Barton Heyman
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Birthday: January 24, 1937
Deathday: May 15, 1996
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Awakenings
1990-12-04
Awakenings
Overview: Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-04
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Valdez Is Coming
1971-04-09
Valdez Is Coming
Overview: Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when it came to defending law and order. But the weapon smuggler Frank Tanner is greedy and impulsive. When Tanner provokes a shooting that causes the death of an innocent man and Valdez asks him to financially compensate the widow, Tanner refuses to do so and severely humiliates Valdez, who will do justice and avenge his honor, no matter what it takes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-09
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The Wizard of Loneliness
1988-09-02
The Wizard of Loneliness
Overview: After his mother dies and father goes to fight in World War II, a young boy moves in with his aunt and uncle who live in the countryside. Lonely and unhappy, he starts believing he has super powers. Then a "dead" man shows up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-02
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Exorcising 'Cruising'
2007-09-18
Exorcising 'Cruising'
Overview: Part two of the making of William Friedkin's 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-18
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The History of 'Cruising'
2007-09-18
The History of 'Cruising'
Overview: Part one of the making of William Friedkin’s 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-18
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The Exorcist
1973-12-26
The Exorcist
Overview: When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, the girl's mother realizes her daughter has been possessed by the devil - and that her daughter's only possible hope lies with two priests and the ancient rite of demonic exorcism.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-26
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990-12-21
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Overview: After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Cruising
1980-02-15
Cruising
Overview: When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-15
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Night of the Juggler
1980-06-06
Night of the Juggler
Overview: An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-06
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Let's Scare Jessica to Death
1971-08-27
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Overview: Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her.
Genres: Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-27
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Coaster: The Adventures of the John F. Leavitt
1983-07-18
Coaster: The Adventures of the John F. Leavitt
Overview: Six years in the making, "COASTER" is the true story of a wooden coastal schooner the John F. Leavitt. It is the story of the sea, seen through the eyes of a Melville...a rich human drama set against the backdrop of the harsh North Atlantic and the rugged coast of Maine. Prepare yourself to set sail on an adventure that will leave you deeply enriched - a story that will move every member of your family.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-18
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Rescuing Desire
1996-05-14
Rescuing Desire
Overview: Toni, a very accomplished social worker and award winning nurse, is engaged to successful physician, Dr Ralph Mallory and works in a hospital run by Ralph's father. Following the death of her teenage son, Toni is acutely aware of how short life can be and is determined to live it on her terms. Van, Toni's best friend also works in the hospital and has been a great support throughout her recent ordeal On the surface, a well adjusted middle class woman in a stable relationship, we are soon made aware of Toni's long term longing for women and her struggle to deal with it and conform. Rescuing Desire takes us through Toni's exploration of her sexuality and Van's efforts to ensure Toni's safety during her self discovery
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-14
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The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
1970-10-04
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Overview: A BBC-produced docudrama based on trial transcripts and aired in the United Kingdom in October 1970
Genres: TV Movie Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-04
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Largo Desolato
1990-04-20
Largo Desolato
Overview: A fictionalized autobiographical play written by Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel in 1984 upon his release from a four-and-one-half-year prison term for political subversion. The play focuses on two days in the life of a dissident writer who is awaiting the knock at the door that may send him to prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-20
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The Lost Capone
1990-09-10
The Lost Capone
Overview: While Al Capone works his way up from top-dog street gang thug captain in Chicago to U.S. crime king, his brother Jimmy Capone chooses the righteous way, actually with father's blessing, leaving Illinois for small town Harmony in Nebraska, where he adopts the alias Richard Hart, marries teacher Kathleen, has offspring and becomes its incorruptible town marshal, with a loyal Indian deputy. When his efficient fight against Al's illegal alcohol trade starts to bite financially, the gang's top lawyer is sent to buy 'Hart' or order his death, but recognizes Jimmy and arranges a fraternal reunion in Chicago. Yet money nor threats can turn Jimmy bad...
