John Lithgow

John Lithgow

Birthday: 1945-10-19

Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, USA

Biography: John Arthur Lithgow (born October 19, 1945) is an American actor. He studied at Harvard University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before becoming known for his diverse work on stage and screen. He has received numerous accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, four Grammy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. Lithgow won two Tony Awards, his first for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his Broadway debut in The Changing Room (1972) and his second for Best Actor in a Musical for the musical Sweet Smell of Success (2002). He was Tony-nominated for Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985), M. Butterfly (1988), and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005). He has acted in the plays The Columnist (2012), A Delicate Balance (2014), and Hillary and Clinton (2019). He portrayed Roald Dahl in the play Giant on the West End, for which he was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actor.  He starred as Dick Solomon in the television sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001), winning three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. He received further Primetime Emmy Awards for his performances as Arthur Mitchell in the drama Dexter (2009) and as Winston Churchill in the Netflix drama The Crown (2016–2019). He also starred in HBO's Perry Mason (2020) and FX's The Old Man (2022). On film, he has received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his roles as a transsexual ex-football player in The World According to Garp (1982) and a lonely banker in Terms of Endearment (1983). He also acted in All That Jazz (1979), Blow Out (1981), Footloose (1984), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), A Civil Action (1998), Shrek (2001), Kinsey (2004), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Love Is Strange (2014), Interstellar (2014), Late Night (2019), Bombshell (2019), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), and Conclave (2024).

Movies

Shrek
Shrek

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a m...

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Footloose
Footloose

When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for...

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Sharper
Sharper

A small, wealthy family in New York City gets progressively torn apart by secrets, lies, and the the...

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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings...

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Confessions of a Shopaholic
Confessions of a Shopaholic

In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good a...

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2010
2010

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American s...

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Obsession
Obsession

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife....

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The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project

A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home t...

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Terms of Endearment
Terms of Endearment

Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together...

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Kinsey
Kinsey

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a na...

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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take ...

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The World According to Garp
The World According to Garp

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical f...

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Blow Out
Blow Out

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a ca...

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The Day After
The Day After

In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residen...

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The Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate Africa...

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Give My Regards to Broadway
Give My Regards to Broadway

John Lithgow, Christine Baranski, Brian Stokes Mitchell and other Broadway stars on how the Broadway...

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Leap Year
Leap Year

When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to ...

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The Ghost of Lord Farquaad
The Ghost of Lord Farquaad

Lord Farquaad was eaten by the dragon, but his ghost has returned, and he's still evil. With the hel...

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Harry and the Hendersons
Harry and the Hendersons

Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. ...

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A Civil Action
A Civil Action

Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is pote...

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Ricochet
Ricochet

An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop....

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Bark, George
Bark, George

George was a dog. His mother was a dog too. George made different sounds, which made his mother take...

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The Pelican Brief
The Pelican Brief

A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-r...

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Cliffhanger
Cliffhanger

A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partne...

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Santa Claus: The Movie
Santa Claus: The Movie

In ancient times, a man named Claus, who delivers toys in his small village, fulfils his destiny to ...

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A Good Man in Africa
A Good Man in Africa

Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man tha...

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Inside 'Interstellar'
Inside 'Interstellar'

Cast and crew of Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" discuss project origins, the film's imagery, amb...

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Raising Cain
Raising Cain

Child psychologist Carter Nix is a loving and caring family man, but under this appearance lies a da...

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The Big Fix
The Big Fix

Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political sm...

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The Wrong Man
The Wrong Man

US merchant sailor Alex Walker is stranded in Mexico, penniless and wanted by the police. He meets a...

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Dogs and More Dogs
Dogs and More Dogs

Where do dogs in all their amazing diversity come from? Tradition says that thousands of years ago s...

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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes

The live special event features reenactments of episodes from “The Facts of Life” and “Diff’rent Str...

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Officer Buckle and Gloria
Officer Buckle and Gloria

This is a story about a Police Officer who tries to get children to stay safe. No-one listens to him...

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Princess Caraboo
Princess Caraboo

Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is trie...

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Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

A group of rambunctious toddlers travel a trip to Paris. As they journey from the Eiffel Tower to No...

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All That Jazz
All That Jazz

Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in mus...

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Homegrown
Homegrown

Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they ...

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Silent Fall
Silent Fall

Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with cont...

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They All Saw a Cat
They All Saw a Cat

As the cat explores its surroundings, viewers gain insight into both the cat and each new animal it ...

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Casting By
Casting By

This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Ma...

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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South Am...

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Resting Place
Resting Place

A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Of...

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Mesmerized
Mesmerized

An orphan weds an older man in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out he's a miser who spies on her....

