Lori Petty
Also Known As: لوری پتی
Biography: Lori Petty (born October 14, 1963) is an American actress, director, and screenwriter. She made her big screen debut appearing in the 1990 comedy film Cadillac Man and later starred in films Point Break (1991), A League of Their Own (1992), Free Willy (1993), The Glass Shield (1994) and played the title role in Tank Girl (1995). She created and starred in the short-lived Fox sitcom Lush Life in 1996 and acted in number of independent and smaller-scale movies in later career. In 2008, Petty wrote and directed independent drama film The Poker House based on her early life during the 1970s. In 2014 she joined the Netflix comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black as Lolly Whitehill as a guest star in the second season, and a recurring character in the third, fourth and seventh seasons. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lori Petty, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Birthday: October 14, 1963
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Gender: Female
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Point Break
Overview: In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-12
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Free Willy
Overview: When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, with the help of kindly whale trainer Rae Lindley, develop a routine of tricks. However, greedy park owner Dial soon catches wind of the duo and makes plans to profit from them.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-16
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Firetrap
Overview: Master burglar Max Hopper is released early after three years and soon gets an exceptional job: stealing an advanced computer-chip from the IQ Industries headquarters. His first attempt fails; when he enters in cop uniform during an emergency board meeting, a fire quickly spreads- he considers it a godsend opportunity and stays, but soon has his hands too full saving other lives and just surviving to concentrate on the chip; only the owner, his wife who just filed for divorce and a few employees remain, but it soon turns out one of them stole company secrets but the arsonist and/or another chip-thieves are among them.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-16
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A League of Their Own
Overview: As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-01
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Poetic Justice
Overview: Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the pain of her loss. Unable to get to Oakland to attend a convention because of her broken-down car, Justice gets a lift with her friend, Iesha, and Iesha's postal worker boyfriend, Chicago. Along for the ride is Chicago's co-worker, Lucky, to whom Justice grows close after some initial problems. But is she ready to open her heart again?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-23
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Tank Girl
Overview: After a comet disrupts the rain cycle of Earth, the planet has become a desolate, barren desert by the year 2033. With resources scarce, Kesslee, head of the powerful and evil Water & Power Corporation, the de facto government, has taken control of the water supply. Unwilling to cower under Kesslee's tyrannical rule, a pair of outlaws known as Tank Girl and Jet Girl rise up, joining the mysterious rebel Rippers to destroy the corrupt system.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-31
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In the Army Now
Overview: Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman didn't really know what they were in for when they enlisted in the U.S. Army; they just wanted to get a job and make some money. But these new recruits are so hapless, they run the risk of getting kicked out before their military careers even begin. Soon, though, they're sent to the Middle East to fight for their country -- which they manage to do in their own wacky ways.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-12
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Prey for Rock & Roll
Overview: In late 1980s Los Angeles, Jacki and her all-girl punk rock band, Clam Dandy, are trying to make it big. On the verge of turning 40, Jacki decides that if the band's one last shot at the big time is unsuccessful, she will give up her dreams of stardom.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-26
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Police Story: Monster Manor
Overview: Misfit policemen turn an old mansion into a party house and wind up part of a sting operation.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-03
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The Glass Shield
Overview: J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, whom he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into grave personal danger in the service of justice.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-16
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The Nightmare Begins Again
Overview: When Fred Krueger is set free on a technicality, the parents of the children he murdered take matters into their own hands, while a high school track star haunted by her mother’s untimely death receives her mother’s amulet that unlocks her ambitions and unleashes vengeance on those who cause her pain.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-23
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The Survivalist
Overview: A year and a half after the fall of civilization from a virus outbreak, a former FBI agent is forced to protect a young woman, who is immune to the disease, from a dangerous gang hunting her led by a psychopath who believes he’s going to use her to save the world.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-02
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Route 666
Overview: Smith, a mob informer hiding out with the Witness Protection Program, decides to make a break for it and hide out in the Arizona desert. The Feds catch up with him and rescue him just before a group of hitmen can manage to silence him for good. In the course of getting Smith away from the mafia thugs, the pair of agents assigned to protect him turn onto an abandoned stretch of highway nicknamed 'Route 666' after the mysterious death of a prison chain gang. As the three continue on their way, they soon discover just what happened to the chain gang, and how the highway earned its name.
