Melanie Lynskey
Also Known As: ملانی لینسکی
Biography: Melanie Jayne Lynskey (born May 16, 1977) is a New Zealand actress. Known for her portrayals of complex women and her command of American dialects, she works predominantly in independent films. Lynskey is the recipient of two Critics' Choice Awards, a HCA Award, a Gracie, a New Zealand Film Award, a Hollywood Film Award, and a Sundance Special Jury Award, as well as Gotham, Satellite, Saturn, Golden Nymph, Independent Spirit, Screen Actors Guild, and Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melanie Lynskey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand
Birthday: May 16, 1977
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Gender: Female
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Heavenly Creatures
Overview: Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-12
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Flags of Our Fathers
Overview: There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-18
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The Frighteners
Overview: Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-18
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But I'm a Cheerleader
Overview: Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-07
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Up in the Air
Overview: Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his transient life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-04
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The Informant!
Overview: A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-18
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Coyote Ugly
Overview: Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at Coyote Ugly. The "Coyotes" as they are affectionately called tantalize customers and the media alike with their outrageous antics, making Coyote Ugly the watering hole for guys on the prowl.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-30
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EverAfter
Overview: Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle's stepmother Rodmilla is a heartless woman who forces Danielle to do the cooking and cleaning, while she tries to marry off the eldest of her two daughters to the prince. But Danielle's life takes a wonderful turn when, under the guise of a visiting royal, she meets the charming Prince Henry.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-31
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Leaves of Grass
Overview: An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-13
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Detroit Rock City
Overview: In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the three teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's amateur-night contest, take on religious protesters, even rob a convenience store!
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-13
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Shattered Glass
Overview: The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for three years. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-14
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Show of Hands
Overview: Jess is a solo mother and reluctant parking warden. Tom is a self-obsessed greetings cards salesman with an addiction to competitions who will do anything to win. Together they are just two of the competitors in a gruelling endurance contest to win a car - whoever keeps their hand on it the longest wins. As the sleepless days wear by, what price will they pay for winning this competition?
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-14
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Claustrophobia
Overview: A serial killer armed with a crossbow pistol is murdering people from their own rooftops. When three young coworkers at a poorly-attended slumber party start hearing footsteps on the roof, they fear the worst.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-18
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Park
Overview: Park takes place all in one day in a public park in Los Angeles, as 11 disaffected Angelenos find both love and loss in unexpected ways
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-12
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Helena from the Wedding
Overview: Newlyweds Alex and Alice host a New Year's Eve party for their closest friends at a remote cabin in the mountains. However, when an unexpected guest shows up, the group's facades begin to crumble.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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Abandon
Overview: A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first love two years prior. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as new facts are uncovered.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-14
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A Quiet Little Marriage
Overview: A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins’ intense and profound, raw feature debut is laced with sly humor, exquisitely rendered characters, and a pitch-perfect emotional honesty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-18
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A Kiwi Legend
Overview: Change is afoot in New Zealand as creative forces take on the ultimate Kiwi icon. But all is not well in paradise, and the nation is divided. Whilst supporters applaud the innovation others see it as a threat to their national identity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-27
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Hello I Must Be Going
Overview: Divorced and demoralised, Amy Minsky’s prospects look bleak when she is condemned to move back in with her parents at the age of 35. Everyone wants to help but, as her patience level with advice is plummeting, a bold teenage boy enters her life, igniting her last bit of self-esteem.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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Touchback
Overview: A former high-school football star loses his shot at a college scholarship due to a devastating gridiron injury, but gets a second chance at living his dream.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-13
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Win Win
Overview: When down-on-his-luck part-time high school wrestling coach Mike agrees to become legal guardian to an elderly man, his ward's troubled grandson turns out to be a star grappler, sparking dreams of a big win -- until the boy's mother retrieves him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-18
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Overview: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-20
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Snakeskin
Overview: A hitchhiker takes two kids on the ride of their dreams, but they soon learn that their newfound hero is just as capable of delivering nightmares.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-01
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Overview: As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-22
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Say Uncle
Overview: A young gay artist, desperate to replace the relationship he had with his recently relocated godson, is targeted by a neighborhood mom as a potential threat to the community.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-23
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Putzel
Overview: For Walter, a young man endearingly known as "Putzel," life literally doesn't go beyond his neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Walter's dreams of taking over his family's smoked fish emporium are disrupted by the arrival of Sally, who starts a relationship with his about-to-retire and very-married uncle. In order to secure his future, Walter attempts to thwart the budding romance and falls for Sally too - throwing everyone's lives into hilarious chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-10
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Eye of the Hurricane
Overview: An Everglades community struggles to put their lives back together in the wake of a hurricane.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-10
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The Nearly Unadventurous Life of Zoe Cadwaulder
Overview: Romantic dark comedy sees phobia-riddled Zoe Cadwaulder overcoming her fears and discovering true love.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-02
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They Came Together
Overview: A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-27
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The Big Ask
Overview: The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anything for him - except for the one thing he wants.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-30
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We'll Never Have Paris
Overview: Quinn, a neurotic man, is diagnosed with a harmless eye condition and soon after his life spirals out of control. He second-guesses his plans to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Devon, after his beautiful coworker, Kelsey, confesses that she has a crush on him. After a conversation with his best friend, Jameson, he clumsily tries to explain his doubts to Devon, but his possible proposal turns into a break-up. When Devon flees to Paris, he follows her in a last-ditch effort to win back "the one."
