Andrew McCarthy
Also Known As: اندرو مککارتی
Biography: Andrew Thomas McCarthy (born November 29, 1962) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the 1980s films St. Elmo's Fire, Mannequin, Weekend at Bernie's, Pretty in Pink, and Less Than Zero, and more recently for his role in the television shows Lipstick Jungle and Royal Pains. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrew McCarthy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Birthday: November 29, 1962
Age: 62 years old
Gender: Male
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Mannequin
Overview: Jonathan Switcher, an unemployed artist, finds a job as an assistant window dresser for a department store. When Jonathan happens upon a beautiful mannequin he previously designed, she springs to life and introduces herself as Emmy, an Egyptian under an ancient spell. Despite interference from the store's devious manager, Jonathan and his mannequin fall in love while creating eye-catching window displays to keep the struggling store in business.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-13
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Grace Point
Overview: A young man on his way to a remote drug rehab finds himself in a strange town being chased by the locals, as well as his own personal demons.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-11
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I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
Overview: A mental patient escapes from the looney bin in drag, robs a bank, and goes on the lam!
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-13
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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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Pretty in Pink
Overview: Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-28
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Class
Overview: Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby Chicago, where he meets and beds the alluring Ellen, who unfortunately turns out to be Skip's mother. The division between the friends is further deepened when a cheating scandal engulfs the school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-22
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St. Elmo's Fire
Overview: A group of friends graduates from the halls of Georgetown University into lives that revolve around sex and career aspirations. Kirby waits tables to pay for law school. His roommate Kevin struggles at a D.C. newspaper as he searches for the meaning of love. Jules may be an object of adoration and envy, but secretly she has problems of her own. Demure Wendy is in love with Billy—a loveable sax player and an irresponsible drunk. Alec wants it all: a career in politics and the appearance of a traditional home life. Alec’s girlfriend, Leslie, is an ambitious architect who doesn't know about his infidelity, but his new allegiance to the Republican Party is already enough to put her off marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-28
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Overview: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-07
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Year of the Gun
Overview: American novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend must struggle to stay alive.
Genres: Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-10
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The Spiderwick Chronicles
Overview: Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
Genres: Family Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-14
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Weekend at Bernie's
Overview: Two young insurance corporation employees try to pretend that their murdered employer is alive by puppeteering his dead body, leading a hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-05
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Weekend at Bernie's II
Overview: Everybody's favorite stiff is back! Working fools Larry Wilson and Richard Parker have uncovered a dirty, little secret: Their former boss, Bernie Lomax, embezzled $2 million and placed it in a safe deposit box in the Caribbean. Now, the boys are ready to go after the loot, but they can't do it alone -- they need poor Bernie's help. Can the buddies give their ex-boss new life?
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-09
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Dragonwheel
Overview: The story of Gloria, a worldly but crabby teen-boy-band manager and Sherman, a morose rural man as they escape from their lives, experience life-changing travel, and against their will, cling to one another. When they fall in love for the first time, it's an impossible situation, because you can't just change your life overnight. Can you?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-01
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Straight From the Heart
Overview: Jordan Donavan, a photographer in New York, is so disappointed when after five years of going steady Edward Morgan offers her not marriage but just to move in with him, that she accepts the match-making arranged via a magazine by her female friend with Tyler Ross, a horse rancher in the West, whose candidacy was actually also posted by his sister. After a bad start they soon grow closer.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-09
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The National Tree
Overview: A teenager has his Sitka Spruce tree chosen to be planted outside the White House as the new national Christmas Tree.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-28
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Less Than Zero
Overview: A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for Christmas at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-06
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Heaven Help Us
Overview: Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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Dr. M
Overview: In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.
Genres: Crime Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-24
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New World Disorder
Overview: A gang of four eyed crooks led by Kurt Bishop are ripping off top dollar computer chips from a list of factories. The night they hit Dynaphase Systems, two dirty employees are staying late using company resources to develop their own plans for a security microchip worth millions of dollars. Psychopathic Bishop raids the Dynaphase facility and downloads the mainframe before the employees have a chance to completely erase their work from it. When Bishop discovers the value of the stolen, but partially erased information, he sets out after the rest of the chip design, letting nothing stand in his way.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-03
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Don't You Forget About Me
Overview: Throughout the ’80s John Hughes defined the teen movie genre and spoke not only to that generation’s teens, but every generation that has followed. Then in 1991 he hung up his director’s hat and disappeared into obscurity ala J.D Salinger. In 2008, a group of young Canadian filmmakers set out to complete a documentary about the man with what they hoped would culminate with an interview, which would be his first since 1999.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-13
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Dream Man
Overview: Kris is a homicide cop with psychic abilities. She works to prove that the prime suspect in her latest case (the much younger husband of the millionaire victim) is innocent. But are her visions true, or planned by someone who knows what she can see?
