Philip Baker Hall

biography:
Philip Baker Hall (September 10, 1931 – June 12, 2022) was an American actor. Although known primarily as a prolific character actor, he starred in leading roles on films, such as Secret Honor, Hard Eight and Duck. Other films in supporting roles including Say Anything..., Boogie Nights, The Truman Show, Magnolia, The Contender, Zodiac and Argo.

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Falcon Crest

overview:
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced.

The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.

character: Ed Meyers

original_name: Falcon Crest

Pasadena

overview: Lily McAllister has lived a charmed life as part of the most powerful family in the upscale Southern California enclave of Pasadena. All that changes, however, when a murder and coverup in her own mansion thrusts Lily into a search to unlock her family's long-buried secrets.

character: George Reese Greeley

original_name: Pasadena

Family Ties

overview: Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.

character: Dr. Harrison

original_name: Family Ties

Hardcastle and McCormick

overview: Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The series stars Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick. The series premise was somewhat recycled from a previous Cannell series, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe.

original_name: Hardcastle and McCormick

Good Times

overview:
Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, which is itself a spin-off of All in the Family along with The Jeffersons.

The series is set in Chicago. The first two seasons were taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood. In the fall of 1975, the show moved to Metromedia Square, where Norman Lear's own production company was housed.

original_name: Good Times

Seinfeld

overview: A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.

character: Lt. Joe Bookman

original_name: Seinfeld

M*A*S*H

overview: The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.

original_name: M*A*S*H

Modern Family

overview: The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.

character: Walt Kleezak

original_name: Modern Family

Psych

overview:
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved.

Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.

character: Irving Parker

original_name: Psych

T. J. Hooker

overview: Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recruits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.

character: Judge Wallace

original_name: T. J. Hooker

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: Salvatore Lucarelli

original_name: Monk

Matlock

overview: Thrifty, folksy and cantankerous, Matlock charges a premium for his services but is worth every penny: This renowned attorney, always clothed in his trademark light-gray suit and driving his signature Ford Crown Victoria, has an uncanny knack for finding overlooked clues and exposing murderers in dramatic courtroom scenes.

character: Judge

original_name: Matlock

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: Judge Delaporte

original_name: Miami Vice

The Loop

overview: The Loop is an American sitcom that ran from March 15, 2006 to July 1, 2007 on Fox. The show starred Bret Harrison as Sam Sullivan, a young professional trying to balance the needs of his social life with the pressures of working at the corporate headquarters of TransAlliance Airways, a major U.S. airline. Set in the city of Chicago, whose downtown loop area acted as the setting for most of the show. The show's theme song is "Hockey Monkey" by James Kochalka Superstar and the Zambonis.

character: Russ McDonald

original_name: The Loop

Everwood

overview: After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but resentful 15-year-old son Ephram and his 9-year-old daughter Delia.

character: Dr. Donald Douglas

original_name: Everwood

Quincy, M.E.

overview: Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

original_name: Quincy, M.E.

Room 104

overview: An anthology series set in a single hotel room, where every guest who comes to stay reveals a unique set of circumstances and quirks.

character: Charlie

original_name: Room 104

Without a Trace

overview: The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.

character: Noah Ridder

original_name: Without a Trace

The Practice

overview: A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”

character: Judge Joseph Vinocour

original_name: The Practice

Cagney & Lacey

overview: Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.

character: Lt. Sweeny

original_name: Cagney & Lacey

Millennium

overview: A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.

character: Group Elder

original_name: Millennium

origin_country: CA US

Chicago Hope

overview: Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois.

character: Mr. Wellington

original_name: Chicago Hope

Boston Legal

overview: Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.

character: Ernie Dell

original_name: Boston Legal

Life's Work

overview:
Life's Work is an American situation comedy series that aired from September 1996 to June 1997 on the ABC channel; the show stars Lisa Ann Walter as Lisa Ann Minardi Hunter, an assistant district attorney in Baltimore.

