Frances Bay
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Biography: Frances Evelyn Bay (née Goffman; January 23, 1919 – September 15, 2011) was a Canadian-American character actress known for playing a variety of quirky elderly women on film and television. In a career that spanned 35 years, she acted in a variety of roles both in film and television. After initial success in radio and stage plays, she became "The Girlfriend to the Canadian Forces" on CBC Radio during World War II, boosting troops' spirits. Marriage and a move to the U.S. led to a hiatus, during which she studied acting with Uta Hagen in New York. Returning to acting at 60, Bay featured in Foul Play and gained recognition in various TV shows like Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, and films such as The Wedding Planner and Twins. Her versatile career spanned over 50 films and numerous TV series, earning her awards and nominations. Notably, she appeared in the final episodes of sitcoms Seinfeld, Who’s the Boss?, and Happy Days. Bay was inducted in Canada's Walk of Fame in 2008.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada
Birthday: January 23, 1919
Deathday: September 15, 2011
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Gender: Female
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Inspector Gadget
Overview: John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art gadgets and tools. Named "Inspector Gadget" by the press, John -- along with his niece, Penny, and her trusty dog, Brain -- uses his new powers to discover who was behind the explosion.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-23
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Blue Velvet
Overview: The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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Ring Around the Rosie
Overview: While spending time at her grandparent's secluded summerhouse to clean up the place after her grandmother's death, a young woman is plagued by horrible visions and dreams of tragic past events.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-21
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The Wedding Planner
Overview: San Francisco's premiere wedding planner, Mary Fiore is rescued from an accident by the man of her dreams, pediatrician Steve Edison, only to find he is the fiancé of her latest client. As Mary continues making their wedding arrangements, she and Steve are put into a string of uncomfortable situations that force them to face their mutual attraction.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-26
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In the Mouth of Madness
Overview: An insurance investigator begins discovering the impact a horror writer's books has on his fans is more than inspirational.
Genres: Horror Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-03
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Finder's Fee
Overview: Friends Tepper, Quigley, Fishman, and Bolan get together for a weekly poker night with two simple rules: Everyone contributes a lottery ticket to the pot, and no one checks the numbers until the game ends. But this particular, stormy night is different: Tepper plans to propose to his girlfriend, and just before the weekly game, he finds a wallet outside his apartment with a winning lottery ticket worth $6 million. Tepper calls the wallet's owner, Avery, to come collect what's his, but keeps the winning ticket for himself...only for Avery to show up and ask to play a hand.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-19
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Big Top Pee-wee
Overview: Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-22
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Amos
Overview: Amos Lasher loses his wife and home in an accident, finding himself in the care of the state, or specifically speaking, the Sunset Nursing Home. Here he finds the head nurse, Daisy Daws, ruling the cowed patients with an iron hand, but as his determination to get out of Sunset grows, the more sinister his situation becomes.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-29
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Twins
Overview: Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-09
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Happy Gilmore
Overview: Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore -- whose unconventional approach and antics on the grass courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin -- is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize money. Meanwhile, an attractive tour publicist tries to soften Happy's image.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-16
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Nomads
Overview: One night, in a Los Angeles hospital, Dr. Flax attends to a seriously injured man who, apparently crazed, whispers mysterious and disconcerting words in French into her ear.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-07
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Stranger Than Fiction
Overview: Nothing is as it seems when four friends agree to cover up a killing. When they begin to doubt who among them is telling the truth, they find that life can be stranger than fiction.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-16
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Bare Knuckles
Overview: Women will go to extreme lengths for those they love and single mother Samantha Rogers is no exception. Along with her young daughter, Milla, Sam struggles to make ends meet, taking her licks as a stunt double by day and cocktail waitressing at a rowdy bar at night. When Sam uses her skills to end a bar fight between two drunk women, down and out fight promoter Sonny Cool sees an opportunity to get back into the game. He tells Sam all about the "show," a high class, underground illegal all female bare knuckle fight tournament, where brutality and elegance mix with high stakes and deception. Is the price too much for her...? Bare Knuckles..... a knockout punch of strength and determination, inspired by a true story.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Chilly Scenes of Winter
