Luke Eberl

biography: Luke Eberl is an American actor, director, and pianist. His directorial feature film debut, Choose Connor screened at Rome Film Festival, Seattle, Newport Beach, Woodstock, CineVegas and Philadelphia, where it won the Jury Prize for Best American Independent. It was released theatrically and on video by Strand Releasing to outstanding reviews by the likes of The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post. Luke was named one of the “10 Young Americans to Watch" by Eric Kohn in MovieMaker Magazine.  He directed the short film We Won't Forget which screened at over 25 festivals including Palm Springs ShortFest, Hamptons IFF, Woodstock, Tirana, Dresden, Rooftop Films, IndieLisboa and Rio de Janeiro and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize and the award for Best Editing at Castrovillari, and the Honorable Mention at FEST New Directors New Films. The film was nominated for a Portuguese Academy Award (Sophia) for Best Short Film and was selected as Vimeo Staﬀ Pick and Short of the Week. As an actor he has worked with directors such as Tim Burton, Alfonso Arau, Vincent Paterson, Peter Hoar, and Clint Eastwood on his Oscar-winning Letters From Iwo Jima.

The Slap

overview: Hector and his wife Aisha plan a party for family and friends, but the day doesn't turn out as they expected when Hector's hot-headed cousin Harry slaps a misbehaving child. The party ends abruptly with the child's parents threatening legal action, and a chain of events is ignited that will uncover secrets, challenge core values, and leave the party guests and hosts forever changed.

original_name: The Slap

Marvel's Daredevil

overview: Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.

character: Daniel Gibson

original_name: Marvel's Daredevil

Touched by an Angel

overview: Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

character: Young Daniel

original_name: Touched by an Angel

Boston Public

overview: Principal Steven Harper runs Winslow High School as best as he can while dealing with the demands of the faculty, the students and their parents.

character: Dominick Avery

original_name: Boston Public

Big Love

overview: The story of Bill Henrickson and his life in suburban Salt Lake City, balancing the needs of his three wives -- Barb, Nicki and Margene-- their seven kids, three new houses and the opening of his newest hardware store. When disturbing news arrives about Bill's father, he is forced to reconnect with his polygamist parents who live on a fundamentalist compound in rural Utah.

character: Boy in Car

original_name: Big Love

English

english_name: English

Deutsch

Luke Eberl

biography:
Lucas Elliott „Luke“ Eberl (* 29. März 1986 in Boulder, Colorado) ist ein US-amerikanischer Filmschauspieler, der allerdings auch als Filmproduzent, Filmregisseur, Drehbuchautor und Filmeditor tätig ist.

Eberl stand bereits in Filmen wie Phantoms (mit Ben Affleck und Peter O’Toole) oder Planet der Affen (mit Mark Wahlberg und Tim Roth) vor der Kamera. 2006 übernahm er eine Nebenrolle in Clint Eastwoods Kriegsfilm Letters from Iwo Jima. Seit 1998 war er in mehr als 30 Produktionen zu sehen.

Auch war er Gastdarsteller in Fernsehserien wie Ein Hauch von Himmel, Boston Public, Für alle Fälle Amy und Cold Case – Kein Opfer ist je vergessen.

Seit 2002 begann der damals 16-jährige Kurzfilme zu drehen, für die er sich als Autor, Regisseur und Produzent verantwortlich zeigte.

Bisher veröffentlichte Kurzfilme waren 2002 der 19-minütige Incest mit Hallee Hirsh, Erick Avari und Courtland Mead und 2005 der bereits 48 Minuten lange Fellowship, ein Film, in dem wie in Incest Jungdarsteller (darunter Elijah Runcorn und Amy Perry) die Hauptrollen verkörperten. Weitere Produktionen folgten.

Im Jahre 2007 war Eberl als Autor und als Regisseur des Dramas Choose Connor tätig.

Quelle: Wikipedia

also_known_as:
Luke Eberl
Lucas Elliot Eberl
Lucas Elliott "Luke" Eberl

title: Letters from Iwo Jima

overview: The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

character: Sam

original_title: Letters from Iwo Jima

title: Eyeborgs

overview: Following a major terrorist attack, the US government initiates the ODIN surveillance system, made up of millions of mobile, robotic security cameras known as "Eyeborgs." When the physical evidence in a string of odd murders doesn't line up to the surveillance recordings, one federal agent finds himself working outside the system to find out who's really controlling the Eyeborgs.

character: Jarett Hewes

original_title: Eyeborgs

title: Nobody

overview: @nobody cams on social media under the virtual persona of a sweet and sexy anime doll. But the girl underneath the colorful costumes is scared to leave her apartment and doesn't have any friends.

original_title: Nobody

original_language: pt

title: Menthol

overview: When four friends reunite for a night of fun in their hometown, a crisis forces them to confront the consequences of their lifestyles.

character: Roth

original_title: Menthol

title: Final Recourse

overview: A wealthy high powered woman suffers a horrible tragedy after which she descends into substance abuse,turning her back on her family. She later discovers that someone close to her may be behind her subsequent abduction and kidnapping.

