Suzanne Shepherd
Also Known As: Сэди Гертруда Стерн, Sadie Gertrude Stern
Biography: Suzanne Shepherd was an American actress and theater director. She is best known for her portrayal of Karen's overbearing mother in the film Goodfellas, Carmela Soprano's mother Mary De Angelis in the HBO television series The Sopranos, and the assistant school principal in Uncle Buck. Shepherd studied acting with Sanford Meisner, and later went on to teach Meisner's program of acting study, the first woman to do so. She was a founding member of the Compass Players in the early 1960s, along with such other actors as Alan Alda and Alan Arkin.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: United States of America
Adult: No
Birthday: October 31, 1934
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 17, 2023
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Requiem for a Dream
Overview: The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-06
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GoodFellas
Overview: The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-12
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Jacob's Ladder
Overview: After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-02
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A Dirty Shame
Overview: Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude to a sex-crazed lunatic. As she goes on a rampage through town, Sylvia attracts the attention of Ray Ray, a sexual healer and tow truck driver in search of the world's greatest orgasm. Their sexual revolution, however, causes a class war in their tiny Baltimore community.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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American Cuisine
Overview: Following his discharge from the Navy for hitting a superior officer, Loren takes a chance and moves to France, to learn haute cuisine under a four star chef...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-21
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Second Sight
Overview: Wills is an ex-cop who pairs up with Bobby, a wacky psychic, to form the "Second Sight Detective Agency." Bobby's clairvoyant abilities come in handy during their investigations. When a nun recruits them for a case involving car theft, they suddenly find themselves dealing with the abduction of a prominent cardinal who has a chance of becoming the next pope. Bobby's psychic powers go haywire as they pursue the case.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-03
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Working Girl
Overview: Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment and even her wardrobe. She creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her to the top, or finish her off for good.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-20
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On the Run
Overview: Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night in New York that will change both their lives forever.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-29
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Palookaville
Overview: Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelry store heist which exposes their incompetence as criminals, a fateful event (and an old black-and-white film) convinces them that they can pull off an armored-truck robbery. While they are busy plotting their caper, their dysfunctional families spin out of control, all around them.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-07
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Illuminata
Overview: It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's not finished, and intrigue starts that involves influential critic Bevalaqua, theatre star Celimene, young lead actors and other theatre residents
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-21
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Uncle Buck
Overview: Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his older niece Tia, loyal girlfriend Chanice and just about everyone else who crosses his path.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-16
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Lolita
Overview: Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-27
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Bullet
Overview: A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-01
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The Jerky Boys
Overview: When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the "Jerky Boys" of crank call fame) are wanted by the local mafia, the police, and their neighbor.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-03
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The Performance
Overview: Harold May, an excellent Jewish-American tap dancer, on tour in Europe with his company, receives an offer from a German that is difficult to pass up: a large sum to put on a show in Berlin. The German does not know that Harold is of Jewish origins; the year is 1937 and, once they arrive in Germany, the company discovers that he will have to perform in the presence of Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-13
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Harold
Overview: A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school's janitor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-13
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I Hate Valentine's Day
Overview: A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-27
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Where Is Kyra?
Overview: Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and mysterious journey that threatens to usurp her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-06
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Delivering the Goods
Overview: In New York City, a young Italian-American guy sets out to become a chef, much to the chagrin of his father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-20
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Choke
Overview: A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-26
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Money Kings
Overview: Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. Times change, the boys up the chain want a bigger profit, so Vinnie's expendable He's assigned a hotheaded kid, Tony, the nephew of a local mobster. Vinnie's told to school the lad, use him for collections, and teach him some sense. What Vinnie doesn't know is that once Tony learns the ropes, Vinnie will be out. Tensions mount when Tony goes around Vinnie's paternalistic ways, takes a bet from an unemployed alcoholic, and demands that the loser's wife pay the vig in trade. Is there any way out for Vinnie - with or without his good name?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-04
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Trees Lounge
Overview: Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with the seventeen-year-old niece of his ex-girlfriend. This gets him into serious trouble with her father.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-11
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Mystic Pizza
Overview: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-13
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Furlough
Overview: In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she's tasked with accompanying a hell-raising inmate on an emergency furlough to visit her dying mother. But things soon spiral out of control, sending the pair on a hilarious, surprising, and ultimately touching road trip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-16
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Sons
Overview: A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Week Of
Overview: The parents of a soon-to-be married couple make the final preparations for the wedding ceremony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-27
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Jerome's Bouquet
Overview: 82 year-old Elena Klein, a retired New York florist, can't stop arranging — only now it's not flowers she's arranging, but people's lives.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-02
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Never Again
Overview: A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-11
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