
1976-02-08
Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence
Overview: In this pilot film, Mallory is a prominent lawyer with a tarnished reputation who defends a young man charged with committing homicide against a sexual predator in prison.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-08
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Troupers
2011-06-01
Troupers
Overview: Takes a look at twelve working actors in Hollywood over 80 and how they have managed to survive this crazy business.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-01
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Disclosure
1994-12-09
Disclosure
Overview: A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-09
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The Millionaire
1978-12-19
The Millionaire
Overview: Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire in this pilot to a prospective new series which the producers hoped would equal the success of the original one that ran from 1955 to 1960.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-19
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Matters of the Heart
1990-12-26
Matters of the Heart
Overview: A noted concert pianist in her early forties, totally obsessed with her music, retreats to a small town to be alone and to write a concerto, but there falls for a talented teenage musician and becomes consumed in an affair with him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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Exposé
1998-02-23
Exposé
Overview: Jason Davis is a reporter who gets an anonymous tip that turns him into an eyewitness to a judge's murder.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-23
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Serpico
1973-12-18
Serpico
Overview: Frank Serpico is an idealistic New York City cop who refuses to take bribes, unlike the rest of the force. Frank's actions get him shunned by the other officers, and often placed in dangerous situations by his partners. When his superiors ignore his accusations of corruption, Frank decides to go public with the allegations. Although this causes the Knapp Commission to investigate his claims, Frank has also placed a target on himself.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-18
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Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
1996-01-01
Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
Overview: Explores sexuality and censorship over a hundred years of motion pictures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Amore!
1993-11-01
Amore!
Overview: Saul Schwartz, a married successful businessman, is bored with his life and decides he has had enough. So he gets a divorce, quits his job, and goes off to pursue his dream, in Hollywood to be a movie star. Only becoming a movie star isn't as easy as he thought. Nobody wants an overweight, 50 year old, New Yorker who looks like a lawyer. He's going to have to make a few adjustments.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-01
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A Gun in the House
1981-02-11
A Gun in the House
Overview: A woman who uses a handgun to defend herself and shoots a man who is assaulting her in her home is doggedly prosecuted by the district attorney, bent on making an example of her case.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-11
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Man in the Chair
2007-01-27
Man in the Chair
Overview: The story of an aspiring young filmmaker's encounter with a grumpy fount of movie lore.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-27
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The Ordeal of Bill Carney
1981-12-23
The Ordeal of Bill Carney
Overview: Bill Carney has just been paralyzed from the neck down. He has been taking care of his two sons since his wife left him. Now, when word of his condition reaches her, she wants to take them away, as she feels that he is unable to care for them. And it appears that the courts agree too. So, his lawyer, also a paraplegic, begins the campaign to take his case before the Supreme Court. Will he win?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-23
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A Part of the Family
1994-07-06
A Part of the Family
Overview: A bright young New York physician takes her husband, a jokey/cynical tabloid reporter, home to Illinois to meet her parents.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-06
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The Last Word
2008-04-20
The Last Word
Overview: An odd-but-gifted poet, Evan Merck makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be departed. So when he meets Charlotte, the free-spirited sister of his latest client, Evan has no choice but to lie about his relationship to her late, lamented brother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-20
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Bad Guys
1986-03-14
Bad Guys
Overview: Two LA cops turn to professional wrestling for money and revenge after being suspended from the force for a bar brawl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-14
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Dead On: Relentless II
1992-02-26
Dead On: Relentless II
Overview: Detective Sam Dietz is paired with a shady FBI agent to track down another serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles.
Genres: Action Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-26
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Eating Raoul
1982-03-24
Eating Raoul
Overview: A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant.
