Ken Pogue
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Biography: Kenneth Pogue (July 26, 1934 – December 15, 2015) was a Canadian actor. His first motion picture role in 1973 was in The Neptune Factor. Where on set he almost drowned in scuba gear.[citation needed] He worked on stage at the Crest Theatre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and Guthrie Theater in the 1960s through 1980s before moving to television and film. His other film credits include The Silent Partner (1978), Lost and Found (1979), Virus (1980), Suzanne (1980), The Grey Fox (1982), The Dead Zone (1983, as the vice president), Kane & Abel (1985), Act of Vengeance (1986), Dead of Winter (1987), Crazy Moon (1987), and The Hitman (1991), starring Chuck Norris. He was also Father Dominic in the 2006 film The Mermaid Chair.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Birthday: July 26, 1934
Deathday: December 15, 2015
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Gender: Male
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In the Lake of the Woods
Overview: John Waylan is a candidate for U.S. senator; near the end of the campaign he is accused of ordering and participating in a massacre in a Vietnamese village. The accusation kills his career, and severely endangers his marriage. When he and Kathy flee to an isolated cabin, he awakes one morning to find her gone. Questions are asked, answers are given or hinted at, as the tension and suspense build.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-05
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The Dead Zone
Overview: Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
Genres: Thriller Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-21
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The Silent Partner
Overview: Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-07
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Chaindance
Overview: As a part of a special government reform program, inmate J.T. Blake has to take care of Johnny Reynolds who has cerebral palsy. In the meantime, another inmate wants to take care of J.T. Blake forever.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-31
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Lost and Found
Overview: While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First their cars collide. Then they smash into one another on a ski slope, each breaking a leg. In between numerous quarrels, the two develop lust and love. They hastily marry, but the disagreements continue. Patricia decides to leave, so Adam decides to fake a suicide. They lose and find each other, again and again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-13
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Crossfire Trail
Overview: Rafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man that he'll look after the man's widow and Wyoming ranch. But the widow doubts the integrity of drifter Covington. And an unscrupulous land grabber and his gunmen are sizing up the ranch the way a spider eyes a fly.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller Western Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-21
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Welcome Home
Overview: Jake died in Vietnam; his family mourned him, then moved on. When he reappears, quite alive, the question is, what must he do and how will his family respond to him?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-29
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Run
Overview: When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-01
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Bad Moon
Overview: One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family's survival... and the end to his Werewolf curse.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Murder by Phone
Overview: A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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Final Descent
Overview: An airliner collides with a light plane just after takeoff, causing its elevators to jam in the full climb position. It will crash as soon as the fuel runs out, unless some desperate measure succeeds in bringing the nose down.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-12
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Dead of Winter
Overview: A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-06
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Dangerous Intentions
Overview: A man stalks his wife and child when they leave for an abused women's shelter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-03
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Wings of Courage
Overview: In 1930 South America, a small group of French pilots struggle to prove they can offer a reliable airmail service over the Andes. When one of the young pilots crashes on such a flight, he has to try and get back to civilization on foot. Back home, his wife and colleagues start to fear the worst.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-06-16
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Home Song
Overview: A family struggles to overcome the past and forgive one another when a long buried secret surfaces.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-20
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Deck the Halls
Overview: In the tradition of such classic films as "Miracle On 34th Street", a hip, eccentric marketing genius teaches a widow and her son the miracle of Christmas.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-05
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Johnson County War
Overview: The three Hammett brothers, Cain, Harry and Dale are caught in a conflict that escalates rapidly and the old farmers facing against new farmers who have settled in the green grasslands.
Genres: Western TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-24
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Contagious
Overview: When shrimp from Mexico, tainted with Cholera, is served to people on a plane bound for LA, an outbreak ensues. A doctor sets out to find the source and contain it before it turns into an epidemic. And if things weren't bad enough, a drug mule from the plane, who was smuggling cocaine in his stomach, infects the drugs, which will be on the streets soon. And to top things off, her husband who is on a camping trip with their two children is sick but did not show any symptoms until they were isolated from the rest of the world. Can she get to them in time?
