Wallace Shawn
Also Known As: Wally Shawn, Wallace Michael Shawn, 華萊士‧肖恩, والاس شاون
Biography: Wallace Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, playwright, essayist and comedian. His film roles have included those of Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre, Vizzini in The Princess Bride, Mr. Hall in Clueless and Rex in the Toy Story franchise. He has also appeared in a variety of television series, including recurring roles as Cyrus Rose in Gossip Girl and as Grand Nagus Zek in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. His plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon and Grasses of a Thousand Colors. He also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre and he scripted A Master Builder, a film adaptation of of the play by Henrik Ibsen, which he also starred in. His book Essays was published in 2009 by Haymarket Books.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 12, 1943
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Male
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Toy Story
Overview: Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the duo eventually learns to put aside their differences.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-22
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Toy Story 2
Overview: Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz Lightyear meets his match and Woody has to decide where he and his heart truly belong.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-30
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Manhattan
Overview: Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-25
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Toy Story 3
Overview: Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally left at a nefarious day care center. The toys must band together to escape and return home to Andy.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-16
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Canadian Bacon
Overview: The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-08
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The Princess Bride
Overview: In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-25
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Overview: CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-05
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Southland Tales
Overview: Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-14
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Happily N'Ever After
Overview: An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes her stepmother is out to ruin her storybook existence, she takes a dramatic turn and blossoms into the leader of the resistance effort.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-05
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Deal of the Century
Overview: Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-04
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Capitalism: A Love Story
Overview: Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).
Genres: Documentary Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-06
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Cheaper to Keep Her
Overview: A newly divorced swinger on the prowl goes to work as a detective for a neurotic feminist attorney.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Hotel New Hampshire
Overview: Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in New England and Vienna, as unexpected events change their lives forever.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-09
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Atlantic City
Overview: In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-03
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Overview: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-07
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Radio Days
Overview: The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-30
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Overview: The Great Depression hits home for nine year old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and leaves to find work. Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin stars as Kit, leading a splendid cast in the first ever "American Girl" theatrical movie. In order to keep their home, Kit and her mother must take in boarders - paying house - guests who turn out to be full of fascinating stories. When mother's lockbox containing all their money is stolen, Kit's new hobo friend Will is the prime suspect. Kit refuses to believe that Will would steal, and her efforts to sniff out the real story get her and friends into big trouble. The police say the robbery was an inside job, committed by someone they know. So if it wasn't Will, then who did it.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-02
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My Dinner with Andre
Overview: Wally, a struggling playwright and actor, reluctantly agrees to catch up with his old friend Andre, a theater director who disappeared several years prior in order to travel the world. Meeting at a posh Manhattan restaurant, the two share life stories, anecdotes and philosophical musings over the course of an evening meal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-11
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Monsters, Inc.
Overview: Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-01
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Vanya on 42nd Street
Overview: An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 1899 play "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-19
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Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
Overview: Scooby-Doo and Shaggy must go into the underworld ruled by The Goblin King in order to stop a mortal named The Amazing Krudsky who wants power and is a threat to their pals: Fred, Velma, and Daphne.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-23
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Clueless
Overview: Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-19
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Chicken Little
Overview: When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chicken Little must hatch a plan to save the planet from alien invasion and prove that the world's biggest hero is a little chicken.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-04
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My Favorite Martian
Overview: Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a Pulitzer Prize, Tim makes plans to expose the martian, who, posing as Tim's Uncle Martin, takes human form and has plans of his own. In fact, all of Tim's efforts to divulge the truth are systematically thwarted by the resourceful alien, who ultimately recruits Tim to help him repair his ship for a return to Mars.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-11
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Melinda and Melinda
Overview: While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-22
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Mom and Dad Save the World
Overview: Emperor Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and her husband Dick, hoping to make Marge his before blowing up the Earth. The Emperor and other inhabitants of his planet are somewhat less than bright, and Dick begins reliving episodes of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in order to rescue Marge, save the Earth, and restore the rightful emperor to the throne.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-24
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Prick Up Your Ears
Overview: When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his writing, Halliwell becomes increasingly alienated and jealous, ultimately tapping into a dangerous rage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-17
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Micki & Maude
Overview: TV reporter Rob Salinger longs for a baby. But his career-minded wife, Micki, is too busy for motherhood. A romantic fling with a seductive cellist, Maude, leads to her pregnancy. Rob receives another shock when Micki announces that she's also expecting! In love with both women, he marries Maude and starts leading a double life full of complicated and riotous situations.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Overview: A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday or fail miserably, just like his father before him. Anxious to make good, Jack sells his C.O.W. (Computer of Wonder) for a handful of magic beans and a mysterious book that records his adventures as he's having them. Accompanied by his sidekick Grayson -- a goose who ate a bean and underwent an amazing transformation -- Jack climbs the magic beanstalk to recover the fabled Harp of Destiny from the evil Giant who lives in the sky. Helping Jack on his perilous quest is the spunky Jillian, a fearless young girl whom Jack meets on his journey -- and who just may have a hidden agenda...
