Albert Finney
Also Known As: Альберт Финни, آلبرت فینی
Biography: Albert Finney (May 9, 1936 – February 7, 2019) was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s, debuting with The Entertainer (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in the theatre. He maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television. He is known for his roles in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (also 1960), Tom Jones (1963), Two for the Road (1967), Scrooge (1970), Annie (1982), The Dresser (1983), Miller's Crossing (1990), A Man of No Importance (1994), Erin Brockovich (2000), Big Fish (2003), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), The Bourne Legacy (2012), and the James Bond film Skyfall (2012). A recipient of BAFTA , Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild awards, Finney was nominated for an Academy Award five times, as Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones (1963), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Dresser (1983), and Under the Volcano (1984), and as Best Supporting Actor for Erin Brockovich (2000). He received several awards for his performance as Winston Churchill in the 2002 BBC–HBO television biographical film The Gathering Storm. Description above from the Wikipedia article Albert Finney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: May 09, 1936
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 07, 2019
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Ocean's Twelve
Overview: Despite pulling off one of the biggest heists in Las Vegas history and splitting the $160 million take, each of the infamous Ocean's crew have tried to go straight, lay low and live a legit life ... but that's proven to be a challenge. Casino owner Terry Benedict demands that Danny Ocean return the money, plus millions more in interest. Unable to come up the cash, the crew is forced to come together to pull off another series of heists, this time in Rome, Paris, and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-09
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Miller's Crossing
Overview: Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-21
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Erin Brockovich
Overview: A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-17
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Big Fish
Overview: Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-25
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The Victors
Overview: Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-22
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The Bourne Ultimatum
Overview: Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-03
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Corpse Bride
Overview: In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-12
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Murder on the Orient Express
Overview: In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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Looker
Overview: Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-30
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Two for the Road
Overview: Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship, and of road trips through the French countryside. As flirtation and playful quarreling turn to boredom with the banality of married life, the Wallaces struggle to rekindle their passion, while mutual infidelity threatens to tear them apart.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-27
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Tom Jones
Overview: Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
Genres: Comedy Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-24
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Overview: When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-26
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Orphans
Overview: Brothers Treat and Philip have only had each other since they were kids, when a small-time criminal abruptly upends their routine lives.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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Delivering Milo
Overview: A guardian angel has 24 hours to convince a soul that life on Earth is worth the effort.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-04
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A Good Year
Overview: Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-09
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Breakfast of Champions
Overview: A millionaire car salesman who runs the biggest dealership in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is a celebrity, loved and trusted by everyone. Then one day, he wakes up and realizes that his life is a total mess! But between the headaches posed by his pill-popping wife, a mistress who won't leave him alone, and a cross-dressing sales manager, Dwayne has picked a bad week for a midlife crisis.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-18
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Gumshoe
Overview: A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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Scrooge
Overview: A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-05
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Under the Volcano
Overview: Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-20
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The Dresser
Overview: In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-06
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The Playboys
Overview: A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-22
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The Gathering Storm
Overview: A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-22
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Amazing Grace
Overview: The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-16
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Overview: A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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Skyfall
Overview: When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, it's up to Bond, aided only by field agent Eve, to locate the mastermind behind the attack.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-24
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Annie
Overview: An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is selected. While Annie gets accustomed to living in Warbucks' mansion, she still longs to meet her parents. So Warbucks announces a search for them and a reward, which brings out many frauds.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-21
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Washington Square
Overview: Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only because of her inheritence.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin
Overview: A global television broadcast of the event in which former Pink Floyd leader singer and composer Roger Waters led an all-star cast in a mammoth benefit performance of his acclaimed concept album, The Wall. Set in Berlin, Germany less than a year after the destruction of the hated Berlin Wall, Waters was accompanied by disparate talents such as Cyndi Lauper, James Galway, Joni Mitchell and Albert Finney in the classic dark musical tale of a rock star's descent into madness and back.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-21
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A Rather English Marriage
Overview: A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival of an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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The Bourne Legacy
Overview: New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-08
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The Browning Version
Overview: Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire for 'health reasons', and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justification. His unfaithful wife Laura tries to hurt him in any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and at least regain his own self-esteem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-08
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The Entertainer
Overview: Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-25
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The Duellists
Overview: In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-31
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Simpatico
Overview: As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-15
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Alpha Beta
Overview: E. A. Whitehead adapted the script of Alpha Beta from his own play. Albert Finney is cast as "The Man," while Rachel Roberts plays "The Woman." The rest of the film remains in this pretentious vein, as we watch Finney and Roberts' marriage crumble before our eyes. One suspects that they might have patched things up had they ignored Whitehead's florid prose. Alpha Beta is salvaged dramatically by the dynamic performances of its stars, who far outshine the material.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-04
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Shoot the Moon
Overview: After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-22
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A Man of No Importance
Overview: Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-24
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Night Must Fall
Overview: A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleasant results for all.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-18
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The Image
Overview: When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own methods and life in general.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-27
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Charlie Bubbles
Overview: Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-11
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Loophole
Overview: When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.
Genres: Crime Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-25
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Rich in Love
Overview: Warren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves him unexpectedly. With Helen gone, Warren's kindhearted teenage daughter, Lucille, cares for him and tries to cheer him up. Warren slowly starts to recover, and begins a relationship with another woman, Vera Delmage. However, his life is complicated when his older daughter, Rae, arrives in town pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-04
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The Run of the Country
Overview: An Irish lad who fled from his oppressive, widowed father falls for a girl from an affluent family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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Observations Under the Volcano
Overview: Documentary on the making of the movie Under the Volcano.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-03
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Notes from Under the Volcano
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-09
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Uncovering Wolfen
Overview: After the huge financial and cultural success of WOODSTOCK (1970), filmmaker and political activist Michael Wadleigh spent many years in Hollywood writing scripts that were never produced. However, WOLFEN (1981), his only other major motion picture, was. After that he would never complete another feature film again. This is the story of that film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-02
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Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Overview: Audrey Hepburn was one of the movies' best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant sophistication and an enduring aura of youthful innocence. As Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, she spoke for the world's suffering children and families, earning an affection and admiration that only increased with news of her untimely death. From the star herself we learn of her career and the family and friendships that were her priority.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-11
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The Picasso Summer
Overview: A San Francisco couple travels to France in search of Pablo Picasso.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-08
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Pope John Paul II
Overview: Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-22
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Traffic
Overview: An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-27
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The Endless Game
Overview: A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events from his own past to determine who killed them and why.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-20
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The Biko Inquest
Overview: Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important leading men of the South African anti-apartheid movement, Steven Biko.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-01
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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Overview: After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes... and exposed backsides.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-14
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Wolfen
Overview: A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-24
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Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
Overview: An in-depth look into the making of the film Annie (1982). It covers the adaptation changes from the original Broadway musical, the hiring of director John Huston, the nationwide search to cast the title role, the production process, and the conception of several musical numbers, including a different version of the song "Easy Street" than the one that ended up in the film.
Genres: Documentary Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-07
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Jason Bourne
Overview: The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-27
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