M. Emmet Walsh
Birthday: 1935-03-22
Place of Birth: Ogdensburg, New York, USA
Biography: Michael Emmet Walsh (March 22, 1935 – March 19, 2024) was an American character actor who has appeared in over 200 films and television series, including supporting roles in dozens of major studio features of the 1970s and 1980s. He starred in Blood Simple (1984), the Coen Brothers' first film for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. He also appeared in The Jerk (1979), Ordinary People (1980), Blade Runner (1982), Wild Wild West (1999), and The Iron Giant (1999). His final films included Knives Out (2019) and Brothers (2024).
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South of Bix
Molly returns home to say goodbye to her dying grandfather, from whom she's been estranged....
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Brubaker
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially...
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The Iron Giant
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-ol...
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Critters
Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon...
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Alice's Restaurant
After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner....
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The Best of Times
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game....
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The Mighty Quinn
Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest re...
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Blood Simple
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair wi...
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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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Slap Shot
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs...
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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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Straight Time
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by...
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Narrow Margin
An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to ...
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Wild Wild West
Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating Presi...
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Cold Turkey
Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco...
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Raise the Titanic
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known sourc...
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The Pope of Greenwich Village
Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" ra...
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Cannery Row
Doc, who has just moved to Cannery Row, realizes that the only entertainment is the brothel. There h...
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My Best Friend's Wedding
When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante...
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Harry and the Hendersons
Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. ...
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Twilight
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly...
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Fletch
When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug tra...
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Red Scorpion
A Soviet commando is sent to eliminate a rebel leader in Africa. Soon he finds himself doubting his...
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Silkwood
Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highl...
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Retroactive
A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal hus...
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Christmas in the Clouds
A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that...
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No Man's Land
A rookie cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of car thieves led by smooth and charming Ted. The...
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Big Stan
A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial a...
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Catch Me... If You Can
A hotshot teenage car racer persuades the class president of a small Minnesota high school to gamble...
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Christmas with the Kranks
When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank decide to book an islan...
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Don McKay
Everything appears off-kilter when a man returns to his hometown after 25 years to visit his former ...
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The Outlaws
Eugene Griswold is an average, suburban nine-to-five guy tired of working long hours for his income....
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Cops & Robbersons
When the police discover that a mob hitman has moved in next door to the Robbersons, they set up a s...
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Man in the Chair
The story of an aspiring young filmmaker's encounter with a grumpy fount of movie lore....
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Missing in Action
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them hom...
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Back to School
Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason'...
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Back Roads
A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural S...
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The Gambler
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately...
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Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sunscreen to protect themselves. A de...
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Poor White Trash
Mike and Lenny are two buddies who dream of getting out of the trailer park. Out of desperation they...
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Me and Will
Two women with a passion for motorcycles meet while going through rehab. When they discover they've ...
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Fast-Walking
A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates....
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Ordinary People
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad...
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The Music of Chance
Two men face the consequences of gambling after playing with men beyond their league....
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Camp Nowhere
Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He ...
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Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
The definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fi...
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Reds
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrol...
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White Sands
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impers...
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Killer Image
When Max Oliver learns his photographer brother has been killed, he suspects it was no random murder...
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middl...
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The Odd Life of Timothy Green
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon,...
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War Party
One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are su...
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The Traveling Executioner
Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combina...
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The Deliberate Stranger
Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Ted Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after ha...
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Grandview, U.S.A.
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim P...
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City in Fear
A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publi...
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Thunderground
A con-artist meets a tough fighter and sees him as her ticket to a better life. The two make an agre...
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Random Hearts
After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each o...
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Two runaway kids hide in a museum. Once they are locked inside overnight, they try to solve a myster...
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Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency
13-year-old Sam Steele Jr. forms his own private detective agency to emulate his father, Des Moines ...
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High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane
Former Marshal Will Kane and his Amish bride, Amy, return to Hadleyville a year after he resigned an...
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Red Alert
A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives erroneous information of a radiation l...
