Ron James
Also Known As: Ron K. James
Biography: Ron James is a Canadian stand-up comedian.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada
Birthday: January 31, 1956
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Star Wars: Ewoks - Tales from the Endor Woods
Overview: Wicket remembers four memorable adventures from his youth: how he fixed up his great grandfather's battle wagon, the occasion when Latara ran away from the Ewok village to join the traveling Jindas, the time his father Deej fell terrible ill and the story of Kneesa's long lost sister, Asha.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-11
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Dog Park
Overview: Sex comedy takes a look at contemporary dating mores and hypothesizes that the new dating location may be the dog walk in the park. Follow one mild-mannered man who's consistently unlucky in love and dogs.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-14
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Overview: Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on the shores of Lake Wissanotti with its notoriously leaky holiday steamer. It is a town similar to many other small towns in Canada with its odd assortment of residents.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-12
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Special People
Overview: Brooke Adams is the real-life Diane Dupuy, the Canadian woman whose vision and drive molded a group of developmentally-challenged young adults into the Famous People Players, a professional puppet troupe that has become world-renowned, having performed Radio City Music Hall and Las Vegas (Liberace's opening act in 1975) to the People's Republic of China.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-11
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Goofballs
Overview: Another entry in the Canadian "Balls" comedy era, this time set in a golf resort.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Ernest Rides Again
Overview: Buffoonish Ernest and his dimwitted pal Abner unearth a huge cannon reputed to contain the crown jewels of England.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-12
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Tommy Boy
Overview: To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-31
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Ron James: Quest for the West
Overview: Quest for the West is a full tilt, comedic homage to the lure of 'The Promised Land', during Alberta and Saskatchewan’s centennial year, performed by Canada’s number one selling comedian, Ron James. His poetically charged, kinetically driven performance, delivers an eclectic collection of side splitting bits, covering a 100 year timeline... from sod busting pioneers, to twenty-first century foot soldiers in the Fort 'McMoney' oil patch, all come west looking to reap the boons in a land where Opportunity’s shining bright as a new dream!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-31
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Ron James: True North
Overview: TRUE NORTH finds Ron James and his poetically charged brand of funny searching for slivers of sanity in a year so categorically ‘cuckoo’ that he watched dumbstruck as just about every nation on earth but Canada went “to hell in a hand cart.”
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-30
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The Dream Team
Overview: Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-07
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Strange Brew
Overview: Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug McKenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain the brewery founded by her recently-deceased father. But to do so, they must confront the suspicious Brewmeister Smith and two teams of vicious hockey players.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-26
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Head Office
Overview: In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-06
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Something About Love
Overview: Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he hopes to attend his high-school reunion and visit with his father Stan (Jan Rubes). Stan is the local mortician who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, but the 63-year-old father is too stubborn to admit anything is wrong. The contrast between Los Angeles and the grim Canadian steel town clashes like the father and son.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-09
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