Lisa Ann always wanted to practice law since she was young because she always argued with her parents. She also had a basketball coach husband named Kevin Hunter who served as the patriarch of the family. Together, they raised a 7-year-old daughter Tess and a toddler son named Griffin. During the entire run of the series, a simple electric guitar instrumental solo was used as the show's opening theme. Laugh tracks were used in all episodes in the sitcom as it was filmed "live before a studio audience."

During the 1990s, it was common to give stand-up comedians their own sitcom on TV; even if their first one had flopped. Lisa Ann Walter was a stand-up comedian who played a mouthy feminist who could stand up to her mother in addition to her superiors at work. While Lisa Ann's character had plenty of zingers to her, there was still a sense of "been-there-done-that" with her character.

In one of the episodes, Lisa Ann claimed to have a sexual affair with then-current American President Bill Clinton.

original_name: Life's Work

Michael Hayes

overview: Former cop Michael Hayes is appointed U.S. Attorney in New York, where he prosecutes high-profile cases while dealing with crime, corruption, and political pressure.

character: William Vaughn

original_name: Michael Hayes

True Jackson, VP

overview: A 15-year-old fashionista lands the opportunity of a lifetime when the CEO of Mad Style hires her as the vice president of its youth apparel division.

character: Mr. Jenkins

original_name: True Jackson, VP

Baby Blues

overview: An animated television series based on the Baby Blues comic strip.

original_name: Baby Blues

Mariah

overview: Short-lived US drama series about the prison staff at Mariah State Penitentiary, that aired mid-season 1987 on ABC.

character: James Malone

original_name: Mariah

The Fitzpatricks

overview: The Fitzpatricks is an American drama series which ran on CBS during the 1977–78 season. The series aired from September 5th, 1977 to January 10th, 1978. This show lasted only thirteen episodes, and was cancelled in 1978.

character: Bertram

original_name: The Fitzpatricks

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: Senator Matt Hunt

original_name: The West Wing

Curb Your Enthusiasm

overview: The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

character: Dr. Morrison

original_name: Curb Your Enthusiasm

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: Ned Johanssen

original_name: Big Love

Childrens Hospital

overview: A hospital isn't a place for lazy people. It's a place for smart people who take care of people who aren't smart enough to keep themselves healthy. So begins Children's Hospital, a parody series that follows the lives, loves and laughs of a hospital staff.

character: Dr. Joseph Mengele

original_name: Childrens Hospital

Emergency!

overview: The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and Rampart Hospital respond to emergencies in their operating area.

character: Dr. Scott

original_name: Emergency!

origin_country: US GB

Quincy, M.E.

character: Dep. DA Marty Shell

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.

Madman of the People

overview:
Madman of the People is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1994 to 1995. It was scheduled in the Thursday 9:30 timeslot, part of Must See TV.

Madman of the People was produced by Kreiscluesco Industries/Spelling Television.

Ruth & Erica

overview: A woman struggles with her mother's reluctance to make the life changes necessary in light of her increasing frailty.

The John Larroquette Show

overview: The John Larroquette Show is an American television sitcom .The show was a vehicle for John Larroquette following his run as Dan Fielding on Night Court. The series takes place in a seedy bus terminal in St. Louis, Missouri and originally focused on the somewhat broken people who worked the night shift, and in particular, the lead character's battle with alcoholism.

Hardball

overview: Hardball is an American baseball sitcom that aired on the Fox Network on Sunday nights from September 4, 1994 to October 23, 1994. Ironically the series premiered in the middle of the 1994-95 Major League Baseball strike and was canceled around the time that the year's World Series would have been played.

3rd Rock from the Sun

overview: The high commander of an alien expedition lands on Earth -- what he considers to be the least-important planet -- in human form as Dick Solomon. Along for the ride are his alien compatriots Harry, Sally and Tommy -- who is the eldest of the group but is now angrily trapped in a teen's body.

BoJack Horseman

overview: Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not quite gold...but something like gold. Copper?

The Newsroom

overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.

Bob

overview: Bob McKay is the creator of the 1950s comic book superhero "Mad-Dog". When a Senate sub-committee decided such reading material could corrupt young readers, Mad-Dog faded into oblivion, and Bob became a greeting card artist. Years later the American-Canadian Trans-Continental Communications Company buys the rights to the series, and Bob is offered a chance to revive Mad-Dog.

