Peter Friedman
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Biography: Peter Friedman (born April 24, 1949) is an American stage, screen, and television actor. Born in New York City, Friedman graduated from Hofstra University before making his Broadway debut in The Great God Brown in 1972. Additional theatre credits include The Visit (1973), Piaf and A Soldier's Play (both 1981), The Heidi Chronicles (1989), Ragtime (1998), and Twelve Angry Men (2004). He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Outstanding Actor in a Play, and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. On television, Friedman starred as patriarch George Silver in Brooklyn Bridge, has made numerous guest appearances in such series as Miami Vice, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace, Ghost Whisperer, and Damages, and had a featured role in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder. Friedman's many feature film credits include Prince of the City, Daniel, The Seventh Sign, Single White Female, I'm Not Rappaport, I Shot Andy Warhol, Safe, Freedomland, The Savages, and I'm Not There. Friedman married actress Joan Allen in 1990. The couple divorced in 2002. They have one daughter, Sadie, born in March 1994. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Birthday: April 24, 1949
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Male
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I'm Not Rappaport
Overview: Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-24
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I'm Not There
Overview: Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-01
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The Seventh Sign
Overview: Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse by bloodying rivers, egging on plagues and following scripture word for word.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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Good Grief
Overview: On a road trip to scatter her dad’s ashes, Nora’s family does a substandard job of paying their respects.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-10
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The Savages
Overview: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-28
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Safe
Overview: Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-23
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Someone Like You...
Overview: Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane begins an extensive study of the male animal, including her womanizing roommate Eddie. Jane puts her studies and romantic misadventure to use as a pseudonymous sex columnist -- and becomes a sensation.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-30
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Single White Female
Overview: Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek out a roommate in order to keep her spacious digs.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-14
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Freedomland
Overview: A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-17
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Paycheck
Overview: Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.
Genres: Action Adventure Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-25
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Love & Other Drugs
Overview: Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serves him well with the ladies and the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-04
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The Heidi Chronicles
Overview: Unusual relationships, a feminist awakening and a career in art history mark a baby boomer's life, ages 16 through 46.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-15
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Harvest
Overview: Gathered one summer in a beautiful shoreline town, three generations are drawn together by their patriarch. With endearing moments of humor and uplifting spirit, Harvest is a portrait of a family awkwardly yet delicately hanging on to what was, what now is, and to one another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-05
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Side Effects
Overview: A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-07
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Coming Up Roses
Overview: A drama centered on a former actress who subjects her 15-year-old daughter to a series of depressed small towns, money woes, failed love affairs, and bouts of depression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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Two Against Time
Overview: This film finds a mother and her teen daughter both being diagnosed with cancer. This discovery helps to overcome the longtime antagonistic relationship that the two have developed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-21
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Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
Overview: About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigation even more difficult.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-27
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Blink
Overview: Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Carmen & Moony
Overview: A romantic comedy about a semi-recovered kleptomaniac who goes home for the holidays and invites an unlikely guest to her family dinner.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-01
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Daddy's Girl
Overview: A young woman’s charming but overbearing father helps her move out of her wealthy older boyfriend’s apartment.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-20
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Ragtime Reunion Concert
Overview: This special event celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Broadway production. Ragtime weaves an electrifying tapestry of three families from vastly different worlds, colliding and converging as they chase the American Dream through a tumultuous era of hope, despair and the revolutionary sounds of ragtime.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-13
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Keep in Touch
Overview: After a major crisis, a man attempts to track down his long-lost first love, only to discover that she was killed in a car accident many years prior. His online search leads him to her younger sister, an aspiring musician who bears a striking resemblance to the girl he used to love. Quickly becoming obsessed, he arranges a not-so-chance meeting and a relationship blossoms between the two before he has a chance to disclose his true identity.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-16
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She Said
Overview: New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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Breaking Upwards
Overview: 'Breaking Upwards' explores a young, real-life New York couple who, four years in and battling codependency, decide to intricately strategize their own break up. Based on an actual experiment devised by director/actor Daryl Wein and actress Zoe Lister-Jones, the film loosely interprets a year in their lives exploring alternatives to monogamy, and the madness that ensues. An uncensored look at young love, lust, and the pangs of codependency, 'Breaking Upwards' follows its characters as they navigate each others' emotions across the city they love. It begs the question: is it ever possible to grow apart together?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-14
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Overview: A teenage high school drop-out Bobby McLaughlin is accused of the murder of a local drug dealer he says he didn’t commit. When he is convicted with little evidence, his father begins a fierce struggle to free his son from prison.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-22
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Christmas Evil
Overview: Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save the spirit of Christmas is to become Santa Claus himself and make all of the naughty townspeople pay... in blood!
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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Finnegan Begin Again
Overview: A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-24
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Synecdoche, New York
Overview: A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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The Messenger
Overview: Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone, to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson, to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-13
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Sundowners
Overview: Ali and her father cook, drink, and ignore what's going on in the next room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-26
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Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Overview: Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great musical performances from the archives of the Tony Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars from legendary shows strut their stuff in 23 performances that have become part of Broadway history.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-07
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Overview: The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique collection features acting powerhouses James Earl Jones, Annette Bening, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise and Maggie Smith, among others, performing works by such playwrights as August Wilson, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-02
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Piaf
Overview: Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Édith Piaf. This recording presents the Tony Award-winning stage play with its original Broadway cast.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-10
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The Rules of the Game
Overview: Dramatist Luigi Pirandello's mordant comedy of manners tells the tale of upper-crust Italians Silia Gala and her sneering spouse, Leone, who finds his impassivity tested when he has to duel his wife's frustrated paramour.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-30
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Daniel
Overview: The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-26
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Power and Beauty
Overview: A woman claims she had an affair with John F. Kennedy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-21
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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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Prince of the City
Overview: New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-19
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I Shot Andy Warhol
Overview: Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-01
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King of the Corner
Overview: Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and his wife is losing her patience. A twist of fate and some bizarre wisdom from a "freelance rabbi" help Leo navigate the murky waters of his life and turn his crisis into a second-chance.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-08
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Overview: In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redemption.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-04-20
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The Variable
Overview: An “ethnically ambiguous” actor struggles to adjust to stereotypes projected onto him during the audition process.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-19
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Marina
Overview: Strange leaks start dripping from the ceiling of the house where Marina works as the caregiver for her aging father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-29
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