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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Happy Christmas
Overview: After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-25
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Goodbye to All That
Overview: Otto Wall is just a little unlucky in life, and unbeknownst to him, in love. When his wife suddenly asks for a divorce, he bounces between a search for answers, desperate attempts to stay connected to his daughter, and his fateful reentry into the dating pool.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-17
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Chu and Blossom
Overview: A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-31
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Digging for Fire
Overview: Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn't want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-21
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The Intervention
Overview: A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-26
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The Great & The Small
Overview: Twenty-six year old Scott is living on the streets and trying to find his way back into society while on probation for petty crimes. He attempts to navigate his relationship with his two bit criminal of a boss and an enigmatic detective, while at the same time winning back the heart of his ex-girlfriend, a working single mom. Never having a mother or father himself, Scott discovers the true meaning of fatherhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-31
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Away We Go
Overview: Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting their first child, Burt's parents inexplicably decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place. They set off on a whirlwind tour of of disparate locations where they have friends or relatives, sampling not only different cities and climates but also different families. Along the way they realize that the journey is less about discovering where they want to live and more about figuring out what type of parents they want to be.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-05
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Griffin in Summer
Overview: 14-year-old aspiring playwright Griffin becomes enamored with a local handyman over the course of summer vacation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-06
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Pike River
Overview: Based on the Pike River tragedy of 2010, this drama captures the profound impact of one of the worst mining disasters in New Zealand's history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Rainbow Time
Overview: Todd grew up under the strange shadow of his older mentally challenged brother Shonzi. As kids, Shonzi forced Todd to make action movies. As adults he pressures him to share love life details, even showing Shonzi a sex tape he made with an old girlfriend to help him cope when family tragedy hits. When their dad suffers a heart attack, Shonzi (now 40, and still a virgin) moves in with Todd and his new girlfriend Lindsay. Shonzi wants desperately to be included in their relationship like old times. When Shonzi’s begging become threats to reveal secrets from their past, Todd must find the courage to be honest with Lindsay, even if it means the end of their relationship.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-14
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Folk Hero & Funny Guy
Overview: Two artistically inclined childhood friends, a comedian and a folk-rocker respectively, set out on a tour together in hopes of regaining their "mojo" and finding love in the process.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-16
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Little Boxes
Overview: It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and Gina also strive to adjust to small-town living. Equipped for the many inherent challenges of New York, the tight-knit family are ill prepared for the drastically different set of obstacles that their new community presents, and soon find themselves struggling to understand themselves and each other in this new suburban context.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-14
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Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Overview: High School grad and all American gal, Anna, finds her purpose and herself after she hooks up with the radical feminists in The Itty Bitty Titty Committee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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Sweet Home Alabama
Overview: New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-26
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1 Mile To You
Overview: After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He is caught between keeping the past alive and making new memories in the present.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-07
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I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Overview: When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-19
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The Changeover
Overview: Laura Chant, 16, lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko in a poor new suburb on the edge of a partially demolished Christchurch, New Zealand. Laura is drawn into a supernatural battle with an ancient spirit who attacks Jacko and slowly drains the life out of him as the spirit becomes ever younger. Laura discovers her true identity and the supernatural ability within her, and must harness it to save her brother's life.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-28
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XX
Overview: This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-17
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And Then I Go
Overview: In the cruel world of junior high, Edwin suffers in a state of anxiety and alienation alongside his only friend, Flake. Misunderstood by their families and demoralized at school daily, their fury simmers quietly until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-16
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Sadie
Overview: While her father is away serving in the military, Sadie battles to preserve his place on the home front when her mother takes an interest in the newest resident at the Shady Plains Trailer Park.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-12
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Shooters
Overview: Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to his South London home and visits his old colleague J, in hope of obtaining his share of the proceeds from the job that landed him inside, J soon talks him into getting involved in one last scam.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-25
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The Cherry Orchard
Overview: Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin (Teale), her former serf, who has his own agenda.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Foreign Correspondents
Overview: Equal parts romance, fable, ghost story, character study, and cinematic puzzle, Foreign Correspondents ties two seemingly unrelated stories together into one drama, revealing hidden parallels between these lost young people as they tell lies, pursue fantasies, step into dangerous emotional territory... and try to find love in a world that has all but forgotten them.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-17
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Behind Over the Garden Wall
Overview: A special look at the making of Patrick McHale's award winning miniseries Over the Garden Wall.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-08
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Don't Look Up
Overview: Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-08
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Lady of the Manor
Overview: Past and present collide when aimless slacker Hannah gets hired to portray Lady Wadsworth -- a Southern belle from the 1800s -- for tours at Wadsworth Manor. Hannah figures she can fake it well enough, until the ghost of Lady Wadsworth appears and tells her it's time to change her wild ways -- or she'll haunt her forever.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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Making 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Overview: Cast and crew discuss the making of Sky Studios' The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-02
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