Michael Mantell
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Biography: Michael Mantell is known for A Mighty Wind (2003), The Ides of March (2011) and Secretary (2002).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: United States of America
Adult: No
Birthday: June 05, 1951
Age: 73 years old
Gender: Male
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City of Hope
Overview: This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-11
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The Brother from Another Planet
Overview: An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-07
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The Ides of March
Overview: Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-07
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Bed of Roses
Overview: The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies clash with her workaholic ways, they soon find out that sometimes, it's harder than it seems for love to conquer all.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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Quiz Show
Overview: Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.
Genres: History Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-25
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Deterrence
Overview: The President of the United States must deal with an international military crisis while confined to a Colorado diner during a freak snowstorm.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-10
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Ca$h
Overview: A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a tumultuous adventure through the streets of Chicago, each are pulled deeper and deeper into a desperate spiral of deception and violence – all in the name of money.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-01
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Eight Men Out
Overview: Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-02
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Blackout Effect
Overview: There has been a mid-air collision involving a passenger jet and a cargo flight, killing everyone aboard the two planes. The NTSB investigator in charge, whose girlfriend died in the crash, is puzzled. On one side, the air traffic controller claims he lost radar contact with the cargo plane shortly before impact, when his screen "blacked out." On the other side, everyone else, including the controller's bosses and the media, put the blame on human error. The truth is soon to be uncovered, as the aging air traffic control facilities are on the verge of failing right in the middle of the busy Thanksgiving season.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-04
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Age Isn't Everything
Overview: Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business — and finds himself turned into a little old man.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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When Billie Beat Bobby
Overview: The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs and young feminist Billie Jean King.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-16
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Voice from the Grave
Overview: A segment from the 'Unsolved Mysteries' TV series inspired this story, in which a nurse (Megan Ward) claims that she's possessed by a murdered co-worker's spirit which identifies the killer.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-20
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Dead Funny
Overview: When her practical joker boyfriend dies, a young woman recalls all the pranks he pulled as she tries to figure out who murdered him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-21
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Matewan
Overview: Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-28
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Power 98
Overview: A controversial talk show host becomes involved in the murder of a beautiful woman in a war for ratings.
Genres: Action Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-17
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Overview: David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-29
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Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Overview: In the second dramatic case for lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman who is wrongly imprisoned and refused release from a mental institution.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-19
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Secretary
Overview: A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-20
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Learning to Drive
Overview: As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-21
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The World's Fastest Indian
Overview: The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-12
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Taking A Stand
Overview: Neighborhood starts examining their feelings of racism when one of the neighbors is caught vandalizing the home of a black family, and people start taking sides.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-19
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Get a Job
Overview: Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will and Jillian who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs. But with help from their family, friends and coworkers they soon discover that the most important (and hilarious) adventures are the ones that we don't see coming.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-17
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Lost Souls
Overview: A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected New York crime journalist, who is devoid of faith, that he is in fact the target of the conspiracy.
Genres: Horror Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-13
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Gun Shy
Overview: Legendary undercover DEA agent Charlie Mayough has suddenly lost his nerves of steel. On the verge of a career-induced mental breakdown, and in complete fear of trigger-happy Mafia leader Fulvio Nesstra, Charlie seeks psychiatric help and finds himself relying on the support of an unstable therapy group and nurse Judy just to get through his work.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-04
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Thank You for Smoking
Overview: Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-09
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Live by Night
Overview: A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-25
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A Mighty Wind
Overview: Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-16
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Passion Fish
Overview: After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-11
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Rangers
Overview: A black ops unit goes to middle east after a terrorist. They are betrayed and their operative is caught. Later, unit leader starts an investigation. Meanwile the enemy offers the operative a chance for revenge against his superiors.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-11
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Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy
Overview: Matt and George investigate a series of strange occurrences involving newcomers, who are found to be programmed to carry out someone's dirty work. The method by which they are brainwashed dates back to the slave ship's rebellion group, the Udara, who, we discover, Susan was a part of. Susan and George's lives are further disrupted when Buck enrols in the police academy.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-29
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Little Man Tate
Overview: Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his extremely powerful intellect is harboured in the body and emotions of a child.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-06
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The Thirst
Overview: Maxx and his girlfriend Lisa are a pair of recovering drug addicts whom are recruited by a clan of sex & violence crazed vampires led by the egotistical and charismatic Darius. But to become members, Maxx and Lisa have to give up their humanity and become vampires themselves. As Maxx and Lisa adopt to their new lifestyle of immortality with all the advantages and disadvantages, their addiction to drugs now turns to addiction to human blood and each new 'fix' leads them deeper into debauchery. Will these two rookie vampires find salvation, or be damned to all eternity of their latest thirst for blood?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-15
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Bart Got a Room
Overview: Danny Stein, a high school senior at the bottom of the social food chain, needs a prom date. As a cause of anxiety for Danny, Bart Beeber, the nerdiest guy in school, has already found a date. At the same time, Danny's divorced parents are both looking for relationships again.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-25
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Ocean's Thirteen
Overview: Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring down Willy Bank along with everything he's got. Even if it means asking for help from an enemy.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-05
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Self Medicated
Overview: Based on true events. On the edges of Las Vegas, 17-year-old Andrew's life is spiraling out of control. Unable to cope with the loss of his father, Andrew's descent into drugs and violence is gaining momentum, and the once promising young man is now headed for self-destruction. Andrew's mother, helpless to control her son and fighting an addiction of her own, refuses to watch idly as her only child destroys himself. As a last resort, she hires a private company to forcibly kidnap and confine him in a locked-down and corrupt psychiatric hospital. As Andrew is subjected to the secret physical and emotional abuses of the program something inside him is re-awakened. He must somehow get free to save what's left of his life, but to do that, he knows he must first face his own demons head-on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-01
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The Velocity of Gary
Overview: When bisexual porn star Valentino meets new-in-town hustler Gary, there is an immediate attraction between the two. Valentino helps get Gary a job at a phone-sex company, and they become fast friends and lovers, but tension threatens their relationship when Gary and Valentino's friend Mary becomes involved. When Valentino finds out he is dying and Mary is going to have his child, the three must work through hard times together.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-16
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Chain of Command
Overview: Secret Service agents must retrieve the briefcase allowing the President control of America's nuclear arsenal before massive destruction ensues.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-22
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Sins of the Mind
Overview: A young woman returning from a renaissance fair survives a car accident, but much to her family's horror, the accident damages her brain and she develops blatantly promiscuous and childlike behavior.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-11
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Out of the Rain
Overview: The heir to a small-town tannery follows a young woman to the truth about his brother's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-23
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Alien Force
Overview: A meteor containing the souls of billions of alien predators crashes on Earth. The alien ruler who encased the evil souls in the meteor sends his top warrior to Earth to find the meteor before his evil rival finds it and uses it to destroy Earth.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-01
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