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Love, Cheat & Steal
Love, Cheat & Steal

Paul Harrington thinks he has the perfect wife... stunning, kind, and ambitious. Yet behind Lauren's...

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Hollow Point
Hollow Point

Livingston is trying to merge the Russians, Chinese and Italian gangsters into one group with huge a...

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Rich Kids
Rich Kids

Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their pare...

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Projections of America
Projections of America

Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin headed up a secret film unit that sought to redefin...

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The Campaign
The Campaign

Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congression...

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This Is 40
This Is 40

Pete and Debbie are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are ...

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Out Cold
Out Cold

Sunny is married to the butcher, Ernie, and their marriage is about to end as both of them have affa...

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Chez Bob
Chez Bob

Bob the alligator has an ingenious idea to attract birds for his dinner. He creates a restaurant on ...

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Car of the Future
Car of the Future

Click and Clack from NPR's Car Talk look at the future of motor vehicle transportation. New designs,...

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The Bubble
The Bubble

Sneaking out. Hooking up. Melting down. The cast and crew of a blockbuster action franchise attempt ...

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Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

A cocky Harvard graduate transports a load of marijuana from Berkeley to Boston. His girlfriend gets...

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Redwood Curtain
Redwood Curtain

Geri Riordan is adopted, half-Vietnamese, eighteen, and a piano prodigy. She also feels as if she do...

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Interstellar
Interstellar

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the li...

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95 Worlds and Counting
95 Worlds and Counting

Swimming in Neptune's moons, flying in Uranus' moons, jumping in Mars' moons, living in Jupiter's mo...

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Don Quixote
Don Quixote

Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry n...

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Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love

When Marvin Hamlisch passed away in August 2012 the worlds of music, theatre and cinema lost a talen...

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Distant Thunder
Distant Thunder

A troubled Vietnam war vet deserts his wife and child shortly after he returns from the war. He retu...

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Cabrini
Cabrini

Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, ...

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Baby Girl Scott
Baby Girl Scott

The story of the Scotts, a young couple whose first child is born dangerously early, weighing less t...

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Love Is Strange
Love Is Strange

After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, ...

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Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen

An IMAX production that explores the ground-breaking special effects portrayed in Hollywood films fr...

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National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate

Academy Award nominee and Tony Award-winner John Lithgow (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Shrek, 3rd Rock f...

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Orange County
Orange County

Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a w...

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Spellbound
Spellbound

When a powerful spell turns her parents into giant monsters, a teenage princess must journey into th...

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My Brother's Keeper
My Brother's Keeper

A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone ...

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Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Rise of the Planet of the Apes

A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he ...

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Twilight Zone: The Movie
Twilight Zone: The Movie

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the ...

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Memphis Belle
Memphis Belle

The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids int...

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The Rule of Jenny Pen
The Rule of Jenny Pen

Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop...

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Ivory Hunters
Ivory Hunters

An author discovers that his missing research assistant's disappearance may be related to illegal tr...

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The Homesman
The Homesman

When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, t...

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Sangre
Sangre

Short movie about a grandfather, with memory issues, and his grandson taking a road trip to San Dieg...

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Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

CBS presents DICK VAN DYKE 98 YEARS OF MAGIC, an unforgettable special celebrating the legendary car...

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Night of 100 Stars III
Night of 100 Stars III

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy....

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Johnny Skidmarks
Johnny Skidmarks

Johnny Scardino is working for blackmailers, photographing wealthy guys in seedy motels. One such as...

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Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow

Actor, author, humorist and renowned performer John Lithgow goes back to school to demonstrate the t...

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The Accountant
The Accountant

As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activi...

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Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn

The restoration of a Steinway becomes a lyrical meditation on following the heart's true passion in ...

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The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest

Join Maurice, the beloved penguin-tiger, and the Jungle Bunch on their exciting quest for hidden pir...

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Lord John
Lord John

An Interview with John Lithgow...

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Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls

A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own pers...

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Broadway: The Next Generation
Broadway: The Next Generation

A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way....

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Best of Enemies
Best of Enemies

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great p...

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Shrek Stories
Shrek Stories

Join Shrek and his friends from Far Far Away as they share tales of holiday cheer, spooky stories, a...

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Timms Valley
Timms Valley

A scripted comedy set in the fictional town of Timms Valley, Wisconsin, where the lives and liveliho...

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The Oldest Living Graduate
The Oldest Living Graduate

Henry Fonda stars as Col. J. C. Kincaid, crusty patriarch of a Texas family. Kincaid's weak-willed s...

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The Glitter Dome
The Glitter Dome

Al Mackey and Marty are homicide cops in Hollywood and hot on the trail of the murderer of a movie m...

