Michael Higgins
Also Known As: Michael Patrick Higgins Jr.
Biography: Michael Higgins was born on January 20, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA as Michael Patrick Higgins Jr. He was an actor, known for State and Main (2000), Springfield Story (1952) and Der Dialog (1974). He was married to Elizabeth Lee Goodwin. He died on November 5, 2008 in Manhattan, New York City.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: January 20, 1920
Deathday: November 05, 2008
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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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Angel Heart
Overview: A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-06
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Keep Our Honor Bright
Overview: A college student faces embarrassment and expulsion for having cheated on an exam. Her fiance is a member of the university's undergraduate honor board and could quietly make the matter "disappear." The young woman reconsiders, deciding that covering up for her bad behavior would be wrong and build a bad foundation for their marriage.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-14
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Fort Apache, the Bronx
Overview: From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. The story follows officer Murphy, who seems to be a tuff cynic, but in truth he's a moralist with a sense for justice.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-06
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Overview: A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-16
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Just the Ticket
Overview: Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't approve of his criminal lifestyle, though, and dumps him when she gets the opportunity to study cooking in Paris. Gary realizes that he has to give up scalping if he has any chance of winning her back. But before he does, he wants to cash out on one last big score. He gets his chance when the pope announces he'll be performing Easter Mass at Yankee Stadium.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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Ice Castles
Overview: Young, beautiful, talented Alexis Winston comes from nowhere to become a figure skating superstar. But her rise to stardom isn’t easy. She has to push herself, reinvent herself, and most painfully of all, leave her hometown boyfriend behind. When a tragic fall leaves her blind, she needs someone to believe in her, to love her; someone to convince her she has the strength to skate and dream again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-09
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Edge of Fury
Overview: A psychopathic young beachcomber pretends to befriend a mother and two daughters living at their summer home.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-01
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A Time for Miracles
Overview: Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is the subject of this inspiring biopic. After the tragic death of her husband, Seton converts to Catholicism. Once again, she suffers terrible loss when two of her children die, but goes on to found the American Sisters of Charity and the first American Catholic schools. Seton died in 1826 and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-21
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The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
Overview: After experiencing several stressful situations within a short time — including the failure of the family business and the loss of her mother — Janet Broderick becomes ill. Falling into a deep sleep, she dreams of returning to her hometown, taking her children with her to meet her deceased loved ones. Perhaps, during a Christmas reunion with her beloved family, she will find the answer to coping with her troubles.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-20
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Overview: Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. But it could be a big boost to his career, so he takes it on. Helping him prepare the case is pretty southern researcher Karen Traynor, and their developing relationship further complicates and compromises his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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The Black Stallion
Overview: While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-13
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The Arrangement
Overview: An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-18
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New York Stories
Overview: Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories features the creative collaboration of three of America's most popular directors, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, and Woody Allen.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-10
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The Lark
Overview: Adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 1952 play about Joan of Arc, the young girl who led the French to victory against the English in the Hundred Years' War.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-10
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An American Carol
Overview: A cynical anti-American Hollywood filmmaker sets out on a crusade to abolish the 4th of July holiday. He is visited by three spirits who take him on a hilarious journey in an attempt to show him the true meaning of America.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-03
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On Valentine's Day
Overview: In 1917, Elizabeth defies her wealthy parents by running off and marrying Horace Robedaux, a young man of humble prospects. Her parents have not spoken to her since - even though the couple lives in a rooming house nearby, they are struggling financially, and she is pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-11
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Forced March
Overview: Ben Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the Hungarian writer Miklos Radnoti, whose journal of poems was found with his body, buried in one of Hungary’s mass graves. Kline is also the son of a Holocaust survivor and has long resented his father’s refusal to speak about the War. Now given the opportunity to play the role of a hero, but faced with the reality of a victim, the boundaries between truth and illusion begin to blur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-03
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Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
Overview: This is a splendid little sleeper of a movie. Ernie Kovacs was one of the giants of early television. I think he would be pleased with the way Jeff Goldbloom captures his wonky personality. Melody Anderson also distills that of Edie Adams. There is a very basic heart tugging story about the search for Kovacs' two abducted daughters. But at the same time the film is funny --- Cloris Leachman is a hoot as Kovacs impossible mom --- and has many of the offbeat and innovative qualities of the old Kovacs show itself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-14
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Synecdoche, New York
Overview: A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Desperate Characters
Overview: Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn, leaving them feeling paranoid, scared, and desperately helpless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-22
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The Favor
Overview: A troubled teenager, left alone after his mother's sudden death, is befriended and offered a home by his mom's former boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-19
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King of the Gypsies
Overview: Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Calm at Sunset