Genres: Horror Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-30
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Relax... It's Just Sex
Overview: A tight-knit group of thirty-somethings -- gay, lesbian and straight -- struggle to live, love and stay friends in modern-day Los Angeles as circumstances conspire to tear them apart.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-28
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Richard III
Overview: Modern-day retelling of William Shakespeare's Richard III set in contemporary Hollywood.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-13
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Bates Motel
Overview: A mentally disturbed man, who roomed with the late Norman Bates at a psychiatric facility, inherits the infamous Bates Motel after his death and attempts to fix it up as a respectable business.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-05
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MacArthur Park
Overview: A portrait of a homeless park community bonded by crack cocaine addiction. In the park's drug-fixated shantytown, Cody is a kind of crackhead father figure who helps his friends when they are in trouble or in desperate need of a "blast." His girlfriend, Alicia, is a romantic who's losing her soul to the drug, and E-Max is a street hustling pimp who is trying to scoop young Linda into his motley legion of harlots. Hoover Blue, earth mother to all the addicts, attempts to pound some knowledge into the starry-eyed Linda while Cody tries to help young P-Air get his hustle on to record a hip hop track and make it big. But when Cody's real son, Terry, tracks him down to tell him his wife has passed away, Cody doesn't even recognize him at first and then can't help him with postmortem affairs. After five years of crack addiction, Cody wants to get straight and do right by Terry, but the harder he struggles to escape the park, the more it closes in on him.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-21
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The Arrangement
Overview: A drug deal hijacked by a third party, they leave the drugs and take the money. A stripper witnesses a murder and now the Mafia's after but there is nowhere safe to hide.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Survivalist
Overview: In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-15
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Countdown
Overview: When Chris Murdoch falls obsessively in love with a Japanese girl attending University in Seattle (Kaori Ozaki) he murders Japanese men who have shown her kindness under the pretext of revenge for the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII. However the ruse involves the FBI in the case, and Agent Sara Daniels. However, the investigation is hampered when Yoko Sugimura of the Tokyo Police arrives to take Kaori back to her influential father. Despite their initial dislike, Sara and Yoko are forced to work together to stop Chris when his obsession is manifest with high explosives.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-23
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Tonic
Overview: A barfly jazz pianist must commit murder in exchange for his drug debt to a crocked cop.
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Original Language: en
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You're All Gonna Die
Overview: Naomi, a young woman whose car ends up in a ditch off the road leaving her stranded can’t get cell reception. A tow-truck driver mysteriously arrives, but instead of helping her, she becomes his next victim. This murder sparks a group of social justice warriors, led by an investigator with a mysterious past, to find this serial killer and bring them to justice. As the team searches for the killer, each person within the crew meets their untimely fate, until only one is left to battle this notorious monster for their life.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-24
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Cryptid
Overview: Gruesome murders of South African farmers spur reports of a possible "cryptid" - a creature known in local legends or myths but as yet unknown to modern science. The worldwide news coverage of the gruesome murder attracts an international team of scientists to the remote area which is considered by some to be the "cradle of civilization".
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-06
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The Fair Haired Child
Overview: A creepy couple kidnaps a teenage outcast and locks her in their basement with their seemingly kindhearted adolescent son - who harbors a terrifying secret involving the forces of evil.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-01
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How to Rob a Bank
Overview: In this true-crime documentary, a charismatic rebel in 1990s Seattle pulls off an unprecedented string of bank robberies straight out of the movies.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-04
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Cadillac Man
Overview: Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-18
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Dead Awake
Overview: Kate Bowman (Jocelin Donahue) is an average social worker who, after the sudden death of her twin sister, is investigating the mysterious deaths of other people who died in their sleep. Shortly before their deaths, the victims all reported a supernatural force that appeared to them while they were suffering from sleep paralysis. When Kate investigates further into the case, she opens herself up to the creature's wrath and soon finds herself and her family suffering from an ancient evil.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-28
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Chasing 3000
Overview: As the 1972 baseball season draws to a close and star player Roberto Clemente prepares to knock hit number 3,000 out of the park, two brothers -- one of whom is afflicted with muscular dystrophy -- make the drive from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh in hopes of witnessing sports history in the making. Based on a true story, Chasing 3000 is directed by Gregory J. Lanesey and features Ray Liotta.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-16
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Fear, Love, and Agoraphobia
Overview: An agoraphobic man and a female Marine become emotionally entangled as they struggle to escape from their personal prisons.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-17
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Clubland
Overview: Kennedy is a rebellious, young musician who believes that talent and determination are all it takes to be a success. But as he and his loyal bandmates learn, success carries a heavy price .
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-16
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Last Call
Overview: A snapshot into the lives of a group of New Yorkers whose dreams, dramas, crucial and not so crucial decisions, intersect at a bar over the course of one night.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-01
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I Am Patrick Swayze
Overview: An inside look at the life of Patrick Swayze as told by the people who knew him best.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-18
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Prison Break: The Final Break
Overview: Takes place after Season 4 (after episode 22), on some streaming services this movie is episode 23 and 24 on season 4. Michael and Sara wed, but the happiness is short-lived when the Feds apprehend her for the murder of Michael's mother, Christina. Once a hit is ordered on Sara, the team reunite to break out the increasingly vulnerable target.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-10
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A Deadly Legend
Overview: Joan Huntar, a real estate developer, buys an old summer camp. However, the property has a dark history of supernatural worship and human sacrifice. A celebration weekend turns deadly when construction uncovers the mythical Stonehenge of America. Deadly spirits are awakened and kill to gain control of this supernatural gateway. Unable to escape, Joan and her family must fight for survival and defeat the spirits from beyond.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-24
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
Overview: A young theatre director is accused of killing a more famous Broadway director. Perry takes his case.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-09
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Overview: For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-04
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