Retta
Also Known As: Retta Sirleaf, Marietta Sirleaf, Marietta Sangai Sirleaf
Biography: Marietta Sirleaf, better known simply as Retta, is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She is mainly known for her starring role as Donna Meagle on NBC's Parks and Recreation. She has appeared in several films and television shows, and has performed stand-up on Comedy Central's Premium Blend. Retta is from New Jersey, and graduated from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She started working in the pharmaceutical research field before moving to Los Angeles, California, to pursue a career in comedy.Retta started performing stand-up comedy in 1996, although she said she did not start "earning money" until 1998, when she started touring on the college circuit. Retta said she used to get "really nauseated" before a performance, but that the feeling passed with experience.Retta has said her stand-up material tends to be slightly embellished stories from her regular everyday life, family, and friends. She has also made jokes about her obesity. Retta has stated she would give up stand-up comedy for a full-time acting career if possible: "I'm not married to stand-up, just because it's a road thing. It's very lonely with all the traveling.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Jersey, U.S.
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80 for Brady
Overview: Four lifelong friends set out on an unforgettable journey to see their hero Tom Brady play in Super Bowl LI and witness one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, discovering that it's never too late to live life to the fullest. Inspired by a true story.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-03
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Slackers
Overview: Dave, Sam and Jeff are about to graduate from Holden University with honors in lying, cheating and scheming. The three roommates have proudly scammed their way through the last four years of college and now, during final exams, these big-men-on-campus are about to be busted by the most unlikely dude in school. Self-dubbed Cool Ethan, an ambitious nerd with a bad crush, enters their lives one day and everything begins to unravel.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-01
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Schoolhouse Rock! 50th Anniversary Singalong
Overview: Black Eyed Peas, Derek Hough, Hayley Erbert, Fortune Feimster, Jason Biggs, Jenny Mollen, Julianne Hough, Kal Penn, The Muppets, NE-YO, Raven Symoné and Retta perform classic Schoolhouse Rock! hits.
Genres: Music Comedy Family Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-01
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Fracture
Overview: A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-19
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Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Overview: TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a family to help him replay his childhood and assume the identity of an average, everyday kid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-04
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Rebel on Ice
Overview: Figure skater Surya Bonaly is most remembered for her amazing one-bladed back flip at the 1998 Winter Olympics, being the only skater to ever complete one in competition at the Olympics. Despite landing the flip on one skate, the judges ruled the move illegal. Bonaly did not medal, but the champion did go out on her own terms, a true “Rebel on Ice.”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-15
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Sex and Death 101
Overview: A guy's life is turned around by an email, which includes the names of everyone he's had sex with and ever will have sex with. His situation gets worse when he encounters a femme fatale (Ryder) who targets men guilty of sex crime.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-15
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Sex Ed
Overview: Eddie lands his first teaching gig at an inner city middle school and finds his highly pubescent pupils are receiving no form of sexual education. Eddie isn't really equipped to teach them...he's not exactly experienced romantically.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-07
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Hit Man
Overview: A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-16
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The Greatest Hits
Overview: Harriet finds art imitating life when she discovers certain songs can transport her back in time – literally. While she relives the past through romantic memories of her former boyfriend, her time travelling collides with a burgeoning new love interest in the present. As she takes her journey through the hypnotic connection between music and memory, she wonders – even if she could change the past, should she?
Genres: Drama Music Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-05
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Kissing Cousins
Overview: A "relatively" romantic comedy about a professional heartbreaker (and cynical bachelor) who teams up with his attractive cousin from the UK in order to fool his friends into believing he is capable of a relationship. Hijinks and laughs ensue with a hilarious cast!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-06
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First Sunday
Overview: Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-11
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Other People
Overview: David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-09
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The Real Bros of Simi Valley: The Movie
Overview: With the 10-year high school reunion around the corner, Xander and his squad embark on a journey to become the dopest versions of themselves in time to flex on all of their old classmates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-04
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Operator
Overview: Joe, a programmer and obsessive self-quantifier, and Emily, a budding comedy performer, are happily married until they decide to use one another in their work. A dark comedy about love, technology, and what can’t be programmed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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Muffin Top: A Love Story
Overview: Suzanne’s body is changing faster than her moods after IVF shots to get pregnant. When she finds out, on her birthday, that her husband has knocked up his younger, thinner co-worker and wants a divorce, she turns to desperate and hilarious measures to lose weight and get a life.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-18
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First Sunday
Overview: Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-11
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
Overview: Through a series of misunderstandings, Alvin, Simon and Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in New York City - and dump them. They have three days to get to him and stop the proposal.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure Animation Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-17
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Father Figures
Overview: Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-21
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Come Simi
Overview: A neurotic pregnant woman on the verge of giving birth, attempts to reunite her estranged family which includes an impossible mother riddled deeply with Alzheimer's, an aging porn star sister and an intense Aunt, whom the family hasn't seen in 18 years. All in an effort to fix her family history before giving birth. The colorful journey travels from Venice to Van Nuys to Simi Valley and in the end, love must win out.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-10
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Dragon Wars: D-War
Overview: Ethan learns he carries the spirit of a warrior who battled dragons in 16th-century Korea -- and one day he'll find a tattooed girl carrying the spirit of that warrior's beloved. Years later, he meets Sarah and dragons soon descend on Los Angeles seeking out the two souls of the ancient lovers.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-08-01
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Where's the Money
Overview: A quick witted young man from the streets of South Central must rush a lily-white USC fraternity to recover a stash of stolen money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-20
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To the Bone
Overview: A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-22
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Band Aid
Overview: A couple who can't stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-02
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The Lego Ninjago Movie
Overview: Six young ninjas are tasked with defending their island home of Ninjago. By night, they’re gifted warriors using their skill and awesome fleet of vehicles to fight villains and monsters. By day, they’re ordinary teens struggling against their greatest enemy....high school.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-21
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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
Overview: A quiet teenage artist Rafe Katchadorian has a wild imagination and is sick of middle school and the rules that have been put before him. Rafe and his best friend Leo have come up with a plan: break every rule in the school hand book and as you expect trouble follows.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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A Legendary Christmas with John & Chrissy
Overview: John Legend and Chrissy Teigen celebrate with friends, family and song.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-28
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Good Boys
Overview: A group of young boys on the cusp of becoming teenagers embark on an epic quest to fix their broken drone before their parents get home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-14
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A Parks and Recreation Special
Overview: Pawnee's most dedicated civil servant, Leslie Knope, is determined to stay connected to her friends in a time of social distancing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-30
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The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation
Overview: As a lead-in to the highly anticipated special that brings back one of the most admired comedies in TV history, NBC and The Paley Center for Media collaborated on The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-30
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