Alan Thicke
Also Known As: Alan Willis Jeffrey
Biography: Thicke was born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley "Joan" Isobel Marie (née Greer), a nurse, and William Jeffery, a stockbroker. They divorced in 1953. His mother remarried to Brian Thicke, a physician, and they moved to Elliot Lake. Thicke graduated from Elliot Lake Secondary School in 1965, and was elected homecoming king. He went on to attend the University of Western Ontario, where he joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada
Birthday: March 01, 1947
Deathday: December 13, 2016
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Gender: Male
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Not Quite Human
Overview: Dr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, an android teenager. Dr. Carson sends Chip to school with his daughter Becky to see whether an android could interact with others. But his former employer decides to try and make a profit by stealing the mechanical boy.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-19
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RoboDoc
Overview: Plagued by uninsured patients, greedy insurance companies, heartless health care conglomerates, and stressed out doctors, the health care delivery system is on the verge of a total breakdown - and Jake Gorman couldn't be happier as suing doctors has made Jake a famous and very wealthy man. Jake never met a doctor he couldn't sue, until now.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-24
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Sperm Donor
Overview: A very rich and lonely dying man discovers the sperm he sold to help get through college has resulted in three children. He is determined to get this dysfunctional group together - whether they like it or not.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-12
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Childstar
Overview: An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Not Quite Human II
Overview: Chip, the android boy is back. This time, he is off to college, suffering from a computer virus and in love with Roberta, another android. Will there be a happy ending?
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-23
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Voices That Care
Overview: Behind the scenes making of the charity single "Voices That Care".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-28
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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
Overview: Don Ready is many things, but he is best-known as an extraordinary salesman. When a car dealership in Temecula teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, he and his ragtag team dive in to save the day. But what Ready doesn't count on is falling in love and finding his soul.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-29
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Shari's Passover Surprise
Overview: Trouble brews as Charlie Horse's campaign for class president leads him to invite the whole class to Shari's for Passover... a fact he conveniently forgets to pass on to Shari until the eleventh hour. Meanwhile, everyone else is getting in on the action... Dom Deluise gets an education on the Seder plate and the significance of each item it holds, and neighbor Robert Guillaume delivers a song and dance explanation of the history of Passover.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-14
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Still Not Quite Human
Overview: In the final film of the series, Chip and his "father" attend a robotics convention. Here, Dr. Carson is kidnapped and replaced by an android. Can Chip and his newfound friends save Dr. Carson from a dangerous competitor?
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Copper Mountain
Overview: Two friends travel to a ski resort, with one looking to hit the slopes, while the other spends time trying to pick up women.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-07
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Hollywood North
Overview: The making of a serious, Canadian arthouse film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his drug-addled star, his leading lady and his venal backers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-12
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The Surfer King
Overview: New kid is town Robbie Zirpollo gets a job at a local water park and meets a motley crew of co-workers, including the park owner's gorgeous daughter, Tiffany. As Robbie gets caught up in a troublesome park love triangle, his co-workers convince this fish out of water to enter the "Employee Olympics" wave pool competition to become the next Surfer King. But the conniving Tiffany has other plans for Robbie.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-21
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Anarchy TV
Overview: A group of anarchists use their public-access TV show to satirize the government until a right-wing preacher attempts to shut them down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-31
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Demolition High
Overview: When a group of terrorists (led by Luther) take over a high school making the students in it their hostages, it is up to several of the students (led by Lenny) to help prevent disaster while the authorities (Slater and General Wainwright) do their part on the other side.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-12
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Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
Overview: Jason and Maggie Seaver are ready to start a new chapter in their lives. The nest is finally empty, they've put the family home up for sale, and they're preparing to spend their retirement years traveling. But all that's easier said than done as Mike and a very pregnant Carol, each with their own agenda for wanting their parents to stay put, team up to sabotage the move. At the same time, little brother Ben, now a realtor, needs the big sale of his parents' home to please his boss. Meanwhile, Chrissie, an aspiring singer, just wants to get out from under her parents' watchful gaze so she can launch her career as a rock star.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-16
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The Growing Pains Movie
Overview: When the Seaver family reunites in Washington, D.C., to celebrate Jason and Maggie's 30th wedding anniversary, Maggie startles everyone when she announces her plans to run for Congress.