Cheers

overview: The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.

Murder, She Wrote

overview: An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

The Good Life

overview:
The Good Life is an American sitcom which aired on NBC in early 1994. It starred John Caponera and Drew Carey.

Other members of the cast included Eve Gordon, Jake Patellis, Shay Astar, Justin Berfield and Monty Hoffman.

The show revolved around Caponera's character and featured both his home life and the lock company where he served as a middle manager. It was set in Chicago.

Thirteen episodes were produced and aired before the sitcom's cancellation in May 1994.

Messiah

overview: A wary CIA officer investigates a charismatic man who sparks a spiritual movement and stirs political unrest. Who exactly is he? And what does he want?

Second Chance

overview: A disgraced, 75-year-old ex-sheriff, whose life ends at the hands of corrupt cops, is brought back to life and given a second chance by a pair of young tech scientists, as a 35-year-old with unpredictable near-superhuman abilities.

L.A. Doctors

overview: Four Los Angeles doctors run a practice in this drama that focuses as much on the problems in the American medical system as it does on the patients.

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.

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

overview: Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot.

Civil Wars

overview: Civil Wars is an American legal drama that aired on ABC from November 1991 to March 1993. The series was produced by Steven Bochco, known for his work on NYPD Blue, L.A. Law and Hill Street Blues. After a brief syndicated run on the FX Network in the mid 90s, the series has not aired since.

Corporate

overview: A dark, edgy look at life as a Junior-Executive-in-Training at your average, soulless multinational corporation. Matt and Jake are at the mercy of a tyrannical CEO and his top lieutenants while navigating an ever-revolving series of disasters. Their only ally is Human Resources rep Grace.

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biography: Philip Baker Hall (Toledo, 10 de Setembro de 1931 – Glendale, 12 de junho de 2022) foi um ator norte-americano. Hall fez mais de 140 participações entre filmes e programas de TV, como o protagonista em Hard Eight e seus trabalhos como coadjuvante em Magnólia, Boogie Nights, Bruce Almighty e The Insider. Philip Baker Hall nasceu em Toledo, Ohio. Filho de Alice Birdene (Nêe McDonald) e William Alexander Hall um operário de fabrica que nasceu em Montgomery no Alabama. Se mudou para Nova York em 1960, quando decidiu se tornar ator. Residiu em Los Angeles, Califórnia com sua esposa Holly e suas duas filhas, Adella e Anna.

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菲利普·贝克·霍尔

biography: 菲利普·贝克·霍尔（1931 年 9 月 10 日 - 2022 年 6 月 12 日）是美国演员。虽然他主要以多产的角色演员而闻名，但他在电影中出演了主角，如《秘密荣誉》、《硬八》和《鸭子》。其他配角电影包括《Say Anything...》、《Boogie Nights》、《The Truman Show》、《Magnolia》、《The Contender》、《Zodiac》和《Argo》。

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菲力·比加·賀爾

biography: 菲力·比加·賀爾（Philip Baker Hall，1931 年 9 月 10 日 - 2022 年 6 月 12 日）是美國演員。雖然他主要以多產的角色演員而聞名，但他在電影中出演了主角，如《秘密榮譽》（Secret Honor）（1984 年）、《Hard Eight》（1996 年）和《Duck》（2005 年）。其他配角電影包括《愛情物語》（Say Anything. . . ）（1989 年）、《一舉成名》（Boogie Nights）（1997 年）、《真人 Show》（The Truman Show）（1998 年）、《人生交叉剔》（Magnolia）（1999 年）、《挑撥性醜聞》（The Contender）（2000 年）、《殺謎藏》（Zodiac）（2007 年）和《ARGO – 救參任務》（Argo）（2012 年）。

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Філіп Бейкер Голл

biography:
Філіп Бейкер Голл (10 вересня 1931 — 12 червня 2022) — американський актор, чия кар'єра в кіно і на телебаченні охопила кілька десятиліть. Майстер глибоких другорядних ролей, він залишив по собі вагомий слід у світі кіномистецтва завдяки здатності навіть у кількох сценах створювати незабутні, психологічно насичені образи.

