Peter Boyle
Peter Lawrence Boyle, Jr. (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein (1974).
Boyle, who won an Emmy Award in 1996 for a guest-starring role on the science-fiction drama The X-Files, won praise in both comedic and dramatic parts following his breakthrough performance in the 1970 film Joe.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 16.025 |
Birthday | 1935-10-18 |
Place of Birth | Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA |
Also Known As | Peter Lawrence Boyle, Jr., Peter Lawrence Boyle, |
1976
Taxi Driver
8.1/12394
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for...
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Taxi Driver
2001
Monster's Ball
6.8/981
A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over.
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Monster's Ball
1995
While You Were Sleeping
7/1823
A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancé...
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While You Were Sleeping
1992
Solar Crisis
4.4/28
A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial...
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Solar Crisis
1974
Young Frankenstein
7.9/3143
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a prett...
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Young Frankenstein
1998
Doctor Dolittle
5.708/3067
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a chi...
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Doctor Dolittle
1981
Outland
6.4/608
An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cos...
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Outland
1992
Malcolm X
7.5/1672
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he b...
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Malcolm X
2004
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
6.078/2738
After solving their last mystery at Spooky Island, the Mystery Inc. gang is back in Coolsville, where they are being honored with their very own exhib...
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Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
1997
That Darn Cat
5/89
While making his nightly rounds in the neighborhood, Patti's pet cat D.C. finds himself the carrier of a call for help from a kidnap victim. Patti enl...
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That Darn Cat
1988
The In Crowd
6/11
A young man of the rock and roll generation is in his senior year of high school. When one day he successfully gets on a popular teen dance television...
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The In Crowd
2002
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
4.7/10
True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and...
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Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
1972
The Candidate
6.5/158
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
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The Candidate
2002
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
4.365/491
The year is 2087, the setting is the moon. Pluto Nash, the high-flying successful owner of the hottest nightclub in the universe, finds himself in tro...
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash
1983
Yellowbeard
5.5/141
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sent...
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Yellowbeard
1979
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
5/122
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are sti...
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1978
The Brink's Job
6/63
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McG...
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The Brink's Job
1992
Death and the Compass
5.8/12
In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series o...
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Death and the Compass
1991
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
5.425/181
In this rousing sequel to Kickboxer, Tong Po broods about his defeat at the hands of Kurt Sloan. Po and his managers resort to drastic measures to goa...
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Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
1994
The Shadow
6.1/522
Based on the 1930's comic strip, puts the hero up against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom us...
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The Shadow
1989
Speed Zone
4.5/79
An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distre...
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Speed Zone
1973
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
7.242/182
An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously suppl...
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1980
Where the Buffalo Roam
5.964/165
Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
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Where the Buffalo Roam
1988
Red Heat
6.2/1454
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord w...
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Red Heat
1992
Honeymoon in Vegas
5.6/284
On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. T...
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Honeymoon in Vegas
1985
Turk 182!
5.8/64
After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a young girl, h...
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Turk 182!
1982
Hammett
6.192/65
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living...
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Hammett
2006
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
5.541/1085
Now that Santa and Mrs. Claus have the North Pole running smoothly, the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve!...
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The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
1987
Walker
6.318/74
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
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Walker
1978
F.I.S.T.
6.5/202
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher...
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F.I.S.T.
1979
Hardcore
6.8/274
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search of his runaway teenage daughter who’s making hardcore...
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Hardcore
1976
Swashbuckler
6.2/32
A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.
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Swashbuckler
1989
The Dream Team
6.186/228
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accident...
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The Dream Team
1969
Medium Cool
6.8/72
John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he discove...
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Medium Cool
1984
Johnny Dangerously
6.2/190
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
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Johnny Dangerously
1970
Joe
6.5/59
After murdering his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend, a wealthy ad executive stumbles into a bar and strikes up an uneasy alliance with Joe Curran, a...
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Joe
1988
Funny
0/0
People are asked to tell their favorite jokes.
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Funny
1973
Steelyard Blues
4.8/16
A group of misfits decide to leave for a place that they can all be free. Their mode of transportation is a PBY flying boat. The only problem is that...
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Steelyard Blues
1994
Killer
4.8/11
Cynical hit man Mick is tiring of his job and asks his boss George for time off. However, George gives him the assignment of his life, prompting Mick'...
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Killer
1973
Slither
5.7/22
While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being...
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Slither
1987
Surrender
4.9/25
A wealthy writer who has had terrible experiences with money-hungry girlfriends & ex-wives pretends to be a broke, washed-up novelist to see if the wo...
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Surrender
1974
Crazy Joe
6/5
The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.
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Crazy Joe
1980
In God We Tru$t
6.2/31
A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose, is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to Holly...
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In God We Tru$t
1973
Kid Blue
6.9/16
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's...
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Kid Blue
1994
Royce
5.175/20
Royce is a member of the ultra-secret service "Black Hole", working for the US Government on top-secret missions. When the senator responsible for for...
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Royce
1995
The Surgeon
5.4/17
Dr. Julian Mater is suspended and gets his license revoked for performing experiments on dying patients in cellular regeneration. A couple of years la...