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A Question of Guilt
A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child....
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Your Name Here
The lines between reality and perception blur in this comic journey into the life and mind (literall...
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Scandalous
An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder,...
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Broken Vows
When Father Joseph Hennessey visits the home of one of his parishioners to offer last rights,he beco...
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At Long Last Love
Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the ra...
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Nickelodeon
In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an ille...
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Love Sick Love
Dori and Norman, two stunning and sophisticated serial daters, are destined to endure a terrifying j...
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Monster!
Tragedy strikes a small town's monster movie festival when the monster featured in the films comes t...
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Skag
Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stro...
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The Naked Truth
Two friends, both named Frank, accidentally obtain a suitcase at the airport. It contains incriminat...
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Bitter Harvest
Travis has just buried his father, when Kelly, an attractive hitchhiker walks into his life. At the ...
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The Flash
A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which h...
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Abduction
Based on the shocking true story of Olympic medalist Kari Swenson who was abducted by two "Mountain ...
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Baggage
A drama about how to let go of our emotional "baggage" and start living in the moment....
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Haunted Echoes
Laura (Sean Young) and Guy (David Starzyk) are devastated by grief when their 8-year-old daughter, K...
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Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager trie...
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Calvary
After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closin...
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Probable Cause
A series of cop murders plagues the city. The remaining officers on the force are increasingly worri...
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Racing Stripes
Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's sp...
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Four Eyes and Six-Guns
Ernest Albright opens his eyeglass store in what he thinks is a thriving community, but soon discove...
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They Might Be Giants
After the death of his wife, wealthy retiree Justin Playfair creates a fantasy world for himself in ...
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Youth in Revolt
As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element wh...
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Mikey and Nicky
Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob...
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Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year...
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Little Big Man
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fightin...
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Superdome
It's the biggest event of the year — the Super Bowl! But the star players for the Cougars, gathered ...
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A Time to Kill
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...
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Airport '77
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passen...
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On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history with...
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Snow Dogs
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a...
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Blade Runner
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirem...
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Relative Fear
Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least...
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Criminal Hearts
A jilted woman out for revenge picks up a hitchhiker running from police. An innocent road trip beco...
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Nightmare in Big Sky Country
A Montana judge has to protect her family from a militia group after she challenges their leader....
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a s...
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The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
When he is betrayed by a trusted friend, Mathayus must marshal all his strength and cunning to outwi...
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Albino Alligator
While escaping from a foiled robbery attempt, three thieves find themselves surrounded by police at ...
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Resting Place
A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Of...
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Greener Mountains
Greener Mountains is a family friendly, coming-of-age story about finding your place in the world....
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Courage
Three marathon runners on a seventy-two mile run through the deserts of New Mexico are pursued by ri...
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Serpico
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his...
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Madness of Method
Starring Spin City's Richard Kind and veteran character actor M. Emmet Walsh, this award-winning sho...
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Outlaw Posse
1908. Chief returns from years of hiding in Mexico to claim stolen reparations gold hidden in the hi...
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Fourth Story
Valerie's husband Darryl leaves for work as usual, but never returns. She hires private eye Shepard ...
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The Assignment
After acceptance to a prestigious music school, Eliza's world is rocked when she discovers a shockin...
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Murder Ordained
This is the story of a minister who's feeling unhappy in his marriage who then has an affair with a ...
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Boiling Pot
On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as "issues of the past" e...
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Chattahoochee
In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental hea...
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Wildcats
High school track coach Molly McGrath knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet...
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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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Panther
In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as ...
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Sunset
Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood....
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The Glass Shield
J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial ten...
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What's Up, Doc?
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild ...
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Portraits of a Killer
An attorney takes the lawyer/client relationship too seriously. She ends up falling for her client, ...
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Wilder Napalm
Wilder and Wallace are brothers and pyrokinetics. Ever since childhood they've been able to start fi...
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Men in White
National Lampoon's Men in White is a straight-to-television satirical parody of contemporary science...
