Ralph Waite
Biography: Ralph Waite (June 22, 1928 – February 13, 2014) was an American actor. His most famous role may be John Walton Sr. on the 1970s CBS TV series The Waltons, which he occasionally directed. He is also well known for his portrayal of the slave ship first mate Slater in the mini-series Roots. Later in his career, he appeared as Reverend Norman Balthus for 16 out of 24 episodes over the two seasons of the HBO series Carnivàle (2003–2005). He portrayed the recurring roles of Father Matt on the daytime serial Days of our Lives, of Jethro Gibbs's (Mark Harmon) father, Jackson Gibbs, on NCIS and of Seeley Booth's (David Boreanaz) grandfather, Hank Booth on Bones.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 22, 1928
Deathday: February 13, 2014
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The Bodyguard
1992-11-25
The Bodyguard
Overview: A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks fireworks of another sort, and the love-averse tough guy is torn between duty and romance.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-25
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Trouble Man
1972-11-01
Trouble Man
Overview: It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix things. Then, the masked manipulators set up the death of a collector for a rival gang lord. It looks like it's up to T to hold a gang war from breaking out, keep the police off his back, and earn his fee from Chalky and Pete.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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Crash and Burn
1990-06-04
Crash and Burn
Overview: Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of the station survive through the incoming "thermal storm".
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-04
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Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
1996-03-08
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Overview: When the pets accidentally get separated from their vacationing owners, Chance, Shadow, and Sassy navigate the mean streets of San Francisco, trying to find their home across the Golden Gate Bridge. But the road is blocked by a series of hazards, both man and beast.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-08
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Cliffhanger
1993-05-28
Cliffhanger
Overview: A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-28
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Chato's Land
1972-05-25
Chato's Land
Overview: In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-25
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Letters to God
2010-04-09
Letters to God
Overview: A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's journey and his family by reading the letters. They inspire him to seek a better life for himself and his own son he's lost through his alcohol addiction.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-09
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Lawman
1971-03-11
Lawman
Overview: While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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The Magnificent Seven Ride!
1972-08-01
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
Overview: Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his friend's cause and recruits a writer and five prisoners to destroy the desperadoes.The last in the original series of four "Magnificent Seven" movies.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-01
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Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective
2009-03-24
Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective
Overview: "I will try to be normal" 12-year-old Ace Ventura Jr. promises. Thats cool, except whats normal for him is finding missing mutts, kidnapped kitties or gone gators and creating hilarious chaos every step of the way.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-24
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Last Summer
1969-06-10
Last Summer
Overview: During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-10
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Timequest
2003-05-09
Timequest
Overview: A story about a man who travels back in time to Fort Worth, Texas on Novemeber 22, 1963 and prevents the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-09
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Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
1982-05-02
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
Overview: Mary Ellen marries Jonesy but they don't exactly have a good start.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-02
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A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain
1982-11-22
A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain
Overview: Most of the Waltons have split up in the days approaching Thanksgiving 1947. But most of the family begins to arrive at Walton's Mountain begging with John-Boy recovering from a case of writers block in New York followed by Jason now a struggling musician as well as John Walton whom tries to get everyone together for the special event for Elizabeth, while newlyweds Erin and Paul plan to move out of the Walton homestead.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-22
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Hot Summer Week
1972-06-21
Hot Summer Week
Overview: Two girls pick up a crazed hitchhiker who may or may not be the serial killer murdering hippies in the area.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-21
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Gabe the Cupid Dog
2012-01-01
Gabe the Cupid Dog
Overview: When Eric and Marsha break off their long-term relationship, journalist Eric is able to weather it pretty well. He still has his long time canine companion Gabe, and his boss, Ms Andrews, wants to send him to London to open an office. But first Ms Andrews says Eric must find out the true identity of the best-selling author R L Dutton. A bigger obstacle for Eric's trip, however, comes from his dog. Gabe does not want to face six months in quarantine with big pit bulls and mastiffs waiting for an OK to the UK. Getting ideas from a pretty TV host, Gabe acts as Cupid Dog, doing his best to bring Eric and their neighbor Sara together. Gabe's plan works, only to go up in smoke when Eric realizes Sara is the mysterious author. Now Sara thinks Eric was just using her for a story before leaving for London. Gabe the Cupid Dog must go to new lengths to get Sara and Eric to tie the "leash."
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood
1988-11-11
Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood
Overview: A timeless story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small Southern town, Yazoo City, in the 1940s during World War II, roaming with his friends, playing practical jokes, and getting into trouble.
