Oscar-winning director Sidney Lumet, who began his career during the "golden age" of live television, returned to his TV...
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Joe Rifkind
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2001
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Following up on her acclaimed debut, Clockwatchers, Jill Sprecher spins this intricate ensemble film about life's big...
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Gene
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2002
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Studio mogul Joe Roth returns to his roots as a director with this romantic comedy co-written by Billy Crystal and starring...
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2001
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Antonio Banderas plays the title role in this cable-TV reenactment of a little-known chapter in the life of Mexican...
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2003
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When militants seize control of the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the height of the Iranian Revolution, CIA agent Tony Mendez...
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Lester Siegel
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2012
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Dr. Ramon Madera
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1985
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Barry B. Benson (voice of Jerry Seinfeld) is your average honeybee. Despite having recently received his diploma from bee...
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2007
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It took nearly two years after its completion for Big Trouble to reach the big screen. Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are...
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Leonard Hoffman
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1985
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Tony Restrelli (Brian Bloom) left his San Diego mobster family after college to "go straight" on Wall Street. Not only did he...
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Willy the Hammer
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1999
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Bullets Over Broadway is a Woody Allen romp that, as the title suggests, combines gangsters with show business at the height...
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1994
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This lively musical was made to capitalize on the popularity of calypso music and features some excellent production numbers....
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One of The Tarriers
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1957
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Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation...
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Capt. Yossarian
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1970
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A married father and a swinging single swap bodies after a wild night of drinking, and do their best not to throw each...
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Mitch's Dad
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2011
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A former baseball player (Alan Arkin) has descended into alcoholism, and meets up with a has-been entertainer (Carol Burnett)...
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Flash
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1981
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A dysfunctional family living on a picturesque island in the Bronx spares no expense in avoiding the truth about their...
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Michael Malakov
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2010
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This gentle baseball fantasy centers on a former ball player who has spent thirty years bitterly brooding over the fact that...
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1993
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Three rebellious bickersome brothers reunite to drive their father's title car from their Detroit homes to Florida. The auto...
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1990
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A frustrated seminary student weighs the prospect of life as a family man against a future in the clergy after meeting a...
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Father Behnke
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2006
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One of Terrence Malick's early screenwriting efforts, this loosely-structured road movie finds a questionably sane...
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Cooper
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1972
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This TV-movie was based on a true story of criminal culpability in the ecological crisis. Alan Arkin stars as an ex-convict...
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1986
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Alan Arkin stars as real-life Lithuanian seaman Simas Kudirka, a radio operator on a Russian vessel. When his ship docks at...
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1978
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This HBO docudrama tells the real-life story of Dr. Gerald Bull (Frank Langella), a genius weapons designer whose services...
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Colonel Yossi
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1994
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Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands opens as an eccentric inventor (Vincent Price) lovingly assembles a synthetic youth named...
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Bill Boggs
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1990
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Three of the world's most gifted filmmakers offer their own unique perspectives on love and lust in this omnibus film. The...
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Dr. Pearl - Hal
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2005
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When an institutionalized mental patient witnesses several brutal attacks by the institute's guards upon patients who have...
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1978
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During WWII, Sobibor was a notorious Nazi death camp. This gripping, fact-based drama chronicles the courage of an inmate...
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1987
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Featuring an all-star cast, this episode from the cable-television series Faerie Tale Theatre tells the tale of how a vain...
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1984
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Director, Ezra Fikus
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1977
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A businessman becomes the last line of defense for his family and his business in this thriller. Jack Stanfield...
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2006
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Bruno Barreto returned to his native Brazil after a ten-year absence to direct this fact-based political thriller that was...
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Charles Burke Elbrick
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1997
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Made for television, The Fourth Wise Man was syndicated to local TV stations during Easter week of 1985. Martin Sheen, a...
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1985
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Bean
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1974
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This oddball werewolf outing from hit-and-miss genre auteur Larry Cohen details the comic misadventures of Tony Walker...
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1982
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New Zealand screenwriter Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show) made his feature directorial debut with this science fiction drama,...
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Detective Hugo
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1997
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Chief
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2008
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David Mamet's award-winning play about a group of desperate real estate agents comes to the big screen from director...
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George Aaronow
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1992
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Most people have trouble deciding what to say when they're asked what they've been doing with their lives at a High School...
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Dr. Oatman
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1997
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Two retired boxers (Sylvester Stallone and Robert DeNiro) settle a long-standing beef by heading back into the ring in this...
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2013
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A cynical gambler reluctantly comes to the aid of a mysterious beauty in this interpolation of Casablanca and the real-life...
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Joe Volpi
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1990
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Based on the novel by Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter stars Alan Arkin as John Singer, who is deaf. Singer...
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John Singer
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1968
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Hearts of the West (British title: Hollywood Cowboy) stars Jeff Bridges as Lewis Tater, a 1930s-era aspiring novelist who...
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Kessler
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1975
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When he is accidentally left behind by his owners, a devoted dog sets off on an incredible journey across Canada to find...
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1995
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Jeffrey Martley
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1981
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Down-on-his-luck Las Vegas magician Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) reunites with his old partner Anton Marvelton...
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Rance Holloway
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2013
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Mike Binder wrote and directed this reunion story in The Big Chill vein about of group of ex-campers, now in their twenties,...
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Uncle Lou
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1993
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Dentist Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin) is a respectable man. He has a daughter who is about to marry the son of a very...
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Executive Producer, Sheldon Kornpett
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1979
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The famously inept but accidentally brilliant Inspector Clouseau returns to help foil a group of daring robbers in this...
