Lisa Jakub
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: December 27, 1978
Age: 46 years old
Gender: Female
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Independence Day
Overview: Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-25
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Mrs. Doubtfire
Overview: Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as a British nanny. Soon he becomes not only his children's best pal but the kind of parent he should have been from the start.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-24
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Eleni
Overview: Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Rambling Rose
Overview: Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and she knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-10
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Matinee
Overview: A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-29
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George Lucas in Love
Overview: 1967 film student George Lucas has writer's block trying to finish his "Space Wheat" script, until a beautiful fellow student with a familiar hairstyle teaches him that the best stories are in plain sight.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-18
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The Story Lady
Overview: When Grace comes to live with her daughter and son-in-law, she is eager to find a way to be useful in the community. She loves to read stories to children, and decides to read one on public access television. The response is so strong that a large company hears about it and offers her a television series. Her life becomes complicated as she is forced to make some serious decisions. Through it all, Grace is able to help a young mother realize that time is the most valuable gift she could give to her daughter.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-09
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Painted Angels
Overview: The story centers on the life of a bordello in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. The whorehouse is run by pragmatic madam Annie Ryan and the film follows the life of several of her girls.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-21
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A Pig's Tale
Overview: Kids' comedy with all the clichés. Six boys (hero, pudgy, dumb, romeo, etc), reluctantly sent to summer camp, are grouped together in a ramshackle hut, and instantly identified as losers and outcasts by the overconfident camp bullies, who target gorgeous Tiffany (Jakub) as their Lothario's girlfriend. They set out to make everyone's life miserable as they impose their authority on the other kids and ineffective counselors alike. Andy, the good-guy hero, of course has a crush on Tiffany, but hasn't a clue how to approach her. Gradually, the nice guys gain the edge over the bullies, by honest endeavor and standing up for themselves - and in doing so, win over the other kids, even Tiffany. Until the bullies frame them and have them expelled.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-07
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Dream House
Overview: An inventor moves his family into a prototype smart home in order to work out the kinks and sell the program. But the AI gets the idea that its human inhabitants are standing in the way of its goals and tries to eliminate them.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Picture Perfect
Overview: Two teenagers (with single parents) join their families together in order to win the grand prize in a soda company competition by pretending to be the perfect family. The only problem is the CEO of the company must live with them for one week.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-14
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The Phone Call
Overview: A married man calls the wrong number for phone-sex and winds up being stalked by a psychotic man.
Genres: Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-30
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Once Upon a Giant
Overview: Lester and Humphrey are the Royal Jester and Doctor, respectively, in a Kingdom terrorized by a mysterious giant whose presence is known only by his horrible voice and giant shadow. The giant takes the crown jewels which permit the Evil Prince Malokeo to convince the King to let him marry Princess Marigold. Marigold, horrified at the prospect and in love with Prince Daryl, turns to her friends Lester and Humphrey for help.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Beautician and the Beast
Overview: A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-07
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The Rape of Doctor Willis
Overview: A drama directed by Lou Antonio.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-03
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A Walk on the Moon
Overview: The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-29
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On the Edge of Innocence
Overview: Teenage Zoe Tyler suffers from manic-depression. With a musician father who is never around life seems hard. Zoe eventually lands up in a psychiatric ward for treatment. There she meets Jake, an unstable teenager with an anger problem. They fall in love and are soon separated by their doctors, psychiatrists and parents. Fuming, Jake suddenly sees a chance for escape and takes Zoe with him, along with a few other patients. After a trip around the country, Jake and Zoe must face up to their illness and their crime.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-20
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Bermuda Triangle
Overview: After a strange storm in the Carribean causes a boat to sink, a family finds itself stranded on an island in the "27th dimension".
Genres: Mystery Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-04
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Double Frame
Overview: A shady cop gets in over his head when he frames his partner during a drug scam.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-22
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Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story
Overview: True life drama about a working mum whose life is put back in jeopardy when the man who was convicted of stalking her and killing her cousin comes up for parole.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-02
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Lifeline
Overview: After her daughter is kidnapped by white slave traders, a mother enlists the aid of a world war 2 vet and a boat captain. Together they hunt down the kidnappers.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-15
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A Child's Cry for Help
Overview: A recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her son sick so that she could bring him to the hospital for the attention that it gives her. When the doctor decides to restrict the mother's access to her son and is reporting her to child services, the mother in turn decides to sue the doctor and the hospital. And some of the hospital board don't agree with her diagnosis or think that she's over-reacting. And even while the mother's not allowed access to her son, he is still sick, so is the doctor right or wrong?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-13
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Newton : A Tale of Two Isaacs
Overview: As Newton devotes himself to the difficult and solitary path of challenging the existing view of the universe and proving his own theories on celestial movement and gravity, his young scribe Humphrey wavers between pursuing science or following his heart.
Genres: History Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Christmas Eve
Overview: Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-22
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