Brian Tarantina
Also Known As: Brain Tarantina
Biography: Brian Tarantina (March 27, 1959 – November 2, 2019) was an American stage, screen, and television character actor born in New York City. He was known for his roles on such shows as One Life to Live, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Gilmore Girls.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: March 27, 1959
Deathday: November 02, 2019
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Gender: Male
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A Crime
Overview: Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a culprit, so that Vincent can find revenge and leave the past behind. But there is no ideal culprit and no perfect crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-11
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Jacob's Ladder
Overview: After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-02
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Bed of Roses
Overview: The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies clash with her workaholic ways, they soon find out that sometimes, it's harder than it seems for love to conquer all.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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The Associate
Overview: Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While trying to find clients Laurel pretends that she has a male partner named Robert Cutty. And when she starts to do well all of her clients wants to meet Cutty which is difficult since he doesn't exist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-25
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Knight and Day
Overview: A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-15
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Critical Condition
Overview: Eddie is a con artist. When he's framed and comes before a judge, he hopes to get off the hook by climbing insanity—but instead ends up in a hospital for a mental assessment. That night, a storm causes a power failure and, in the ensuing chaos, Eddie is mistaken for a doctor and suddenly finds himself in charge of the hospital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-16
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Runaway Dreams
Overview: A young girl runs away and is forced to become a prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-09
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The Brave One
Overview: A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-12
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Uncle Buck
Overview: Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his older niece Tia, loyal girlfriend Chanice and just about everyone else who crosses his path.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-16
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Donnie Brasco
Overview: An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-27
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
Overview: Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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Resting Place
Overview: A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help Johnson's parents bury their son. But since the dead hero was black, his parents are turned away by the white racists who maintain the town's "all-white" cemetery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-27
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Roberta
Overview: When Jonathan Fishman, a young Manhattan computer specialist randomly encounters a prostitute he is shocked to recognize her as Roberta whom he knew when they were both children. To the dismay of his friends, his business partner and his new girlfriend Judy, Jonathan decides to help Roberta off the streets by moving her into his apartment and teaching her the skills necessary to find an office job. What begins as a seemingly altruistic gesture reveals itself as an unwavering obsession, and his life slowly unravels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-22
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Carlito's Way
Overview: A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him, and lead a better life outside NYC.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-10
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Born on the Fourth of July
Overview: Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-20
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FireHouse
Overview: A film about the dealings of a crew at a firehouse. The group is attacked by an assassin and eventually must accept that the firehouse is to be consolidated with a rescue unit.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Duane Hopwood
Overview: A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-11
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The Photographer
Overview: A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night before his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could save his career. Shot in brilliant color and dramatic black and white, first-time director Jeremy Stein's industrial New York City is a wonderland, roamed by witches and magical creatures, where survival hinges on the completion of a simple quest. Accompanied by an unlikely crew of strangers he meets along the way, Max trips through a modern-day Oz and rediscovers the easily forgotten value of seeing magic reflected in everyday life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-15
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Rob the Mob
Overview: The true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it… for a while… until they stumble upon a score bigger than they ever planned and become targets of both the mob and the FBI.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-21
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The January Man
Overview: Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Nick to leave the force, now a serial killer has driven the police to take him back. A web that includes Frank's wife, bribery, and corruption all are in the background as Nick tries to uncover the secret of where the killer will strike next, and finally must lay a trap without the police.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-13
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Better Living
Overview: A comedy about families, the elements that bind them together, and about hope in the face of hardship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-02
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The Jerky Boys
Overview: When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the "Jerky Boys" of crank call fame) are wanted by the local mafia, the police, and their neighbor.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-03
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City by the Sea
Overview: Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past, but then makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-06
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Ask for Jane
Overview: A group of college students develop an underground network that helps women get abortions in the pre-Roe vs. Wade Chicago.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-17
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Summer of Sam
Overview: During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-28
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BlacKkKlansman
Overview: Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-09
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Ghost Town
Overview: Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-19
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Zarra's Law
Overview: Retired detective Tony Zarra is pushed into the world of crime after the murder of his younger brother.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-11
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The Kitchen
Overview: The mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands — proving unexpectedly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition… literally.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-08
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The Cotton Club
Overview: Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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Personal Velocity
Overview: In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-12
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Breaking Brooklyn
Overview: A 12 year old boy with a passion for dance and his brother are rescued from the streets by an old showman who takes them to live with his estranged former dancing partner/brother.
Genres: Drama Family Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-25
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Unconscious
Overview: Six different people all believe an unconscious and unidentified man in a hospital is their missing person. A film about being unconscious . . . or not.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-05
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The Saint of Fort Washington
Overview: Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of the Fort Washington Shelter for Men. He reaches out to Jerry, a streetwise combat veteran, who takes Matthew under his wing as a son. The relationship between these two men grows as they attempt to conquer the numbing isolation of homelessness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-03
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Walking to the Waterline
Overview: Once a successful television sitcom star, Francis McGowan is now a struggling actor who returns to his family home on the Jersey Shore to sell it following his father's death. While there, he interacts with his agent Michael Woods, his childhood friend Duane Hopwood, and tour guide Lucy Bammer, with whom he drifts into a casual affair while his wife and children wait for him to return home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-13
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#Lucky Number
Overview: Made for TV movie based on a true story, an aspiring New York City sportscaster's life is on the slow track until he serendipitously gets the old cell phone number of a basketball superstar. Will the number be his ticket to success or a path to destruction?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-01
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