Richard Kind
Richard Bruce Kind (born November 22, 1956) is an American actor (stage, screen, and voice) and comedian. He is best known for his roles as Captain Stan Yenko on CBS's East New York (2022-23), Dr. Mark Devanow on Mad About You (1992–1999, 2019), and Paul Lassiter on Spin City (1996–2002). He's also well known for his other roles as Peter in The History of the World Part II (2023), Mitch on Netflix's The Watcher, Formica Michael Mikowitz on The Goldbergs, Walter Bloom in tick, tick... Boom! (2021), Cousin Andy on Curb Your Enthusiasm (2002–2021), Rudy Giuliani in Bombshell (2019), John Sears in Suburbicon (2017), Gus Barton on IFC's Brockmire, Marty in All We Had (2016), Mayor Aubrey James on FOX's Gotham, Sam Meyers on the Amazon Prime series Red Oaks, Max Klein in Argo (2012), Joey Rathburn on HBO's Luck starring Dustin Hoffman, Uncle Arthur Gopnik in the Coen Brothers film A Serious Man (2009), Abner Kravitz in the film Bewitched (2005), Louis Tiboni in The Station Agent (2003), He began his acting career in Chicago, where he performed in numerous stage productions. He made his Broadway debut in 1984 in the play "The Pirates of Penzance." He has starred in the smash hit Broadway musical The Producers, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Candide, and Bounce, among others. He is a Drama Desk Award winner and Tony nominee for the Broadway hit The Big Knife. He has appeared in over 50 films, including Clifford (1994), Stargate (1994), For Your Consideration (2006), Hereafter (2010), and Beau Is Afraid (2023).
In addition to his acting career, he is also a vocal advocate for social justice causes. He is a member of the board of directors of the Creative Coalition, an organization that advocates for the arts in public policy. He is also a supporter of the Human Rights Campaign and the Anti-Defamation League. He is also an alumnus of The Second City in Chicago.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 26.975 |
| Birthday | 1956-11-22 |
| Place of Birth | North Trenton, New Jersey, USA |
| Also Known As | Richard Bruce Kind, |
2003
The Station Agent
7.355/637
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a w...
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The Station Agent
1994
Clifford
4.921/89
When his brother asks him to look after his young son, Clifford, Martin Daniels agrees, taking the boy into his home and introducing him to his future...
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Clifford
1992
Tom and Jerry: The Movie
6.315/557
The popular cartoon cat and mouse are thrown into a feature film. The story has the twosome trying to help an orphan girl who is being berated and exp...
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Tom and Jerry: The Movie
2007
Sands of Oblivion
4.8/30
The film tells the story of a prop from the 1923 movie The Ten Commandments that was actually an authentic artifact from antiquity with cursed powers....
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Sands of Oblivion
2007
The Visitor
7.12/424
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
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The Visitor
2003
Spymate
6.047/53
Amelia, a young genius and daughter of a top secret agent, unknowingly invents a contraption that makes her the target of an evil scientist.
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Spymate
2009
A Serious Man
6.748/2006
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him....
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A Serious Man
1998
A Bug's Life
6.969/8863
On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of fre...
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A Bug's Life
2006
The Wild
5.542/1007
An adolescent lion is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Now running free, his zoo pals must put aside their differences to help br...
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The Wild
2007
Big Stan
6.553/859
A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial ar...
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Big Stan
2006
Everyone's Hero
5.8/266
A boy begins a grand journey to return Babe Ruth's baseball bat before the deciding game of the 1932 World Series comes to a close.
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Everyone's Hero
2007
Hermie & Friends: Milo the Mantis Who Wouldn't Pray
0/0
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Hermie & Friends: Milo the Mantis Who Wouldn't Pray
2010
Hereafter
6.087/1592
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
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Hereafter
2012
Argo
7.276/8049
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter...
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Argo
2004
Dog Gone Love
7.7/3
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Dog Gone Love
1993
Quest of the Delta Knights
2.3/17
A secret society, the Delta Knights, attempts to save a medieval society from the evil over-lady.
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Quest of the Delta Knights
2012
Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
6.049/102
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Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
2014
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
5.7/471
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The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
2012
Divorce Invitation
4.5/29
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Divorce Invitation
2013
One Night Stand
6.5/4
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One Night Stand
2013
Dealin' with Idiots
5.5/36
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Dealin' with Idiots
2014
Obvious Child
6.513/415
An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregna...
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Obvious Child
2004
Nobody Knows Anything!