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The Surgeon
1971
T.R. Baskin
5.1/15
Enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to searc...
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T.R. Baskin
1991
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
5.7/3
Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual look at the history of Frankenstein on the screen.
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Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1987
Echoes in the Darkness
7.5/4
Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Townshi...
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Echoes in the Darkness
1988
Disaster at Silo 7
6.3/3
During routine maintenance of a liquid-fuelled ICBM, the fuel tank is penetrated by a falling spanner. The film traces the efforts of the maintenance...
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Disaster at Silo 7
1992
Nervous Ticks
4/2
A comedy about a man (Bill Pullman), who is on the run after his mistress (Julie Brown) confesses to her husband (Peter Boyle) that the two of them ha...
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Nervous Ticks
1987
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
6.5/2
A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention...
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Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
1990
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
6.5/2
Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1977
Tail Gunner Joe
6/2
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later plann...
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Tail Gunner Joe
1969
The Monitors
3.8/5
Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.
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The Monitors
1999
Making 'Taxi Driver'
6.9/27
A behind the scenes snapshot of the making of one of the greatest films ever made. Filled with trivia, interviews from cast and crew, and more.
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Making 'Taxi Driver'
1990
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
6/1
In order to boost his own cotton ginning business, Jake Meighan sets the local Syndicate Plantation ablaze. the superintendent of the Syndicate Planta...
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27 Wagons Full of Cotton
1973
Ghost in the Noonday Sun
4.2/6
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more an...
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun
1996
Sweet Evil
2.3/3
A couple unable to naturally conceive recruit a young woman to act as their surrogate. She falls pregnant with their baby and moves into their home. B...
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Sweet Evil
1970
Diary of a Mad Housewife
6.4/37
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children,...
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Diary of a Mad Housewife
1972
FTA
6.1/9
A documentary about a political troupe headed by actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland which traveled to towns near military bases in the US in the...
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FTA
1991
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
7/1
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.
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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1990
Men Of Respect
4.7/20
In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts...
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Men Of Respect
1996
Milk & Money
7/1
When David drops out of medical school, he finds out what life isn't really like. He meets beautiful women, holds a box, helps make a movie, and takes...
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Milk & Money
2013
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
8.2/11
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows —...
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Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
1989
Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North
0/0
Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North follows the military career of Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, beginning with his Naval Academy days t...
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Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North
1995
Born to Be Wild
5.4/37
Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage...
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Born to Be Wild
2018
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
6.7/6
At the age of 91, Mel Brooks is unstoppable, with his musical "Young Frankenstein" opening to great critical acclaim in London in late 2017. Alan Yent...
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Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
1998
Species II
5.2/714
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to...
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Species II
1992
In the Line of Duty: Street War
5/8
In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New York cop. The detectives enlist the help of the d...
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In the Line of Duty: Street War
1994
The Santa Clause
6.493/2089
On Christmas Eve, divorced dad Scott Calvin and his son discover Santa Claus has fallen off their roof. When Scott takes the reins of the magical slei...
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The Santa Clause
1990
Poochinski
5.6/5
The talking bulldog at a policeman's feet turns out to be his late partner.
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Poochinski
1988
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
8.5/2
A humourous telling of the history of the comic book superhero.
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Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
1990
Challenger
6.2/5
A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its e...
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Challenger
1973
The Man Who Could Talk to Kids
5/1
An emotionally disturbed young boy shuts out all of his family and friends. A counselor tries to help bring him and his family together again.
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The Man Who Could Talk to Kids
1997
A Deadly Vision
4.5/4
A waitress who has psychic visions of murders before they happen is asked by a police detective to help find a serial killer.
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A Deadly Vision
1983
Group Madness
0/0
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard
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Group Madness
1996
In the Lake of the Woods
4.8/5
John Waylan is a candidate for U.S. senator; near the end of the campaign he is accused of ordering and participating in a massacre in a Vietnamese vi...
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In the Lake of the Woods
1993
Taking the Heat
4.8/4
When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police. A cop is ordered to bring him to the court, but...
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Taking the Heat
1996
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
8.5/6
Via reminiscences from writer/actor Gene Wilder and others, this documentary recalls the making of the 1974 film Young Frankenstein.
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Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #4: Follow Your Own Star
0/0
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #4: FOLLOW YOUR OWN STAR is a brand new compilation of...
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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #4: Follow Your Own Star
2002
The Santa Clause 2
5.955/1323
Better watch out! The big guy in red is coming to town once again. This time, Scott Calvin -- also known as Santa Claus -- finds out there's an obscur...
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The Santa Clause 2
2008
All Roads Lead Home
6/21
The story is about a 12 year old girl who loses her mother in an automobile accident. Her father struggles with the loss of his wife and trying to rai...
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All Roads Lead Home
1968
The Virgin President
7/1
The President of the U.S. is suceeded by his naive, wide-eyed son, and his advisors try to take advantage of the situation by planning to drop an atom...
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The Virgin President
2004
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
8/1
The top 100 songs of the past 100 years chosen by the American Film Institute are presented by host-actor John Travolta.
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