Adam Arkin
Also Known As: آدام آرکین
Biography: Adam Arkin (born August 19, 1956) is an American actor and director. His father is Oscar Award-winning actor Alan Arkin and his brother is actor Matthew Arkin. He is known for playing the role of Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope. He has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Tony (Best Actor, 1991, I Hate Hamlet) as well as three primetime Emmys, four SAG Awards (Ensemble, Chicago Hope), and a DGA Award (My Louisiana Sky). Beginning in 1990, he had a recurring guest role on Northern Exposure playing the angry, paranoid Adam, for which he received an Emmy nomination. In 2002, Arkin won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special for My Louisiana Sky. Between 2007 and 2009, he co-starred in the drama series Life. In 2009, he portrayed villain Ethan Zobelle, a white separatist gang leader, in Sons of Anarchy, and Principal Ed Gibb in 8 Simple Rules (2003–2005).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: August 19, 1956
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Gender: Male
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Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Overview: Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers her whereabouts. As Halloween descends upon Laurie's peaceful community, a feeling of dread weighs upon her -- with good reason.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-05
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Hitch
Overview: Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara Melas, a tabloid reporter digging for dirt on Allegra Cole's love life. When Sara discovers Hitch's connection to Albert – now Allegra's boyfriend – it threatens to destroy both relationships.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-11
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A Serious Man
Overview: It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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The Doctor
Overview: Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-24
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A Slight Case of Murder
Overview: In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator, who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls under the watchful eye of Detective Fred Stapelli, a cop who is intent on becoming a screenwriter. Before long, Thorpe's girlfriend, Kit, and Stapelli's wife, Patricia, are roped into the case.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-19
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Mission
Overview: Marvin, a young aspiring writer from New York, moves to California to write a novel. He ends up rooming with a chaotic, bohemian musician named Jay. Marvin finds himself inexorably drawn into the vibrant youth culture of San Francisco's Mission District as both Jay and himself watch their worlds disintegrate. They discover that each has a lot to learn from the other. Mission is a coming-of-age story casting a spotlight on a place and time, moments before artistic aspiring types yielded the Mission to the dotcom entrepreneurs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-29
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Summer Eleven
Overview: The poignant, coming of age story about a group of eleven year old girls in their final summer before middle school.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-09
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Under the Rainbow
Overview: In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins. Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-31
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Graduation
Overview: Four best friends, about to graduate from high school, must find a way to raise money to help a family member in need. When one of them discovers her banker father having an affair, the foursome plots to rob his bank during graduation ceremonies. When things don't go according to plan, they end up learning more about themselves in one day than they ever did in school.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-24
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Halloween: Resurrection
Overview: Reality programmers at DangerTainment select a group of thrill-seeking teenagers to spend one night in the childhood home of serial killer Michael Myers. Their planned live broadcast turns deadly when Michael decides to crash the party.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-01
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Full Moon High
Overview: High-school quarterback Tony Walker is bitten by a werewolf and transforms into a growling beast that hungrily chases down beautiful girls.
Genres: Horror Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-04
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Not in This Town
Overview: When local hate groups besiege the town of Billings, Montana, the people of the community turn their backs. Only one woman takes a risk and battles the cruel acts of hatred and racism.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-16
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The Sessions
Overview: Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-02
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Murder on Pleasant Drive
Overview: After Fran Smith disappears one day in mysterious circumstances, Fran's daughter Deanna and Fran's sister, Sherrie endlessly search for her with enduring hope. The most likely suspect in Fran's disappearance is her husband John, but without a body, neither Deanna or Sherrie can prove that murder, much less a crime, has even been committed. With the support of Sherrie, Deanna embarks on an eleven-year search to trace John's past, eventually uncovering a 25 year-old case of a missing person that involved John's first wife, who too, disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Using this lead, Deanna and Sherrie must use all their evidence to bring John to justice.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-08
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Tell-Tale
Overview: Celebrity photographer Greg Williams together with an impressive cast lead by Carla Gugino, take on the concept of the Femme Fatale in this stylish erotic-noir.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-31
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It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
Overview: When Harry Walters runs out of gas, he gets picked up by a beautiful young woman. But when she pulls a gun on him and orders him to take his clothes off, Harry puts up no resistance and is sexually assaulted. He reports the incident to the authorities, but they either don't believe him, or, if they do, can't understand why he would consider it a crime - a reaction he also gets from his friends and family.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-19
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Thirst
Overview: A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the town's water supply, causing people who drink it to die of thirst.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-24
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People Soup
Overview: People Soup is a 1969 short film written and directed by Alan Arkin, with Adam Arkin and Matthew Arkin. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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In Security
Overview: The owners of a failing security company start robbing houses to boost business.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-28
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Hanging Up
Overview: Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly father, Lou, is admitted to a Los Angeles Hospital. After years of wild living, intermittent affection, and constant phoning, he is finally threatening to die.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-16
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Off Season
Overview: After the death of his parents, 10-year-old Jackson Mayhew moves in with his Aunt. But when he befriends an elderly man, he begins to suspect that the old man is actually Santa Claus.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-16
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In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
Overview: When a state trooper is gunned down on a New Jersey highway, his friend and colleague sets out to track down the killers. Realizing the murder is connected to an extensive underground terrorist ring, he joins forces with the FBI on a massive five-state hunt. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-01
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Dottie Gets Spanked
