Paul Dooley
Paul Dooley (born Paul Brown; February 22, 1928) is an American character actor, writer, and comedian. He is known for his roles in Breaking Away, Popeye, Sixteen Candles, Strange Brew and many Christopher Guest mockumentaries. He co-created the PBS show The Electric Company.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.662 |
| Birthday | 1928-02-22 |
| Place of Birth | Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA |
| Also Known As |
2002
Insomnia
6.9/4720
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
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Insomnia
2006
Cars
7/13889
Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself u...
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Cars
2008
Bedtime Stories
6.2/2793
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fa...
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Bedtime Stories
1992
The Player
7.2/801
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
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The Player
2007
Hairspray
6.7/2464
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Thr...
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Hairspray
1999
Runaway Bride
6.1/1969
Having already left three grooms at the altar, Maggie Carpenter is branded "the runaway bride" by jaded New York journalist Ike Graham. But, after his...
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Runaway Bride
1979
Breaking Away
7.1/255
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athlet...
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Breaking Away
1980
Popeye
5.4/609
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and wi...
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Popeye
1983
Going Berserk
5.1/34
John Bourgignon, a drummer-chauffeur engaged to the daughter of a United States senator, encounters a sleazy film director, the leader of an aerobics...
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Going Berserk
1996
God's Lonely Man
7/3
As each relentless night turns towards day, Ernest Rackman turns towards violence to escape thoughts of loneliness and suicide. Then he poses as a pol...
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God's Lonely Man
1991
Shakes the Clown
5.4/78
Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local ki...
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Shakes the Clown
1987
O.C. and Stiggs
4.7/15
O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, they plot against it. They seek revenge agai...
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O.C. and Stiggs
1983
Strange Brew
6.1/187
Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug McKenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain the brewery founded by her recently-de...
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Strange Brew
1990
Flashback
6.3/93
A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escor...
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Flashback
2006
Mater and the Ghostlight
6.2/438
Mater, the rusty but trusty tow truck from Cars, spends a day in Radiator Springs playing scary pranks on his fellow townsfolk. That night at Flo's V8...
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Mater and the Ghostlight
1995
The Underneath
5.6/78
A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his e...
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The Underneath
1991
Frogs!
2.5/2
Gus, a former frog prince turned lounge singer, shows up on his friend's doorstep just when Arlo has little time to help him. But when Gus tangles wit...
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Frogs!
1972
Up the Sandbox
5.8/17
Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mo...
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Up the Sandbox
1984
Sixteen Candles
6.773/2054
With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread....
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Sixteen Candles
1999
Guinevere
5.9/34
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
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Guinevere
2003
Touch 'Em All McCall
0/0
A one-time baseball player returns to his hometown and winds up coaching a farm team.
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Touch 'Em All McCall
1978
A Wedding
6.3/48
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as...
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A Wedding
1982
Endangered Species
5.1/21
A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.
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Endangered Species
1995
Evolver
5.2/38
A teenage boy gets a robotic opponent after winning a laser tag contest; however the robot is not what it seems!
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Evolver
2009
Horsemen
5.9/540
A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing...
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Horsemen
1986
Monster in the Closet
5.038/79
After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band...
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Monster in the Closet
1982
Kiss Me Goodbye
5.8/42
Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancée Rupert. But so...
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Kiss Me Goodbye
1981
Paternity
5.2/12
Buddy Evans (Burt Reynolds) manages events at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is a confirmed bachelor who lives with his housekeeper Celia....
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Paternity
1997
Loved
4.1/16
After a man is accused of driving his third wife to suicide, his first wife Hedda, a troubled woman who can't hate or hurt others even if they had wro...
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Loved
1980
HealtH
5.3/15
At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convention. As the conference progresses, underhanded tri...
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HealtH
2008
Chronic Town
6/1
Truman Korovin is a lonely, sharp-witted cab driver in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1980. The usual routine of picking up fares and spending his nights at his f...
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Chronic Town
1997
Clockwatchers
6.1/66
The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent...
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Clockwatchers
2016
The Holy Man
0/0
This is the story of a man who is fighting for more than just a world boxing championship.
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The Holy Man
1979
Rich Kids
5/14
Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.
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Rich Kids
1992
Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
7.833/6
Perry Mason is invited to the marriage of the daughter of an old friend of his. But after the ceremony the uncle of the bride is dead. Certainly this...
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
1988
Last Rites
4.6/23
After witnessing her lover being murdered by his jealous wife, Angela seeks refuge in a church where she encounters a young priest named Michael, who...
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Last Rites
1986
Big Trouble
5.3/39
Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet sons who all want to go to Yale isn't making thing...
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Big Trouble
1979
A Perfect Couple
5.2/16
An uptight bachelor tries his luck with a computer dating service and gets matched up with his polar opposite.
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A Perfect Couple
1993
A Dangerous Woman
5.3/30
Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a qual...
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A Dangerous Woman
1981
See China and Die
0/0
A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back from...
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See China and Die
1975
Fore Play
3/3
A three-part omnibus centered around sex and its discontents.