Genres: TV Movie Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-04
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Hemingway
Overview: When a wealthy publisher dies, leaving behind the family fortune, his son and heir apparent is shocked to discover that the business has been left in the hands of the man s trusted lawyer, who has been instructed to divide the wealth equally among the family members under the condition that they resolve life-long family issues within eight hours or the company will be sold, and the proceeds given to charity. In the aftermath of this shocking revelation, secrets and conflicts are exposed, and a family s love and faith are put to the test.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-04
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Teddy Bears' Picnic
Overview: In Harry Shearer's tongue-in-cheek comedy, a waiter at Zanbesu Glen (a chi-chi Northern California resort) uses his movie camera to spy on the annual communal vacation of a group of rich, white U.S. government and business leaders who drink and carouse to excess while plotting their next move on the global stage. His goal? To sell the embarrassing and incriminating footage to the media and expose the "leaders" for what they really are.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-29
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That's My Boy
Overview: While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for years, Todd's world comes crashing down when Donny resurfaces just before Todd's wedding.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-14
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
Overview: An actor rigs a fake shooting on TV with the connivance of his friend, the show's host, but the practical joke goes wrong when the gun turns out to contain a live round.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-08
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Ice Angel
Overview: The film tells the story of Matt, a male hockey player who dies in a game and comes back to life as Sara Bryan, a female figure skater due to an accident made by an angel that caused the hockey player to die. Both share the dream of competing in the Winter Olympics. The male hockey player specified that if he returned to earth, he wanted to have a chance to win an Olympic Gold medal on ice leaving the detail that he wanted to be on the hockey team implied. With time running short Matt has to get skating lessons from Sara's one-time rival if he wishes to earn gold.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-05
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Bank$tas
Overview: Life could not be better for best friends Neal and Isaac. They just graduated college and landed their dream job with a top investment bank. But when they discover their boss is planning a crooked student loan deal, their lives are thrown into turmoil. Determined to stop the corrupt plan, they concoct a crazy scheme of sex, drugs and espionage resulting in a wildly chaotic adventure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-18
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Any Place But Home
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Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird!
Overview: Two boys follow in their late fathers foot steps by inventing weird and wonderful gadgets. Trouble lies ahead when after a halloween party the spirit of their father ends up in the latest invention, a robot.
Genres: Family Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-15
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Two of Hearts
Overview: A veterinarian (Gail O'Grady) and a sportscaster (Rob Stewart) meet at the wedding of their former spouses (Corbin Bernsen, Marla Maples).
Genres: Romance Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-14
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Stepmonster
Overview: Todd Dougherty has an imagination driven by comic books. So when he accuses his soon-to-be stepmother of being a monster, no one believes him. When neighbors start turning up dead, it becomes a race against time for Todd to stop this hideous, carnivorous creature from marrying his dad and ruining his life.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-24
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A Cookie Cutter Christmas
Overview: Two longtime rivals and elementary school teachers duke it out during the holidays in a Christmas cookie bake-off, but their real feud ignites over a shared interest in a handsome single dad. With both determined to win the prize and the romance, their competitiveness could jeopardize what matters most this Christmas season.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-09
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Let It Snow
Overview: A resort executive is sent to a newly purchased lodge in Maine with instructions to turn it in to an ultra-modern resort, and finds a charming, successful lodge loaded with holiday spirit. Will she stick with her boss’s plans to tear everything down or find a way to save what she has come to love? Stars Candace Cameron-Bure and Alan Thicke.