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Jimpa
Jimpa

Hannah takes her nonbinary teenager, Frances, to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, Jim — lov...

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I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium....

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Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

Showcasing a musical masterpiece in a rare full-length television recording by the Vienna Chamber Or...

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Miss Sloane
Miss Sloane

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control leg...

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Amazing Stories: The Movie II
Amazing Stories: The Movie II

This anthology gathers four episodes of the 1985-87 television series "Amazing Stories." Santa Claus...

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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the l...

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Beatriz at Dinner
Beatriz at Dinner

Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career...

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Goldilocks and the Three Bears

A spirited young girl disobeys her parents and runs off to the wood for the afternoon where she rude...

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Daddy's Home 2
Daddy's Home 2

Father and stepfather Dusty and Brad join forces to make Christmastime perfect for the children. The...

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Einstein's Big Idea
Einstein's Big Idea

Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theo...

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Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified

A documentary found on The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension Special Edition DV...

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ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway is an American documentary film, directed by Dori Berinstein, a B...

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Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party

Shrek and his friends enjoy themselves with some Karaoke partying....

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The Pulitzer At 100
The Pulitzer At 100

The Pulitzer at 100, by Oscar and Emmy winning director Kirk Simon, is a ninety-minute independent d...

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Pitch Perfect 3
Pitch Perfect 3

After the highs of winning the world championships, the Bellas find themselves split apart and disco...

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Secret Service
Secret Service

Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control o...

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Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like

Join host Michael Keaton to celebrate "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood," the pioneering children's serie...

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Late Night
Late Night

A legendary late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her only female s...

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Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two you...

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Traveling Man
Traveling Man

A poignant comedy about a middle-aged salesman trying to get his life and career back on track while...

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The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge

Twenty-three bizarre looking vehicles line up at the starting gate of the DARPA Grand Challenge with...

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Bombshell
Bombshell

Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; a...

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The Amazing Bone
The Amazing Bone

A lonely pig named Pearl dawdles long enough in a field of dandelions to meet a bone who speaks to h...

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Hickory Dickory Doc
Hickory Dickory Doc

An interview with actor John Lithgow talking about his experience with Brian De Palma's film Raising...

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Not in Front of the Children
Not in Front of the Children

Divorced for two years, Nancy Caruthers, asks her new lover, Paul Adams, a medical student, to move ...

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The Tomorrow Man
The Tomorrow Man

Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her l...

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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

The Duncan family is beside itself when son Sylvester turns himself into a rock to escape the jaws o...

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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broa...

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Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie

This behind-the-scenes documentary follows Team Salkind as they set out to bring Santa's "true" stor...

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The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts

A live reading of passages from the Mueller report for “The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in...

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Big Blonde
Big Blonde

High-spirited model Hazel decides that she should settle down in this stage play based on a Dorothy ...

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The Boys
The Boys

When Walter is diagnosed with lung cancer, despite his squeaky clean lifestyle, he has to tell his s...

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New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve

The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve....

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John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert

The Tony and Emmy award winning actor and two time Academy Award nominee combines his original songs...

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Shrek: Once Upon a Time
Shrek: Once Upon a Time

A making-of for the Shrek series....

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The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams

Eight year-old Lavender Williams, who recently lost her mother to cancer, sets off on an epic journe...

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Mom, the Wolfman and Me
Mom, the Wolfman and Me

Concerned that her feminist mom Deborah is going to stay single, Jenny Bergman plays matchmaker. She...

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Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

In "All Through the Night," perhaps the single most famous story from the original comic book series...

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The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale

At the Johnson's house in the country, a female mouse named Emily, whose existence is known to two c...

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Myths and Hymns
Myths and Hymns

A kaleidoscopic collection of musical genres, Myths and Hymns explores the nature of faith and longi...

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The Country Girl
The Country Girl

Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a co...

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Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos interweaves Emily Levine’s live performance with animation, appearances by...

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Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman

Jud Crandall recounts the chilling story of Tim Baterman, who was returned dead from Vietnam, and th...

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Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one ...

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On Broadway
On Broadway

An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink...

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Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects

Documentary focused on the creation of movie and television special effects, hosted by Roy Scheider ...

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Conclave
Conclave

After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and anc...

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Show of Titles
Show of Titles

An evening of celebrated stars performing the titles songs from Broadway’s best....

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2010 : The Odyssey Continues
2010 : The Odyssey Continues

This promotional short for 2010 (1984) shows moviegoers how some of the film's visual effects were c...

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Sequestered - Inside Conclave
Sequestered - Inside Conclave

The making of the 2025 thriller movie Conclave about the papal election, starring Ralph Fiennes, Sta...

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