Genres: Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-20
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Only You
Overview: Dumped by his fiancée, Clifford Godfrey goes on vacation anyway where he ends up torn between a sober party girl and his travel agent.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Camp Hell
Overview: At the end of every summer, the children of a Christian community from a suburb of New Jersey attend Camp Hope. They travel deep into the woods far from any distractions the world provides. Here, the children are taught the ways of the Lord, the perils of the flesh, and the horror of the Devil. A charismatic priest leads them in their training. But, he unknowingly has brought something with him, something evil. What was supposed to be a safe place, a spiritual retreat has now turned into a nightmare that not even faith can end.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-13
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Fresh Horses
Overview: A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. She says she's 20, but he finds out she's 16 and married to an abusive husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-18
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The Good Guy
Overview: Ambitious young Manhattanite and urban conservationist Beth wants it all: a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share the city with. Of course that last one is often the trickiest of all. Beth falls hard for Tommy, a sexy, young Wall Street hot-shot. But just as everything seems to be falling into place, complications arise in the form of Tommy's sensitive and handsome co-worker Daniel. Beth soon learns that the game of love in the big city is a lot like Wall Street -- high risk, high reward and everybody has an angle.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-25
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The Hollywood Mom's Mystery
Overview: Lucy Freers has a long-standing marriage, a nine-year old daughter, and a great family life in the suburbs of Hollywood. Great, that is, until the Hollywood set decides that motherhood is the newest way to go. When local neighbor Julia Prentice, the wife of a famous movie actor, adopts a baby in full view of the show-business media, the parenthood craze hits its peak. Soon after, Julia is found lying dead in Lucy's swimming pool, with Lucy and her husband labeled as suspects. Now Lucy must determine the truth to clear the name of both herself and her family.
Genres: Comedy Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-08
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The Joy Luck Club
Overview: Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-08
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Bela Donna
Overview: American couple move to the State of Ceará, Brazil, in the 1930s. The husband is looking for oil. His beautiful wife, Donna, soon falls in love with a rude but charming fisherman. The forbidden romance may destroy her marriage and upset the morals of the small village where they live.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-08-14
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The Sight
Overview: The American successful architect Michael Lewis travels to London with his partner and friend, the builder Jake, to refurbish an old hotel. Michael is having successive nightmares, and once in London, he realizes that twenty-one spirits are trying to contact him to solve murders of a serial killer. Michael, with the support of Jake, Detective Pryce and the ghosts, try to avoid the ninth crime and find the serial-killer.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-29
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Night of the Running Man
Overview: A Las Vegas cab driver finds a million dollars of stolen money in his cab after his fare is murdered. Soon after, a ruthless hitman is in persuit; he will stop at nothing to recover the money and dispose of all witnesses.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-19
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The Christmas Tree
Overview: A story about a forming friendship between an elderly nun, Sister Anthony, and New York's Rockefeller Center's head landscape architect Richard Reilly, who wants to fell a tree she's been growing for decades and move it to New York for Christmas display.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-22
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Main Street
Overview: From the once thriving tobacco warehouses, to the current run-down and closed shops of Five Points, a diverse group of residents and their respective life changes when outsider Gus Leroy brings something new and potentially dangerous into their quiet town.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-21
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Quiet Days in Clichy
Overview: Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-05-09
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Kansas
Overview: A young man returning home to attend a wedding hooks up with a drifter who turns out to be a violent bank robber. Before he knows it, the man finds himself involved in the robber's plans.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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The Secret Life of Zoey
Overview: Marcia always thought her overachieving daughter Zoey was the dream child. But then she discovers that her perfect teen has a not-so-perfect drug addiction. Marcia and her ex-husband go through plenty of denial as their daughter spirals out of control. It's a true-to-life tale that parents and their kids should watch together.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-19
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Crusader
Overview: A gripping action thriller about a reporter who steals a murdered colleague's news story, and becomes an unwitting pawn in a conspiracy that could cost him his life.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-23
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Hostile Force
Overview: When a would-be bank robber's attempt to steal $6 million goes awry, he takes a woman hostage without realizing that she is an ex-cop.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-06-03
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Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best
Overview: Recently dumped by his girlfriend, underachiever Alex (O'Nan) embarks on an impromptu road trip with his new bandmate, the eccentric Jim (Michael Weston). By channeling their inner children and giving a new meaning to the term "lo-fi," Alex and Jim find their unique style by bringing the sound of children's instruments to their unsuspecting fans. Playing a series of bizarre shows and experiencing multiple near-disasters, Alex and Jim's persistence takes them on a true coming-of-age journey
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-21
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Things I Never Told You
Overview: Don is a real estate salesman who volunteers at a "hotline for hope". Ann, who works in a photo store, has been told by her boyfriend that he doesn't love her anymore and wants to break up. To try to win him back, she records a videotape where she tells him things she never told him. When Don and Ann cross paths, their lives change fundamentally.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-24
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Diggity: A Home at Last
Overview: Raymond is the family black sheep, relying on handouts from his half-brother, Otis. He's lost his job, his apartment, and all his confidence until word comes that he has inherited an English countryside property. Otis gladly purchases a one-way ticket for the new "Lord of the Manor". Except Raymond discovers his inheritance is no manor house, but a small, crumbling stone church that's the center of a scheme by the village scrooge, Malcolm Slee, in his frantic search for a valuable chest of gold hidden in the village by King Charles at the end of the English Civil War. Raymond initially accepts Slee's offer to purchase the church, but has second thoughts when he learns from the local Bed & Breakfast owner Rachel that a family with children lives on the property. As Raymond and Rachel begin to bond, Raymond is singled out by a mysterious young orphan named Diggity, who believes that if he helps Raymond find his way in life, he will earn his wings as an angel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-22
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Escape Clause
Overview: A man finds out that his wife has paid $10,000 to have him killed. Then both the would-be killer and the wife turn up dead ...
