Melanie Mayron
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Biography: Melanie Joy Mayron (born October 20, 1952) is an American actress and director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melanie Mayron, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: October 20, 1952
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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You Light Up My Life
Overview: Laurie has been in show business since she was a child. Her dream is to be a singer, songwriter and actress. Her father wants her to be a comedian like him and Laurie only tries because it pleases her father. But she is a lousy comedian. She auditions for everything and is engaged to Ken, but Ken does not understand her needs. She has a one night stand with Chris, only to later find that he is a director. She has many emotions that have not yet been addressed and she must face them before she can get on with her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-31
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Harry and Tonto
Overview: Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s who has lived in the Upper West Side of New York City all his life. When his building is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States — visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-12
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Missing
Overview: Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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My Blue Heaven
Overview: FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-17
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The Boss' Wife
Overview: Daniel Stern stars as a stockbroker trying to climb the corporate ladder. There's only one thing stopping him...his boss' beautiful and flirtatious wife! THE BOSS' WIFE is a full-bodied, high-spirited, bedroom comedy about lust, love and lechery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale
Overview: A contemporary remake of "Cinderella"
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-09
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Checking Out
Overview: When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortality. Convinced that all his aches and pains are an indication of his imminent death, Ray's life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-26
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East of A
Overview: An aspiring singer, a troubled rich boy, and an ex-seminarian share an apartment in the East Village in this story dealing with AIDS, sexuality, and living in NYC of the late '80s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-03
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The Best Little Girl in the World
Overview: Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-11
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Girlfriends
Overview: A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-11
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The New Love Boat
Overview: Guest stars include Georgia Engel as a stowaway, Gary Frank and Melanie Mayron as a pair of tremulous honeymooners, Stella Stevens and Pat Harrington as an eternally bickering married couple, and Audra Lindley and Phil Silvers as, respectively, an outspoken middle-aged lady and a woebegone widower.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-05
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Hustling
Overview: Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-22
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Range of Motion
Overview: A woman intensely believes her husband will recover from a coma during the holiday season.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-04
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Breaking the Girls
Overview: A naive college student loses a scholarship at the hands of a classmate and makes a pact with a mysterious friend to kill off each other's enemies.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-26
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Sticky Fingers
Overview: Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie, are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend, Diane, to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a million dollars while she scoots out of town in order to avoid trouble. Once the money is in their possession, however, temptation proves too much for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-06
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Wanted: The Perfect Guy
Overview: Sensing his mom is lonely and looking for companionship, a 13-year-old places a personal ad for 'The Perfect Guy'
Genres: Drama Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-01
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Will There Really Be a Morning?
Overview: This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-22
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Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
Overview: The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-07
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Ordeal in the Arctic
Overview: Everybody expected military flight Boxtop 22 from Thule into the vast frozen wilderness of Canada's North Western territories to be boring routine, but in a matter of minutes a crash reduces Gulf War veteran pilot Captain John Couch's crew and passengers to ever-growing despair. First they consider themselves relatively lucky as 14 out of 18 aboard are alive, including Captain Wilma De Groot, a medical doctor, but as time progresses the merciless cold makes it seem hopeless to check on Bob and Sue, who cannot be moved near the only campfire, while rescue attempts on land from Alert ('only' about 10 miles) and by air from Edmonton (8 hours flying) take no less then 32 hours to reach the plane wreck...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-15
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Gable and Lombard
Overview: A biography about the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-11
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The Great Smokey Roadblock
Overview: An old trucker steals his truck for one last cross-country run, with a madam and her crew on board.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-21
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Heartbeeps
Overview: Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-18
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Lily: Sold Out
Overview: After taking her successful Broadway show to Las Vegas, Lily Tomlin is faced with a tough decision: soften her act for mass appeal, or keep her material the way she originally intended?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-02
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Car Wash
Overview: This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-22
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Other Women's Children
Overview: A doctor's relationship with a terminally ill child adds pressure to her already rocky marriage as she spends more time with her patient and gradually neglects her home life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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Drop Zone
Overview: A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered to turn in his badge, he seeks out Jessie Crossman, a noted skydiver, and offers to sponsor her crew for the annual Independence Day parachuting show in Washington, D.C., if she trains him. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the mid-air jailbreak is planning a daring computer theft on Independence Day.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-08
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Playing for Time
Overview: When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.
Genres: Drama Music History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-30
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The Gambler
Overview: New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-02
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Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Overview: High School grad and all American gal, Anna, finds her purpose and herself after she hooks up with the radical feminists in The Itty Bitty Titty Committee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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Toothless
Overview: A female dentist is cast into limbo after her death in an accident and is given the assignment to act as the Tooth Fairy as her action to be admitted into heaven.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-05
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Clockstoppers
Overview: Until now, Zak Gibbs' greatest challenge has been to find a way to buy a car. But when he discovers an odd wristwatch amidst his father's various inventions and slips it on -- something very strange happens. The world around him seems to come to a stop, everything and everybody frozen in time. Zak quickly learns how to manipulate the device and he and his quick-witted and beautiful new friend, Francesca, start to have some real fun.
Genres: Adventure Family Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-29
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The Earth Day Special
Overview: The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the two hour special featured an all-star cast addressing concerns about global warming, deforestation, and other environmental ills.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-22
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Freaky Friday
Overview: Fun-loving Annabelle Andrews and her uptight mother, Ellen, have a hard time getting along with each other. One Friday the 13th, they both wear magical necklaces that make them switch bodies for the day.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-06
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The Baby-Sitters Club
Overview: Seven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-18
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Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold
Overview: A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-23
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The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
Overview: After making it to the top of the charts, members of the Silver Boulders, a popular tween rock band, find themselves undermined by internal squabbling as the bandmates seek different creative directions.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-23
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