Carol Kane

Carol Kane

Birthday: 1952-06-18

Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Biography: Carolyn Laurie Kane (born June 18, 1952) is an American actress and comedian. She became known in the 1970s in films such as Hester Street (for which she received an Oscar nomination) and Annie Hall. She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as Simka Gravas, the wife of Latka, the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work. She has played the character of Madame Morrible in the musical Wicked, both in regional productions and on Broadway from 2005 to 2014. From 2015 to 2018 she was a main cast member on the Netflix original series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, in which she played Lillian Kaushtupper.

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Dog Day Afternoon
Dog Day Afternoon

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Son...

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Annie Hall
Annie Hall

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall....

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The Pacifier
The Pacifier

Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is handed a new assignment: Protect the five Plummer kids from enemies of thei...

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The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride

In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley mu...

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Jumpin' Jack Flash
Jumpin' Jack Flash

Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, ...

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When a Stranger Calls Back
When a Stranger Calls Back

A retired detective and a crisis-center counselor hunt a killer stalking a coed....

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The Pallbearer
The Pallbearer

Aspiring architect Tom Thompson is told by mysterious Ruth Abernathy that his best friend, "Bill," h...

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Transylvania 6-5000
Transylvania 6-5000

Two reporters travel to a strange castle in Transylvania to investigate the apparent reappearance of...

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My First Mister
My First Mister

Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain b...

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Scrooged
Scrooged

Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature ...

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Ishtar
Ishtar

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in...

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Flashback
Flashback

A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not ha...

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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into a...

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Trees Lounge
Trees Lounge

Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge,...

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License to Drive
License to Drive

Teenager Les Anderson thinks his life can't get any worse after he flunks his driver's exam, but he'...

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Carnal Knowledge
Carnal Knowledge

Two lifelong friends navigate complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with ...

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Sunset Park
Sunset Park

A school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined high school basketball team and turns them...

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Theodore Rex
Theodore Rex

In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosau...

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Hester Street
Hester Street

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though...

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Valentino
Valentino

The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to rem...

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Keeping On
Keeping On

A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked....

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Strong Medicine
Strong Medicine

Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the peopl...

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The Last Detail
The Last Detail

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good t...

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Addiction: A 60's Love Story
Addiction: A 60's Love Story

Family man Max Bornstein was a full-time dope fiend working within the underground, highly illegal p...

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The Greatest Man in the World
The Greatest Man in the World

This version of James Thurber's tale tells the story of a young amateur pilot who beats Charles Lind...

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The World's Greatest Lover
The World's Greatest Lover

When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz announces a talent search for a romantic leading man ...

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My Blue Heaven
My Blue Heaven

FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Ant...

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When a Stranger Calls
When a Stranger Calls

A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasin...

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iMordecai
iMordecai

Mordecai Samel is a Holocaust survivor. He grew up in a different time and does not fully understand...

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The Shrink Is In
The Shrink Is In

A young woman impersonates a shrink to win over her Prince Charming....

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Harvey
Harvey

Two-time Emmy® winner and Golden Globe Award® winner Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”, The Normal ...

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Migration
Migration

After a migrating duck family alights on their pond with thrilling tales of far-flung places, the Ma...

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Office Killer
Office Killer

When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home pos...

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Jawbreaker
Jawbreaker

When an exclusive clique of teenage socialites accidentally murder their best friend on the morning ...

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Billy and Mandy Save Christmas
Billy and Mandy Save Christmas

Santa has been turned into a vampire, and only Billy and Mandy can turn him back and save Christmas....

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Between the Temples
Between the Temples

A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade schoo...

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Love in the Time of Money
Love in the Time of Money

New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a ...

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Pandemonium
Pandemonium

A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleadin...

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Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim

Paul Reiser brings his sophisticated observational humor to home video in this rare showcase of his ...

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Ted & Venus
Ted & Venus

Ted is a 1970s Venice Beach poet who spends his days drifting along the boardwalk, reciting his poet...

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Norman Loves Rose
Norman Loves Rose

A teenage boy falls hopelessly in love with his new sister-in-law. When she gets pregnant, someone r...

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The Lemon Sisters
The Lemon Sisters

Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980s Atlantic City performing the songs of the 1960s girl ...

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Should've Been Romeo
Should've Been Romeo

A self-centered, middle-aged pitchman for a potato chip company loses his job and his livelihood jus...

