Chris Makepeace
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Biography: Christopher Makepeace (born April 22, 1964) is a Canadian actor, known for his starring roles in the coming-of-age film My Bodyguard (1980) and comedy horror Vamp (1986), and supporting roles in the screwball comedy Meatballs (1979) and the dystopian sci-fi film The Last Chase (1981), during his teen and young adult years. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Makepeace, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Birthday: April 22, 1964
Age: 61 years old
Gender: Male
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My Bodyguard
Overview: Clifford Peach, an easygoing teenager, is finding less than easy to fit in at his new high school, where a tough-talking bully terrorizes his classmates and extorts their lunch money. Refusing to pay up, Clifford enlist the aid of an overgrown misfit whose mere presence intimidates students and teachers alike. But their "business relationship" soon turns personal as Clifford and the troubled loner forge a winning alliance against their intimidators - and a very special friendship with each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-11
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Vamp
Overview: Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their college friends, unaware it is occupied by vampires.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-18
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Mazes and Monsters
Overview: Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and the line between reality and fantasy fuse into a harrowing nightmare.
Genres: Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-27
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The Last Chase
Overview: Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-01
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Meatballs
Overview: Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, Rudy plays matchmaker between Tripper and Roxanne, a female counselor at Northstar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-28
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A Holiday for Love
Overview: A man is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local factory that supplies the town with jobs should get the boot when the downsizing begins. He gets sidetracked when he falls in love with a local, a cute single mom.
Genres: Drama Family Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-10
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Captive Hearts
Overview: December 1944. As their bomber is shot down during a mission over Japan, Sergeant McManus and Robert, a young lieutenant, have no other choice but make a parachute jump. They are captured by local villagers and are saved from execution by Fukushima, the village elder. McManus never accepts his lot unlike Robert, who soon takes an interest in Japanese customs and rites. More, he falls in love with pretty Miyoko, Fukushima's widowed daughter-in-law.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-05
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The Mysterious Stranger
Overview: The film version of the same-titled book by Mark Twain. A young printer's apprentice imagines himself back in the days of Guttenberg, helping him to print the Bible. The next thing he knows he has conjured up a young spirit from the future who casts spells over striking printers and causes general mischief.
Genres: Mystery Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-11
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Aloha Summer
Overview: It's the 60s and a bunch of crazy teenagers meet in the beautiful island of Hawaii during their summer holidays. Although they come from different backgrounds, they hang out together and shake up the island! They surf, dance, drink, fight and fall in love. As the summer approaches its end, they find themselves inseparable, friends for a lifetime...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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The Oasis
Overview: A plane crash in the Mexican desert leaves a small group of survivors who are desperate for food and water. Fearing that they may never be found where they are, they head for where it is hoped there will be civilization and rescue. When their hopes prove unfounded, they must face the horrible possibility of choosing between giving up and dying, or doing the unthinkable to survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-02
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Memory Run
Overview: The year is 2015, and big brother is everywhere. The search for immortality is over. Science has finally achieved the impossible, undermining the most basic aspect of life: that Mind, Body, and Soul must be one, Those who benefit from this new technology will wake up to a new and youthful beginning - the rest of humankind must live a bad dream and wake up to a living nightmare that goes beyond life, beyond death, and beyond redemption.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-16
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The Falcon and the Snowman
Overview: The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-25
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The Terry Fox Story
Overview: The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-22
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The Undergrads
Overview: An elderly man discovers that his son wants to put him in an old-age home. However, the old man's grandson refuses to allow it, and the man and his grandson wind up becoming roommates at the boy's college dorm.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-05
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Lighthouse Island
Overview: When a man visits a remote coastal town to buy a pair of silver shoes for his fiancée, he becomes involved in a dangerous bargain with the shopkeeper. He must retrieve a stolen pearl which has the power to transform the shape of whoever possesses it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Ottawa Valley
Overview: Based on the Alice Munro short story, in which the narrator tries in vain to write a portrait of her mother’s family.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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