Попри те, що його найчастіше згадують як актора другого плану, Голл також мав у своєму доробку блискучі головні ролі. Зокрема, у політичному монодраматичному трилері Таємна честь (Secret Honor), стриманій кримінальній драмі Жорстока вісімка (Hard Eight) та сатиричній стрічці Качка (Duck), де розкрив увесь спектр своїх драматичних можливостей.

Серед найвідоміших фільмів, у яких він з’явився у другорядних, але влучних і пам’ятних ролях, — Скажи щось… (Say Anything...), Ночі в стилі бугі (Boogie Nights), Шоу Трумана (The Truman Show), Магнолія (Magnolia), Претендент (The Contender), Зодіак (Zodiac) та Арго (Argo).

Філіп Бейкер Голл залишив після себе спадщину витонченого акторського мистецтва — мовчазну глибину, інтелектуальну присутність і здатність вкладати цілу історію в кожен погляд, кожен жест. Його внесок у світ кіно — це тиха, але потужна велич.

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Phillip Hall
Phil Hall
Phillip Baker Hall

title: Bruce Almighty

overview: Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God — and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.

title: Magnolia

overview: On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.

title: The Talented Mr. Ripley

overview: Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.

title: Dogville

overview: A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

title: Rush Hour

overview: When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.

title: The Amityville Horror

overview: George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

title: The Shaggy Dog

overview: The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.

title: In Good Company

overview: Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.

title: Lost Souls

overview: A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected New York crime journalist, who is devoid of faith, that he is in fact the target of the conspiracy.

title: Throw Out the Anchor

overview: A comedy about an unemployed widower who heads to Florida with his children for a vacation on a houseboat. When he gets there there is no houseboat

title: Rules of Engagement

overview: A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen.

title: The Sum of All Fears

overview: When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.

title: Boogie Nights

overview: In 1977, an idealistic porn producer and his promising protege try to catch up with the end of an era before their never-ending party collides with cold, hard reality.

title: Rush Hour 3

overview: After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to retrieve a precious list of names, as the murderous crime syndicate's henchmen try their best to stop them. Once more, Lee and Carter must fight their way through dangerous gangsters; however, this time, the past has come back to haunt Lee. Will the boys get the job done once and for all?

title: Path to War

overview: A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from inside the LBJ White House leading up to and during the Vietnam War.

title: Hard Eight

overview: A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

title: You Kill Me

overview: While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.

title: The Insider

overview: A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

title: A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story

overview: Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help. When he brutally beats her and slashes her throat in front of police, she sues the city and the police department for failing to protect her.

original_title: A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story

title: The Matador

overview: The life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory when he wanders into a Mexican bar and meets a mysterious stranger, Julian, who's very likely a hit man. Their meeting sets off a chain of events that will change their lives forever, as Wright is suddenly thrust into a far-from-mundane existence that he takes to surprisingly well … once he gets acclimated to it.

title: Three O'Clock High

overview: Nerdy high schooler Jerry Mitchell is assigned to write an article for the school paper about the infamous new delinquent transfer student, Buddy Revell. When Jerry accidentally invades Buddy's personal space and touches him, Buddy challenges Jerry to an afterschool fight in the parking lot, which Jerry tries to avoid at all costs.

title: How I Got Into College

overview: High school senior Marlon Bowne is smitten with overachieving classmate Jessica Kailo. But, if he wants to have a shot with her, he'll have to find a way to get into Ramsey College, Jessica's top choice of schools. It won't be easy, since the college is highly selective and Marlon's grades are hardly impressive. That means the lovelorn teen will have to find a way to score high on the SATs and win over the college admissions committee.

title: 50/50

overview: Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

title: Nothing in Common

overview: A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.

character: Colonial Airlines Executive (uncredited)

title: The Lodger

overview: Follows a seasoned detective on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper – a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, the detective soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer incarcerated years ago. Could the wrong man be behind bars?

