Richard Portnow
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Richard Portnow (born January 26, 1947) is a prolific American character actor who played Howard Stern's father, Ben in the movie Private Parts. He has appeared on The Sopranos and many other films, video games, and television shows such as Hannah Montana and Boston Legal.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 19.755 |
| Birthday | 1947-01-26 |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn - New York - USA |
| Also Known As |
1991
Barton Fink
7.461/1601
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
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Barton Fink
1995
Se7en
8.374/20355
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film t...
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Se7en
1987
Good Morning, Vietnam
7.312/2582
A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his h...
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Good Morning, Vietnam
1990
Kindergarten Cop
6.094/2383
Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord wh...
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Kindergarten Cop
1992
Sister Act
6.821/3079
A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her,...
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Sister Act
1999
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
7.325/1130
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
1990
Havana
5.775/138
An American professional gambler named Jack Weil decides to visit Havana, Cuba to gamble. On the boat to Havana, he meets Roberta Duran, the wife of a...
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Havana
2009
Law Abiding Citizen
7.386/4939
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer...
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Law Abiding Citizen
2007
Perfect Stranger
5.794/893
A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game o...
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Perfect Stranger
2007
The Indian
6.2/5
"The Indian" is a touching drama about a negligent father who must face the son he abandoned years earlier, and the emotional wreckage he caused, in o...
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The Indian
1988
Twins
6/2169
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proporti...
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Twins
2006
Find Me Guilty
6.6/466
Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
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Find Me Guilty
1995
Man of the House
5.3/165
Ben Archer is not happy. His mother, Sandy, has just met a man, and it looks like things are pretty serious. Driven by a fear of abandonment, Ben trie...
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Man of the House
1994
S.F.W.
6/104
An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to the...
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S.F.W.
2010
Killer by Nature
3.7/6
The troubled teenager Owen Whitmore has a sleep disorder and occasionally sleepwalks. Owen is having therapy sessions with Dr. Katherine Ramos. Having...
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Killer by Nature
2008
Good Time Max
5.3/38
Two genius brothers grow up and grow apart as one becomes a successful surgeon and the other pursues a drug-fueled high life.
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Good Time Max
2009
Under New Management
4.7/3
Sparks and bullets fly when a Wall Street yuppie must steer a Brooklyn mob crew legit before a beautiful FBI agent can build RICO indictments against...
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Under New Management
2009
The Minis
2.458/12
A talented team of basketball players made up of little people enters a tournament to help a teammate's son go to college.
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The Minis
1989
Meet the Hollowheads
5.9/22
The Hollowheads are a strange, futuristic family that live in a Jetsons type world complete with many cool gadgets. Henry is hoping for a promotion at...
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Meet the Hollowheads
1998
My Giant
5.2/93
Sammy, an agitated agent lost in the forest of the modern world, happens upon a gentle giant with a tall talent for friendship named Max.
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My Giant
2001
Zigs
3.5/2
Four young gamblers come up with a plan to get out of debt with a fixed game.
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Zigs
2001
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
5.8/4
Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Pri...
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Laughter on the 23rd Floor
2013
Oldboy
5.9/1890
A man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanatio...
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Oldboy
2000
The Ghost of Spoon River
4/2
A big-city lawyer is called home to defend a local man accused of murder. Based on the Spoon River Anthology
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The Ghost of Spoon River
1986
Courage
6/1
A mother in Queens, New York, outraged when she discovers that her son is a drug addict, becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug...
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Courage
2005
Under the City
0/0
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Under the City
2012
2 Jacks
5.6/17
Jack Hussar is a legendary Hollywood director, whose persona commands respect and adoration from his fans. Can his son, Jack Jr. maintain his legacy?
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2 Jacks
2010
The Wish List
6.9/17
Sarah Fisher, an overly organized, by-the-numbers kind of woman, makes a "wish list" of all the qualities and traits her future husband should have. A...
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The Wish List
2013
In the Dark
4.6/9
Aspiring artist Ali must rebuild her life after a tragic accident kills her husband and their young child, and leaves her blind. Life in the dark prov...
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In the Dark
2013
Underdogs
6.1/22
The story of a small-town high school football team in rural Ohio destined to play their cross-town rival, a perennial powerhouse, while standing up f...
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Underdogs
2004
Tony n' Tina's Wedding
5.4/7
Tony and Tina are excited to get married but they dread having the ceremony. Tina's mother and Tony's father used to be an item and neither parent has...
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Tony n' Tina's Wedding
2008
Tinker Bell
6.851/1349
Journey into the secret world of Pixie Hollow and hear Tinker Bell speak for the very first time as the astonishing story of Disney's most famous fair...
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Tinker Bell
2014
Nanny Cam
5.6/76
Linda has a seemingly perfect marriage with her rugged and handsome husband Mark and an adorable 8 year old daughter, Chloe. But when Chloe is injured...
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Nanny Cam
2000
The Unscarred
5/6
Four exchange students meet in Berlin 20 years after graduating but picking up where they left off doesn't turn out to be as easy as they had hoped.