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Fore Play
1990
Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?
0/0
The visitor that you might expect for Christmas is not who shows up in this film. Instead, a mysterious stranger (Bridges) befriends a small-town ecce...
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Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?
2005
Come Away Home
6.6/5
Twelve-year-old Annie Lamm's first day of summer break quickly turns into a disaster. She realizes that her parents have not only decided to fly her t...
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Come Away Home
1994
State of Emergency
4/2
Medical drama about a major hospital whose emergency room regularly faces an overload of patients. One of the doctors finds it necessary to adopt an u...
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State of Emergency
1968
What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
6.7/6
A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others.
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What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
1993
Mother of the Bride
5.8/6
A mother's plans for her daughter's wedding are complicated when her ex-husband, who abandoned the family more than 20 years earlier, shows up.
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Mother of the Bride
2023
The Water Is Finally Blue: The Untold Story of Robert Altman's O.C. and Stiggs
0/0
An in-depth oral history of the production and development history of Robert Altman's "O.C. and Stiggs," featuring commentaries from the film's cast a...
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The Water Is Finally Blue: The Untold Story of Robert Altman's O.C. and Stiggs
2023
Boy Makes Girl
5/2
When his mother passes, a software programmer on the autism spectrum, Aaron, struggles to cope with the change. He builds a lifelike version of his ch...
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Boy Makes Girl
1977
Simple Gifts
0/0
A collection of animated Christmas shorts: An original Maurice Sendak piece about a boy with nothing to give for Christmas -- An excerpt from the earl...
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Simple Gifts
1997
Telling Lies in America
5.8/34
A 17-year-old boy becomes friends with Billy Magic, the radio DJ he idolizes, and eventually slips into the payola and corruption of the entertainment...
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Telling Lies in America
1983
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
6.5/5
As the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes, Big Bird decides to leave his Sesame Street friends behind in search of Snuffy. Once locked inside for the n...
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Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1993
Cooperstown
3.5/2
A retired baseball player reflects on the mistakes and problems of the past 35 years when he is overlooked for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fam...
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Cooperstown
2011
Cars 2
6.1/7733
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rock...
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Cars 2
2004
Employee of the Month
5.682/143
"Employee of the Month" is about a guy whose day spirals from bad to worse when he gets fired from his dream job at the bank and is dumped by his fian...
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Employee of the Month
1993
My Boyfriend's Back
5.7/84
Missy McCloud is the most beautiful girl in school and Johnny Dingle has been in love with her for years. One night, Johnny is killed trying to win he...
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My Boyfriend's Back
2020
Selfie Dad
6.6/12
Spiraling into a mid-life crisis and feeling disconnected from his family, Ben Marcus, a reality-TV editor, thinks he can only be happy by fulfilling...
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Selfie Dad
1974
Death Wish
6.9/832
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be...
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Death Wish
1997
Angels in the Endzone
5.8/32
The football team Jesse is on is terrible, and after the death of his father Jesse quits the team. Then angels come to help the team get better and no...
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Angels in the Endzone
1989
When He's Not a Stranger
5/3
At a California university, Lyn goes to meet her best friend Melanie in the dorm room of Melanie's boyfriend Ron, a football star. When Lyn arrives, M...
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When He's Not a Stranger
2004
Nobody Knows Anything!
3.1/19
An aspiring filmmaker learns that success in Hollywood doesn't come as easy as she suspected as she attempts to discover the formula to success. When...
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Nobody Knows Anything!
1966
Man in the Square Suit
0/0
Comedy TV Film
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Man in the Square Suit
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
1990
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
8/2
A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1999
Happy, Texas
5.686/113
Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple who work as beauty pageant consultants. They go al...
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Happy, Texas
2006
For Your Consideration
5.8/163
The possibility of Oscar gold holds the cast and crew of an independent film in its grip after the performance of its virtually unknown, veteran star...
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For Your Consideration
2016
Other People
6.3/199
David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Livin...
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Other People
2001
A Woman's a Helluva Thing
4/3
After the death of his estranged mother, a misogynistic womanizer returns home to find that his ex-girlfriend had been his mother's secret lesbian lov...
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A Woman's a Helluva Thing
1965
Howard, Howard and Howard
0/0
Three men, all named Howard cope with living in an otherwise humanness world.
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Howard, Howard and Howard
1970
The Out-of-Towners
6.7/125
George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
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The Out-of-Towners
2003
A Mighty Wind
6.764/237
Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion co...
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A Mighty Wind
1996
Waiting for Guffman
7/242
Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn tha...
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Waiting for Guffman
2013
My Santa
5.4/37
A young, single mother, Jen, begins to lose her faith in the magic of Christmas. However, when she takes her son Eric to see the local mall Santa, Jen...
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My Santa
1982
Rumpelstiltskin
5.8/6
Desperate to save her own life, a miller's daughter makes a bargain with a strange elf-like character. When she cannot cover her debt she is faced wit...
