Jay Patterson
Biography: Jay Patterson (born August 22, 1954 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American actor. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1984.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 22, 1954
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
City of Angels
1998-04-10
City of Angels
Overview: When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-10
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Nobody's Fool
1994-12-23
Nobody's Fool
Overview: A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wife. As his estranged son returns, he faces new family responsibilities, while a banker plots to evict him from his home.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-23
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McBain
1991-09-20
McBain
Overview: Santos attempts to lead a people's revolt in Colombia to overthrow the Presidente. When his revolt fails and he is killed, his sister Christina goes to New York to find McBain, a lieutenant Santos rescued during the Vietnam War. McBain agrees to help, recruits his old war buddies, raises some cash by killing a few drug dealers, then leads an attack to topple the Colombian government.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-20
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A Civil Action
1998-12-25
A Civil Action
Overview: Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obsession, to the extent that he is willing to give up everything—including his career and his clients' goals—in order to continue the case against all odds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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My Sassy Girl
2008-05-26
My Sassy Girl
Overview: A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-26
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Nice Guy Johnny
2010-11-04
Nice Guy Johnny
Overview: Johnny Rizzo, is about to trade his dream job in talk radio for some snooze-ville gig that'll pay enough to please his fiance. Enter Uncle Terry, a rascally womanizer set on turning a weekend in the Hamptons into an eye-opening fling for his nephew. Nice guy Johnny's not interested, of course, but then he meets the lovely Brooke, who challenges Johnny to make the toughest decision of is life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-04
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Love, Ludlow
2006-02-05
Love, Ludlow
Overview: Myra Smuldanski has done the unthinkable. After years of shunning men she accepts a date with Reginald Baron, an account executive at the office where she temps. The only man in her life up to this point has been Ludlow, Myra's bi-polar younger brother who aspires to be the next Jackson Pollack. Lud is not to happy with the new man in Myra's life and tries his best to destroy any budding relations
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-05
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Heaven Help Us
1985-02-08
Heaven Help Us
Overview: Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1990-03-30
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Overview: A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-30
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Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7
1993-11-23
Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7
Overview: Student nurses join some doctors to work in a medical station a few hours flying-time from the Mexican town of Catamaco. One of their planes goes down due to an engine malfunction and crashes in the rain forest. This is the story of the attempts to save the lives of the passengers (both nurses and doctors).
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-23
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Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985-02-25
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Overview: At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners fled, and the 10,000 blacks who lived there, almost all of whom were slaves, were freed in the first test of President Abraham Lincoln's dream of emancipation. Charlotte Forten, a 21-year-old educated black woman, helped the freed slaves to begin to build a new society. That experience forms the plot of this drama, based on Charlotte Forten's journals, which was telecast on "American Playhouse."
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-25
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Nine Lives
2016-08-03
Nine Lives
Overview: A stuffy businessman finds himself trapped inside the body of his family's cat.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-03
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Ted 2
2015-06-25
Ted 2
Overview: Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-25
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Margaret Bourke-White
1989-04-24
Margaret Bourke-White
Overview: A biographical account of pioneering photographer Margaret Bourke-White's career.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-24
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A Gentleman's Game
2002-08-20
A Gentleman's Game
Overview: A drama revolving around characters whose lives are transformed one summer at an exclusive East Coast country club.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-20
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Brother's Shadow
2006-04-29
Brother's Shadow
Overview: Jake Groden is the black sheep of his family. Ankle deep in fish guts, he serves out his parole in Alaska. Then, after a decade of self-imposed exile, he is forced to return to his Brooklyn family. He soon discovers that his perfect brother, Michael is dead, and he begins trying to take what Michael had- a beautiful wife, adoring son, control of the family furniture business and the love of their gruff father. For Jake, the price of a new life is his identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-29
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Purple Violets
2007-04-30
Purple Violets
Overview: Patti Petalson is a promising writer, but her marriage and conventional job keep her from her dream. She longs to return to her writing, especially after running into her first love Brian Callahan, a successful crime novelist. Kate is Patti's best friend since college; she's a tough-talking schoolteacher who plays therapist to all Patti's problems, while she's got a few of her own.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-30
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014-05-22
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Overview: As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-22
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The Babysitters
2008-05-09
The Babysitters
Overview: Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night Michael, a father Shirley works for, confesses he's unhappy with married life. Shirley has a crush on Michael, and seizes this moment to kiss him. Michael is so happy he presents Shirley with a big tip, which gives her an idea. Shirley plans to make extra money by setting up her teenage friends with other unhappy fathers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-09
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Places in the Heart
1984-09-11
Places in the Heart
Overview: In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-11
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D.O.A.
