Tom McCamus
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Biography: Tom McCamus is a Canadian stage, film and television actor, best known for his work as the villainous Mason Eckhart on the science-fiction television series "Mutant X", for his award winning performances in the feature films "I Love a Man in Uniform" and "Waking Up Walter: The Walter Gretzky Story", and for his supporting role in the Academy Award nominated drama "Room". He holds a BFA in Theatre from the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Birthday: July 25, 1955
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Gender: Male
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The Sweet Hereafter
Overview: A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-25
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Cairo Time
Overview: In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-09
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The Nature of Nicholas
Overview: The Nature of Nicholas is a surreal story of twelve-year-old Nicholas as he struggles with an attraction to his best friend.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-24
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Guilty as Sin
Overview: Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-04
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Last Night
Overview: Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-23
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Possible Worlds
Overview: The same man lives out several parallel lives in different "worlds" and in different relationships at the same time.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-04
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I Love a Man in Uniform
Overview: Henry Adler, an outwardly normal banker, yearns to make it in show business and still answers to his overbearing father. When Henry is hired to act in a television police drama, he realizes his big break has arrived and decides to do whatever it takes to get into the role — even if that means donning his police costume in public during off hours. It isn't long, however, before Henry begins to take the law into his own hands as his violent side chillingly emerges.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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The Samaritan
Overview: After twenty years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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I Know My Son Is Alive
Overview: A couple's life is torn apart by the disappearance of their new-born son.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-20
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Booky's Crush
Overview: The Thomsons - parents Thomas and Francie, and children Willa, Arthur, Beatrice (nicknamed Booky) and Jakey - are a loving working class family living in the Depression era in Toronto. Arthur is showing aptitude in drawing, and although his parents want to support his skill, Thomas in particular wants him to take up a vocation that is a little more stable. Willa, the part time librarian, is attracted to Russell, the medical student she meets at the library. And 11-year old Booky is happy that she has been asked to tutor the new older sixth grade student, Georgie Dunlop, in spelling, since she has a crush on him, her first ever. She just can't wait for him to ask her to the school dance. But she begins to have mixed feelings about Georgie based on a gift he gives to her. Digging a little deeper, Booky begins to understand both the good and bad of Georgie.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-15
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Shake Hands with the Devil
Overview: In 1993, Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire was sent by the United Nations to Rwanda as commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). Its mission, to ensure the ceasefire, is underfunded, excessively bureaucratized and made up of military units which come from dozens of countries and which each have a very different program... These are Lt Gen Dallaire's efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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Don't Think Twice
Overview: A black comedy, Don't Think Twice is a disturbing and profound examination of the morals of a man forced to choose between lover and family.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-17
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And Then You Die
Overview: A drug deal must deal with the mafia, Hells Angels, and police who want to arrest him. -- WorldCat
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Spreading Ground
Overview: Veteran Detective Ed Delopre and partner Mike McGivern have their hands full when they hit the pavement in search of a dangerous killer with five dead bodies already on his record. The mayor, in a rush to see peace restored in her city, makes a deal with the mob instead of waiting for Delopre and McGivern's results. Now that both sides of the law are involved in the killer's capture, the city is turned upside down.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-25
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Siblings
Overview: Joe and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this mixed up mess of half-sisters and step-brothers have to figure out how to dispose of the bodies, cover up the murders, collect their grandfather's inheritance and somehow stick together as a family -- all without getting caught. Not to mention Joe's incessant need to keep tabs on his promiscuous sister, an eye on the precocious little ones and a lustful watch on the girl next-door. Growing up has its complications. Murder's just one of them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-14
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Norman's Awesome Experience
Overview: Through the experiment of a crazy scientist, his colleague Norman, model Erica and her photographer are sent back in time to the Romans. They arrive in a small village, controlled by the Roman Septimus Fabius and a fat village mayor. They teach the people the Rock'n Roll... and revolution. Of course the Romans don't appreciate their efforts - will Norman's Know How save them? Written by Tom Zoerner
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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Steal
Overview: An entrepreneurial criminal, Slim (Dorff) is as smart as they come. Cocky and confident, he assembles a team of risk-taking rush-seekers to pull off a series of five bank heists, each time using a different extreme sport to make the getaway. Following an unexpected windfall on only their second job, the gang nets $20 million in untraceable bonds. Having scored enough money to retire on, Slim and his crew decide to call the robbery game quits. But both the mob and the police have other plans in mind for Slim: they want him to keep working, for them.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-08
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Rembrandt: Fathers & Sons
Overview: At the height of his success in 1630 Amsterdam, Rembrandt takes on a Jewish studio apprentice, Samuel.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-06
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Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
Overview: Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. And an enigmatic Indian hunter decides to help the girls, but one of the girls has been bitten by a werewolf. Brigitte and Ginger may have no one to turn to but themselves.
Genres: Horror Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-10
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Heyday!