Overview: Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to return to her husband, an A-Frame salesman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-19
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Foul Play
Overview: A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-14
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The Paperboy
Overview: A homicidal twelve-year-old paperboy becomes obsessed with a woman and her daughter next-door, and he'll do anything to make his fantasy of the "perfect family" come alive.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-16
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The Grifters
Overview: A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-08
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The Pit and the Pendulum
Overview: Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror at the public whipping of a child. As Maria’s husband Antonio tries to save her, Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, determines to punish Maria with torture for the desire she inflames in him. Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-27
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Second Sight: A Love Story
Overview: Alexandra McKay is a woman who's been blind for twenty years and is afraid that people will just try to get close to her because of her condition, so she ultimately stays to herself and her trusty guide dog, Emma. When Richard Chapman enters her life, a romance develops and McKay begins to let the outside world in to her private world. The prospect of an operation arises that will restore McKay's eyesight, but the fear of what it will do to her relationship with Chapman and the concern over the fate of her guide dog weigh heavily upon her decision to do the procedure.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-13
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Double Exposure
Overview: A photographer for a men's magazine is haunted by disturbing dreams, in which he slaughters his models. When he learns that these models are dying in real life as they did in his dreams, he begins to go insane.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-03
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Rossini's Ghost
Overview: Nine-year old Reliana witnesses Rossini's efforts to salvage his seemingly cursed new opera, the Barber of Seville.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Class Cruise
Overview: A few pupils from County High are selected to be the first to go on a study cruise, a privilege that formerly was reserved for members of private schools. Sam, Boz, Staci and Kim struggle to fit in, but the snobs do everything to make them look badly.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-22
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The Neighbor
Overview: A young couple, Mary and John, awaiting a baby is in search for a house when they decide to buy that lovely old villa they found by coincidence. What they both do not know is that Myron, the owner of that villa and their new neigbour, is a dangerous psychopath and that Mary reminds him of his dead mother. Mary begins to wonder about Myron's odd behaviour, but everybody thinks Mary's fears are due to her being pregnant.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-03
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Amy
Overview: A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-20
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Sparkler
Overview: Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel traveling to Las Vegas, she decides they are those kings and joins them on their trip.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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Pickin' and Grinnin'
Overview: Johnny and Milo love music, just not the corn dog jingles they've resorted to performing to make ends meet. Facing failure, they decide to travel cross-country for a last chance at success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-17
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Topper
Overview: A deceased couple affectionately haunt a living friend while trying to get into heaven.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-09
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Inside Monkey Zetterland
Overview: An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-12
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Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
Overview: Fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by David Lynch.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-08
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Callie & Son
Overview: A fictional drama, covering a 30-year period, about a poverty-stricken teenager forced to give up her illegitimate son at birth, and the climb to wealth and power as the wife of a newspaper publisher who helps her locate her son, in whose future she becomes obsessed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-13
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The Karate Kid Part III
Overview: Despondent over the closing of his karate school, Cobra Kai teacher John Kreese joins a ruthless businessman and martial artist to get revenge on Daniel and Mr. Miyagi.
Genres: Action Family Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-16
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A Whale for the Killing
Overview: A conservationst, stranded with his family at a Newfoundland coastal resort, flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a trapped whale's slaughter with only the support of his wife and one of the locals.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-01
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Wild at Heart
Overview: Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
Genres: Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-17
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The Eagle and The Bear
Overview: After a defecting KGB agent on the run kidnaps a Santa Monica detective, the two become friends and slowly form an unbeatable partnership.