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-06
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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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The Windmill Movie
Overview: Filmmaker Richard P. Rogers tried for twenty years to make a documentary about his own life. He died in 2001, leaving the project unfinished, until his widow, acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas, commissioned his former student Alexander Olch to make a film out of the pieces. Starting in the Hamptons, in the town of Wainscott, the film weaves Rogers' footage into a journey through childhood memories, a less than encouraging mother, a family background of privilege, and Rogers' persistent, dogged attempts to document his own life. Rogers' friend, actor and writer Wallace Shawn, joins in the process, as the film investigates the differences between documentary and fiction, and tells the tragic story of Rogers' life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-17
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The Moderns
Overview: Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville to forge three paintings. This leads to several run-ins with American rubber magnate Bertram Stone, who happens to be married to Hart's ex-wife Rachel.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-15
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Strong Medicine
Overview: Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday party, goes to see a doctor, plans a vacation, argues a lot and even breaks the fourth wall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-25
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The Speed of Thought
Overview: Joshua Lazarus (Nick Stahl) is a telepath who has been raised in a NSA foster home. Lazarus helps the government by using his abilities. He is told by the agency that the telepathy is a side effect of Widmann's Disease, and that he will become insane in time and eventually die from the illness. However, Lazarus meets a woman with similar powers (Mía Maestro) who does not have any sign of the disease, launching Lazarus to confront the lies he has been told
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-29
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Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers
Overview: Dueling cat-and-mouse team Tom and Jerry hit the high seas on a hunt for buried treasure in this pirate adventure. The tale begins when crew member Tom sets sail with an infamous pirate and finds a treasure map along with stowaway Jerry. The furry swashbucklers race to a deserted island where X marks the spot, but along with battling each other, they must outwit ruthless buccaneers, angry monkeys and a giant octopus to strike it rich.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-21
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Monte Walsh
Overview: Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Monte has a long-term relationship with prostitute Martine Bernard, while Chet has fallen under the spell of the widow who owns the hardware store. Camaraderie and competition with the other cowboys fill their days, until one of the hands, Shorty Austin, loses his job and gets involved in rustling and killing. Then Monte and Chet find that their lives on the range are inexorably redirected.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-17
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Critical Care
Overview: Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital's legal team and do what's best for the patient?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-31
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The Prime Gig
Overview: Pendelton "Penny" Wise is a smooth-talking con-artist who scams people with phoney travel comp vacations over the phone when, desperate for more fast cash, he's called to work for a shady, veteran con businessman Kelly Grant. The situation takes a turn for the worst when Penny begins a relationship with Grant's mistress, Caitlin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-24
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USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland
Overview: Making of the movie Southland Tales
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-18
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A Goofy Movie
Overview: An endearing modern-day story about how the lovable Goof bonds with his teenage son Max on a hilarious cross-country road trip. En route to the ol' fishing hole, they find themselves up to their floppy ears in misadventure!
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-07
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The Bedroom Window
Overview: Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that same night another girl is found murdered.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-16
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Strange Invaders
Overview: Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-16
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She's Out of Control
Overview: A Los Angeles radio-station manager's girlfriend shows his teenage daughter how to be sexy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-14
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All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
Overview: Charlie and Itchy return to Earth to find Gabriel's Horn, but along the way meet up with a young boy named David, who ran away from home.
Genres: Romance Animation Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-29
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Lovesick
Overview: Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-18
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The Double 0 Kid
Overview: Lance, a teenager, dreams to be a secret agent when he is suddenly in the middle of an hacker intrigue which aims at an international environmental congress. Lance gets in possession of a computer access card one of which the hackers are in urgent need of for their operation. Lance begins to play with the hackers, seeing his dream come true.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-07
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Vamps
Overview: The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize their immortality.