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Thanks for Sharing
Thanks for Sharing

A romantic comedy that brings together three disparate characters who are learning to face a challen...

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The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: The Visitors from Outer Space
The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: The Visitors from Outer Space

A family of aliens kidnaps the Hamburglar, and it's up to Ronald and the gang to save him!...

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Harry and Walter Go to New York
Harry and Walter Go to New York

Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th cent...

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Baby on Board
Baby on Board

Maria (Carol Kane) is the wife of a murdered Mafia bookkeeper. With her baby in tow, she tracks the ...

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How Real is 'The Star'?
How Real is 'The Star'?

A short documentary about the Bette Davis film, The Star from 1952....

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Sticky Fingers
Sticky Fingers

Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie, are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-...

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The Games of Countess Dolingen
The Games of Countess Dolingen

This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the ve...

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The Crazysitter
The Crazysitter

When a petty criminal escapes from jail, she lays low by posing as a babysitter for two seemingly pr...

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Over the Brooklyn Bridge
Over the Brooklyn Bridge

A put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his domi...

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Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience

A fun and funny tale about a sensitive, curious and rockin’ Naked Mole Rat named Wilbur who “scandal...

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Waiting for Ishtar
Waiting for Ishtar

A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting...

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Casey at the Bat
Casey at the Bat

Down-on-his-luck baseball player Casey Frank (Elliott Gould) follows his dreams to become the bigges...

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Emoticon
Emoticon

Elena Gallenti is an anthropology graduate student struggling to complete her thesis on 'modern mean...

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The Tic Code
The Tic Code

A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical orient...

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The Mafu Cage
The Mafu Cage

Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their ...

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Wedding in White
Wedding in White

A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of the...

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Merry Christmas, George Bailey
Merry Christmas, George Bailey

Performance of the 1947 Lux Radio version of "It's a Wonderful Life", taped live in the historic Pas...

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Big Bully
Big Bully

A writer returns to his hometown where he faces the childhood nemesis whose life he ultimately ruine...

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The Muppet Movie
The Muppet Movie

The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent a...

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Desperate Characters
Desperate Characters

Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped ...

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The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright

After a series of bad relationships, a man orders a mail order bride and receives more than he barga...

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Remembering Gene Wilder
Remembering Gene Wilder

This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extr...

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Addams Family Values
Addams Family Values

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy ad...

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Racing with the Moon
Racing with the Moon

In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a s...

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American Strays
American Strays

Somewhere on the fringe of society, ten dangerous strangers are on a road to Red's Desert Oasis Dine...

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Man on the Moon
Man on the Moon

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman....

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Ava's Possessions
Ava's Possessions

Ava is recovering from demonic possession. With no memory of the past month, she must attend a Spiri...

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Sleepwalk with Me
Sleepwalk with Me

A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, ...

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My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend

When Ethan arrives at the airport just in time to declare his undying love for his girlfriend, love ...

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The Year Without a Santa Claus
The Year Without a Santa Claus

Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man he...

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Rap Master Ronnie: A Report Card
Rap Master Ronnie: A Report Card

A full musical comedy, originally done for the stage by Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury) and Elizabeth Swa...

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Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five

Ordered to teach a martial arts class of rambunctious bunny kittens, Po tells stories of each of the...

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Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows

The stars of America's greatest comedies - like Cheers, Friends, Taxi and The Big Bang Theory - get ...

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Joe Versus the Volcano
Joe Versus the Volcano

Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the cou...

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The Real Story of Here Comes the Bride
The Real Story of Here Comes the Bride

When the travelling circus comes to town, Maximiilian Mole meets Margaret Mouse, one of the acrobats...

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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Da...

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Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan

A single bachelor, an oddly attractive neighbor and a popular women's magazine are the ingredients o...

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Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty

A prince chases his destiny to an ancient castle in search of a cursed princess, thanks to the help ...

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Audrey's Rain
Audrey's Rain

Audrey Walker has given up her hopes and dreams, until an ex-love returns to town and helps her real...

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Bob Goldthwait: Don't Watch This Show
Bob Goldthwait: Don't Watch This Show

Bob Goldthwait presents his brand of insanity, featuring stand-up comedy, skits, TV parodies, and ga...

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The Sisters Brothers
The Sisters Brothers

Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret...

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Drop-Out Mother
Drop-Out Mother

A successful female executive makes the transition from big business to becoming housewife and mom....