character: Will

original_title: Final Recourse

title: The Worst Man in London

overview: In Victorian London lives a man of adventurous spirit and great wit, Charles Augustus Howell, art agent, art dealer, conspirator and master of blackmail.

character: Algernon Charles Swinburne

original_title: The Worst Man in London

title: Masterless

overview: Kane Madison is an architect working in Los Angeles while his doppelganger-like spirit, an eighteenth century Ronin, wanders a parallel netherworld of masked demons and Japanese swordsmen. When tragedy strikes, Kane embarks on a journey of faith which prompts the Ronin to seek out his true master in the spirit world... both will face many battles along their interweaving roads to peace.

character: Derek

original_title: Masterless

title: Phantoms

overview: In the peaceful Colorado town of Snowfield, something evil has wiped out the community. And now, it's up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.

character: Tunnel Boy

original_title: Phantoms

title: Landslide

overview: Manhattan fireman Mark Decker visits, for the first time, his Steven in his ex Emma's new apartment in one of her dad Donald Richardson's development estates, at the foot of Diamand-back Mountain. But Don's ambitious executive Stewart Hancock, who dreams of his own firm, has been cutting too many corners, at the expense of safety, causing a landslide. Mark gets trapped with Steven and the new concierge Harold, who knows everything about an additional danger: rattlesnakes awoken early from hibernation. Now Mark discovers artistic, nerdy Steven only did 'manly' stuff in the city because dad-son time is so rare. While they soldier on, landscape architect Emma discovers the truth and counters Stewart's plan B to literally cover it up.

character: Steven Decker

original_title: Landslide

title: Planet of the Apes

overview: After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home, Leo must evade the invincible gorilla army led by Ruthless General Thade.

character: Birn

original_title: Planet of the Apes

title: Good Time

overview: After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.

character: Arcade Guy (uncredited)

original_title: Good Time

title: Getting That Girl

overview: When East Coast teen Mandy Meyers moves to Los Angeles with her family, she's thrown into the fast life at McDermott High, where the pretty girls rule the school and two very different guys want to date her.

character: Ferrat Barret

original_title: Getting That Girl

title: Marfa Girl 2

overview: A family living in Marfa, Texas attempts to pull themselves back together after a horrific tragedy. This provocative sequel to Larry Clark's film Marfa Girl, shows us a group of people ready to escape their current realities - no matter the cost. Gritty, unrelenting and powerful, auteur Clark once again delivers a bleak landscape of sex, drugs and boredom amongst the residents of a dead-end Texas Border town.

character: Luke

original_title: Marfa Girl 2

title: You See the Moon

overview: Lisbon; after another blistering summer, Miguel finds himself in a deep jadedness. An improvised party erupts at his apartment awakening the memory of a passion.

original_title: Anjo

title: The Napkin

overview: A neurotic young man attempts to handle the recent death of his father while hosting a bachelor party for his best friend.

original_title: The Napkin

title: Super Past Car

overview: Overwhelmed by the melancholy of departure, Tom spends his last day in Lisbon driving his cherished old car, Stella, through its old and changing streets. Confined within its familiar interior, he bids farewell to friends, lovers, and the possessions that made the city his home. As evening falls, he meets Custódio, the prospective buyer who, like Tom, sees Stella as much more than just a car.

character: Tom

original_title: Carro Ultra Passado

title: A Painted House

overview: A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams of living in better conditions. However, with this particularly tough farming season, the boy learns that his challenges guide him in discovering who he really is.

character: Trot Spruill

original_title: A Painted House

title: Loving the Silent Tears: The Musical

overview: Loving the Silent Tears is a musical journey of the spirit that traverses the seas and continents in a timeless search for inner peace. An unprecedented musical experience, the show combined the magic of theatre, the mystical beauty of traditional dances, the soul-stirring realm of poetry – and more. Travel the globe through 16 countries, represented by a dazzling array of ancient and modern music styles, songs sung in many languages, vibrant choreography across the cultures, and of course, a diverse star-filled cast.

original_title: Loving the Silent Tears: The Musical

title: An Odd Enchantment

overview: After surviving a mass shooting, Madame P., an internationally renowned opera singer, retreats into a world where dreams and reality blur freely. Walls come alive, figures dance in fireplace flames, tiny people need rescuing from dumplings, and an armadillo — her unlikely companion since the tragedy — follows her everywhere. A close friend and companion helps her navigate daily life. Her everyday life in a medieval mansion is interrupted by two American outsiders who arrive full of good intentions.

original_title: An Odd Enchantment

job: Director

title: Incest

overview: Teenage nightmare: parents walk in on you while you're having sex. Parent nightmare: walk in on your daughter having sex, with your son. That's what happened to one blissful sunny afternoon. What's worse is, their kids are convinced their love transcends all astigmatism, and they want to prove it to the world.

department: Directing

original_title: Incest

title: We Won't Forget

overview: A woman's frustrations boil to the surface while hosting a party for her friends, culminating in a public freakout that turns into collective hysteria.

original_title: We Won't Forget

job: Writer

title: We Won't Forget

department: Writing

job: Editor

title: We Won't Forget

department: Editing

job: Cinematography

title: We Won't Forget

job: Music

title: That Is Not a Good Idea!

