Samantha Mathis
Also Known As: Σαμάνθα Μάθις, سامانتا ماتیس
Biography: Samantha Mathis (born May 12, 1970) is an American actress and trade union leader who serves as the Vice President of SAG-AFTRA. Mathis made her film debut in Pump Up the Volume (1990), and later co-starred or appeared in such films as FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Super Mario Bros. (1993), The Thing Called Love (1993), Little Women (1994), The American President (1995), Broken Arrow (1996), American Psycho (2000), and Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthday: May 12, 1970
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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12 Desperate Hours
Overview: It centers on Val who finds herself and her young children held hostage by Denny when he forces his way into her house after committing murder that day.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-25
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American Psycho
Overview: A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-13
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Local Color
Overview: A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented but troubled 18-year-old aspiring artist befriends a brilliant elderly alcoholic painter who has turned his back on not only art but life. The two form what appears to be at first a tenuous relationship. The kid wants to learn all the secrets the master has locked away inside his head and heart. Time has not been kind to the old master. His life appears pointless to him until the kid rekindles his interest in his work and ultimately gives him the will to live. Together, they give one another a priceless gift. The kid learns to see the world through the master's eyes. And the master learns to see life through the eyes of innocence again. This story is based on a real life experience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-14
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Jack & Sarah
Overview: Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spouse department to the tune of 1.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-02
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Pump Up the Volume
Overview: Mark Hunter, a lonely high school student, uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ "Hard Harry." When his show gets blamed for a teen committing suicide, the students clash with high school faculty and the authorities.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-22
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The Punisher
Overview: When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-15
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How to Make an American Quilt
Overview: Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-06
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The American President
Overview: Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-17
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Buried
Overview: Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-24
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Little Women
Overview: With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, male friends start to become a part of the household.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-21
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Super Mario Bros.
Overview: Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-28
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FernGully: The Last Rainforest
Overview: When a sprite named Crysta shrinks a human boy, Zak, down to her size, he vows to help the magical fairy folk stop a greedy logging company from destroying their home: the pristine rainforest known as FernGully. Zak and his new friends fight to defend FernGully from lumberjacks — and the vengeful spirit they accidentally unleash after chopping down a magic tree.
Genres: Family Fantasy Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-10
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The Thing Called Love
Overview: A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-27
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Order of Chaos
Overview: Almost rich, almost thirty, he never lies or cheats, even when his beautiful fiancé orders him around and his ball-busting boss uses threats as motivation. John never makes a sound, eager to do right. Rick Carlson is not. A smooth talking and coercive, Rick turns John's life upside down when he not only moves into his building, but starts working at his competitive law firm.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-12
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This Is My Life
Overview: Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store, but she dreams of being a comedian. When she inherits some money, she takes the chance and moves with her two children Erica and Opel to New York to perform in small bars. Soon her agent Arnold Moss makes her famous, but while she travels all over USA, her children stay home lonely.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-21
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To My Daughter
Overview: A mother is haunted by the death of one of her children which has an effect on the surviving siblings in this fact-based drama.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-26
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The New Daughter
Overview: John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter, Louisa, who's entering puberty.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-18
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Museum of Love
Overview: Dumped by his girlfriend, a young unemployed actor decides to transform his house into a "museum" of their relationship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-06
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Good Day for It
Overview: A man forced to abandon his wife and daughter years earlier must risk his life to settle an old score and reunite his family.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-08
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Lebanon, Pa.
Overview: Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married teacher and CJ confronts her conflicted father, both struggle with formidable decisions about the path their lives will take. Can we vault our differences and meet in the middle? This bittersweet comic drama tenderly explores the cultural divide in America through the lives of one extended family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-29
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The Music of Chance
Overview: Two men face the consequences of gambling after playing with men beyond their league.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-23
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Believe in Me
Overview: In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach of the girls' team.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-07
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Attraction
Overview: A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-22
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Fathers and Sons
Overview: Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over 30 years. The second story centers on the affairs of an airline pilot who shares a house but not a life with his wife. He crosses paths with an unusual woman and spends an extraordinary night with his son. The final chapter follows the homecoming of Elliot to his estranged family. As his father dies, Elliot meets and falls in love with a woman who sees past his tough-guy exterior.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-02
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A Stranger's Heart
Overview: Man and woman (Peter Dobson and Samantha Mathis) fall in love in a heart transplant facility. They are both attracted to a little girl (Mary Matilyn Mouser) who turns out to be the orphan of their heart donors...
