Joanne Vannicola
Also Known As: Jo Vannicola
Biography: Joanne Vannicola is a Canadian actor and writer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Birthday: April 20, 1968
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Gender: Other
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Taking Care of Terrific
Overview: 14-year-old Enid Crowley hates her name and everything about her boring life. All this changes when she becomes a full-time babysitter to a sheltered boy. The two hook up for some hilarious adventures in the park with a mysterious bag lady and a street musician. With the help of Enid's boyfriend, Seth, they try to give the park dwellers a "special evening," but their good deed backfires and lands them in trouble.
Genres: Family Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-16
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Iron Eagle on the Attack
Overview: While Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school, he turns to his protégé Doug Masters to assist him in rounding them into shape for an important competition. During their training, they stumble upon a group of subversive air force officers who are dealing in toxic waste as a sideline.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-01
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Love & Human Remains
Overview: In a Canadian metropolis, failed actor David shares a place with the bookish Candy, whom he dated before coming out as gay. While David, who now waits tables, pursues an aimless romance with a younger coworker, Candy dabbles in both same-sex and heterosexual affairs. As David and Candy's odd assortment of friends — including a telepathic sex worker and an ill-tempered yuppie — pass in and out of their beds, a serial murder stalks the city's women.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-22
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Hard Feelings
Overview: It's 1963 and teenage Barnie has problems. School bullies are after him, his family is dysfunctional and his girl Leslie screws around. On the run from bullies, he hides in the African-American part of town and meets cute Winona.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-12
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To Save the Children
Overview: Teacher Jake Downey has relocated to a small town in Wyoming hoping to escape the urban problems of his last assignment. His myth of rural bliss is shattered when a former police officer comes unglued, builds a bomb and takes Jake's class hostage. The heroism of his true story unfolds as the hostage drama takes many surprising turns towards the phenomenal conclusion.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-05
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Martha, Ruth & Edie
Overview: Two women attending a Women's Seminar on personal development walk out in acute embarrassment during the introduction. They meet up with a woman who arrived too late to be admitted. Thrown together by chance, they discuss their emotional lives in intimate detail.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Ultimate Betrayal
Overview: Based on a true story about two sisters who sue their father for incest and child abuse. As the story unfolds, it is revealed that the father severely abused all six children, and committed incest with all four of his daughters.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-20
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The Wandering Soul Murders
Overview: Haunted by the murder of her politician husband 6 years ago, former police detective Joanne Kilbourn (Wendy Crewson) keeps looking for clues, with the help of her old partner (Victor Garber). When a prime suspect is caught, it looks as if the killer may finally be brought to justice … but in a shocking turn of events, the suspect is gunned down as he's brought to the police station. Is there more to her husband's death than Joanne realized?
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-09
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Thoughtcrimes
Overview: Freya McAllister suddenly starts hearing voices in her head on the night of her High School Prom. One night Dr Michael Welles arrives telling Freya that she isn't crazy but that her voices are the thoughts of everyone around her. He teaches her to turn her telepathic powers into a powerful gift. What he doesn't say is that he works for the National Security Agency...
