Wallace Shawn
Birthday: 1943-11-12
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Wallace Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, playwright, essayist and comedian. His film roles have included Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre, Vizzini in The Princess Bride, Mr. Hall in Clueless and Rex in the Toy Story franchise. He has also appeared in a variety of television series, including recurring roles as Cyrus Rose in Gossip Girl and as Grand Nagus Zek in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. His plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon and Grasses of a Thousand Colors. He also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre and he scripted A Master Builder, a film adaptation of of the play by Henrik Ibsen, which he also starred in. His book Essays was published in 2009 by Haymarket Books.
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Toy Story 2
Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear wh...
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Toy Story
Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto ...
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Manhattan
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further ...
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Toy Story 3
Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to...
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Canadian Bacon
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to s...
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The Princess Bride
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley mu...
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new em...
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Southland Tales
Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social,...
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Happily N'Ever After
An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes...
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Deal of the Century
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a Sou...
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Capitalism: A Love Story
Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impa...
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Cheaper to Keep Her
A newly divorced swinger on the prowl goes to work as a detective for a neurotic feminist attorney....
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The Hotel New Hampshire
Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in ...
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Atlantic City
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thro...
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed w...
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Radio Days
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
The Great Depression hits home for nine year old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and l...
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My Dinner with Andre
Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices...
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Monsters, Inc.
Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc.,...
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Vanya on 42nd Street
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting:...
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Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
Scooby-Doo and Shaggy must go into the underworld ruled by The Goblin King in order to stop a mortal...
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Clueless
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking ...
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Chicken Little
When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Togethe...
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My Favorite Martian
Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally cr...
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Melinda and Melinda
While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illu...
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Mom and Dad Save the World
Emperor Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and her husband Dick, hoping ...
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Prick Up Your Ears
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama sc...
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Micki & Maude
TV reporter Rob Salinger longs for a baby. But his career-minded wife, Micki, is too busy for mother...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic de...
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Head Office
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son moves up the c...
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The Windmill Movie
Filmmaker Richard P. Rogers tried for twenty years to make a documentary about his own life. He died...
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The Moderns
Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris....
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Strong Medicine
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the peopl...
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The Speed of Thought
Joshua Lazarus (Nick Stahl) is a telepath who has been raised in a NSA foster home. Lazarus helps th...
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Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers
Dueling cat-and-mouse team Tom and Jerry hit the high seas on a hunt for buried treasure in this pir...
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Monte Walsh
Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, bu...
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Critical Care
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-s...
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The Prime Gig
Pendelton "Penny" Wise is a smooth-talking con-artist who scams people with phoney travel comp vacat...
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A Goofy Movie
An endearing modern-day story about how the lovable Goof bonds with his teenage son Max on a hilario...
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The Bedroom Window
Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The as...
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Strange Invaders
Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined t...
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She's Out of Control
A Los Angeles radio-station manager's girlfriend shows his teenage daughter how to be sexy....
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All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
Charlie and Itchy return to Earth to find Gabriel's Horn, but along the way meet up with a young boy...
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Lovesick
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient....
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Vamps
The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in Ne...
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The Double 0 Kid
Teenage Lance dreams of being a secret agent when he's suddenly in the middle of an hacker intrigue,...
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The Wife
A sudden visit from a patient and his unstable, outrageously candid wife leads to a delirious night ...
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The Magic Bubble
A middle-aged woman frees herself from the spirit-crushing influence of her husband by refusing to r...
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Nice Girls Don't Explode
April has a problem. Whenever she gets anything like passionate with a guy all sorts of things seem ...
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Crackers
Down-and-out Weslake is reduced to minding the counter at a San Francisco pawn shop when he stumbles...
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The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his de...
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A Late Quartet
When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening ill...
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Heaven Help Us
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. Th...
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Admission
Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes...
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Karroll's Christmas
Allen Karroll hates Christmas ever since his ex-girlfriend humiliated him in front of thousands of p...
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The Double
An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike t...
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Partysaurus Rex
When Rex finds himself left behind in the bathroom, he puts his limbs to use by getting a bath going...
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Just Write
A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress....
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Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner
BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER is an exploration of the life and work of Andre Gregory, groundbreaking dire...
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Furry Vengeance
When real estate developer Dan Sanders finalizes plans to level a swath of pristine Oregon forest to...
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Noah
In order to save his family, a contractor must construct an ark before a massive flood hits his home...
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The First Time
A young film student pursues a woman while studying under a bizarre, eccentric film professor....
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Toy Story of Terror!
What starts out as a fun road trip for the Toy Story gang takes an unexpected turn for the worse whe...
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The Pixar Story
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's p...
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The Haunted Mansion
Workaholic Jim Evers and his wife/business partner Sara get a call one night from a mansion owner, ...
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A Master Builder
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistr...
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André Gregory and Wallace Shawn
In this hour-long piece, recorded in 2009, filmmaker Noah Baumbach talks with his friends the writer...
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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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Driving Mr. Pink
The Pink Panther calls a cab to get to an urgent appointment, and battles with his driver, Voodoo Ma...
