Josh Mostel
Also Known As: Joshua Mostel
Biography: Joshua Elias Mostel (born December 21, 1946) is an American actor with numerous film and Broadway credits. The son of Zero Mostel, he is best known for his supporting roles in films such as Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Harry and Tonto (1974), Sophie's Choice (1982), City Slickers (1991), Billy Madison (1995), and Big Daddy (1999).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Birthday: December 21, 1946
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Male
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City Slickers
Overview: Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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The Brother from Another Planet
Overview: An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-07
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The Chase
Overview: Jack Hammond is sentenced to life in prison, but manages to escape. To get away from the police he takes a girl as hostage and drives off in her car. The girl happens to be the only daughter of one of the richest men in the state. In a while the car chase is being broadcast live on every TV-channel.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-04
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The Money Pit
Overview: After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-26
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Billy Madison
Overview: Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire, but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that he has what it takes to run the family business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-10
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Little Man Tate
Overview: Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his extremely powerful intellect is harboured in the body and emotions of a child.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-06
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Star 80
Overview: Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Under his guidance Dorothy grows to fame as a Playboy Playmate. But when Dorothy begins pursuing an acting career, the jealous Paul finds himself elbowed out of the picture by more famous men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-10
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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 Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-30
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Matewan
Overview: Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-28
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Great Expectations
Overview: Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the surprising interactions of these vivid characters, "Great Expectations" takes a unique and contemporary look at life's great coincidences.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-30
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Jesus Christ Superstar
Overview: As played out by a theatre troupe, the last days of Jesus Christ are depicted from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, his betrayer. As Jesus' following increases, Judas begins to worry that Jesus is falling for his own hype, forgetting the principles of his teachings and growing too close to the prostitute Mary Magdalene.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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Big Daddy
Overview: A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-25
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Harry and Tonto
Overview: Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s who has lived in the Upper West Side of New York City all his life. When his building is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States — visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-12
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Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Overview: The origin story behind one of Broadway's most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creative roots in early 1960s New York, when "tradition" was on the wane as gender roles, sexuality, race relations and religion were evolving.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-23
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Fighting Back
Overview: An Italian deli owner forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-21
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Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
Overview: Tracey Ullman and her wacky cast of characters take a bite out of the Big Apple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-09
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Bye Bye America
Overview: The mis-adventures of three Polish-Jews on the road to Gdansk is the basis for this German comedy that was filmed in New York, Germany, and Poland. Genovefa and Moshe have been married and living in New York for 30 years. Physically the couple resembles Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat. The two have decided to return to Poland for a visit. They intend to have Moshe's best friend Isaac, an unlucky, depressive German, take care of their house while they are gone. Unfortunately, Isaac loses his job before they go and ends up accompanying them on a Polish freighter. When the ship dies in a German port, the threesome must go overland to Gdansk. They encounter many mishaps along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-04-28
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The Basketball Diaries
Overview: A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-21
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Let It Be Me
Overview: Right after getting engaged, a man starts taking dance lessons.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-17
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State of Play
Overview: When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-17
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The King of Marvin Gardens
Overview: Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-13
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Nervous Ticks
Overview: A comedy about a man (Bill Pullman), who is on the run after his mistress (Julie Brown) confesses to her husband (Peter Boyle) that the two of them have been having an affair.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-01
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Almost You
Overview: Alex and Erica Boyer are a young couple in crisis. Alex, despite his loving wife, beautiful home and high-paying job, feels trapped. When Erica has an accident that leaves her temporarily confined to a wheelchair and requiring the services of a private nurse, the beautiful Lisa enters the Boyers' lives. A complicated situation develops as Alex sees Lisa as the cure for his own problems as well as his wife's.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-29
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Deadly Hero
Overview: Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tendencies and trigger-happy behavior.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-14
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Beneath the Harvest Sky
Overview: During harvest break, Casper is drawn into smuggling drugs across the Canadian border with his outlaw father, Clayton. Meanwhile, Dominic works his final potato harvest, hoping to earn the money he needs to buy a car and take them away towards a better future. But with Casper’s life unraveling before their eyes, their friendship and loyalty are put to the test as they are forced to mature and make very adult decisions that will forever alter the course of their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-08
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Rounders
Overview: A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
Overview: Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil and unfortunately Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-10
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Thicker Than Blood
