Peter Riegert
Also Known As: Peter Riegart
Biography: Peter Riegert is an American stage and screen actor, writer, and director, best known for his portrayal of crooked New Jersey State Assemblyman Ronald Zellman on the HBO television series "The Sopranos".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: April 11, 1947
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Gender: Male
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The Mask
Overview: When timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss discovers a magical mask containing the spirit of the Norse god Loki, his entire life changes. While wearing the mask, Ipkiss becomes a supernatural playboy exuding charm and confidence which allows him to catch the eye of local nightclub singer Tina Carlyle. Unfortunately, under the mask's influence, Ipkiss also robs a bank, which angers junior crime lord Dorian Tyrell, whose goons get blamed for the heist.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-29
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Infinity
Overview: Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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Utz
Overview: Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-15
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A Shock to the System
Overview: Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife with one thing to look forward to: a well-deserved promotion. But when the promotion is given to a loud-mouthed yuppie associate, Graham unleashes his rage on an overly aggressive panhandler, who he accidently kills by pushing him into the path of an oncoming subway train. He re-thinks his problems with an entirely new solution. First, he arranges an "accident" for his annoying wife. Then he creates another "mishap" for his boss. It seems like the world is once more Graham's oyster…but a missing cigarette lighter and a prying police detective may change all that.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-23
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Local Hero
Overview: An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-17
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Animal House
Overview: At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-28
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Oscar
Overview: Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-26
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National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Overview: A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-23
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Barbarians at the Gate
Overview: F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fail on account of market rumours.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-20
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Crossing Delancey
Overview: Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find her a romantic match, Isabelle is courted by a married, worldly author, Anton, yet can't seem to shake the down-to-earth appeal of Sam, a pickle vendor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-17
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How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Overview: The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's lonely young daughter who has mild cerebral palsy; and during one of his middle-of-the-night strolls, he encounters his oddball doppelgänger.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-22
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Chilly Scenes of Winter
Overview: Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to return to her husband, an A-Frame salesman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-19
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Love Conquers Paul
Overview: Paul has a chance encounter with a free-spirited artist named Esoterica that provides the spark that ignites his first passionate relationship. She changes he way he looks at love and life and introduces him to the person he could be, inspiring a new confidence. But just as soon as their fairy-tale romance begins to sizzle, Paul discovers that Esoterica has a secret of her own.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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The Chosen One
Overview: Paul is an ordinary man who is at the end of his rope. He hates his job, his beautiful wife has left him, and his mother and gay, Buddhist-monk brother constantly remind him of his shortcomings. Although Paul doesn't know it yet, his life is about to change in a big way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-03
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Gypsy
Overview: Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-12
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Americathon
Overview: In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-10
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A Man in Love
Overview: An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-05-07
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Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness
Overview: A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness tells the tale of the rebellious genius who created an entirely new literature. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world locked in crisis and on the cusp of profound change, he captured that world with brilliant humor. Sholem Aleichem was not just a witness to the creation of a new modern Jewish identity, but one of the very men who forged it.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-24
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Bojangles
Overview: The life of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African-American tap-dancing star of stage and screen. In 1916, Robinson was a successful vaudeville performer and considered the finest tap dancer of his generation. At the peak of his career, he was the highest paid Black entertainer, but for all the joy he gave others, his life was anything but happy, there was a great deal of tragedy in himself. He died broke and penniless.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-04
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Oka!
Overview: The story of Louis Sarno, an American ethno-musicologist who lived among the Bayaka Pygmies in Central Africa for 25 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-14
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Jerry and Tom
Overview: Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, and their attitude toward their profession differs a lot. It shows when Tom is required to kill his old friend Karl.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-04
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Extra Innings
Overview: A reporter interviews the manager of the Boston Red Sox in an attempt to uncover secrets from his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-05
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White Irish Drinkers
Overview: A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but ineffective mother are caught up in a life of petty crime. Older brother Danny concocts a daring scheme to steal enough money for the two to escape, timed around the chaos of an upcoming Rolling Stones concert. The sensitive younger brother, Brian, ultimately has a choice: remain loyal to the brother with whom he shares a powerful love-hate bond, or use his hidden talent as an artist as his own ticket out of their dead-end existence.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-25
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King of the Corner
Overview: Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and his wife is losing her patience. A twist of fate and some bizarre wisdom from a "freelance rabbi" help Leo navigate the murky waters of his life and turn his crisis into a second-chance.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-08
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Hi-Life
Overview: Jimmy needs $900 to clear a gambling debt but a series of lies leads to Ray trying to raise the cash from friends who owe him money.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-27
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Face Down
Overview: When blonde bombshell Meredith Lake breezes into his office, New York private eye Bob Signorelli can't resist giving her "personal" attention. But their one-night stand becomes a deadly liaison when they are linked to a homicide; and a night of steamy passion snowballs into a marathon of madness and murder...
