Brooke Adams
Also Known As: Брук Адамс, بروک آدامز
Biography: Brooke Adams (born February 8, 1949) is an American actress known for her compelling performances in film, television, and theatre. She gained recognition for her roles in movies like "Days of Heaven" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," showcasing her acting depth and versatility. Adams' talent and dedication to her craft have earned her acclaim in the entertainment industry. On television, she has appeared in Thirtysomething (1987), Moonlighting (1985), Family (1976), The Lion of Africa (1987), Special People (1984), the miniseries Lace (1984) and Lace II (1985), 5 episodes of Monk (2002), BrainDead (2016) on CBS and she was writing, producing, directing, and starring in a web-series called "All Downhill from Here." (2015).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Birthday: February 08, 1949
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Female
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
Overview: In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-21
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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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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Overview: The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Shock Waves
Overview: Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of zombie soldiers.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-15
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The Legend of Lucy Keyes
Overview: When an urban family moves to a rural New England town with secrets, little do they know that their new house holds a history of tragic sorrow.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-03
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The Accidental Husband
Overview: Emma, a radio host, is about to be married to Richard, her perfect match. But right before her wedding, she learns she's already married to Patrick, a charming but irresponsible fireman. Furthermore, Patrick has a secret: he has arranged this little trick because Emma advised Patrick's ex-fiancée to end their relationship. However, Patrick may find that the trick is on him, for he soon begins to fall in love with his uptight adversary.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-29
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Sometimes They Come Back
Overview: Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school in the town where his brother was murdered in front of him by teenage bullies twenty-seven years before. The teens who committed the crime are long dead, but now the kids in Jim's new class keep dying and being replaced by new students who look like the deceased hoodlums.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-07
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Hemingway & Gellhorn
Overview: Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-27
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Cuba
Overview: A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Thriller Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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Days of Heaven
Overview: In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-13
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Gas Food Lodging
Overview: Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-10
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The Baby-Sitters Club
Overview: Seven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-18
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Man on Fire
Overview: Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-04
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A Man, a Woman and a Bank
Overview: Two novice thieves are plotting to rob a bank in Vancouver. A photographer snaps a shot of one thief as he is carrying the bank building's blueprints. The would-be thief then begins a relationship with the photographer and attempts to retrieve the photos. Meanwhile, the thieves' plot consists of this: one man will enter the bank building after dark, while the other man sits in a van and uses a computer to unlock the building's doors. The final step involves transporting the cash to a freight ship waiting on the docks, for transportation to a money launderer in Macau.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-28
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The Innocents Abroad
Overview: Adaptation of the Mark Twain novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-12
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Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
Overview: Paul Reiser brings his sophisticated observational humor to home video in this rare showcase of his acclaimed talent as both actor and stand-up comedian. Reiser goes out on a whim searching for "The Main Thing" in a unique blend of live stand-up comedy and an uprorious out-of-body experience feautring cameo appearances by Teri Garr, Elliott Gould, Carrie Fisher, Michael J. Pollard, Desi Arnaz Jr., Woody Harrelson, Carol Kane, and many others! Join Paul Reiser for his unique perspective on such subjects as exact change, dogs, valet parking, potato chips, "They" & "The Guy", Larry Storch and much more! Go out on a whime with Paul Reiser - you'll be beside yourself with laughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-05
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The Unborn
Overview: A couple who cannot have children joins an in-vitro fertilization program. While she is with child, she finds strange occurrences happening within her body. The horror surrounding the child comes to light when the parents find that their child has been part of a mad experiment.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-29
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Murder on Flight 502
Overview: On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-21
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For the Love of Spock
Overview: The life of Mr. Spock, as well as that of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played him for almost fifty years, written and directed by his son: Adam.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-09
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Black Bart
Overview: A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story for Blazing Saddles (Black Bart was the movie's original title). It featured Lou Gossett, Jr. as Bart and Steve Landesberg as his drunkard sidekick, a former Confederate officer named "Reb Jordan". The Humour was much more toned down than it's feature film predecessor Other cast members included Millie Slavin and Noble Willingham. Bergman is listed as the sole creator. CBS aired the pilot once on April 4, 1975 as a CBS Special Presentation. The pilot featured guest appearances by Gerrit Graham and Brooke Adams and was written by Michael Elias and Rich Eustis. Elias and Eutis later created and executive produced the ABC sitcom Head of the Class (1986-1991).
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Who Is the Black Dahlia?
Overview: In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-01
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The Fire This Time
Overview: Social conditions of Los Angeles are considered in drawing parallels between Watts riots and those in 1992.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-01
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The Lion of Africa
Overview: Brooke Adams plays a woman who has to put up with Brian Dennehy's character if she wants to get across a desolate section of Africa. They fight and naturally sparks fly.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-28
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Utilities
Overview: One of Bob Hunt's neighbours' electricity is cut off because she cannot pay the bill. She is assisted by contributions, and the bill is paid entirely in pennies, though the clerk is belatedly told that payment is not accepted in such a large quantity of coins. Unfortunately, the electric company fails to reconnect the power due to a communications snafu, and the elderly woman is taken to hospital suffering hypothermia. Hunt sets off on a vendetta of revenge, sabotaging assorted support systems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-15
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Tell Me a Riddle
Overview: A long-married couple embark on one last cross-country journey when it is discovered that the wife is dying. Together they try to reconnect with their estranged daughter before it is too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-15
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The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return
Overview: A crusty old rancher hires three young women to pose as his daughters. However, the real father of one of the daughters finds out about it, and kidnaps her to hold her for ransom--which the rancher can't pay.