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-22
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Distant Drumming: A North of 60 Mystery
Overview: Teevee Tenia has a plan - he intends to persuade Lynx River to dump the RCMP and establish an all Dene Police Force. But Corporal Michelle Kenidi is concerned: will a Dene Police Force in Lynx River be answerable to Canadian law, or to Teevee? When an elderly tourist is found beaten to death, Michelle’s concerns deepen as her suspicions fall upon Teevee’s friend, Matthew Fowler. As Michelle pursues the investigation, painful events from the past come alive. For the community of Lynx River, the investigation holds the town’s very future at stake.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Someone Else's Child
Overview: Ten years after the birth of her son, Corey Maddox discovers an awful truth: Her son was switched at birth.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-04
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Louisiana
Overview: Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have been lost. She determines to recoup her family's fortune.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-25
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Shock-Trauma
Overview: Dr. R. Adams Cowley, the Baltimore physician who pioneered medicine's first shocktrauma unit, fights hospital bureaucracy to gain recognition for his center.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-27
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Spearfield's Daughter
Overview: The daughter of a leading politician tries to carve out a career in the world of international journalism.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-25
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Common Ground
Overview: Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focuses on an African-American mother determined to get her children a quality education and a white lawyer trying to deal with inner city problems.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-25
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An Unexpected Life
Overview: A single woman has her idyllic life disrupted when she takes in orphans. But, soon she comes to depend on the sound of little feet and couldn't think of life without them.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-24
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Day One
Overview: Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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F.D.R.: The Last Year
Overview: Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-15
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Crazy Moon
Overview: Brooks is an eccentric rich kid, with a fondness for big band music, bow ties taking strange photographs who one day whilst stealing a mannequin from a clothes store, meets Anne, a free-spirited, young deaf girl who works in the shop. It's a meeting that will transform his life. As their friendship blossoms he starts to learn sign-language and she helps him to conquer his fear of water but with a bullying brother, insensitive overbearing father and his father's peculiar new girlfriend all pressurising him to be 'normal' will Brooks be able to break free from their boundaries and his own fears and limitations to find the meaning of true and selfless love.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-11
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Mafia Princess
Overview: Looks at the life of mafia boss Salvatore Giancana. Especially his troubled relationship with his family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-19
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Shadow of a Doubt
Overview: Charlie Sloan is an alcoholic defence lawyer drawn back into the courtroom by Robin Harwell, a woman he once loved who wants him to defend her stepdaughter Angel, who is accused of murder. Sloan is out of his depth as his opponents mount a bitter campaign to portray him as a drunk and the trial becomes a media circus. Can Sloan justify Robin's faith in him?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-03
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An American Christmas Carol
Overview: In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-16
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The Hitman
Overview: After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-01
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The Grey Fox
Overview: Old West highwayman Bill Miner, known to Pinkertons as "The Gentleman Bandit," is released in 1901 after 33 years in prison. A genial and charming old man, he re-enters a world unfamiliar to him, and returns to the only thing that gives him purpose — robbery.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-16
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The Amy Fisher Story
Overview: The true story of the Long Island teen who shoots and wounds the wife of a man she called her lover.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-03
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Sherlock Holmes Returns
Overview: Sherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times with a tale that he had invented a method of suspended animation that he had utilized on himself. Awakened by an earthquake, he is helped by Amy Winslow, who lives at 1994 Baker Street in San Francisco. There he is joined by a new group of Baker Street Irregulars led by Zapper. His battles lead him to the evil Moriarty clan led by James Moriarty Booth.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-12
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Second Wind
Overview: A successful executive and family man takes up jogging for a hobby. Soon his desire to excel as a long distance runner interferes with his career and marriage.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-08
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The Climb
Overview: Based on the true story of the 1953 assault on Nanga Parbat, a treacherous Himalayan Peak.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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A Mother's Justice
Overview: A young girl named Debbie is attacked by a bus stop one evening and is blindfolded and raped. Her mother, Lila, who is consumed with guilt is determined to catch the rapist...
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-25
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A Time to Live
Overview: The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-27
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Out of Time
Overview: A man awakwens after sleeping for 20 years to find that his small local town has changed for the worse.
