John Leguizamo
Birthday: 1960-07-22
Place of Birth: Bogotá, Colombia
Biography: John Alberto Leguizamo Peláez (born July 22, 1960) is a Colombian-American stand-up comedian, actor, and film producer. He has appeared in over 100 films, produced over 20 films and documentaries, made over 30 television appearances, and has produced various television projects. He has also written and performed for the Broadway stage receiving four Tony Award nominations for Freak in 1998, Sexaholix in 2002, and Latin History for Moronsin in 2018. He received a Special Tony Award in 2018. Leguizamo began his career as a stand-up comedian in New York City. After several years of doing supporting roles in film and television, he rose to fame with significant roles in the fantasy adventure Super Mario Bros. portraying Luigi Mario and the crime drama Carlito's Way portraying Benny Blanco (both from 1993), followed by a role as drag queen Chi-Chi Rodriguez in the road comedy To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. Other films Leguizamo has since appeared in include Romeo + Juliet (1996), The Pest (1997), Summer of Sam (1999), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Empire (2002), Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), Righteous Kill (2008), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), The Counselor (2013), John Wick (2014), John Wick 2 (2017), and The Menu (2022). As a voice actor, he narrated the sitcom The Brothers García (2000–2004). He played Sid the Sloth in the Ice Age franchise and Bruno Madrigal in Encanto (2021). Leguizamo is also known for his television roles including Freak (1998) for which he received the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. This historic win made Leguizamo the first Latino to win this award in Emmy history. He received further Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the miniseries Waco (2018) and the Netflix limited series When They See Us (2019). He has also appeared on ER, The Kill Point, Bloodline, and The Mandalorian. In 2023, he hosted the MSNBC series Leguizamo Does America.
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Ice Age
Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest...
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Romeo + Juliet
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues...
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Ice Age: The Meltdown
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Casualties of War
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Die Hard 2
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Moulin Rouge!
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A Pyromaniac's Love Story
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Executive Decision
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Summer of Sam
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on...
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Spawn
After being murdered by corrupt colleagues in a covert government agency, Al Simmons makes a pact wi...
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Crónicas
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Surviving Sid
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The Honeymooners
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Body Count
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Land of the Dead
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Night Owl
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Carlito's Way
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Titan A.E.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
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Spun
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The Happening
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Assault on Precinct 13
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Miracle at St. Anna
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Nothing Like the Holidays
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The Fan
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Super Mario Bros.
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The Babysitters
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Rage
A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York...
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Encanto
The tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in...
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Empire
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Collateral Damage
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The Ministers
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Righteous Kill
Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murde...
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Where God Left His Shoes
When Frank, Angela, and their two children are evicted from their New York City apartment, they have...
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What's the Worst That Could Happen?
Thief Kevin Caffery attempts to rob from the home of rich businessman Max Fairbanks. But Fairbanks c...
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Revenge
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The Alibi
Con man Ray Elliot decides to leave crime behind to start a company that sells fake alibis to client...
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The Groomsmen
Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with hi...
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John Leguizamo: Freak
John Leguizamo's semi-falsified, one-man stand-up performance as...himself. This is his autobiograph...
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Vanishing on 7th Street
A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their cloth...
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Undefeated
Lex 'El Animal' Vargas is a promising Portorican boxer in Queens, but lacks ambition to aim for the ...
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The Pest
Fast-talking Latino con artist Pestario "Pest" Vargas is the target of Scottish mobsters to whom he ...
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Gamer
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The Take
After he's shot during a heist in East L.A., an armored truck driver wrestles with rehabilitation an...
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The Lincoln Lawyer
Mick Haller is a charismatic defense attorney who does business out of his Lincoln Continental sedan...
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Joe the King
A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hand...
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One for the Money
An unemployed lingerie buyer convinces her bail bondsman cousin to give her a shot as a bounty hunte...
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Hangin' with the Homeboys
Two African-Americans and two Puerto-Ricans (though one pretends to be Italian) go out on the town o...