overview: Inspired by the evil villains and innocent damsels of silent movies, Willems tells the tale of a hungry fox who invites a plump goose to dinner. As with the beloved Pigeon books, kids will be calling out the signature refrain and begging for repeated readings. The funny details in the full-color illustrations by three-time Caldecott Honoree Mo Willems will bring nonstop laughter to story time.

department: Sound

original_title: That Is Not a Good Idea!

title: Fault Line

overview: The story of a group of actors and artists living in Los Angeles who are struggling to find their humanity within the whirlwind of show business, parties, drugs, depression, money, lack of money, love, greed, ambition, addiction, art and technology.

original_title: Fault Line

title: Fault Line

title: Fault Line

title: Fault Line

title: Fault Line

title: Choose Connor

overview: Idealistic 15-year-old Owen gets the chance of a lifetime to be the youth spokesman for U.S. Senate Candidate Lawrence Connor, only to be exploited in a fierce campaign of TV and radio ads, posters, interviews, and speaking engagements in the cut throat media-image-is-all world of American politics.

title: We Won't Forget

title: The Napkin

title: Heatstroke

overview: A reflection on this generation’s sexual and existential disorientation.

title: Heatstroke

title: Heatstroke

title: Choose Connor

title: Choose Connor

title: It Was Them

overview: A portrait of the highs and lows of Jonathan Velasquez, Eddie Velasquez, Frank Navarrette and Carlos Ramirez, a group of friends from South Central L.A. who look to find their footing as immigrants in the foreign and labyrinthic streets of Paris. The film spans over a decade in the lives of the nomads and features an original soundtrack written and performed by the subjects.

title: It Was Them

title: Letters from Iwo Jima

title: Eyeborgs

title: Nobody

title: Menthol

title: Final Recourse

title: The Worst Man in London

title: Masterless

title: Phantoms

title: Landslide

title: Planet of the Apes

title: Good Time

title: Getting That Girl

title: Marfa Girl 2

title: You See the Moon

title: The Napkin

title: Super Past Car

title: A Painted House

title: Loving the Silent Tears: The Musical

title: An Odd Enchantment

title: Incest

title: We Won't Forget

title: We Won't Forget

title: We Won't Forget

title: We Won't Forget

title: That Is Not a Good Idea!

title: Fault Line

title: Fault Line

title: Fault Line

title: Fault Line

title: Fault Line

title: Choose Connor

title: We Won't Forget

title: The Napkin

title: Heatstroke

title: Heatstroke

title: Heatstroke

title: Choose Connor

title: Choose Connor

title: It Was Them

title: It Was Them


David Rasche

biography: David Rasche (born August 7, 1944) is an American theater, film, and television actor who is best known for his portrayal of the title character in the 1980s satirical police sitcom Sledge Hammer! Since then he has often played characters in positions of authority, in both serious and comical turns. In television he is known for his main role as Karl Muller in the HBO drama series Succession, as well as recurring and guest performances in L.A. Law, Monk, The West Wing, Veep, and Ugly Betty.

Sledge Hammer!

overview: Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The series was created by Alan Spencer and stars David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a preposterous caricature of the standard "cop on the edge" character. Al Jean and Mike Reiss, best known for their work on The Simpsons, wrote for the show and worked as story editors.

character: Sledge Hammer

original_name: Sledge Hammer!

original_language: en

Kate & Allie

overview: Kate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable response from critics and viewers alike easily convinced CBS to commit to a full season in the fall of 1984. The series was created by Sherry Coben.

original_name: Kate & Allie

Mrs. Columbo

overview: Mrs. Kate Columbo, wife of the famous lieutenant, solves crimes as a reporter, while raising her little daughter.

original_name: Mrs. Columbo

L.A. Law

overview:
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994.

Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff.

The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.

character: David McCoy

original_name: L.A. Law

Providence

overview: Providence is an American television drama series.

character: Doc Croc

original_name: Providence

Monk

overview: Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.

character: Nick Patterson

original_name: Monk

Miami Vice

overview: The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.

character: Surf

original_name: Miami Vice

Las Vegas

overview: Ed Deline is a strict ex-CIA officer who went from being Head of Security to becoming President of Operations of the Montecito, whose job is to run the day-to-day operations of the casino. Following his departure, former Marine Danny McCoy, Ed's former protégé, becomes the Montecito's new President of Operations.

character: Tim Valentine

original_name: Las Vegas

Grown Ups

overview: With a lifelong friend, the newly appointed VP of regional distribution at a corrugated box company enters the world of adulthood and responsibility.

character: Walter

original_name: Grown Ups

Malcolm in the Middle

overview: A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.

character: Lawyer

original_name: Malcolm in the Middle

The Book of Daniel

overview: Rev. Daniel Webster is an unconventional Episcopalian priest who not only believes in Jesus, but actually sees him and discusses life with him. He is challenged on many levels as he struggles to be a good husband, father and minister, while navigating an often rocky relationship with the church hierarchy.

original_name: The Book of Daniel

Nurses

overview: Nurses is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC from September 14, 1991, to May 7, 1994, created and produced by Susan Harris as a spin-off of Empty Nest, which itself was a spin-off of The Golden Girls.