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Silverfox
Unsold series pilot about a former secret service agent, turned government spy, who can't seem to re...
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Raising Arizona
When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family...
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The Escape Artist
The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from priso...
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Get to Know Your Rabbit
A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy c...
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End of the Road
Moments after receiving his graduate diploma, Jacob waits at a train station. The future lies ahead,...
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Chasing 3000
As the 1972 baseball season draws to a close and star player Roberto Clemente prepares to knock hit ...
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The Gift
A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brookl...
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Midnight Cowboy
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he ...
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Hellinger's Law
A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (act...
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Wild Card
Thriller about a former preacher, now a professional gambler, who heads down New Mexico way to visit...
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Dear Detective
A female homicide detective is assigned to solve the murders of a series of local officials....
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Change in the Air
A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals...
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The Right of the People
The Second Amendment of the Constitution forms the basis of this drama that follows the crusade of a...
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Clean and Sober
Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he...
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Shifting Gears
Tom, an over-worked husband and father, abandons his dead-end job to follow his dream of owning his ...
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The Invasion of Johnson County
A free-spirited Bostonian recently arrived in the West teams up with a crusty Wyoming cowboy to stop...
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The Lottery
Returning to his small hometown of Icara, Maine, a man discovers its horrible secret -- a bizarre, c...
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Toto
The career of an embittered former horror star who longs for his glory days comes gruesomely full ci...
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The Killing Jar
Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, ...
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Faith, Hope & Love
Faith, a recent divorcee, enters a dance contest to save her dance studio, where she meets Jimmy and...
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Bound for Glory
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Te...
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Eyeball Eddie
"Eyeball Eddie" is the story of the stormy relationship between a prosthetic glass eye and the insec...
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Knives Out
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthda...
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Raising Buchanan
A desperate woman steals the corpse of former US president James Buchanan, hoping to net a large ran...
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Dead Badge
After a cop dies, his shield goes back on duty. They call it a "dead badge" - a way to honor a fall...
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The Woman Who Willed a Miracle
Based on the true story of May Lemke. Her adopted son Leslie was born with cerebral palsy. May teach...
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Night Partners
Elizabeth and Lauren are two Bakersfield housewives who volunteer to help the local police by workin...
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Love and Lies
Fact-based story of real-life detective Kim Paris who was assigned to work undercover to find the mu...
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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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Equinox
Estranged twins Henry and Freddy navigate their drastically different lives— one a troubled bookworm...
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Jack of Hearts
A cop looking for a chance to redeem himself comes up against a man who has built a fortune out of c...
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No Other Love
A young marginally intellectually-disabled girl and boy meet, plan to marry, and convince the world ...
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Arthur Newman
A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who...
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Crime Club
A Washington DC club comprises specialists who band together to combat crime....
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Sorry, Not Sorry
A couple's oneupmanship reaches unbelievable heights after a man eats his wife's plums....
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The Mimic
Based on a true story, ‘the Narrator’ is befriended by his young new neighbor, after he joins the lo...
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Stiletto
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decide...
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The Immaculate Room
Mike and Kate, a young couple, get the once-in-a lifetime chance to win a cool five million dollars....
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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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A Little White Lie
A handyman living in New York City is mistaken for a famous and famously reclusive writer and brough...
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The Milagro Beanfield War
The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Lati...
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Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
Comedy special spotlighting Tracey Ullman’s larger than life character Ruby Romaine from HBO's Trace...
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Dotty and Soul
Ethan Cox is poised to sell his self-driving car company when his problematic Halloween costume goes...
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Green and Gold
With American farms disappearing, a fourth-generation dairy farmer and his granddaughter fight to pr...
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A True Character
M. Emmet Walsh discusses his memories of making Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat and his career in fi...
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Hero in the Family
A teenage son of an astronaut tries to help his father after he and a chimpanzee switch brains as th...
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The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn
Two pre-teenaged girls attempted to thwart a robbery....
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The Flash
First Superman. Then Batman. Now thrill to The Flash, the swiftest superhero ever to streak across t...
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