Stephen Tobolowsky
Birthday: 1951-05-30
Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, USA
Biography: Stephen Harold Tobolowsky is an American character actor. He is known for film roles such as insurance agent Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day and amnesiac Sammy Jankis in Memento, as well as such television characters as Commissioner Hugo Jarry in Deadwood, Bob Bishop in Heroes, Sandy Ryerson in Glee, Stu Beggs in Californication and White Famous, "Action" Jack Barker in Silicon Valley, Dr. Leslie Berkowitz in One Day at a Time, Principal Earl Ball in The Goldbergs, and Dr. Schulman in The Mindy Project. Tobolowsky was born on May 30, 1951, in Dallas, Texas. He studied geology at Southern Methodist University but switched to theater after being cast in a production of "The Crucible." He later attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he graduated with a degree in drama. Tobolowsky began his acting career in the early 1980s, appearing in films such as The Philadelphia Experiment (1984), Nobody's Fool (1986), and Spaceballs (1987). He also had a recurring role on the television series Seinfeld (1989-1998). Tobolowsky's breakthrough role came in 1993, when he played Ned Ryerson in the comedy Groundhog Day. His performance in the film was critically acclaimed, and he has since become one of the most recognizable character actors in Hollywood. Tobolowsky has continued to work steadily in film and television over the years. He has appeared in numerous other films, including Memento (2000), Mulholland Drive (2001), and The Informant! (2009). He has also had recurring roles on the television series Deadwood (2004-2006), Heroes (2006-2007), Californication (2007-2014), and Silicon Valley (2014-2019). In addition to his acting career, Tobolowsky is also a writer and a podcaster. He has written two books, The Dangerous Animals Club (2002) and The Tobolowsky Files (2017). He also hosts the podcast The Tobolowsky Files, in which he tells stories about his life and career.
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Memento
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating ...
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Groundhog Day
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish camera...
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Basic Instinct
Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend...
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Thelma & Louise
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Wedlock
A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner....
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Mississippi Burning
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Bird on a Wire
An FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years. Now an old flame has recognised him,...
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Memoirs of an Invisible Man
After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while ...
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The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
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Great Balls of Fire!
The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of th...
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Radioland Murders
A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network....
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Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her...
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Murder in the First
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Garfield
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The Insider
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Mi...
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Mr. Magoo
Mr. Magoo, a man with terrible eyesight, gets caught up in a museum robbery....
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Buried
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Jimmie & Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues
The story of brothers Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Jimmie and Stevie went from a small, post-war h...
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Single White Female
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Blind Dating
Danny is a blind man who does not let his impairment get in the way of living his life to the fulles...
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Freddy Got Fingered
Unemployed cartoonist Gord Brody moves back in with his parents Jim and Julie and younger brother Fr...
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Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
A small-town girl wins a date with a Hollywood star through a contest. When the date goes better tha...
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The Pickle
Harry Stone always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead, he made "The Pickle" - a t...
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Beethoven's Big Break
Eddie, a struggling animal trainer and single dad suddenly finds himself the personal wrangler for a...
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Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use...
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Boxboarders!
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Black River
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Love Liza
Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to huffing ga...
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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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Funny About Love
As political cartoonist Duffy and his bride Meg fail to conceive, he and sorority girl Daphne succee...
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Where the Day Takes You
King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto ...
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The Grifters
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both...
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Josh & S.A.M.
Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and ...
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Black Dog
An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is fille...
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The Country Bears
For Beary Barrington, The Country Bears' young #1 fan, fitting in with his all-too-human family is p...
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The Day the World Ended
A school psychologist investigates the death of a student's mother and finds the boy believes he is ...
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Don't Look Under the Bed
A girl calls on her brother's imaginary friend to banish a mischievous boogeyman who has framed her ...
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Deadly Medicine
A pediatrician becomes trapped in a web of betrayal and guilt when her best friend, a nurse, seems t...
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Mr. Peabody & Sherman
A young boy and his dog, who happens to have a genius-level IQ, spring into action when their time-m...
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You May Not Kiss the Bride
Bryan, an unassuming pet photographer has action and adventure thrust upon him when he is forced to ...
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Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes
Insurance agent Hutch Rimes spends a lot of time at the Sleep Easy Hotel, taking long lurid lunch br...
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Living 'til the End
Told by a psychic of his imminent death on his next birthday, Jack lives out the year, as a hopeless...
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The Lorax
A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl o...
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The Last Ride
At the end of 1952, with the best years of his career behind him, country music legend Hank Williams...
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Love Virtually
In a world where the Metaverse has become widely adopted, four couples go to ridiculous lengths to f...
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Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party
In Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party film-makers Robert Brinkmann and Andrew Putschoegl follow Ste...
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Power 98
A controversial talk show host becomes involved in the murder of a beautiful woman in a war for rati...