character: Jack Trenton

original_name: Nurses

Ugly Betty

overview: Wannabe writer Betty Suarez is a plain girl from Queens, who is smart, hardworking and savvy but lacks a fashionable sense of style. When publishing mogul Bradford Meade puts his son Daniel in charge of Mode magazine, he hires Betty to be Daniel's new assistant -- mostly because he knows that she may be the only woman in Manhattan with whom the younger man won't sleep.

character: Calvin Hartley

original_name: Ugly Betty

Just Shoot Me!

overview: See the inner workings of a high-style magazine owned by Jack Gallo, who has hired his quick-tempered but talented daughter, Maya, to write for the publication. Challenging her at every turn is Nina, a vain and superficial former model. Then there's photographer Elliot, a man who is very popular with his portrait subjects as well as other women. completing the core staff is her father's assistant, Dennis, a glorified secretary who is generally disrespectful to one and all.

character: Michael Tenzer

original_name: Just Shoot Me!

DAG

overview: DAG is an American sitcom that aired from November 2000 to May 2001 on NBC. It was named after its star, David Alan Grier, who stars as United States Secret Service agent Jerome Daggett. Daggett's name, in turn, is a back-formation. The show also stars Delta Burke as the First Lady of the United States of America.

character: President Whitman

original_name: DAG

High Society

overview:
High Society is the title of an American television sitcom that aired Monday nights on CBS in 1995 and early 1996. The series revolves around two New York City women who act in an outrageous, campy, and decadent manner. The theme song was the Lady is a Tramp sung by Chaka Khan.

Its premise was similar to the campy British comedy series Absolutely Fabulous.

character: Peter Thomas

original_name: High Society

The Andros Targets

overview: James Sutorious star as Mike Andros, a newspaper investigative reporter who seeks out corruption and injustice in this this action-drama series.

character: Smitty

original_name: The Andros Targets

Roker on the Road

overview: Travels devoted to Americans' appetite for good cuisine.

original_name: Roker on the Road

Law & Order

overview: In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

character: Joe Delaney

original_name: Law & Order

Impastor

overview: Buddy Dobbs, a slacker on the run from a loan shark, steals a man's identity and ends up posing as a small town's new gay pastor.

character: Alden Schmidt

original_name: Impastor

The West Wing

overview: The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.

character: Carl Everett

original_name: The West Wing

Empty Nest

overview: Widowed pediatrician Harry Weston is a miracle worker when it comes to dealing with his young patients, but he's more challenged by the other people surrounding him: daughters Barbara and Carol; his wisecracking office assistant, nurse LaVerne Todd; and obnoxious neighborhood mooch Charley Dietz. Thank goodness he always finds a friendly shoulder (and a warm, wet tongue) in Dreyfuss, his enormous dog.

original_name: Empty Nest

Succession

overview: Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.

character: Karl Muller

original_name: Succession

Signs and Wonders

overview: The Palmore family's faith is tested by personal crises, including a father losing his congregation, a son's crisis of faith, and a daughter who is kidnapped and brainwashed by a cult leader.

character: Brother Nahum

original_name: Signs and Wonders

Burke's Law

overview: Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a senior Los Angeles police officer and millionaire, and his son, Peter, who is a detective under his command.

character: John Ramsey

original_name: Burke's Law

Veep

overview: A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.

character: Jim Marwood

original_name: Veep

Black Box

overview: Catherine Black is a world-famous neurologist at the state-of-the-art medical institution known as "The Cube". Catherine is brilliant, beautiful, and at the top of her game, though she's hiding a secret of her own: she's bipolar. Each week, the doctors on staff attempt to unravel the mysteries of the brain and are constantly challenged by cases never-before-seen on television. The medical stories are moving, bizarre and a visual feast. The personal stories are riveting. The patients have rare, highly visual, often hallucinogenic and startling conditions, which we’ll see through their eyes as Catherine diagnoses and treats them.

character: Hunter Black

original_name: Black Box

origin_country: BR US

Sara

overview: A newly minted attorney joins the legal aid clinic in San Francisco where her best friend works.

original_name: Sara

She Spies

overview: She Spies is an action-adventure television show that ran from September 9, 2002 until May 17, 2004, in two seasons. The show was sold into syndication but the first four episodes premiered on the NBC network, whose syndication arm was one of the producers. Disappointing ratings during the show's second season led to its cancellation after season two ended. She Spies bore noticeable production and directive similarities with Charlie's Angels.

character: Norton Andrews

original_name: She Spies

Suddenly Susan

overview: Susan Keane is a glamorous San Francisco magazine writer beginning to adjust to being single, who learns to be independent-minded, after being taken care of all her life.

character: Evan

original_name: Suddenly Susan

Columbo

overview: Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

character: Patrick Kinsley

original_name: Columbo

Dying for Sex

overview: After Molly Kochan receives a diagnosis of Stage IV metastatic breast cancer, she leaves her husband and explores the full breadth and complexity of her sexual desires for the first time in her life.

character: Dr. Pankowitz

original_name: Dying for Sex

Madam Secretary

overview: After years away from the CIA, Elizabeth McCord is pulled back into the political arena. The newly appointed Secretary of State is tough, fair, and smart, driving international diplomacy, wrangling office politics, and circumventing protocol as she negotiates global and domestic issues, both at the White House and at home.

character: Ambassador Arlen Maxwell

original_name: Madam Secretary

Duckman

overview: Together with Cornfed, his portly, porcine partner in crime solving, this defective detective amazingly manages to solve crimes and be a single parent to his hilariously dysfunctional sons at the same time.

character: Baron Von Dillweed (voice)

original_name: Duckman

Elsbeth

overview: After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.

character: Monsignor Frank

original_name: Elsbeth

The Hunting Party

overview: A small team of investigators are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that's not supposed to exist.

