John Mahoney
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Biography: Charles John Mahoney (June 20, 1940 – February 4, 2018) was an English-American actor. He played retired police officer Martin Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier from 1993 to 2004, receiving nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards. After moving from England to the United States, Mahoney began his career in Chicago as a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He earned the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in the 1986 Broadway revival of John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves, and went on to achieve wider recognition for his roles in the films Suspect and Moonstruck (both 1987). Other notable credits included Tin Men (1987), Frantic, Eight Men Out (both 1988), Say Anything... (1989), Barton Fink (1991), Striking Distance, In the Line of Fire (both 1993), Reality Bites (1994), The American President (1995), Primal Fear (1996), and The Broken Hearts Club (2000). He also voiced roles in animated films such as Antz (1998), The Iron Giant (1999), and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Mahoney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Birthday: June 20, 1940
Deathday: February 04, 2018
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Gender: Male
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Barton Fink
Overview: A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-01
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Say Anything...
Overview: Lloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student. He surprises just about everyone-including himself-when she returns the sentiment. But Diane's over-possessive, divorced Dad disapproves and it's going to take more than just the power of love to conquer all.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-14
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Moonstruck
Overview: 37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-16
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The Russia House
Overview: Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Primal Fear
Overview: An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a third person in the room.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-06
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The Iron Giant
Overview: In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.
Genres: Family Animation Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-06
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Reality Bites
Overview: A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize that reality isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-18
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Tin Men
Overview: A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-06
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Overview: The world's most highly qualified crew of archaeologists and explorers is led by historian Milo Thatch as they board the incredible 1,000-foot submarine Ulysses and head deep into the mysteries of the sea. The underwater expedition takes an unexpected turn when the team's mission must switch from exploring Atlantis to protecting it.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-02
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Striking Distance
Overview: Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted to water-way duty Tom, along with new partner Jo Christman, navigate the three rivers looking for clues and discovering bodies. This time the victims are women Tom knows, he must find the killer to prove his innocence.
Genres: Crime Action Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
Overview: A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood and professional success. At various stages of life's disarray, these young men share humorous and tragic relationships and always have each other to rely on.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-01
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Betrayed
Overview: An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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The Hudsucker Proxy
Overview: A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-11
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Dan in Real Life
Overview: Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love with is actually his brother's new girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-26
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Article 99
Overview: Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-13
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Antz
Overview: A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-02
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The American President
Overview: Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-17
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Trapped In Silence
Overview: A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-11
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Suspect
Overview: When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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Kronk's New Groove
Overview: Kronk, now chef and Head Delivery Boy of Mudka's Meat Hut, is fretting over the upcoming visit of his father. Kronk's father always disapproved of young Kronk's culinary interests and wished that Kronk instead would settle down with a wife and a large house on a hill.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-05
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Eight Men Out
Overview: Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-02
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Flipped
Overview: When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-06
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Will: G. Gordon Liddy
Overview: Based on the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy who spent 54 months in prison following the Watergate scandal.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-10
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Buying a Landslide
Overview: Republican Senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky in rehearsals is Michael Tyne, ex Democrat turned Republican. But Tyne is alarmed by an unexpected twist in the Partin campaign and reacts in devastating fashion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-02
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The Water Engine
Overview: In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously low amount. When he refuses, he is suddenly several people are pressuring him to sell. The big oil companies don't want the competition. Now he has to try and keep them from getting his idea, and somehow get it published.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-24
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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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Unnatural Pursuits
Overview: An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Love Hurts
Overview: The story of Paul Weaver and his strained relationships with women and his family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-19
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The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton
Overview: The new DA of a small town is given the job of prosecuting the alleged murderer of a stripper. Unfortunately, his own father is in charge of the defense. To make matters worse, both attorneys are in love with the wife of the accused.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-04
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Frantic
Overview: The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-19
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Almost Salinas
Overview: Life takes a strange turn when a group of outsiders come to the small town of Cholame, the famed site of James Dean's fatal car crash. Cholame's only business, a diner owned by Max (John Mahoney), is overrun by this glamorous group while the diner's short order cook (Ian Gomez) and waitress (Virginia Madsen) get caught up into this new, exciting world. Unknown to the rest, a magazine reporter (Linda Emond) arrives in town to uncover a dark secret that Max has kept hidden for over forty years.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-01
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The Manhattan Project
Overview: Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-13
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The Making of 'The Iron Giant'
Overview: Documentary of the making of the animated family film, The Iron Giant.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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She's the One
Overview: Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fiance Heather is Francis's secret love. Though both brothers have beautiful wives, Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-26
