Richard Council
Also Known As: Richard E. Council
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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Canadian Bacon
Overview: The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-08
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I'm Not Rappaport
Overview: Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-24
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Overview: The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-02
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Killer: A Journal of Murder
Overview: Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzram's past is much more violent than he thought, but also that he's capable of being a much better person than the rest of the prison staff believes - or so Lesser thinks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood
Overview: A timeless story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small Southern town, Yazoo City, in the 1940s during World War II, roaming with his friends, playing practical jokes, and getting into trouble.
Genres: Family Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-11
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Caris' Peace
Overview: Documentary film about actress Caris Corfman and her theatrical one woman show, Caris' Peace.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-21
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The Manhattan Project
Overview: Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-13
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A Further Gesture
Overview: Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York, but he might as well be in prison again - until he strikes up a friendship with co-worker Tulio and gets to know his close group of Guatemalan exiles.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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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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Diggers
Overview: Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as their grandfathers before them. They must cope with and learn to face the changing times in both their personal lives and their neighborhood.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-09
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The First Wives Club
Overview: After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-20
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The Loss of Nameless Things
Overview: In 1978 Oakley Hall lll was a promising playwright on the verge of national recognition when a mysterious fall from a bridge took his artistic life away. He suffered horrific head injuries, was hospitalized nearly a year and incapicitated much longer. The Loss of Nameless Things is the haunting tale of Hall's fall from grace and what happens when, twenty five years later, a theater company stages the very play he was writing the night he fell. (Bill Rose)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-07
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Camp Stories
Overview: A man named David Katz remembers the formative summer he spent as a kid in an Orthodox Jewish summer camp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-18
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Karma Local
Overview: An engaging comic thriller about a young Indian newsstand clerk who stumbles onto a more exciting life when he agrees to mind a stranger's package at his uncle's subway newsstand.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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When the Evening Comes
Overview: Charlie Corrado is pushing forty and still lives with his grandparents, Martin and Marion Corrado. Although he feels safe in the environment they have created for him, he spends his days and nights longing for something more out of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-05
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Carlito's Way
Overview: Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld. Reconnecting with his dancer girlfriend, Carlito gets entangled in the shady dealings of his friend Dave Kleinfeld, who also serves as his lawyer. An encounter with shifty gangster Benny Blanco sets the duo on a dangerous path.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-10
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You Don't Know Jack
Overview: Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-27
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Unbreakable
Overview: An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-22
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Streetwalkin'
Overview: Cookie is a teen runaway who escapes her abusive stepfather and heads for the Big Apple with her younger brother. When she arrives at the Port Authority bus terminal, Cookie meets a charming but sadistic pimp named Duke. With nowhere to go, Cookie is soon working for Duke, who introduces her to the harsh, brutal life of being a prostitute.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-20
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Overview: New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-19
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Just Like in the Movies
Overview: A divorced private eye keeps in touch with his son and spies on an actress who has jilted him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-04
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