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-05
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Touched
Overview: A romantic drama about a man who awakes from a coma without his sense of touch and the nurse who comes to his aid.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-01
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Unanswered Prayers
Overview: After his football career, Ben Beck returned to his Virginia small town and joined the family building firm. His family happiness with wife Lorrie and adolescent son Jessie is suddenly tested by the return of Ben's first high-school love, Ava Andersson, who visits from Chicago, after a failed marriage, to bury her ma. Ava seduces Ben into reliving their courtship, which she traumatically broke off without a goodbye. Jesse reacts furiously, even backseats his own football scholarship bid, rather pa's projected ambition, in favor of a writing summer course
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-07
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83 Hours 'Til Dawn
Overview: A wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped and placed in a box with air for only 83 hours.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-04
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Mermaid
Overview: Four year old Desi learns to accept the death of her father by sending him a letter on a balloon to which she receives a reply. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-21
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Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
Overview: In 1969, young Jud Crandall has dreams of leaving his hometown behind, but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a dark family history that forever binds him to Ludlow.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-23
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Atlas Shrugged: Part II
Overview: Railroad owner Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden search desperately for the inventor of a revolutionary motor as the U.S. government continues to spread its control over the national economy.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-12
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Sweet Jane
Overview: Jane, an HIV-positive heroin addict, meets Tony, a young AIDS victim with no family, and the two form a bond.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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Forbidden Sun
Overview: Olympic gymnastics coach Francine Lake and her twelve gorgeous students train on the Island of Crete. The rigors of training preclude most sexual activity with the locals, thus the girls spend their evenings in quiet frustration.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-01
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Freak City
Overview: After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a rebellious young woman is disease-stricken. Upon being admitted to a nursing home, she finds hope in the most unlikely of places...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-16
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Absolution
Overview: For 10 years, a journalist has avoided visiting her small hometown. When news spreads about a comatose man healing people from his home, she is sent to investigate.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-11
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The Simian Line
Overview: The Simian Line is an American improvisational film, released in 2001. When Katharine throws a party on Halloween, a psychic called Arnita predicts that one of the three couples present at the party will break up by the end of the year. The guests don't take her seriously. Arnita doesn't tell them that she can see a fourth couple at the party, the long dead Mae and Edward. As days go by, Katharine grows increasingly jealous of her lover Rick, and his flirting with her neighbor Sandra. Sandra is married to Paul (Jamey Sheridan). Marta and Billy are rock musicians who live in the same building as Katharine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-16
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Extreme Close-Up
Overview: Innovative drama mixing film and video, with a teenager obsessed with watching his late mother, killed in an auto accident, on tapes he recorded of their daily lives. The mother is seen in extreme close-up only on tape.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-22
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Camilla Dickinson
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Camilla Dickinson leads a sheltered life in New York City until her parents' marriage begins to fall apart.
Genres: Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-20
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Affluenza
Overview: An aspiring young photographer finds himself caught up in a heady world of money, sex, and privilege when he moves to wealthy Long Island in the summer of 2008.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-11
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Super Mario Bros: The Lasagna Workprint
Overview: An alternate, extended version of 1993's Super Mario Bros. Restored by The Bigger Pictures Film Restoration from a 1992 workprint and released on the 2024 4K edition from Umbrella Entertainment.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-01
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Isle Child
Overview: When young Korean American adoptee Si Miller learns his bedridden birthmother in South Korea wishes to see him, he is forced to confront his sense of otherness. As his efforts to assimilate in New England unravel, well-intentioned friends and family try to save him from something they can’t understand. But the more they try, Si keeps feeling betrayed and ends up lashing out. Still unprepared to face the truth, Si hesitates to take a step forward.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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American Pastoral
Overview: Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-20
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Ray Meets Helen
Overview: Two lonely strangers who are struggling in life cross paths with each other under unusual circumstances and get a chance to start over.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-04
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Being Frank
Overview: A seventeen-year-old boy blackmails his father after discovering his secret second family
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-14
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Cold Sassy Tree
Overview: In the early 20th century, an independent lady from up North causes a scandal when she decides to wed an older local general-store owner just three weeks after he's been widowed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-16
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Boarding School
Overview: When troubled 12-year-old Jacob Felsen is sent away to boarding school, he enters every kid’s worst nightmare: a creepy old mansion, deserted except for six other teenage misfits and two menacing and mysterious teachers. As events become increasingly horrific, Jacob must conquer his fears to find the strength to survive.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-30
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The Clovehitch Killer
Overview: A picture-perfect family is torn apart after Tyler finds a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession. He begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be responsible for the murder of 13 women ten years prior.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-16
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Mitch Albom's For One More Day
Overview: While back in his hometown, a suicidal former baseball player encounters the spirit of his deceased mother, who takes him on a sentimental tour meant to restore his love of life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-09
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All That We Destroy
Overview: A geneticist who fears that her son may be becoming a serial killer creates a group of clones in an attempt to cure him of his psychopathic tendencies by allowing him to relive the murder of his first victim.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-03
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The Exorcism
Overview: A troubled actor begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film, leading his estranged daughter to wonder if he's slipping back into his past addictions or if there's something more sinister at play.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-30
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Kids in America
Overview: Inspired by real events, this ribald comedy pits an unlikely gang of students against their principal after she bars safe-sex activities on campus. Protesting Principal Weller's muzzling of free speech, the teens stage a bold and hilarious rebellion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-21
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Searching for Debra Winger
Overview: Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-13
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By Design
Overview: A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-23
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Broken Arrow
Overview: When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-09
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