Ellen Barkin
Also Known As: Ellen Rona Barkin, الن بارکین
Biography: Ellen Rona Barkin (born April 16, 1954) is an American actress. Her breakthrough role was in the 1982 film Diner, and in the following years, she had starring roles in films such as Tender Mercies (1983), Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), The Big Easy (1986), Johnny Handsome, and Sea of Love (both 1989).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: April 16, 1954
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Ocean's Thirteen
Overview: Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring down Willy Bank along with everything he's got. Even if it means asking for help from an enemy.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-05
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Johnny Handsome
Overview: A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-12
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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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Switch
Overview: Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-10
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Overview: Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.
Genres: Adventure Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-19
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
Overview: In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-23
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Mercy
Overview: Detective Catherine Palmer is on the trail of an elusive serial killer. During her investigation she meets Vickie Kittrie, who belongs to an exclusive club of women who engage in secret sessions of bondage and S&M. Matters become even more complicated when Palmer finds herself attracted to Kittrie, leading to a brief lesbian encounter. Palmer soon learns that each victim belonged to this club of prominent, sexually experimental women. In order to catch the killer, Catherine must trust Vickie to guide her through the dangerous and illicit underground.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-11
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She Hate Me
Overview: Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-30
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The Big Easy
Overview: Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow members of the police force may be involved.
Genres: Drama Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-27
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Overview: Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-10
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Eddie and the Cruisers
Overview: A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader — Eddie Wilson — may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-23
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This Boy's Life
Overview: When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-09
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Brooklyn's Finest
Overview: Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-04
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Into the West
Overview: Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family Fantasy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-23
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Made in Heaven
Overview: Deceased drifter Mike arrives in Heaven and quickly falls for newborn soul Annie, soon to start her assignment on Earth. When Annie leaves, Mike follows.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-06
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The Fan
Overview: When the San Francisco Giants pay center-fielder, Bobby Rayburn $40 million to lead their team to the World Series, no one is happier or more supportive than #1 fan, Gil Renard. When Rayburn becomes mired in the worst slump of his career, the obsessed Renard decides to stop at nothing to help his idol regain his former glory—not even murder.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-15
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Someone Like You...
Overview: Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane begins an extensive study of the male animal, including her womanizing roommate Eddie. Jane puts her studies and romantic misadventure to use as a pseudonymous sex columnist -- and becomes a sensation.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-30
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Palindromes
Overview: Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-09
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Bad Company
Overview: CIA operative Nelson Crowe is tasked with a deadly assignment: infiltrate a highly secret industrial espionage firm. Once inside, he teams with Margaret Wells, a master spy and seductive manipulator, in a plot to overthrow the organization's sinister president, which leads them into a darkly mysterious web of intrigue -- and shocking murder!
Genres: Action Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-20
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Diner
Overview: Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-02
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Twelve
Overview: A young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-30
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Operation: Endgame
Overview: A battle ensues among two government spy teams in an underground facility after their boss is assassinated.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-20
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Tender Mercies
Overview: Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-04
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Siesta
Overview: American Claire wakes up blood-soaked and bruised at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state, she has flashbacks from the past few days. She thinks she's killed someone, but isn't sure, and now she's wandering the Spanish streets without money or a clear memory.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-11
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Another Happy Day
Overview: A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-18
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His Way
Overview: A look at the professional, political and personal life of legendary movie producer Jerry Weintraub featuring interviews with friends, family and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-04
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Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
Overview: At school, Roseanne is the object of fellow student Vincent's infatuation. By night, she deals with a troubled family life: her mother, Maggie, cheats on her drunken husband, Fred. When Maggie's adultery is revealed, Fred viciously takes his anger out on stepdaughter Roseanne. With the help of her boyfriend, Jimmy, Maggie plots her revenge, but Vincent might be the one to help her forge a new life in this contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment".
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-25
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Happy Tears
Overview: Two sisters return home to care for their aging father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-16
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Mad Dog Time
Overview: With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-08
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The Out-Laws
Overview: A straight-laced bank manager is about to marry the love of his life. When his bank is held up by infamous Ghost Bandits during his wedding week, he believes his future in-laws who just arrived in town, are the infamous Out-Laws.
Genres: Romance Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-07
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The White River Kid
Overview: Two con men are traveling through the American South when they are held hostage by a serial killer who is running from the authorities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Wild Bill
Overview: Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.
Genres: Western Action Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-01
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Man Trouble
Overview: A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-17
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Very Good Girls
Overview: Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-22
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Harry & Son
Overview: Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina as he does not approve of her husband. When Harry is fired from his job, his life changes drastically as he is made to focus on the relationships around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-02
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Daniel
Overview: The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-26
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The Chameleon
Overview: The amazing true story of Frédéric Bourdin, who after having plundered all the centers for runaway minors and deliquents in Europe, even thought he has come of age, now passes himself off as Nicholas Barclay, a 13-year-old American who had vanished three years ago. To his astonishment, Nicholas's family welcomes him like their son, leaving Interpol and the FBI aghast. It is the beginning of a race against time for the investigators, family and Bourdin. But who is manipulating whom? And who is Frederic Bourdin in reality?
