Ralph Tabakin
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Antonio, Texas, USA
Birthday: September 22, 1921
Deathday: May 13, 2001
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Homicide: The Movie
Overview: Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-13
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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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Wag the Dog
Overview: During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-25
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Good Morning, Vietnam
Overview: A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-23
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Sleepers
Overview: Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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The Natural
Overview: An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-11
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Bugsy
Overview: New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-10
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Liberty Heights
Overview: This semi-autobiographical film by Barry Levinson follows various members of the Kurtzman clan, a Jewish family living in suburban Baltimore during the 1950s. As teenaged Ben completes high school, he falls for Sylvia, a black classmate, creating inevitable tensions. Meanwhile, Ben's brother, Van, attends college and becomes smitten with a mysterious woman while their father tries to maintain his burlesque business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-17
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Disclosure
Overview: A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-09
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Jimmy Hollywood
Overview: Jimmy Alto is an actor wannabe who stumbles into the role of a lifetime. He becomes a vigilante crime-fighter, aided by his sidekick William, who has suffered a head wound and has problems with short-term memory. Jimmy's vigilante alter ego soon becomes a media wonder--but Jimmy remains a total unknown and his long-suffering girl friend Lorraine is getting fed up with the whole situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-30
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Toys
Overview: Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-18
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Avalon
Overview: A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-05
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Rain Man
Overview: When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-12
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Sphere
Overview: A spacecraft is discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the Habitat, a state-of-the-art underwater living environment, to investigate.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-13
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Young Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-04
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Tin Men
Overview: A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-06
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