Glenn Close
Birthday: 1947-03-19
Place of Birth: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Biography: Glenda Veronica Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress. In a career spanning over five decades on screen and stage, she has received numerous accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for eight Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and three Grammy Awards. She was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019. Close received eight Academy Award nominations for playing a feminist mother in The World According to Garp (1982), a baby boomer in The Big Chill (1983), a love interest in The Natural (1984), a psychotic ex-lover in Fatal Attraction (1987), a cunning aristocrat in Dangerous Liaisons (1988), an English butler in Albert Nobbs (2011), a troubled wife in The Wife (2017), and an eccentric grandmother in Hillbilly Elegy (2020). Her other films include Reversal of Fortune (1990), The Paper (1994), and Mars Attacks! (1996), Air Force One (1997), and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Close also portrayed Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and its 2000 sequel and voiced Kala in Tarzan (1999). In television, Close received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role in the film Something About Amelia (1984) and later won three—Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Margarethe Cammermeyer in the NBC film Serving in Silence (1995) and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series twice consecutively for playing Patty Hewes in Damages (2007–2012). On stage, Close made her Broadway debut in the play Love for Love (1974). She later won three Tony Awards, two for Best Actress in a Play for her roles in the plays The Real Thing (1983) and Death and the Maiden (1992), and one for Best Actress in a Musical for the musical Sunset Boulevard (1995). She was Tony-nominated for Barnum (1980). She returned to the Broadway stage in a 2014 revival of A Delicate Balance. In 2016, she returned to Sunset Boulevard on the West End stage, earning a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical nomination. Close is the president of Trillium Productions and co-founder of the website FetchDog. She has made political donations in support of Democratic politicians. She is vocal on issues such as women's rights, same-sex marriage, and mental health. Married three times, she has one daughter, Annie Starke, from her relationship with producer John Starke.
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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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Dangerous Liaisons
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...
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Hook
The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawye...
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The House of the Spirits
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America....
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Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne,...
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102 Dalmatians
Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleash...
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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpec...
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Hoodwinked!
Little Red Riding Hood: A classic story, but there's more to every tale than meets the eye. Before y...
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Fatal Attraction
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The Natural
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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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Evening
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, A...
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The Safety of Objects
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal cri...
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101 Dalmatians
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Jagged Edge
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The Big Chill
Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own....
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Cookie's Fortune
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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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Mary Reilly
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde....
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Le Divorce
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The Summer Book
The story of the relationship between Sophia, an eight-year-old girl who is growing up fast, and her...
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Air Force One
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The Stepford Wives
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537 Votes
Documentary chronicling the political machinations that led to the unprecedented, contested outcome ...
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The Chumscrubber
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all...
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Heights
Spanning twenty-four hours, HEIGHTS follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny befo...
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Strip Search
Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in t...
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Tarzan
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Nine Lives
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the tra...
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In the Gloaming
Danny, dying of AIDS, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share momen...
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
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Skylark
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The Lion in Winter
King Henry II keeps his wife Eleanor locked away in the towers because of her frequent attempts to o...
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Reversal of Fortune
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Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
After serving in the military for more than twenty years, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, Colon...
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The Deliverance
Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new ...
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South Pacific
During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an ...
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Albert Nobbs
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be ...
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Brush with Fate
A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed....
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Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
The third installment of the Sarah trilogy provides a glorious and touching story of a family drawn ...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...
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Paradise Road
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Immediate Family
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Maxie
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Love, Marilyn
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Orphan Train
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Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
This program features the music of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim in a 1992 performance at Carne...
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Too Far to Go
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the ...
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The Stone Boy
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My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
Famous New Yorkers and the pooches they love are the focus of this refreshingly honest and endearing...
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Guardians of the Galaxy
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Meeting Venus
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast prod...
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Something About Amelia
Counseling helps family deal with the discovery that their child was sexually abused by the closest ...
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Heart of Stone
An intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from steal...
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Tom Hanks: The Nomad
From humble beginnings to an aspiring thespian to acting as some of the world's most iconic and nota...
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Discovering Hamlet
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and d...
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Low Down
The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to...
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Tarzan II
When one of his missteps puts his family in jeopardy, Tarzan decides they would be better off withou...
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5 to 7
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The Elephant Man
A taped version of the stage play about a hideously deformed 19th-century London man and how he mana...
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
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What I Want My Words to Do to You
An inside look at a writing workshop led by playwright and activist Eve Ensler, consisting of 15 wom...
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Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga is a witch in the enchanted Forest. When the viewer's mother, the Chief, falls ill, it is ...
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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s....
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Anesthesia
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy...