Overview: During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for many flights between North America and the European Theater. Teenager Terry Fleming, who lives just outside of Gander, is feeling conflicted. He wants to work in Gander so that he can have access to the plethora of movie stars and GIs flying though the area.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-27
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Room
Overview: Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-16
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First Degree
Overview: A homicide detective falls for a murder victim's wife, who is also the prime suspect.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-03
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Stratford Festival: Antony and Cleopratra
Overview: Reason and judgement prove no match for the tsunami of mutual passion engulfing Mark Antony, one of the three joint rulers of the Roman republic, and Cleopatra, the seductive queen of Egypt. Surrendering everything to their desires, they open the floodgates to a civil conflict that will shake the very foundations of their world.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-21
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Stratford Festival: King John
Overview: When the King of France (Peter Hutt) demands that John (Tom McCamus) relinquish his crown in favor of his nephew, the young Prince Arthur, war is the inevitable result. Excommunication, attempted atrocity, rebellion and assassination all contribute to a political turmoil and personal grief for a mother who has lost her son.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-09
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Trinity
Overview: In a remote arctic research station, government agents Brach and Schiller discover the mysterious genetic scientist Dr. Clerval. A psychological chess game ensues. What links Schiller to Clerval's genetics program? What secrets does Brach harbour? And is Clerval really who he says he is?
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-03
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Killshot
Overview: Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-13
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Heart Songs
Overview: A romantic and moody 35 mm cinema short shot in Canada with Tom McCamus, about a lone guy wandering in the backwoods, who meets and falls in love with a Cajun singer. Based on a short story by Annie Proulx (author of The Shipping News).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-02
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Black Widow
Overview: A film noir-style musical telling the story of how a man met his end by getting sucked into a web of lies and deceit by a beautiful, dark-haired singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story
Overview: Nurse Margaret Sanger became a pioneering crusader for women's reproductive rights after she published a booklet on birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law established by Anthony Comstock forbidding the dissemination of information on contraception. Sanger later helped to establish America's first birth control clinic in 1916, and in 1925 was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-08
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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Overview: When the always dramatic Lola and her family move from the center of everything in New York City to the center of a cultural wasteland in suburban New Jersey, she feels her life is simply not worth living! But no matter who or what gets in the way, Lola won't give up on her life's ambition: to be a star! In a crowd-pleasing movie treat bursting with music, dance and excitement, Lola's fun-filled adventure won't be glamorous or easy, but it might just show her that real life could exceed even her wildest dreams!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-17
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The Claim
Overview: A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-29
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Beautiful Dreamers
Overview: When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness. "Dreamers" is based on true events. Dr. Bucke became an important biographer of Walt Whitman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-05
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Murder Most Likely
Overview: In 1981, former RCMP Undercover Agent "Patrick Kelly" was accused of causing the mysterious death of his wife. Managing to elude the authorities, Kelly married his second wife, and continued to live the extravagant lifestyle he so desperately desired. However, in 1984, based on the testimony of a key witness, Kelly was finally convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife, (allegedly by throwing her off the balcony of their luxury high-rise condo). But then a whole ten years later, the witness claimed she lied on the stand.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-22
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Coriolanus
Overview: Staged at the Stratford Festival and named on many 2018 year-end critics “best of” lists, the Stratford Festival’s “riveting” and “exhilarating” (The New York Times) production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, has been called “the show of the decade… a landmark production for the Stratford Festival. Maybe for William Shakespeare, too” (The Globe and Mail), and “the greatest contemporary staging of this play that I have ever seen” (Chicago Tribune).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-23
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The Tempest
Overview: In Shakespeare’s great drama of loss and reconciliation, a long-deposed ruler uses magical arts to bring within her power the enemies who robbed her of her throne and marooned her on a remote island. But what revenge does she mean to take?
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-13
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The Passion of Ayn Rand
Overview: Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.
Genres: Drama Romance History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-27
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
Overview: The remaining members of a once-great American family succumb to addictions, selfishness and disease.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-08
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The Emissary
Overview: A mysterious interplanetary diplomat arrives at a post-apocalyptic planet earth in order to facilitate the adoption of a member of an ancient royal family.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-06
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Warrior Empire: The Mughals of India
Overview: WARRIOR EMPIRE: THE MUGHALS is a sweeping, in-depth portrait of India's most colorful, violent, and majestic era. From 1526 to 1858, this dynasty of nomadic warriors indulged their appetite for territorial expansion, spreading their rule throughout the Indian subcontinent. Though they conquered their kingdom with crushing brutality, the Mughals were also brilliant technological innovators and masters of art and architecture. This program offers lush, detailed images of Mughal accomplishments such as the glorious Taj Mahal, palaces, forts, water systems, elaborate gardens, and richly crafted artwork. Step-by-step scientific recreations of advanced Mughal metallurgy and weaponry show the meticulous production of chain mail armor for a battalion of elephants, lethally flexible composite bows, rocketry, and swordsmith techniques passed down through the generations, and still alive today.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-10
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Six Gestures
Overview: Inspired by Bach presents cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing the six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by J.S. Bach in collaboration with artists from different disciplines, in a set of six films.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-25
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