Sy Richardson
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sy Richardson is an American film and television actor.Richardson made his film debut as the Fairy Godmother, in the 1977 American erotic musical comedy Cinderella. He is perhaps best known as a regular in the films of Alex Cox, having appeared in Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, Walker, The Winner and Searchers 2.0. He played "Turbo" in the 1990 film Tripwire. He recently had a recurring role as the coroner on the TV series Pushing Daisies. He is also in They Live and played a tough L.A. County Sherrif in the gang classic Colors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sy Richardson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Birthday: June 04, 1941
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Gender: Male
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Larry Crowne
Overview: When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-30
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Mr. P's Dancing Sushi Bar
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-25
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Tapeheads
Overview: The story of Ivan and Josh, two dimwitted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the ins and outs of the business in LA, and with some help from Mo Fuzz, they soon become hot property. But not all goes smoothly when they try to resurrect the career of their favorite R&B duo, the Swanky Modes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-21
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Catchfire
Overview: A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-03
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Straight to Hell
Overview: A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee.
Genres: Action Western Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-26
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Petey Wheatstraw
Overview: Petey Wheatstraw (Rudy Ray Moore) is a candidate to become the devil's son-in-law. The storyline is a scaffolding on which Rudy Ray Moore's standup humor can be unfolded. Beginning life as the afterbirth to a watermelon, the young Wheatstraw becomes a martial artist, but is unable to best the evil comedy team of Leroy and Skillet, who also indulge in wholesale murder. Satan restores the comedians' victims to life, and charges Petey with the task of marrying his clock-stoppingly ugly daughter to give him a grandchild. When Petey attempts to default on the deal, he is pursued by the devil's henchmen.
Genres: Fantasy Action Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-01
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Repo Man
Overview: A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-02
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Walker
Overview: William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-04
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Fairy Tales
Overview: On his twenty-first birthday, the Prince goes on a quest that takes him across the land searching for the one woman that gets him sexually excited, Princess Sleeping Beauty.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-01
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Surviving Christmas
Overview: A wealthy executive, Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) has no close relationships and becomes nostalgic for his childhood home as Christmas approaches. When he visits the house and finds another family living there, he offers the residents, Tom Valco (James Gandolfini) and his wife, Christine (Catherine O'Hara), a large sum of money to pretend they are his parents. Soon Drew tests the couple's patience, and, when their daughter, Alicia (Christina Applegate), arrives, things get increasingly tense.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-21
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Cinderella
Overview: Cinderella, with the help of her "fairy" godmother, is granted heightened sexual prowess to win over Prince Charming. After a blindfolded orgy at the royal castle, the nerdy Prince must sleep with every willing woman in his kingdom until he finds that one, mysterious lover who so "stood out" on the night of the sex Ball.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-01
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Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel
Overview: Johnny Woo and Julie play an enduring couple who survive all sorts of interference from rival kick-box gangs in their effort to put a little romance in their lives.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-17
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South of Heaven
Overview: A man returning from a tour of duty is mistaken for his brother by debt-collecting gangsters, while the brother goes on a killing and kidnapping spree with a loose-cannon convict.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-21
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Searchers 2.0
Overview: Two actors who owe their entire careers to the Western genre seek revenge against a legendary screenwriter who once mistreated them on the set of an early film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-31
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Bad Dreams
Overview: Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. Years later, the nightmare of Unity Field remains buried in her mind. But when those around Cynthia start killing themselves, and she begins having visions of Harris, she may be forced to confront the past -- before it confronts her.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-08
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Overview: A brutal Los Angeles police lieutenant is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-03
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Lord Help Us
Overview: Comedy about faith and family directed by Shavar Ross. When a recently widowed Baptist preacher (Bill Toliver) loses the respect of his congregation over rumors of his impending marriage to a woman 45 years younger, best friends hatch a plan to help him regain his flock.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-01
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Nocturna
Overview: Hard times have fallen on the Transylvanian House of Dracula. To help pay the taxes, Castle Dracula has been converted into the Hotel Transylvania. Dracula himself is aging and toothless, being cared for by his granddaughter Nocturna. When Nocturna books a disco group to play The Claret Room and winds up falling in love with one of the backup guitarists, a mortal named Jimmy, she notices that she is able to see her reflection when she dances, so she decides to follow Jimmy to New York in search of mortality.
