Cloris Leachman
Birthday: 1926-04-30
Place of Birth: Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Biography: Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 26, 2021) was an American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over seven decades. She won various accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded actress in Emmy history. In addition, she won an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Leachman's breakthrough role was the nosy and cunning landlady Phyllis Lindstrom in the landmark CBS sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–75), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1974 and 1975; its spin-off, Phyllis (1975–77), earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Actress – Musical or Comedy.
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History of the World: Part I
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the Fren...
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by...
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Young Frankenstein
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein....
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Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
Via reminiscences from writer/actor Gene Wilder and others, this documentary recalls the making of t...
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Spanglish
Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky...
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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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Daisy Miller
Despite mixed emotions, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Mille...
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The Beverly Hillbillies
Mild-mannered dirt-poor hill-dweller Jed Clampett strikes it rich when oil is discovered on his prop...
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Love Takes Wing
Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear a...
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Scavenger Hunt
An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of doll...
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Sky High
Set in a world where superheroes are commonly known and accepted, young Will Stronghold, the son of ...
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Prancer
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Herbie Goes Bananas
The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico....
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The Last Picture Show
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duan...
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High Anxiety
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Now and Then
Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty, four childhood girlfriends...
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The Longest Yard
Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulat...
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Music of the Heart
After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to tak...
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Beerfest
During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan...
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Dillinger
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Walk Like a Man
Bobo, a feral man raised by wolves, is reunited with his family by a researcher. However, this disap...
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A Troll in Central Park
A friendly troll with a magic green thumb grows one flower too many for the queen, whose laws requir...
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The Women
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon...
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Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live tel...
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The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion
The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion is a 60-minute CBS retrospective television special, hosted by Mary Tyl...
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Lovers and Other Strangers
Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be ...
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The Mouse and His Child
A mouse and his child, the two parts of a single small wind-up toy, go on a quest to become "self-wi...
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Gen¹³
Caitlin Fairchild, a teenager offered a place in an institute for gifted children. She soon learns t...
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American Cowslip
In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentri...
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Expecting Mary
Expecting Mary is the story of a young girl, who's had all the trappings of an upscale life, but it'...
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You Again
History -- make that high school -- may repeat itself when Marni learns that Joanna, the mean girl f...
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Death Sentence
A juror on a murder trial begins to believe that the man charged with the crime is innocent — and th...
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The North Avenue Irregulars
When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are wil...
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Alex & Emma
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Kiss Me Deadly
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, wh...
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Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued
Showtime presented this pro-shot musical revue of the songs & lyrics of legendary film and Broadway ...
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WUSA
Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New O...
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The Croods
The prehistoric Croods family live in a particularly dangerous moment in time. Patriarch Grug, his m...
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Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera
Celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Hanna-Barbera partnership....
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Miss All-American Beauty
After winning a beauty contest in Texas, a teenage girl is unprepared for the demands of travel, pre...
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Picture This
A visceral deconstruction of Academy Award nominated Peter Bogdanovich and the nervous breakdown he ...
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Texasville
Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming q...
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The Rack
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In ...
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The Californians
When real estate mogul Gavin Ransom announces his plan to cover California's northern coast with sco...
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Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel tells the tale of two young children driven from home by their scolding mother. Lo...
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Between Love and Honor
Steve Collura is an undercover cop out to infiltrate Carlo Gambino's mob. He soon falls in love with...
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Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
On Halloween night, two precocious little girls try to save their parents from their nasty old capit...
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The Demon Murder Case
A young boy is taken over by demons who force him to commit murder....
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Dying Room Only
A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husb...
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Manna from Heaven
Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial wi...
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S.O.S. Titanic
The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board....
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Gambit
An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, ...
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The Fields
Tells the story of a young boy and his family who are terrorized by an unseen presence....
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Crazy Mama
Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California be...
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Charley and the Angel
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will b...
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Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
TV movie biopic depicting the life, career, and family of comedian Ernie Kovacs....
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The People Next Door
A married couple struggle with the realities of their imperfect marriage as they fight to save and r...
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Foolin' Around
A working-class boy falls for a girl from a wealthy family, and must compete for her with a rich boy...
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The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
It's Schluufy's birthday, and the Oogieloves, along with their friends J. Edgar, Windy Window and Ru...