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John Leguizamo: Sexaholix... A Love Story
John Leguizamo's Sexaholix... a love story marks the Emmy winner's return to HBO with his fourth sol...
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Ice Age: Continental Drift
Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an ic...
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Street Hunter
Logan Blade is a tough police officer who has to confront a gang led by ruthless Colonel Walsh....
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The Puerto Rican Mambo (Not a Musical)
Luis Caballero takes you on a tour of what life as a Hispanic is like in the United States. The film...
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Violent Night
When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone i...
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Kick-Ass 2
After Kick-Ass’ insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, he joins a patrol ...
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Walking with Dinosaurs
In a time when dinosaurs rule the Earth, the smallest dinosaur of the herd, a playful Pachyrhinosaur...
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Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's naughty list, ...
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King of the Jungle
Seymore is a young man with the mind of a child. He loves three things in life: basketball, sneaking...
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Sueno
A Mexican immigrant new to Los Angeles enters into a love triangle with two very different women....
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Ballplayer: Pelotero
Two top baseball prospects in the Dominican Republic face fierce competition and corruption as they ...
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John Leguizamo Live at Rikers
Actor John Leguizamo performs his play Ghetto Klown at Rikers Island prison inspiring justice-involv...
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John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry
Short documentary that looks at a number of elements like the initial pitch for the project and the ...
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Mambo Mouth
John Leguizamo's award winning one man stage performance as several different characters....
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Ride Along
For the past two years, high-school security guard Ben has been trying to show decorated APD detecti...
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Fish N Chips: The Movie
Fish, a fish, is desperate to evolve into a landling. Chips, a cat, would like to return to his priv...
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Bob Trevino Likes It
Lily Trevino unexpectedly befriends an online stranger who shares her self-centered father’s name. T...
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Tin Soldier
An ex-special forces operative seeks revenge against a cult leader who has corrupted his former comr...
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Chef
When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to...
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The Trip 2
Lucho Calvo and his family arrive to Cartagena to have a memorable familiar vacation, but in his des...
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Cymbeline
War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire....
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Zig Zag
An autistic 15-year-old boy steals money from his boss to provide rent for his abusive father, who u...
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The Hollow Point
Los Reyes County, Arizona. Leland, a retired lawman, works with Wallace, the new sheriff who replace...
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John Leguizamo: Ghetto Klown
A semi-autobiographical one-man theater show, Klass Klown (later renamed Ghetto Klown), based on his...
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Whispers in the Dark
Psychiatrist Ann Hecker is ending one relationship and possibly starting an important new one, while...
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American Ultra
Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly...
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Sisters
Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sel...
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Fugly!
Fame proves elusive for comic Jesse Sanchez, who reflects on life from the bottom of a bathtub in th...
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John Wick
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from hi...
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Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game
A documentary about the making of the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie....
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Frogs for Snakes
A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark ...
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Experimenter
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this ...
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Out for Justice
Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood...
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That Burning Question
A downtown teenage couple ride the subway to the outskirts of New York city. They want to track down...
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Ice Age: Collision Course
Set after the events of Continental Drift, Scrat's epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him o...
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Meadowland
In the hazy aftermath of an unimaginable loss, Sarah and Phil come unhinged, recklessly ignoring the...
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Repo Men
In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs t...
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Time Expired
When locksmith Bobby gets out of prison after a two year sentence for stealing money from parking me...
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Stealing Cars
A rebellious teenager navigates his way through the juvenile court system....
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The Crash
In the not so distant future, a team of white collar criminals are enlisted by the Federal governmen...
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ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway is an American documentary film, directed by Dori Berinstein, a B...
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Kids Are Punny
This HBO special, based on Rosie O'Donnell's book of the same name, uses animated and live action se...
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Poison
A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a mir...
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The Infiltrator
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar....
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Point of Origin
An arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California....
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John Wick: Chapter 2
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy in...
