Annabelle Gurwitch
Also Known As: Annabelle Gurwich, Anabelle Gurwitch, Annabele Gurwitch
Biography: Annabelle Gurwitch is a New York Times Bestselling author, actress, and television host. Her most recent book is Wherever You Go, There They Are: Stories About My Family You Might Relate to (Penguin Random House), in which Gurwitch writes stories inspired by her hilariously dysfunctional childhood. Other books: I See You Made an Effort, (Penguin Random House) was a Thurber Prize for American Humor Writing Finalist and a New York Times Bestseller; You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up (Random House), and Fired! (Simon and Schuster), premiered as a Showtime Comedy Special. Co-host of the popular Dinner & a Movie on TBS, she's written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, amongst other publications and was a regular commentator for NPR's All Things Considered. Gurwitch is adapting Wherever You Go, There They Are for Janollari Entertainment and NBC. She adapted I See You Made an Effort with Liz Tuccillo and producer Sarah Condon for F/X, and You Say Tomato, I Say Shut up with Jeff Kahn, for Lifetime.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mobile, Alabama, USA
Birthday: November 04, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Shaggy Dog
Overview: The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-09
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Masterminds
Overview: A rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the students at his prestigious private school hostage.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-22
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Melvin Goes to Dinner
Overview: Marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizards jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, and how it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-04
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The Cable Guy
Overview: When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the 'friendship', Chip shows his dark side. He begins stalking Steven, who's left to fend for himself because no one else can believe Chip's capable of such behaviour.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-10
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Three Wishes
Overview: While Jane Holman is driving with her two sons, she accidentally runs into a drifter, Jack McCloud, who breaks his leg. Being responsible, Jane invites Jack, and his dog, to stay at her home until his leg has healed. Jack struggles to adapt their lifestyle, and finds himself loved by the family.
Genres: Fantasy Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-27
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Atlas Shrugged: Part I
Overview: A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
Genres: Drama Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-14
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Not Like Us
Overview: A sexy, horror-filled story featuring two gorgeous aliens who move into a small American town.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-15
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Intimate Betrayal
Overview: Two old friends reunite before a wedding to put the sins of their past behind them. What starts out as an evening of reconciliation turns into a night of sex and betrayal. A woman once again comes between them - one friend sets up another.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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A Buddy Story
Overview: Buddy Gilbert (Gavin Bellour) is a struggling musician living in NYC. He spends his days touring the northeast with his pet turtle, playing community centers, dive bars and coffee shops because, he says, it beats a 9-to-5. One day, Buddy overhears his neighbor Susan (Elisabeth Moss) get in a particularly bad argument with her boyfriend and, although he barely knows her, he finds himself taking her out for some cheer-me-up ice cream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Encino Woman
Overview: After thawing, a young prehistoric woman, Lucy, gets herself taken care of by David, a young intern at a marketing firm. Working on a campaign ad for a cosmetics company, David becomes Mr. Bigshot when his protégé is chosen to be the model/spokeswoman for her animal personality.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-04-20
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Love-Struck
Overview: Two years after her last failed relationship, Emily Vale has stopped believing in love. This brings her to the attention of Venus who sends her son Cupid down to Earth to pierce her with an arrow in the hope of changing her mind. Unfortunately, the handsome but hapless Cupid misses and the arrow strikes his own heart making him fall hopelessly in love with Emily. Thus he is granted temporary leave from paradise in order to pursue her. However, not only does he have a limited time on Earth, but also Emily's last boyfriend, the handsome but sleazy Ted has just shown up intent on winning her back. Which one will Emily choose? And is she ready to open her heart and accept love into her life once more?
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-31
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The Medicine Show
Overview: A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-10
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The 4th Tenor
Overview: A restaurant owner falls in love with an opera singer and, desperate to impress her, travels to Italy to learn how to sing.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-03
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Ambulance
Overview: Decorated veteran Will Sharp, desperate for money to cover his wife's medical bills, asks for help from his adoptive brother Danny. A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-16
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Teach 109
Overview: In the future, surgeons practice their skill on androids designed to imitate patients, but Dr. Garrett sees this as pointless since she cares little about fake robotic patients. However, her latest patient Teach 109 changes her mind.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Tower
Overview: A mix-up with a security card causes a malevolent building to try and kill an employee on his first day at work.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-16
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Automatic
Overview: Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks. But one night, an Automatic named J269 discovers a Robgen executive trying to rape a female employee named Nora Rochester. While trying to stop the crime, he inadvertently kills the executive. At this point, J269 then calls Goddard Marx (his creator and a Robgen chairman) to inform him of the incident. Marx tells the android to stay there with Rochester until help arrives, but Marx is intent on sweeping the fiasco under the rug by sending mercenaries to eliminate both J269 and Rochester. Now the two are fugitives on the run from a para-military hit squad.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-08
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Moola
Overview: Just as the business which Steve helped create, American Lightsticks, is on the brink of collapse, a huge 'deal' suddenly materializes, and he and his partners are sure that their lives have changed forever. A true-to-life comedy inspired by actual events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-20
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MouseHunt
Overview: Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is worth millions. Before they can cash in, they have to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant—a tiny and tenacious mouse.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-19
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TV-Dad
Overview: TV-Dad has never had a family of his own, and when he finds out that he is going to die, he creates TV-Dad, a series of videotapes that contain his fatherly and husbandly advice in actions. Follow Judy when she purchases the TV-Dad video services and has a child with it as we watch how her life plays out.
