Paul Dooley

Paul Dooley

Birthday: 1928-02-22

Place of Birth: Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA

Biography: Paul Dooley (born Paul Brown; February 22, 1928) is an American character actor, writer, and comedian. He is known for his roles in Breaking Away, Popeye, Sixteen Candles, Strange Brew and many Christopher Guest mockumentaries. He co-created the PBS show The Electric Company. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Dooley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Insomnia
Insomnia

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to i...

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Cars
Cars

Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the jou...

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Bedtime Stories
Bedtime Stories

Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and neph...

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The Player
The Player

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but ...

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Hairspray
Hairspray

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - Th...

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Runaway Bride
Runaway Bride

Having already left three grooms at the altar, Maggie Carpenter is branded "the runaway bride" by ja...

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Breaking Away
Breaking Away

Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm ...

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Popeye
Popeye

Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm...

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Going Berserk
Going Berserk

John Bourgignon, a drummer-chauffeur engaged to the daughter of a United States senator, encounters ...

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God's Lonely Man
God's Lonely Man

As each relentless night turns towards day, Ernest Rackman turns towards violence to escape thoughts...

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Shakes the Clown
Shakes the Clown

Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk....

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O.C. and Stiggs
O.C. and Stiggs

O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surround...

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Strange Brew
Strange Brew

Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug McKenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan...

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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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Mater and the Ghostlight
Mater and the Ghostlight

Mater, the rusty but trusty tow truck from Cars, spends a day in Radiator Springs playing scary pran...

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The Underneath
The Underneath

A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and...

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Frogs!
Frogs!

Gus, a former frog prince turned lounge singer, shows up on his friend's doorstep just when Arlo has...

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Up the Sandbox
Up the Sandbox

Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother sl...

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Sixteen Candles
Sixteen Candles

With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces...

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Guinevere
Guinevere

A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer....

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Touch 'Em All McCall
Touch 'Em All McCall

A one-time baseball player returns to his hometown and winds up coaching a farm team....

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A Wedding
A Wedding

Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of t...

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Endangered Species
Endangered Species

A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a my...

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Evolver
Evolver

A teenage boy gets a robotic opponent after winning a laser tag contest; however the robot is not wh...

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Horsemen
Horsemen

A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection be...

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Monster in the Closet
Monster in the Closet

After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college...

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Kiss Me Goodbye
Kiss Me Goodbye

Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former...

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Paternity
Paternity

Buddy Evans manages events at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is a confirmed bachelor who...

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Loved
Loved

After a man is accused of driving his third wife to suicide, his first wife Hedda, a troubled woman ...

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HealtH
HealtH

At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convent...

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Clockwatchers
Clockwatchers

Four female temps working for a credit company find their friendship threatened by the arrival of a ...

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Chronic Town
Chronic Town

Truman Korovin is a lonely, sharp-witted cab driver in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1980. The usual routine of...

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The Holy Man
The Holy Man

This is the story of a man who is fighting for more than just a world boxing championship....

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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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Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride

Perry Mason is invited to the marriage of the daughter of an old friend of his. But after the ceremo...

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Last Rites
Last Rites

After witnessing her lover being murdered by his jealous wife, Angela seeks refuge in a church where...

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Big Trouble
Big Trouble

Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet ...

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A Perfect Couple
A Perfect Couple

An uptight bachelor tries his luck with a computer dating service and gets matched up with his polar...

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A Dangerous Woman
A Dangerous Woman

Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Marth...

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See China and Die
See China and Die

A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real-life mystery involving her dead...

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Fore Play
Fore Play

A three-part omnibus centered around sex and its discontents....

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Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?
Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?

The visitor that you might expect for Christmas is not who shows up in this film. Instead, a mysteri...

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Come Away Home
Come Away Home

Twelve-year-old Annie Lamm's first day of summer break quickly turns into a disaster. She realizes t...

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State of Emergency
State of Emergency

Medical drama about a major hospital whose emergency room regularly faces an overload of patients. O...

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What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while ...

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Mother of the Bride
Mother of the Bride

A mother's plans for her daughter's wedding are complicated when her ex-husband, who abandoned the f...

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The Water Is Finally Blue: The Untold Story of Robert Altman's O.C. and Stiggs
The Water Is Finally Blue: The Untold Story of Robert Altman's O.C. and Stiggs

An in-depth oral history of the production and development history of Robert Altman's "O.C. and Stig...

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Boy Makes Girl
Boy Makes Girl

When his mother passes, a software programmer on the autism spectrum, Aaron, struggles to cope with ...

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Simple Gifts
Simple Gifts

A collection of animated Christmas shorts: An original Maurice Sendak piece about a boy with nothing...

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Telling Lies in America
Telling Lies in America

A 17-year-old boy becomes friends with Billy Magic, the radio DJ he idolizes, and eventually slips i...

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Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

As the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes, Big Bird decides to leave his Sesame Street friends behind...

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Cooperstown
Cooperstown

A retired baseball player reflects on the mistakes and problems of the past 35 years when he is over...

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Cars 2
Cars 2

Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix r...

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Employee of the Month
Employee of the Month

"Employee of the Month" is about a guy whose day spirals from bad to worse when he gets fired from h...

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My Boyfriend's Back
My Boyfriend's Back

Missy McCloud is the most beautiful girl in school and Johnny Dingle has been in love with her for y...

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Selfie Dad
Selfie Dad

Spiraling into a mid-life crisis and feeling disconnected from his family, Ben Marcus, a reality-TV ...

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Death Wish
Death Wish

After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man v...

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Angels in the Endzone
Angels in the Endzone

The football team Jesse is on is terrible, and after the death of his father Jesse quits the team. T...