Overview: A six-year-old boy in pre-hippie 1960s United States endures ridicule from his schoolmates and worry from his father over his fixation with a TV star named Dottie.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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10 Cent Pistol
Overview: A story about two lifelong criminals who maneuver through the shady underbelly of Los Angeles in search of wealth, love and redemption.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-24
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A Promise to Keep
Overview: Middle class parents, who already have three kids, take in their four orphaned nephews.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-01
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Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Overview: Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. They begin to spend time together and become friends. But because of their different characters they often quarrel with each other and finally seperate after Frank misbehaves to Walter's friend Elaine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-17
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Heat Wave
Overview: A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-13
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Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
Overview: Flash used to be a talented baseball player, but he took to drinking and now he sells stolen watches in the streets. One day he meets Chu Chu, who, before falling into alcoholism like him, was a successful entertainer. Now she still dances, but in the streets, for no more than a cent or two. Luck seems to smile at them the day stolen government documents literally fall from the sky. They decide to return them to their legal owners, but instead of the expected reward money, all they get is a load of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-28
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Just Peck
Overview: At 104 pounds dripping wet, baby-faced sophomore Michael Peck (age 15) is not exactly the coolest guy at American High. Peck’s teachers make him feel like an idiot, his classmates make him feel like a geek and his home life is just as bad, with parents who schedule family time in their planners and require him to sign contracts with them about his extra-curricular activities.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-16
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Dropping Out
Overview: Emile Brockton enjoys TV, chicken pot pies, and...well, not much else. His life has become a meaningless procession of banal activities that prompt him to spice things up the only way he can devise: by killing himself. However, the road to suicide is filled with many distractions, and these create the ultimate conundrum for Emile.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
Overview: Go behind the scenes of the second season of Fargo.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-23
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Overview: In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-06
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With Friends Like These
Overview: Four small-time, two-bit character actors, all close friends, compete for the same important part in the next Martin Scorsese mob film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-10
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Lake Placid
Overview: When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!
Genres: Horror Comedy Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-15
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Necessary Parties
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Chris Mills isn't too happy with his divorcing parents. In fact, he doesn't want them to split at all, so he hires car repair shop owner -- and former attorney -- Archie Corelli to run interference for him and put a stop to the proceedings. It's a match made in heaven because Chris and Archie both have a deep desire to see the right thing done.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Julie Brown: The Show
Overview: Uniared pilot for a fictional CBS TV talk program hosted by bubbly actress Julie Brown. The proposal was to relate her misadventures on and off the set. Other regulars are Grant, her co-host; Candace, the producer; Jeff, the director; Michelle, the secretary; and Rhonda, the make-up lady. Julie Brown performs the theme, "The Art of Being Fabulous."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-04
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All Together Now
Overview: Four orphaned children have 30 days to prove that they can remain together as a family without adult supervision. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-05
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Babies
Overview: The physical and emotional trauma of three close-knit women trying to have children is explored.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-17
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Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Overview: Frank Keane, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's untimely death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck, who was on his way to a fateful reunion.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-12
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Overview: The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-04
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The Fourth Wise Man
Overview: Artaban is a young Magus (Wise Man) who desires to follow the star to the birthplace of the coming King, against the counsel of his friends and family. Carrying three precious jewels to give to the baby Messiah, Artaban and his reluctant servant Orontes set off to join the caravan of the three other wise men. They miss the caravan, but Artaban continues the search for his King, always one step behind. Artaban spends much of his remaining wealth and all of his energy helping the poor and unfortunate people he meets, until at the end of his life he finally finds Jesus--at His trial! Has Artaban wasted his life in a foolish quest? Will he ever get the chance to present his gifts to the King?
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-30
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The Monitors
Overview: Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-08
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Baby Blue Marine
Overview: A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A small Colorado town takes him in, treating him like the hero he appears to be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-05
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Made For Each Other
Overview: An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-12
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Roughing It
Overview: A teenaged Mark Twain travels to the American West during the "Gold Rush" days in search of fortune and his destiny.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-16
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Stark Raving Mad
Overview: A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-23
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East of A
Overview: An aspiring singer, a troubled rich boy, and an ex-seminarian share an apartment in the East Village in this story dealing with AIDS, sexuality, and living in NYC of the late '80s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-03
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Personal Foul
Overview: A warm and heartfelt tale of a drifter who is befriended by a kind hearted grade school teacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-14
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Kids in America
Overview: Inspired by real events, this ribald comedy pits an unlikely gang of students against their principal after she bars safe-sex activities on campus. Protesting Principal Weller's muzzling of free speech, the teens stage a bold and hilarious rebellion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-21
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Pig
Overview: A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must visit Portland to find the mysterious person who stole his beloved foraging pig.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-16
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Transplant
Overview: A motivated surgical resident pushes himself to extreme lengths while training under a legendary heart transplant surgeon who's obsessed with protecting his perfect reputation.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-18
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