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Happy Mother's Day, Love George
An adopted teen who runs away to what he believes to be his birth town and mother, in the hopes of p...
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Haunts of the Very Rich
A group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort. After experiencing ...
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It Happened One Christmas
It's Christmas Eve 1944 in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York. A despondent and suicidal Mary...
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Buzz
A journey to places, where the overlooked Hollywood screenwriter Albert Isaac "Buzz" Bezzerides live...
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In Broad Daylight
The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small...
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The Chapman Report
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women....
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The Giant of Thunder Mountain
A mountain man is falsely accused of the murder of his parents....
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Someone I Touched
A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that she has acquired a venereal disease. Th...
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Thursday's Game
Harry Evers and Marvin Ellison have been playing poker Thursday nights with their friends for years....
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The Amati Girls
Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family....
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Love Hurts
The story of Paul Weaver and his strained relationships with women and his family....
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The Wedding Ringer
Doug Harris is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With...
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Suddenly Single
A newly divorced man finds it difficult to get used to the single world....
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A Brand New Life
After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first chil...
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Without a Kiss Goodbye
True story of a middle class mother charged with murdering her baby, despite her denials. Re-tells t...
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The Acorn People
An unemployed teacher becomes a counselor at a summer camp for severely disabled children....
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Being and Nothingness
When sixteen-year-old Lola is forced to relocate to Casper, Wyoming with her anxious, existentialist...
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My Little Pony: The Movie
The first day of Spring is on its way and the Little Ponies are preparing for it with a big festival...
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Lake Placid 2
Man-eating crocodiles return to the lake as two males and one aggressive female crocodile, which is ...
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Silent Night, Lonely Night
Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief int...
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Annabelle's Wish
Annabelle - a calf who has a special wish for Christmas - wants to be a reindeer and help Santa Clau...
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Phineas and Ferb: Night of the Living Pharmacists
Doofenshmirtz's latest "-inator" accidentally turns the citizens of Danville into contagious mindles...
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Fine Things
Bernard Fine's career leaves little time for romance, so fate takes over. When Bernie befriends a l...
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Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’...
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New York, I Love You
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in ...
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The Muppet Movie
The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent a...
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Foodfight!
The evil Brand X joins a supermarket that becomes a city after closing time....
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Going to the Chapel
As a couple (Valentine and Greene) prepare to get married all sorts of uninvited and unexpected gues...
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Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget
The aggravatingly amiable star of "Full House," "America's Funniest Home Videos"...
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The Facts of Life Down Under
Blair, Tootie, Natalie, Jo, Beverly Ann, and Andy visit the land down under. Blair and Jo are warned...
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Fade to Black
A professor accidentally records the murder of a neighbor on videotape and finds himself framed for ...
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So B. It
A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to ...
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Unity
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of th...
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A Little Piece of Heaven
Will Loomis is living with his mentally handicapped sister Violet, who wants a younger child to play...
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Advice to the Lovelorn
A failed pilot for a series centering on Maggie Dale, an advice columnist. This was somewhat in the ...
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This Is Happening
THIS IS HAPPENING tells the story of an estranged brother and sister (played by James Wolk and Micke...
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The Oldest Living Graduate
Henry Fonda stars as Col. J. C. Kincaid, crusty patriarch of a Texas family. Kincaid's weak-willed s...
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Hanging Up
Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the te...
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Baby, Baby, Baby
The relationship between two mismatched people who try to move past their baggage to make their love...
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Sparky's Magic Piano
A boy becomes a virtuoso pianist, but when he gets too big-headed the piano decides to teach him a l...
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Dixie: Changing Habits
Dixie is caught operating a whorehouse, and is sentenced to 90 days house arrest in a convent! Can D...
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Adult World
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a...
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Die letzte Vorstellung: Ein Rückblick
This hour-long 1999 documentary by Laurent Bouzereau features interviews with director Peter Bogdano...
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Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
Spurred by a gun incident at a school, the women of one Texas town lead a movement to get rid of gun...
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A Girl Named Sooner
A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who had been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootleggi...
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Deadly Intentions
Katherine married Dr. Charles Raynor. She later discovers that Raynor is a sadist who torments her p...
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The Bronx Bull
A combination "before the rage" and "after the rage" of world middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMo...
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The Comedian
An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and...
