Paul Gleason
Also Known As: پال گلیسون
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paul Xavier Gleason (May 4, 1939 – May 27, 2006) was an American film and television actor, known for his roles on TV series such as All My Children and films such as The Breakfast Club and Die Hard. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Gleason, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 04, 1939
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 27, 2006
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Die Hard
Overview: NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her offices Christmas Party, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-15
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The Breakfast Club
Overview: Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-15
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Abominable
Overview: A man, crippled in an accident, returns to the woods after rehabilitation, certain that he'll not see Bigfoot again.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-10
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Trading Places
Overview: A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-07
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No Code of Conduct
Overview: A cop, his partner, and his father uncover a plot by city elders to smuggle drugs from Mexico into Phoenix, Arizona.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-19
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I Love Trouble
Overview: Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-29
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Morgan Stewart's Coming Home
Overview: Eccentric 17-year-old Morgan Stewart (Cryer) can't seem to get his conservative parents to notice him - even though Morgan's been thrown out of 10 prep schools in 7 years! But when a sleazy campaign manager threatens Morgan's father's senatorial bid, Morgan comes home to clean up the mess... and creates hilarious havoc! by the time Morgan is finished, Washington politics will never be the same.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-20
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Johnny Be Good
Overview: It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-22
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Fort Apache, the Bronx
Overview: From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. The story follows officer Murphy, who seems to be a tuff cynic, but in truth he's a moralist with a sense for justice.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-06
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The Great Santini
Overview: As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-26
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Boiling Point
Overview: Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; but when Ronnie kills an undercover secret service agent, his partner Jimmy Mercer vows revenge and is given one week to catch the killers before being transferred. Written by Giancarlo Cairella
Genres: Drama Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-16
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National Lampoon's Van Wilder
Overview: Van Wilder has been attending college for far too many years and is scared to graduate, but Van’s father eventually realizes what is going on. When he stops paying his son's tuition fees, Van must come up with the money if he wants to stay in college, so he and his friends come up with a great fund-raising idea – throwing parties. However, when the college magazine finds out and reporter Gwen is sent to do a story on Van Wilder, things get a little complicated.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-29
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Best of the Best 4: Without Warning
Overview: A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to give herself in and hand over a data CD to the DA, she is shot and killed, but not before handing the disc to an unsuspecting Tommy Lee. Despite working with the police as a martial arts instructor, Lee doesn't go to the cops with the disc, but instead goes on the run, giving the mafia time to kidnap his daughter and hold as a hostage in exchange for return of the disc. Will Tommy ever see his daughter again?
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-10
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Shadow Conspiracy
Overview: Bobby Bishop is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenko has time to tell Bishop about some conspiracy in the White House but then immediately gets killed by an assassin. Now bad guys are after Bobby as the only man who knows about a plot. Bishop must now not only survive, but to stop the conspirators from achieving their goal. And he doesn't know whom to trust.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-25
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Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
Overview: In the Fabulous Thirties, Doc Savage and his five Amazing Adventurers are sucked into the mystery of Doc's father disappearing in the wilds of South America. The maniacal Captain Seas tries to thwart them at every turn as they travel to the country of Hidalgo to investigate Doc's father's death and uncover a vast horde of Incan gold.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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He Knows You're Alone
Overview: A reluctant bride-to-be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard-boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt the killer down before it is too late.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-29
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Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
Overview: When Kate Sullivan storms a hostage situation, the whole incident is captured on tape by an unscrupulous media crew who edit the footage to show her killing a helpless victim. "Maniac Cop" takes it upon himself to exact revenge upon those who smeared her name.
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-10
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Running Cool
Overview: Bone and Bear, two rough and tough bikers ride out from Sturgis, SD. to the marshes of South Carolina to help out their "bro" Ironbutt Garrett, who's land is being eyed by the money-grubbing, domineering Calvin Hogg.
