Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dana Wheeler-Nicholson (born New York City, New York, October 9, 1960) is an American actress. Sometimes credited as Dana Wheeler Nicholson, she has appeared in numerous movies, but is probably best known for her role in Fletch as Gail Stanwyk (wife of the villain and love interest of the title character played by Chevy Chase) and in Tombstone (1993) as Mattie Blaylock (Wyatt Earp's common law wife). Her most recent movie role was in Fast Food Nation (2006). She has also appeared in several TV series including Seinfeld, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Sex and the City, Boston Public, Boston Legal, Friday Night Lights, and most recently The Good Guys. She is the granddaughter of pioneering American comic book publisher Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Birthday: October 09, 1960
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Circuitry Man
1990-05-01
Circuitry Man
Overview: In a future where most humans have moved underground to escape the pollution, one of the few pleasures left is a kind of narcotic in the form of chips which can be plugged directly into the brain. Lori, a female body guard steals a case of such chips and flees underground Los Angeles with Danner, a pleasure android so that they can smuggle the chips to New York. In pursuit is Plughead, a dangerous criminal so named because of the many sockets and ports which decorate his scalp so that he can test and use the chips that he is after.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-01
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Tombstone
1993-12-25
Tombstone
Overview: Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-25
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Five Time Champion
2012-01-24
Five Time Champion
Overview: While the young scientist, Julius, steadfastly researches the asexual reproduction of worms, his natural curiosity leads him to discover some inconvenient truths about those around him. He witnesses his mother's infidelity and suspects his grandfather for the same, all while he believes he is losing his best friend Shiley to a rival named Chase. These disappointments are forefront while he also wrestles with his father's mysterious departure years ago. Julius keeps a diligent eye, but unfortunately, all of his heartbreakingly acute observation seems to prove that no solution will restore the people he cares about to their appropriate roles. How can Julius hold together a family that seems as though none of its parts can stay intact? How can he build his own romantic relationships under the shadow of rumors about his father's homosexuality?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-24
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Fletch
1985-05-31
Fletch
Overview: When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to murder him. With sarcastic wit and a knack for disguises, Fletch sets out to uncover Stanwyk's story.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-31
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Denise Calls Up
1995-05-17
Denise Calls Up
Overview: A group of friends in New York, working away at their PCs and laptops, keep in touch exclusively by phone and fax. They are all too busy to meet face to face. Gale plays matchmaker, by phone, to Jerry and Barbara who, in turn, hit it off beautifully – via phone and fax. Martin gets a telephone call from someone he's never met. It's Denise, with some extraordinary news. Tapping away at his computer all the while, he develops a sort of friendship with Denise – via phone. And so it goes as the friends, tap, tap, tapping away, share news, hopes, and dreams – via phone and fax. Finally Gale has an unfortunate encounter with a phone, Denise has some more news for Martin, and Frank plans a gala New Year's Eve party, but will he answer the door?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-17
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Dance with the One
2010-03-20
Dance with the One
Overview: Nate's little brother and hippie dad depend on him for literally everything, but the well-meaning, small time pot dealer Nate wants nothing more than to run away with Nikki, the love of his life, and get out of Texas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-20
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The Pompatus of Love
1996-07-26
The Pompatus of Love
Overview: Four guys sit around drinking beer and talking, trying to figure out the meaning of "the pompatus of love" (from the Steve Miller song "Joker") and analyzing their relationships with women.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-26
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Jamaica Beat
1997-05-09
Jamaica Beat
Overview: When a renowned New York photographer and her new husband arrive for a holiday in a close-knit Jamaican resort town, their dream vacation becomes a scenario out of a murder mystery.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-09
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Winter in the Blood
2014-08-20
Winter in the Blood
Overview: A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by childhood memories, discovers that his wife has left him, taking with her his prize rifle. He sets out to find her, but what he's really searching for is his own uncertain identity and a glimpse of salvation.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-20
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Baby M
1988-05-22
Baby M
Overview: Baby M is a two-part TV movie predicated on a headline-making true event. In 1985, Mary Beth Whitehead accepted $10,000 to bear a child, which then would be adopted by William and Elizabeth Stern. But after the baby's birth in March of 1986, Whitehead reneged on the agreement. The subsequent high-profile custody trial raged on for well over nine months.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-22
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Living in Peril
1997-06-21
Living in Peril