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The Latin Explosion: A New America
With more than 50 million Latinos now living in the United States, Latinos are taking their seat at ...
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Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade
A harried prehistoric bird mother entrusts her precious, soon-to-hatch egg to Sid. When she recommen...
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A.C.O.R.N.S.: Operation Crackdown
After breaking out of a rehabilitation zoo, Frankie, a squirrel with all the angles, returns to his ...
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11:55
Upon his return home, a U.S. Marine must face up to the consequences of a shameful tragedy that has ...
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Regarding Henry
After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a lovin...
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A Brother's Kiss
Two brothers, Lex and younger Mick, are living in Harlem. Mick is a policeman, and Lex, who spent yo...
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The Latino List
Documentary film interviews leading Latinos on race, identity, and achievement....
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Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2
This short film continues the adventures of the title character as he tries to retrieve his elusive ...
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Paraiso Travel
Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who motivated by his girlfriend Reina, leaves his comfortable lif...
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NYPD Mounted
New York City cop becomes partners with a rodeo cowboy from Montana on the City's Mounted Police Dep...
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Nancy
Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose dau...
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The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
This made-for-tv documentary treats romance fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Moulin...
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The Night Clerk
Hotel night clerk Bart Bromley is a highly intelligent young man on the Autism spectrum. When a woma...
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John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons
In this one-man Broadway show, John Leguizamo finds humor and heartbreak as he traces 3,000 years of...
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Gentille Alouette
Gentille Alouette is a 1990 French-Chilean film written and directed by Sergio Castillo. Geraldine C...
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Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
The historical saga of American superheroes. Born in the period between the Great Depression and the...
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The Sun Is Also a Star
Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentia...
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The Survivor
Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by ...
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The Counselor
A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking....
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Playing with Fire
A crew of rugged firefighters meet their match when attempting to rescue three rambunctious kids....
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It Takes a Lunatic
The extraordinary life of beloved acting teacher and theatre producer Wynn Handman is recalled in th...
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securi...
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Doctor Dolittle
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, un...
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Critical Thinking
Based on a true story from 1998, five Latino and Black teenagers from the toughest underserved ghett...
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The Happening: Elements of a Scene
This making-of is a feature that examines some of the story boarding and Pre-Viz sequences for the f...
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Visions of 'The Happening'
This making-of features additional background on the original ideas for the film. Shyamalan discusse...
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Tales From a Ghetto Klown
An unprecedented view of John Leguizamo the actor/writer, as he mounts his latest one-man show on Br...
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Madonna: The Immaculate Collection
The Immaculate Collection is the first commercially released greatest videos compilation by singer M...
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Waiting for Godot
An experimental exploration of the storied play. Becket’s vision of perpetual uncertainty, anxiety, ...
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Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking ...
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Dark Blood
A father is imprisoned after committing a brutal revenge crime. During his confinement he must adapt...
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Mixed Blood
On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. I...
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The Menu
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepa...
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Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
Director Spike Lee chronicles Michael Jackson's early rise to fame....
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Ice Age: Boiling Point
A dinosaur-and-lava-filled madcap adventure that takes Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie, Scrat and the rest ...
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Dr. Dolittle 2
A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the ...
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Scrat: Spaced Out
In the main events of Ice Age: Collision Course, Scrat is captured by Scratazons who take away his a...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema....
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The Odyssey
Ulysses, the legendary Greek king of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following t...
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Unearthing the Lost World | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Unearthing the Lost World is a behind the scenes video on the making of Ice Age: Dawn o the Othe Din...
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The Nickelodeon Mega Music Fest
Hosted by actor/comedian John Leguizamo, Nickelodeon's Mega Music Fest will feature celebrities like...
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Zootopia 2
After cracking the biggest case in Zootopia's history, rookie cops Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find th...
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A Grammy Celebration of Latin Music
A Grammy Celebration of Latin Music, a two-hour special “highlighting Latin music’s lasting impact a...
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