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Not My Life
Not My Life comprehensively depicts the cruel and dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and mo...
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Gabon The Last Eden
Surrounded by war-torn nations, the wilds of Gabon may be the last best hope for many of Africa's sp...
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A Look Through His Lens
Oscar-winning cinematographer Philippe Rousselot offers a master class in image making, with insight...
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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles...
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Back in Action
Fifteen years after vanishing from the CIA to start a family, elite spies Matt and Emily jump back i...
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Lincoln
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civ...
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The Wife
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated t...
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving's eerie tale of romantic rivalry along the Hudson pits the new schoolmaster Ichabo...
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In Search of the Jaguar
In the face of his own threatening illness, the greatest protector of jaguars is battling time and a...
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Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
In the mid-1950s, Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, young composers and romantic partners, are hir...
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Gates of the Arctic
Glenn Close narrates this National Park Service movie about the many varied aspects of Gates of the ...
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The Girl with All the Gifts
In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into thoughtless, flesh-eating monsters....
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with ...
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Encore
A best-agers comedy about former Broadway stars at a retirement home who decide to put on a show....
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
When young priest Jud Duplenticy is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, ...
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Father Figures
Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased fath...
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Anne Frank Remembered
Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this Academy A...
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SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
Before he was Happy Gilmore, Little Nicky, The Waterboy, or Billy Madison, Adam Sandler was doing Sa...
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Warcraft
The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race o...
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Crooked House
A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived i...
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What Happened to Monday
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septupl...
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In & Out
A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the...
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Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
A TV special celebrating the 15th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity audience, m...
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Welcome to Hollywood
A film director decides to chart the course of a young actor as he tries to make it in Hollywood......
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The Wilde Wedding
After a whirlwind courtship, retired movie star Eve Wilde prepares to marry her fourth husband, the ...
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The Big Chill: A Reunion
A look back at the making of the film "The Big Chill" (1983) with cast and crew....
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Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
In this intimate glimpse at celebrated writer, activist and Buddhist priest Peter Matthiessen (The S...
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Six by Sondheim
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through ...
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
To celebrate Andrew Lloyd Webber's 70th birthday, NBC presents Andrew Lloyd Webber Tribute to a Supe...
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
British superstar composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is feted in this 50th birthday benefit gala produced ...
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The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and ho...
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Let's Dance
Justin Peck, the New York City Ballet's resident choreographer, created a series of dances for 2018...
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Stones for Ibarra
A couple moves to a small Mexican town called Ibarra. They help open a local mine which brings new l...
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Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
A television special broadcast on PBS in honor of composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer a...
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The Lavender Scare
At the height of the Cold War, President Eisenhower deems homosexuals to be security risks. A viciou...
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Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
Film critics, actors, film historians and other personalities share their experiences and curious st...
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The Rules of the Game
Dramatist Luigi Pirandello's mordant comedy of manners tells the tale of upper-crust Italians Silia ...
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Hillbilly Elegy
An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three ...
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Four Good Days
A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse....
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Electric Blue 29
In addition to the usual erotic vignettes and nude photo sessions, this features steamy footage from...
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In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Follow Elvira as she searches for the Sanderson Sisters, interviewing various figures who claim to h...
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Swan Song
In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimen...
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The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fu...
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Brothers
A reformed criminal's attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing...
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Casting By
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Ma...
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as ...
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An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
From Casey Stengel to Doc Gooden, An Amazin' Era captures all the magic and mystique surrounding 25 ...
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Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
When the Emperor of China finds out about the beautiful music of the nightingale, he wishes to have ...
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Show of Titles
An evening of celebrated stars performing the titles songs from Broadway’s best....
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An Amazin' Era
From Casey Stengel to Dwight Gooden, An Amazin' Era captures all the magic and mystique surrounding ...
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Animal Farm
A satirical allegory of revolution and power that traces how a movement for equality is systematical...
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Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
Actress Glenn Close can transform herself into different roles like a chameleon. Behind this versati...
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The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Return to the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games for the reaping of the 5...
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The Plague Monkeys
Recounts the chilling events leading up to the emergence of the deadly Ebola virus. Shot on location...
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Sunset Boulevard
A struggling screenwriter develops an unusual relationship with a reclusive former movie star who st...
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The Black Ball
The Black Ball, inspired by an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca, will be a queer vindication...
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Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration is a special produced forSesame Street’s 25th anniversary. ...
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Gandahar
On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by...
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Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
Life on the range is observed in Big Piney, Wyoming, where the romantic image is contrasted to the h...
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Baby
A couple finds a baby on their doorstep with a note asking them to temporarily keep it. They take th...
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