Doris Petrie
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Londonderry, Nova Scotia, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1918
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 21, 2000
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Scanners II: The New Order
Overview: A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John Forrester, in his crusade to take over the city.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-03
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Cries in the Night
Overview: A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-03
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Baby on Board
Overview: Maria (Carol Kane) is the wife of a murdered Mafia bookkeeper. With her baby in tow, she tracks the hitman to the airport, intending to shoot the man. A pickpocket causes the gun to discharge prematurely, and now it's Maria who is being pursued. She commandeers a cab driven by Ernie (Judge Reinhold), and the chase is on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-28
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To Set Our House in Order
Overview: In coming to grips with previously well-concealed information about the death of her uncle in World War I, and the emotional upheaval it continues to cause her family, a young girl begins to question the benevolence of God and the order in God's world. Based on the short story by Margaret Laurence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-23
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Where the Spirit Lives
Overview: In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-06
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The Olden Days Coat
Overview: While at her grandmother's house, a ten-year-old girl finds a coat in the closet. As she inspects it, she is suddenly taken back in time.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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Wedding in White
Overview: A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone back, the girl finds that she's pregnant--and discovers that her parents don't blame the soldier, but blame her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-20
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Ticket to Heaven
Overview: David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-09
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The Lie Chair
Overview: A couple gets marooned in an isolated household. The owner and her helper live under the guise that deceased loved ones still live. This gets projected on the unrelated couple who start to become affected themselves.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-12
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Perry Mason Returns
Overview: When his former secretary is accused of a murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-01
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Home to Stay
Overview: A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited but frail grandfather to thwart her uncle's plans to put him in a home for the aged.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-02
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Heartsounds
Overview: New York urologist Harold Lear gets a taste of his own medicine when he suffers a heart attack and is confronted with a medical institution which doesn't seem equipped to help. Wife Martha steps in to fight the system and get a measure of service and compassion. Ultimately the greatest battle is not waged against the medical profession, however, but against Lear's own failing body and his own mortal fears.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-30
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Hot Money
Overview: Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small town in upstate New York. On the 4th of July, while the drunken Sheriff Paisley is busy with the local parade and festivities, Burt quietly steals a million dollars in cash from the cellar safe in the local rich old widow's house. Unsuspected, Burt makes plans to live the rest of his life in the lap of luxury in a far off place with his attractive girlfriend, local hash house waitress Jeanette. But when a crisis of conscience hits him like a wave of ice cold water, he starts to think twice about his dastardly deed, and how that purloining of the old lady's money is wrongly affecting his friends as well as innocent locals. But will Burt do the right thing?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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War Brides
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-20
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Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher
Overview: Narcissistic Saskatchewan Tory politician Colin Thatcher is engaged in a bitter divorce from his wife Jo-Ann. When a series of court rulings over the divorce go against him, Thatcher decides a more drastic solution is needed - murder! A series of attempts on Jo-Ann's life follow, most of which don't succeed. Finally one does, and the arrogant Thatcher believes he is above the law and immune to prosecution. But his arrogance proves to be his undoing, as Crown Counsel Serge Kujawa builds a case against this psychopathic monster for 1st-degree murder - charging that Thatcher hired someone to kill his wife. The true story of one of the most disturbing stories of murder-for-hire in Canada.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-30
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