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-23
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Clinton and Nadine
Overview: Eager to find his brother's murderer, Clinton enlists the aid of Nadine, an expensive call girl. Together they get sucked into a plot to smuggle guns to the Contra forces in Nicaragua.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-04
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Desert Bloom
Overview: The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic step-father. Her memories of Robin, her first-love, are much happier and she also recalls her colorful Aunt Starr -- who's visit is fun but also detrimental to her family's health. The setting of 1950s Las Vegas' bomb testing is increasingly significant to the development of the story.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-22
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Shit Year
Overview: Renowned actress Colleen West abandons her successful career for a secluded life in the hills. But the peace and quiet she longed for is disrupted by the noisy construction of neighboring housing developments. Before long, Colleen discovers that she can’t stand herself now that she has given up the only thing she has ever truly been passionate about. As an alternative to isolation, she reluctantly befriends her jubilant, whimsical neighbor and reconnects with her estranged brother. Haunted by loneliness and past desires, Colleen begins to feel as if her life was lived through the characters she has played on stage and screen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-15
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Before Women Had Wings
Overview: An adaptation of Connie May Fowler's 1996 novel tracing the unlikely friendship between a young white girl, daughter of an alcoholic mother and a no-good father, and a tender-hearted but reclusive black woman in the rural South of the '60s.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-02
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Overview: This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three children are left by her shiftless husband and she is courted by an old beau who is now divorced. In the second, a divorced woman reacts to some unexpected revelations from her aged father. In the third, a childless, middle-aged social worker is swept into an affair with a young cab driver and finds herself pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Terminal Choice
Overview: A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his last position due to malpractice. For his defense he investigates with help of doctor Anna Lang. Soon they find out that half of their colleagues were betting on the patient's diagnosis - was someone trying to increase his chances? But when Frank's friend, dissector Mary Connor, becomes deadly sick, he suspects there's even more to it.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-10
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The Man from Toronto
Overview: In a case of mistaken identity, the world’s deadliest assassin, known as the Man from Toronto, and a New York City screw-up are forced to team up after being confused for each other at a rental cabin.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-23
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Diner: On The Flip Side
Overview: Interviews with cast and crew about their memories on the making of the film
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-04
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Parole
Overview: High school dropout Jimmy McCusick goes to prison for robbery. After suffering a gang-rape and then drawing the attention of a hardened life-term convict, he is put in protective confinement. Upon being paroled he finds himself unable to hold onto either his girlfriend or his job. Parole officer Andy Driscoll must find a way to keep Jimmy from sliding back into crime.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-19
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The Cobbler
Overview: Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-11
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Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne
Overview: It's Roseanne Barr's turn to step in to the celebrity hot seat for the latest installment of The Comedy Central Roast.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-12
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Hands of Stone
Overview: The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-26
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Act of Vengeance
Overview: In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-04
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Terrible Joe Moran
Overview: A wheelchair-bound, former boxer deals with his long estranged granddaughter whom is seeking financial help for her writing career and helping her loser boyfriend get out of debt with the local mob.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-26
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Kent State
Overview: Dramatization of the four days of events leading up to the historic tragedy at Kent State University in May 1970, during the confrontation between National Guardsmen and students staging antiwar demonstrations.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-08
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Active Adults
Overview: Malcolm and Lily try to start their lives as they watch Malcolm's grandparents' fall apart.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-21
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The Princess Who Had Never Laughed
Overview: There was once a very serious kingdom. So serious, that the King demanded to be addressed as Your Seriousness...
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-11
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Trust the Man
Overview: Overachieving actress Rebecca must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad Tom. While Rebecca's slacker brother Tobey can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, Elaine. As both relationships spin out of control, the two couples embark on a quest to rediscover the magic and romance of falling in love in New York.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-01
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We're Fighting Back
Overview: Inspired by the exploits of New York's Guardian Angels, which began as a band of streetwise young people who formed an anti-crime subway patrol and went on to gain a national reputation and units in major cities around the country, this film unites three New York City youths as leaders of a citizens' patrol tackling gangs terrorizing merchants and local citizens.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-28
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Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
Overview: A documentary found on The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension Special Edition DVD.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-04
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Sea of Love
Overview: Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Mac
Overview: Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers in 1950s Queens. Mac is a construction builder, a trade he learned from his late father, and helps put his brothers on the job. When they can no longer take working for Polowski, who does shoddy work and is abusive to his staff, Mac and his brothers set up their own company. Together, Vitelli Brothers Construction builds houses with pride and care. But Mac turns out to be an overbearing workaholic, with obsessive concern about the quality of their work and incredible attention to detail. His intensity and driven ambition precludes a happy family life and begins to drive his brothers away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-17
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Breaking News in Yuba County
Overview: An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband. But she quickly finds herself in over her head, dodging cops and criminals, all while trying to keep the truth from her sister, a local news anchor who’s desperate for a story.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-28
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Up in Smoke
Overview: An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pedro get released on a technicality, allowing them to continue their many misadventures and ultimately compete in a rock band contest, where they perform the raucous tune "Earache My Eye."
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-16
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