David Wohl
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Biography: David Wohl was born on September 22, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Revenge of the Nerds (1984), Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) and The Wackness (2008). He has been married to Eileen McMahon since August 1978.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Birthday: September 22, 1953
Age: 71 years old
Gender: Male
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The Couch Trip
Overview: The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-15
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A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
Overview: Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help. When he brutally beats her and slashes her throat in front of police, she sues the city and the police department for failing to protect her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-02
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Hot Shots! Part Deux
Overview: Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.
Genres: Action Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-21
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Gotcha!
Overview: A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron Curtain by a sexy spy.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-03
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Revenge of the Nerds
Overview: At Adams College, the jocks rule the school from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own fraternity to protect their outcast brothers, the campus nerds soon find themselves in a battle royale as the Alpha Betas try to crush their new rivals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-20
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Death Merchants
Overview: A Mafia boss is killed which sets in motion a chain reaction of confusion, violence, power struggle and murder.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Like Father Like Son
Overview: Dr. Jack Hammond has best chances to become medical superintendent in the clinic. So he's completely absorbed in his work and has no understanding for his teenage son Chris' problems with school. By accident one of them drinks a brain-exchanging serum, and it switches their identities. This leads of course to extraordinary complications in school and at work, but also to insight in the problems and feelings of each other.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-02
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Badge of the Assassin
Overview: Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-04
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Chillers
Overview: While waiting for their bus, five passengers who have all just had horrible nightmares decide to tell them to each other to help kill time.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Wackness
Overview: Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, who just happens to be the doctor's daughter. This is a coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, music and what it takes to be a man.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-03
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Treasure Trouble
Overview: After finding a gun on the beach, a young woman is caught up in a night of cascading misadventures as she teams up with her rich ex-boyfriend and his fiancée to return the gun to the Russian mob in exchange for her kidnapped dog.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-08
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In the Best Interest of the Child
Overview: Jennifer's daughter is having nightmares and acting violently. It dawns on her that the child may be being sexually abused by her father. What is she to do when the court isn't favorable in the child's hour of need?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-20
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Arnold's Halloween
Overview: Arnold and Gerald try to play a Halloween prank on Grandpa by making him think aliens have landed in the city. However, the broadcast gets leaked and scares everybody in the city.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-27
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Joe Gould's Secret
Overview: Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-21
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Armed and Dangerous
Overview: After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defense lawyer Norman Kane. When the two botch a job guarding a local warehouse, they begin to uncover corruption within the company and their union.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-15
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Island Sons
Overview: A successful businessman in Hawaii disappears amid allegations of illegal activities. Years later his four sons bear the burden and repercussions of these allegations, as well, taking care of his legacy. Now when a stranger comes all sorts of things happen like a secret that their father kept from them and the truth of their father's disappearance.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-15
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Brewster's Millions
Overview: Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-22
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Roe vs. Wade
Overview: Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-15
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Turk 182!
Overview: After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a young girl, he grows suicidal. Furious, his brother Jimmy attempts to have Mayor Tyler intervene, but the corrupt politician instead denounces Terry as a drunk. Determined to get justice, Jimmy begins a graffiti campaign of embarrassing slogans mocking the mayor, which soon captivates the city.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-15
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Oceans of Fire
Overview: Ben, a former Navy officer now works on a rig as the guy in charge, but since a lot of crew keeps dying whilst diving and planting the rig in the sea he needs men who are willing to take the risk. He gets in touch with an old friend from the Navy who works in a prison as sort of an diving training base and there Ben selects out the best to complete the task, but with superiors breathing down his neck, a camera crew now jumping on board and a deadline to meet he wants to finish the job and make sure the men stay alive, but not all things work out as he plans.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-16
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You Must Be Joking
Overview: A New Yorker working as a paralegal searches for a new lease on life before a childhood friend inspires her to take up comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-23
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Sophie's Choice
Overview: Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-08
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Rear Window
Overview: Jason Kemp, a recently paralyzed architect, lives in a high-tech apartment filled with assistive technology. As a quadriplegic confined to his home, he passes the long hours by spying on his neighbors from his apartment window. His innocent pastime takes a deadly turn when he believes he witnesses a murder. Determined to uncover the truth, Jason continues to dig deeper - eventually finding himself locked in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-22
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She Led Two Lives
Overview: A married woman is reunited with her childhood sweetheart, and marries him too, forcing her to live two lives at once.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-20
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Saving Private Ryan
Overview: As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-24
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Asher
Overview: Asher is a former Mossad agent turned gun for hire, living an austere life in an ever-changing Brooklyn. Approaching the end of his career, he breaks the oath he took as a young man when he meets Sophie on a hit gone wrong. In order to have love in his life before it's too late, he must kill the man he was, for a chance at becoming the man he wants to be.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-07
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The War of the Roses
Overview: Barbara and Oliver Rose live happily as a married couple. When Barbara starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver and likes what she sees, the two begin a campaign to force each other to leave their house, with their divorce lawyer D'Amato caught in the middle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-08
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Presumed Innocent
Overview: Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-27
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Cookie
Overview: Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-02
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D.A.R.Y.L.
Overview: Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.
Genres: Family Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-14
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The Steel Collar Man
Overview: An android soldier and its creator are on the run from the government (which it was created for and wants to destroy it), and find help from a truck driver with whom they help people.
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-07
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Troop Beverly Hills
Overview: A Beverly Hills housewife in the middle of a divorce tries to find focus in her life by taking over her daughter's Wilderness Girls troop.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-24
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Switch
Overview: Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-10
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Carpool
Overview: Four strangers are thrown together in a carpool when a bag of money, almost a million dollars, falls from a Brinks truck into their path. Because of circumstances, they are unable to turn in the money, and they struggle over what to do. They are pursued by thieves, the mob, and the police.
Genres: Action Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-05
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Beer
Overview: An advertising firm, desperate to keep an account from a financially-ailing brewery, concocts a macho ad campaign centering on three losers who inadvertently prevent a robbery at a bar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-30
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Terms of Endearment
Overview: Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together, they help each other deal with problems and find reasons to live a joyful life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-20
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Hero in the Family
Overview: A teenage son of an astronaut tries to help his father after he and a chimpanzee switch brains as the result of a space flight mis-hap in which the boy must protect the "chimp" in which his...
Genres: Family Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-28
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Terrible Joe Moran
Overview: A wheelchair-bound, former boxer deals with his long estranged granddaughter whom is seeking financial help for her writing career and helping her loser boyfriend get out of debt with the local mob.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-26
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