Chris Penn
Also Known As: Christopher Penn, Кристофер Пенн, Крис Пенн, کریس پن
Biography: Christopher Shannon "Chris" Penn (October 10, 1965 – January 24, 2006) was an American film and television actor known for his roles in such films as The Wild Life, Reservoir Dogs, Footloose, Rush Hour, True Romance, All the Right Moves and Pale Rider. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: October 10, 1965
Deathday: January 24, 2006
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Gender: Male
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Rumble Fish
Overview: Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-09
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True Romance
Overview: Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-09
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Reservoir Dogs
Overview: A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-02
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Rush Hour
Overview: When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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Short Cuts
Overview: Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-05
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Footloose
Overview: When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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After the Sunset
Overview: An FBI agent is suspicious of two master thieves, quietly enjoying their retirement near what may - or may not - be the biggest score of their careers.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-12
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Beethoven's 2nd
Overview: Beethoven is back -- and this time, he has a whole brood with him now that he's met his canine match, Missy, and fathered a family. The only problem is that Missy's owner, Regina, wants to sell the puppies and tear the clan apart. It's up to Beethoven and the Newton kids to save the day and keep everyone together.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-14
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Mulholland Falls
Overview: In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-26
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Future Kick
Overview: In the far-flung future of 2025, where man is a victim of his own technology and corporations deal to a black market that trades in human body parts, a cyborg bounty hunter is hired by a wealthy woman to find out who murdered her husband.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-19
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The Funeral
Overview: After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
Overview: A hit man who wants out of the business is targeted by old colleagues.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-07
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Masked and Anonymous
Overview: A nation wracked with civil war and social unrest anticipates a giant charity concert, organized by deceptive promoter Uncle Sweetheart, who plans on raking in huge sums for himself from the event. Headlining is legendary musician Jack Fate, whose prison time is cut short with Sweetheart's help. Meanwhile, journalist Tom Friend investigates the corrupt concert and sets out to unmask the truth to the public.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-25
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Murder by Numbers
Overview: Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-19
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Best of the Best 2
Overview: In an underground fight club, blackbelt Travis Brickley is killed after losing to the evil martial arts master Brakus. Travis' death is witnessed by Walter Grady, the son of his best friend Alex Grady. Alex and his partner, Tommy Lee, vow to avenge their friend's death by defeating Brakus and shutting down the fight club.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-05
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Pale Rider
Overview: A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-28
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Fist of the North Star
Overview: From the immensely popular FIST OF THE NORTH STAR comic book series, comes a new hero. The fate of mankind rests with superhuman warrior Kenshiro who roams the wastelands of the future waging a battle against overwhelming evil. With the spiritual guidance of his dead father, Kenshiro fights to free his stolen love from the brutal tyrant Lord Shin. Through his struggle he must confront his destiny.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-22
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Stealing Harvard
Overview: John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John finds out his niece has been accepted at Harvard, and he's reminded of his promise to pay for her tuition (nearly $30,000). John's friend Duff convinces him to turn to petty crime to make the payment … but Duff's hare-brained schemes spin quickly out of control.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-13
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At Close Range
Overview: Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man. Inspired by the real events that led to the end of the Johnston Gang, who operated in the northeastern United States in the 1970s.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-18
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The Pickle
Overview: Harry Stone always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead he made The Pickle - a teenage sci-fi flick about a flying cucumber. Harry just wanted to get out of debt; now everyone he's ever known, loved and neglected is standing in line for tickets.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-30
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Deceiver
Overview: The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-31
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Holly
Overview: Shot on location in Cambodia, including many scenes in actual brothels in the notorious red light district of Phnom Penh, HOLLY is a captivating, touching and emotional experience. Patrick, an American card shark and dealer of stolen artifacts, has been 'comfortably numb' in Cambodia for years, when he encounters Holly, a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, in the K11 red light village. The girl has been sold by her impoverished family and smuggled across the border to work as a prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-16
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Shelter Island
Overview: Lou, a former professional golfer, turned motivational speaker, seems to have it all: fame, money, and a beautiful live-in girlfriend, Alex. Her seemingly perfect life is turned upside down when she is attacked near her home in Manhattan.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-01
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The Wild Life
Overview: Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-28
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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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The Darwin Awards
Overview: After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows loses his job with the San Francisco Police. He becomes an investigator for an insurance company and joins forces with a cynical field agent to probe suspicious and unusual deaths.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-05
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Corky Romano
Overview: Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to infiltrate the local FBI and retrieve and destroy evidence being used to incriminate Pops for racketeering charges.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-12
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Josh and S.A.M.
Overview: Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile, Josh tells Sam that he is a "S.A.M." that is going to be sent to Africa to fight in a war and that Canada is a safe haven for any S.A.M. unwilling to fight. Will Josh & S.A.M. make it to Canada or will they wish they should have never left home?
