Rick Roberts
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Biography: Richard Charles Roberts (born November 13, 1965) is a Canadian film, TV and stage actor. His most substantial role to date is as Donald D'Arby in the series Traders, for which he was nominated for a Gemini Award. He moved briefly to Los Angeles in 1998 appearing in the CBS series L.A. Doctors alongside Ken Olin and Sheryl Lee. He returned to Canada to star in An American in Canada, which ran for two seasons. In 2012, he was tapped to play Jack Layton in the CBC biopic Jack, alongside Sook-Yin Lee as Olivia Chow. His portrayal of Jack garnered him a Canadian Screen Award and an ACTRA Award for Best Actor. Other work includes guest starring roles on Saving Hope (CTV/NBC), Copper (BBC America), Cracked (CBC), Republic of Doyle (CBC), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Cra$h & Burn (Showcase), Haven (SyFy), ZOS (Whizbang Films), and was featured regularly in the hit CBC series, This is Wonderland. As a writer, his work Mimi (which he co-wrote with Allan Cole and Melody Johnson) premiered at The Tarragon Theatre and was nominated for a Dora Award. His play Kite premiered to critical acclaim earning numerous Dora Award nominations for writing and production. Other writing credits include Nod (Theatre Gargantua) and Fish/Wife (Tarragon Theatre).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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The Note
Overview: Following a tragic plane crash, newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder happens upon a hastily-written note that was from one of the passengers onboard. She makes it her mission to deliver it to its intended recipient by Christmas, bringing her readers along for the ride.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-08
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Pontypool
Overview: When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the virus and its unlikely mode of transmission.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-06
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Man of the Year
Overview: The irreverent host of a political satire talk show decides to run for president and expose corruption in Washington. His stunt goes further than he expects when he actually wins the election, but a software engineer suspects that a computer glitch is responsible for his surprising victory.
Genres: Comedy Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-09
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A Town Without Christmas
Overview: In the small town of Seacliff, Wash., a child's letter to Santa Claus captures the nation's attention. When the little boy, Chris, writes that he wishes to leave this world so he will no longer be a burden to his divorcing parents, a race begins to find him before he harms himself.
Genres: TV Movie Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-16
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Love & Human Remains
Overview: In a Canadian metropolis, failed actor David shares a place with the bookish Candy, whom he dated before coming out as gay. While David, who now waits tables, pursues an aimless romance with a younger coworker, Candy dabbles in both same-sex and heterosexual affairs. As David and Candy's odd assortment of friends — including a telepathic sex worker and an ill-tempered yuppie — pass in and out of their beds, a serial murder stalks the city's women.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-22
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The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
Overview: When Santa sets off on his Christmas duties a day early, crashes into the Fox family's house, ends up with amnesia and loses his magic sack of presents, he needs help! But the Fox family are a modern and broken family. Can they help him? The parents are preoccupied with work and the kids aren't very festive. But it's up to them to help Santa find his magical bag of toys and the clock is ticking or Christmas will be ruined. Forced to set their own problems aside and work together the Fox family rediscover how much they enjoy being together and realise that maybe they need to reprioritise their lives. The Night Before The Night Before Christmas is a crazy Christmas fantasy for all the family, brimming with festive spirit.
Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-20
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Student Seduction
Overview: Christie Dawson always wanted to be the "cool" teacher. But her world is shaken up after a pupil's crush spirals out of control and he sexually assaults her. Suddenly, her colleagues, neighbors and even her hubby are wondering whether she crossed the line and tempted her student. But school isn't out for Christine just yet she's gonna fight back, and big time!
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-05
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Foxfire
Overview: Set in the 1950s, a a group of young girls in upstate New York form their own gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-02
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Jonestown: Paradise Lost
Overview: Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a documentary on the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple, and Jim Jones. From eyewitness and survivor accounts, it recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-15
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Still Mine
Overview: Craig, a fiercely determined New Brunswick farmer, sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife, Irene, despite their children's concerns. As he starts building, he is blindsided by the bureaucratic codes and officials. As Irene becomes increasingly ill, Craig fights back. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-10
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More Sex & the Single Mom
Overview: Single, divorced lawyer Jess Gradwell returns in this sequel as she tries to raise her new three-year-old son, Jake, while dealing with her teenage daughter, Sara's, growing carnal desires with a photographer she meets while planning her high school graduation. It all comes to a head when Jess' former flame and father of Jake, Alex Lofton, returns never knowing he has a son out of his and Jess' lustful fling and wants to be a part of her life again, despite Jess not wanting anything to do with Alex.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-07
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Matters of Life & Dating
Overview: Linda Dackman has been diagnosed with breast cancer, but this does not prevent her from seeing the positive side of life and continuing her quest for Prince Charming.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-10-22
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Night Of Terror
Overview: A bonding family weekend turns sinister in a storm.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-26
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Descent
Overview: When cracks in the Earth's crust large enough to swallow a city block appear, a team of scientists must go deep into the Earth to find a way to stop the destruction.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-20
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Jack
Overview: NDP Leader Jack Layton was fluently bilingual, glib, sometimes flashy, full of energy and always media-friendly. He loved to entertain and uplift his co-workers with a strum on his guitar and spirit in his voice (which wasn't particularly good but he sang with gusto). Growing up in a political family, Layton was a left-wing Toronto city councillor for 17 years and spent a year as head of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. He became leader of the federal New Democratic Party in 2003... The NDP became the Official Opposition for the first time in history. Going into the 2011 federal election... Written by (STAFF)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-10
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Relax, I'm From The Future
Overview: Percy Sullivan's suicide attempt gets interrupted by a man claiming to be from the future.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-10
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Haunting Sarah
Overview: A mother dealing with the death of her young son learns that her niece is in contact with his spirit.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-02
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North of Albany
