John Pankow
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Pankow (born April 28, 1954) is an American film and stage actor. He is perhaps best known for a supporting role on the sitcom Mad About You (1993-1999). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Pankow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Birthday: April 28, 1954
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Gender: Male
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Talk Radio
Overview: A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-21
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The Secret of My Success
Overview: Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-10
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Life as a House
Overview: When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-25
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*batteries not included
Overview: In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-18
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Mortal Thoughts
Overview: A loathsome man ends up dead, but it's not clear who's to blame. If ever a person got what he deserved, it's James Urbanksi, an abusive drunk who steals from his wife, Joyce, and promises her close friend Cynthia Kellogg that she'll be the next target of his rage. At a group outing, James bleeds to death after someone cuts his throat. But because he's such a terrible human being, police aren't sure which of his acquaintances decided to kill him.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-19
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The Hunger
Overview: Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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The Chosen
Overview: In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-20
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To Live and Die in L.A.
Overview: When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counterfeit artist Eric Masters.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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A Stranger Among Us
Overview: Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken power, a world where the only way out is deeper in.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-17
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Monkey Shines
Overview: A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-29
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The Object of My Affection
Overview: A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-17
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The Extra Man
Overview: A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-01
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Johnny Be Good
Overview: It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-22
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Putzel
Overview: For Walter, a young man endearingly known as "Putzel," life literally doesn't go beyond his neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Walter's dreams of taking over his family's smoked fish emporium are disrupted by the arrival of Sally, who starts a relationship with his about-to-retire and very-married uncle. In order to secure his future, Walter attempts to thwart the budding romance and falls for Sally too - throwing everyone's lives into hilarious chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-10
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Bride Wars
Overview: Two best friends become rivals when their respective weddings are accidentally booked for the same day.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-09
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Year of the Gun
Overview: American novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend must struggle to stay alive.
Genres: Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-10
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First Steps
Overview: Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new research by Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, about using external electric stimulations to enable paralyzed people to use their frozen muscles. She enters the research as a test subject and gets her reward when she walks up to receive her college diploma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-19
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Doubt
Overview: Centers on Vincent, a former cop who's now a cunning but charming low-rent lawyer who uses his street smarts to work the system for his clients while battling his own demons and wooing his ex-wife.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Morning Glory
Overview: A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-10
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Johnny Be Good
Overview: It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-22
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Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
Overview: The magic and creation behind the making of William Friedkin's classic action film To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). It follows cast, crew and the director several years after the film sharing their experiences while working on the project, also including footage from the shooting, and they discuss in detail the conception of the most spectacular scenes filmed there and also the great debate about the different endings developed for the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-02
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Life on the Mississippi
Overview: Most mid-19th-century Mississippi River boys dreamed of occupying that pinnacle of power and glamour, the pilot house of a riverboat. In a riot of local color, this film tells how, unlike many, Sam's dream comes true. A callow teenager, he talks the tough but consummate Horace Bixby into making him his apprentice on the "Paul Jones," eventually following him to the much finer "Aleck Scott." Meanwhile, he is already spinning fantastic yarns to everyone from awe-struck lads ashore, to fellow "cub pilots", to young lady passengers who catch his eye. Things temporarily take a turn for the worse when Bixby must attend a meeting and leave Sam to work under Brown, a dour tyrant with a grudge against him.
Genres: Music Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-24
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Rambo: First Blood Part II
Overview: John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-21
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An Experiment in Fear: The Making of Monkey Shines
Overview: Documentary about the making of George A. Romero's Monkey Shines.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-18
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Before/During/After
Overview: This sharp-witted dramedy studies a middle-aged NYC theatre actress suddenly forced to figure out the kind of person she wants to portray in real life when her marriage comes to an end after she catches her husband cheating.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-07
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Married Young
Overview: The story of a man, his pregnant wife and his animated alter ego, MARRIED YOUNG is a poignant comedy about what it takes for a husband not to be a selfish douche bag.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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