Zack Norman
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Biography: Zack Norman (born Howard Jerrold Zuker; May 27, 1940) is an American actor, director, producer, writer, comedian, musician, film financier, painter, art collector and real estate developer. Born in Boston and raised in nearby Revere, at the age of 13, he attended the oldest independent boarding school in the United States, The Governor's Academy, and by the age of 25 he was on the board of directors of a Massachusetts bank, though he is best known for his role as Ira in 20th Century Fox's Romancing the Stone (1984) and as Kaz Naiman in Paramount Classics' Festival in Cannes (2001).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Birthday: May 27, 1940
Deathday: April 28, 2024
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Gender: Male
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Cadillac Man
Overview: Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-18
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Romancing the Stone
Overview: Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
Genres: Romance Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-30
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Babyfever
Overview: Gena is an average woman who is torn between her current boyfriend's desire to marry her and start a family, and the unexpected arrival of an old boyfriend wanting to pick up where they left off. To further complicate matters, she might be pregnant herself. In the mist of this unsettled personal life, Gena leaves her two men to attend a baby shower party for a girl friend and talks with the various female attendees all of whom are facing their own ticking biological clocks.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-04
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Ovation
Overview: Maggie Chase, now a passionate theater actress, must follow her mind or heart when she falls for a slick television star.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-11
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Queen of the Lot
Overview: An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her Iowa hometown, but far less than Angelina Jolie, Maggie is desperate to claw her way off the B-list of action/adventure pictures and into major movie stardom.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-19
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Overview: Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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Crosscut
Overview: When Martin Niconi goes across country to get away from a sorry family and associates problems, he finds a secluded area high in the Sierra Mountains area of California to begin life over as a logger. He meets Anna Hennessey and her son Jeff and the romance begins. Anna's brother Max is a logger whose crew includes Martin and he is determined to keep them apart.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-21
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At Home with the Webbers
Overview: AT HOME WITH THE WEBBERS explores what happens when a typical American family is turned into a hot, new, totally uncensored TV show. Viewers get hooked on the real-life soap, while the Webbers grapple with their unexpected fame.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-24
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Mojave Moon
Overview: Al McCord is hanging out at his favourite restaurant when he meets an attractive young woman (Ellie) who is looking for a ride from the city out into the Mojave Desert, where her mother lives. Little does he know that while Ellie is falling in love with him, he is falling for her mother (Julie), despite the nearby presence of Julie's boyfriend who seems likely to go berzerk at any moment. Even more strange, hilarious events follow and it's up to Al to find some explanation. His life may never again be the same.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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Tracks
Overview: A soldier returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls in love with a gentle college student. But their relationship is shattered by his flashbacks to combat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-15
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Hollywood Dreams
Overview: The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising young actor, though their relationship threatens to complicate her own obsessive goal of becoming a famous actress. The film perfectly captures the delightful and desperate lives of those chasing dreams in Hollywood: One day they are shuffling down a boardwalk with too many suitcases, and the next they are lounging in contemporary hillside homes with a view of the city. Though neither state is permanent the more desirable one fuels the dream. The story's extraordinary execution portrays Hollywood as the fantastic and insane place that it is. Written by Lane Kneedler, American Film Institute Magazine
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-25
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Director's Commentary: Terror Of Frankenstein
Overview: 'Terror of Frankenstein' is an exercise in extreme meta-fictional tragicomedy. Presented as the commentary track of a rushed reissue of a forgotten (but 100% genuine) Frankenstein film's DVD (because of unspecified 'recent events'), this project transforms the film into an entirely new, very human horror story. Featuring Clu Gulager as the director of the 1977 original who is happily exploiting the unmentioned tragedy linked to the film, the recording session unravels a mystery as he clashes with the screenwriter (Zack Brown) and, ultimately, its star (Leon Vitali from Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and Barry Lyndon, playing himself.) 'Terror of Frankenstein' is Mystery Science Theater 3000 by way of Sartre, an icy satire of the monsters onscreen, behind the camera, and in the audience.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-01
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The M Word
Overview: The 'M' Word" explores the themes of "menopause, men and menses".
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-30
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Ragtime
Overview: A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-20
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Chief Zabu
Overview: An outrageous social comedy about a New York realtor who dreams of having political influence by taking over a new Polynesian nation.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-28
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Gums
Overview: A killer nympho mermaid with an oral fixation prowls the ocean waters, devouring – up to a point – any man unlucky enough to be swimming naked.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-09
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Sitting Ducks
Overview: Two small-time thieves come together in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-04
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America
Overview: The zany crew of a New York cable TV station accidentally bounce a signal off the moon, bringing them worldwide attention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-01
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Festival in Cannes
Overview: Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Millie, an aging French star. But, Rick, a big producer, needs Millie for a small part in a fall movie or he loses his star, Tom Hanks. Is Kaz for real? Can Rick sweet-talk Alice and sabotage Kaz to keep Millie from taking that deal? Millie consults with Victor, her ex, about which picture to make, Rick needs money, an ingenue named Blue is discovered, Kaz hits on Victor's new love, and Rick's factotum connects with Blue. Knives go in various backs. Wheels spin. Which deals - and pairings - will be consummated?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-03
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Overview: Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and rare behind-the-scenes footage, this hilarious documentary explores the fascinating question of Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-08
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And the Bombs Keep Falling
Overview: France 1944. A landslide imprisons five American soldiers in a cave where, after seven days, they find a passage that leads to a cache of weapons, food and Germans.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-22
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Get a Job
Overview: Jay is a young slacker who has to get a job in order to receive his inheritance. Rather than physically work, he fabricates an imaginary job in order to convince the attorney in charge of his trust fund.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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