Rockets Redglare
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Rockets Redglare (May 8, 1949 – May 28, 2001) was an American character actor and stand-up comedian. As well as his career as an entertainer, he worked as a roadie for a band called The Hassles (with a young Billy Joel), and as a bodyguard and drug supplier to punk rock bassist Sid Vicious and artist-musician Jean Michel Basquiat.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: May 08, 1949
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 28, 2001
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Stranger Than Paradise
Overview: A Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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Basquiat
Overview: The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-09
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Down by Law
Overview: A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-20
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Stars & Bars
Overview: A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-18
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Animal Factory
Overview: Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate who finds meaning in protecting the vulnerable new kid.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-13
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Trees Lounge
Overview: Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with the seventeen-year-old niece of his ex-girlfriend. This gets him into serious trouble with her father.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-11
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After Hours
Overview: Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-13
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What About Me
Overview: After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-10
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The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
Overview: This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his demons and obsessions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Salvation!
Overview: A troubled young woman hooks up with a money-crazed televangelist and becomes a rich, heavy-metal Christian rock star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-11
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Police State
Overview: In Nick Zedd's mock docu-drama Police State, he puts his own body on the line to illustrate his belief that “freedom is an illusion.” A black comedy-satire / protest film featuring Rockets Redglare.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-28
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Rockets Redglare!
Overview: A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death in 2001. Rockets was the sometimes bodyguard/drug dealer of Sid Vicious and Jean Michel Basquiat, as well as a talented stand-up comic and character actor who left his indelible mark wherever he went. This film chronicles Rockets' last days, hunting for methadone in Puerto Rico and telling stories from his past.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-02
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The Way It Is
Overview: A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead actress in the play turns up dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-04
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Where Evil Dwells
Overview: Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and the only footage that survived is this 28 minute preview that was put together for the Downtown New York Film Festival in 1985.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-27
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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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Force of Circumstance
Overview: A courier who represents Moroccan dissidents arrives in Washington with secret documents.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-01
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Last Rights
Overview: A Super-8 movie based on the case of grandmother murderess Velma Barfield who was executed for murdering her husband. It was described by Tessa Hughes-Freeland in "The Underground Film Bulletin #4" as "A murderess's last testament, explicating her view of the world, of her crime, and of her punishment. Intimate, compelling and ultimately disturbing".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-16
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Fall
Overview: For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels in love. But Sarah has more than just passion on her mind; she also has a husband and a glamorous lifestyle that she can't seem to leave behind. Torn between her feelings for Michael and the security of her marriage, Sarah is forced to make a realistic decision about the sacrifices that must be made to be truly and totally in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-20
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Desperately Seeking Susan
Overview: A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-29
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Little Noises
Overview: A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-24
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In the Soup
Overview: An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-23
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Sons
Overview: A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Perils of P.K
Overview: P.K., a former movie star now reduced to working as a stripper in a Las Vegas nightclub, is desperate for a comeback, and thinks she could make one if she could only get a big-name star to appear in a movie with her. She relates all these problems, and many of her fantasies, to her psychiatrist, and also approaches several entertainers working in Las Vegas to try to get them to help make her dream come true.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-06
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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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Shakedown
Overview: When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investigation leads them into a maze of greed and corruption, they learn that in a town where everything is for sale, anything can happen.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-06
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Rooftops
Overview: T, as most of his friends, lives in a self-constructed 'house', built on top of an old building in the city. Their one passion is 'combat'. Combat is a dance/streetfight during which the contestants try to push each other out of the arena, while not allowed to actually touch each other. When drugdealers move into the neighbourhood and kill T's best friend he embarks on a mission to eradicate the drug-presence in the neigbourhood. His friends are reluctant to help though, knowing what happened to T's friend when he crossed them.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-17
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Chelsea on the Rocks
Overview: Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once considered an untouchable, impenetrable tower for writers, artists, musicians and mavericks, it has been recently claimed as a boutique hotel venture for a management company that shows disregard for its formidable history. –Cannes Film Festival
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-23
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Who Killed Nancy?
Overview: On October 12th, 1978, New York Police discovered the lifeless body of a young woman, slumped under the bathroom sink in a hotel room. She was Nancy Spungen, an ex-prostitute, sometimes stripper, heroin addict, and girlfriend of Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious.
Genres: Documentary History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-11
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Big
Overview: When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-03
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Her Name is Lisa
Overview: A Vermont farmer searches New York City for his dream girl, with his gay neighbor as his guide.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-09
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In the Spirit
Overview: After her husband loses his job, Marianne moves from Beverly Hills to a nightmare New York City. She hires ditzy psychic Reva to redecorate her apartment, and they end up being pursued by a crazed killer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-06
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Candy Mountain
Overview: A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-20
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Louis & Frank
Overview: Third-rate doo-wop singers making a comeback hook up with a campy manager who books them to perform in drag.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-08
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Craps
Overview: A slice of downtown New York City life (filmed partially on location at Katz' Deli).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Cookie
Overview: Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-02
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