Overview: Drama about a young man who defies his parents by dropping out of college to pursue his dream of owning a fishing boat, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-01
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The Conversation
Overview: A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-07
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Shades of Gray
Overview: After the suppression of "Let There Be Light" (a documentary about combat-induced post-traumatic stress disorders which presented many inconvenient and demoralizing truths), the U.S. Army Signal Corp created this dramatized up-beat remake of the film. Only this time, the production excluded the involvement of John Houston, the producer of the original documentary.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-20
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Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences
Overview: Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dramatic re-enactment. The film uses actor John Cullum both as himself and to play the young Sandburg in short dramatic sequences. In search of Sandburg, Cullum travels to the poet's native home, Galesburg, Illinois speaking with close friends and family of the writer. Through a remarkable recently discovered trove of period photographs of Galesburg, the small-town America of Sandburg's childhood - the horse carriages, the ice-man delivering ice, a Fourth of July celebration - is revived in vivid detail.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-02
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Wanda
Overview: After a string of abusive relationships, Wanda abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-01
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Play of the Week: Rashomon
Overview: Several different accounts of the same incident tell quite different stories about what happened.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-12
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Barnum
Overview: The amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-30
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1918
Overview: It's 1918, the height of United States involvement in World War I - Liberty Bonds are sold, German immigrants are suspected as traitors or saboteurs, young men everywhere succumb to the patriotism and propaganda and enlist. In a small Texas town, Horace Robedaux feels the pressure - he doesn't want to leave his young wife Elizabeth and their young child Jenny - but Elizabeth's can't-do-anything-right little brother is constantly talking about the war, and Elizabeth's stern father, who opposed the marriage initially, now has plans to take care of his daughter and the child so Horace can fight for his country. However, the influenza epidemic sweeping the town (and the nation) may change everyone's plans.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-26
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Seven Minutes in Heaven
Overview: Natalie allows her classmate Jeff, who ran away from home after a fight with his stepfather, to stay at her place while her father is away on a business trip. Natalie soon starts dating Jeff's friend James Casey, who isn't as faithful as she thinks, while her best friend Polly falls in love with baseball player Zoo Knudsen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-09
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Crusoe
Overview: Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-30
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Swimfan
Overview: Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Ben's rock-solid, promising future and romance are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison Bell. Madison, the new girl in town, quickly sets her sights on the impressionable Ben. While their first few meetings are innocent enough, the obsessive and seductive Madison wants more ... much more.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-06
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Paul's Case
Overview: Captures the essence of Willa Cather's haunting story of Pittsburgh circa 1900. Lost in a world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. As fate would have it Paul gets his chance by stealing some money and subsequently running off to glamorous New York City.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-11
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Messengers
Overview: Dr. Sarah Chapel returns to the small town of Brighton Mills when her father Dr. Robert Chapel unexpectedly dies. His clients and friends miss him, and Sarah discloses that all of them have perfect health; they hear voices when they are sleeping; and they are addicted to the stimulant Tributol. Her further investigation discloses a dark secret about the haunting voices.
Genres: Horror Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-27
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Off the Black
Overview: An aging, disillusioned alcoholic gets a younger friend and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-08
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The Stepford Wives
Overview: Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-12
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Wind
Overview: In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defeat during the America's Cup race against an Australian crew. Determined to get the prize back, Will convinces Morgan to finance an experimental boat designed by his ex-girlfriend Kate's new beau, Joe Heisler. When the boat is completed, the Americans head to Australia to reclaim the cup.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-11
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Pie in the Sky
Overview: Rural runaway finds himself in Manhattan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Cradle Will Fall
Overview: Kathy DeMaio checks into the hospital and thinks she sees a body being loaded into the trunk of a car. When the body turns up later and the murderer, Dr. Highley, thinks that DeMaio can identify him, her life is put in jeopardy. Originally made for television and adapted from a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the interesting twist to this thriller is that several cast members of the daytime soap opera "Guiding Light" play those same roles here.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-24
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State and Main
Overview: A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-26
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The Impostors
Overview: Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find themselves pursued by the law aboard a cruise ship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-02
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Dead Bang
Overview: Los Angeles homicide detective Jerry Beck searches for the murderer who killed a police officer on Christmas Eve. The investigation takes Beck inside the violent world of hate groups and white supremacists, who are hatching a deadly plot to attack even more innocent people. Beck must also confront his own personal demons, including his growing problem with alcohol, if he wants to track down and stop the violent neo-Nazis before it is too late.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-24
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Born Beautiful
Overview: This is the story of Betsy a model who is nearly 30. Now in the world of modeling that is considered to be the age of retirement. She then sets out to see what else she can do and at the same time try to straighten out her personal life cause her husband has demanded that she should be either a full time wife or give him a divorce. And she has also taken an aspiring model under her wing, and is considering also being a photographer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-01
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