Genres: Comedy Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-25
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The Wife
Overview: A sudden visit from a patient and his unstable, outrageously candid wife leads to a delirious night of shattering revelations for a husband and wife team of therapists.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-21
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The Magic Bubble
Overview: A middle-aged woman frees herself from the spirit-crushing influence of her husband by refusing to remember what her age is.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Nice Girls Don't Explode
Overview: April has a problem. Whenever she gets anything like passionate with a guy all sorts of things seem to spontaneously combust. The only men she meets more then once are firefighters. Actually, it's Mom's way of trying to keep her little girl to herself, but new boyfriend Andy is having none of such nonsense. So the heat's on. Unfortunately it's Fluffy the cat who keeps getting caught in the middle.
Genres: Comedy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-01
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Crackers
Overview: In San Francisco, a group of down-and-out friends and a local pimp concoct a convoluted burglary plan on their pawnshop operator friend, all while navigating unexpected romantic entanglements that threaten to derail their heist.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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Hawaiian Vacation
Overview: The toys throw Ken and Barbie a Hawaiian vacation in Bonnie's room.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-16
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The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
Overview: This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his demons and obsessions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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A Late Quartet
Overview: When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group's future suddenly hangs in the balance as suppressed emotions, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert — quite possibly their last — only their intimate bond and the power of music can preserve their legacy.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-02
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Heaven Help Us
Overview: Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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Admission
Overview: Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former classmate, the freewheeling John Pressman. Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah, his gifted yet very unconventional student, might well be the son that Portia secretly gave up for adoption many years ago.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-21
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Karroll's Christmas
Overview: Allen Karroll hates Christmas ever since his ex-girlfriend humiliated him in front of thousands of people one Christmas. As a man who writes greeting cards for a living, this proves to be a hinderance. He also hates the man who lives across the street, Zeb Rosecog, who seems to take delight in tormenting him, who also happens to be the former CEO of Karroll's greeting card company. One day, Karroll is visited by the ghost Jacob Marley (related to Bob Marley), as well as the ghost of Christmas present, past and future (in that order) who all happen to have come to the wrong address, and had actually meant to visit Rosecog. During this experience, Karroll learns a lot about himself as well as Rosecog, and discovers that he and Rosecog have a lot in common, and decides to help Rosecog to see the light, and rediscover the joy of Christmas.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-25
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The Double
Overview: An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-03
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Partysaurus Rex
Overview: When Rex finds himself left behind in the bathroom, he puts his limbs to use by getting a bath going for a bunch of new toy friends.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-14
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Just Write
Overview: A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-01
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Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner
Overview: BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER is an exploration of the life and work of Andre Gregory, groundbreaking director, actor, artist, and raconteur, filmed by prize-winning documentarian Cindy Kleine, his wife. Through her close-up lens, Cindy introduces us to this cultural icon and master storyteller, and tells the unusual story of a good marriage that thrives in collaboration, art, and humor, celebrating the great vitality of the later years in life. The film touches on universal questions. Where does art come from? What experiences shape the life, the preoccupations, and the work of an artist? Drawing on the work Andre has created over a lifetime, and exploring the nature of the life that underlies the work, BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER is about how and why artists create.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-03
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Furry Vengeance
Overview: When real estate developer Dan Sanders finalizes plans to level a swath of pristine Oregon forest to make way for a soulless housing subdivision, a band of woodland creatures rises up to throw a monkey wrench into the greedy scheme. Just how much mischief from the furry critters can the businessman take before he calls it quits?
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-30
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Noah
Overview: In order to save his family, a contractor must construct an ark before a massive flood hits his home town.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-11
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The First Time
Overview: A young film student pursues a woman while studying under a bizarre, eccentric film professor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-13
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Toy Story of Terror!
Overview: What starts out as a fun road trip for the Toy Story gang takes an unexpected turn for the worse when the trip detours to a roadside motel. After one of the toys goes missing, the others find themselves caught up in a mysterious sequence of events that must be solved before they all suffer the same fate in this Toy Story of Terror.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-16
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Don Peyote
Overview: An ordinary guy delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to discern the structure of society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-01
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The Pixar Story
Overview: A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company's relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits. The contributions of John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs are profiled. The decline of two-dimensional animation is chronicled as three-dimensional animation rises. Hard work and creativity seem to share the screen in equal proportions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-28
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The Haunted Mansion
Overview: Workaholic Jim Evers and his wife/business partner Sara get a call one night from a mansion owner, Edward Gracey, who wants to sell his house. Once the Evers family arrive at the mansion, a torrential thunderstorm of mysterious origin strands them with the brooding, eccentric Gracey, his mysterious butler, and a variety of residents both seen and unseen.