Inside Amy Schumer

overview: Take a journey into the provocative and hilariously wicked mind of Amy Schumer as she explores topics revolving around sex, relationships, and the general clusterf*ck that is life. Through a series of scripted vignettes, stand-up comedy, and man-on-the street candid interviews, Schumer tackles various themes such as "Denial," "Getting Your Way," and "Threesomes."

Bored to Death

overview: Jonathan Ames, a young Brooklyn writer, is feeling lost. He's just gone through a painful break-up, thanks in part to his drinking, can't write his second novel, and carouses too much with his magazine editor. Rather than face reality, Jonathan turns instead to his fantasies — moonlighting as a private detective — because he wants to be a hero and a man of action.

American Playhouse

overview: American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

character: Cal McGinnis (segment 'Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall')

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大卫·拉什

biography: 大卫·拉什（David Rasche，1944 年 8 月 7 日出生）是一位美国戏剧、电影和电视演员

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大衞·拉什

biography: 大衞·拉什（David Rasche，1944 年 8 月 7 日出生）是一位美國戲劇、電影和電視演員

Nederlands

biography: David Rasche (geboren 7 augustus 1944) is een Amerikaanse theater-, film- en televisieacteur die vooral bekend is van zijn vertolking van de titelrol in de satirische politieserie Sledge Hammer! uit de jaren 80. Sindsdien heeft hij vaak personages in gezagsposities gespeeld, zowel in serieuze als komische rollen. Op televisie is hij bekend van zijn hoofdrol als Karl Muller in de HBO-dramaserie Succession, evenals terugkerende en gastrollen in L.A. Law, Monk, The West Wing, Veep en Ugly Betty.

Polski

biography: David Rasche (ur. 7 sierpnia 1944) to amerykański aktor teatralny, filmowy i telewizyjny, znany przede wszystkim z roli tytułowej postaci w satyrycznym policyjnym sitcomie z lat 80. „Sledge Hammer!”. Od tamtej pory często wcielał się w role osób na stanowiskach kierowniczych, zarówno w rolach poważnych, jak i komicznych. W telewizji znany jest z głównej roli Karla Mullera w serialu HBO „Sukcesja”, a także z występów epizodycznych i gościnnych w serialach „Prawnicy z Los Angeles”, „Monk”, „Prezydencki poker”, „Veep” i „Brzydula Betty”.

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title: Flags of Our Fathers

overview: There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.

title: Pros & Cons

overview: Framed for crimes they didn't commit, two small-timers are headed up the river without a paddle. Now, the only thing that can bail them out is a case of mistaken identity. It's the hysterical prison comedy that's so funny, it's criminal!

title: Burn After Reading

overview: When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo, and those in their orbit.

title: The Big Tease

overview: Thinking he's competing in Los Angeles' hot Platinum Scissors contest, Scottish hairstylist Crawford leaves Glasgow with a film crew to capture the event. When he learns he's a mere audience member, Crawford must find a way to become the mane event.

title: Dead Weekend

overview: In the midst of an evacuation effort, True World Forces agent Weed must secure an alien spacecraft suspected to have crashed somewhere in the city. But after Weed meets the ship's beautiful, shape-shifting pilot, he finds himself falling for her. As the two grow close, Weed struggles to determine where his true loyalties lie.

title: That Old Feeling

overview: A bride's divorced parents find their old feelings for each other during the wedding reception and over the course of the next few days upsetting the newlywed's honeymoon.

title: Cobra

overview: A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.

title: Exposed

overview: As the presenter of tabloid news show 'Probe', Bob Smith stoops to new lows to expose stories at any cost. When covering the lives of three high-flying women vying for the 'Woman of Distinction' award in broadcasting, he hopes to break through the glossy facade and reveal secrets all three women strive to keep hidden...even if that means inventing a few secrets himself.

title: Men in Black 3

overview: Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him - secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.

title: Wicked Stepmother

overview: A pair of witches descend upon a family and wreak havoc. Now it's up to the family's matriarch, a private detective, and a suspended police officer to stop them.

title: An Innocent Man

overview: Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.

title: About My Father

overview: Encouraged by his girlfriend Ellie, Sebastian and his Italian immigrant father, Salvo, spend the 4th of July weekend with her wealthy and exceedingly eccentric family. The gathering soon develops into a culture clash, allowing father and son to discover the true meaning of family.