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Atlantis: Milo's Return
Overview: Milo and Kida reunite with their friends to investigate strange occurances around the world that seem to have links to the secrets of Atlantis.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Science Fiction Family Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-25
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First Steps
Overview: Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new research by Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, about using external electric stimulations to enable paralyzed people to use their frozen muscles. She enters the research as a test subject and gets her reward when she walks up to receive her college diploma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-19
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The Groomsmen
Overview: Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with his groomsmen. Brother Jimbo, cousin Mike, and his pals fill the reunion with drinking, boys-will-be-boys antics and a few unexpected personal confessions. But, when the bonding devolves into accusations and regret, Paulie has to decide whether he's ready to tie the knot and take this big step into adulthood.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-09
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The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
Overview: A documentary about how the critically acclaimed film wound up being a box office disappointment, only to become regarded as a classic over a decade after its initial release.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-06
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In the Line of Fire
Overview: Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-08
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Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
Overview: A star-studded tribute to Star Trek on its 30th anniversary, hosted by many of the stars and guest stars from all of the Trek series and movies. Also features a huge number of clips from all of the series and movies. At the end, real-life astronauts Aldrin and Jemison present NASA award plaques to the cast members.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-06
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Intimate Enemies
Overview: Life on the savannah of southern Tanzania is a study in contrast between rainy and dry seasons. When water is abundant, the wildebeest at the rivers provide food for the lion population, while the buffalo graze contentedly on the succulent grasses in the hills. The two great adversaries -- lion and buffalo -- can keep their distance. Intimate Enemies is a film about the relationship between these two great animals as a drought forces them into a titanic battle
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-17
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A Hard Rain
Overview: A Hard Rain is the story of a revenge killing in a small Pacific NW island community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-11
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Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter
Overview: Frasier Crane visits his therapist and reminisces over the events of the past 11 years since his move from Boston to Seattle, in a clip show designed to commemorate the event of the last ever episode of "Frasier" TV series (1993).
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-13
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The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
Overview: Jimmy Burke and his friends steal 10 million from the Lufthansa office in New York. The FBI has no idea who the thieves are until Burke girlfriend gives them a hint. When word leaks out a Mafia boss puts a killer on the gang's trail.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-06
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Streets of Gold
Overview: Alek is an immigrant from the Soviet Union who was a talented boxer in his day, but he was not allowed on the Soviet national team because he was a Jew. Depressed and discouraged, he meets two young amateur boxers. As their coach, he trains them for glory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Through Naked Eyes
Overview: A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractive woman in that building is checking him out. He strikes up a relationship with her. Soon afterwards a string of serial killings occurs in the neighborhood, and suspicion begins to fall on the musician.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-11
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Mariette in Ecstasy
Overview: In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century. At summer's end, when she is 17, Mariette Baptiste, educated daughter of the local doctor, enters the cloistered convent of Our Lady of the Afflictions as a postulant. Her religious fervor, understated but determined, makes an impact on the small community of nuns whose days and nights are measured in a round of prayer and farm work changing only with the seasons. Their ordered life is disrupted, however, as Mariette begins to fall into a series of trances from which she awakens with stigmata, which heal as spontaneously as they appear. The feelings of skepticism, jealousy and adoration evoked in the nuns, Mariette's own response and that of the Mother Superior are delicately, indelibly presented.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-04
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The Hustler of Money
Overview: A veteran bowling hustler tries to teach a young hotshot the finer points of playing the game for money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-28
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Fathers and Sons
Overview: Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over 30 years. The second story centers on the affairs of an airline pilot who shares a house but not a life with his wife. He crosses paths with an unusual woman and spends an extraordinary night with his son. The final chapter follows the homecoming of Elliot to his estranged family. As his father dies, Elliot meets and falls in love with a woman who sees past his tough-guy exterior.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-02
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Dinner at Eight
Overview: Society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat oblivious to the health and financial problems of her husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-11
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Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
Overview: Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families, which comes from the kitchen, and how a real Italian father is the source of believability for the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-31
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Hudson Taylor
Overview: The early years of the great missionary Hudson Taylor are portrayed in this drama. The movie details his work in China and the trails he endured. Hudson Taylor is an inpiration to all as a man of true faith in the living God.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Killing Floor
Overview: During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-10
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The House of Blue Leaves
Overview: On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens, thinks it's time for his life to be blessed, too. He desperately wants to escape his lower middle-class existence and become a popular singer and songwriter, but his life is complicated by an ambitious mistress, a crazy wife and a bomb-making son.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-25
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The Impostor
Overview: After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When she rebuffs him, he fakes his past in order to get hired as the principal of the school where she teaches, in the hopes of winning her back. Cade soon begins to take a sincere interest in the welfare of his students, and enlists the help of his friend Matthew to break a drug-dealing network that has infested the school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-08
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Code of Silence
Overview: A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-03
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The Impostor
Overview: After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When she rebuffs him, he fakes his past in order to get hired as the principal of the school where she teaches, in the hopes of winning her back. Cade soon begins to take a sincere interest in the welfare of his students, and enlists the help of his friend Matthew to break a drug-dealing network that has infested the school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-08
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