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-15
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The South Bank Show: 'Local Hero'
Overview: A documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-27
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In the Weeds
Overview: It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the restaurant staff. Adam, a hopeful playwright, suffers for his art while dealing with a very indecisive (ex-?)girlfriend. Marlon is a cocky young actor, certain that his big break is just around the corner. When the restaurant's obnoxious owner, Simon, brings a special client in for dinner, pressures mount until an explosion seems inevitable.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-11
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Le Grand Carnaval
Overview: The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-12-07
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At Middleton
Overview: George is an uptight surgeon with a rebellious teenage son. Edith is a free spirit with an overachieving teenage daughter. When they meet during an admissions tour with their kids at the small, idyllic Middleton University, they decide to ditch the group. Though adversaries at first, they soon discover that the only thing better than the college tour, is the detour.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-09
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Club Land
Overview: A father and son work together as agents.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-08
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The Infiltrator
Overview: In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bringing Nazism back to the forefront in Germany.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-24
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The Runestone
Overview: A New York detective takes the case of a bulletproof monster sprung to life from Viking legend.
Genres: Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-01
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The Stranger
Overview: Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. She becomes an amnesia victim and although, she doesn't know her own identity, is able to describe the murder, but doesn't remember where it occurred or who was involved.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-04
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Passed Away
Overview: Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of familial endurance that soon has them at each other's throats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-24
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Sly
Overview: His love of film began as an escape from a rocky childhood. From underdog to Hollywood legend, Sylvester Stallone tells his story in this documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-16
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The Response
Overview: THE RESPONSE is a courtroom drama based on the actual transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals. Conceived in the vein of "12 Angry Men", the film revolves around the trial of a suspected enemy combatant and the military judges who must decide his fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-08
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Bleacher Bums
Overview: They're known as the Bleacher Bums, a loud and proud group of fans who watch their team's games from the stadium's cheap seats. Most of them have been attending for years, tirelessly rooting for a team that never seems to win. They know each other, but that's no guarantee that they'll get along. As the game unfolds, the Bums argue, wager, cheer and boo... and discover they share more in common than they could ever have imagined.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-18
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News at Eleven
Overview: When television news director Eric Ross pressures esteemed senior anchor Frank Kenley to sensationalize the news, Kenley isn't pleased -- and the conflict comes to a head when a local high school sex scandal hits the news. As Ross pushes him to play up the story, Kenley wrestles with the moral complexities of the situation and tries to find the balance between the public's need to know and the individual's rights.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-02
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Bleeding Hearts
Overview: An ill-fated, tender romance between an adult white male tutor and his 17-year-old African-American female student.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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Pie in the Sky
Overview: A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-09
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Coldblooded
Overview: Cosmo, an affectless mob bookie who lives in the basement of a retirement home, is promoted to hitman. He learns his new trade from Steve, a seasoned killer. He falls in love with a yoga teacher, Jasmine, and must figure out a way to leave the mob so they can be together.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-15
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Beyond the Ocean
Overview: A big-time businessman throws in the towel on his company and high-tails it out to Bali just as its stock is about to be publicly offered. There, he tries to avoid the insistent phone calls coming from Manhattan and records his philosophical ponderings about this mid-life crisis on videotape. Before long, he is partying with another burnt-out businessman and avidly avoiding the attentions of colleagues who have come to Bali to try and get him to come back to Manhattan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-09
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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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The Object of Beauty
Overview: American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavish dinner bill and Jake's card is declined, he suggests they sell Tina's tiny, expensive Henry Moore sculpture to cover the debt. After they hatch a scheme to claim the sculpture was stolen in order to collect insurance on it, the sculpture mysteriously goes missing.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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That's Adequate
