Howard Hesseman - Movie Mafia

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The Rocker

In the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty yea...

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Wild Oats

Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for...

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About Schmidt

A recently retired man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover mo...

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Hot Chocolate

B.J. Cassidy, a rich businesswoman, has to invest several billion dollars for fiscal reasons. She un...

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Billy Jack

Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protec...

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Jackson County Jail

A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-countr...

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Doctor Detroit

A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financi...

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Halloween II

Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Il...

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All About Steve

After one short blind date, Mary Horowitz, a brilliant and eccentric crossword constructor, is convi...

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John Ritter: Being of Sound Mind and Body

John Ritter shows off his comedic talent with a collection of comedy sketches....

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Who Done It: The Clue Documentary

Clue (1985) has become a cult classic film and is loved by multiple generations. Yet there has never...

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Man About Town

A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is...

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Gridlock'd

After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll i...

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Tail Gunner Joe

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to ...

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Crazy for Christmas

A girl loses her parents and husband and is left driving a limo trying to get by raising her young s...

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Private Lessons

Phillip Filmore is a naive, 15-year-old, preoccupied with sex, who develops a crush on Nicole Mallow...

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Rubin & Ed

Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest ...

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Heat

Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with...

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Clue

Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns ...

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Loose Shoes

Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects a...

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The Sunshine Boys

Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-sta...

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Honky Tonk Freeway

Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a...

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My Chauffeur

A feisty young woman accepts a mysterious offer to become a chauffeur for a Beverly Hills limousine ...

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Americathon

In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankru...

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Salvation Boulevard

Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born-again-Christian finds himse...

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On the 2nd Day of Christmas

Trish and her six-year-old niece, Patsy, make their living by picking pockets. But when they try to ...

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The Ghost of Flight 401

An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed...

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Steelyard Blues

A group of misfits decide to leave for a place that they can all be free. Their mode of transportati...

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Inside Out

An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and fi...

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Call Me Anna

Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing i...

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Tunnel Vision

A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which ...

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Bigfoot

A rock concert awakens the legendary monster, who goes on a rampage. The event's organizer plans to ...

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Little Miss Millions

Private detective Nick is hired to bring back Heather, who ran away from her stepmother to find her ...

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Six Against the Rock

In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the isla...

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Quiet Killer

On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that ...

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Teddy Bears' Picnic

In Harry Shearer's tongue-in-cheek comedy, a waiter at Zanbesu Glen (a chi-chi Northern California r...

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Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story

Pamela Smart knows exactly what she wants and is willing to do anything to get it. She is fed up wit...

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The Diamond Trap

When streetwise Manhattan police detectives Rawlings (Howard Hesseman) and Brendan Thomas (Ed Marina...

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Rockin' at the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock

This documentary pays tribute to the contributions and importance of the title watering hole in the ...

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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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Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo

An airplane carring coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarant...

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The Blue Knight

In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force ...

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The Comedy Company

An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics....

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Munchie Strikes Back

The magical Munchie is back, and if he gets in any more trouble it's off to the dullest constellatio...

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Lethal Exposure

Ambitious photojournalist Chris Cassidy, on assignment in Paris, becomes involved with an unconventi...

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Out-of-Sync

A DJ and ex-con is forced to work with the police in an undercover drug sting targeting his boss....

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You Can't Take it With You

Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning co...

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Jory

Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The...

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Prisoners

Melodrama set in South Vietnam in the 1960s. Krueger (Bramhall), a former infantry lieutenant, is im...

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Mister Roberts

Set aboard a navy cargo ship during World War II, this comedic drama follows Lt. Doug Roberts (Rober...

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Silent Movie

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an id...

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Outside Chance

An advertising executive finds herself in a small-town jail after being terrorized on a drive from L...

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Gridlock

A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an ...

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The Mesmerist

Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old man (...

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The Sky is Falling

A young woman, struggling to become a novelist, has her life go into a tailspin. Her first novel is ...

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The Blue Knight

Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 ye...

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The Big Bus

A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is pla...

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The Fantastic Funnies

In this partially-animated TV special, Loni Anderson salutes the funny pages with interviews with fa...

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Some Kind of a Nut

A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's ...

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The Princess Who Had Never Laughed

There was once a very serious kingdom. So serious, that the King demanded to be addressed as Your Se...

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Silver Skies

A group of eccentric retirees' lives are turned upside down when their beloved apartment complex is ...

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This Is Spinal Tap

"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get...

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A Christmas in Vermont

Riley Thomas is sent by her profit-obsessed boss to shut down one of the company’s holdings, a small...

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Silence of the Heart

A mother going through a painful, protracted divorce realizes too late the effect it's having on her...

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Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever

Television special taped before a live studio audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena,...

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High Stakes

A former news reporter marries and tries to adjust to the life of a house wife and mother. However, ...

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Best Kept Secrets

Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), wh...

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The Other Side of Midnight

When French beauty Noelle Page falls in love with American pilot Larry Douglas, she believes he'll m...

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Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon

Del Close was never a household name, but any comedy enthusiast is aware of his impact. From Bill Mu...

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Petulia

Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new ...

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Flight of the Navigator

12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight...

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Shampoo

A Beverly Hills hairdresser runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to ...

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Whiffs

Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after...

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One Shoe Makes it Murder

Robert Mitchum stars as a down-and-out ex-cop whose entanglement with a shady casino owner leaves hi...

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Hustling

Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decide...

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Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

Officer Carey Mahoney and his cohorts have finally graduated from the Police Academy and are about t...

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The Jerk

After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson se...

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A Session with the Committee

A Session with the Committee...

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Valerie

A documentary of the incredible life of actress Valerie Perrine and her battle with Parkinson's....

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Victims

A serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His v...

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More Than Friends

Matty Perlman and Alan Corkus are old friends. He wants them to be more than friends. Sometimes she ...

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Life After The Navigator

A feature that not only celebrates the 1986 classic "Flight of the Navigator", but also looks at the...

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Martian Child

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old ...

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Kid Blue

Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dim...

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Cisco Pike

A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of con...

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The Christian Licorice Store

A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the f...

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The Amazing Howard Hughes

The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker H...

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Amazon Women on the Moon

Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a s...

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For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close

Comedy guru Del Close, mentor to everyone from Bill Murray to Tina Fey, sets out to write his autobi...

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Innocent Victims

Army Sergeant Tim Hennis is wrongly convicted of killing the wife and children of an Air Force capta...

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Focus on Fishko

This short film satirizes French auteur theory. An earnest critic rediscovers washed-up director Sey...

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Likely Stories, Vol. 4

"Likely Stories" was one Pay-TV's first original comedy programs. The one-hour shows were a mixed-ba...

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