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Promise Me Tomorrow
A coming-of-age tale of a young man in a band who meets a girl way out of his league. What could go ...
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Trevor
Upon hitting puberty, a high school boy realizes that he is homosexual and faces prejudice from his ...
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Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up
As the holidays approach, Emily and Jared are looking forward to celebrating the holidays together a...
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Par 6
A cynical man returns to his family's homestead in Texas and starts up a golf course with his brothe...
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Peep World
On the day of their Father's 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication o...
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Hard Breakers
Tired of the dating scene, Lindsay and Alexis take matters into their own hands, clubbing potential ...
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On the Edge
A compendium of three short science-fiction films, each with a decidedly feminist slant....
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The Face is Familiar
Get to know some of Hollywood's most talented character actors, who have supported leading roles in ...
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Night Visitors
Agents for the government are after a graduate student and her brother when a secret mysterious box ...
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Two Idiots in Hollywood
Idiots Taylor Dupp and Murphy Wegg flee their humdrum existence in Dayton, Ohio for the glamour of H...
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Roe vs. Wade
Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means ...
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The Philadelphia Experiment
Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeare...
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Frankie and Johnny Are Married
Television director/producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare...
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Sneakers
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of...
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Atlas Shrugged: Part III
In a post-apocalyptic America, the iron fist of the totalitarian government seeks to crush one myste...
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Candy Cane Lane
A man, determined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest, makes a pact with a...
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Hello Ladies: The Movie
When Stuart learns that his British ex-girlfriend is planning to visit Los Angeles with her husband,...
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Christian Mingle
A young, modern single woman enters the world of online dating looking for an instant soul mate....
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The Time Traveler's Wife
Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appear...
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Haul Out the Holly
Emily arrives home, hoping to visit her parents, only to discover that they are leaving on a trip of...
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Guys and Girls Can't Be Friends
A young man discovers love for the first time with a girl he's been friends with since grade school ...
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The Barber
Eugene is a small town barber, beloved by the local community, but hiding a deadly secret. John is h...
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The Primary Instinct
Actor Stephen Tobolowsky has acted in over 200 TV shows and films over the past 40 years, possessing...
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Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey
Nearly every major element of making the 1991 film Thelma & Louise is examined here from how the scr...
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Failure to Launch
At 35, Tripp has an interesting job, a hip car, a passion for sailing, an active dating life, and a ...
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The Glimmer Man
A former government operative renowned for his stealth, Jack Cole is now a Los Angeles police detect...
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One Man's Hero
One Man's Hero tells the little-known story of the "St. Patrick's Battalion" or "San Patricios," a g...
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The Confirmation
A divorced father reconnects with his son when they track down a stolen toolbox over the course of a...
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Hollywood Signs
A documentary that celebrates autograph collecting, collectors, and our obsession with celebrities. ...
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Bossa Nova
After a chance encounter on the elevator, the lives of Mary Ann, a widowed English teacher, and Pedr...
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Cocaine and Blue Eyes
Michael Brennen, a San Francisco private eye gets dragged into a drug-smuggling operation while sear...
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Last Flight Out
Fact-based story set in Saigon on April, 1975, shortly after U.S. combat troops have withdrawn, and ...
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Roadside Prophets
On a quest to fulfill a friend's last wish, Joe takes to the desert road on his 1957 Harley-Davidson...
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Stanley's Gig
An emotionally dysfunctional ukulele minstrel lands a gig at a nursing home where he strikes up an u...
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Debating Robert Lee
A group of jaded high school students sign up for a debate class taught by a tough, combative teache...
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Poolman
Darren Barrenman, an unwavering optimist and native Angeleno, spends his days looking after the pool...
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Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
When the pets accidentally get separated from their vacationing owners, Chance, Shadow, and Sassy na...
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Wild Hogs
Restless and ready for an adventure, four suburban bikers leave the safety of their subdivision and ...
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McBride: The Doctor is Out...Really Out
In this particular episode, McBride's client is double-crossed during a custody case by his psychiat...
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The Valley of Light
The Valley of Light is a beautifully-filmed, sentimental movie of a young man's quest to make sense ...
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National Security
Earl Montgomery, a bombastic police academy reject, and Hank Rafferty, a disgraced, mild-mannered co...
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Freaky Friday
Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to ...
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Mirror Mirror
Shy teenager Megan moves to a new town with her widowed mother and quickly becomes the most unpopula...
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Spaceballs
When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, s...
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Where is Rocky II?
Pierre Bismuth hires a private detective and a duo of screenwriters to investigate on an enigmatic a...
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Say It Ain't Solo
A father and son learn that their favorite movie ("Star Wars") is about to become Hollywood's latest...
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Magnificat
A young agoraphobic woman is tormented by malevolent visions that begin to bleed into reality....
