Janet MacLachlan
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: August 27, 1933
Deathday: October 11, 2010
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Thirteenth Floor
Overview: In Los Angeles, a wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-16
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Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
Overview: Updated version of the Jacqueline Susann best selling 1960's novel shows the lives of three very different women who come to New York City to achieve fame and fortune in show business and get all messed up in the process.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-19
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The Boy Who Could Fly
Overview: Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, but Milly finds a friend in Eric, her autistic next door neighbor. Eric has a fascination with flight, and as the story progresses, he exerts an enthralling force of change on all those around him.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-15
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Murphy's Law
Overview: A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-18
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The Kid From Nowhere
Overview: A single mother is overprotective of her mentally challenged son, which has made him angry and difficult, while she denies herself a social life. Things change for the better when the boy gains self-esteem training for the Special Olympics, and his mother learns to let go.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-04
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Darker Than Amber
Overview: Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Caribbean cruise to bring the killer to justice.
Genres: Mystery Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-14
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Halls of Anger
Overview: An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-29
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Cutter
Overview: Private eye searches for a missing football quarterback in Chicago.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-26
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Uptight
Overview: Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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Criminal Passion
Overview: Homicide detective Melanie Hudson begins a torrid affair with a senator's son who is a suspect in a series of grisly murders.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-21
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The Man
Overview: When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to occupy the Oval Office. The events from that day to the next election when he must decide if he will actually run challenge his skills as a politician and leader.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-19
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Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain
Overview: Oscar nominated animated short film from 1983. A blind boy visualizes what he hears and experiences on a regular basis.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Change of Mind
Overview: A white man's brain is transplanted into a black man's skull.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-08
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Overview: This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP. Fighting segregation and racist politics, Evers becomes a leader in the black community.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-22
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Overview: 1978 movie starring Morgan Freeman. This movie is the shortened version that was released from the original 3 part mini series back in 1978.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-02
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The Other Victim
Overview: After his wife is raped, a man struggles to find ways to express the anger and helplessness which the crime has instilled in him.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-04
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Tick... Tick... Tick...
Overview: Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-09
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For Keeps
Overview: Young high school couple Darcy Elliot and Stan Bobrucz are one year from graduation, with promising futures ahead of them. But their paths take a drastic turn when Darcy becomes pregnant. Unwilling to go through an abortion or an adoption — despite their parents' pleas — Darcy and Stan decide to sacrifice their college experiences and degrees in order to keep and raise the baby. After a quick marriage, the two realize it won't be as easy as they thought.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-15
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Dark Victory
Overview: A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-05
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In the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl?
Overview: All eyes are on Sparta after an internationally renowned actress arrives unexpectedly in the rural Mississippi town—and with a killer secret.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-09
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Killer Instinct
Overview: Woody Harrelson stars in the story of psychiatrist Lisa DaVito and her battle to save a tortured man whose past has turned him to violence. One tragic incident seals his fate and shakes Lisa's faith in her profession.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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Maurie
Overview: When an African-American basketball star suffers sudden paralysis, his white friend and teammate assists in his rehabilitation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-01
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Sounder
Overview: The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-24
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Thursday's Child
Overview: Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked to find out that he has a life-threatening heart disease. Sam has trouble dealing with his illness, but he pretends to still be a joyful teenager to not have his parents worrying even more than they already do. His health is deteriorating, though, and it is eventually revealed that he needs a heart transplant if he wants to survive. This is the beginning of a long journey, which is mentally and physically exhausting. Sam has countless operations, and tests. The search for a donor seems endless to him. Even before the final operation, Sam is forced to deal with several setbacks in his life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-01
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My Last Love
Overview: Love and life can never be planned. That's the message of the heartwarming love story of Susan Morton, a single mother facing a terminal illness who finds unexpected romance and a larger life lesson at a most difficult time. Susan moves to California with her daughter after being diagnosed with cancer. Enter young lover Michael Blake, who teaches Susan that all of life is a precious gift.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-25
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Pinocchio's Revenge
Overview: Defense attorney Jennifer Garrick acquires a Pinocchio puppet from a condemned serial killer. Her pre-teen daughter, Zoe, mistakes the puppet as a birthday present and grows attached to her new friend. Suddenly, accidents begin to happen to those who cross Zoe. Zoe claims it's her Pinocchio doll but her therapist thinks otherwise. Pinocchio promises he'll behave if Zoe will cut his strings...
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-07
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A Private Affair
Overview: A woman who has confronted the sour side of success finds love and discovers herself in this made-for-TV drama. Nikka (Vanessa Bell Calloway) is a writer who enjoys unexpected success with her first novel, but her brush with fame and fortune has a serious downside when she's threatened with legal action by the Internal Revenue Service for non-payment of taxes. Turning to her family and friends for help, Nikka's new life begins to fall apart, but she begins to develop a greater sense of herself in the process, and she decides to take a trip to Africa in hopes of coming to terms with her heritage.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-26
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Tracks of Glory
Overview: Racial barriers are broken in circa-1900 Australia by Major Taylor, who becomes a world-champion bicycle racer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-05
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She's in the Army Now
Overview: Akin to Private Benjamin, this comedy deals with the tough life of female army recruits going through basic training. Through their training they come to realize that there is more to being tough than having muscles.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-20
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There Goes My Baby
Overview: It's the summer of 1965, and the members of the graduating class of upscale Westwood High are eager to reinvent themselves. Valedictorian Mary Beth wants to attend a liberal university. Surfer bum Stick plans to enlist to fight in Vietnam. Calvin lives in the poor Watts section of Los Angeles, which is slowly erupting in violence. As the summer nights grow long, they'll all be forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-02
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Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
Overview: An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-26
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Trouble Comes to Town
Overview: A Southern sheriff brings into his home a black juvenile delinquent, who is the son of the man who saved his life during the Korean War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-11
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Heart and Souls
Overview: A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their souls become eternally entwined to the life of a child born at the moment of their deaths as his guardians. Baby Thomas grows up to be a businessman who has memories of his playmates, but assumes they are products of his youthful imagination. When the ghosts realize they need Thomas' help to move on to the afterlife, they decide to make an appearance once more.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-13
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Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style
Overview: The story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was framed on a drug charge, and his travels throughout Europe, where he first gained worldwide fame.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-25
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Tightrope
Overview: Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-17
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Toughlove
Overview: The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for answers.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-13
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