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-10
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Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
1983-03-08
Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
Overview: TV movie based on the singer's life, under his mother's thumb, competing with the ghost of one of the most famous singers in C&W music history, and aspiring to rise above it all.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-08
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Weeds
1987-10-16
Weeds
Overview: A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-16
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Billy Galvin
1986-11-01
Billy Galvin
Overview: Conflict arises between a steelworker and his son. The father wants the boy to have a chance to make more of himself than he did, but the son wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a steel-worker himself.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-01
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The Haunting of Penthouse D
1974-10-15
The Haunting of Penthouse D
Overview: A troubled young woman agrees to spend two weeks at a friend's Manhattan penthouse while the friend is away on a modeling assignment, but a series of mysterious disturbances begin occurring during the night.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-15
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Final Verdict
1991-09-09
Final Verdict
Overview: A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty as charged.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-09
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For Love and Glory
1993-09-11
For Love and Glory
Overview: A failed pilot about a rich Virginia plantation owner and his family caught up in the American Civil War. He has a slave for a mistress, his older son is to marry a working class Irish girl and his younger son promotes the Confederacy.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-11
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The Naked Flame
1964-03-08
The Naked Flame
Overview: A Doukhobor sect in Northern Alberta tries to prevent the wedding of a Russian girl to a Canadian.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-08
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The Basketball Diaries
1995-04-21
The Basketball Diaries
Overview: A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-21
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Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
1992-01-19
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Overview: In the second dramatic case for lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman who is wrongly imprisoned and refused release from a mental institution.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-19
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Found Money
1983-12-19
Found Money
Overview: Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to the poor with anonymous checks (money accessed from inactive accounts) to average do-gooders.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-19
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Dead Man Walking
1995-12-29
Dead Man Walking
Overview: A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-29
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Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
1980-12-07
Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
Overview: Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a running back for the Steelers in 1968, he was then drafted by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-07
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Legs
1983-05-02
Legs
Overview: Three ambitious young women risk it all when they compete for a chance to dance with the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-02
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Static
1986-06-13
Static
Overview: Ernie Blick has just lost his job at a crucifix factory. Luckily, for Ernie, this allows him more time to devote to his invention. Yes, Ernie is an inventor -- and he's come up with something big. So big, in fact, Ernie's convinced it will change the way people look at life and death. With the support of his drummer friend Julia and his ex-Green Beret-evangelist cousin, Ernie unveils it to the world. But even he isn't prepared for the public's reaction.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-13
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Raising Cain
1992-08-07
Raising Cain
Overview: Child psychologist Carter Nix is a loving and caring family man, but under this appearance lies a dark and troubled past. Grappling with the consequences of this past on his own psyche and the influence of his returning father and violent brother Cain, Carter becomes involved in a series of murders and kidnappings. Meanwhile, his wife Jenny rekindles an old love affair, placing herself in the crosshairs of her increasingly unstable husband.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-07
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Is There Sex After Death?
1971-10-24
Is There Sex After Death?
Overview: Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation, searches out luminary figures in the world of sex.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-24
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The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
1972-05-15
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
Overview: On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service office outside Baltimore. They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them afire with napalm.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-15
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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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The Super Cops
1974-03-20
The Super Cops
Overview: The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-20
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Road Movie
1974-02-03
Road Movie
Overview: Gil and Hank are two independent truckers who run into problems when they are forced to pay off traffic managers to get loads. They also have to pay off highway cops when their rigs are overweight and bank loans but consider themselves lucky just to be able to keep up the interest payments. Add to that a small, frizzy-wigged highway hooker named Janice, who tempts them with her lurid charms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-03
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Baby Blue Marine
1976-05-05
Baby Blue Marine
Overview: A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A small Colorado town takes him in, treating him like the hero he appears to be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-05
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The Defection of Simas Kudirka
1978-01-23
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
Overview: Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It was later discovered and verified that his mother had been born in Brooklyn and gone to Lithuania at a young age, which meant she was a U. S. citizen. As a result, Kudirka was declared a U. S. citizen and in 1974 released by the Soviets.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-23
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Lawman Without a Gun
1979-05-30
Lawman Without a Gun
Overview: During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-30
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Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer
1983-10-15
Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer
Overview: A New York detective and a victim's colleague hunt a killer who preys on single women.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-15
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The Satan Murders
1974-01-11
The Satan Murders
Overview: Assured that it's a joke, a berated wife makes a deal with a local Satan occultist for the death of her irritating husband and finds that the Devil doesn't play games.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-11
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Bum Rap
1988-09-26
Bum Rap
Overview: Paul Colson is a New York cabdriver and struggling actor. When he learns that he has about three days left to live due to a rare blood disorder, he goes through all five stages of loss and grief in a darkly comedic way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-26
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One Police Plaza
1986-11-29
One Police Plaza
Overview: A veteran New York City Police Lieutenant's investigation of a woman's murder uncovers corruption in high places.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-29
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The Secret of My Success
1987-04-10
The Secret of My Success
Overview: Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-10
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Thin Ice
1981-02-17
Thin Ice
Overview: A teacher falls in love with a student, and deals with the reactions of the people around her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-17
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Jeffrey
1995-08-18
Jeffrey
Overview: Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-18
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Masquerade
1988-03-11
Masquerade
Overview: A recently orphaned heiress meets a young racing yacht captain on Long Island. He shows interest in her and, being heiress to $200,000,000, love may not be the reason.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-11
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Bang the Drum Slowly
1973-08-26
Bang the Drum Slowly
Overview: The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson is the normal, everyday catcher who is far from the star player on the team and friend to all of his teammates. During the off-season, Bruce learns that he is terminally ill, and Henry, his only true friend, is determined to be the one person there for him during his last season with the club. Throughout the course of the season, Henry and his teammates attempt to deal with Bruce's impending illness, all the while attempting to make his last year a memorable one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-26
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California Dreaming
1979-04-01
California Dreaming
Overview: Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-01
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Nurse
1980-04-09
Nurse
Overview: Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot movie for the short-lived TV series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-09
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Robot in the Family
1994-03-02
Robot in the Family
Overview: A manic search for a valuable relic pits a father, son and trouble-prone robot against a nasty villain.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-02
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A Question of Honor
1982-04-28
A Question of Honor
Overview: Television account of an honest New York narcotics cop who becomes unwillingly involved in a plan to uncover corruption in his department.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-28
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