Genres: Drama Romance Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-30
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Betrayal of the Dove
Overview: A divorced mother fears for her life after a friend gets her a blind date with a doctor.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-02
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Night of 100 Stars III
Overview: A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-21
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The Secret She Carried
Overview: Ellen, a happily married young teacher is raped and beaten by a man who threatens her and her husband if she goes to the police. She is admitted to the hospital and reports the rape to the police. The police in turn go after a suspect, Lewis Snow. Meanwhile, Ellen finds out that she is pregnant, however, she doesn't know if it's her attacker's baby or her husband's.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-27
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Disorder in the Court: A 60th Anniversary Tribute to the Stooges
Overview: Alan Thicke hosts this syndicated special as a tribute to the legendary Three Stooges with help from special guests, as well as showing a newly colorized version of the 1949 Stooges short Malice in the Palace.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-15
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Lamb Chop's Special Chanukah
Overview: Shari Lewis, Lamb Chop, and the gang discover the true meaning of Chanukah in this special holiday program. The story of the special holiday and all its traditions are celebrated with music and song along with Lloyd Bochner, Alan Thicke and Pat Morita.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-17
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Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget
Overview: The aggravatingly amiable star of "Full House," "America's Funniest Home Videos"
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-17
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Being Canadian
Overview: What does it actually mean to be Canadian? This humorous documentary, featuring interviews with a who's-who of famous Canadians, hopes to find the answer.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-18
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Wish Upon a Christmas
Overview: When business executive Amelia returns home to help a family-run ornament company, the employees see her as their savior who is coming in to rescue the company. They are heart-broken and shocked to learn that her plan to get the company on track involves massive layoffs. As Amelia prepares for the holiday ‘trimmings’, she finds herself rekindling an old romance with her high school boyfriend Jesse, who is also the company’s owner. She also soon begins to see the charm of the local business – but will she be able to save it in time?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-13
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Carolina
Overview: A young woman escapes her wildly eccentric family in search for a life of normalcy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-04
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Alpha Dog
Overview: Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and holds him hostage. Problem now is what to do with 'stolen boy?'
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-27
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Stop the Wedding
Overview: A meddling man and woman determined to stop a wedding for the good of the bride and groom instead wind up falling in love with each other.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-11
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Casper Meets Wendy
Overview: When a warlock threatens Wendy the Good Little Witch, she and her aunts hide out at a resort where Casper the Ghost is vacationing with his uncles. Although Casper and Wendy are told ghosts and witches don't get along, the two are kindred spirits! This spooky family-friendly adventure finds Casper and Wendy bridging the ghost-witch divide to battle the warlock who is intent on destroying Wendy.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-10
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The Clapper
Overview: Eddie Krumble works as a paid audience member for infomercials and experiences a whirlwind of overnight fame after a late-night talk show host publicizes his frequent infomercial appearances.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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The Point
Overview: Years ago, there was a place called The Land of Point, because everything in The Land of Point had one: the barns, the houses, the cars, everything, even the people. Everyone in The Land of Point had a point at the top of its head. Everyone, that is, except Oblio, who was born round-headed. Since he had no point, Oblio, along with his trusty dog, Arrow, was banished to the Pointless Forest. Join them to see what wonders await these two intrepid travelers as they make their way on their amazing, song-filled journey of discovery!
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-02
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SportsCentury Greatest Athletes: Wayne Gretzky
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-10
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Calendar Girl Murders
Overview: During the launch party of a nude calendar, one of the models is thrown to her death by a black gloved killer. When the killer begins to strike again, going in the order of the calendar itself, a hard nosed cop realizes that he needs to solve the mystery, or risk all of the models ending up in the morgue!
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-08
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It's Not My Fault and I Don't Care Anyway
Overview: A rich and famous self-help guru's controversial philosophy of extreme selfishness is put to the ultimate test when his only daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-14
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The Canadian Conspiracy
Overview: A mockumentary illustrating a supposed conspiracy to infiltrate American culture through employing Canadians in the U.S. entertainment industry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-08
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Lamb Chop in the Haunted Studio
Overview: Shari, Lamb Chop, and the gang visit a studio haunted by a mysterious phantom.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-21
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Love's Last Resort
Overview: After ten years of dating, Chloe’s boyfriend Eric still hasn’t matured. Hoping to give him the push he needs, she dumps him; confident Eric will grow up and beg her to come back. However, six months later, Eric meets Chloe for dinner with big news: he’s getting married in a week. Needing a break to mend her broken heart, Chloe takes a vacation, but when she arrives, she learns that Eric and his fiancée are getting married at the same resort!