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The Unscarred
1998
Milo
4.4/21
Four young grade-school girls witness the murder of one of their classmates during what they thought was just an innocent game. The killer is a strang...
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Milo
2000
Fallen Arches
0/0
Transplanted from New York, Duke and his brother Frankie Romano live in a rundown LA apartment with their alcoholic mother (Karen Black).
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Fallen Arches
2005
Meet the Mobsters
6.9/7
Down-and-out lounge singer Johnny Slade is hired by a mystery man to open a hot new club, the catch being he's given a new--and terrible--song to sing...
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Meet the Mobsters
2015
Trumbo
7.16/1522
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklist...
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Trumbo
2014
This Last Lonely Place
6.5/2
On his last night on the job, an unsuspecting LA cab driver gets roped into helping a wealthy investment banker cover up a brutal crime.
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This Last Lonely Place
2005
Trump Unauthorized
3.5/8
A look at the life of real estate king/media mogul/reality TV star, Donald Trump.
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Trump Unauthorized
2015
Parallel
6/2
A brilliant mathematician travels through time and space in search of the knowledge that would allow him to control his life and alter the events of h...
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Parallel
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
1994
Trial by Jury
5.4/43
Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.
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Trial by Jury
2016
Café Society
6.457/2620
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in t...
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Café Society
1999
Ballad of the Nightingale
1/1
A down-on-her luck prostitute embarks on a wild adventure that puts her in contact with the Mafia.
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Ballad of the Nightingale
1991
Father of the Bride
6.5/1300
George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 22 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't...
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Father of the Bride
1997
Private Parts
6.5/327
The auto-biographical story of Howard Stern, the radio-rebel who is now also a TV-personality, an author and a movie star.
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Private Parts
1993
Night Eyes 3
4.5/10
A security guard falls for a famous TV actress he is hired to protect while dealing with mobsters who want his hide for some sour business deal.
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Night Eyes 3
1989
A Deadly Silence
6.2/4
The father of three children was killed when he left his house. This provokes a lot of sentimental emotions in the neighbourhood because the people kn...
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A Deadly Silence
1998
Postal Worker
3.7/3
A time bomb is ticking in a small regional postal facility and his name is Oren Starks (Brad Garrett). Oren fits the profile of a new breed of killers...
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Postal Worker
1998
Shadow of Doubt
4.5/32
An attorney uncovers a political conspiracy in the brutal killing of a wealthy young woman.
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Shadow of Doubt
1994
Lipstick Camera
2.5/3
Ambitious young woman wants to get into TV news. She borrows a small camera from a friend and obtains incriminating pictures that two former East Germ...
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Lipstick Camera
2012
Hitchcock
6.561/1460
Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert B...
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Hitchcock
1995
Across the Moon
3.857/7
Two young women bond while living together out in the California desert to be close to their boyfriends who are serving time at the nearby state priso...
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Across the Moon
1992
Beethoven
5.786/1992
The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This "hole" is filled by a small puppy, who walks into their h...
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Beethoven
1990
Chattahoochee
5.7/38
In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.
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Chattahoochee
1993
Based on an Untrue Story
3.9/5
Perfume creator Satin Chau is about to reveal her new designer scent, 'Puppy,' when she is cruelly struck down by a rare condition called anosmia, whi...
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Based on an Untrue Story
2011
The Christmas Pageant
6/13
Vera Parks, an overly intense and demanding Broadway director, gets fired from yet another job, leaving her no choice but to take a gig directing a sm...
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The Christmas Pageant
1995
Donor Unknown
8/1
Type A insurance fraud investigator Nick Stillman has his life extended by a heart transplant, only to be dismayed to discover that his donor was murd...
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Donor Unknown
1985
Desperately Seeking Susan
6.06/408
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals...
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Desperately Seeking Susan
1999
The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All
5.1/36
At a college visit to a war buddy's professor daughter, mercenary Treat Williams finds her brutally beaten. He then poses as a teacher to teach a less...
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The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All
1987
The Squeeze
5/23
Harry Berg is both a con artist and an actual artist -- he constructs large sculptures out of television sets -- but he is not particularly successful...
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The Squeeze
1993
Heart and Souls
6.9/374
A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their souls become eternally entwined to the l...
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Heart and Souls
1999
Road Kill
10/1
Alex is the film student forced by his college professor to stop making Jackie Chan "homage" films and make "something from the heart" in order to gra...
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Road Kill
1987
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam
6.6/8
Perry investigates the murder of a former madam and uncovers a multimillion dollar banking fraud in the process.
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam
1998
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
7.209/4437
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycl...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2012
Imaginary Friend
5.1/35
During her traumatic childhood with an abusive father, Emma relied on an imaginary friend for strength. She is now an artist struggling with mental il...
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Imaginary Friend
1999
Witness Protection
6.4/24
Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you've ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career crimi...