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The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

Screwball account of the legendary psychologist's life leading up to his ground-breaking theories....

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Burning Rage
Burning Rage

While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy u...

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Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond

Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the pe...

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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

After moving to New Jersey, Lola bags a coveted role in a school play, which earns her the wrath of ...

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A Constant Forge
A Constant Forge

One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of Am...

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Clutter
Clutter

Charlie Bradford, an aspiring filmmaker in his 30s, is doing the best he can to distance himself fro...

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The Bounty Hunter
The Bounty Hunter

Milo Boyd, a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, thinks he's seeing an upswing in fortune when he gets a...

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Ghost Light
Ghost Light

A disgruntled summer-stock actor contemptuously disregards the superstition surrounding Shakespeare'...

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Tomorrow by Midnight
Tomorrow by Midnight

Four college kids come to a video store near midnight, and through an unusual twist become embroiled...

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Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

Bette Davis is the most disturbing film diva Hollywood has ever seen. Her life and her roles reflect...

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The Dead Don't Die
The Dead Don't Die

In the sleepy town of Centerville, the lives of a number of interconnected characters are disrupted ...

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Out of Our Fathers' House
Out of Our Fathers' House

Drawn from the diaries and letters of noted feminists, such as women's suffrage founder Elizabeth Ca...

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An Invasion of Privacy
An Invasion of Privacy

A woman on a remote island is raped by a local resident and finds her fight for justice impeded by c...

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Gone Fishin'
Gone Fishin'

Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip....

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The Happy Elf
The Happy Elf

The Happy Elf is a 3D-animated family holiday special & centres on the lovable character Eubie the E...

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Pete Smalls Is Dead
Pete Smalls Is Dead

Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead....

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend

Kimmy's a famous author and she's about to marry a prince! But first she has to foil the Reverend's ...

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Dad, the Angel & Me
Dad, the Angel & Me

A divorced doctor finds himself in real trouble living with his daughter alone now. But fortunately ...

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In the Soup
In the Soup

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first ...

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Love, Loss, and What I Wore
Love, Loss, and What I Wore

The amusing and heartwarming play uses clothing and accessories and the memories they trigger to tel...

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Music: A Live Singing Contest (That's Live)
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Music: A Live Singing Contest (That's Live)

A live karaoke contest with original Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt songs, judged by the whole cast and p...

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The Key Man
The Key Man

An insurance salesman gets mixed up with two gangsters in effort to make more money and provide for ...

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Joan Micklin Silver: Encounters with the New York Director
Joan Micklin Silver: Encounters with the New York Director

This 1983 German documentary by Katja Raganelli features director Joan Micklin Silver; her husband, ...

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A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion

The cast of The Princess Bride is together again! The stars of the iconic 1987 fantasy film reunited...

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Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

Zee is walking up and down Manhattan streets, talking to herself and to the husband who has just lef...

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The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young marrie...

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Napoleon
Napoleon

The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci....

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Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition
Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition

An overview of the iconic actresses' legendary careers, as well as the rivalry that colored "What Ev...

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La Sabina
La Sabina

English scholar visits a small Spanish town in the Andalusian mountains to investigate the disappear...

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Harvey
Harvey

Charming and kind, Elwood P. Dowd has only one character flaw: an unwavering friendship with a six-f...

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Four Christmases
Four Christmases

Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays,...

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Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ...

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Freaky Friday
Freaky Friday

Fun-loving Annabelle Andrews and her uptight mother, Ellen, have a hard time getting along with each...

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Boundary Waters
Boundary Waters

In the Iron Range of Minnesota, 12-year-old Michael is exploring the Boundary Waters with his friend...

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The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories
The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories

Tom Beauchurch , a successful New England lawyer, takes his wife Ginette to Paris for a second honey...

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Andy Kaufman Is Me
Andy Kaufman Is Me

A rare window into the enigmatic mind of comedy legend Andy Kaufman through his never-before-heard a...

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Caught Stealing
Caught Stealing

Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous stru...

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Carol & Joy
Carol & Joy

98-year-old Joy Kane, a music teacher and ex-dancer, shares stories and plays piano with her daughte...

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Let's Get Mom
Let's Get Mom

A mother of four teenage boys take delight in tormenting their naïve mom....

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Anxious People
Anxious People

On the day before Christmas Eve, investment banker Zara begrudgingly finds herself mingling with a g...

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