Rance Howard
Birthday: 1928-11-17
Place of Birth: Newkirk, Oklahoma, USA
Biography: Rance Howard (born Harold Engle Beckenholdt; November 17, 1928 – November 25, 2017) was an American actor who starred in film and on television. He was the father of actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard, and grandfather of actresses Bryce Dallas Howard and Paige Howard. Howard appeared in films such as Cool Hand Luke (1967), Chinatown (1974), Splash (1984), Ed Wood (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Independence Day (1996), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Cinderella Man (2005), Frost/Nixon (2008), Nebraska (2013), and Max Rose (2016). He received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for co-producing the television film The Time Crystal (1981).
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Big Wind on Campus
A man and his buddies learn to deal with love, sex, and passing gas....
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Spooky Buddies
The nefarious Warwick the Warlock has returned from his astral imprisonment, and plans to make the f...
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Audie & the Wolf
When the moon is full, a friendly WOLF turns into a savage, bloodthirsty MAN and goes on a kill spre...
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Cotton Candy
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Angels & Demons
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Gung Ho
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt...
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A Crack in the Floor
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Runaway Daughters
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Land of the Free
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Creator
With the help of student assistant Boris and stolen university equipment, Dr. Harry Wolper plans to ...
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Smokey Bites the Dust
Follows the rivalry between a small-town Southern sheriff and a small-town delinquent who steals car...
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I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore
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A Smoky Mountain Christmas
A country-western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive backwoodsma...
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Mr. No Legs
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Toolbox Murders
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Miracle at Sage Creek
Two families overcome prejudice and tragedy in 1888 Wyoming when a special Christmas miracle saves t...
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The Red Pony
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Be My Baby
After dating several cheating husbands who pretended to be single, Rylee devises a scheme for reveng...
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Trust Me
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Terminal Velocity
A maverick skydiver and a former KGB agent team up to stop the Russian mafia from stealing gold....
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Grand Theft Auto
A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her ang...
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Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy
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InSight
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Skyward
Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair find...
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The Kid with the Broken Halo
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Dads
A joyful exploration of modern fatherhood, this doc gathers the testimonies of dads around the world...
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Splash
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Locusts
A swarm of locusts appears on the horizon near a Midwestern town and the inhabitants must find a way...
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Gone Dark
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Dark Before Dawn
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Problem Child 3
Now a pre-teen, Junior has fallen head over heels for a classmate who doesn't even notice him, but d...
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Holiday in Your Heart
LeAnn Rimes plays herself from her childhood in Nashville to her performing around the country as a ...
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Mars Attacks!
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if...
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Rosewood Lane
Radio talk show therapist Sonny Blake moves back to her childhood home on seemingly idyllic Rosewood...
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Harrison Bergeron
The year was 2081 and everybody was finally equal. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was ...
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Cool Hand Luke
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Where the Lilies Bloom
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Chinatown
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern ...
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Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Da...
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Cocoon
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves en...
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The 'Burbs
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Ticks
Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, pol...
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Tiger Heart
A teen martial arts expert takes on a bunch of thugs who are forcing a community to sell their prope...
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who a...
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The Long Ride Home
A man fights the law and the lawless in order to reunite with his wife and son in the 1860s west....
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Sasquatch Mountain
A lonely tow-truck driver gets caught in a deadly struggle between a pair of bank robbers with a bea...
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Grizzly Park
A giant grizzly bear stalks 8 troubled young adults and a park ranger in a forest reserve called Gri...
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Frost/Nixon
For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steel...
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Boppin' at the Glue Factory
A junkie nurse rules the night shift at a convalescent hospital....
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Harley's Hill
Harley, a runaway thoroughbred, is found by a rancher and his daughter. Unable to find the owner, th...
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Nebraska
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Bloody Trail
A Union soldier travels through the South right after the Civil War ends, and runs up against angry ...
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Let Go
Walter Dishman, a married and melancholy parole officer, deals with three eccentric ex-convicts who ...
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Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth....
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get rem...
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Where Truth Lies
Doctor Ian Lazarre is a hopeless alcoholic. After the tragic death of his wife and the failure of hi...