Genres: Comedy Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-01
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Dead Man Walking
Overview: After Leila, his boss's daughter, is kidnapped by psychopathic plague victim Decker, chauffeur Chazz teams up with plague-infected mercenary Luger to penetrate the toxic & off-limits Plague Zone and bring her back alive.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-15
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Human Nature
Overview: Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised in the wild. As Nathan trains the wild man in the civilized ways of the world, Lila fights to preserve the man’s natural state. In the power struggle that ensues, an unusual love triangle emerges.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-12
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Sid and Nancy
Overview: January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-12
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Street Asylum
Overview: In the bleak near future Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone with cops pitted against assorted law-breaking lowlifes. Sergeant Arliss Ryder (well played with customary wired intensity by the always great Wings Hauser) has an electronic device put into his back that turns him into an out-of-control psychotic killer and put on the Strike S.Q.U.A.D. (an acronym for Scum Quelling Assault Urban Devision), which is a unit of crazed cops assigned by Captain Bill Quinton (a typically gruff Alex Cord) to rid the City of Angels of criminals by using any means necessary. The only problem is that Arliss discovers what's going down and decides to put a stop to all this madness.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-06
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Eye of the Stranger
Overview: A stranger comes into town and causes a stir when he stands up for the townfolk, in the face of the intimidation tactics from Mayor Howard Baines. The scheming mayor wants to buy up all the local properties, and has hired two thugs to help 'persuade' the owners to sell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-23
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Floundering
Overview: A disaffected and increasingly disturbed young man journeys through post-riot Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-04
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It Wants Blood 2
Overview: Two giant monsters are forced to battle head to head on the political circuit as they run against each other for a seat in the Senate.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-10
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Faith of Our Fathers
Overview: With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young fathers report for duty. A man of great faith and a doubtful cynic. A quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul (David A.R. White and Kevin Downes), meet as strangers. Guided by handwritten letters from their fathers from the battlefield, they embark on an unforgettable journey to The Wall-the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Along the way, they discover the devastation of war cannot break the love of a father for his son.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-01
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They Live
Overview: A lone drifter stumbles upon a harrowing discovery -- a unique pair of sunglasses that reveals that aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-04
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Colors
Overview: A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-15
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All About Us
Overview: Two Hollywood filmmakers attempt to find Morgan Freeman in Mississippi and convince him to star in their next movie. When life gets in their way they soon discover what matters to them most.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-01
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A Numbers Game
Overview: Neil Black is a good looking schmoozer who can sell anything to anyone, literally. The beautiful Catherine (Madison Walls) doesn’t seem to close deals as easily as Mr. Black (Steven Bauer) and soon realizes her sales room is headed for disaster. Not able to handle rejection or accept failure, Catherine is forced to hand over her sales team to Neil Black, and watch as he turns her unproductive lazy sales room into a prosperous and successful “money room.” Basically, the plot focuses on the transformation of Catherine’s failing sales room and the blossoming relationship between her and Neil Black.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-15
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The Glass Shield
Overview: J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, whom he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into grave personal danger in the service of justice.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-16
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My Brother's Wedding
Overview: A young African-American man, living in Los Angeles without direction in his life, reluctantly agrees to be the best man for his brother, an upwardly mobile lawyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-13
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Evil Obsession
Overview: As models show up on calendars and magazine covers, someone is making bodies show up at the morgue. Is it the obsessed fan?