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Witness Protection
1989
Original Sin
3.5/2
When his son is kidnapped a man has to face his past demons in speaking to a Mafia don about it.
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Original Sin
1987
Radio Days
7.1/536
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944,...
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Radio Days
2008
The Spirit
4.714/927
A Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of Centr...
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The Spirit
1997
Mad City
6.221/324
A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.
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Mad City
1989
Peter Gunn
4.2/4
Peter Gunn, a connoisseur of beautiful women and cool jazz, is an ex-cop turned private eye who's caught in the middle of a dangerous gang war.
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Peter Gunn
1987
The House of Blue Leaves
0/0
On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens, t...
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The House of Blue Leaves
1988
In Dangerous Company
4.5/4
A beautiful woman seduces and tricks a hitman in order to save her own skin.
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In Dangerous Company
1987
Tin Men
6.313/114
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
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Tin Men
1991
Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster
6.3/7
A gangster who has commited all kinds of crimes is accused to have killed his wife. As he was not the murderer in this case Perry Mason intents to fin...
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster
2001
Double Bang
4.6/9
An honest cop enters the dark world of murder and corruption.
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Double Bang
1996
Bogus
5.77/230
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, Frenc...
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Bogus
2009
Life Is Hot in Cracktown
6/13
Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".
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Life Is Hot in Cracktown
2021
Roe v. Wade
5.4/34
Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Dr. Mildred Jefferson square off in a national battle in this untold conspiracy that led to the most famous and controversia...
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Roe v. Wade
1994
Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
0/0
Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.
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Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
1997
Bella Mafia
6.8/23
Don Roberto Luciano turns informer for the biggest Mafia trial in history, but his family pays a terrible price.
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Bella Mafia
1997
Guy
3.5/2
A young, female filmmaker looks through her camera for an object to film. She wants to film the private live of an ordinary person and starts followin...
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Guy
2000
Lured Innocence
5/6
A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
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Lured Innocence
1983
Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer
0/0
This made-for-TV sequel to the 1977 theatrical film "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" follows a New York City detective's quest to find the murderer of a scho...
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Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer
1990
Tune in Tomorrow...
5.3/24
Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia,...
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Tune in Tomorrow...
2019
Stakeout
6.318/11
A young private investigator in LA tows the line between danger and heartbreak as he tries to help a woman to commit fraud in order to get the money h...
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Stakeout
1991
For the Boys
6.257/70
On a USO tour during World War II, entertainer Eddie Sparks needs a partner to round out his act. Soon after hiring performer Dixie Leonard, Eddie dec...
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For the Boys
1998
Desert Thunder
4.1/7
Terrorists threaten to launch a missile armed with deadly disease at Europe. A special unit is put together to stop them.
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Desert Thunder
2018
Holly Day
0/0
In a twist on a Dickens novel, we meet Holly, a tightly-wound businesswoman who's spent her life running from the ghosts of her past. But this holiday...
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Holly Day
1995
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning
4.8/4
In New York two detectives of the 87th precinct are initially baffled by the brutal, ritualistic slayings of several young women. Through good detecti...
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Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning
2007
Chasing Robert
0/0
Alan is a gambler desperate to erase the huge sports debt he owes to a cruel but quirky Chicago mobster.
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Chasing Robert
2000
Happy Accidents
6.773/121
A comedy that pays tribute to the science fiction genre -- specifically, the sub-genre of time travel. But here the alternate reality is contemporary...
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Happy Accidents
1989
Say Anything...
7.053/944
Lloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student. He surprises just about ev...
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Say Anything...
2020
Frank and Ava
5.7/11
Frank & Ava joins the wild ride of the tempestuous relationship between icons, Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner showing their multi-year love affair and...
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Frank and Ava
2020
Frank and Ava
5.7/11
Frank & Ava joins the wild ride of the tempestuous relationship between icons, Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner showing their multi-year love affair and...
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Frank and Ava
2006
National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
4.3/23
A celebration of the ever increasing depravity of television in our society-- it's a channel surfing adventure through the most utterly ridiculous spo...
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National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
2024
Athena Saves Christmas
0/0
Samuel and his friends along with his trusted dog Athena have to go for the adventure of a lifetime, matching wits with a mob boss to solve Oscar's ri...
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Athena Saves Christmas
2002
Poolhall Junkies
6.4/68
A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.
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Poolhall Junkies
1992
There Goes the Neighborhood
5.368/19
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There Goes the Neighborhood
1994
Dragstrip Girl
2.5/2
Johnny is a bad guy whom is trying to go straight whom becomes smitten with Laura, a wealthy good girl whom is rebelling against her parents by preten...
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Dragstrip Girl
2012
A Night of Nightmares
0/0
When the world is infected by a devastating disease a man is forced to take shelter in his home.
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A Night of Nightmares
1987
Wanted: Dead or Alive
5.893/107
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Wanted: Dead or Alive
2018
Higher Power
5.056/81
When the Universe decides what it wants, it's pointless to resist. With his family's life at stake, Joseph Steadman finds himself the unwilling test s...
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