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When He's Not a Stranger
When He's Not a Stranger

At a California university, Lyn goes to meet her best friend Melanie in the dorm room of Melanie's b...

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Nobody Knows Anything!
Nobody Knows Anything!

Sarah thinks making a movie is easy. With the guidance of her screenwriter uncle, she goes on a wild...

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Man in the Square Suit
Man in the Square Suit

Comedy TV Film...

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Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North
Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North

Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North follows the military career of Marine Lt. Col. Oli...

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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insu...

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Happy, Texas
Happy, Texas

Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple ...

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For Your Consideration
For Your Consideration

The possibility of Oscar gold holds the cast and crew of an independent film in its grip after the p...

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Other People
Other People

David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York...

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A Woman's a Helluva Thing
A Woman's a Helluva Thing

After the death of his estranged mother, a misogynistic womanizer returns home to find that his ex-g...

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Howard, Howard and Howard
Howard, Howard and Howard

Three men, all named Howard cope with living in an otherwise humanness world....

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The Out-of-Towners
The Out-of-Towners

A trip to New York for a job interview turns into a trip to hell for a small town couple....

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A Mighty Wind
A Mighty Wind

Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following ...

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Waiting for Guffman
Waiting for Guffman

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town m...

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My Santa
My Santa

A young, single mother, Jen, begins to lose her faith in the magic of Christmas. However, when she t...

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Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin

Desperate to save her own life, a miller's daughter makes a bargain with a strange elf-like characte...

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Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel

Abandoned by their parents, a young brother and sister try to find their way home. On the way, they ...

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Madison
Madison

In 1971, air-conditioner repairman and boat enthusiast Jim McCormick entertains his desire to 'go do...

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Comfort and Joy
Comfort and Joy

High-powered single-woman Jane Berry is focused on the important things in life, such as advancing h...

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Sunshine Cleaning
Sunshine Cleaning

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off...

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Cars 3
Cars 3

Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly p...

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Stephen King's Golden Tales
Stephen King's Golden Tales

A collection of horror stories taking the viewer into the dark world of Stephen King, featuring vamp...

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Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel

A humourous telling of the history of the comic book superhero....

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White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd

When '30s film star Thelma Todd dies mysteriously, her relationship with New York mobster Lucky Luci...

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The Dion Brothers
The Dion Brothers

Two rural West Virginia brothers leave home, rob an armored car and become fugitives....

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Thanks
Thanks

Three family Thanksgiving gatherings at a California beach house are fraught with tension due to the...

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The Parisienne and the Prudes
The Parisienne and the Prudes

A married couple from New York City escape the blistering summer heat by visiting a New Jersey nudis...

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Bob & Doug McKenzie's Two-Four Anniversary
Bob & Doug McKenzie's Two-Four Anniversary

In 1980, the SCTV crew had a request from their broadcaster, the CBC, for distinctively Canadian con...

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Hiccups
Hiccups

When Lightning McQueen gets the hiccups, everyone in Radiator Springs thinks they have the cure....

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Spinning
Spinning

Guido discovers he has a hidden talent as a street corner sign spinner....

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The Radiator Springs 500½
The Radiator Springs 500½

A 'leisurely drive' planned in honor of Radiator Springs’ town founder, Stanley, turns precarious as...

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The Great Buster: A Celebration
The Great Buster: A Celebration

A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers ...

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The Perfect You
The Perfect You

A waiter/writer living with his dad and a neat freak who's just landed a job as a reporter in New Yo...

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Lip Service
Lip Service

A young news reporter schemes to take over the job of a veteran news anchor whose ratings he's been ...

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The Shady Hill Kidnapping
The Shady Hill Kidnapping

John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadwa...

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Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure!
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure!

Raggedy Ann and Andy, along with other toys, reside in the nursery of a little girl named Marcella. ...

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Error in Judgment
Error in Judgment

Eric's art gallery is losing money, and even though his psychiatrist wife wants to help, she can't d...

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Out There
Out There

A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer is fired from his job for not being sensationalistic enough. A...

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Slap Shot
Slap Shot

To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs...

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Rennie's Landing
Rennie's Landing

Life is hard. You can't always get what you want. but Alec Nichols has a plan to change all that. It...

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Celebrating Sixteen Candles
Celebrating Sixteen Candles

A retrospective look at "Sixteen Candles" from cast and crew, as well as fellow screenwriters, direc...

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The Steel Collar Man
The Steel Collar Man

An android soldier and its creator are on the run from the government (which it was created for and ...

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I'll Remember April
I'll Remember April

Four young boys find a shipwrecked Japanese sailor during World War II and struggle with the decisio...

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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

By accident, the content of a computer encyclopedia is transferred into the brain of Dexter Riley, a...

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The Gesture and The Word
The Gesture and The Word

A lonely postman (Gilbert) secretly recreates postcards for a woman (Aurore) on his postal route whe...

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Turbo
Turbo

The tale of an ordinary garden snail who dreams of winning the Indy 500....

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Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales

Comedy special spotlighting Tracey Ullman’s larger than life character Ruby Romaine from HBO's Trace...

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Saving Paradise
Saving Paradise

A ruthless corporate raider is forced to return to his small town roots where he suddenly inherits h...

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Altman on His Own Terms
Altman on His Own Terms

A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. T...

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Qiana
Qiana

A rural New Hampshire snow-plow driver defies his wife and buys a disco shirt at a yard sale, impuls...

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The Night the Animals Talked
The Night the Animals Talked

Common farm animals in the stable of Christ's birth begin to talk and communicate for the first time...

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Capture the Flag
Capture the Flag

A group of elderly vets engage in a spirited game of 'capture the flag' for the privilege of raising...

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