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-19
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Our Family Wedding
Overview: The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-12
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Tripwire
Overview: A band of ruthless international terrorists led by Josef Szabo hijack a speeding railroad train loaded with a full arsenal of powerful military weaponry capable of threatening world peace. The only hero who can stop the terrorists' scheme for world domination is Jack DeForest. During the battle between good and evil the hero DeForest accidentally kills the son of the Szabo. Seeking revenge Szabo locates DeForest’s family, murders his wife and kidnaps their teenage son thereby turning their fight it into a personal vendetta. So, DeForest must fight not only to save the world, but for his only remaining family.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-30
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Men at Work
Overview: Two garbage men find the body of a city councilman in a trash can on their route. With help from a supervisor, the duo must solve the case and find the man's killer while hiding the body from the cops.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-24
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Shattered Illusions
Overview: A Psycho stalks a talk radio personality and her mentally challenged sister.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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L.A. County 187
Overview: It's another night in L.A. County 187 for policeman Walter Drazin and his team, but when they find the corpses of an Asian family in a burned down club, arson and murder come to the fore. As Drazin investigates the guests of the club, the sordid truth about the city's underworld activities rears its ugly head.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-05
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Three Fugitives
Overview: On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank to raise money so that he can keep his daughter, Meg, and get her the treatment she needs. Dugan, a detective, assumes Lucas helped plan the robbery, and hence Lucas, Perry and Meg become three fugitives.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-27
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Erasable You
Overview: A man hires an assassin to kill his money-grabbing first wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-13
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Heat Vision and Jack
Overview: As the result of a NASA miscalculation, Astronaut Jack Austin flew too close to the sun, the rays expanding his mind and making him the smartest man on the planet. Now he and his talking motorcycle (who contains the mind of his former roommate) are on the run from NASA and their assassin, actor Ron Silver who want to take his brain. They travel from place to place solving paranormal mysteries with the help of Jack's newfound ability to become a super genius when his brain absorbs sunlight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-10
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Medium Rare
Overview: Death of his wife's pet poodle and a threatening movie producer create a world of trouble for a middle-aged B-movie mogul. He hires two psychopathic goons to take care of it, which only creates more trouble and attracts the cops.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-04
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Posse
Overview: A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-14
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5th of July
Overview: All he wanted to do was spread his father's ashes in the national park - mayhem ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-14
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Mystery Train
Overview: In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles upon a fleeing charlatan girl; and a comical trio of accidental thieves looking for a place to hide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-06
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The Grifters
Overview: A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-08
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Cold Steel
Overview: On Christmas Eve, Johnny Modine's father is murdered by a psycho cut-throat. The cop swears bloody revenge, though he's taken off the case. He doesn't suspect yet that he's also the target in a diabolic plan of revenge.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-11
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After Diff'rent Strokes: When the Laughter Stopped
Overview: You've read the stories, you've seen the documentaries. Now see the movie that brings it all to life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-16
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The Playaz Court
Overview: The courts of Englewood are as far removed from the hollowed halls of justice as a street ball player can imagine, but when a pickup game ends in death, the quest for revenge proves that even on the street there's a code of honor. Reggie's best friend is dead, and the pain of his loss leads the hardened player on a quest to ensure that the killer pays for his crime. Upon tracking the killer to a gym, Reggie enters, gun in hand and ready to avenge his friend's death. As the other players declare that no one will die on their court without a fair trial, they listen to both sides of the story to determine if justice will be served with a bullet, or whether the suspected killer will live to play another game.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Message From a Mistress
Overview: Longtime best friends Renee, Aria, Jaime and Jessa have shared just about everything. All hell breaks loose when Jessa sends them a message via DVD with a shocking message!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-01
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To Sleep with Anger
Overview: An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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Young & Naive
Overview: Young & Na!ve is a poetic apology to everyone ever sexually molested and a film that needs to be seen by everyone ever born.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Extreme Honor
Overview: A highly decorated Navy Seal is forced out of retirement in order to save his son's life and bring justice to the man who destroyed his career.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-12
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