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Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
Not only did Mary Tyler Moore “turn the world on with her smile,” as her show’s theme song declared,...
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Slacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new o...
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Mrs. R's Daughter
When a young woman is brutally raped and beaten, her mother sets out to find justice for her....
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The Little Troll Prince
A little troll prince escapes his kingdom, perched atop a tall mountain in Norway, for the human wor...
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Long Journey Back
A teenage girl puts up a courageous fight following a crushing school bus accident that leaves her p...
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Scary Movie 4
Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out wh...
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I Can Only Imagine
Growing up in Greenville, Texas, Bart Millard suffers physical and emotional abuse at the hands of h...
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Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show
A retrospective special commemorating the 20th anniversary of the sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show....
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Shadow Play
A playwright, who lost her fiance to suicide, is haunted by his spirit while staying on a remote isl...
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Mrs. Harris
Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly ...
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Yesterday
A young American hockey player, studying in Canada on a hockey scholarship, falls in love while risk...
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The Croods: A New Age
Searching for a safer habitat, the prehistoric Crood family discovers an idyllic, walled-in paradise...
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When We Last Spoke
Two sisters are abandoned by their Broadway-bound mother and are left with their grandparents and a ...
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Lez Bomb
A closeted young woman brings her girlfriend home for Thanksgiving, only to have her coming-out effo...
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Hitchhike!
A Los Angeles woman, on her way to visit her sister in San Fransisco, picks up a hitchhiker who has ...
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Willa
A truck-stop waitress, determined to make a better life for her young children after being abandoned...
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The Steagle
In the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, a mild-mannered professor decides to live out all of his d...
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Crime Club
A group of public and private investigators looks into the suspicious death of the son of one of its...
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Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
A short documentary exploring the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Mel Brooks and the role ...
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Spies
Long Island, 1942. 12-year-old Harry detects spies everywhere. But suddenly things get serious, as h...
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Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
Donald is shown in both animated and costumed form, interacting with emcee Dick Van Dyke and other c...
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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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Death Scream
Loosely based on the true story of the killing of Kitty Genovese: A young woman's murder is witness...
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Love Is Never Silent
A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf...
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It's Who You Know
A young dancer befriends a homeless woman, and that relationship brings him the break he's been sear...
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My Boyfriend's Back
Missy McCloud is the most beautiful girl in school and Johnny Dingle has been in love with her for y...
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High Holiday
In order to lighten up her uptight family, the free-spirited daughter of a conservative politician b...
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Jump, Darling
A rookie drag queen, reeling from a break-up, escapes to the country, where he finds his grandmother...
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Enzian: When the Lights Go Up
A documentary short taking a look at the popular independent Enzian movie theater in Maitland, Flori...
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Miracle Child
A despairing young widow who abandons her baby at pond-side among bulrushes and a man who's fighting...
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Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?
At the height of his KOJAK TV series fame, Telly Savalas starred in this variety special that was sp...
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Dear Diary: World's First Pranks
Eep reveals how a comical accident led her and Dawn to discover the joys of tricking their families ...
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Not to Forget
A judge sentences a self-centered millennial to take care of his grandmother, who's affected by Alzh...
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A Wig and a Prayer: The Peaches Christ Story
A Wig and a Prayer chronicles the story of Peaches Christ, the legendary San Francisco drag queen, f...
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Of Thee I Sing
CBS' updated version of the classic Gershwin musical, cast largely with stars who were all appearing...
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The Animal
When loser Marvin Mange is involved in a horrible car accident, he's brought back to life by a deran...
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The Titanic Chronicles
"The Titanic Chronicles" is based on the 1912 Senate Hearings into the "Titanic" Disaster. The actua...
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The Love Boat
The adventures of the passengers and crew aboard a luxury liner on a cruise from California to Mexic...
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Forgotten Children
The story of Martha Berry, who brought education to the impoverished children of rural Georgia after...
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Obsession: Letters to David Lynch
Struggling actor Dennis Woodruff is on an obsessive quest to be in David Lynch's movies, ALL OF THEM...
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Bad Santa
You'd better watch out - Santa Claus Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've...
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Skip Chasers
An unsold CBS pilot about a mailman named Deacon, who gets entangled in a mess involving a team of ...
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Breakfast with Les and Bess
Dick Van Dyke and Cloris Leachman play an eccentric couple who broadcast their morning radio talk sh...
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