Polly Draper
Also Known As: Polly Carey Draper
Biography: Polly Carey Draper (born June 15, 1955) is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. She has received several awards, including a Writers Guild of America Award (WGA), and is noted for speaking in a "trademark throaty voice." She is best known for her starring role as Ellyn Warren on ABC's drama Thirtysomething (1987–91), her directing debut is The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie, as well as the Nickelodeon musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band (2007–09).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gary, Indiana, USA
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Birthday: June 15, 1955
Age: 69 years old
Gender: Female
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Making Mr. Right
Overview: When image consultant Frankie Stone is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s “Ulysses Robot” how to be a man, she winds up developing very real feelings for the faux human.
Genres: Comedy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-03
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Dinner Rush
Overview: One unlucky evening, Louis Cropa, a part-time bookmaker, discovers that his restaurant has become a hotbed of conflicting characters. In addition to having to please a whiny food critic, Louis must fend off a hostile takeover from a pair of gangsters, to whom his sous-chef is in debt. Further, Louis has an argument with his son, the star chef, whose culinary creativity has brought success to the business.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-01
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Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
Overview: Two teen girls, one from the city, one from the country, try to find the hidden gold of Bear Mountain learning about friendship, loyalty and courage on the way.
Genres: Drama Adventure Family Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-03
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Seven Minutes in Heaven
Overview: Natalie allows her classmate Jeff, who ran away from home after a fight with his stepfather, to stay at her place while her father is away on a business trip. Natalie soon starts dating Jeff's friend James Casey, who isn't as faithful as she thinks, while her best friend Polly falls in love with baseball player Zoo Knudsen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-09
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Too Young to Marry
Overview: Connecticut high school students Max Doyle and Jessica Carpenter fall in love and feel making love isn't enough, so they brave everyone's objections and get married.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-09
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Second Best
Overview: Jealousy overwhelms a group of friends, particularly struggling writer Elliot, as they prepare for the homecoming of their old friend, a wildly successful L.A. producer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Side Effects
Overview: A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-07
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Heartbeat
Overview: A divorced father falls in love with a pregnant woman whose husband had abandoned her when he discovered she was expecting a child.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-08
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A Perfect Fit
Overview: A psychological drama about an unstable man, tormented by nightmares, who seeks help from a shrink but is pushed over the edge into increasingly dangerous, psychotic territory by a relationship he is unable to control.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-05
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Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back
Overview: Ever since Pam Cheney (Cheryl Ladd) lost her baby during labor, she has been struggling with depression. She is not only supported by her loving, but hard working husband Sean (Robert Desiderio), but also by her friends Ella (Polly Draper) and Terry Sabin (D. David Morin), who have also lost a baby at age three. One year after labor, Pam decides to finally take a proposal to adopt a toddler. Going through official agencies proves unsuccessful, partly due to Pam's age, partly due to the growing demand of adoption. She is advised to take care of an orphaned teenager instead, but Sean refuses this option.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-25
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Addiction: A 60's Love Story
Overview: Family man Max Bornstein was a full-time dope fiend working within the underground, highly illegal pornography industry in 1968’s New York City. While running books and films to delivery points and mob headquarters around the east coast, Max had the Feds on his tail. But even in the wake of a federal investigation, his truest worry was his wife and two young children, a family kept in the dark about his dealings and the walls of it caving in around him. As he battles his consuming addiction, dissolving family unit and the growing suspicion about his drug use amongst his associates, Max watches helplessly as his well-crafted reality falls to pieces, leaving him searching for the spaces in between.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-14
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Obvious Child
Overview: An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-06
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The Tic Code
Overview: A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor. With his mother's help, he is an underage regular at a local nightspot, where he is teamed up with a sax superstar. Both come to learn that each suffers from Tourette's Syndrome (thus the film title). The older man has developed mannerisms to cover up his own fallibilities and resents the boy and his mother's acceptance of the disease.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-01
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The Pick-up Artist
Overview: A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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Jane Wants a Boyfriend
Overview: A young woman with Asperger's tries to find her first boyfriend with a little help from her older sister.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-11
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Demolition
Overview: An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-06
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The Innocent
Overview: The owner of a drugstore is killed in a hold-up. The only witness who saw one of the murderers without his mask is Gregory, a nine year old autistic boy. Cop Barlow is sure they'll try to silence him. He tries to get him to draw a picture of the man he saw.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-25
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Our Idiot Brother
Overview: Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother, Ned. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned's family comes to realise that Ned isn't such an idiot after all.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-26
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The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
Overview: After making it to the top of the charts, members of the Silver Boulders, a popular tween rock band, find themselves undermined by internal squabbling as the bandmates seek different creative directions.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-23
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Schemes
Overview: In this intricate tale of deception, extortion, and murder, a successful architect learns that although beautiful strangers may be dangerous, it is friends who are deadly. Devastated by his wife's death, Paul begins to emerge from depression when he meets a new woman, Laura. But his newfound happiness is destroyed when his best friend, Evelyn, learns that Laura is a con-artist. Regretting her treachery and trying to redeem herself, Laura discovers Evelyn's violent obsession with Paul. Fighting blackmail and threats by Evelyn and a ruthless former lover, Laura courageously reveals the explosive news that Paul's wife was really murdered. -
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-07
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Stella's Last Weekend
Overview: Brothers Jack and Oliver reunite to put their beloved dog to sleep. While their zany mother plans a party to celebrate Stella's life, things go awry when the brothers discover they love the same girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-12
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Boots
Overview: A teenager recounts a terrible night in the city where he ends up drunk and unhappy at a 24 hour diner. There, he has an encounter with a sweet, inviting family that leaves him feeling a little less lonely.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-11
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The Empty Room
Overview: Two teens bond during an escape from their parents' party.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-01
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18 Shades of Dust
Overview: Two gangsters threaten the owner of an upscale restaurant after his son can't pay a gambling debt.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-01
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Shiva Baby
Overview: College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-26
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Love is Love is Love
Overview: Three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends. "Two for Dinner" where a married couple temporarily living in two different locations are more separated than they think. "Sailing Lesson" about a long-married couple who spend a day on a sailboat rekindling their romance… and unexpected events arise. "Late Lunch" where a young woman who recently lost her mother gathers together a group of her mother’s friends to share memories, with surprising revelations.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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Once Upon a Main Street
Overview: Amelia Lewis is super excited when she buys an available storefront, planning to open a year-round Christmas shop. But her celebration comes to a screeching halt when she discovers that Vic Manning has also bid on the property. After continually bickering and trying to one-up each other, the two combatants learn to work together and even get the merchants on Main Street to put aside their differences for the greater good.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-29
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A Million to Juan
Overview: Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in 30 days. Initially he uses the check to convince people to extend credit to him. In the meantime he also attracts a woman who is in a dead end relationship with a bossy businessman. At the end of the 30 days, he finds his life in turmoil, the things he got on credit are repossessed, and he is being evicted from his dwelling and being sent back to Mexico.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-15
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Home Song
Overview: A family struggles to overcome the past and forgive one another when a long buried secret surfaces.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-20
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A Little Romance
Overview: Anne Kidwell is a sexy, free spirit and independent clothing designer who works hard and plays harder. She meets her match in photographer and serial bachelor Nick Evans. Both of them turn up the personal fires, but neither can commit.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-07
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Hudson River Blues
Overview: Hoping to help their marriage, a Manhattan lawyer (Rya Kihlstedt) brings her burned-out husband (Robert Stanton) to her mother's home upstate.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-12
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