Joyce Van Patten
Also Known As: 조이스 밴 패튼, جویس ون پاتن
Biography: Joyce Van Patten (born March 9, 1934) is an American stage, film and television actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 09, 1934
Age: 91 years old
Gender: Female
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Blind Date
Overview: When bachelor Walter Davis is set up with his sister-in-law's pretty cousin, Nadia Gates, a seemingly average blind date turns into a chaotic night on the town. Walter's brother, Ted, tells him not to let Nadia drink alcohol, but he dismisses the warning and her behaviour gets increasingly wild. Walter and Nadia's numerous incidents are made even worse as her former lover David relentlessly follows them around town.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-27
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The Goddess
Overview: A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-24
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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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Bone
Overview: A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as happily married as they appeared.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-01
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The Falcon and the Snowman
Overview: The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-25
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For the Use of the Hall
Overview: A penniless heiress, a disillusioned nun, the suicidal playwright they both love, a hapless art forger and the playwright's wife converge on the empty Long Island home of an aging matriarch and squabble among themselves about their relative success or failure.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-02
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Mame
Overview: The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, instilling in him her favorite credo, "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death."
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-07
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Monkey Shines
Overview: A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-29
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Marley & Me
Overview: A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
Overview: Harold Fine is a self-described square - a 35-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who's not looking forward to middle age nor his upcoming wedding. His life changes when he falls in love with Nancy, a free-spirited, innocent, and beautiful young hippie. After Harold and his family enjoy some of her "groovy" brownies, he decides to "drop out" with her and become a hippie too. But can he return to his old life when he discovers that the hippie lifestyle is just a little too independent and irresponsible for his tastes?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-18
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The Trouble with Girls
Overview: Chautauqua manager Walter Hale and his loyal business manager struggle to keep their traveling troupe together in small town America.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-24
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The Haunted
Overview: When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out it's haunted.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-06
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Thumb Tripping
Overview: Gary and Shay are two happy-go-lucky flower children who hitchhike in the beautiful Big Sur-Monterey area of California.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-01
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The Demon Murder Case
Overview: A young boy is taken over by demons who force him to commit murder.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-06
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This Must Be the Place
Overview: A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-24
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A Christmas for Boomer
Overview: A sacked maid and butler kidnap a pampered dog and want $20,000 ransom from the rich owner, Lila Manchester. A shaggy dog named Boomer helps save it and becomes a member of the family who originally found him.
Genres: TV Movie Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-06
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Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
Overview: An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-25
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The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
Overview: The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get past their grievances to be a family again?
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-09
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Under the Influence
Overview: Noah Talbot is a long-time alcoholic whose drinking begins to have a devastating effect not only on his personal life but on his family as well.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-28
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Breathing Lessons
Overview: A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-06
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Making It
Overview: A cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until someone in his life gets pregnant.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-21
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Trust Me
Overview: An art dealer murders one of his artists in the hopes of increasing the market value of his work.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-10
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Malice in Wonderland
Overview: Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons - maker and breaker of careers (and lives) through her daily syndicated newspaper column. The big movie moguls, fed up with Parson's power over their stars, decide to de-claw her by setting up gossip Hopper as a competitor in the rumour industry. What they couldn't forsee was that Hopper would become as big as Parsons -- and every bit as much of a pain. Based on the true life stories of two of the most powerful (and arguably dangerous) women of Hollywood's hay-day.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Grown Ups
Overview: After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-24
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Angel's Perch
Overview: Angel’s Perch is the story of Jack, a successful architect living in Pittsburgh, who must make the trip to his tiny hometown when his grandmother Polly, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, is found wandering outside her house one morning. But what was intended to be a two day, under the radar trip to town becomes more complicated when Jack is unable to move Polly into an assisted living facility. Torn between the career opportunity of a lifetime, caring for his last living relative and running from his own painful memories, Jack’s carefully constructed life begins to unravel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-23
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Billy Galvin
Overview: Conflict arises between a steelworker and his son. The father wants the boy to have a chance to make more of himself than he did, but the son wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a steel-worker himself.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-01
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Annie Oakley
Overview: Young Phoebe Mosey (Jamie Lee Curtis) defies expectations and proves herself to become "Little Miss Sure Shot" Annie Oakley, the legendary sharpshooter and "Wild West" icon.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-24
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Mikey and Nicky
Overview: Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Desperate and terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-21
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The Book of Murder
Overview: Much-married and once successful writer Henry T. Aythecliff, now heavily in debt, summons his three ex-wives to his mansion, planning to extort a sizable amount of money from each. When he is discovered dead, clues indicate that each of his four wives had motive and opportunity to murder him, and a young detective must sift through some ingeniously devised evidence.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-19