1988-03-18
D.O.A.
Overview: Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the murderer but hasn't much time. He finds help and comfort from one of his student, Sydney Fuller.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-18
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Excessive Force II: Force on Force
1995-08-29
Excessive Force II: Force on Force
Overview: Stacie Randall plays Harley, a Special Forces agent-turned-investigator, who arrives on the scene of an apparent mob hit to help the local police. In actuality, she's hunting down Francis Lydell, her former C.O. and lover, who shot her in the head when she turned down his offer to become part of the freelance assassination squad he was forming. Ignoring the need for surgery to remove the bullet fragment which still causes her to have occasional bouts of disorientation, she continues her quest to bring down Lydell before he has the chance to kill a Mafia informant being held at the police station. Written by Chris Holland
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-29
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Hard Rain
1998-01-16
Hard Rain
Overview: An armored car driver tries to elude a gang of thieves while a flood ravages the countryside.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-16
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Death of a President
2006-10-27
Death of a President
Overview: A fictional investigative documentary looks back on the "assassination" of George W. Bush and attempts to answer the question of who committed the murder. Perhaps less morbid and disturbing to watch now than during Bush's presidency, the film doesn't address Bush's policies at all, instead focusing on the way a nation assigns blame in a time of crisis.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-27
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Street Smart
1987-03-20
Street Smart
Overview: A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-20
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Nadine
1987-08-07
Nadine
Overview: Hairdresser Nadine Hightower wants to retrieve the risqué photos she once posed for, but when she visits the photographer at his office, he's murdered by an intruder. Nadine talks her estranged husband, Vernon, into going along when she returns to the office, where they stumble across plans for a less than legal construction project. But when Vernon tries to turn the documents into a cash windfall, he and Nadine are pursued by goons with guns.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-07
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Double Jeopardy
1992-11-21
Double Jeopardy
Overview: Jack Hart lives with his lawyer wife and yound daughter and enjoys a wonderful life. Jack's old girlfriend, Lisa, comes into town and they have an affair. Lisa kills her current boyfriend in self-defense and Jack witnesses the whole thing. Lisa goes on trial for murder with Jack's wife as her lawyer. As the movie progresses Lisa's devious side becomes known and make for an interesting conclusion
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-21
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American Perfekt
1997-06-11
American Perfekt
Overview: Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be made on a flip of a coin. Meanwhile, Sandra Thomas, disenchanted professional, is en route to pick up her flunked out sister, Alice, at a cheap motel before continuing on to visit their ailing mother. After being forced off the road by a mysterious assailant, however, Sandra is picked up by Jake, who's coin flipping amoral attitude quickly excites her own desire to break a few rules. Or worse. Jake and Sandra's romance is soon driven by chance acts of crime and kindness, all governed by the flip of a coin - at least until Sandra mysteriously disappears and Jake unwittingly picks up her suspicious sister, Alice ...
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-11
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Romeo Is Bleeding
1993-09-13
Romeo Is Bleeding
Overview: A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-13
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Slums of Beverly Hills
1998-08-14
Slums of Beverly Hills
Overview: In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-14
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All the King's Men
2006-09-10
All the King's Men
Overview: The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren, loosely based on the story of real-life politician Huey Long.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-10
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