3.1/19
An aspiring filmmaker learns that success in Hollywood doesn't come as easy as she suspected as she attempts to discover the formula to success. When...
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Nobody Knows Anything!
2014
Chu and Blossom
4/1
A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.
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Chu and Blossom
1988
Vice Versa
5.8/188
A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.
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Vice Versa
2005
The Big Empty
7.3/9
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The Big Empty
1991
All-American Murder
4.3/19
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All-American Murder
2009
Santa Buddies
5.922/217
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Santa Buddies
1999
Our Friend, Martin
7.6/8
Two teens are sent back in time to meet Martin Luther King Jr. at several points during his life.
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Our Friend, Martin
2015
Misery Loves Comedy
6.3/37
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Misery Loves Comedy
2006
Cars
6.965/13489
Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself u...
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Cars
2011
Cars 2
6.114/7491
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rock...
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Cars 2
2014
Yellowbird
5/60
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Yellowbird
2014
All-Stars
6.6/24
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All-Stars
2015
Inside Out
7.915/20351
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Inside Out
2007
The Grand
6/86
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The Grand
2002
The Santa Claus Brothers
6.4/5
This tale of Santa's 3 sons seeks the true meaning of Christmas. Kevin McDonald and Richard Kind add voices that instill a genuine comedy feel. With a...
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The Santa Claus Brothers
2010
Toy Story 3
7.8/14270
Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally le...
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Toy Story 3
2004
Elvis Has Left the Building
5.2/50
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Elvis Has Left the Building
2016
Detours
5/3
A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her widowed dad, her mom's ashes in a coffee can, and a G...
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Detours
2007
The Neighbor
5.2/26
A businessman watches as his life begins to unravel after learning his ex-wife is going to marry his best friend. A distracting battle of wills with a...
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The Neighbor
2015
Mind Candy
3.6/4
This short was released as an extra in the Blu-ray release of Disney Pixar's INSIDE OUT. It's a zany collection clips of the emotions and how they in...
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Mind Candy
2006
For Your Consideration
5.819/160
The possibility of Oscar gold holds the cast and crew of an independent film in its grip after the performance of its virtually unknown, veteran star...
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For Your Consideration
2016
Jacqueline Argentine
5.2/6
A filmmaker introduces us to the subject of his documentary—the beautiful Jacqueline Dumont, a young Frenchwoman who claims to have uncovered a covert...
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1997
Cold Around the Heart
5.179/14
A jewel thief moves towards a reunion of revenge with his lover, who pushed him out of their speeding getaway car.
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Cold Around the Heart
2016
All We Had
5.6/78
A mother struggles to make a better life for her daughter.
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All We Had
2018
Andover
5.2/40
A geneticist clones his dead wife, over and over, in an attempt to get her back exactly as she was.
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Andover
2016
The Lennon Report
6.5/14
The events on the night John Lennon was killed, seen through the eyes of those who lived it. The great men and women of NYC who did all they could to...
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The Lennon Report
2010
The Search for Santa Paws
6.233/195
In the tradition of disney's classic holiday tales comes a heartwarming movie about the power of giving and the true meaning of christmas. Discover ho...
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The Search for Santa Paws
2016
Black Swell
6.2/5
A man tries to kill himself in a motel room.
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Black Swell
2003
Shrink Rap
0/0
The lives of a glamorous power couple are turned upside down when the bartender for their anniversary party turns out to be a student therapist who wo...
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Shrink Rap
2014
What Cheer?
3/1
After the sudden passing of his wife, Stan ignores his overwhelming grief only to be faced with an unavoidable 20-piece punk marching band that floods...
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What Cheer?
2012
The Understudy
0/0
A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price.
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The Understudy
2017
Gilbert
6.7/46
The life and career of one of comedy's most inimitable modern voices, Mr. Gilbert Gottfried.
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Gilbert
2009
Ingenious
5.624/85
A rags-to-riches story of two friends, a small-time inventor and a sharky salesman, who hit rock bottom before coming up with a gizmo that becomes a w...
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Ingenious
2016
Albion: The Enchanted Stallion
5.804/84
A twelve-year-old girl is transported by a magical black stallion to the mystical world of Albion, where she discovers that she alone is the key to sa...
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Albion: The Enchanted Stallion
2014
Ride
5.7/131
Overbearing mom, Jackie, travels cross-country to be with her son, Angelo, after he drops out of college to become a surfer. She meets a surf instruct...
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Ride
1992
Mr. Saturday Night
5.754/52
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes...
