John Friesen
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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One Magic Christmas
Overview: Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-22
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City on Fire
Overview: An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-11
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Where the Spirit Lives
Overview: In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-06
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Age of Innocence
Overview: A British schoolteacher finds trouble in a conservative Canadian town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-28
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Fly Away Home
Overview: Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest was torn down. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". When Winter comes, Amy, and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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And When They Shall Ask
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-11-22
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Young Again
Overview: A 40-year-old bachelor gets his wish to be 17 again, and he goes back to high school where he romances the daughter of the woman he dated in high school the first time.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-11
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Naked Lunch
Overview: Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-27
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Pale Saints
Overview: Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that they think will get them serious recognition in the mob. Things soon get out of control.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Charlie Grant's War
Overview: A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of the Third Reich.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-27
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Why Shoot the Teacher?
Overview: It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-23
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Double Negative
Overview: Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-12
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To Catch a Killer
Overview: "To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-15
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Hide and Seek
Overview: In this adaptation of the 1977 sci-fi novel, "The Adolescence of P-1," a high school whiz kid's computer program accidentally hooks into the mainframe computer of a nuclear power plant.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-01
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Two If by Sea
Overview: Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, where he wants to sell the painting and also hopes that their sagging relationship will get a positive push back up. Not everything goes as planned.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-12
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Rapture
Overview: A computer software designer becomes obsessed with his now-married high-school crush of 20 years before.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-11
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