Genres: Comedy Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-24
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Guilty by Suspicion
1991-03-15
Guilty by Suspicion
Overview: Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous challenges.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-15
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Jack
1996-08-09
Jack
Overview: Jack Powell suffers from an affliction that makes him grow four times faster than normal, so the 10 year old boy looks like a 40 year old man. After years of being tutored at home, Jack convinces his overprotective parents to send him to public school. The children don't know what to make of Jack, but with the help of his fifth-grade teacher, he makes an effort to win them over.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-09
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Kidco
1984-04-13
Kidco
Overview: A boy who lives at a country club where his father works decides to make some extra money by selling composted horse manure as fertilizer, and has his three sisters (two of which are older) join him in the enterprise. As their sales increase, they draw increased scrutiny from the IRS and state tax board, as well as the large scale competitor who seeks to put them out of business at any cost.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-13
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The Seekers
1979-12-03
The Seekers
Overview: This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and career from his emigration to colonial Massachusetts through the American Revolutionary War and concludes the family saga with the story of his two sons and their children as they arrive in the unexplored Northwest Territory. (Episodes 5 and 6 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-03
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The Frisco Kid
1979-07-06
The Frisco Kid
Overview: Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his belongings scattered along a deserted road. He is befriended by a stranger, Tommy, who is a bank robber and have many adventures during their journey.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-06
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Terraces
1977-06-27
Terraces
Overview: Story of the various joys and crises of neighbors who share terraces in a high-rise apartment building.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-27
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The Alibi
2006-01-12
The Alibi
Overview: Con man Ray Elliot decides to leave crime behind to start a company that sells fake alibis to clients who have been unfaithful to their significant others. It seems that the streetwise Ray has found his calling, until he unexpectedly becomes a murder suspect in a case involving one of his most influential customers. Now, as the police and an assassin called "The Mormon" track Ray, he and his attractive assistant, Lola, must clear their own names.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-12
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The Dogwalker
2002-09-13
The Dogwalker
Overview: Jerry Cooper is The Dogwalker, a Tom Sawyer grown up for the nineties, who having fallen on hard times, is struggling with the reality of having to sleep in his car. When he quite literally stumbles upon an old lady and her dog, he suddenly finds himself caught up in her life and over her head in a twisted mix of class, race, age, sex, drugs, dog leashes, inheritances and contract bridge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-13
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Father and Son
2010-03-12
Father and Son
Overview: A grown man's quest to find love and acceptance from his stepdad and win a magazine contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-12
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The Happy Hooker
1975-05-08
The Happy Hooker
Overview: Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent. After a while she decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation grows she graduates to a high-class bordello. Soon she realises she has the right talents to make a real success of a place of her own.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-08
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Strike Force
1975-04-12
Strike Force
Overview: A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-12
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Wish I Was Here
2014-07-18
Wish I Was Here
Overview: Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic Space-Knight he'd always dreamed he'd be as a little kid. When his ailing father can no longer afford to pay for private school for his two kids and the only available public school is on its last legs, Aidan reluctantly agrees to attempt to home-school them. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn't find.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-18
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Chicago Story
1981-03-15
Chicago Story
Overview: A pair of cops, a pair of doctors, and a pair of lawyers examine a crime — the wounding of a ten-year-old girl by a sniper — from three different angles in this pilot to the short-lived series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-15
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Hero at Large
1980-02-08
Hero at Large
Overview: An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that it is more difficult and dangerous than he ever imagined.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-08
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Skippy
2001-01-01
Skippy
Overview: A half-wit falls in love with a beautiful movie star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Betsy's Wedding
1990-06-22
Betsy's Wedding
Overview: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife Lola into a financial panic.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-22
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Nickel & Dime
1992-01-01
Nickel & Dime
Overview: A P.I. hasn't paid taxes in ages. When the IRS sends an accountant to investigate him, his only way out is to solve his latest case of a missing heiress. However, someone wants to prevent this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins
1995-11-12
National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins
Overview: America's three top leisure-time activities come roaring to life in National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins. This film consists of three short stories: Greed (Joe Mantegna), Anger (Andrew Clay) and Lust (Denis Leary).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-12
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