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Mr. Saturday Night
2018
Bernard and Huey
5.5/10
Two old friends reunite, which causes complications.
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Bernard and Huey
2006
Raising Flagg
4.2/5
A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.)
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Raising Flagg
2016
The Paper Store
5.1/7
A former college student writes essays for cash until a client becomes her lover.
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The Paper Store
2000
Tom Sawyer
6.079/38
Get ready for a magical, fun-filled journey of adventure, fantasy and friendship! Tom Sawyer and his best buddy Huck Finn love going fishing, daydream...
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Tom Sawyer
2017
Suburbicon
5.884/1640
In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordina...
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Suburbicon
1994
Stargate
7.003/3278
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
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Stargate
2004
Garfield
5.703/3847
Garfield, the fat, lazy, lasagna lover, has everything a cat could want. But when Jon, in an effort to impress the Liz - the vet and an old high-schoo...
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Garfield
1991
Queens Logic
5.8/33
When childhood friends Al, Dennis and Eliot get together for Ray's wedding, which may or may not happen, they end up on a roller-coaster ride through...
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Queens Logic
2014
Sharknado 2: The Second One
4.6/627
A freak weather system turns its deadly fury on New York City, unleashing a Sharknado on the population and its most cherished, iconic sites - and onl...
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Sharknado 2: The Second One
2019
The Last Laugh
5.4/169
After moving to a retirement home, restless talent manager Al reconnects with long-ago client Buddy and coaxes him back out on the comedy circuit.
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The Last Laugh
2020
The Bellmen
4.7/6
When the charming bell captain at a popular Arizona resort decides that becoming a manager is the only way to win the girl of his dreams, he must navi...
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The Bellmen
2021
Auggie
6.4/7
Forced into early retirement, Felix Greystone falls in love with an augmented reality companion, to the detriment of his relationship with his wife an...
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Auggie
2005
The Producers
6.182/451
After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick sc...
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The Producers
1994
Jimmy Hollywood
5.2/61
Jimmy Alto is an actor wannabe who stumbles into the role of a lifetime. He becomes a vigilante crime-fighter, aided by his sidekick William, who has...
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Jimmy Hollywood
2019
John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
7.1/96
John Mulaney and his kid pals tackle existential topics for all ages with catchy songs, comedy sketches and special guests in a nostalgic variety spec...
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John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
2019
Bombshell
6.802/2893
Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought do...
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Bombshell
2008
Heidi 4 Paws
6/2
"Heidi 4 Paws" is a live-action re-telling of Johanna Spyri's 1880 children's classic, "HEIDI", but with fully mouth-articulated dogs in all of the ro...
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Heidi 4 Paws
2008
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
5.391/174
Maya Dolittle is back in a heartwarming adventure of presidential proportions! Maya's dream of going to vet school is put on hold when she gets a call...
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Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
2019
Transparent: Musicale Finale
6.4/17
When the Pfeffermans face a life-changing loss, they begin a journey hilarious and melancholy, brazen and bold. As they face this new transition, they...
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Transparent: Musicale Finale
2009
Help Me, Help You
6.5/2
Discovering he has six months to live, a doctor begins meddling in the lives of six friends he thinks he can help before he dies -- and even as his ef...
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Help Me, Help You
2005
Bewitched
5.054/1495
Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the c...
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Bewitched
2022
Tankhouse
3.8/5
After being blacklisted from the NYC theatre industry, two Upper East Side New Yorkers, Tucker and Sandrene, decide their only course of action is to...
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Tankhouse
2020
Rifkin's Festival
6.148/416
The story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and char...
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Rifkin's Festival
2019
The Social Ones
6.5/2
A mockumentary that explores the lives and anxieties of a group of social media influencers.
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The Social Ones
2007
Fired!
6/8
When actress Annabelle Gurwitch was fired from a play by Woody Allen, she wondered how she would cope with being downsized by a cultural icon. Turning...
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Fired!
1998
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
5.8/55
Told from Mowgli's point of view, it's the story of how a boy became a mancub and a mancub became a man.
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The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
2020
The Stand In
5.4/107
When ordered to serve a year in rehab, actress Candy hires her on-set stand-in to take her place. The unassuming woman flips the script and steals her...
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The Stand In
2006
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
5.45/39
Life has its downs for James, living with his mom in Chicago at 39, an aging performer at Second City, eating and weighing too much. A woman he's been...
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I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
2007
Bag Boy
4.1/11
A teenager enters the competitive world of grocery store bagging.