Genres: Thriller Fantasy Comedy Family Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-26
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A Master Builder
Overview: A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-23
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André Gregory and Wallace Shawn
Overview: In this hour-long piece, recorded in 2009, filmmaker Noah Baumbach talks with his friends the writer-actors André Gregory and Wallace Shawn about their experiences making My Dinner with Andre. Baumbach speaks first with Gregory, and then with Shawn.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-02
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All That Jazz
Overview: Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-16
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Driving Mr. Pink
Overview: Originally an episode of the 1993 Pink Panther television series but went theatrical to accompany The Pebble and The Penguin. The short would later air on TV on March 29th, 1996 (which would be part of the final episode in the series).
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-12
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Love Thy Neighbor
Overview: Two married couples are about to give new meaning to the phrase "Love Thy Neighbor." When these best friends become more than just friends, one simple game leads to another.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-05
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Simon
Overview: A group of scientists take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwashing experiment and try to convince him that he is a living being from another planet.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-01
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
Overview: During a post-Christmas play date, the gang find themselves in uncharted territory when the coolest set of action figures ever turn out to be dangerously delusional. It's all up to Trixie, the triceratops, if the gang hopes to return to Bonnie's room in this Toy Story That Time Forgot.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-02
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Shadows and Fog
Overview: With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-05
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Christmas at Cartwright's
Overview: With Christmas approaching, a struggling single mom finds herself working as a department store Santa Claus, as a real-life angel delivers good fortune and the possibility of holiday romance.
Genres: Romance Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-07
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We're No Angels
Overview: Two escaped cons' only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-02
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House Arrest
Overview: High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce after 18 years of marriage, so they lock them up in the basement until they'll sort out their problems.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-14
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Maggie's Plan
Overview: Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own with a sperm donor is derailed when she falls in love with John, an older married professor, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But three years later, married to John with one daughter, Maggie is out of love and in a quandary: what do you do when you suspect your man and his ex-wife are actually perfect for each other?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-27
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Vegas Vacation
Overview: The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-13
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Robo-Dog
Overview: When Tyler's furry best friend dies tragically, his inventor Dad creates a new dog to take his place - complete with mechanical powers and robotic abilities to keep everyone on their toes.
Genres: Family Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-14
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Starting Over
Overview: After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-05
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Teacher's Pet
Overview: Meet Spot, a clever little dog with big dreams of becoming a real boy. When Spot finds out that a crazy scientist can make his wish come true, he takes a cross-country trek with Leonard, his best friend and master, and their mom. However, Dr. Krank's experiments are a little less than perfect, and it will take Leonard and his pet pals to right this genetic wrong.
Genres: Animation Family Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-16
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Personal Velocity
Overview: In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-12
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The Incredibles
Overview: Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-27
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Small Fry
Overview: A fast food restaurant mini variant of Buzz forcibly switches places with the real Buzz and his friends have to deal with the obnoxious impostor.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-23
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Club Penguin Halloween Panic!
Overview: Happy Halloween from Club Penguin! Everyone is in the spirit for Halloween treats, except for master- prankster Blizzard who feels that tricks are the treat. After ruining his friends' Haunted Igloo attraction with his latest prank, Blizzard befriends a smart-aleck specter named Polter-Gus. The pranking pals accidentally unleash a swarm of unfriendly ghosts who terrorize the island! Can Blizzard convince his friends to trust him and stop the ghoulish gang from turning everyone on Club Penguin Island into gruesome ghosts?
Genres: Horror Animation Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-25
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Duplex
Overview: When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-26
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A Little Sex
Overview: Michael and Katherine have enjoyed a long relationship together even before they tie the knot. But Michael does not hide the fact he's a womanizer and sex addict, cheating on Katherine during their pre-married relationship. Because Katherine is genuinely in love with him, she is willing to overlook this and believes that perhaps marriage will change things.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-02
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How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
Overview: A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-08
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Saigon: Year Of The Cat
Overview: The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Chesneau (Frederic Forrest). She quickly realises that he works for the CIA and he knows that the fall of South Vietnam is very near.
