Howard Hesseman
Howard Hesseman (February 27, 1940 – January 29, 2022) was an American actor known for his television roles as burned out disc jockey Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati, and the lead role of history teacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class. He appeared regularly on television and in film from the 1970s to 2010s, with other noteworthy roles including Sam Royer (the husband of lead character Ann Romano) in the last two seasons of One Day at a Time, and a supporting role as Captain Pete Lassard in the film Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 13.157 |
| Birthday | 1940-02-27 |
| Place of Birth | Lebanon, Oregon, USA |
| Also Known As | Howard Hessman, Don Sturdy, |
2008
The Rocker
6/564
In the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty years later, the drummer sees his second chance at st...
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The Rocker
2002
About Schmidt
6.833/1186
A recently retired man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.
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About Schmidt
1992
Hot Chocolate
2/2
B.J. Cassidy, a rich businesswoman, has to invest several billion dollars for fiscal reasons. She undertakes to buy back a small French factory, speci...
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Hot Chocolate
1976
Jackson County Jail
5.5/31
A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.
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Jackson County Jail
1983
Doctor Detroit
5.1/67
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago....
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Doctor Detroit
2009
All About Steve
4.943/963
After one short blind date, Mary Horowitz, a brilliant and eccentric crossword constructor, is convinced that Steve, a CCN cameraman, is her soul mate...
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All About Steve
2009
Halloween II
5.3/1342
Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois. Meanwhile, Michael prepares for another re...
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Halloween II
1997
Gridlock'd
6.632/209
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are ha...
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Gridlock'd
2006
Man About Town
5.2/131
A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been swi...
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Man About Town
2005
Crazy for Christmas
5.7/20
A girl loses her parents and husband and is left driving a limo trying to get by raising her young son. An interesting but strange rich man hires her...
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Crazy for Christmas
1981
Private Lessons
5.7/107
Phillip Filmore is a naive, 15-year-old, preoccupied with sex, who develops a crush on Nicole Mallow, the new 30-something, French housekeeper and sit...
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Private Lessons
1992
Rubin & Ed
6.37/23
Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot." Th...
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Rubin & Ed
1986
Heat
5.857/49
Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together...
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Heat
1985
Clue
7.224/1640
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackm...
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Clue
1978
Loose Shoes
3.5/11
Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from...
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Loose Shoes
1975
The Sunshine Boys
6.735/98
Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spok...
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The Sunshine Boys
1986
My Chauffeur
5.9/31
A feisty young woman accepts a mysterious offer to become a chauffeur for a Beverly Hills limousine business, much to the chagrin of her older male co...
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My Chauffeur
1979
Americathon
3.6/10
In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent...
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Americathon
1981
Honky Tonk Freeway
5.1/18
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not...
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Honky Tonk Freeway
2011
Salvation Boulevard
5.3/73
Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his m...
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Salvation Boulevard
1997
On the Second Day of Christmas
6.2/27
Trish (Mary Stuart Masterson) and her six-year-old niece, Patsy, make their living by picking pockets. But when they try to take advantage of holiday...
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On the Second Day of Christmas
1978
The Ghost of Flight 401
5.7/12
An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to rep...
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The Ghost of Flight 401
1973
Steelyard Blues
4.75/16
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
1987
Inside Out
6.3/3
An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.
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Inside Out
1990
Call Me Anna
5.7/3
Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.
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Call Me Anna
1976
Tunnel Vision
4.8/12
A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which includes shows, commercials, news programs, you na...
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Tunnel Vision
2012
Bigfoot
3/48
A rock concert awakens the legendary monster, who goes on a rampage. The event's organizer plans to kill the beast and create a tourist attraction aro...
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Bigfoot
1993
Little Miss Millions
5.4/23
Private detective Nick is hired to bring back Heather, who ran away from her stepmother to find her real mother.
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Little Miss Millions
1987
Six Against the Rock
4.9/4
In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His plan, carried out with five accompl...
