Robert Sean Leonard
Also Known As: Robert Lawrence Leonard, رابرت شان لنرد
Biography: Robert Sean Leonard (born February 28, 1969) is an award-winning American actor. He has regularly starred in Broadway and off-Broadway productions, but is most known for his roles on House and in Dead Poets Society.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Westwood, New Jersey, USA
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Birthday: February 28, 1969
Age: 56 years old
Gender: Male
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Dead Poets Society
Overview: At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-02
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Swing Kids
Overview: The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazis begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-05
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The Age of Innocence
Overview: In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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Driven
Overview: Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly's romance with his arch rival's girlfriend Sophia. With much riding on Bly, car owner Carl Henry brings former racing star Joe Tanto on board to help Bly. To drive Bly back to the top of the rankings, Tanto must first deal with the emotional scars left over from a tragic racing accident which nearly took his life.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-27
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My Best Friend Is a Vampire
Overview: Shortly after high school student Jeremy Capello goes on a hot date, he finds he can't stand garlic or see his reflection in mirrors.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Tape
Overview: Jon, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who is now a volunteer fireman and small-time drug dealer, also visits the town to support Jon on his big day, or so it seems. After a raucous hello and much backslapping, it appears that there is an undercurrent of tension in the air.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-02
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The I Inside
Overview: When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his brother was killed, he has married a woman he doesn't remember and he's haunted by strange visions of the woman he loved.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-21
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Much Ado About Nothing
Overview: In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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Married to It
Overview: While setting up a school pageant, the parents at an elite private academy in New York City with contrastive lifestyles and professional paths reflect on their lives and marriages.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-11
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Chelsea Walls
Overview: This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-21
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Nantucket
Overview: The incredible story of the island of Nantucket, from its Native American origins as a Wampanoag outpost, through the English settlement and early Quaker culture, to its international significance as the whaling capital of the world, and eventual transformation to summer resort and art colony.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-29
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In the Gloaming
Overview: Danny, dying of AIDS, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-20
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A Glimpse of Hell
Overview: A Navy officer tries to set the record straight after the Navy blames a 1989 explosion aboard the USS Iowa on a homosexual affair between two sailors.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-18
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A Painted House
Overview: A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams of living in better conditions. However, with this particularly tough farming season, the boy learns that his challenges guide him in discovering who he really is.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-27
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The Last Days of Disco
Overview: Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-29
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Safe Passage
Overview: Recently estranged from her husband, and mother of seven sons, Mag Singer stands poised to pursue a whole new way of life. But when one of her children is involved in an explosion while on duty in the Middle East, Mag must rexamine everything she cherishes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-01
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Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Overview: Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright -- set within the context of the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped him, and that he in turn struggled all his life to give form to in his art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-27
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The Boys Next Door
Overview: Kind-hearted social worker Jack Palmer feels guilty about not spending enough time with his wife due to the pressures of his job taking care of four developmentally disabled men: obsessive-compulsive Norman, bipolar Arnold, childlike Lucien, and schizophrenic Barry. When Jack announces his decision to leave his job, his four charges react quite unexpectedly to the news.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-04
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Ground Control
Overview: An air-traffic controller quits after a plane crash but, years later, goes to help an airport that is in the path of a terrible storm.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-26
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Killer: A Journal of Murder
Overview: Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzram's past is much more violent than he thought, but also that he's capable of being a much better person than the rest of the prison staff believes - or so Lesser thinks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Overview: Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-23
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Standoff
Overview: The FBI and Texas police make ready to storm the headquarters of a heavily armed sect of religious fanatics. But the operation goes horribly wrong and a couple of agents seek protection at an abandoned farm. But they are not the only ones there.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-11
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Dead Poets: A Look Back
Overview: Documentary about the making of Dead Poets Society (1989) including interviews from various cast members.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-10
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The Manhattan Project
Overview: Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-13
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Bluffing It
Overview: A functionally illiterate factory foreman (Dennis Weaver) loses his job after refusing a promotion that requires reading.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-13
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House: Swan Song
Overview: A one-hour retrospective special that will look back at this groundbreaking, seminal series and feature interviews with the series' stars and producers, special original content and other surprises.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-21
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My Two Loves
Overview: A widow emerges from her mourning after a year. She moves into a new apartment, gets a new job, and a gains a 'gentleman caller,' her late husband's partner and former best friend. Her daughter opposes the relationship and causes considerable confusion. As she tries to work out her problems, she confides in a fellow worker. The friend offers her a shoulder to cry on and ultimately suggests that they have a relationship. Surprised and more confused than ever, she does find herself drawn to her friend.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-07
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I Love You, I Love You Not
Overview: A school student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-28
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Normandy: The Great Crusade
Overview: Documentary on the World War II invasion of Normandy by the Allies on June 6, 1944 utilizing diaries, personal letters, home movies, snapshots, period music and vintage radio broadcasts and newsreels.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
Overview: Examine the American whaling industry from its 17th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, the tragedy of the Essex, and the career of Moby Dick's Herman Melville, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-10
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The Invention of Love
Overview: An esoteric play portraying the life of poet A. E. Housman focusing specifically on his personal life and love for a college classmate.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-29
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