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Innerspace
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Acci...
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Sgt. Bilko
The US army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nat...
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Ping!
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Another Man, Another Chance
Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he emigrates ...
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The Miracle of Kathy Miller
With the support of her parents, an Arizona adolescent overcomes severe injuries to run in a 10K rac...
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Back By Midnight
The warden of a small, rundown, minimum-security prison plots revenge against the the prison's disho...
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Huff
A woman steals her abusive boyfriend's drug money for her three teenage daughters to seek better liv...
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Play the Game
When ladies' man David Mitchell (Paul Campbell) gives his lonely grandfather, Joe (Andy Griffith), s...
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Universal Soldier
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the mili...
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The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins
Gary Coleman plays the son of a U.S. diplomat who imagines himself in fantastic situations....
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The Colony
A man and his family move from a crime-ridden inner city suburb to a self-proclaimed violence-free h...
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B.O.R.N.
A speeding ambulance abducts three beautiful young women to a sinister medical center where someone ...
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The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
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Scandal Sheet
The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foun...
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Scout's Honor
Gary Coleman stars as little Joey Seymour, a clever but lonely orphan shuffled from one foster home ...
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Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter is described by CBS as "a dramatic love story" about the lives ...
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A Beautiful Mind
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A...
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The Kid from Left Field
A bat boy guides the San Diego Padres to the World Series with the secret help of his dad, a basebal...
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Cinderella Man
The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise co...
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Parenthood
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjo...
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The Missing
When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by ...
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Ed Wood
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his stran...
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Ghost Town: The Movie
An 1800’s western set in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. It’s a story of love, hate, re...
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An Eye for an Eye
A former bounty hunter teams up with a younger one, to track down and kill the wanted gang leader wh...
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Listen to Me
It was the best time of their lives. A kid from Oklahoma. An immigrant's daughter. A senator's son, ...
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Airplane II: The Sequel
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past...
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Drillbit Taylor
Dealing with a sociopathic school bully, three high school freshmen hire a low-budget bodyguard to p...
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Sister Aimee: The Aimee Semple McPherson Story
A feature film about the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, the famed evangelist of the 1920s....
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Little Giants
When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides ...
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey per...
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Snapdragon
An erotic amnesiac lures a police psychologist into a world of lust and danger....
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Playing with Fire
Gary Coleman stars as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee ...
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Eat My Dust
Hoover Nielbold is a car-crazy teenager who, in order to impress the hottest girl in school, takes h...
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Ghost Rock
Set in 1882, John Slaughter and his sidekick Savannah Starr return to a town where an almost forgott...
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Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
After a couple adopts a pair of orphaned brothers, it becomes alarmingly clear the boys are much mor...
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Night Club
Three friends - aided by one of the residents - start a night club in a retirement home, after takin...
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Death and Texas
Barefoot Bobby Briggs, the legendary running back for the Austin Steers was today sentenced to die f...
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The Lone Ranger
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Ran...
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9 1/2 Ninjas!
When corrupt real estate mogul Arnold Gruber evicts Joe and Lisa from their dwellings to make way fo...
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The Night Caller
For 11 years, Beth's life is limited to working nights in a convenience store while her daytime hour...
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The Dilemma
Longtime friends Ronny and Nick are partners in an auto-design firm. They are hard at work on a pres...
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Fearless
After surviving a plane crash that kills many others, Max Klein develops a sense of invulnerability,...
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Frontier Woman
Tennessee, 1838. Polly Crockett, the daughter of the legendary hero Davy Crockett of Alamo, and make...
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Talk Radio
Lou spent so many years listening to talk radio that he was left wondering whether there was actuall...
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The Child Wanderers
In the 1890s, 10-year-old Yohan is sent away from home to survive on his own as a child laborer. He ...
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Legend of the Phantom Rider
Two ancient entities reincarnated through the centuries face off time and again for an innocent soul...
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Psycho
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own....
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The Paper
Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long ho...
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their ram...
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40 Nights
Examines the pre-ministry life of Jesus starting with his baptism with John the Baptist. From there ...