Genres: Drama Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-15
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Ghost Chase
Overview: In an old Hollywood mansion, the spirit of an old family retainer inhabits an old grandfather clock. When a movie company uses the mansion for a film, the spirit inhabits the body of an alien and persuades the two filmmakers to track down an old house that will resolve a family scandal.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-25
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Night Game
Overview: A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Vigilante Force
Overview: In a small town in California, the quiet citizens find their lives disrupted by boisterous, lawless oil-field workers who have infested their community. One resident, Ben Arnold, enlists his brother Aaron, a Vietnam veteran, to assemble a group of men to restore law and order to the town. Though Aaron's crew succeeds, the newfound power goes to some of their heads, and Aaron and Ben must again reclaim the town for the citizens.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-09
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Private Duty Nurses
Overview: A trio of beautiful private-duty nurses that practice more than the medical arts must confront underground drug traffickers, racism and murder in their local hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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Dark Skies
Overview: In 1960s America, a young couple struggle to expose the truth about a hidden alien invasion, while a secret government organization follows its own agenda in dealing with the threat.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Drama Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-21
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Doubletake
Overview: Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investigating. Meanwhile, Janek is trying to find out why an old friend and colleague committed suicide, which eventually leads to a romantic situation with photographer Caroline Wallace and the discovery of some major corruption among his superiors, all of which has little or nothing to do with the murder story.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-24
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A Time to Revenge
Overview: Back in Vietnam, Major Whittmar sold out his comrades to save his own skin. Now, he's a rich, ruthless land baron who's getting richer by squeezing out or killing off his neighbors. But when he and his cronies murder a rancher who threatens to expose them, the man's son, Will, swears vengeance.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Digital Man
Overview: An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldiers are sent to hunt it down. Gradually, the members of the squad begin to suspect that some of them are robots.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-05
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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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Wild Cactus
Overview: A married couple vacationing in the desert are held hostage by a pair of psychopaths.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-14
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False Arrest
Overview: A luxury home, a handsome husband and terrific children. But it all comes crashing down when she is accused of being a mastermind behind a brutal triple-homicide and is arrested and handcuffed in front of her own children. A gripping story of passion and betrayal as a woman fights to clear her name and avoid the death penalty for a crime she didn't commit.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-03
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Red Letters
Overview: A college professor reluctantly hides an escaped female convict who tries to get him to help prove her innocent of a murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-09
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Social Misfits
Overview: A group of teenagers are forced to work together while being stuck in Camp Resurrection for 48 hours.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-19
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Majority Rule
Overview: A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of power.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-27
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Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds In Love
Overview: Lewis and his nerdy friends attend Booger's wedding to the daughter of a rich politician, but nerd-haters in the family do everything possible to prevent the wedding going ahead. Meanwhile, Lewis awaits with eagerness the birth of his unborn foetal child...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-09
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Miami Blues
Overview: After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds Susie, a mild-mannered prostitute searching for stability. The two opposites become romantically involved, and Junior steals a badge and gun from a veteran detective. Using the officer's identity, Junior embarks on a crime spree and convinces Susie that he is the perfect man.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-20
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Little Laura and Big John
Overview: Based on a true story, this action-packed, hard-hitting depiction of the infamous Ashley gang - who terrorized the southeast in the 1920's - also illustrates a desperate love between two people destined for destruction.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-03
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Fourth Story
Overview: Valerie's husband Darryl leaves for work as usual, but never returns. She hires private eye Shepard to find him. Soon he discovers that David had a second identity and obviously doesn't want to be found. But since Shepard is strongly attracted to the pretty Valerie, he investigates further and gets involved more than professionally.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-19
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The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
Overview: A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop?
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-13
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Rich Girl
Overview: A rich Beverly Hills girl gets a job as a waitress, and falls in love with a rock singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-03
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Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Overview: The army of the Marauders, led by King Terak and the witch Charal, attack the Ewoks village, killing Cindel's family. Cindel and the Ewok Wicket escape and meet Teek in the forest, a naughty and very fast animal. Teek takes them to a house in which an old man, Noa, lives. Like Cindel, he also crashed with his Starcruiser on Endor. Together they fight Terak and Charal.