Overview: The young architect Walter leaves his wife Linda to go to L.A. to draw a mansion for Harrison. On the highway a truck driver almost drives him off the road. Walter calls the truck-company to complain. The driver gets fired. When Walter arrives to the apartment-block where he has rented a flat he meets the choleric landlord William and the others living there. But now the problems starts. The next morning somebody has ruined his drawing and Harrison dislikes what Walter has drawn. But soon everything gets out of hand. Walter gets into more trouble - one morning he finds rats all over his apartment and the next day he finds his beautiful neighbor killed in his bed - and he starts to think that it is the fired truck driver who is out to get revenge.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-21
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Sam the Man
2001-02-01
Sam the Man
Overview: A writer having difficulty completing his second novel goes on a journey of self-discovery.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-01
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Unconventional
2022-07-21
Unconventional
Overview: Eccentric, queer siblings Noah and Margot Guillory and their significant others try to start an unconventional family while navigating their thirties.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-21
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Frank & Jesse
1994-10-21
Frank & Jesse
Overview: At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James and other former guerillas who rode with Quantrill and Bill Anderson take the oath of allegiance to the Union. Feeling oppressed by Chicago railroad investors, the James and Younger brothers, Bob and Charlie Ford, Clell Miller and Arch Clements take to robbing banks, trains and coaches, with Pinkerton sworn to bringing them to justice.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-21
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Murder in High Places
1991-06-02
Murder in High Places
Overview: A small Colorado mountain town elects as its mayor a writer whom some residents consider "eccentric" and others don't care for because he's a former hippie. Complications ensue when soon after the election, a dead body crashes through the skylight of a local building, and the body turns out to be the new mayor's ex-wife.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-02
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6 Years
2015-03-14
6 Years
Overview: A young couple bound by a seemingly ideal love, begins to unravel as unexpected opportunities spin them down a volatile and violent path and threaten the future they had always imagined.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-14
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Parkland
2013-10-02
Parkland
Overview: November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions after an event that would change their lives and forever alter the world’s landscape.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-02
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Blacktino
2011-03-11
Blacktino
Overview: Always treacherous to navigate, the high school social scene is made even more so if you don't look like everyone else. Such is the case for half-black/half-Latino big boy Stefan Daily. Luckily for him, he's not the only outcast in this dark comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-11
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Nick and Jane
1997-11-14
Nick and Jane
Overview: N.Y. corporate Jane discovers her boyfriend John in bed with another woman, leaves building enraged and jumps into cab. Her driver is Nick. Jane and her friend Vickie have a plan - to make John jealous, they'll give Nick a false corporate identity and pass him off as Jane's new boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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NYPD Mounted
1991-01-01
NYPD Mounted
Overview: New York City cop becomes partners with a rodeo cowboy from Montana on the City's Mounted Police Department.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Mrs. Soffel
1984-12-26
Mrs. Soffel
Overview: Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-26
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Miss Arizona
2018-06-10
Miss Arizona
Overview: A former pageant queen embarks on an all-night adventure with four unlikely friends she meets at a women's shelter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-10
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The Little Drummer Girl
1984-10-19
The Little Drummer Girl
Overview: An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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The Night We Never Met
1993-04-30
The Night We Never Met
Overview: Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Brian, soon to be married) and Ellen (a would-be painter seeking relief from her boring marriage) each get their seperate nights in the flat. Things go extremely well until Sam and Brian swap nights without telling Ellen, who attributes the "nice" things that happen around the place to the slob Brian, while berating the responsible Sam for his hedonistic lifestyle.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-30
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The Battle of Shaker Heights
2003-08-22
The Battle of Shaker Heights
Overview: A quirky teen with a penchant for war reenactments, Kelly Ernswiler obsesses over military tactics with his buddy Bart. The school bully is one of Kelly's regular headaches, and he also has to deal with a frustrating situation at home, where his father is a recovering drug addict. Kelly's life gets even more complicated when he falls for Tabby, Bart's pretty and soon-to-be-wed older sister.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-22
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Fast Food Nation
2006-11-17
Fast Food Nation
Overview: A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-17
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Blue Miracle
2021-05-27
Blue Miracle
Overview: To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-27
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Bye Bye Love
1995-03-16
Bye Bye Love
Overview: With varying degrees of success, recently divorced friends Dave, Vic and Donny are trying to move on with their lives. Vic feels vilified by his ex-wife's parents, while Donny has a shaky bond with his teen daughter, Emma. Dave, meanwhile, has an enviable problem -- he has more dates than he can handle. As they confront their post-marital challenges, the men take solace in one another's plights.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-16
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