Alan Rachins
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Biography: Alan Rachins (October 3, 1942 - November 2, 2024) was an American television actor, best known for his role on LA Law, which earned him Golden Globe and Emmy nominations, as well as Dharma & Greg and The Spectacular Spider-Man.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Birthday: October 03, 1942
Deathday: November 02, 2024
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Gender: Male
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Showgirls
Overview: Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal, a headlining dancer who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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Time Walker
Overview: From deep within the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Professor Douglas McCadden ships the coffin of Ankh-Vanharis to the California Institute of Sciences where X-rays reveal five diamond-like crystals hidden within the coffin. Technician Peter Sharpe steals the crystals but doesn't notice that the powerful X-ray has revived a green fungus. When the coffin is opened at a university press conference, the reporters uncover more than they bargained for. The mummy has disappeared... and the Time Walker is alive again!
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-01
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Heart Condition
Overview: Racist police officer Jack Moony has a vendetta against Napoleon Stone, a charismatic black lawyer who is sleeping with Jack's old flame Crystal Gerrity. Jack has a heart attack, but his life is saved when he receives Stone's heart, since Stone died mysteriously the same night as Jack was stricken. Stone is not completely gone, however, and as a ghost he is all too happy to give Jack advice on how he should do his job and live his life.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-02
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Leave It to Beaver
Overview: The Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio – wise father Ward, loving mother June, teenage son Wally, and 8-year-old Theodore, better known as 'Beaver'. Beaver hopes to get a bike as a gift from his father and to please him tries out for his school football team and he makes it, only to be embarrassed. The bike he gets is quickly stolen. Meanwhile, Wally is trying to help his friend Eddie Haskell to get the heart of pretty classmate Karen, but Karen seems to like Wally more, and that leads to tensions between the friends.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-22
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Monster Night
Overview: On Halloween, a teenage boy who is grounded and forced to baby-sit his brother and sister discovers, along with his siblings, that his house is haunted.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-11
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The Retrievers
Overview: The Lowrys are starting a new life, moving to the quiet Northern California town of Placerville. But when they are "adopted" by a clever yet lovable stray Golden Retriever, their lives change in ways they never imagined. It'’s not long before the Lowrys discover that Pilot is pregnant. But when it comes time to find new homes for the puppies, the Lowrys learn how hard it can be to say goodbye… and how a determined Golden Retriever can show them a thing or two about the bonds of family. Pilot wants her puppies back! Can the Lowrys retrieve the Retrievers from the wacky cast of characters that adopted them? The Retrievers is a heartwarming story about how a stray Golden Retriever, along with her litter of pups, teaches the Lowrys some big lessons about life, love, family, and what'’s truly important.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-27
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Always … But Not Forever
Overview: A middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital troubles, assemble at their house for a 4th of July Weekend party.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-04
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Terminal Voyage
Overview: It is 2035 A.D. and the final countdown has begun for a voyage that will reach across the vastness of outer space - to explore the nearest Earth-Like planet. An international crew has been placed in cryogenic suspended animation for the journey. But a century later, they awake to find that things have gone horribly wrong.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-08
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Scooby-Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace
Overview: Mecha Mutt, a revolutionary remote-controlled lunar rover resembling a large canine, goes rogue at Houston's Annual Science Expo. Scooby-Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace is the fourth in a series of direct-to-video short films.
Genres: Family Comedy Mystery Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-24
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Violation of Trust
Overview: Single mother Susan Essex admirably picks up the pieces after the split from her husband Matthew, and she can depend upon her daughter Justine for support. When Justine learns that her friend Vicky has been spending time with her own boyfriend, Ryan, Justine confronts Vicky and a fight erupts. Sprawling into the woods behind Justine's house, the fight escalates further and Vicky winds up dead. Justine and her best friend Ashley make a pact to keep the mistake a secret, but will she be able to keep her mother convinced that she wasn't involved?
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-28
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Thunder Run
Overview: A vicious band of nuclear terrorists is threatening America's atomic weapons research. Truck jockey Charlie Morrison (Forrest Tucker) volunteers for a last-ditch, suicide scheme to lure them into a trap, baited with a vital shipment of bomb-grade plutonium. Soon, Charlie's high-balling it down a remote desert road with a small army of lethally equipped bandits zeroing in on him. Charlie's secret weapon? "Big Thunder", a 65-foot, 18-wheeled war wagon of merciless high-tech destruction!
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-22
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North
Overview: Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return to his own parents within two months. Thus North starts off on a journey around the world to find parents that really care about him.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-22
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The Stepsister
Overview: A young psych major uses her wits to expose the deadly intentions of her father's new bride and the woman's conniving daughter.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-07
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Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
Overview: In their very last adventure, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart travel to The Big Apple, where a play she wrote in college is being produced on Broadway. But there's sabotage going on, and when a stagehand is murdered, everyone's a suspect - even Jonathan!