Overview: Griffin Byrne is the idealistic new history, English and maths teacher in Father Frank Larkin's school in a mainly Latino ghetto neighborhood where most kids, even many of its graduates, end up in crime and poverty. He takes a particular interest in one of the boys nobody believes will ever come to anything, Lee Cortes, who he finds to be a prodigy in cartoon drawing but who never spoke a word at school, and always wears a Walkman, essentially because of his home situation: his elder brother Tyro, a drug dealer, abuses him and his mother, so he often stays home to mind the smallest siblings. Griffin tries everything to help Lee, despite everyones cynicism, even takes him in his bachelor flat, but finds the whole family situation must be solved, which is probably beyond his power, yet tries tireless, even if he gets nothing but abuse and the results seem to do more hurting then helping...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-31
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Windy City
Overview: The lives of a group of young Chicago men, as seen through the eyes of one of them, a writer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-21
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The Boy Who Loved Trolls
Overview: Paul feels life should be an adventure, and sets out on one to prove that Trolls really exist.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-29
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Dead Ringer
Overview: Part fiction, part documentary. Dead Ringer was created as a promotional tie-in to Meat Loaf's album of the same name, which was his follow-up to the hugely successful "Bat Out Of Hell".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-01
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Naked Tango
Overview: When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-27
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Sophie's Choice
Overview: Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-08
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The Out-of-Towners
Overview: The adventures of married couple Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for Henry's job interview.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-02
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Wall Street
Overview: A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-10
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Knockaround Guys
Overview: Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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The Congressman
Overview: Maine Congressman Charlie Winship has had a bad day. After being caught on video failing to stand and recite the pledge of allegiance, he knocks out another House member, confronts his angry ex-wife, and faces denunciation by the media for attacking one of the most cherished patriotic symbols in America. As his life spirals out of control, Charlie embarks on a journey to a remote island in the Atlantic whose eccentric inhabitants are in the middle of a shooting war over their fishing grounds. Treat Williams stars as The Congressman in this humorous and moving film that raises the important question of what it means to be an American.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-09
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City of Hope
Overview: This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-11
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Heavy Petting
Overview: Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie Hoffman, and poet Allen Ginsberg-- recall their earliest sexual experiences.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-22
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Animal Behavior
Overview: Biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees. Instead of using machines, she teaches the chimps simple sign language. Her research is overlooked by ignorant colleagues, but one man, Mark, a cellist, helps Alex with her research.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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Compromising Positions
Overview: An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-30
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Growing Up and Other Lies
Overview: After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends – Billy, Rocks and Gunderson – to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-26
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The Maddening
Overview: David and Cassie Osborne have an argument one night. So the next morning after David goes to work, Cassie runs off to her sister's house for a few days with their daughter Samantha. Only they never get there. David starts looking for them, and her sister, Joanne, thinks David had something to do with their disappearance, and calls the police. Actually Samantha and Cassie are with Roy and Georgina Scudder, and their daughter Jill. Roy picked them up after their car broke down. The only problem is, the Scudders, who seem a little odd at first, won't let them leave or call anyone.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-18
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Stoogemania
Overview: The film centers on Howard F. Howard, an overweight everyman. Engaged to Beverly, the woman of his dreams, Howard has one problem - an overactive fixation with The Three Stooges. Everywhere Howard goes, he sees Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard intruding on his life. Determined to overcome his fixation, Howard and Beverly prepare for their wedding. But on his way to the ceremony, Howard descends into Stoogemania and finds himself walking into the city streets with other Stoogemaniacs. His only hope is commitment to the Stooge Hills sanitarium, under the care of a renowned psychologist, until the inmates take over the asylum on graduation day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Going Home
Overview: After doing 13 years in prison for the murder of his wife, mechanic Harry Graham is out on parole and looking to rebuild his life in a small seaside community. He settles into a trailer park and finds both a job and a girlfriend. But things get difficult for Harry when his estranged son, Jimmy, shows up. He witnessed his mother's murder as a child and, after years spent in foster homes, has come looking for revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
Overview: A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-13
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Superstars: The Documentary
Overview: In 1971, director Norman Jewison took a group of young actors, singers, and dancers to war-torn Israel to shoot the film adaptation of the hit rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. Filming on location and walking in the footsteps of the actual biblical characters that they were portraying not only made an impact on these performers but on audiences worldwide who, five decades later, still watch annually and love this cinematic presentation. This is their story... in their own words!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-11
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The Money
Overview: A prominent businessman's children become the target of a young, unemployed man, who sees them as his ticket to wealth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-31
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...And Then It Happened
Overview: The film "And Then It Happened" follows two school bus drivers known for their safety records. During routine rides, a series of distractions and misbehaviors from the students lead to a disastrous accident, injuring several classmates. The narrative explores the challenges of managing rowdy children on a bus and the consequences of their actions, highlighting the importance of safety and the hidden struggles of the students.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Dead Layer
Overview: A visionary graffiti artist tries to go straight but gets caught up in a terrible crime.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-10
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