title: Made in Heaven

overview: Deceased drifter Mike arrives in Heaven and quickly falls for newborn soul Annie, soon to start her assignment on Earth. When Annie leaves, Mike follows.

title: Final Approach

overview: Ricky is a ten-year-old daydreamer and expert on his computer flight simulator program. While on a cross-country flight for a school field trip, Ricky gets the uneasy feeling that his plane is about to be hijacked!

title: The Girl in the Park

overview: A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from her ex-husband and son. However, when a troubled young woman with a checkered past enters her life, old psychic wounds painfully resurface, as does the illogical and increasingly irrational hope that the young woman may be the daughter she lost so long ago.

title: Bingo

overview: A dog named Bingo escapes a circus and befriends a young boy named Chuckie. When Chuckie’s family moves away and leaves Bingo behind, the brave canine sets off on a perilous cross-country trek to reunite with his friend, overcoming countless obstacles—including dangerous criminals and his own fear of fire.

title: Honky Tonk Freeway

overview: 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 to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by its Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.

title: Masters of Menace

overview: When one of their own dies, members of a motorcycle gang travel the country to take home the body of their recently deceased friend. The problem is, they must also outrun a pesky lawyer who is trying to bring the group to justice for breaking their probation.

title: Special Bulletin

overview: An evening of TV programming is interrupted by breaking news: in Charleston, South Carolina, two Coast Guard personnel and two members of a local news team have been taken hostage by a group of terrorists who are seeking to destroy the triggers of all local nuclear devices. Moreover, the terrorists threaten to detonate their own device if their demands are not met.

title: The L.A. Riot Spectacular

overview: The controversial satire The LA Riot Spectacular plays for mordent laughs the events that consumed L.A. in 1992, after the police officers on trial for beating motorist Rodney King were found innocent. The city was engulfed by a massive riot, but the film plays these moments for laughs. In addition to recreating some of the images seen on television, the film skewers a variety of figures including the police, the media, and the citizens of the city.

title: In the Loop

overview: The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.

title: Blue Eyes

overview: Before his compulsory retirement, on his last day of work, Marshall, JFK airport's chief Immigration officer, detains a group of Latin Americans and expose them to a series of humiliating situations. Blinded by prejudice, Marshall ends up by causing the death of a young Brazilian. After a period in prison, Marshall goes to Brazil, deadly ill and in a desperate search in order to purge his guilt. In his quest, he is guided by Bia, a young prostitute.

title: The Big Wedding

overview: To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long-divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative Catholic biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their past, present and future - and hopefully avoid killing each other in the process.

title: Something Short of Paradise

overview: A young couple in New York are having problems with their relationship.

title: Fighting Back

overview: An Italian deli owner forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks.

title: Petunia

overview: Brothers Charlie, Adrian and Michael try to unlearn everything their psychoanalyst parents have taught them about life, as their family unit teeters on the edge of a collapse.

title: Theater Camp

overview: After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless "crypto-bro" son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.

title: Remembrance

overview: Hannah, a young Jewish girl, is rescued from a concentration camp by her Polish boyfriend, and believes he died after their perilous escape. More than 30 years later, the married Hannah faces an emotional crisis when she learns he's alive.

title: The Settlement

overview: Swaggering, womanizing Jerry and his hen-pecked buddy Pat are in a bind: their clients aren't dying fast enough! They buy insurance policies from the terminally ill, and bet on them to kick the bucket on schedule. But their luck is about to change when they meet Barbara, who has a $2million policy and 3 months to live.

title: Kill Your Darlings

overview: A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

title: Revenge for Jolly!

overview: Harry is having a very, very bad day. He returns home from an all-night drinking binge with his cousin Cecil, to discover that his little dog Jolly...Harry's one true love and the source of light in his dark, solitary life-has been murdered. Brokenhearted and beyond consolation, he vows to track down the dog's murderer at any cost. Armed with a stockpile of firepower in the trunk of his car, he and Cecil embark on a frenzied, alcohol-fueled wild-goose chase, leaving a bloody path of destruction in their wake.

title: Teddy Bears' Picnic

overview: 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 communal vacation of a group of rich, white U.S. government and business leaders who drink and carouse to excess while plotting their next move on the global stage. His goal? To sell the embarrassing and incriminating footage to the media and expose the "leaders" for what they really are.

title: United 93

overview: A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

title: Silhouette

overview: An architect witnesses a brutal murder in a small Texas town.

title: Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester

overview: Attorney Bill McKenzie takes the case when his niece is framed for the murder of a popular and demanding sitcom star.

original_title: Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester

title: Lieberman in Love

overview: Joe Lieberman is attracted to Shaleen. They begin a professional relationship, which continues even after Joe develops a romantic interest in a woman named Kate, who is married.

title: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

overview: In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.

title: The Sentinel

overview: Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently framed as a mole in an assassination attempt on the President due to the machinations of a blackmailer who knows the secret he is hiding. Disgraced, dismissed, and now a fugitive with two relentless federal investigators hot on his heels, Garrison must both clear his name and save the president from assassination.