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-25
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L.A. Law: The Movie
Overview: Reunion movie from the popular TV series reunites most of the original cast from the Los Angeles law firm of McKenzie-Brackman. In the eight years since the series ended, the founding senior partner, Leland McKenzie, has retired and left Douglas Brackman, Jr. as the senior managing partner. New employees to the firm are Brackman's over-achieving son Jason, who's at odds with his father, and ambitious and conniving associate Chloe Carpenter at odds with others. Former partner Michael Kuzak, now a successful restaurant owner, is called out of retirement to help stop the impeding execution of a former client on death row and the opposing counsel is Kuzak's old flame Grace Van Owen.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-12
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Mickey's 60th Birthday
Overview: This film combines live action/original animation and library animation. Mickey steals a magic hat from a Sorcerer and is put under a spell by the angry magi so that no one will recognize him until he finds his own magic within. While Mickey is on his quest, network news teams around the country desperately try to find the famous, beloved mouse who has mysteriously disappeared. On his quest, Mickey goes into the "Cheers" bar, meets up with the characters from "Family Ties", and winds up on Disneyland's Main Street the night before his Birthday celebration is to take place. It is there that he finds he has all the magic inside him that he will ever need. The spell is broken and the Birthday bash commences as the whole World celebrates the beloved Mickey Mouse.
Genres: Family Animation TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-13
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The Lights Above
Overview: In 1942, a series of unidentified aircraft sightings over Los Angeles lead a determined journalist to reluctantly pair up with a Japanese American photographer in order to prevent another attack.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-17
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Unwed Father
Overview: 9 months after a drunken sexual encounter, a young man winds up raising a baby on his own.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-12
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Meet Wally Sparks
Overview: Wally Sparks is a tabloid TV show reporter who's trying to boost ratings on his show. He goes to the governor's mansion to uncover a sex scandal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-31
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A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story
Overview: Based on the true headline-generating story of the five-year-old Cuban boy who is the sole survivor of a refugee boat that sunk in a storm on its way to the U.S.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-17
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Commencement
Overview: The valedictorian of a prestigious school begins her post-college life during the recession
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-26
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Angels on Tap
Overview: A reporter stumbles into a bar where the heavenly messengers hang out when they're not looking out for humanity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-12
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3 Musketeers
Overview: Alexandra D'Artagnan, junior member of NSA uncovers a conspiracy that the goal is to assassinate the American president. Alexandra has secured the support of three famous and notorious international spies in order to stop the assassination.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-25
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A Rugrats Chanukah
Overview: The story of the Jewish holiday Chanukah through the eyes of the Rugrats, who imagine themselves as the main characters. Meanwhile, Grandpa Boris and his long-time rival, Shlomo, feud over who will play the lead in the local synagogue's Chanukah play.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-04
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
Overview: Perry Mason defends the husband of a famous rock singer who was found being killed after having had a tremendous discussion with her husband and her manager.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-20
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L.A. Law: Pilot
Overview: Pilot episode for the TV series introduces the lawyers and employees of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, a Los Angeles law firm, in dealing with their courtroom cases and personal matters out of the courthouse. While the entire office deals with the unexpected death of one of the founding senior partners, Norman Chaney, junior partner Michael Kuzak reluctantly takes on the defense of a wealthy and spoiled young man, accused with two friends, of raping a woman dying from leukemia. While intern Abby Perkins deals with her abusive alcoholic husband, divorce lawyer Arnie Becker takes advantage of his latest client caught up in her divorce. Public defender Victor Sifuentes is also offered to join the firm, while the ruthless managing partner, Douglas Brackman, deals with a surprising revelation from his new secretary.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-15
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The Spectacular Spider-Man: Attack of the Lizard
Overview: It's been a tough week for Peter Parker. His two best friends are mad at him, Aunt May is behind on the bills and Flash Thompson is still bullying him at school. It hasn't been a cake walk for Spider-Man either. The Enforcers are trying to destroy him, the Vulture is seeking revenge on Mr. Osborn, Electro is wreaking havoc on the city and his mentor, Dr. Connors, just transformed into The Lizard - a reptile on the rampage. But with great power comes great responsibility and Peter Parker wouldn't have it any other way!
Genres: Animation Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-09
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Single Women, Married Men
Overview: A divorced psychotherapist forms a support group for single women whose lovers are married men.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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Any Day Now
Overview: In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal system to adopt the child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-14
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Fear on Trial
Overview: The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was behind the blacklisting, and the resultant trial, and Faulk's victory, helped to put an end to the blacklisting period.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-02
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