Genres: Family Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-11
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Kid Blue
1973-01-31
Kid Blue
Overview: Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-31
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Sparks: The Price of Passion
1990-02-25
Sparks: The Price of Passion
Overview: A female mayor (Victoria Principal) of Albuquerque gets embroiled in a fight over the development of a new economic center. In the midst of this, she receives blackmail photos of an overnight fling she had with a stranger and threats of blackmail. On top of all this, the city is under siege by a serial killer who hunts powerful women. When the FBI moves in for the investigation, the chief officer (Ted Wass) turns out to be the stranger. Ralph Waite shows up as a friend of the mayor pressuring her for the development. Elaine Stritch plays her mother, Hector Elizondo is the city attorney, and William Lucking is the police chief
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-25
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Red Alert
1977-05-18
Red Alert
Overview: A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives erroneous information of a radiation leak. It seals off the compound, trapping the crew inside.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-18
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The Sporting Club
1971-02-28
The Sporting Club
Overview: The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarchistic current member.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-28
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Five Easy Pieces
1970-09-12
Five Easy Pieces
Overview: A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-12
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Sin and Redemption
1994-03-18
Sin and Redemption
Overview: Taking a short-cut home from work, high-schooler Billie Simms is raped. Not only does the incident cause an unwanted pregnancy that damages her college expectations, but it also outrages her smugly religious father who pressures her to give up the baby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-18
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Generation Gap
2008-11-01
Generation Gap
Overview: When a rebellious teenager is forced to spend the summer with his grandfather, their differences go deeper than just the years that separate them.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-01
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The Stone Killer
1973-08-08
The Stone Killer
Overview: A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-08
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A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
1982-02-02
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
Overview: Erin Walton is considering marrying her boyfriend Paul but her old boyfriend Ashley, who left for the war and married someone else, lived through his wife's death and would like to get Erin back, but Paul is not going to give her up so easily. Also Mary Ellen's boyfriend Jonesy who's a veterinarian is trying to establish a practice but everybody doesn't think he is competent. And Ben who has been minding the lumber business while their father's with their ailing mother in Arizona is having some problems and everybody's worried that he's digging himself a hole that he might not get out of.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-02
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A Good Sport
1984-02-08
A Good Sport
Overview: The stylish editor of a fashion magazine and a rumpled sports reporter endeavor to keep their somewhat offbeat romance on a purely platonic level.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-08
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Spirit
2001-08-01
Spirit
Overview: When Kelly and her father move to New Orleans after the death of her mother, strange things start happening in their new home. Kelly is convinced that the house is haunted by a ghost who needs her help. Her father does not believe her, so she enlists her friend Cole to help discover the truth.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-01
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Snake Treaty
1989-01-24
Snake Treaty
Overview: Guy Pehrsson is summoned by his grandfather to return to the farming community of his childhood. He arrives from the City to find that his mother has finally left his alcoholic and abusive father and now lives among the Indians, Guy's childhood friends and neighbours. He also discovers friction between the white farmers and the local Indians, now faced with the choice of selling or retaining their land. A choice made harder by poverty. Guy's boyhood friend, Tom Redfox, leads those Indians who wish to keep their land. Against the background of ensuing confrontation, Guy becomes reacquainted with his estranged parents, his childhood friends and old values, leading to a tragedy that affect the whole community.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-24
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Blessings
2003-10-05
Blessings
Overview: Released from jail after a term basically served instead of friends he refused to rat out, Charles 'Skip' Cuddy is grateful his gentleman instinct gets him a job with living quarters as handyman on a semi-destitute estate Blessings. Working hard, he wins further confidence from the owner, bitter widow Lydia Blessing, unlike her in-living bitch nurse Jennifer. When a baby is left at the state, Skip takes it in and secretly cares for it. Lydia eventually finds out but sides with him, feeling robbed of grandchildren by her careerist only daughter Meredith. Then Skip's past comes knocking, and the baby's birth parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-05
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The Grissom Gang
1971-05-28
The Grissom Gang
Overview: The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his prisoner, which results in a bloody breakdown of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang and the original No Orchids For Miss Blandish were inspired by the best-seller by James Hadley Chase, though neither film retains Chase's original ending.
Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-28
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A Season of Hope
1995-01-08
A Season of Hope
Overview: When trees in their only source of income, a lemon grove, start showing signs of disease, a burdened Californian family reaches their breaking point. Is there any hope left for them?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-08
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A Lovely Way to Die
1968-04-19
A Lovely Way to Die
Overview: A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name... and get over her husband.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-19
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Angel City
1980-11-12
Angel City
Overview: Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-12
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Sioux City
1994-04-01
Sioux City
Overview: A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-01
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Cool Hand Luke
1967-11-01
Cool Hand Luke
Overview: When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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The President's Man
2000-04-02
The President's Man
Overview: To many, Joshua McCord is a charismatic Asian studies professor. To the President of the United States, he's America's greatest secret weapon; a covert operative charged with only the most sensitive and dangerous missions.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-02
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A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
1993-11-21
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
Overview: The fourth Waltons reunion TV movie is set in the 1960s , with John-Boy still living in New York, trying to persuade his fiancée to marry him. Meanwhile, Ben and Cindy's daughter Virginia has died, and Cindy is finding life very lonely without her. She tells Ben that she would dearly love to adopt another baby, but Ben feels that it is not a good idea. Ben argues with his father about buying a new truck for their lumber company, but John keeps insisting that they can't afford it. Elsewhere, Erin now has three children and is separated from Paul. Her decision to start seeing another man causes some indignation among the other Walton family members. Ike and Corabeth become grandparents when Aimee has a daughter, while Elizabeth returns from Europe and reunites with Drew, her old beau.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-21
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The Gentleman Bandit
1981-05-06
The Gentleman Bandit
Overview: Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-06
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Sin & Redemption
1994-03-15
Sin & Redemption
Overview: A rape victim learns the truth about her husband when their daughter has a life-threatening illness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-15
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25 Hill
2011-01-01
25 Hill
Overview: This is the story of an 11-year-old boy whose derby dreams are left in pieces when his soldier father is killed in Afghanistan. The boy teams up with a father figure whose own son, a firefighter, died in the line of duty, and the two help each other find redemption and revive the derby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Keys
1994-01-01
Keys
Overview: A one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Silver City
2004-09-17
Silver City
Overview: The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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A Walton Easter
1997-03-30
A Walton Easter
Overview: In 1969, John-Boy is a TV news anchorperson in New York and he is in the throes of writing a new book. He and a very pregnant Janet are making plans to return to Walton's Mountain for the celebration of John and Olivia's 40th wedding anniversary. Accompanying them to see the place John-Boy lived as a child is Aurora, a Time magazine photographer, who is doing a story on John-Boy. Meanwhile, Elizabeth arrives back from her travels and announces to Drew, who is still working at the mill with Ben, that she is back to stay. She is very upset to find that Drew did not wait for her, and that he has a new girlfriend. Also, problems arise for John-Boy and Janet because the longer John-Boy stays on the mountain, the more he becomes convinced that he would like to settle down there, raise his family, and continue with his writing whereas Janet wants to stay in New York.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-30
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On the Nickel
1980-05-08
On the Nickel
Overview: Sam, a recovering alcoholic, feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his wino friends on "the Nickel" of Los Angeles' skid row.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-08
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The Desperate Hours
1967-12-13
The Desperate Hours
Overview: The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed, tormenting the Hilliards with his meek brother Hank and sadistic Robish.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-13
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The Secret Life of John Chapman
1976-12-27
The Secret Life of John Chapman
Overview: The true story of John Chapman, a college president who took a sabbatical and went out and got a job as a general laborer, to try to experience life outside his well-ordered but insulated college environment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-27
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Sunshine State
2002-06-21
Sunshine State
Overview: A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-21
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Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses
2007-08-09
Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses
Overview: Dr. Maxwell is called in to investigate the kidnapping of a prize race horse. When the case leads to murder, Maxwell and Detective Bryant suspect the horse's owner.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-09
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OHMS
1980-01-02
OHMS
Overview: A conservative, Midwestern farmer rallies his neighbors against a power company planning to erect huge towers across their land, and a political activist schoolteacher helps them organize into an effective bloc.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-02
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Wild by Law
1991-12-01
Wild by Law
Overview: Tells about the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the three men responsible for its passage: forester/philosopher Aldo Leopold, author of the bestselling Sand County almanac and the first to bring the word 'ecology' into standard usage; Bob Marshall, millionaire socialist and founder of the Wilderness Society; and Howard Zahniser, a bureaucrat with a love of the wild places he seldom saw. Singly and together, these three fought from the 1920s through the 1950s to preserve the natural world. Provides an overview of the roots of the environmental movement, offering a deeper understanding of one of the most important issues facing contemporary civilization.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-01
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Crime of Innocence
1985-10-27
Crime of Innocence
Overview: Two teenage girls are locked up for a minor offence by a harsh judge who thinks a night in jail will do them good. It's a traumatizing experience that includes an assault. Afterwards, one of the girls and her family seek justice against an unfair legal system.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-27
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The Pursuit of Happiness
1971-02-23
The Pursuit of Happiness
Overview: William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over a woman in his car entirely by accident, he accepts a sentence for manslaughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-23
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The Borgia Stick
1967-02-25
The Borgia Stick
Overview: A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn't want to give them up so easily.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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A Walton Wedding
1995-02-12
A Walton Wedding
Overview: In 1964, John-Boy Walton is planning his wedding to Janet Gilchrist, the editor of a New York fashion magazine and the daughter of a diplomat. The two of them plan a small wedding and he invites the family and friends from Walton's Mountain to come to New York for the celebration. However, Janet's Aunt Flo has other ideas and begins to take over their wedding preparations. Added to the wedding plan stress, John-Boy is also trying to write an article about his Grandma, but decides that he needs to go home to escape the wedding preparations, as well as to reunite with his grandmother and fill in some gaps leaving Janet in New York trying to prevent her wedding from getting out of hand. But she too leaves the city and heads for Walton's Mountain to plan their wedding there.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-12
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