Jon DeVries
Also Known As: Jon Devries, Jon de Vries, Jon De Vries
Biography: Jon DeVries is an actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: March 26, 1947
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Gender: Male
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
Overview: Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone. John takes out an ad in a newspaper for a mail-order bride, to which the "plain and tall" Sarah Wheaton answers, soon traveling from Maine to Kansas to become John's wife. Despite the love that grows between Sarah and the family, Sarah finds herself homesick, and she must ultimately choose whether or not to stay.
Genres: Drama Family Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-03
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Skylark
Overview: Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-07
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Doing Life
Overview: Tony Danza stars in this prison drama about Jerome "Jerry" Rosenburg, a self-professed "jailhouse lawyer" who defends himself against the homicide charge that has put him on death row. This tense movie, made in Canada, has the feel of a biographical documentary.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Developing
Overview: About the relationship between a girl and her single mother, who has breast cancer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Lianna
Overview: Lianna's life is a succession of domestic errands and boring faculty parties, however her heaviest cross to bear is dealing with her waning marriage to Dick. In order to find intellectual stimulus, Lianna takes a college extension child-psychology course taught by Ruth. When Lianna catches Dick having an affair with a young coed, she finds comfort and eventually true love in the arms of Ruth. However, this comes with a price as everything in her life is turned upside down.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-19
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Che: Part One
Overview: The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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Grand Isle
Overview: A married woman in 1890s Louisiana meets a handsome Creole, reawakening her sexual desires, and is tempted into an affair with the man.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-23
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The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck
Overview: A shopkeeper is condemned by the police and the press for sleeping with a suspected terrorist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-24
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Zelda
Overview: Famous 1920s modernist writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his eccentric Flapper socialite wife Zelda Sayre's relationship began quite passionately, but he slowly fell into alcoholism and she was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-06
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The Five Forty-Eight
Overview: An advertising man, emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him, has seduced and then fired and discarded his secretary. She pursues him and forces him to confront the squalor of his life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-07
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Invasion U.S.A.
Overview: A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-27
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American Gangster
Overview: Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-02
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Rachel River
Overview: A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Somewhere Else
Overview: A father discovers the electronic game his son has been playing may be a recruiting tool for a maleficent force.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-14
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Vengeance Is Mine
Overview: Unsuccessfully trying to close old family wounds on a trip back to the Rhode Island home of her miserable childhood, a troubled young woman finds her new friendship with a neighbor has her stuck in another family drama.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-27
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Finnegan Begin Again
Overview: A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-24
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We Only Know So Much
Overview: A married woman has an affair with a suicidal lover while caring for her husband's sick relatives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-23
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Uncle Vanya
Overview: Vanya and his niece Sonya struggle to care for the estate owned by Vanya’s brother-in-law Alexánder, a wealthy professor. When he returns with a beautiful new wife and plans to sell the estate, hidden passions explode and lives come undone.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-23
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Fat Man and Little Boy
Overview: Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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That Hopey Changey Thing
Overview: Set on election day, November 2, 2010. Uncle Benjamin’s dog has died, and his nieces and nephew have gathered for dinner in Rhinebeck, New York, to surprise him with a new one. While the polls close, the Apple Family discusses memory, manners, and politics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-21
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Sweet and Sad
Overview: The Apple Family finds themselves together again for the first time since Election Night, 2010. Marian, reeling from a personal tragedy, now lives with her sister Barbara; sister Jane is back with her boyfriend Tim; their brother Richard has come up from Manhattan; and Uncle Benjamin prepares for his first dramatic performance in years. Over Sunday brunch on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Apples find themselves talking about loss, memory, remembrance, and the meaning of compensation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-21
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Sorry
Overview: A year after Sweet and Sad, the Apple Family again share a meal in Rhinebeck, NY, as they sort through personal and political feelings of loss and confusion on the morning of the day the country will choose the next president. Like the first two plays in this trilogy, Sweet and Sad and That Hopey Changey Thing, Sorry opens on the day that it is set, November 6, 2012: Election Day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-21
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Regular Singing
Overview: The fourth and final play in this captivating series, Regular Singing, opened on November 22, 2013 – the 50th Anniversary of JFK's assassination that shocked the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-21
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What Do We Need to Talk About?
Overview: In the midst of our unsettled world, the Apple Family, last seen in 2014, return, though not over the dinner table, but via Zoom. This hour-long play picks up with them during their now suspended and quarantined lives. They talk about grocery shopping, friends lost, new ventures on a hoped-for horizon—all at a time when human conversation (and theater) may be more needed than ever before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-29
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Too Young The Hero
Overview: TV movie based upon the true story of Calvin Graham, who, as a 12 year old boy, enlisted in the US Navy during WWII.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-27
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Evening
Overview: As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick Wilson), who was the love of her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-09
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Kill Your Darlings
Overview: A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-16
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Me and Veronica
Overview: Two sisters share a disturbing family secret.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-24
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