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Hero
Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of thei...
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Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown
When the Scooby gang visits a dude ranch, they discover that it and the nearby town have been haunte...
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Butterfly in the Typewriter
Troubled author John Kennedy Toole's struggle to bring A Confederacy of Dunces to print....
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Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion
Set in San Diego, the movie follows the desperate acts of Bill Templer head of a covert defense agen...
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Mamaboy
A high school student must hide the fact that he has become pregnant from his family, friends and th...
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Nobody's Fool
Cassie, who seeks love and escape from her mundane ordinary life, meets a traveling Shakespeare trou...
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Calendar Girl
Three young men go on an end of the summer trip to Hollywood, California. Their quest: to fulfill th...
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Keep My Grave Open
A crazy woman who lives in an old mansion thinks she's with her brother/lover, who lures victims to ...
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Little Black Book
Determined to learn about her boyfriend's past relationships, Stacy -- who works for a talk show -- ...
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Pearblossom Hwy
Friends Cory and Anna are drifting through life, struggling to find their place. Cory is sick of lif...
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Monsters at Large
Alex decides to end his kid brother's nightmares by forming a task force to take care of imaginary m...
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Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
After her triumph at the Miss United States pageant, FBI agent Gracie Hart becomes an overnight sens...
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In Country
Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her bir...
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Breaking In
Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his ...
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Strange Nature
The first film to expose unsolved wildlife deformity outbreaks and where they may lead. Based on a ...
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The Marla Hanson Story
Story of the model who was assaulted that left her face disfigured. It begins when she comes to New ...
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Fractured
Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter ...
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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
Celebrities re-create an original episode each from "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons."...
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Loners
When a group of eccentric loners is scapegoated by the government and forced into a ridiculous group...
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The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween
When Melvin tries to cancel Halloween, clever best friends Harold and George create their own spooky...
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Fantastic Mr. Murray
Bill Murray is considered by many of his fans to be "the coolest man in the world". But how is it th...
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To the Moon, Alice
A homeless family of three sleeps on a TV production stage, by day looking for a job. One day somebo...
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The Curse of Inferno
A rather dull minded bank robber suddenly suffers from a change of heart and decides to give the mon...
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View from the Top
No one thought Donna would go very far. But when she sets her sights on becoming a first-class inter...
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Ritual
An American doctor encounters members of a voodoo cult when she is summoned to Jamaica to treat a we...
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The Sasquatch Gang
Young fantasy and science fiction aficionado Gavin Gore and his friends stumble onto some huge footp...
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster
A gangster who has commited all kinds of crimes is accused to have killed his wife. As he was not th...
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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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Swing Shift
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against h...
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Robots
Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until t...
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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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Around the Fire
Simon is an intelligent and privileged young man whose family expects him to become a Princeton grad...
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Welcome to the Men's Group
A men's support group descends into chaos when longstanding conflicts threaten the trust between the...
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Waiting for Yvette
Yvette is having second thoughts on the eve of an operation that will change her forever. A heartfe...
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Boys On Film 4: Protect Me From What I Want
Elliot Tittensor (TV's Shameless) stars as Daz in headlining film PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT, a gri...
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An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
Filmmaker Alan Smithee finds himself the unwilling puppet of a potentially bad big budget action fil...
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My Father the Hero
A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyf...
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Groundhog Day: The Weight of Time
A look at the making of the classic Bill Murray comedy "Groundhog Day."...
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The Rainbow Tribe
Morgan Roberts, a middle aged adult in crisis, reunites with his best friend when he returns to the ...
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Six L.A. Love Stories
Over the course of one afternoon, in six different parts of Los Angeles, six couples connect, reconn...
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Checking Out
When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortali...
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Hail Mary
Centers on a suburban single mom living in Atlanta who teams up with a hustler to solve crimes....
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Watching Walter
Shortly before his 15th birthday, Wladyslaw "Walter" Wojnas took a bike ride into the Polish country...
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Freakier Friday
Years after Tess and Anna endured an identity crisis, Anna now has a daughter of her own and a soon-...
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Thelma & Louise: Born to Live
The story was born from the pen of debutante Callie Khouri: Thelma, married to a macho man, and Loui...
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Mimics
Down-on-his-luck impressionist Sam Reinhold makes a pact with Fergus-a wicked, strings-attached pupp...
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Loveless in Los Angeles
When a womanizing, reality dating TV producer runs into his college crush, he realizes his bar-hoppi...
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The Cowboy Killer
When a delusional killer in a cowboy costume starts treating a small town like his personal shooting...
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Haul Out the Halloween
New, Halloween-obsessed neighbors inspire residents of Evergreen Lane to haul out their spookiest co...
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Memento - Chronological Version
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating ...
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