Rip Torn
Birthday: 1931-02-06
Place of Birth: Temple, Texas, USA
Biography: Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. (February 6, 1931 – July 9, 2019) was an American actor whose career spanned more than 60 years. He was best known for his roles as Zed in the Men in Black franchise (1997-2002) and Patches O'Houlihan in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004). Torn received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1983 film Cross Creek. His work includes the role of Artie, the producer, on The Larry Sanders Show, for which he was nominated for six Emmy Awards, winning in 1996. Torn also won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Male in a Series, and two CableACE Awards for his work on the show, and was nominated for a Satellite Award in 1997 as well.
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The Cincinnati Kid
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time mast...
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. A...
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Men in Black II
Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress...
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Men in Black
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a t...
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Canadian Bacon
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to s...
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Marie Antoinette
The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marr...
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Airplane II: The Sequel
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past...
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...
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Extreme Prejudice
Lean, mean Texas Ranger Jack Benteen locks horns with a former friend, Cash Bailey, now a ruthless d...
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Wonder Boys
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his...
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A Stranger Is Watching
A twisted man holds a TV newswoman and a girl hostage in the bowels of Grand Central Station....
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RoboCop 3
The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City,...
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Bee Movie
Barry B. Benson, a recent college graduate who wants more out of his life than making honey, decides...
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By Dawn's Early Light
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainia...
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Coma
When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up...
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Forty Shades of Blue
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awaken...
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How to Make an American Quilt
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheatin...
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Hercules
Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in...
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Defending Your Life
Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller f...
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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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Senseless
A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option....
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DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to t...
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Down Periscope
Maverick Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge will never be a textbook officer, but he's a brilliant ...
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Sweet Bird of Youth
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alex...
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Rolling Kansas
A group of friends go on a journey to a secret marijuana forest in Kansas....
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Freddy Got Fingered
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Balloon Farm
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Dolly Dearest
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Zoom
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Turn the River
A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband....
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One Trick Pony
An aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and...
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King of Kings
Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused...
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You're a Big Boy Now
Naive library clerk Bernard Chanticleer moves out of his parents’ home and into a chaotic city full ...
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Pork Chop Hill
Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry...
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Nadine
Hairdresser Nadine Hightower wants to retrieve the risqué photos she once posed for, but when she vi...
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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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Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
A gambler, a Texas ranger and an FBI agent are investigating a series of vigilante murders....
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Eulogy
A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the ...
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The Beastmaster
Dar, is the son of a king, who's hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. ...
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Welcome to Mooseport
A US president who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine...
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The Sisters
Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle wit...
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Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil...
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Beach Red
American troops storm ashore on a Japanese-held island and push inland while their enemies plan a co...
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Love Object
The twisted tale of Kenneth, socially insecure technical writer who forms an obsessive relationship ...
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City Heat
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer....
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Time Limit
Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW w...
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointmen...
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Trial and Error
When lawyer Charlie is sent to a small Nevada town to file a continuance request for a client, his a...
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Flashpoint
Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box...
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Beyond the Law
Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling...
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Heartland
Widowed Elinor Randall and her young daughter Jerrine arrive in a barren stretch of Wyoming in 1910 ...
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Where the Rivers Flow North
Sleeper with a top notch cast in the story of a lone wolf logger who fights developers, bankers and ...
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Summer Rental
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Thing...
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Scarab
Dr. Wilfred Manz performs a magical experiment on a beetle-shaped amulet. His patience exhausted, he...
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Songwriter
Doc Jenkins may be one of country music's most beloved stars, but his private life is a wreck. He's ...
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Coming Apart
A psychiatrist secretly films his female patients as an experiment; he pushes both him and his custo...
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Payday
Country singer Maury Dann lives life in the fast lane, counting on his rakish charm and raw talent t...
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National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
A clueless Trojan general must meet an unbeatable Greek warrior on the battlefield....
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Misunderstood
A workaholic father becomes sole parent to his two young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, ...
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Slaughter
Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and after being black...
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Beer
An advertising firm, desperate to keep an account from a financially-ailing brewery, concocts a mach...
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Critic's Choice
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be ver...
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Jinxed!
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young b...
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One Spy Too Many
The men from U.N.C.L.E." are back! This time Robert Vaughn and David McCallum must stop the megaloma...
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Cold Feet
Three criminals run into complications when they attempt to smuggle emeralds across the Mexican bord...
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Tropic of Cancer
Expat American writer Henry Miller hustles his way through Paris in a series of amorous encounters w...
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Hit List
A family man and a mob witness hunt for a hit-man who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son....
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Norman Mailer: The American
A provocateur, a rebel, a performer, and a true American, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people ...
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
The story of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI from 1924-1972, following his racket-busting days thro...
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Crazy Joe
The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey ...
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First Family
When the First Daughter is kidnapped by an African tribe, the President must do what he can to keep ...
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1 P.M.
Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with ...
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Nasty Habits
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and ...
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Johnny Belinda
In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she i...