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Bag Boy
2022
18½
5.6/10
In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18½-minute gap in Nixon's tapes...
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18½
2021
The Independents
6/1
Three solo-artists who collide at the same crossroads and discover harmony. Thus is born “RGB” (at least until they come up with a better band name)...
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The Independents
2021
Off Broadway
0/0
The year is 2020 and the American theater is shut down… but it is not shut off. Off Broadway follows the staff of a non-profit theater as they come to...
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Off Broadway
1997
Hacks
5/3
Brian is a television writer-producer who has to script a 22-episode anthology, but lacks inspiration. He witnesses a strange romantic encounter betwe...
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Hacks
2021
Extinct
6.3/157
Op and Ed, two adorable donut-shaped animals - flummels - accidentally time-travel from 1835 to modern-day Shanghai. There they discover traffic, tra...
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Extinct
2021
tick, tick... BOOM!
7.666/1974
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.
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tick, tick... BOOM!
2021
Cupid for Christmas
4.8/5
Cupid, the god of love, is burned out. He wants desperately to retire and hand the bow and arrow over to his protégé: the well-meaning, romantic, and...
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Cupid for Christmas
1986
Nothing in Common
5.8/113
On his way up the corporate ladder, David Basner confronts his greatest challenge: his father.
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Nothing in Common
2022
Run & Gun
5.5/63
After leaving a life of crime and violence, Ray is a reformed good guy, enjoying a quiet family life in the ‘burbs. But when his past is discovered, R...
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Run & Gun
2023
Hidden Exposure
8/3
A recently jilted dancer follows her ex-boyfriend to his new home, where she insinuates herself into his new relationship.
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Hidden Exposure
2023
The Magnificent Meyersons
4/3
A complicated New York City family as they discover on one extraordinary day that although life-and family-can sometimes shock you - it can also lead...
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The Magnificent Meyersons
1984
The Ratings Game
5.211/19
A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business.
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The Ratings Game
2002
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
6.71/1084
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by...
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2013
Dark Minions
5.7/7
Two slackers try to make a paycheck working an intergalactic warship.
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Dark Minions
2023
Beau Is Afraid
6.73/882
A man goes on a journey to visit his mother.
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Beau Is Afraid
1987
The New Homeowner's Guide to Happiness
5/1
When Paul and Sandy Darden (Judge Reinhold and Demi Moore) move into a seemingly quiet upper-middle-class community, their American Dream is all but d...
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The New Homeowner's Guide to Happiness
2001
Disney's California Adventure Grand Opening Special
0/0
"Disney's California Adventure opened to the public on February 8, 2001, the second of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort. Richard Kind,...
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Disney's California Adventure Grand Opening Special
2023
The Out-Laws
6.044/631
A straight-laced bank manager is about to marry the love of his life. When his bank is held up by infamous Ghost Bandits during his wedding week, he b...
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The Out-Laws
2011
Fancypants
3/1
The engaging story of an over-the-hill professional wrestler who's afraid of conflict in real life, but agrees to face "The Darkness" in the ring in a...
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Fancypants
2002
Quicksand
5.2/4
Randi Stewart is a sergeant on a marine base where her father is the commanding officer. She is being treated by the new base psychiatrist, Bill Turne...
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Quicksand
1985
Two Fathers' Justice
5/1
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Two Fathers' Justice
2023
Monsters of California
5.964/14
Teenager Dallas Edwards and his derelict friends go on a quest for the meaning behind a series of mysterious, paranormal events in Southern California...
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Monsters of California
2023
Thin Skinned
0/0
Two hidden camera pranksters infiltrate a funeral home, unaware that the mortician they've targeted is a demented lunatic.
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Thin Skinned
2023
Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
7.165/109
Monk steps out of retirement as his stepdaughter's wedding turns tragic when her fiancé dies in a bungee jumping accident.
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Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
2023
Proof of Concept
0/0
An aspiring auteur tries coaxing her dad and uncle into financing her first short film but winds up raising more questions than dollars.
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Proof of Concept
2024
Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt
0/0
For years, artist Drew Friedman has chronicled a strange, alternate universe populated by forgotten Hollywood stars, old Jewish comedians and liver-sp...
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Madness of Method
0/0
Starring Spin City's Richard Kind and veteran character actor M. Emmet Walsh, this award-winning short film tells the story of an actor seeking the gu...
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Madness of Method
2024
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A.
0/0
John Mulaney explores Los Angeles during a week when pretty much every single funny person is in town.
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