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Rumpelstiltskin
1983
Hansel and Gretel
6.9/4
Abandoned by their parents, a young brother and sister try to find their way home. On the way, they find themselves trapped in the plot of a nasty wit...
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Hansel and Gretel
2005
Madison
5.952/31
In 1971, air-conditioner repairman and boat enthusiast Jim McCormick entertains his desire to 'go down' as a legend in the record books when the Gold...
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Madison
2003
Comfort and Joy
6.8/6
High-powered single-woman Jane Berry is focused on the important things in life, such as advancing her career and spending a bundle on fashionable sho...
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Comfort and Joy
2008
Sunshine Cleaning
6.598/746
A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuiti...
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Sunshine Cleaning
2017
Cars 3
6.9/5784
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in th...
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Cars 3
1985
Stephen King's Golden Tales
5.056/9
A collection of horror stories taking the viewer into the dark world of Stephen King, featuring vampires, strange objects and sinister humor. The five...
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Stephen King's Golden Tales
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
1991
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
6/1
When '30s film star Thelma Todd dies mysteriously, her relationship with New York mobster Lucky Luciano is investigated.
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White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
1974
The Dion Brothers
5.5/10
Two rural West Virginia brothers leave home, rob an armored car and become fugitives.
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The Dion Brothers
2011
Thanks
1.2/2
Three family Thanksgiving gatherings at a California beach house are fraught with tension due to the father's recent remarriage to a younger woman and...
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Thanks
1964
The Parisienne and the Prudes
2/1
A married couple from New York City escape the blistering summer heat by visiting a New Jersey nudist colony. When the husbands' boss finds out, he tr...
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The Parisienne and the Prudes
2007
Bob & Doug McKenzie's Two-Four Anniversary
6/0
In 1980, the SCTV crew had a request from their broadcaster, the CBC, for distinctively Canadian content. What players Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas cr...
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Bob & Doug McKenzie's Two-Four Anniversary
2013
Hiccups
6.2/59
When Lightning McQueen gets the hiccups, everyone in Radiator Springs thinks they have the cure.
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Hiccups
2013
Spinning
6.3/64
Guido discovers he has a hidden talent as a street corner sign spinner.
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Spinning
2014
The Radiator Springs 500½
6.3/88
A 'leisurely drive' planned in honor of Radiator Springs’ town founder, Stanley, turns precarious as Baja pros descend on the town and challenge Light...
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The Radiator Springs 500½
2018
The Great Buster: A Celebration
7.2/56
A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style a...
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The Great Buster: A Celebration
2002
The Perfect You
5.3/9
A waiter/writer living with his dad and a neat freak who's just landed a job as a reporter in New York, meet by colliding on the Brooklyn Bridge, and...
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The Perfect You
1988
Lip Service
5/1
A young news reporter schemes to take over the job of a veteran news anchor whose ratings he's been hired to promote.
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Lip Service
1982
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
0/0
John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. An upper-middle-class suburb is...
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The Shady Hill Kidnapping
1977
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
6.7/20
Raggedy Ann and Andy leave their playroom to rescue Babette, a beautiful French doll kidnapped by a pirate.
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Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
1999
Error in Judgment
3/2
Eric's art gallery is losing money, and even though his psychiatrist wife wants to help, she can't do much to cheer him up. When a young, sexy woman n...
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Error in Judgment
1995
Out There
4.7/15
A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer is fired from his job for not being sensationalistic enough. After he purchases an old camera at a yard sale, he...
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Out There
1977
Slap Shot
6.8/370
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging playe...
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Slap Shot
2001
Rennie's Landing
3.7/5
Life is hard. You can't always get what you want. but Alec Nichols has a plan to change all that. It involves his three friends, a bank and five milli...
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Rennie's Landing
2008
Celebrating Sixteen Candles
0/0
A retrospective look at "Sixteen Candles" from cast and crew, as well as fellow screenwriters, directors, and critics.
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Celebrating Sixteen Candles
1985
The Steel Collar Man
0/0
An android soldier and its creator are on the run from the government (which it was created for and wants to destroy it), and find help from a truck d...
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The Steel Collar Man
2001
I'll Remember April
6.3/11
Four young boys find a shipwrecked Japanese sailor during World War II and struggle with the decision to save him.
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I'll Remember April
1995
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
4.182/22
By accident, the content of a computer encyclopedia is transferred into the brain of Dexter Riley, a less than average college boy. Because of his new...
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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
2020
The Gesture and The Word
7/0
A lonely postman (Gilbert) secretly recreates postcards for a woman (Aurore) on his postal route when her boyfriend's homemade postcards stop arriving...
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The Gesture and The Word
2013
Turbo
6.22/3327
The tale of an ordinary garden snail who dreams of winning the Indy 500.
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Turbo
2003
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
7.8/2
Comedy special spotlighting Tracey Ullman’s larger than life character Ruby Romaine from HBO's “Tracey Takes On”. After an illustrious career, vetera...
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Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2021
Saving Paradise
6/16
A ruthless corporate raider is forced to return to his small town roots where he suddenly inherits his father's nearly bankrupt pencil factory, which...
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