Frank Whitten
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Waikato, New Zealand
Birthday: November 15, 1942
Deathday: February 12, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Chameleon
Overview: A super-killer female cyborg with chameleon-like powers discovers maternal instincts when she protects a child from government operatives in this science fiction tale set in the year 2028.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-22
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Vigil
Overview: Toss lives on a sheep farm with her father in New Zealand. When Toss's father dies in an accident, Ethan, an itinerant hunter, wanders onto the family farm and is given a job by her grandfather. Toss's fairly innocent relationship with Ethan is severed when he forms a relationship with her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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The Clean Machine
Overview: A new Premier is elected promising to clean up corruption. He sets up a taskforce headed by a traffic cop thinking he won’t get far. But Inspector Riordan opens up a can of worms and won’t let it go – all the way to the top.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-22
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Accidents
Overview: A gang of construction workers try to relieve tension by taunting their newest member.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-22
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Waiting
Overview: Friends meet at a farm house to await the birth of a baby.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-25
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The Shrimp on the Barbie
Overview: Carlos has failed in show-biz and currently works as a waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex and dumb footballer Bruce celebrating their engagement with her parents. Alex' father is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-31
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Trespasses
Overview: A young woman searches for her identity by joining a "free love" hippie commune, against the wishes of her darkly possessive widowed father. The tensions of small town New Zealand and individual conflicts generated by intolerance and fear, unleashes forces of violence and betrayal.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Outrageous Fortune: The Movie
Overview: It's Christmas 2006. Wolf's in prison to stay, Judd's in prison and trying to get out. The family is going to Tutaekuri Bay, where they go to every year — only some things have changed. Who is that in "their" spot? Who put a gate up stopping access to "their" beach? Who will win the bet on when Pascalle will give it up? And why do they always come here in the first place?
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-26
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Chill Factor
Overview: After a day of filming her popular "Window On The World" television series, hostess Katherine returns to her hotel room to find Clifford, an ex-CIA agent who reveals a saga of a worldwide organization that seeks to destroy the economic stability of every major country. Katherine seizes this opportunity to become a "real journalist" like star reporter Jerry, against the direct orders of news director Carl.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Arriving Tuesday
Overview: Monica arrives back from her big overseas experience to find her boyfriend Nick unchanged. Although Nick styles himself an artist, he is really something of a cultural redneck, and when the couple head up north for a break, and they meet up with Riki, a poet, who is rather less shallow and charming.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-24
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Zilch
Overview: Sam works on the tolls and likes to listen. He overhears more than he bargains for and becomes embroiled in a mishmash of corruption and blackmail. Anna is a hooker who specializes in throwing tomatoes at ageing weirdos. Sam and Anna's paths cross as he works to expose shady maneuvrings by the CEO of Infacorp, who is out to land a contract to build a tunnel under Auckland harbour.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-18
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The Returning
Overview: A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly woman makes love to him, in his sleep. Soon his dreams become more engrossing than his everyday world and girlfriend. Gradually he unravels the tragedy of his spirit lovers' past. To respond to her call, he needs to embrace the hearafter.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-10
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Greenkeeping
Overview: An ex-convict pays for his wife's marijuana by keeping the green at a lawn-bowling club
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-01
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The Leaving of Liverpool
Overview: A poignant and forceful saga which traces the fortunes of two English children uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to the alien environment of Australia in the years following World War Two.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-08
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Airtight
Overview: Set in the nuclear war-torn world of 2040, a congested city is shrouded in a deadly smog, where breathable air is obtainable only through labyrinth shafts that transport the precious gas from high in the atmosphere. These passages are kept functioning by an elite 'Air Force'. The team risk annihilation to expose a deadly blackmail scheme.
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-26
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Peter Pan
Overview: In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-18
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The Man Who Sued God
Overview: A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-25
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Napoleon
Overview: The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-30
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The Roly Poly Man
Overview: Private detective Dirk Trent, a collector of cigarette butts, a "smooth" ladies man, a wearer of bad suits, and he's convinced there's more to an incident he caught on tape, where a man seemed about to murder his mistress with an axe. Delving deeper, the film enters some seldom-trodden territory as it slips easily into horror and sci-fi, while still maintaining the hilarious dialogue
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-01
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Hell Has Harbour Views
Overview: Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It was written and directed by Peter Duncan, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Beasley. It was nominated for "best miniseries or telemovie" at both the AFI Awards and the Logie Awards, losing to The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant at both; and for two additional AFI Awards and an additional Logie Award, all of which it lost to Love My Way.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-30
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