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The Legend of Frank Woods
Legendary Quick-shot Frank Woods is caught in a shootout and kills three drunks in self-defense. In ...
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Ed and His Dead Mother
A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexp...
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Solemates
Told from the perspective of shoes, this film tells the story of a couple's journey through life - t...
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Broken Memories
“Broken Memories” is a romantic drama that depicts the often-untold story of a family caregiver tend...
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Limit Up
Casey is the assistant of commodity trader Peter Oak, but wants to get a license herself. When the d...
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Village of the Giants
"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. ...
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Apollo 13
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...
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Forced to Kill
A repo man tries to deliver a repossessed Jaguar. He's captured by a bizarre family, straight out of...
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Chasing the Star
Three Magi Priests from different regions of the world journey through the unforgiving desert in hop...
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The Christ Slayer
Takes place at the Passover and the days that follow the crucifixion. A mix of scripture and Christi...
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The Genesis Code
A college hockey player and a female journalism student struggle to find common ground with their sp...
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Far and Away
A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they...
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The Wild Country
Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, ...
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Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter
When Cody gets lost while exploring in the woods, he finds a friend in the legendary creature, Bigfo...
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The Second Civil War
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governo...
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Evasive Action
When Redwood Federal Penitentiary closes, there are going to be several hundred prisoners looking fo...
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Once Fallen
When Chance (Brian Presley) returns home after five years in jail, he is determined to escape his pa...
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Love & Sex
When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come u...
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The Trial
After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for small tow...
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Busted
In the town of Amity, the cops take crime off of the streets and put it into the police station wher...
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Second Chances
Jenny McLean is a single mom working at a 911-call center struggling to make ends meet and raise her...
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D-Tox
A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at ...
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Killing Cupid
This "Best Fiction Film Winner"* follows Valentine, a female assassin who is trapped in a room with ...
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Return to Mayberry
After being away for awhile, Andy Taylor returns home to Mayberry to visit Opie, now an expectant fa...
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Independence Day
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major...
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Abilene
When he finds out that his estranged brother is dying, a proud but stubborn old man decides to drive...
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Traveller
A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina ...
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Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his ...
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Love Letters
After discovering a box of old love letters sent to her mother by a mysterious stranger, Anna, a you...
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Chairman of the Board
Surfer Edison isn't able to make ends meet with his inventions or his lifestyle. But then he meets b...
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Joe Dirt
Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that h...
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Jumping for Joy
Bobbie Dean is a great basketball player who takes a rag-tag bunch of boys and turns them into a rea...
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The Alamo
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bow...
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Apple Seed
On a cross country road trip to rob his home town bank Prince Mccoy finds himself having to rely on ...
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Keith
Natalie is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy ...
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Jonah Hex
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbul...
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Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
For Robbing the Dead is a story of compassion - compassion toward those who may seem the least deser...
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Small Soldiers
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their bat...
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Money Talks
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection....
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Georgia Rule
Rebellious, uncontrollable teenager, Rachel is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the s...
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Valentine's Day
Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expe...
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The Executioner's Song
In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a length...
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Within
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The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been fal...
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Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Jessica Fletcher searches for a woman who witnessed the murder of a man trying to expose a serious f...
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The Lonely Guy
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to fin...
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Happy, Texas
Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple ...
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Ghosts of Mississippi
A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to bring a white supremacist ...
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Malevolence
A young prisoner tells his story to an FBI agent. How unjust judicial system, systematic abuse insid...
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Boris and Natasha
Sent by Fearless Leader to America to find an important microchip, dastardly Pottsylvanian spies Bor...
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Two Soldiers
Charming tale of a small farm boy who runs away from his rural environment in search of his older br...
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Easy Rider: The Ride Back
In this revisionist drama, the film delves into the family lineage of Wyatt Williams, the character ...
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Gary Coleman: For Safety's Sake
Actor Gary Coleman appears in this instructional video designed to show children how to be safe and ...
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Max Rose
An ageing jazz pianist learns something about his wife of 65 years, leading him to question their li...
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Rat Race
In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon...
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