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-17
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The Trial of Red Riding Hood
Overview: Red Riding Hood is tried for the murder of The Wolf.
Genres: Family Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-20
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Hitting Home
Overview: Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to New York, only to discover that the crime is not covered by the extradition treaty between Canada and the US. She becomes obsessed with bringing the criminal to justice.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-24
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Jury Duty: The Comedy
Overview: Mild and meek accountant Sanford Lagelfost has been charged with embezzling $3 million dollars from Trout Industries. A decidedly mixed bag of jurors are chosen to serve on the case, including Eddie, a waiter; Rita, a high-priced call girl; Phil, a high-powered businessman; and Abby, a rabble rousing ex-hippie. When the star witness, the voluptuous Hope Hathaway, takes the stand, she startles everyone with her stories of Sanford's Lothario-esque conquests. Suddenly, the unassuming Sanford is a celebrity heartthrob and he finds himself in headlines and gossip columns across the country. Due to the case's growing notoriety, the judge sequesters the jury. And things start to get wild...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-14
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Game Changers
Overview: Alex Trebek hosts a documentary about television game shows featuring interviews with a number of game show hosts and producers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-29
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14 Going on 30
Overview: Danny is hopelessly in love with his teacher Peggy Noble. Of course she doesn't even notice him while she plans to marry the obnoxious coach Roy "Jack-jaw" Kelton. When Danny's friend Lloyd invents a growth accelerator for fruit and vegetables to "solve world hunger", Danny uses it on himself and as an adult tries to show her Roy's real personality. However at his first appearance at school as an adult, he's mistaken for someone else...
Genres: Science Fiction Romance Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-06
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Raising Helen
Overview: Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she's always loved, and the new loves of her life!
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-27
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Dance 'Til Dawn
Overview: It's prom night and the kids of Hoover High will be having a night they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley ditches her prom and ends up spending the night with unpopular Dan; Popular guy Kevin goes out with nerdy Angela because he heard she was easy; Patrice continues to blame her boyfriend Roger for everything that doesn't go the way she wants it to.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-23
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Rubdown
Overview: A rich man offers his masseur, a former baseball player with damaged knees, $50,000 to have an affair with his wife so she'll be in violation of their pre-nuptial agreement and he can divorce her without losing his fortune. The masseur agrees although he is already having an affair with the wife, and they together work out a way to set up her husband in order that she does get his fortune. But when the client is murdered and the real wife shows up the masseur has to clear his own name, and as he begins to piece together the evidence he realises that he's been played by yet another man who still holds a grudge from years before.
Genres: Thriller Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-15
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Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
Overview: The fifth annual Walt Disney World Christmas parade. Hosted by Joan Lunden and Alan Thicke, with Regis Philbin (1987).
Genres: Family Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-25
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Notes from Dad
Overview: Trumpet player Roy Allen starts anew as a music teacher in a school full of kids with little exposure to music. Roy connects with a talented virtuoso in need of a father figure. Through the journey of launching a school band and learning to reach kids on their own terms, Nate reconnects with his own estranged son, becoming the father he always wanted to be.
Genres: TV Movie Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-29
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The Windsor Protocol
Overview: Based on the novels by Jack Higgins, Sean Dillon is a maverick British agent who uncovers a plot to take over the presidency of the United States.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-10
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Open Season
Overview: When the television ratings machines suddenly malfunction, public television suddenly, but mistakenly, soars to #1 in this humorous satire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-14
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The Opening of SkyDome: A Celebration
Overview: The Opening of SkyDome: A Celebration - Andrea Martin and Alan Thicke co-hosted the 90-minute event on June 3, 1989, complete with songs written specifically for the celebration with over 5,000 performers which was broadcast nationwide on the CBC,
Genres: TV Movie Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-03
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Shadow of the Bear
Overview: Three young teens are stranded in the wilderness without their parents.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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