Overview: This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his deathbed) stars as head of the studio. Includes parodies of everything from silent comedies to porn, including an ultra violent "three stooges" style comedy team who put a new spin on the eye poking gag.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-20
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Passion of Mind
Overview: A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman leading a double life in her dreams.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-07
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Back When We Were Grownups
Overview: A 53-year-old widow believes she's turned into the wrong person in this bittersweet tale based on Anne Tyler's best-seller. Beck's (Blythe Danner) plate is full: She runs a catering business and cares for her large family, but feels lost inside. Determined to find herself, Beck embarks on a journey, starting with her ex-beau (Peter Fonda) and ending with an unexpected soul mate. Jack Palance, Peter Riegert, Faye Dunaway and Ione Skye also star.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-21
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An Element of Truth
Overview: A beautiful woman uses her charms to dupe her new sweetheart and his buddies.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-26
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The City Girl
Overview: A female photographer who is engaged to a businessman investigates a cult in the local club scene. By living out some of her sexual fantasies, she faces the truth about her life and helps one of the cult's victims escape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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The Baby Dance
Overview: Six months pregnant and living in a beat-up tiny mobile home, Wanda LeFauve thinks she has found the solution to her problems when she agrees to meet well-to-do Rachel Luckman and her husband. The childless Luckmans are desperate to raise a baby and Wanda is anxious to find a home for her latest. They strike a deal, but as the birth parents and the potential adoptive parents get to know each other, fundamental differences emerge.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-23
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Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story
Overview: Drugs, alcohol and controversy mark the author's life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-09
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We Bought a Zoo
Overview: Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper and the rest of the staff, but, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-08
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Starz Inside: In the Gutter
Overview: From the moment Shakespeare wrote his first fart joke, audiences have loved gross-out humor. In this 'Starz Inside' documentary, take a trip through the history of taboo-busting comedy that began with slapstick and led to the most notorious Internet video in history, with stops at every infamous penis, poo, puke and pie gag in-between. It’s a totally uncensored look at the scenes that make you want to look away.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-07-29
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The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
Overview: This documentary, created for the Animal House (1978) collector's edition DVD, is composed of a collection of new interviews with the cast and crew behind the making of the film. There's even some archive footage of John Belushi, and many hilarious behind the scenes stories are told. Its evident that they had a great time creating this classic, and memorable comedic landmark of a film.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-13
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Animal House: The Inside Story
Overview: Documentary about the making of Animal House
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-13
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Traffic
Overview: An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-27
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The Making of a 'Local Hero' (With a Little Help from His Friends)
Overview: Documentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-31
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Surrender, Dorothy
Overview: When her daughter Sara unexpectedly passes away, Natalie retreats to the summer home where she and Sara used to visit. Time with her best friends and some of Sara's friends help her deal with her loss.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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North Shore Fish
Overview: Sal (Tony Danza) has been the foreman at North Shore Fish, a frozen fish factory, for years. He and Flo (Mercedes Ruehl), the "batter" person on the assembly line, not only were high school sweethearts, but are currently carrying on an affair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-20
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Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
Overview: He went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academy Award winner. Burton Stephen Lancaster — later Burt Lancaster — was one of five children of a New York City postal worker. By eighteen, Burt was 6'2" and blessed with the athletic physique and dynamic good looks that helped make him famous. A stint in the Army introduced Burt to acting and led him to Hollywood where his first release, "The Killers" (1946), propelled him to stardom at age 32. He took control of his own career and seldom faltered.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-15
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W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult
Overview: The war in the South Pacific, a country doctor in Colorado, victims of industrial pollution in a Japanese village — all were captured in unforgettable photographs by the legendary W. Eugene Smith. This program showcases over 600 of Smith’s stunning photographs and includes a dramatic recreation in which actor Peter Riegert (Crossing Delancey, Local Hero) portrays the artist using dialogue take from Smith’s diaries and letters. Interwoven through the program are archival footage and interviews with family and friends of this brilliant, complicated man, whose work developed from twin themes of common humanity and social responsibility.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-25
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