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-24
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The Boys Club
Overview: Three teenage boys in small-town Southern Ontario are thrilled when Luke Cooper, a mysterious American fugitive with a gunshot wound in his leg, decides to crash their secret hideout. Luke tells them that he's a cop on the run from corrupt colleagues, and swears them to silence. As he recuperates, he becomes their buddy and confidante. By the time the boys realize Luke is not who he pretends to be, they're in way over their heads
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Imaginary Crimes
Overview: A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1960s Portland, Oregon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-14
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Return from the River Kwai
Overview: A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an American bomber arrives and destroys it. Camp commander Tanaka wants to set an example and orders that some of the prisoners must be executed. Just in time major Harada arrives with orders that the healthiest prisoners must be transported to Japan by train and boat. A treacherous journey since the allied forces keep a close eye on railroads and practically own the seas.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-07
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Papertrail
Overview: Jason Enola is an obsessive FBI agent who is almost losing his mind after ten years on the tail of an elusive serial killer whose hallmark is the "paper trail" of notes left along with the victims. As the film begins, a new wave of killings start after four years of silence, and the psychiatrist Dr. Alyce Robertson becomes involved when she starts receiving telephone calls from the killer.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-28
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The Florentine
Overview: A slice-of-life story unfolds inside The Florentine, a bar in a Pennsylvania steel town whose brightest days are behind it, leaving behind many of life's disillusioned "losers." Its owner, Whitey (Michael Madsen), is deep in debt to the town's loan shark, Joe McCollough (Burt Young), and desperate for a path forward which won't cost him the bar. His sister, Molly (Virginia Madsen), is days away from her long-awaited nuptials, and then her former fiancé, Teddy (Tom Sizemore), shows up in town for the first time since leaving her at the altar years before. Ne'er-do-well Billy Belasco (Jim Belushi) runs a con on Frankie (Luke Perry) to steal the money for the wedding caterer, while long-time regular Bobby (Chris Penn) becomes a patron-cum-inhabitant as he hides from his fast-crumbling marriage to Vikki (Mary Stuart Masterson). Every plot in this multi-layered story seems to be at its nadir just as a pair of unlikely heroes emerge out of the backdrop to turn everything around.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-19
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Who Do You Think You're Fooling?
Overview: A short film that took director Quentin Tarantino to task for failing to credit director Ringo Lam's City on Fire (1987 film) as an influence upon the making of Reservoir Dogs. It screened at the New York Underground Film Festival.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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One Tough Cop
Overview: A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-09
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Made in U.S.A.
Overview: Two men from Pennsylvania give up hope in their small run down coal mining town, and head off in search of the beaches of California. The two steal cars as they travel across the USA and are joined by a wild young woman.
Genres: Crime Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-15
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Cement
Overview: Take a walk on the seamy side of town, where you can’t tell the difference between the bad cops and the crooks. Bob Holt, a corrupt detective knee-deep in kickbacks, has an uneasy partnership with a drug-addicted cop and an even shakier alliance with a notorious mob syndicate. When Holt pours the youngest mob brother into a cement freeway structure, it sets in motion a twisted tale of revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-14
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Under the Hula Moon
Overview: In the desert outside Cactus Gulch, Arizona, Buzzard and Betty Jean Wall live in a trailer decorated in Hawaiian themes. Betty's trying to get pregnant. Buzz wants to market "Cammo," a sun block lotion that looks like camouflage; but financing is tough to find and Betty thinks he should get a real job. Buzz's half-brother Turkey, a murderous psychopath, escapes from jail, comes to the trailer, ties up Buzz, kidnaps Betty, steals $10,000 they've just won from Publisher's Clearing Hut's Lucky Loser drawing, and heads for Mexico. Buzz is untied by Maya, an ex-girlfriend who's now a TV reporter in search of a story. They pick up Turk's trail and set out to rescue Betty.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-01
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Family Attraction
Overview: The last "nuclear family" in America is an endangered species, held in captivity at The National Zoo. Stars Chris Penn and Martin Sheen.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-03
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Redemption
Overview: A disgraced cop goes to work for the mob, and must choose between good and evil when he goes up against his former friends on the force.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-28
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Best of the Best
Overview: A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country--can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-10
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Bread and Roses
Overview: Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-14
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Best of Chris Isaak
Overview: Chris Isaak begins his third decade as one of the most distinctive recording artists- and the epitome of modern cool-with his first career-spanning retrospective.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-09
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Mobsters
Overview: The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-26
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Charlie and the Talking Buzzard
Overview: Set to the narration of a talking buzzard, Charlie moves to a new town with his family. He wants to be friends with the popular kids at his local park, but they all play football and he doesn't because he's a nerd. Charlie vows to find the boys a football to play with, therefore endearing him to the town boys.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-12
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Tarantino's Mind
Overview: Two friends at a bar talking about theories involving Quentin Tarantino's movies.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-04
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QT8: The First Eight
Overview: A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about how to shoot eight great movies and become an icon of modern pop culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-21
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North Beach and Rawhide
Overview: "Boys Town" drama about a man named Rawhide MacGregor, a one-time ex-convict who runs a cattle ranch as a correctional facility for urban juvenile delinquents where he tries through a variety of means and choirs to redeem them from their trouble-making ways.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-12
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All the Right Moves
Overview: Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-21
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Starsky & Hutch
Overview: Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy Bear and persuasive criminal Reese Feldman.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-05
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Leather Jackets
Overview: Claudia, a girl who gets around, finally lands her dream man in Mickey. However, Mickey's friend Dobbs spoils their nuptial plans when the thugs of a Vietnamese gangster that he has robbed, come looking for him. In order to save Dobbs, Mickey and Claudia, hide him in the boot of their car as they take off to LA. Things don't go as smoothly as planned, and Mickey finds out more about his fiancée than he ever needs to know.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-18
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Flagpole Special
Overview: Two guys talk about a seminar where they learn how to pick up chicks, both are seen from the waist down only, one is playing acoustic guitar. Related to the Frank TJ Mackie seminars shown in the film Magnolia.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-16
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Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Overview: A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-26
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Overview: Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-07
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Rip Van Winkle
Overview: A lazy man falls asleep for twenty years.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-23
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Cannes Man
Overview: Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his skills of hype and manipulation to try and turn the cab driver named Frank into the talk of the town. Many celebrities make cameos throughout the film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-03
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Sacred Cargo
Overview: Two brothers head to Russia to help a group of priests smuggle $200 million worth of sacred relics out of the country in order to keep them out of the hands of neo-Nazis.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-13
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