Genres: Science Fiction Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-24
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ManFast
Overview: 4 women fast from men for 100 days. No talking to, no touching of, no flirting with, and above all: no sex with men. When $1 million is offered to the first man who can break the fast, all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Bright Lights, Big City
Overview: A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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Delivery Boys
Overview: A gang of boys under the Brooklyn Bridge are united by their common interest in break dancing. Some work as pizza delivery boys, hence they call themselves the "Delivery Boys". They form a dance team and enter a local break dance contest, sponsored by a woman's panty manufacturer. A rival gang's sponsor intimidates their employer into thinking she must keep the boys working so they won't be harmed. She gives the boys some "specialized" deliveries to make them late for the contest. The antics and calamities abound as the boys wrestle with her work assignments and getting to the contest on time.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-02
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'Til There Was You
Overview: Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-30
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Kiss Daddy Goodnight
Overview: At night, baby-face Laura dresses up as a vamp and lets random guys at bars pick her up, just to drug and rob them later. But then someone starts stalking her, and a person close to her is killed.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-29
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Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick
Overview: Just Like That: A receptionist in a large firm cheats on her voyeuristic lover with a delivery boy who has a crush on her. Another Woman's Lipstick: A young wife discovers lipstick on her husband's collar. She follows him, meets his mistress, and has a lesbian fling with her. Talk To Me, Baby: A man caught cheating in a bar by his wife admits his past dalliances on the drive home, which gets his wife aroused.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-16
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Daddy Day Care
Overview: Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-09
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Pollock
Overview: In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-06
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One Night Stand
Overview: In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat run-ins with a beautiful woman, Karen, and eventually sleeps with her. Though he goes home the next day and doesn't return until a year later, Carlyle's infidelity still lingers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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Pizza Man
Overview: When someone orders a pizza, Elmo the pizza man uncovers a government conspiracy and will stop at nothing to get his $15.23
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920
Overview: On summer break from college, Indy stage-manages a new Broadway musical revue composed by George Gershwin. Indy also trades quips with the razor wits of the famed Algonquin Round Table - when not soothing temperamental stars, worrying over suspicious backstage malfunctions, and romancing three women simultaneously.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-02
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Life with Mikey
Overview: Michael Chapman, a former child TV star, runs a struggling talent agency specilizing in child acts. When a young girl off the street puts on a real performance after he catches her picking his pocket, he may have just found the next big thing.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-04
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Goosed
Overview: Sheltered rich girl Charlene has an over-protective mother who insists that her daughter should marry a rich doctor. After Charlene's psychic predicts that her future lover is named Steven, she heads to L.A. to search for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-28
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Fired!
Overview: When actress Annabelle Gurwitch was fired from a play by Woody Allen, she wondered how she would cope with being downsized by a cultural icon. Turning to friends in show business, she was assured she was not alone. Everyone she knew, from her rabbi to her gynaecologist, had their own account of getting the boot. Featuring interviews with comedians, economists and regular working folks, and drawing on her hugely popular book, Fired! is a humorous look at downsizing in America.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-05
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Chance of a Lifetime
Overview: Since the death of her husband 10 years ago, Evelyn has been working hard for her company, but had no private life. Now her doctor shocks her with the news that she may live only another 6 months. Spontanely she follows a TV ad and sets out for vacation in Mexico. There she meets widower Lloyd and they fall in love, go bungee jumping... until she gets another diagnosis from her doctor.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-18
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Changing Habits
Overview: An aspiring artist runs from men as a result of an early life problem that has left her relationship with her father strained. She decides to move into a convent where troubled women receive cheap lodging in exchange for work. She finds a dirty area in the basement where she paints a mural that deals with all of her psychological problems. While some find it gaudy, others such as the mother superior realizes its potential to save the convent which is to be closed. During all this the artist starts a relationship with a man who owns an art supply shop where she shop-lifts her supplies. Written by John Sacksteder
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-20
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Cadillac
Overview: Three friends experimented with acid in high school, Jimmy had a terrible acid trip that ended in a stint in a psychiatric hospital. Afterwards he spends his days restoring a 1970 Cadillac and clinging to long-gone ideals, while his two friends try to get on with their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
Overview: A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-13
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Your Mother Wears Combat Boots
Overview: An overprotective single mother tries to stop her son joining the parachute unit by sending him to the college, fearful that he may end up his life like his father did. He secretly leaves the college and joins the army, but the mother finds out and makes a bet with him that if she passes the basic training, he will leave the unit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-27
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Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
Overview: Billy Collier is a photographer working on a series of pictures featuring recreations of movie kisses, with drag queens playing the female roles. For his male model, he hires Gabriel, a young waiter on whom he has developed a serious crush. While Billy is openly gay, Gabriel says that he is straight and even claims to have a girlfriend. However, as they spend more time together and grow closer, Billy becomes increasingly unsure that this is true.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-24
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Teddy Bears' Picnic
Overview: In Harry Shearer's tongue-in-cheek comedy, a waiter at Zanbesu Glen (a chi-chi Northern California resort) uses his movie camera to spy on the annual communal vacation of a group of rich, white U.S. government and business leaders who drink and carouse to excess while plotting their next move on the global stage. His goal? To sell the embarrassing and incriminating footage to the media and expose the "leaders" for what they really are.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-29
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It's Us
Overview: A volatile young married couple moves from Los Angeles to Vermont in search of a geographical marriage fix.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-05
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