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-14
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Come Dance with Me
Overview: Jack is an executive in a financial brokerage firm trying to impress the firm’s president, Drew Clayton, in hopes of a promotion. However, Jack is dating the fabulously rich and elegant Demi Clayton, who happens to be Drew’s daughter. Although Demi’s mother Clarisse doesn’t necessarily approve of Jack and would prefer her daughter to date a man within their social circle, Jack still plans on proposing. Trying to create the perfect proposal, Jack signs up for dance lessons in preparation for his proposal to Demi at her father’s lavish annual Christmas Dance. But when sparks start to fly between Jack and his dance instructor, Christine, Jack will have to make some important decisions before it is too late.
Genres: Family Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-08
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A Father for Brittany
Overview: Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes when Kim dies of cancer in the middle of the adoption process, leaving Keith to fight for Brittany's custody alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-15
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A Storm in Summer
Overview: Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly against his slacker nephew Stanley who lives behind the shop. Without telling his uncle, Stanley agrees to put up a needy city kid for the summer as part of a charity program run by rich debutante Gloria. Abel immediately vetoes the plan, but it is too late. The kid, young Herman Washington, is already on his way...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-18
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The Beniker Gang
Overview: When his younger friends go up for adoption, threatening their extended family, an orphaned teen helps them discourage potential parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-02
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Getting In
Overview: Gabriel Higgs has failed to get into Johns Hopkins to study medicine. He's sixth on a list of backup candidates, and must persuade the five people ahead of him to drop out. Gabriel has a family tradition to live up to. Things don't go to plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-07
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Waiting for the Moon
Overview: Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-15
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The Courtyard
Overview: Architect Jonathan moves into an LA courtyard apartment complex; then one of his neighbors is murdered ... by mistake ... Jonathan was the intended victim!
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-24
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A Twist of Faith
Overview: Vancouver Police Detective Henry Smith is one of those investigating the murder of Roman Catholic Father Martin, who was crucified in his own church.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-28
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Perfect Assassins
Overview: When deadly terrorists strike, an FBI man, who is an expert on terrorist mentality, hunts their twisted "creator," who may be connected with a disgraced professor from his past.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-13
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Anything But Love
Overview: A corporate lawyer is caught in a love triangle with an ambitious cabaret singer.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-14
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2BPerfectlyHonest
Overview: Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has a son, is forced to consider the unthinkable - getting a real job.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-05-02
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National Lampoon's Snatched
Overview: A nice guy goes into the hospital for surgery and through a series of mishaps suffers every man's worst nightmare.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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I'm Losing You
Overview: A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-16
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Dead Funny
Overview: When her practical joker boyfriend dies, a young woman recalls all the pranks he pulled as she tries to figure out who murdered him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-21
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Everything Relative
Overview: Old college chums get together for a weekend reunion that is bound to open old wounds and perhaps heal them. New romances find a spark while old ones rekindle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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BRATS
Overview: In the 1980s, Andrew McCarthy was part of a young generation of actors who were set to take over Hollywood after a string of successful teen movies. However, when the New York magazine cover story in 1985 dubs them the Brat Pack, stars in the making suddenly find themselves losing control over the trajectory of their careers. Now, almost forty years later, McCarthy looks to reconnect with peers and co-stars so that together they can reflect on their respective legacies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-07
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Common Pursuit
Overview: Common Pursuit is a play by Simon Gray which follows the lives of six characters who first meet as undergraduates at Cambridge University when they are involved in setting up a literary magazine called The Common Pursuit.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-09
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Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Overview: Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-04
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Kingdom Hospital
Overview: Stephen King's take on the masterpiece series by Lars von Trier. The story takes place in a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, built on the site of a Civil War-era mill fire in which many children died.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-03
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Fate
Overview: It takes a minute to find a special person and a entire lifetime to forget them. After a rescue mission gone wrong, a firefighter connects with a super natural visitor while rehabilitating at a sanitarium and is transported through time to find the only thing saving his soul, is his realization of true love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2026-02-14
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Orion
Overview: A U.S. Intelligence expert questions an amnesiac astronaut to uncover what killed his crew before their crash landing on Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
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New Waterford Girl
Overview: A gifted teenager, dreaming of life beyond her small town, becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-12
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Finding Julia
Overview: An acting student is haunted by the early death of her mother.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-19
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Stag
Overview: An accidental death at a bachelor party spurs a night of shooting, kidnapping and murder in the host's home.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-01
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Nowhere in Sight
Overview: A young woman defends her life against two intruding criminals.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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