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Inspector Jacques Clouseau
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1968
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Hard to believe that a rape could be played for laughs, even in a TV movie of the 1970s, but such was precisely the case with...
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1974
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Frankfurter
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1999
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Two guys from Queens wind up in trouble with the mob because of their fondness for prank phone calls in this quickie comedy....
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Lazarro
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1995
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The early ups and later downs in the life of Joshua Shapiro (James Woods) more or less describe the trajectory of this...
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Reuben Shapiro
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1985
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Based on a play by Neil Simon, this comedy concerns Barney Cashman (Alan Arkin), the owner of successful seafood restaurant...
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Barney Cashman
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1972
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Only one of the mythological creatures escapes the evil King Haggard's (voice by Christopher Lee) plan to eliminate all...
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Schmendrick
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1982
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When a pudgy, bespectacled seven-year-old, Olive (Abigail Breslin), voices her desire to take home the coveted Little Miss...
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Grandpa
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2006
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Actor Alan Arkin has an impressive film directorial debut with Little Murders, Jules Feiffer's bitter and moving satire...
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Director
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1971
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This expensive production attempts to bring Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer's subtle philosophical novel The...
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Yasha Mazur
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1979
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A would-be illusionist tries to create some magic for himself and his friends in this comic road movie. Max (Til Schweiger)...
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2000
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Arnie Klein
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2008
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This 60-minute Yuletide TV special stars Alan Arkin as a domineering patriarch. He sees no need for such frills as a...
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Flagg Purdy
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1983
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. once summarized the moral of his novel Mother Night like so: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be...
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1996
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When an evil oil man discovers black gold beneath Muppet Theater, Kermit recruits a Muppet super-fan and his two best friends...
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2011
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1988
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A group of disparate characters look for understanding and compassion in the midst of a lonely holiday season in this comedy...
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Artie
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2004
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A boy divorces his parents in this comic fantasy for the family. North (Elijah Wood) is the sort of kid most parents dream of...
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Judge Buckle
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1994
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In this drama, a conscientious mental patient tries to be freed from an asylum after he sees the guards beating up other...
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1978
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It was certainly no coincidence that the made-for-cable historical film The Pentagon Papers was timed for released just when...
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2003
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Director, Screenwriter
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1969
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In the television miniseries Picture Windows, a number of acclaimed Hollywood directors and top stars team up for short...
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1994
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Striving for a better life for his two sons, a Puerto Rican immigrant named Popi (Alan Arkin) goes about his mission in a...
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Abraham
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1969
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Herb Lee
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2009
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The "Gold Dust Twins" are two L.A. gals who kidnap a likable-loser type who's a driving instructor (Alan Arkin) and force him...
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Rafferty
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1975
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An elderly community handyman and notorious curmudgeon effectively isolates himself from his friends and neighbors by suing...
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Flagg Purdy
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2007
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The director of the Academy Award-winning 2006 crime drama Tsotsi returns to the helm with this tale of a Middle East CIA...
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Senator Hawkins
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2007
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This patchy, uneven combination of fantasy and musical comedy is hilarious in parts and embarrassing in others, though the...
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Capt. Invincible
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1983
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After getting his start as a visual effects artist on the original Star Wars trilogy, Spielberg protege Joe Johnston found...
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Peevy
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1991
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Just because The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming was vastly overrated by contemporary critics does not make it...
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Lt. Rozanov
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1966
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Tim Allen returns as a regular guy-turned-Jolly Old Elf in the second sequel to the 1994 hit The Santa Clause. Scott Calvin...
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2006
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Vittorio De Sica directs the 1967 episodic sex comedy Sette Volte Donna (Woman Times Seven), consisting of seven short...
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1967
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Nicholas Meyer based his screenplay for the "retro" Sherlock Holmes adventure The Seven Percent Solution on his own...
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Sigmund Freud
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1976
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In this far-out comedy that slams it to academia, television, and the military, Simon (Alan Arkin) is a puffed-up professor...
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Simon Mendelssohn
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1980
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Tamara Jenkins wrote and directed this comedy-drama depicting the experience of growing up poor in the 90210 zip code, told...
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Murray
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1998
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Comic actor and former Saturday Night Live stock player Mike Myers attempted to transform himself from the goofy title...
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1993
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Three geriatric criminals reunite to recapture the glory of their lawless youth, but find their celebrations interrupted when...
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Hirsch
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2013
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Director Andrew Davis followed up the action blockbuster The Fugitive (1993) with this Capra-esque box office dud that...
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Lou Perilli
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1995
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A thirtysomething single mother whose boundless potential was squandered through a series of failed relationships and a...
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Joe Norkowski
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2009
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Following up the goofy big-screen comedies Dragnet and Delirious, director Tom Mankiewicz delivered this made-for-cable...
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Tommy Canard
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1993
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1963
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A salesman in a slump turns to a life of crime in this comedy-drama from filmmaker Jill Sprecher. Mickey Prohaska...
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Executive Producer, Gorvy Hauer
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2012
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1976
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This Danish film is set in 1963, at the height of Beatlemania. Played out against the standard pop-culture backdrop is the...
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Songwriter
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1986
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Wait Until Dark is an innovative, highly entertaining and suspenseful thriller about a blind housewife, Susy Hendrix...
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Roat
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1967
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Shirley MacLaine stars as a woman who heads off to Las Vegas with her best friend (played by Jacki Weaver) after recieving a...
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2013
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