Genres: Drama Romance War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-29
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Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Overview: The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy with her own sinister plans for conquest.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Fantasy Action Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-29
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Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
Overview: A wealthy Beverly Hills resident who has just become a widow, Clare Lipkin temporarily takes on her friend Lisabeth as a house guest. As the two women deal with their upper-class woes, Clare's driver, Frank, and Lisabeth's servant, Juan, make a wager to see who can be the first to seduce the other's boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-03
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Animal Crackers
Overview: A family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a rundown circus from being taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.
Genres: Comedy Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-23
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Just Like Dad
Overview: Embarrassed because he perceives his father as dull, a creative boy invents himself a new, more exciting one and finds the popularity he craves.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-01
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Nickel & Dime
Overview: A P.I. hasn't paid taxes in ages. When the IRS sends an accountant to investigate him, his only way out is to solve his latest case of a missing heiress. However, someone wants to prevent this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Club Penguin Monster Beach Party
Overview: It’s summer time on Club Penguin Island and resident party planner Jangrah has prepared the perfect “Surf ‘n’ Sno-cone” Beach Party for all of her penguin friends. However, while harvesting ice from a nearby iceberg for the sno-cones, a 65 million year old Megalodon is accidentally released - causing prehistoric pandemonium! It’s up to Jangrah to flip the script and put aside her perfect plans to stop the rampaging Megalodon and save Club Penguin Island!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-10
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The Bostonians
Overview: A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-01
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Air Buddies
Overview: The offspring of sportsman canine Air Bud: B-Dawg, Mudbud, Budderball, Buddha, and Rosebud, uncover a kidnapping plot motivated by a little rich boy's desire to have the world's most athletic dog as a pet.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-12
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Cop and a Half: New Recruit
Overview: In this family-friendly action reboot of the 1993 film, Karina Foley, an ambitious and spunky 12-year-old, inserts herself in a police investigation of the Badge Bandit, led by the grizzled, veteran detective Mark Simmons. Much to Simmons' disapproval, Karina partners up with him to stop the Badge Bandit from further wreaking havoc on the city. Through wit, skill, and green smoothies, Karina and Detective Simmons save the day and build a strong relationship in the process.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-01
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The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
Overview: The documentary short of Toy Story of why and how the feature length blockbuster sleeper movie became a success and helps to boost Pixar's popularity of making one of the few animation movie production companies in the world today, especially in North America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-18
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
Overview: Buzz Lightyear must battle Emperor Zurg with the help of three hopefuls who insist on being his partners.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-08
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The Only Living Boy in New York
Overview: When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-27
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My Dinner with Louis
Overview: Interview with director Louis Malle conducted by Wallace Shawn, produced for the BBC-TV programme "Arena".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-06
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Book Club
Overview: Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club to get inspiration on how to handle sexual pleasure at an elderly age.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-18
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Another Kind of Wedding
Overview: A fractured family is forced to confront what tore them apart at the eldest son's wedding.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-01
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The Meteor Man
Overview: One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he's scared of heights. He can master the information in any book ... for about thirty seconds. Now his friends and family want him to protect their community from the dreaded Golden Lords.
Genres: Fantasy Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-06
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Starring Austin Pendleton
Overview: A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
Overview: A "behinds the scenes" documentary about the making of the 1987 film THE PRINCESS BRIDE with original archive footage and new interviews with cast members.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-04
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I Could Never Be Your Woman
Overview: Mother Nature loves to cause mischief, and she steps in to help two love-starved souls find happiness. She helps an aging professional woman and single mother, Rosie, who's unlucky in love find her match with Adam, a much younger man. As their relationship blossoms beyond physical attraction, matters complicate when her adolescent daughter starts to fall for a handsome local boy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-11
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What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Overview: A documentary exploring the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the reasons it went from the black sheep of Star Trek to a beloved mainstay of the franchise, and a brainstorm with the original writers on what a theoretical eighth season of the show could look like.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-12
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Toy Story 4
Overview: Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.
Genres: Family Adventure Animation Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-19
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Rifkin’s Festival
Overview: The story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-01
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Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Overview: An 11-year old boy believes that he is the best detective in town and runs the agency Total Failures with his best friend, an imaginary 1,200 pound polar bear.