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The Comedy Company
Overview: An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-21
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The Stranger Within
Overview: Who is the father of Ann Collins’ baby? Her husband had a vasectomy years ago. And Ann hasn’t been with another man. Even more mysterious: as the baby grows inside her, Ann begins to change. She is beset by strange illnesses, pours tablespoons of salt on her food, turns the thermostat to 50 degrees, speed-reads academic tomes. But much bigger shocks are yet to come. Barbara Eden stars in this hypnotic, swiftly paced blend of horror and sci-fi from Richard Matheson, the popular and prolific writer who also penned the novel I AM LEGEND and several notable THE TWILIGHT ZONE scripts.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-01
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Another Woman's Child
Overview: Mike and Terry DeBray are a happily married couple whose lives change when the young daughter that Tony fathered out of wedlock suddenly appears and comes into their lives.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-18
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You Can't Take it With You
Overview: Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about a slightly daft family who do exactly as they please.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-16
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Picking Up the Pieces
Overview: A sheltered wife of a surgeon suddenly finds herself thrust into the middle of a messy divorce.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-22
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St. Elmo's Fire
Overview: A group of friends graduates from the halls of Georgetown University into lives that revolve around sex and career aspirations. Kirby waits tables to pay for law school. His roommate Kevin struggles at a D.C. newspaper as he searches for the meaning of love. Jules may be an object of adoration and envy, but secretly she has problems of her own. Demure Wendy is in love with Billy—a loveable sax player and an irresponsible drunk. Alec wants it all: a career in politics and the appearance of a traditional home life. Alec’s girlfriend, Leslie, is an ambitious architect who doesn't know about his infidelity, but his new allegiance to the Republican Party is already enough to put her off marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-28
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Fourteen Hours
Overview: A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-01
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Winner Take All
Overview: The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-03
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Something Big
Overview: Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-19
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Winter Kill
Overview: Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and find the sniper before he (or she) kills again, and before the town council relieves him of duty.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-15
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Murder at the Mardi Gras
Overview: A bubble-brained Philadelphia waitress witnesses a murder during the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans and finds herself stalked by the killer.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-10
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In Defense of Kids
Overview: When a female lawyer finds a girl hiding in the back of her car, it starts her thinking, and she decides to give up her job to open up a refuge for neglected children.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-06
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The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Overview: Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-07
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Diane
Overview: Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-28
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Maid for Each Other
Overview: In this hilarious crime caper, a rich woman (Nell Carter) and her maid (Dinah Manoff) happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time -- and now, they're hotfooting it away from vicious mobsters who want to fit them for a couple pairs of cement overshoes. Can they stay free -- and alive -- long enough to gather evidence against the mobsters?
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-13
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God's Pocket
Overview: A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-09
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Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky
Overview: Documentary on the making of the film featuring interviews with distributor Julian Schlossberg and actor Joyce Van Patten.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-22
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Shadow of Fear
Overview: A boy turns to his pets after his father dies, and on a visit to his great-uncle in the Amish country, he learns their legends and superstitions. He soon discovers he has the power to make mind contact with the animals.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-28
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Infinity
Overview: Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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Bus Stop
Overview: The story is set in a diner in rural Kansas, about 25 miles west of Kansas City, Missouri during a snowstorm from which bus passengers must take shelter.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-22
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Let's Switch!
Overview: Chaos ensues when two former college friends, one a housewife and the other the editor of a hip women's magazine, decide to swap lifestyles between them.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-07
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Collaborators
Overview: Actor Joyce Van Patten and distributor Julian Schlossberg discuss the visual style and tone of Mikey and Nicky and explain why they believe it is a very special film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-22
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Jake's Women
Overview: Jake is a writer. He is married to Maggie, but his marriage is in trouble. He cannot stop thinking about other women in his life, characters he invents conversations with. He is constantly talking to: his deceased wife Julie, his daughter Molly, his sister Karen, and his psychiatrist Edith. All he does is have imaginary conversations with real people that are at the moment out of his life. Maggie cannot stand his mind wandering off all the time and decides to separate for six months and at the end of six months they will decide whether or not to remain together. Jake has a few girl friends, but spends the six months, while waiting for Maggie, only talking to these imaginary people, and a few times to real people.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-02
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But I Don't Want to Get Married!
Overview: An accountant is widowed after 18 years of marriage. He is dumbfounded to have a herd of marriage-minded women descend upon him.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-06
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Grandpa's Funeral
Overview: The family is silently preparing for the grandpa's funeral. The daughters are already missing him; the youngest cannot accept that she is not immortal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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To Kill a Cop
Overview: Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police officer. He is also trying to battle with a mayor and police commissioner that want him out of his job.
Genres: Crime Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-10
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Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
Overview: A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-13
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The Gift of Love
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-12-17
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