Genres: Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-17
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An Unexpected Family
Overview: When Ruth Whitney abandons her two children with her sister Barbara is left to take care of them, at first none of them like it but soon they grow to like each other. Then over a year later Ruth comes back saying she wants her kids and Barbara goes to court to fight for custody.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-04
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Suzanne
Overview: An unhappy married woman has an affair with a violent criminal. She gets pregnant with his baby, but he gets arrested and goes to prison. Now what?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-18
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Sexual Advances
Overview: Drama about a happily married career woman who falls victim to a management power play involving sexual harassment by her sports-equipment company's in-house lawyer.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-10
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In Defense of Kids
Overview: When a female lawyer finds a girl hiding in the back of her car, it starts her thinking, and she decides to give up her job to open up a refuge for neglected children.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-06
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My Son Johnny
Overview: Anthony Cortino lives with his mother in a quiet suburb. His father is dead, and his violent criminal brother is a long way off, in the city, and if Anthony has his way, that's where he will stay. However, Johnny runs into trouble with the police in the city, and when he asks to come home, his mother agrees, despite Anthony's objections. A reign of terror begins for Anthony then, for as long as Johnny is around, Anthony is never safe, and never has been.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-10
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Keeping Track
Overview: The CIA, KGB and RCMP are after a lady banker (Kidder) who has a piece of mutated microchip that engages directly with brain cells.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-30
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Harvest for the Heart
Overview: Twenty years after walking out on his family and bride on his wedding day, Jacob Hansen returns to the family farm and must accept the changes that happened after his departure.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-17
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Perfect Witness
Overview: An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Quinn) reports the crime. Overzealous attorneys (Brian Dennehy and Stockard Channing) put pressure on Paxton to testify in court, but Paxton is in a tough spot when the mob starts threatening his family. Paxton now faces an impossible choice: testify and put his family at risk … or go to jail.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-28
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All the Winters that Have Been
Overview: Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) had fallen in love. She vowed never to see him again because he had arrested her brother, who he had been investigating. Dane is now determined to win her back and slowly re-enters her daily life. But Helen has a secret, and unless Dane can forgive her and understand the powerful feelings that motivated her to keep it from him, their fragile relationship will not survive.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-21
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Virus
Overview: Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-06-26
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The Liberators
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-02-08
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Act of Vengeance
Overview: In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-04
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The 6th Day
Overview: A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-17
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Blind Man's Bluff
Overview: A blind professor is accused by the police of killing his neighbor and must clear his name by finding the murderer.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-19
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Miracle at Moreaux
Overview: Drama - On a December night in 1943, three Jewish children escape from Nazi-occupied France and are given refuge by Sister Gabrielle at a Catholic school in which the gentile students must face their fears about harboring Jews from the Nazis. As the students become acquainted with their Jewish peers, they grow more sympathetic to their situation and eventually go to great lengths -- and take serious risks -- to save the lives of their newfound friends. - Loretta Swit, Geneviève Appleton, Milan Cheylov
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Hitting Home
Overview: Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to New York, only to discover that the crime is not covered by the extradition treaty between Canada and the US. She becomes obsessed with bringing the criminal to justice.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-24
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Where the Heart Is
Overview: A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-23
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The July Group
Overview: A Quaker family is held hostage by a band of bank robbers and their non-violent beliefs are sorely tested. The film also questions whether their attempt at a non-violent solution actually makes things worse for themselves and their captors. Based on Stanley Ellin's novel STRONGHOLD.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-01
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The Ottawa Valley
Overview: Based on the Alice Munro short story, in which the narrator tries in vain to write a portrait of her mother’s family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Brotherhood of Murder
Overview: Set against the backdrop of the true story of the largest cash robbery in the history of the USA.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-12
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Love and Treason
Overview: Kate is a Naval officer whose married to a Marine. When she learns her husband is committing treason she turns him in. He's sent to prison and she divorces him and would have to deal with the stigma of being married to a traitor. A few years later, her husband escapes from prison and the consensus is that he's going after her. And he approaches her but doesn't do anything to her. She thinks he's up to something and tries to find out what it is.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-07
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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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The Christmas Secret
Overview: In this magical story, a scientist sets out to prove that reindeer can fly and along the way discovers the true meaning of faith, family and Christmas.
Genres: Family Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-12
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Monte Walsh
Overview: Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Monte has a long-term relationship with prostitute Martine Bernard, while Chet has fallen under the spell of the widow who owns the hardware store. Camaraderie and competition with the other cowboys fill their days, until one of the hands, Shorty Austin, loses his job and gets involved in rustling and killing. Then Monte and Chet find that their lives on the range are inexorably redirected.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-17
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Still Not Quite Human
Overview: In the final film of the series, Chip and his "father" attend a robotics convention. Here, Dr. Carson is kidnapped and replaced by an android. Can Chip and his newfound friends save Dr. Carson from a dangerous competitor?
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Suicide Murders
Overview: The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses and psychotherapy whose roots lie in a decades-old unsolved murder.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Dad's Week Off
Overview: Henry Winkler stars as Jack, a stressed-out computer salesman who can't sell his company's defective product and can't take any more noise from his hyperactive children. Jack looks forward to peace and quiet when his wife volunteers to take the kids camping - what he gets is a week that drives him even crazier! Jack's troubles begin when a party animal co-worker introduces him to a beautiful but wildly unpredictable manicurist named Cherice. When Cherice isn't handcuffing Jack to the bed, she's baking cakes in the middle of the night or eluding the police in high speed chases. Cherice turns Jack's dull, ordinary life into a wild non-stop adventure - and a delightfully zany comedy that will keep you laughing from start to finish.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-29
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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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