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A Face in the Crowd
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local medi...
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Cross Creek
In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bo...
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The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
A cop and his expensive fiancée, a bank teller, plan the perfect bank robbery. All goes well until t...
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Maidstone
Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast ...
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Beyond the Law
Takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring ba...
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Sol Madrid
Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug...
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Hero's Island
A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates....
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The Making of Marie Antoinette
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006)....
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Bomber's Moon
A hard-hearted Colonel loses many men in his group's bombing missions over World War Two Germany, bu...
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Three Days to Vegas
Four grumpy old men go on a road trip from their retired life in Florida to the excitement of Las Ve...
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Silence Like Glass
True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness....
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J. Edgar Hoover
He battled the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, encouraged McCarthy and single-handedly changed the ...
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Men in Black 3
Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men ...
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Destination: America
A patrician family's estranged, black-sheep son forsakes his blue-collar life to return home and soo...
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Passing Glory
A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and cha...
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Steel Cowboy
An independent trucker, trying to keep his marriage alive and his rig out of the hands of bill colle...
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A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
When Donielle is just eight years old and attending her best friend's funeral she has a vision that ...
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Yours, Mine & Ours
Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a...
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The Afterlight
After Andrew and Claire, a young couple attempting to restart their live, moves to an isolated scho...
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Pair of Aces
A Texas Ranger has to protect his two daughters as he investigates a serial killer who is attacking ...
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The King of Love
A publishing empire founder discovers that his rise to power was costly....
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The Execution
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi conce...
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Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Hollywood careers are full of make-or-break moments. For Clint Eastwood, one such moment came when s...
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Heart of a Child
For Fred and Karen Schouten, the news that she is pregnant is most welcome, having been trying for a...
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Death Falls
A terminally ill man gets his buddy to bust him out of the hospital. But, in the process, the duo an...
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Montserrat
The story is set during the South American Wars of Independence. Simón Bolivar, the liberator, has e...
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August
Two brothers, ambitious dot-com entrepreneurs, attempt to keep their company afloat as the stock mar...
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Birch Interval
A young girl is sent to live with Amish relatives in post-war Pennsylvania, where her life dramatica...
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Manhunt for Claude Dallas
This is the story is based on an actual incident. Claude Dallas is a man who loves to be free, so he...
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Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
Based on the well-publicized Oregon criminal case of the late 1970s, this film dramatizes the unique...
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Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent t...
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Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
This biopic about actress Sophia Loren covers her life from childhood through international stardom,...
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The President's Plane Is Missing
When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly we...
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A Shining Season
The true story of University of New Mexico track star John Baker who, dying of cancer, spent his rem...
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Sweet Bird of Youth
Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on ...
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When She Says No
After divorced college professor Rose Michaels invites three of her male colleagues to her room duri...
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My Son Johnny
Anthony Cortino lives with his mother in a quiet suburb. His father is dead, and his violent crimina...
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Beautiful Dreamers
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, h...
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Laguna Heat
Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquili...
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Letter to My Killer
A letter is found by a demolition worker that reveals a cover up and a murder that is over 30 years ...
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Lions Love
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie abo...
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Kojak: None So Blind
After a flighty young woman accidentally witnesses a Mob hit in an Italian restaurant, New York Poli...
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Baby Doll
Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlik...
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The Hindenburg
The history of lighter than air transportation culminating in the Hindenburg explosion which gets th...
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T Bone N Weasel
An ex-con and a crazy man are an unlikely duo on the road looking for a better life. All they have i...
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Lucky Days
Virginia embarks on a quest for freedom during the last explosive weekend of Coney Island's renowned...
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Cotter
A rodeo rider is killed because Cotter is too drunk to distract the raging bull....
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24 Hours in a Woman's Life
Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for...
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She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
A dramatized account of a female US Naval officer's ordeal of being sexually harassed at a Naval con...
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The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
A feature-length "making of" documentary about the 'The Larry Sanders Show' with cast and star inter...
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Fires of Kuwait
After Saddam Hussein had the Kuwait Oil wells lit up, teams from all over the world fought those fir...
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Maniac Magee
An orphaned runaway with many extraordinary and athletic talents arrives in a town divided with raci...
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A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
Based on the custody case involving Elizabeth Morgan and the subsequent Elizabeth Morgan Act....
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Betrayal
Dramatization of the 1971 case involving a young woman who sued her psychiatrist for luring her into...
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The Golden Boys
Three retired sea captains living together in genteel squalor. They scheme to improve their fortunes...
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For Better or Worse
A comic love triangle wherein a loser falls in love with his recently-married brother's wife....
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James Dean: A Portrait
A look at the legacy of icon actor James Dean on the 40th anniversary of his tragic death. The speci...
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Lionpower from MGM
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's rel...
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3 Weeks to Daytona
A stock car racer hopes his luck will turn around when he gets a chance to elevate his driving caree...
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Bridge of Names
A traveling guitarist is looking for a town named Brandy, meeting strange new people along the way....
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