Genres: Family Mystery Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-25
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Marriage Story
Overview: A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-28
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Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States
Overview: An impressive roster of celebrities -- including Lili Taylor, Paul Robeson, Sarah Jones, Brian Jones, John Sayles and Wallace Shawn -- lend their voices to this performance of readings inspired by Howard Zinn's best-selling book. Segments bring to life Tecumseh's speech to the Osages, Frederick Douglass' thoughts about July 4 and Paul Robeson's Unread Statement before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-14
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Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time?
Overview: Rex uses the age of dinosaurs as an example to give Forky an understanding of the concept of time.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-29
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Overview: A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday or fail miserably, just like his father before him. Anxious to make good, Jack sells his C.O.W. (Computer of Wonder) for a handful of magic beans and a mysterious book that records his adventures as he's having them. Accompanied by his sidekick Grayson -- a goose who ate a bean and underwent an amazing transformation -- Jack climbs the magic beanstalk to recover the fabled Harp of Destiny from the evil Giant who lives in the sky. Helping Jack on his perilous quest is the spunky Jillian, a fearless young girl whom Jack meets on his journey -- and who just may have a hidden agenda...
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-06
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I Could Never Be Your Woman
Overview: Mother Nature loves to cause mischief, and she steps in to help two love-starved souls find happiness. She helps an aging professional woman and single mother, Rosie, who's unlucky in love find her match with Adam, a much younger man. As their relationship blossoms beyond physical attraction, matters complicate when her adolescent daughter starts to fall for a handsome local boy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-11
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A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
Overview: The cast of The Princess Bride is together again! The stars of the iconic 1987 fantasy film reunited for a virtual table read hosted by Jason Reitman. The 3-hour virtual reunion included director Rob Reiner and actors Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Billy Crystal, Carol Kane, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, and Christopher Guest. A Q&A after was moderated by Patton Oswalt. Guest stars stepped in for actors who were not available, including Finn Wolfhard, Josh Gad, Eric Idle, and Whoopi Goldberg.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-13
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The Fog of Courage
Overview: In this animated horror comedy, a cowardly dog named Courage must rescue his lovely owner, Muriel from a vengeful supernatural Fog. Eustace, Muriel's greedy husband, refuses to return the gold necklace belonging to the Fog's long lost love.
Genres: Animation Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-31
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The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
Overview: Told from Mowgli's point of view, it's the story of how a boy became a mancub and a mancub became a man.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-28
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Napoleon
Overview: The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-30
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Waiting for Godot
Overview: An experimental exploration of the storied play. Becket’s vision of perpetual uncertainty, anxiety, and loneliness is refracted through our current moment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-06
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The Addams Family 2
Overview: The Addams get tangled up in more wacky adventures and find themselves involved in hilarious run-ins with all sorts of unsuspecting characters.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-01
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Strange Culture
Overview: The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members dealt with genetically modified food and other issues of science and public policy. After his wife, Hope, died of heart failure, paramedics arrived and became suspicious when they noticed petri dishes and other scientific equipment related to Kurtz's art in his home. They summoned the FBI, who detained Kurtz within hours on suspicion of bioterrorism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-09
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Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Overview: Retrospective looking at the revolutionary computer-animated feature film Toy Story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-10
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The Cemetery Club
Overview: The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-03
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Mr. St. Nick
Overview: King Nicholas XX is ready to retire and pass the throne to his son, Nick St. Nicholas. But he is a no-show, preferring his lavish seaside lifestyle and sexy girlfriend.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-17
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Phineas and Ferb Save Summer
Overview: When L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. moves the Earth further from the sun, Phineas and Ferb must find a way to save summer and prevent a new ice age.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Comedy Family Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-09
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Drawing Home
Overview: Boston in the 1920s. A young East Coast debutante is dating the most eligible bachelor in the world, John D. Rockefeller III. Her future seems set: a dream life in the upper echelons of society. But when she least expects it, she meets a young painter from one of the most beautiful places on Earth, the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Their worlds are polar opposites. As their attraction turns their lives upside down, they soon face a universal question: Can you find "home" in another person?
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2017-12-01
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The Man Who Changed the World
Overview: A drama spanning generations that’s inspired by the story of visionary entrepreneur Lawrence “Bud” Stoecker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Toy Story 5
Overview: Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs get exponentially harder when they go head to head with an all-new threat to playtime: tech.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2026-06-17
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