title: Crimes of the Past

overview: After Tommy Sparrow is severely wounded in a covert CIA operation, he comes home to discover his wife with another man. Tommy’s rage and wounds frighten his seven-year-old daughter Josephine. When Tommy’s wife tells him to leave and never come home, Tommy disappears back into the CIA, employing his skills as a spy to covertly watch his only daughter grow up.Twenty-five years later, Tommy Sparrow finally comes in from the cold – to retirement. Josephine is battling her own destructive nature and the damage done by the disappearance of her father. Tommy carries his scars both inside and out – and while his cold war operations never seem far behind, Tommy’s journey home will surpass any mission he ran with the Agency – because reuniting with Josephine and becoming her father may cost him his life.

title: Friends & Lovers

overview: Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. Meanwhile, David is gay and virginal; Ian's business partner, Keaton, is unhappy that his sister Jane is pregnant with no plans to tell the father; Lisa is everybody's pal and no one's lover; John, stuck in adolescence, is always on the make. He brings German-born stunner, Carla, and promptly loses her affection to Hans, a fast-talking ski instructor. David meets Manny: they have chess in common. Soon, surprises abound as relationships take new turns.

title: Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die

overview: The Harts find themselves in the middle of a dangerous murder plot, but it isn't clear if the plot it a famous author's fictional murder-mystery, or an actual murder plot, until Jonathan finds himself the unsuspecting target of a killer. It begins to look like the culprit behind the plot is an old friend, Frank Crane, but there may be a connection to a corporate takeover of Hart Industries as well.

title: Manhattan

overview: Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

title: A Million to Juan

overview: Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in 30 days. Initially he uses the check to convince people to extend credit to him. In the meantime he also attracts a woman who is in a dead end relationship with a bossy businessman. At the end of the 30 days, he finds his life in turmoil, the things he got on credit are repossessed, and he is being evicted from his dwelling and being sent back to Mexico.

title: Freedom

overview: Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave, Samuel Woodward and his family, escape from the Monroe Plantation near Richmond, Virginia. A secret network of ordinary people known as the Underground Railroad guide the family on their journey north to Canada. They are relentlessly pursued by the notorious slave hunter Plimpton. Hunted like a dog and haunted by the unthinkable suffering he and his forbears have endured, Samuel is forced to decide between revenge or freedom. 100 years earlier in 1748, John Newton the Captain of a slave trader sails from Africa with a cargo of slaves, bound for America. On board is Samuel's great grandfather whose survival is tied to the fate of Captain Newton. The voyage changes Newton's life forever and he creates a legacy that will inspire Samuel and the lives of millions for generations to come.

title: Best Defense

overview: An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.

title: The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck

overview: A shopkeeper is condemned by the police and the press for sleeping with a suspected terrorist.

title: Amira & Sam

overview: Sam, a soldier who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, meets Amira when he visits her uncle, Bassam, who had served as Sam's Iraqi translator. Bassam and Sam have a special bond due to their time together in the war. Initially Amira does not trust him because he was an American soldier and her brother was killed by a bomb from American troops in the war. Sam's cousin, Charlie, asks Sam to help him with illegal hedge funds unbeknownst to Sam at the time. Amira is staying with her uncle Bassam since her father died. She sells bootlegged films on the street corner but is forced to stay with Sam after getting busted; immigration officials begin pursuing her. As the film progresses, Sam and Amira fall in love.

title: Native Son

overview: In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.

title: Partners

overview: A junior partner in a law firm, finds out that the wife of a very important client is a former college sweetheart.

title: Just Tell Me What You Want

overview: A television producer woman tries to let down her overbearing boyfriend who is her boss. She wants to marry with a young writer.

title: Code Name: Foxfire

overview: Pilot for TV series released on home video.

title: Tourist Trap

overview: George Piper, dissatisfied with his dead-end job and longing for adventure, embarks on an RV trip with his family. Guided by an old Civil War diary, they retrace the footsteps of his great-grandfather.

title: Hard Time: Hostage Hotel

overview: A California congressman's wife and daughter are abducted and held hostage in a historic hotel. Logan McQueen is rushed to the scene to assist his former partner, Charlie Duffy, who has been taken captive trying to broker the ransom deal. McQueen must risk his life to face the cunning killer and save the hostages and his long-time friend.

title: Just Married

overview: Although Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney come from different worlds, they are both unexpectedly swept off their feet after their first meeting. They quickly fall in love and plan to get married, despite opposition from Sarah's uptight, rich family. After their wedding, the happy couple sets off - with the highest of hopes and ideals about love and marriage - on what they expect will be the perfect honeymoon in Italy. Thanks to a relentless string of bad luck with one disaster after another, and an impromptu visit from Sarah's wealthy one-time ex-lover Peter Prentiss, the newlyweds experience the honeymoon from hell that tests the limits of their young love.  Is it worth throwing away their love and marriage?

title: United 93: The Families and the Film

overview: A film interviewing the families of the heroes of United Flight 93, prior to the theatrical release of the feature film, United 93.

title: Delirious

overview: A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.

title: Sanctuary of Fear

overview: A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.

title: Barbarians at the Gate

overview: F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fail on account of market rumours.

title: Twenty Bucks

overview: A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.

title: Swallow

overview: Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.

