Mercedes Ruehl
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Biography: Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American screen, stage, and television actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, two Obie Awards, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards. Her most acclaimed film role was in The Fisher King; her performance in the film earned her the 1991 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as an American Comedy Award, a Boston Society of Film Critics Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, and a Golden Globe. Ruehl is known for her leading performance in the play Lost in Yonkers (1990) and supporting performance in the film The Fisher King (1991). Her other film credits include Big (1988), Married to the Mob (1988), Last Action Hero (1993), Roseanna's Grave (1997), and Hustlers (2019). She also played the mother of main character Vincent Chase in HBO's Entourage.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Queens, New York, USA
Birthday: February 28, 1948
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Gender: Female
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The Fisher King
Overview: Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-20
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Doctors of the Dark Side
Overview: Doctors of the Dark Side is the first feature length documentary about the pivotal role of physicians and psychologists in detainee torture. The stories of four detainees and the doctors involved in their abuse demonstrate how US Army and CIA doctors implemented the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and covered up signs of torture at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Interviews with medical, legal and intelligence experts and evidence from declassified government memos document what has been called the greatest scandal in American medical ethics. Based on four years of research by Producer/Director Martha Davis, written by Oscar winning Mark Jonathan Harris, and filmed in HD by Emmy winning DP Lisa Rinzler, the film shows how the torture of detainees could not continue without the assistance of the doctors.
Genres: Documentary Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Big
Overview: When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-03
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Married to the Mob
Overview: Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and her son depart for New York City to make a fresh start. Unfortunately, Tony has set his sights upon Angela -- and so has an undercover FBI agent looking to use her to bust Tony.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-19
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A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
Overview: The story of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teen who was murdered in California in 2002.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-19
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The Minus Man
Overview: When the quiet and amiable Vann Siegert drifts into town, no one suspects the evil that lies beneath the surface. Despite his easy charm, Vann is merely a reflection of what those he encounters want him to be. Soon, as locals start to disappear, it becomes clear that an eerie subtraction is at work in the sleepy hamlet.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-25
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Another You
Overview: George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognise George as a missing millionaire, Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-26
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Last Action Hero
Overview: After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is transported into the film and teams up with the cop to stop a villain who escapes into the real world.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-18
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Lost in Yonkers
Overview: In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-14
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More Dogs Than Bones
Overview: A series of mishaps and misfortunes over $1 million in cash leads to murder, mayhem and greed.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-14
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84 Charing Cross Road
Overview: When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-13
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Crazy People
Overview: A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-13
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Roseanna's Grave
Overview: Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-06
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Slaves of New York
Overview: Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-18
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Bad Apple
Overview: Black Comedy about a undercover FBI agent in New York who falls for his informant's sister resulting in a deadly game between the criminals and cops.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-16
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Zeyda and the Hitman
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-20
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Out of the Cold
Overview: An American entertainer and an Estonian woman are torn apart by hate and prejudice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-28
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All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
Overview: A teacher is arrested and jailed for raping her 13-year-old student, and twice gives birth to his child.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-18
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The Nana Project
Overview: Follows Helen "Nana" Lewis, a feisty chess master, and her grandsons, as they embark on a road trip to support her rise to state championships.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-14
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The Amati Girls
Overview: Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-09
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Guilt by Association
Overview: Life is good for Susan, her two children and new boyfriend Russell. But life abruptly changes when she discovers her perfect boyfriend is a drug dealer. Realising the danger this could bring to her family she tells him to leave. Suddenly her house is raided and Susan is arrested as a co-conspirator in Russell's drug business. Her situation goes from bad to worse when she finds herself behind bars with violent criminals. How will she ever prove her innocence when the system seems against her? Guilt By Association is a disturbing story based on true events.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-13
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On Hope
Overview: On Hope is a 1994 short film directed by JoBeth Williams, with Annette O'Toole, Mercedes Ruehl, Ray Baker, and Veronica Cartwright. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-02
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The Lost Child
Overview: Knowing the past changes the future. Seeking a connection to her heritage, Rebecca Hoffman sets out on a journey of discovery following the deaths of her adoptive parents. She finds that connection with her birth family in the Navajo community. But cultures clash when her husband is rejected as an outsider. Rebecca and her family experience rebirth in a rich culture and renewal as a family in this dramatic film based on the autobiography Looking for Lost Bird by Yvette Melanson (with Claire Safran).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-19
