Jim Fitzpatrick
Also Known As: James Fitzpatrick, James A. Fitzpatrick, James Armando Fitzpatrick, Jimmy Fitzpatrick
Biography: James Armando Fitzpatrick was born in Omaha, Nebraska but returned to Clearwater Beach, Florida at three months of age where his parents (Jim Sr. and Cookie) are from and began his acting career on the stage at the tender age of 13 when he appeared in his first school play, "A Thousand Clowns," at Seminole (Florida) High School. Jim accepted a football scholarship to Illinois State University as a theater major where he became involved with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company founded by Gary Sinise and John Malkovich. He put aside an acting career to play professional football, however, starting in 1981 with the Hamilton Tiger Cats in the CFL (Canadian Football league) followed by short stints with the Chicago Bears ('82) and the Baltimore Colts('82). His football career ended when he retired in 1985, after spending three seasons with the Tampa Bay Bandits in the USFL ('83-'85).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Birthday: August 28, 1959
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Gender: Male
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Cocoon
Overview: When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-21
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I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
Overview: A take on "Beauty and The Beast" and "Phantom of the Opera" in which Meatloaf pursues a beautiful woman as he's chased by the cops.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-11
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When the Bough Breaks
Overview: A Los Angeles psychiatrist testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. Later the defendant, who is out on bail, is found dead in the psychiatrist's office, in what appears to be a suicide. Shaken, the psychiatrist moves to the mountains outside of L.A. Not long afterwards a detective he knows comes to him for help. A seven-year-old girl saw someone kill both of her parents, but is so traumatized by the event that she can't remember anything, and the detective wants the doctor to help jar her memory. Soon, however, the doctor and the detective discover that the parents' murder and the pedophiles "suicide" may be linked to a shadowy group of wealthy and influential pedophiles, and that the child isn't the only one whose life is in danger.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-12
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Shark Waters
Overview: Great white sharks attack a fishing charter, ramming a hole in the ship’s hull. With the shoreline miles away, those aboard are forced to fight for their lives before they are either drowned or eaten alive.
Genres: Thriller Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-12
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Glory Days
Overview: Steve Street is about to lead his Highschool Football team to the City Championship, when he's diagnosed with cancer.
Genres: Action Drama Family
Original Language: en
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The Walk-Ons
Overview: After a local factory closes-down in a small town, a group of men that have been friends since High School decide to join their local D-III College Football Team and help their sons have a National Championship Season.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
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Curse of the Starving Class
Overview: Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm family. Dad's a foul talking drunk and Mom is desperately trying to save what's left of their family life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-13
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Ski Patrol
Overview: Pops isn't worried about the renewal of the lease for his ski lodge - the safety record is unblemished in spite of the crew of misfits who make up his ski patrol. But a scheming land developer has other plans and the ski patrol is thrust into a skiing showdown in order to save Pops' mountain.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-12
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Operation Delta Force 3: Clear Target
Overview: The anti-terrorist team Delta Force destroys a billion dollar cocaine stash, to the extreme displeasure of drug cartel leader Umberto Salvatore. To retaliate, he hijacks a stealth submarine and threatens to unleash a biological weapon with the power to kill everyone in New York City.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-23
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Dolphin Tale
Overview: A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-22
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An American Reunion
Overview: The reality of life slams into the proverbial wall when a group of necessitous best friends and ex-lovers are reunited at a milestone reunion, igniting an already passionate and combustible past.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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The Belly of the Beast
Overview: In 2008, 12 Disciples of Satan are released upon the earth, to do battle with 12 Disciples of direct descendants of the Apostles.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-11
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Elizabethtown
Overview: Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family's small Kentucky hometown after his father dies. Along the way, he meets a flight attendant with whom he falls in love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-14
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Little Ghost
Overview: While on location in a spooky Italian villa with his Hollywood big-shot mom and her dorky boyfriend, twelve-year-old Kevin befriends a Renaissance-era girl ghost who helps him cause unrest on the set.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-30
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The Code Conspiracy
Overview: A code that foretells the greatest prophecies of all time...Protected by the faith of one man.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-10
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U.S. Seals
Overview: Dozens of American cargos with high valuable goods have disappeared, probably attacked by modern pirates. The United States decide to mobilize a team of expert SWAT, with Mike Bradley as leader, sending them to destroy the pirates' base, namely a deserted oil rig near Turkey. But these are cleverly waiting for them.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-18
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Band of the Hand
Overview: An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-11
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Phantom of the Ritz
Overview: Ed Blake is a balding middle-aged man who decides to buy an old movie theater, The Ritz, to shape it up into a retro 1950s music hangout. With the aid of loyal girlfriend Nancy, foreman Bruno, and assistant Marcus, Ed is able to assemble a construction team to plan to be on time for the grand reopening. But unknown to everyone, a disfigured character has lived in the passageways of the old theater since the 50s, occasionally popping out to murder an indigent or intruder that happens upon his domain.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-30
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Do You See Me
Overview: Emily is being stalked by a rogue clown. He's everywhere...including her closet.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-20
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Adventure Scouts
Overview: A group of kids return from a camping trip to discover their town is being held captive by a gang of motorcycle-riding knuckleheads. Using only their scouting knowledge and camping equipment, the kids take down the gang members one by one.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-02
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Blood Ranch
Overview: Four college students and an Iraq War vet, lost on a desert highway, encounter a terrified young woman with a black van on her trail. They survive the ensuing chase but their car doesn't, forcing them to seek help at a nearby ranch. Only when it's too late does the group learn that it's crossed the threshold into Hell! Welcome to the Web, home to a bizarre cult of murderers, perverts and mental defectives, whose sacraments include mutilation, dismemberment, unspeakable sex acts, and slow, agonizing death for all who enter. None of their "guests" have ever made it out alive. Tonight may be different...but don't count on it.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-06
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Last of the Grads
Overview: A class of graduating high school seniors, nearing the crossroads of their lives, celebrate their last night together at the annual school lock-in. They never could have guessed that they’re about to encounter the harbinger of death, the legendary “Coast to Coast Killer”.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-03
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Armageddon
Overview: When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-01
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Walking the Edge
Overview: A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-11
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Mind Games
Overview: An Army psychologist held captive by an unknown adversary must find her way out of an RV in the middle of nowhere to survive.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-04
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All Square
Overview: A down-on-his-luck bookie befriends an ex-girlfriend’s son and gets the bright idea to take bets on his youth league baseball games; only to realize he’s killed what’s pure about the sport as the games turn ugly when money is on the line.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-12
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Ragtime
Overview: A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-20
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