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Six Against the Rock
1992
Quiet Killer
5.2/2
On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still o...
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Quiet Killer
2002
Teddy Bears' Picnic
3/2
In Harry Shearer's tongue-in-cheek comedy, a waiter at Zanbesu Glen (a chi-chi Northern California resort) uses his movie camera to spy on the annual...
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Teddy Bears' Picnic
1991
Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story
5.4/13
Pamela Smart knows exactly what she wants and is willing to do anything to get it. She is fed up with teaching, and her marriage offers little excitem...
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Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story
2005
Rockin' at the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock
0/0
This documentary pays tribute to the contributions and importance of the title watering hole in the creation of the psychedelic dancehalls that litter...
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Rockin' at the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock
1980
Skyward
7/4
Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides...
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Skyward
1977
Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
5/20
An airplane carring coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is...
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Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
1994
Munchie Strikes Back
3.2/7
The magical Munchie is back, and if he gets in any more trouble it's off to the dullest constellation in the galaxy. Staying out of trouble has never...
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Munchie Strikes Back
1979
You Can't Take it With You
0/0
Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about a sl...
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You Can't Take it With You
1975
Prisoners
0/0
Melodrama set in South Vietnam in the 1960s. Krueger (Bramhall), a former infantry lieutenant, is imprisoned at Quai Dong, on the South China Sea, for...
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Prisoners
1984
Mister Roberts
6.8/2
Set aboard a navy cargo ship during World War II, this comedic drama follows Lt. Doug Roberts (Robert Hays, Airplane!), who battles boredom and a tyra...
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Mister Roberts
1988
The Diamond Trap
5/1
When streetwise Manhattan police detectives Rawlings (Howard Hesseman) and Brendan Thomas (Ed Marinaro) discover a major diamond heist is about to go...
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The Diamond Trap
1978
Outside Chance
2/1
An advertising executive finds herself in a small-town jail after being terrorized on a drive from Los Angeles to New York by two hitchhikers who stea...
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Outside Chance
2002
The Mesmerist
4/1
Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old man (Howard Hesseman) who cheats death, only to go on t...
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The Mesmerist
2001
The Sky is Falling
8/2
A young woman, struggling to become a novelist, has her life go into a tailspin. Her first novel is rejected, her non-committal boy friend decides to...
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The Sky is Falling
1973
The Blue Knight
5.8/12
Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 years on the job, but is not letting up on the crimi...
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The Blue Knight
1976
The Big Bus
5.2/97
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disaste...
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The Big Bus
1969
Some Kind of a Nut
3.7/7
A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard.
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Some Kind of a Nut
2016
Silver Skies
6.2/4
A group of eccentric retirees' lives are turned upside down when their beloved apartment complex is suddenly sold out from under them.
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Silver Skies
1986
The Princess Who Had Never Laughed
0/0
There was once a very serious kingdom. So serious, that the King demanded to be addressed as Your Seriousness...
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The Princess Who Had Never Laughed
2016
A Christmas in Vermont
5.3/43
Riley Thomas is sent by her profit-obsessed boss to shut down one of the company’s holdings, a small outerwear company in Vermont, for missing profit...
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A Christmas in Vermont
1984
Silence of the Heart
8/2
A mother going through a painful, protracted divorce realizes too late the effect it's having on her troubled son.
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Silence of the Heart
1984
This Is Spinal Tap
7.431/1355
"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its...
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This Is Spinal Tap
1983
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever
8.2/6
Television special taped before a live studio audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on March 25, 1983, and broadcast on NB...
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Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever
1997
High Stakes
4/1
A former news reporter marries and tries to adjust to the life of a house wife and mother. However, her need for an adrenaline high is overpowering an...
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High Stakes
1984
Best Kept Secrets
7.5/2
Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forr...
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Best Kept Secrets
1977
The Other Side of Midnight
5.8/18
When French beauty Noelle Page falls in love with American pilot Larry Douglas, she believes he'll marry her. Instead, he returns to the U.S and marri...