Overview: Annie frantically flees Montreal for the US with her young son, Felix and teenage daughter, Sarah, fearing the repercussions after Sarah severely injures her school bully. When their car breaks down just outside a small town in the Adirondacks, the family is stranded. Paul, a single father and the town's lone mechanic, isn't able to fix the car until the following week. Annie's stubborn insistence to leave town at all costs comes head-to-head with Paul's unwillingness to give in. When Sarah realizes that her secret is out in the open, she runs away, forcing Annie and Paul to join forces to find her. When Paul's traumatic past is revealed, Annie realizes that she is not the only one running and comes to terms with facing the music.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-12-02
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Phantom Punch
Overview: From his discovery by a priest while serving time at the Missouri State Penitentiary to the infamous 'Phantom Punch' by Cassius Clay which effectively ended his career, the movie spans the years from 1950 to Liston's mysterious and untimely death in 1971.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-01
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Salem Falls
Overview: A man with a troubled past tries to settle down in a small town, finds love and then ends up being the target of a witch hunt.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-19
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Overview: Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on the shores of Lake Wissanotti with its notoriously leaky holiday steamer. It is a town similar to many other small towns in Canada with its odd assortment of residents.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-12
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Pete's Christmas
Overview: An overlooked middle child finds himself in the unexpected spotlight when he realizes his family's terrible Christmas day keeps repeating. As the only one experiencing the day over and over, he decides to use his unique gift to give the holidays a makeover and his family a Christmas they will never forget.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-16
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The Man in the Attic
Overview: Fact-based drama, set in 1910 Milwaukee, about an older married woman, bored with her husband, and her dead son's friend she takes as a lover and hides in her attic over the next two decades -- an affair that ends in murder.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-10
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The Haunting of Lisa
Overview: A precocious youngster's visions of a mysterious woman and a series of child murders leads her mom to seek help from the authorities.
Genres: Horror Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-10
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Killer Crush
Overview: Paige's crush on her professor takes a twisted turn when she is hired to be the caregiver for his wife who has Multiple Sclerosis.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-04
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Zoom
Overview: A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-11
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The Town Christmas Forgot
Overview: An urban family that can’t seem to get along gets stranded in a remote, impoverished lumber town two days before Christmas. When they become involved in the town’s home-grown Christmas pageant, they not only help solve the town’s problems but learn to connect with each other just in time for the holidays.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-25
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As Time Runs Out
Overview: A wealthy man races against time to save his kidnapped son whose abductor left him with a bomb set to detonate.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-06
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Passage
Overview: With a unique blend of dramatic action and behind-the-scenes documentary footage, filmmaker John Walker shares the multi-layered story of British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men, who perished in the Arctic ice during an ill-fated attempt to discover the Northwest Passage, and John Rae, the Scottish doctor who in 1851, discovered their dismal fate. Rae's dark report, which described the crew’s madness and cannibalism, did not sit well with Sir John's widow, Lady Franklin, nor with many others in British society, including Charles Dickens. They waged a bitter public campaign to discredit Rae's version of events and mark an entire nation of northern Inuit with the label of murderous cannibals. A stunning face-to-face meeting between the great-great grandson of Charles Dickens and Tagak Curley, an honoured Inuit statesman who challenges the fraudulent history, vaults the story from the past into the present and we are witness to history in the making.
Genres: History Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-03
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Fallen Angel
Overview: When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate. Yet something indescribable keeps him there longer than expected. Soon, he is reunited with memories and people from his past and his life is changed forever.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-23
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Eloise at Christmastime
Overview: Eloise is a precocious but lovable six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel. The owner's daughter is getting married, but Eloise discovers that the fiance has devious plans to defraud kind Rachel! When her true love is revealed to be none other than Eloise's best friend Bill who works in the kitchen, Eloise goes on a mission to bring about a Christmas miracle and get the starcrossed lovers back together.. will things work out in time for a happy holiday ending?
Genres: Family Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-22
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The Rivalry: Red v. Blue
Overview: It's college basketball's ultimate rivalry: The Louisville Cardinals vs. the Kentucky Wildcats. This documentary weaves current events, including the schools trading national championships in 2012 and 2013, with the intriguing history of the matchup.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-27
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Plague City: SARS in Toronto
Overview: The once clean and healthy city of Toronto becomes the pariah of the western world when a deadly chain of infection lands in the city. Panic spreads as the number of SARS cases increases as there are no effective treatments.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-29
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The Riverbank
Overview: A woman returns to her hometown following the death of her fathers second wife, which leads her to uncover dark family secrets.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-06
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When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
Overview: Based on the true story of the enduring but troubled love between Lois Wilson, co-founder of Al-Anon, and her alcoholic husband Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-25
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Shades of Black: The Conrad Black Story
Overview: A story of ambition, love, betrayal and greed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-04
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The Light Before the Sun
Overview: A famous self-help guru returns from a book tour to a house suddenly filled with an estranged friend. The two friends then spiral into a drug-induced contemplation of the human condition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-26
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Time to Say Goodbye?
Overview: A doctor suffering from Alzheimer's wishes to end his life, causing a severe rift in the family, with each side convinced they have the father's best interests at heart.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-01
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Moonshine Highway
Overview: The plans of a moonshine runner trying to make a better life by becoming a stock car racer go awry when the local sheriff is determined to kill the driver over an affair with his wife.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-05
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Cymbeline
Overview: Cymbeline's daughter, Innogen, is thrust into the world of court politics and ruthless personal ambitions when she chooses a lover beneath her station. Deceived by the dastardly Iachimo, Innogen must fight to protect her honour and agency.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-19
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