Genres: Comedy Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-03
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The Attic
Overview: A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at altar. She fantasizes his death and finds joy only with her pet monkey. When the monkey disappears, a shocking past is revealed.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-10
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Critters 3
Overview: As fanged, furious furballs viciously invade an L.A. apartment building and sink their teeth into the low-rent tenants, Josh leads the battle to beat back the conniving critters and save the planet.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-11
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Arachnophobia
Overview: A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-20
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Edmond
Overview: Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is missing from his life. Encounters with strangers and unsavory people weaken the barriers encompassing his long-suppressed rage, until Edmond explodes in violence.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-31
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Oh, Baby
Overview: The story of two babies who are able to telepathically communicate and try to marry their parents by help of mortal combat with the robbers.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-03
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Little Red Riding Hood
Overview: A sheltered but adventurous young woman finds trouble when she encounters a wolf.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-10
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Annie's Point
Overview: A recently widowed grandmother is determined to grant her husband's last wish of setting his ashes free over the idyllic bluff they called Annie's Point. The charm of this tale lies in her journey.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-22
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Repo Chick
Overview: As a repo chick, wealthy bad-girl Pixxi and her entourage get mixed up in a devious kidnapping plot that threatens to wipe out the city of Los Angeles. Sequel to Alex Cox's 1984 cult film 'Repo Man.'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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Private School
Overview: Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Christine. Meanwhile, Jim's friend Bubba embarks on a series of sexual escapades, including dressing up as a woman to access the girls' locker room. Despite Jim and Christine's efforts to spend some time alone, various shenanigans and schemes interfere.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-29
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Single White Female
Overview: Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek out a roommate in order to keep her spacious digs.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-14
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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Overview: Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of Laura Palmer’s life.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-16
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Overview: In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-03
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The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Overview: In the small Southern community of Twin Pines, GA, lives Noah Dearborn, a master craftsman and farmer who cherishes his solitude almost as much as the local townspeople cherish him — especially restaurant owner Sarah McClellan. But when greedy real estate developers set their sights on Noah's land and he rejects their six-figure offer, this taciturn man is forced to summon all his strength in order to defend not only his property and way of life, but his sanity.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-09
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A Rose for Emily
Overview: Townsfolk discover a warped secret while clearing out the house of a recently deceased, aristocratic spinster.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-01
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Forever Love
Overview: Lizzie and Alex Brooks are a young couple in love and parents of a little girl, Emma. A stroke puts Lizzie into a coma. Alex takes her home, providing love, care and devotion through the years. Gail, Lizzie's best friend, offers a loving friendship to Alex, and she fills in for Lizzie with young Emma. 20 years after her stroke, Lizzie emerges from the coma and begins to try to assimilate back into a world that has radically changed. Emma, who is about to be married, is thrilled to have her mother back, as are Alex and Gail...
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-27
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Buddy Buddy
Overview: During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-02
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Medium Rare
Overview: Death of his wife's pet poodle and a threatening movie producer create a world of trouble for a middle-aged B-movie mogul. He hires two psychopathic goons to take care of it, which only creates more trouble and attracts the cops.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-04
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The Karate Kid
Overview: Daniel LaRusso moves to Los Angeles with his mother, Lucille, and soon strikes up a relationship with Ali. He quickly finds himself the target of bullying by a group of high school students, led by Ali's ex-boyfriend Johnny, who study karate at the Cobra Kai dojo under ruthless sensei, John Kreese. Fortunately, Daniel befriends Mr. Miyagi, an unassuming repairman who just happens to be a martial arts master himself. Miyagi takes Daniel under his wing, training him in a more compassionate form of karate for self-defense and, later, preparing him to compete against the brutal Cobra Kai.
Genres: Action Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-22
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Never Too Late
Overview: Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-26
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Goodbye Lover
Overview: Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-16
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Honky Tonk Freeway
Overview: Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by its Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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Movers & Shakers
Overview: Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman, a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane to help him create a movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-03
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Krippendorf's Tribe
Overview: After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts, makeup, and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the Shelmikedmu, a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle on Krippendorf's ruse, he gets into the act as well.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-27
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The Movie Hero
Overview: A man believes his life is a movie watched by an audience only he can see.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-08
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Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive
Overview: Jean and Shag Williams locate a newly built house and decide it's perfect for them to buy. One thing the developers forgot to tell them about was that it is built on a graveyard. Within days toilets start to flush by themselves and the garage door moves up and down by its own accord. Will Jean and Shag realize that the place may be haunted by ghosts before it's too late?
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-03
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Changing Habits
Overview: An aspiring artist runs from men as a result of an early life problem that has left her relationship with her father strained. She decides to move into a convent where troubled women receive cheap lodging in exchange for work. She finds a dirty area in the basement where she paints a mural that deals with all of her psychological problems. While some find it gaudy, others such as the mother superior realizes its potential to save the convent which is to be closed. During all this the artist starts a relationship with a man who owns an art supply shop where she shop-lifts her supplies. Written by John Sacksteder
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-20
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Wings
Overview: An elderly woman, a former aviatrix, is gradually recovering from a stroke.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-26
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Kiss The Bride
Overview: Sibling drama overshadows the impending nuptials of Danni Sposato and her longtime boyfriend, Geoff Brancato. Television actress Niki brings her manager-boyfriend, Marty, to meet the family for the first time, while spiky youngest sister Toni shows off her bandmate and lover, Amy, and driven Wall Street banker Chrissy flashes the status symbols of her financial success.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-16
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The Operator
Overview: A scoundrel is tormented by a seemingly-omniscent telephone operator.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-04
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