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The Other Side of Midnight
1987
Amazon Women on the Moon
5.961/155
Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird...
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Amazon Women on the Moon
2015
Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon
5.6/5
Del Close was never a household name, but any comedy enthusiast is aware of his impact. From Bill Murray to Chris Farley to Amy Poehler, many of the m...
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Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon
1968
Petulia
5.9/40
An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.
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Petulia
1975
Shampoo
6/202
George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship....
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Shampoo
1986
Flight of the Navigator
6.953/812
12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to hav...
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Flight of the Navigator
1975
Whiffs
7.1/7
Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig in its...
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Whiffs
1982
One Shoe Makes it Murder
6.5/2
Robert Mitchum stars as a down-and-out ex-cop whose entanglement with a shady casino owner leaves him one step behind a killer in the mystery One Shoe...
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One Shoe Makes it Murder
1975
Hustling
5.7/6
Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry...
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Hustling
1985
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
6.069/1488
Officer Carey Mahoney and his cohorts have finally graduated from the Police Academy and are about to hit the streets on their first assignment. Quest...
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Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
1979
The Jerk
6.907/788
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him...
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The Jerk
1969
A Session with the Committee
0/0
A Session with the Committee
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A Session with the Committee
2019
Valerie
2/3
A documentary of the incredible life of actress Valerie Perrine and her battle with Parkinson's.
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Valerie
1982
Victims
5.5/2
A serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His victims decide to turn the tables on him and begin...
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Victims
1978
More Than Friends
0/0
Matty Perlman and Alan Corkus are old friends. He wants them to be more than friends. Sometimes she does too.
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More Than Friends
2020
Life After The Navigator
8.286/7
A feature that not only celebrates the 1986 classic "Flight of the Navigator", but also looks at the life of its child star, Joey Cramer, and his roll...
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Life After The Navigator
2007
Martian Child
6.659/289
A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's...
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Martian Child
1973
Kid Blue
6.906/16
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
1972
Cisco Pike
5.6/32
A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.
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Cisco Pike
1971
The Christian Licorice Store
4.4/4
A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.
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The Christian Licorice Store
1977
The Amazing Howard Hughes
6/7
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' busines...
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The Amazing Howard Hughes
1980
John Ritter: Being of Sound Mind and Body
7/1
John Ritter shows off his comedic talent with a collection of comedy sketches.
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John Ritter: Being of Sound Mind and Body
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
1975
The Blue Knight
0/0
In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force before his retirement investigates the murder of h...
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The Blue Knight
1978
The Comedy Company
0/0
An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics.
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The Comedy Company
1993
Lethal Exposure
0/0
Ambitious photojournalist Chris Cassidy, on assignment in Paris, becomes involved with an unconventional French detective after having witnessed the a...
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Lethal Exposure
1973
Jory
7.3/9
Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the boy...
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Jory
1976
Silent Movie
6.534/281
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the mo...
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Silent Movie
1980
Gridlock
6/1
A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an astounding traffic tie-up, with the entire system...
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Gridlock
2016
Wild Oats
6.106/90
Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. She a...
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Wild Oats
1971
Billy Jack
6/63
Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaways.
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Billy Jack
2022
Who Done It: The Clue Documentary
5.5/4
Clue (1985) has become a cult classic film and is loved by multiple generations. Yet there has never been a documentary created to tell the behind the...
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Who Done It: The Clue Documentary
1995
Out-of-Sync
4/5
A DJ and ex-con is forced to work with the police in an undercover drug sting targeting his boss.
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Out-of-Sync
1980
The Fantastic Funnies
0/0
In this partially-animated TV special, Loni Anderson salutes the funny pages with interviews with famous cartoonists AND their creations!
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The Fantastic Funnies
2012
A Helping Hand
0/0
A Helping Hand is a cautionary tale about the perils of giving. Cynthia, a successful physical therapist, leads a life devoid of meaning and love. She...
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