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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The Great Polar Bear Adventure
Overview: A Polar Bear tries to teach her two cubs about life in the Arctic and the new challenges they face due to the interference of man. The Great Polar Adventure takes audiences inside the secret life of polar bears and imagines life from their perspective. Ikuk, a new polar bear mother, faces tremendous challenges as she raises cubs for the first time. With the rise of global warming, she must lead her family into dangerous "two-leg" territory to scavenge for food.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Pirate's Passage
Overview: Set in 1952 Grey Rocks – a centuries old town that was famous 250 years ago as a favored port of pirates – Pirate’s Passage follows the story of 12-year-old Jim. Fraught by the death of his father and forced to endure schoolyard bullying each day, Jim manages to carry on, buoyed by his optimistic imagination and fueled by his sense of adventure. The sudden arrival of Captain Johnson, whose small sailboat has been thrown off course by a storm, changes Jim’s life. The Captain quickly becomes a mentor and friend to Jim, giving him extraordinary lessons in self-reliance and determination. Soon, Jim develops a liberating self-assurance that so deeply touches the Captain that he allows Jim to see evidence that the Captain may be more than meets the eye. Is Captain Johnson the same Charles Johnson who was a pirate there two hundred years ago? The lad goes with him on a literal journey into the past to find out and emerges able to navigate the course of his life.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-04
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Sea Change
Overview: A teenage girl makes a startling discovery about her connection to the Seawalkers, legendary beings who are half-human, half-sea creature.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-17
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The Animal Project
Overview: As a thirty something acting teacher attempts to push a group of eager young performers out of their comfort zones, he struggles with his own ability to live an authentic and fulfilling life with his teenage son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-11
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Body So Fluorescent
Overview: Two friends have a falling out after a night of dancing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-01
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Hysteria
Overview: Legendary actor Patrick McGoohan turns his famous character from THE PRISONER upside down as the psychiatrist in charge of an insane asylum. He has connected his inmates into a group mind where they share each other's psychoses, dreams and sexuality with all the scary and titillating implications imaginable! Like his highly acclaimed cult classic MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH, director Rene Daalders provocative excursion into sci fi-horror filmmaking looks at first glance like a classic grindhouse movie, but it is up to much more. In addition to its operatic mayhem, HYSTERIA is a mind-expanding reflection on individual vs. group consciousness, power, control, and freedom.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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The Stalking of Laurie Show
Overview: A teenage girl becomes entangled in a volatile relationship with a pair of high-school lovers.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-12
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Stonewall
Overview: Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against the gay community leads to riots on June 28, 1969.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-18
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Trashed
Overview: With nowhere to go after a vicious homophobic attack, Jay finds their way to an abandoned house they once lived in as a teenager.
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Original Language: en
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Stories from my Gay Grandparents
Overview: After a near-death experience lights a flame within both Grandma and Grandpa, they decide to grab life by the boas and tell the world their deepest secret: they’re gay. Having lived under the guise of a straight relationship for decades, they’re coming out of the closet, ditching their small-town life, and going after their big gay dreams. First stop, the big city, to learn “how to be gay” from the best gay people they know – their grandchildren. Navigating the queer dating scene, dating apps, queer fashion, and even a gay dodgeball league, this late-in-life coming out story is all about being empowered to love authentically no matter your age.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-29
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The Marriage Bed
Overview: Linda Griffiths stars as very pregnant Annie Graham, who's about to give birth to her third child in seven years. Annie looks back via flashbacks at how her own plans for a career got sidetracked and how her marriage suddenly went off the rails on a crazy train. At the same time she's trying to cope with a Christmas season full of inlaws, family and neighbours.. and a husband who's gone awol in order to 'find himself'.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-22
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Betrayal of Silence
Overview: A new lawyer investigates the abuse case of a young orphan girl and begins to believe that the orphanage priests have something to hide.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Love & Murder
Overview: A photographer who lives in an apartment building takes sneak photos of women in their apartments. One day he accidentally photographs a murder, and the killer goes after him.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-19
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Toby McTeague
Overview: Toby is a teenager who doesn't care much about school. In fact, he has his eyes on the title of a prestigious dog-sleigh race. He will have to undergo extensive training in order to win it.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-01
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9B
Overview: The story of a young idealistic teacher and his struggle with a class of difficult students in a northern British Columbia school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-06
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What Makes a Family
Overview: Janine and Sandy are a lesbian couple who decide to have a baby, but after a few years Sandy dies. This tragedy is exploited by Sandy's parents to snatch the girl from Janine's care. But then, and despite having the laws against her, Janine decides to fight in order to regain custody of her daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-22
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Stardom
Overview: A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-13
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Days of Darkness
Overview: Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-26
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Derby
Overview: Katie once left her parent's horse ranch behind her. Now, when her father is sick Katie has to return to the farm. She meets Cass, now a grown man whom she had a crush on as a kid.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-17
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