Genres: Comedy Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-28
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Almost You
Overview: Alex and Erica Boyer are a young couple in crisis. Alex, despite his loving wife, beautiful home and high-paying job, feels trapped. When Erica has an accident that leaves her temporarily confined to a wheelchair and requiring the services of a private nurse, the beautiful Lisa enters the Boyers' lives. A complicated situation develops as Alex sees Lisa as the cure for his own problems as well as his wife's.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-29
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Nero Wolfe
Overview: Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to know why she's under investigation by the FBI, only to find himself enmeshed in a puzzling murder-mystery. TV movie based on Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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Bridesmaids
Overview: Four very different women, best friends during high school many years earlier, gather in the small town where they grew up for a reunion as bridesmaids in preparation for a wedding for a fifth friend.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Probable Cause
Overview: A series of cop murders plagues the city. The remaining officers on the force are increasingly worried as the deaths increase with no leads. As the department's finest must solve the case before the killer strikes again.
Genres: TV Movie Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-20
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Breakable You
Overview: A divorced playwright and his therapist ex deal with new relationships and their daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-07
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Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
Overview: Monk steps out of retirement as his stepdaughter's wedding turns tragic when her fiancé dies in a bungee jumping accident.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-08
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The Last Hit
Overview: A retired asassin tries to make himself at home in New Mexico.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-31
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James Dean
Overview: A dramatization of the story of legendary movie actor James Dean. The film's writer, William Bast, had roomed with Dean in the early '50s, when both were trying to break into films as actors, and was his lover for a time.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-17
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Guns for Hire
Overview: Beatle is a quirky loner who refuses to live by society's rules. Her business cards read "Towing/Assassination," and she even has a hit man infomercial to go along with it. Her only human contact is with her psychiatrist and the stripper/hooker she employs once a week. Everything changes the night she meets Athena Klendon, a suicidal blonde with a secret. With a demented killer on their tail, courtesy of Athena's crooked former employer, the two quickly strike a bargain. Athena will change her life insurance policy to reflect Beatle as the beneficiary in exchange for her own execution. And while they wait for the paperwork to come through, Beatle will provide room and board and get some extra help on her infomercial. The two have no idea that Detective Holt has been on their case reviewing their every move. Just when he thinks he's got Beatle pinned beyond a shadow of a doubt, this comedic mystery takes a wild and unexpected turn.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-20
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Party Animals
Overview: Short film that follows a group of Hollywood nobodies. Think Curb Your Enthusiasm, without the enthusiasm.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-22
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The Stuff
Overview: Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-14
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Vengeance Is Mine
Overview: Unsuccessfully trying to close old family wounds on a trip back to the Rhode Island home of her miserable childhood, a troubled young woman finds her new friendship with a neighbor has her stuck in another family drama.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-27
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
Overview: A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-07
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Made-Up
Overview: A look at how our cultural obsession with youthful good looks affects women who are told their value is dependent on their appearance.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-01
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Snapshots
Overview: Rose spends her days fishing near the beautiful lake house she’s called home for 50 years. She’s not getting any younger and her daughter Patti worries about Rose being all alone, but the stubborn matriarch will not sell. There are memories here that she doesn’t want to leave. These come flooding back one weekend during a visit from Patti and granddaughter Allison, when a long-forgotten roll of film reminds Rose of the summer she met and fell in love with the bold and beautiful Louise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-27
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Minestrone
Overview: A paranoid filmmaker is tortured by his taste for the titular Italian soup
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Sole Survivor: Interview with Star Brooke Adams
Overview: An interview with Brooke Adams on her first role in the film, Shock waves.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-20
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Special People
Overview: Brooke Adams is the real-life Diane Dupuy, the Canadian woman whose vision and drive molded a group of developmentally-challenged young adults into the Famous People Players, a professional puppet troupe that has become world-renowned, having performed Radio City Music Hall and Las Vegas (Liberace's opening act in 1975) to the People's Republic of China.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-11
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Key Exchange
Overview: A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-14
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Lace 2
Overview: While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of her father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-01
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Song of the Succubus
Overview: The leader of a rock group is haunted by the ghost of a music star who took her own life at the turn of the century.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-07
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The Great Gatsby
Overview: Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-27
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The Politics of the Dead Zone
Overview: A discussion on the politics behind the 1983 David Cronenberg thriller, The Dead Zone.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-26
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Gun
Overview: Follows a gun and the different hands it falls into and the different characters that use it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-12
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