Genres: Adventure Family TV Movie Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-24
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The Waiter
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-01
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The Passing
Overview: The three Naibert children, in their teens and early twenties, inherit a vast estate from their grandmother Rebecca. But unknown to them, the family inheritance has passed from grandmother to granddaughter for centuries-and Rebecca has a long reach from the grave to assure that the line is unbroken. The first weekend in the mansion is a party for the three Naiberts and their friends-but one by one, they vanish without a trace. Is death the punishment for violating Rebecca's spell? Are the demons that beset the young people real-or only reflections of their own fear? Is it murder, violence from another dimension, or madness? The answer lives in the reflections.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-20
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Dragnet: Sticks and Stones
Overview: A high school student is murdered in a satanic ritual.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-30
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Forever, Lulu
Overview: When Elaine, an adventurous young woman from Germany, arrives in New York City, she sets out to be a famous writer. After a brief stint at a mundane job, Elaine falls on hard times and also becomes intrigued by a mysterious stranger named Lulu. Before long, Elaine gets roped into situations involving theft, murder and the mob. Can the beleaguered expatriate with big dreams turn her life around and steer clear of crime and chaos?
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-13
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Nothing to Lose
Overview: A young street fighter seeks revenge against a powerful drug lord who killed his entire family. Using of his many special combat skills, he's about to take down a whole criminal operation, reaching his goal whatever the consequences.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Challenge of a Lifetime
Overview: Nora Scoonover is 35, divorced, in debt and going nowhere when her 16 year-old son, Steven, runs away from camp and asks to spend the summer with her. Together they decide that she will enter the Ironman Triathlon competition in Hawaii, although she has not done any running since high school. The experience brings them together.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-14
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Hit Man
Overview: Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a crime kingpin’s sprawling pleasure dome, from corner hangouts to a wildlife preserve, Tyrone covers a lot of real estate, busts a lot of heads.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-20
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Not Another Teen Movie
Overview: On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-07
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Ike
Overview: Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-03
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She's Having a Baby
Overview: Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-05
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National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Overview: An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the 'Wilderness Girls' cookie drive.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-04
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There Goes My Baby
Overview: It's the summer of 1965, and the members of the graduating class of upscale Westwood High are eager to reinvent themselves. Valedictorian Mary Beth wants to attend a liberal university. Surfer bum Stick plans to enlist to fight in Vietnam. Calvin lives in the poor Watts section of Los Angeles, which is slowly erupting in violence. As the summer nights grow long, they'll all be forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-02
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Wishman
Overview: Basie is a man who collects junk and tries to make something out of it. He is also in love with Lily, a woman he has never spoken to but salutes every day. She is about to get conned out of her money by her greedy lawyer. And then there is the Genie who has lost his bottle and seeks Basie's help.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-18
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Arthur
Overview: Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-17
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The Giving Tree
Overview: Nine former schoolmates, staying at a secluded mountain cabin for a reunion, try to figure out why one of their friends and their hostess would invite them there and commit suicide which prompts them to look into the mysterious and dark past of their 10th friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-07
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Money Talks
Overview: Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-22
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Women at West Point
Overview: A fictionalized drama about the first women to enter the U.S. Military Academy in 1976 and the reactions they faced.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-27
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Ski Party
Overview: Two college boys from SoCal attend a spring break vacation at a ski lodge in Idaho to get insider tips on how the president of the ski club manages to attract so many girls as a way to make amends to their girlfriends. Alongside this relatively simple endeavor are ice-skating polar bears, love triangles, musical numbers, and quick-switching in and out of drag to achieve the goal of discovering what went wrong in the boys' romantic lives.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-30
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Spooner
Overview: An escaped convict starts a new life as a Texas high school English teacher and wrestling coach, attempting to turn a fledgling team into a championship squad. He tries to make a difference in the life of a tough juvenile delinquent and falls in love with a fellow teacher, all while trying to keep out of sight of pursuing lawmen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-02
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Toma
Overview: This TV-pilot, later made into a TV-series, is about a cop in Newark, New Jersey, who defies his superiors to try to bring down the head of a Mafia numbers racket.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-21
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Sincerely Yours
Overview: Documentary about the making and impact of "The Breakfast Club."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-16
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Banning
Overview: A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-13
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The Book of Caleb
Overview: A comfortable underachiever and serial prankster, in the midst of their quarter life crisis, reunite against childhood enemies in a contemporary suburban epic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Looking for Richard
Overview: Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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