Charles Matthau
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles Matthau (b. 1962, New York City), is a film and television director and actor and the son of actor Walter Matthau. He appeared as a child actor alongside his father in such films as Charley Varrick (1973), The Bad News Bears (1976) and House Calls (1978). Among his directorial projects have been The Grass Harp, from a novella by Truman Capote, and the made-for-TV movie The Marriage Fool, both of which starred his father. He also directed Doin' Time on Planet Earth (1988), Her Minor Thing (2005) and Baby-O (2009). "Charlie" Matthau was named after famed actor Charlie Chaplin, a personal friend of his father. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Matthau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York, New York, U.S.
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Charley Varrick
Overview: Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police but the mob as well.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-19
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The Stingiest Man in Town
Overview: This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about every other Christmas special you saw as a kid (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical ghost story, it stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq.
Genres: Animation TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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The Bad News Bears
Overview: An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-06
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House Calls
Overview: Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-15
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Number One Fan
Overview: A movie star is being stalked by a one-night stand.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-26
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Overview: A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-06
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The Marriage Fool
Overview: Recently widowed after 41 years of marriage, Frank Walsh meets the outgoing Florence, sparking joy back into his life again. However, there is clear disapproval of her from his grown children, especially his eldest son Robert. As Frank and Florence grow closer in their relationship, Robert begins to change his perspective on their commitment and devotion to one another.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-20
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Hanging Up
Overview: Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly father, Lou, is admitted to a Los Angeles Hospital. After years of wild living, intermittent affection, and constant phoning, he is finally threatening to die.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-16
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Ghost Town: The Movie
Overview: An 1800’s western set in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. It’s a story of love, hate, revenge, honor. It showcases the most famous villains of all time from John Boorman’s “Deliverance” filmed in 1972. Voted number one movie villains of all time in “Maxim Magazine”, 2005, Bill McKinney and Herbert “Cowboy” Coward scared audiences with their mountain man delivery that struck fear in millions of movie goers. They were reunited in this film after 37 years.
Genres: Action Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-08
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Freaky Deaky
Overview: Set in 1974, a pair of '60s radicals rely on their bomb-making skills on their way to becoming capitalists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-22
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Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Overview: A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a filmmaker who never was a boring man, a superb mind who had ten commandments, of which the first nine were: “Thou shalt not bore.”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-10-28
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An Ordinary Killer
Overview: The tragic real life story of a serial killer who stalked his victims in the early 1970's in small town America. A weaving trail of twists and turns that left people unsettled for two generations until investigative persistence aided by modern technology brings justice for a young mother and her family some 28 years later.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-11
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Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
Overview: A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Going Shopping
Overview: A clothing designer tries to save her struggling boutique store by having a tumultuous weekend sale of her shop's inventory by playing on the addictions of shopping for the women of Beverly Hills.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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Doin' Time on Planet Earth
Overview: Ryan Richmond is an eccentric teenager living with his mother, father, sister and brother in the Holiday Inn they own in Sunnyvale, Arizona, the prune capital of the world. Is it any wonder that he wants to go to Saudi Arabaia for college and leave Sunnyvale far, far behind? He spends his days at school with his sex-obsessed best friend Dan Forrester and lusts after Lisa Winston, the sexy lounge singer who his parents have hired to perform at the Holiday Inn. Stuck without a date for his brother's wedding to a senator's daughter, Ryan goes to a computer dating service, which asks him such questions as "Can you breathe foreign substances?" Soon, Ryan is told that he may be an alien stuck on Earth along with thousands of others. Soon, Charles and Edna Pinsky show up and tell him that he may an alien prince meant to lead his brethren home. And that's when things get out of control...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-16
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The Book of Leah
Overview: The Book of Leah is a coming of age story, a drama about love, culture, and above all a witness to history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love
Overview: Longtime singles Lillian Lambert and Clifford Pepperman enjoy a romance late in their lives.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1991-05-12
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