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Disclosure
Overview: An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-19
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Chu and Blossom
Overview: A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-31
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The Secret of My Success
Overview: Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-10
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Mom's On Strike
Overview: An ABC (American Broadcasting Company) Afterschool Special, about an overworked housewife, who, as the title suggests, goes on strike, in order to persuade the rest of her family to share household chores.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-14
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Loving Leah
Overview: When Leah's husband Benjamin dies suddenly, Benjamin's brother Jake is stunned to learn he is expected to marry the childless Leah to carry on his brother's name. Jake suggests to Leah that they get married and maintain a secretly platonic relationship. The harder they try to disguise their "pretend" marriage, the more their appreciation for each other's worlds grow, and out of understanding, a real love develops.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-25
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Mom at Sixteen
Overview: Pregnant sixteen year old Jacey's well-meaning mother forces her to keep the birth a secret and decides to raise the baby as her own.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-01
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Twisted
Overview: One evening the Collins find their maid Mrs. Murdock at the end of their steps: dead, neck broken. Obviously she had an accident. Consequently they need a new babysitter for an upcoming big party. The sensible Helen meets little Susan Collins at the discount market and likes her, so she offers to do the job. She doesn't know Susan's teenage brother Mark - technically skilled and good in school, but restive and cunning. As soon as the parents have left, he starts psychologically terrorizing Helen and his sister with electronic tricks.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-23
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Doubt
Overview: Centers on Vincent, a former cop who's now a cunning but charming low-rent lawyer who uses his street smarts to work the system for his clients while battling his own demons and wooing his ex-wife.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Gia
Overview: Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-31
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What's Cooking?
Overview: Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-20
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
Overview: A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-13
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Indictment: The McMartin Trial
Overview: The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of abuse. One of the most expensive and long running trials in US legal history, exposes the lack of evidence and unprofessional attitudes of the finger pointers which kept one of the accused in jail for over 5 years without bail.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-20
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The Warriors
Overview: Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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People Not Places
Overview: An elderly widow living in Atlantic City meets an erratic homeless man who sleeps in cars. Their shared loneliness causes them to bond, as they find the courage to face his regrettable past and her shortened future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Leader of the Band
Overview: Eddie is a down-on-his-luck bar pianist who has just been fired from another job. Desperate for work, he finds a school looking for a leader for its hopelessly incompetent marching band. Somehow, Eddie has to whip these kids into shape in time for the big band competition. Can he get them to march without tripping over their own feet, let alone win the contest?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-07
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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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Spooky House
Overview: A magician with a mysterious secret lives alone with his jaguar, Shadow, in the Spooky House, an old mansion rigged with magic tricks and hidden chambers.
Genres: Adventure Family Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-19
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Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Overview: Bouncing between Europe and the United States as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim’s life was as swirling as the design of her uncle’s museum, and reads more like fiction than any reality imaginable. Peggy Guggenheim – Art Addict offers a rare look into Guggenheim’s world: blending the abstract, the colorful, the surreal and the salacious, to portray a life that was as complex and unpredictable as the artwork Peggy revered and the artists she pushed forward.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-06
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Heartburn
Overview: Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-25
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Goldstar, Ohio
Overview: Four families and a chief of police recount the day marine casualty officers came to their respective small towns in Ohio.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-23
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Hustlers
Overview: A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-12
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Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors
Overview: A two-hour documentary special Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors which gives viewers an intimate look at his life from his childhood in the suburbs of Chicago to small comedy clubs in Los Angeles, his breakthrough role on the TV show Happy Days as Mork from Ork and his big screen triumphs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-28
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Subway Stories
Overview: An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-24
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Radio Days
Overview: The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-30
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Overview: After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues when Vadinho's spirit returns into her life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-11-22
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Four Friends
Overview: A young immigrant comes to America in the 60s and is caught up in the counterculture movement which tests his bonds of friendship and love.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-11
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Star Spangled Banners
Overview: Ten years following the breakup of the family band, The Banner Project, siblings Desiree, Johnny, and Mitchel Banner, are faced with the decision to reunite in order to save their home town from bankruptcy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-29
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