title: Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter

overview: When Cody gets lost while exploring in the woods, he finds a friend in the legendary creature, Bigfoot.

title: The Good House

overview: When wry New England realtor Hildy Good rekindles a romance with her old high-school flame, Frank Getchell, it ignites long-buried emotions and family secrets that propel Hildy toward a reckoning with the one person she's been avoiding for decades: herself. Based on the best-selling novel by Ann Leary.

title: Peter and Vandy

overview: Flashbacks and flash-forwards illustrate the rise and fall of a love affair between two New Yorkers.

title: Out There

overview: 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 discovers some undeveloped film in it, including photos of an apparent alien abduction. When he goes public with the photos, he garners the attention of his former boss, the government and a woman who thinks her father was the abductee.

title: Father Figurine

overview: When the wealthy patriarch of a family dies, they discover an unusual request in his will.

title: Magic in the Water

overview: Radio psychologist Jack Black takes his children Joshua and Ashley on a 'vacation' to a lake in British Columbia. While he grinds away at work the children discover that the famous local lake monster "Orky" may not be just a gimmick to attract tourists after all. In fact, Orky may enable them to get closer to their workaholic dad, and help stop local polluters who are dumping toxic waste.

title: Wedding Band

overview: A couple who both work at wedding receptions encounter complications when they decide to marry.

title: Hellfire

overview: Following his performance, a televangelist returns to his dressing room to a visit from God; and she is a beautiful and very angry woman!

title: Off the Lip

overview: A young woman's life falls apart while filming a surfing documentary.

title: Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall

overview: An older widower accidentally stumbles into a lively, eccentric male dance class in a desolate mall, finding a new lease on life.

title: Paper Spiders

overview: A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.

title: The Discoverers

overview: Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch takes his begrudging teenagers Zoe and Jack on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career and reconnecting with his kids. But, when Lewis’s estranged father Stanley goes missing on a Lewis and Clark historical reenactment trek, Lewis is forced to make a family detour. The Birch family find themselves on a journey of discovery and connection as they make their own passage west.

title: Pie in the Sky

overview: A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.

title: An Unmarried Woman

overview: A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.

title: Finding the Burn

overview: A featurette about the making of Burn After Reading, featuring cast and crew interviews.

title: Secret Witness

overview: Fun turns serious for two kids  when an innocent  spying game forces them to do some real detective work.

title: The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich

overview: At the end of his life, Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist and experimental scientist searching for the fundamentals of life - finds himself on trial, charged with deception. His dream of liberating human individuality makes him a dangerous opponent of an American system that is striving after 1945 for global hegemony, using all available means. Was it madness to believe in man's liberty or was Reich simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and, being a holistic global thinker, accurately observing far-reaching socio-political linkages? Ten years after his mysterious death, his writings, once burnt by the US FDA, become an important source of inspiration for a '68 generation in revolt.  Written by Novotny & Novotny

title: A Trace of Murder

overview: While investigating a murder of a millionaire's business rival, Columbo becomes suspicious when a police forensics expert and the millionaire's wife let slip an in-depth knowledge of the case - and each other.

title: Elderwood

overview: Atticus is a reserved widower whose quiet routine is disrupted when a free‑spirited couple moves in next door, leading him into an unexpected late‑life coming‑of‑age.

title: Flags of Our Fathers

title: Pros & Cons

title: Burn After Reading

title: The Big Tease

title: Dead Weekend

title: That Old Feeling

title: Cobra

title: Exposed

title: Men in Black 3

title: Wicked Stepmother

title: An Innocent Man

title: About My Father

title: Made in Heaven

title: Final Approach

title: The Girl in the Park

title: Bingo

title: Honky Tonk Freeway

title: Masters of Menace

title: Special Bulletin

title: The L.A. Riot Spectacular

title: In the Loop

title: Blue Eyes

title: The Big Wedding

title: Something Short of Paradise

title: Fighting Back

title: Petunia

title: Theater Camp

title: Remembrance

title: The Settlement

title: Kill Your Darlings

title: Revenge for Jolly!

title: Teddy Bears' Picnic

title: United 93

title: Silhouette

title: Lieberman in Love

title: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

title: The Sentinel

title: Crimes of the Past

title: Friends & Lovers

title: Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die

title: Manhattan

title: A Million to Juan

title: Freedom

title: Best Defense

title: The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck

title: Amira & Sam

title: Native Son

title: Partners

title: Just Tell Me What You Want

title: Code Name: Foxfire

title: Tourist Trap

title: Hard Time: Hostage Hotel

title: Just Married

title: United 93: The Families and the Film

title: Delirious

title: Sanctuary of Fear

title: Barbarians at the Gate

title: Twenty Bucks

title: Swallow

title: Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter

title: The Good House

title: Peter and Vandy

title: Out There

title: Father Figurine

title: Magic in the Water

title: Wedding Band

title: Hellfire

title: Off the Lip

title: Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall

title: Paper Spiders

title: The Discoverers

title: Pie in the Sky

title: An Unmarried Woman

title: Finding the Burn

title: Secret Witness

title: The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich

title: A Trace of Murder

title: Elderwood