Roberta Wallach
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 02, 1955
Age: 69 years old
Gender: Female
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Boy Wonder
Overview: A young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet, straight-A student by day and a self-appointed hero at night. But what is a real hero? And who decides what is right or wrong? As the boundaries blur, Sean's dual life wears on his psyche and his two worlds careen dangerously close to colliding. Like a graphic novel you can't put down, Boy Wonder challenges morality, distorting perceptions of what is right and what is justified, as it races to its shocking conclusion.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-11
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Overview: Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-20
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The Other Side of Victory
Overview: This film dramatizes the problems facing ordinary American soldiers during the Revolutionary War, explaining why most ultimately chose to stay and fight.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-12
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Men Without Jobs
Overview: Compulsive gambler Oz lives in a rent-controlled apartment in Brooklyn, with his roommate, Ivy-League dropout Ish. Crippled by an unspoken fear of failure, the serial underachievers whittle the hours away playing video games and discussing plans for a band that has yet to leave the realm of the hypothetical. But after they meet graffiti artist Veronica, who challenges them to take action, Oz and Ish must examine themselves for the first time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-19
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Partisans of Vilna
Overview: This extraordinary film tells the story of the men and women who formed the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania, during World War II. Using rare archival film footage dating from 1939 to 1944 and contemporary interviews with 40 partisan survivors (including Abba Kovner, a founder of the partisan movement and one of Israel's leading poets) the film explores the difficulties of organizing under the anarchic conditions of the ghetto.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-12
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The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
Overview: The second Charles and Diana movie, with two virtual unknowns in the leads: Christopher Baines had acted on the British stage and on the BBC, but Catherine Oxenberg, a U.S.-born, British-raised professional model, here made her acting debut. Of particular interest was the casting of Dana Wynter as Queen Elizabeth, Stewart Granger as Prince Philip, Olivia de Havilland as the Queen Mother, and Ray Milland as a general factotum around the Palace.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-20
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They Shot the Piano Player
Overview: New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.
Genres: Animation Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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The Land of Hope
Overview: Chronicles the experiences of four immigrant families as they experience the Lower East Side of New York during the early twentieth century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Rabbit Hole
Overview: Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-16
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Overview: When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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O. Henry's Christmas
Overview: Three episodes based on O. Henry's texts. The first deals with the friendship between a painter and two young women. The second, a young man who receives an insignificant amount of his uncle, as an inheritance. The third concerns two people who make it all possible when they give themselves love as Christmas presents.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-03
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Seven Women, Seven Sins
Overview: Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amongst the world's most renown: Helke Sander (Gluttony), Bette Gordon (Greed), Maxi Cohen (Anger), Chantal Akerman (Sloth), Valie Export (Lust), Laurence Gavron (Envy), and Ulrike Ottinger (Pride). Each filmmaker had the liberty of choosing a sin to interpret as they wished. The final film reflected this diversity, including traditional narrative fiction, experimental video, a musical, a radical documentary, and was delivered in multiple formats from 16, super 16, video and 35mm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-19
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Emerald City
Overview: Irish construction workers built New York City and had a grand time doing it. Each guy on the Emerald City crew is struggling with something: drinking, gambling, loss, the burden of a family legacy, and facing a city that doesn't need them anymore.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-27
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Family Reunion
Overview: Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher, who desperately tries to keep her family together. While she's traveling through the country and meeting her relatives, back in her hometown, a group of shopping mall developers are planning to take over her family land in order to begin their ambitious project. Now she needs to find ways to stop this construction in time before the town's annual festivities.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-11
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Ted & Venus
Overview: Ted is a 1970s Venice Beach poet who spends his days drifting along the boardwalk, reciting his poetry to anyone who will listen. His life changes when a bikini-clad beauty named Linda strolls by him. Instantly, Ted believes he's found his "Venus" and becomes obsessed with Linda. He tries to woo her with poetry, obscene phone calls and romantic overtures, all to disastrous effect.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-08
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FM
Overview: When a liberal music station's owners decide to introduce army recruitment ads, despite the protests of its manager, the rebellious DJs are determined to fight back, no matter the cost.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-20
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The Phantom of the Open Hearth
Overview: This comedy/drama was written by Jean Shepherd, who appears at the beginning and the end and narrates it through voiceover. It tells the story of several events as they occur through the eyes of Ralph, a high-school-aged boy. Ralph is anticipating the upcoming prom and is working up the courage to invite Daphne Bigelow, a beautiful and popular student who does not seem aware of his existence.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-23
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The Hollywood Knights
Overview: Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high school love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-18
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Mistress
Overview: A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-24
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The Best Thief in the World
Overview: Izzy, the youngest son of a troubled New York family, takes a shine to breaking into people's apartments as a way to get attention.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Last I Heard
Overview: Released from federal prison after 20 years due to his ailing health, a formerly powerful New York mobster moves back home and attempts to reconnect with former life in this poignant Sopranos-esque character study.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Running Out
Overview: A young woman, unable to handle the stress of raising a family, runs out on her husband and young daughter. 12 years later, she returns in hopes of rekindling a bond with them.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-26
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