Eric Christmas
Also Known As: Eric Cuthbert Christmas
Biography: Eric Christmas was a British stage and screen actor. Christmas was born in London, UK and later immigrated to Canada. He was well-known for his role as Principal Carter in the three Porky's films as well as his sporadic role as Reverend Diddymoe on Amen.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: March 19, 1916
Deathday: July 22, 2000
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Gender: Male
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Harold and Maude
Overview: The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-20
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The Andromeda Strain
Overview: When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-12
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The Philadelphia Experiment
Overview: Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-05
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Air Bud
Overview: A lonely boy befriends a stray dog who has a natural talent for basketball and together they experience the highs and lows of life as their friendship remains solid through a series of escapades.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-01
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Porky's Revenge
Overview: As graduation nears for the class of 1955 at Angel Beach High, the gang once again faces off against their old enemy, Porky, who wants them to throw the school's championship basketball game since he has bet on the opposing team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-22
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The Changeling
Overview: After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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Ed and His Dead Mother
Overview: A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-04
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The Last Tycoon
Overview: Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-18
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Johnny Got His Gun
Overview: A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-04
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Monte Walsh
Overview: Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-26
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Porky's II: The Next Day
Overview: When the students of Angel Beach High decide to stage "An Evening With Shakespeare," their efforts are threatened by Miss Balbricker, who views the works of Shakespeare as obscene. She enlists the help of Reverend Bubba Flavel, a religious fanatic who brings along his flock of followers to pressure the school into shutting down the production.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-24
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Middle Age Crazy
Overview: A married man is turning forty and that's when the midlife crisis hits ...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-25
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Almost Dead
Overview: A woman psychologist, who specialises in research about twins, is haunted by her dead mothers ghost.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-20
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Staying Afloat
Overview: In this comedy thriller, a prospective series pilot, Larry Hagman plays a disinherited socialite and high roller who, with the aid of a comely con artist and his sarcastic butler, helps the feds bring down an arms merchant.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-26
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Child of Darkness, Child of Light
Overview: A Catholic priest is sent to investigate reports of two virgin conceptions. One is about to give birth to the child of God and the other is the child of the Devil and he must decide which one is good and which one is evil before Satan's followers can stop him.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-01
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The Blue Knight
Overview: In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force before his retirement investigates the murder of his partner.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-09
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The Challengers
Overview: After her father dies and she moves to a new town, Mackie wants to join a certain gang/band. But they've got this boys-only rule. So Mackie comes up with an audacious plan...only it begins to backfire.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-10-14
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Whispers
Overview: A woman is stalked by a psychopathic killer. She eventually kills him, only for the man to show up again, this time sane and without any knowledge of the attacks. The police don't believe her, but one detective agrees to look into it.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
Overview: After a wave of reports of mysterious attacks involving people and pets being eaten by the traditionally docile fruit, a special government task force is set up to investigate the violent fruit and put a stop to their murderous spree.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-01
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Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
Overview: Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segments: in the first, a computer falls in love with its programmer; in the second, a World War II vet falls in love with a murderer; in the third, a woman falls in love with a penniless painter.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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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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Gideon
Overview: The Angel of God and an ordinary shepherd named Gideon debate obedience versus disobedience to God.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-26
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MacBeth
Overview: This is a very theatrical version, full of sound & fury, histrionics and big arm movements. Cynical audiences might not buy into it, but if you were to go back to the early 1600s this is probably the way you'd see it. The plot of Macbeth, if you were snoozing during high school English class, is about an 11th century Scottish warrior who hatches a dubious plan to steal the throne. Spurred on by his wife Lady Macbeth, who wears the pants in the household, he finds himself swiftly slipping down the path of evil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-22
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Porky's
Overview: In 1954 Florida, a group of high school boys head to a strip club in the Everglades in an attempt to lose their collective virginity. When the club's owner and his sheriff brother swindle them out of their money and embarrass them, the boys plan revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-13
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Mr. Scrooge
Overview: A Christmas Carol retelling
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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An Enemy of the People
Overview: A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeutic hot springs and unspoiled nature. Dr. Stockmann, however, makes the inconvenient discovery that the nature around the village is not so unspoiled. In fact, the runoff from the local tanning mill has contaminated the water to a dangerous degree. The town fathers argue that cleaning up the mess would be far too expensive and the publicity would destroy the town's reputation, so therefore news of the pollution should be suppressed. Dr. Stockmann decides to fight to get the word out to the people, but receives as very mixed reaction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-17
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Crossroads
Overview: In Toronto, early twenty-somethings Judy Monroe and Roy Kirby are in love and are planning to get married. They understand the obstacles they are facing as husband and wife as Judy is white and Roy is black.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-25
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Home Is Where the Hart Is
Overview: Nurse and con artist Belle Haimes lives with her dull-witted husband Rex Haimes in the Hart Mansion in British Columbia. There, she cares for the invalid 103 year old Slim Hart, aka Pappy, and his comatose wife Minnie. Fed up with her job, Belle plots the death of old Mrs. Hart and the kidnapping of Old Pappy, but things don't go quite according to plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-13
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All of Me
Overview: Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb, to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the young, vibrant Terry Hoskins – but the spiritual transference goes awry. Edwina enters Roger's body instead, forcing him to battle Edwina for control of his own being.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-21
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Dead in the Water
Overview: Charlie Deegan has almost everything he has ever wanted. He has an important law practice, a beautiful secretary as his lover, and the chance to be appointed to the high court. The only thing wrong with this is that his shrewish wife Olivia, whose father made all the wealth and all the power, is living and that greatly upsets Charlie. So when his lover, Laura, suggests that they get rid of Olivia, Charlie thinks, being a lawyer, that he can create a fool-proof plan. In this plan, he must incorporate a woman named Victoria whom he detests, but she can help him get into the court and be part of the plan for Olivia. But dreams of judgeship, money and Laura makes him proceed. However, things never turn out as planned and he may not be as smart as he considers himself.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-04
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Bugsy
Overview: New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-10
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Code Name: Diamond Head
Overview: A failed Quinn Martin pilot for a series starring a Hawaii-based government counter intelligence agency run by the indomitable Aunt Mary. In this, his only adventure, Diamond Head has to prevent the evil Tree from stealing a deadly nerve toxin gas and selling it to foreign powers. To help Diamond Head is the Dragon Lady and Zulu.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-03
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Nickel & Dime
Overview: A P.I. hasn't paid taxes in ages. When the IRS sends an accountant to investigate him, his only way out is to solve his latest case of a missing heiress. However, someone wants to prevent this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Happy Hour
Overview: A chemist experimenting with different formulas stumbles upon an ingredient that, when added to beer, makes it absolutely irresistible. Before he realizes it, an international spy is after him to try to get the formula for himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-01
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