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Love Thy Neighbor
Two married couples are about to give new meaning to the phrase "Love Thy Neighbor." When these best...
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Simon
A group of scientists take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwashing experi...
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
During a post-Christmas play date, the gang find themselves in uncharted territory when the coolest ...
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Shadows and Fog
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante g...
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Christmas at Cartwright's
With Christmas approaching, a struggling single mom finds herself working as a department store Sant...
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We're No Angels
Two escaped cons' only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police ...
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House Arrest
High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned,...
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Maggie's Plan
Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own with a sperm donor is derailed when she falls in love with J...
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Vegas Vacation
The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy ...
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Robo-Dog
When Tyler's furry best friend dies tragically, his inventor Dad creates a new dog to take his place...
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Starting Over
After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teache...
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Teacher's Pet
Meet Spot, a clever little dog with big dreams of becoming a real boy. When Spot finds out that a cr...
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Personal Velocity
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who res...
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The Incredibles
Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three...
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Small Fry
A fast food restaurant mini variant of Buzz forcibly switches places with the real Buzz and his frie...
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Club Penguin Halloween Panic!
Happy Halloween from Club Penguin! Everyone is in the spirit for Halloween treats, except for master...
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Duplex
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs...
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A Little Sex
Michael and Katherine have enjoyed a long relationship together even before they tie the knot. But M...
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How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun....
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Saigon: Year of the Cat
The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Sa...
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Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart...
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Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
A wealthy Beverly Hills resident who has just become a widow, Clare Lipkin temporarily takes on her ...
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Animal Crackers
A family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a rundown circus from being taken over by...
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Just Like Dad
Embarrassed because he perceives his father as dull, a creative boy invents himself a new, more exci...
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Nickel & Dime
A P.I. hasn't paid taxes in ages. When the IRS sends an accountant to investigate him, his only way ...
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Club Penguin Monster Beach Party
It’s summer time on Club Penguin Island and resident party planner Jangrah has prepared the perfect ...
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The Bostonians
A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter....
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Air Buddies
The offspring of sportsman canine Air Bud: B-Dawg, Mudbud, Budderball, Buddha, and Rosebud, uncover ...
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Cop and a Half: New Recruit
In this family-friendly action reboot of the 1993 film, Karina Foley, an ambitious and spunky 12-yea...
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The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
The documentary short of Toy Story of why and how the feature length blockbuster sleeper movie becam...
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
Buzz Lightyear must battle Emperor Zurg with the help of three hopefuls who insist on being his part...
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The Only Living Boy in New York
When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only t...
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My Dinner with Louis
Interview with director Louis Malle conducted by Wallace Shawn, produced for the BBC-TV programme "A...
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Book Club
Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shade...
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Another Kind of Wedding
A fractured family is forced to confront what tore them apart at the eldest son's wedding....
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The Meteor Man
One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he...
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Starring Austin Pendleton
A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of ch...
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As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
A "behinds the scenes" documentary about the making of the 1987 film THE PRINCESS BRIDE with origina...
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What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
A documentary exploring the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the reasons it went from the black...
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Toy Story 4
Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of...
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Rifkin’s Festival
The story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught up...
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Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
An 11-year old boy believes that he is the best detective in town and runs the agency Total Failures...
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Marriage Story
A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them...
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Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States
An impressive roster of celebrities -- including Lili Taylor, Paul Robeson, Sarah Jones, Brian Jones...
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Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time?
Rex uses the age of dinosaurs as an example to give Forky an understanding of the concept of time....
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Jack and the Beanstalk
A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic de...
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I Could Never Be Your Woman
Mother Nature loves to cause mischief, and she steps in to help two love-starved souls find happines...
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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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The Fog of Courage
In this animated horror comedy, a cowardly dog named Courage must rescue his lovely owner, Muriel fr...
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The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
Told from Mowgli's point of view, it's the story of how a boy became a mancub and a mancub became a ...
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Napoleon
The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci....
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Waiting for Godot
An experimental exploration of the storied play. Becket’s vision of perpetual uncertainty, anxiety, ...
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The Addams Family 2
The Addams get tangled up in more wacky adventures and find themselves involved in hilarious run-ins...
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Strange Culture
The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensembl...
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Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Retrospective looking at the revolutionary computer-animated feature film Toy Story....
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The Cemetery Club
The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk ab...
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Mr. St. Nick
King Nicholas XX is ready to retire and pass the throne to his son, Nick St. Nicholas. But he is a n...
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Phineas and Ferb Save Summer
When L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. moves the Earth further from the sun, Phineas and Ferb must find a way to ...
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Drawing Home
Boston in the 1920s. A young East Coast debutante is dating the most eligible bachelor in the world,...
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The Man Who Changed the World
A drama spanning generations that’s inspired by the story of visionary entrepreneur Lawrence “Bud” S...
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Don Peyote
An ordinary guy delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to dis...
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The Clock
A resilient 75-year-old woman, haunted by a clock counting down in her dreams since childhood, confr...
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Toy Story 5
When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the re...
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