title: Without Warning

overview: A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the United States, France and China. At first it seems natural but after interviews by scientists and eyewitness seems to suggest that it is not. Three more meteors are coming and the various Earth governments combine forces to stop them.

title: Judas Kiss

overview: The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.

title: Die, Mommie, Die!

overview: Angela Arden is a washed up, has-been singing star who is trapped in a hateful marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. In an attempt to escape her marriage so that she can be with a hunky layabout, she poisons her husband. However, Angela's manipulative daughter, gay son and alcoholic maid are not going to make it easy for her.

title: Bending The Rules

overview: Detective Nick Blades is a New Orleans cop on trial for corruption. Assistant District Attorney Theo Gold is the man in charge of putting him behind bars. When these two unlikely partners from opposite sides of the law stumble onto a criminal plot, they’ll need to rely on luck – and patience – to take down a dangerous killer without killing each other first.

title: All Good Things

overview: Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.

title: The Man with Bogart's Face

overview: In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much that he has his features altered to look exactly like him and then opens up a detective agency under the name Sam Marlow.

title: Coma

overview: When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.

title: M.A.N.T.I.S.

overview: A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System (M.A.N.T.I.S.) that turns him into a superhero and gives him the ability to fight the crime wave that is engulfing his city.

title: Fired Up!

overview: Popular high schoolers and best friends Shawn and Nick decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.

title: Hit Me

overview: A bellhop living with his mentally impaired brother becomes involved with an unbalanced woman and a scheme to steal guests' valuables.

title: The TV Set

overview: As a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development, his vision is slowly eroded by a domineering network executive named Lenny who favors trashy reality programming. The irony, of course, is that every crass suggestion Lenny makes improves the show's response from test audiences and brings the show a step closer to getting on the air.

title: A Gentleman's Game

overview: A drama revolving around characters whose lives are transformed one summer at an exclusive East Coast country club.

title: Secret Honor

overview: In his New Jersey study, Richard Nixon retraces the missteps of his political career, attempting to absolve himself of responsibility for Watergate and lambasting President Gerald Ford's decision to pardon him. His monologue explores his personal life and describes his upbringing and his mother. A tape recorder, a gun and whiskey are his only companions during his entire monologue, which is tinged with the vitriol and paranoia that puzzled the public during his presidency.

title: Stormy Weathers

overview: Shepherd is the detective hired by an aristocratic Italian to locate a relative and thereby solve an ancient inheritance problem. As she sinks into the case, however, she finds out that there is much more to the case.

title: Blue Desert

overview: After surviving rape, comic-book artist Lisa Roberts moves from New York City to small town in Arizona. But there's danger in small towns too.

title: Let the Devil Wear Black

overview: A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.

title: Mr. Popper's Penguins

overview: Tom Popper is a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things in life...until he inherits six “adorable” penguins, each with its own unique personality. Soon Tom’s rambunctious roommates turn his swank New York apartment into a snowy winter wonderland — and the rest of his world upside-down.

title: The Last Reunion

overview: Several members of a platoon of American soldiers not only kill a Japanese general, but also rape and murder the man's wife. The couple's son, Kimon, witnesses these ghastly events and vows revenge. Thirty-three years later the platoon get back together in Manila for a reunion. The adult Kimon also shows up to pick off the platoon members who are responsible for butchering his parents.

title: Ghostbusters II

overview: The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

title: Cigarettes & Coffee

overview: At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut feature Hard Eight (1996).

title: The Hostage Heart

overview: When billionaire industrialist goes into a hospital for a heart operation, some people who claim to be revolutionaries enter the operating room and draw guns and holds the man and the entire surgical staff hostage. They then demand 10 million dollars. The administrator calls the police and the FBI. The police claim jurisdiction over the matter and the man in charge is intent on taking them even if some of the hostages get killed. Eventually they learn that some of the people in hospital are with them.

title: Dog Eat Dog

overview: When Oliver becomes obsessed with a dog at the pound, he finds himself in a desperate rivalry with an unexpected stranger.

title: Argo

overview: As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

character: CIA Director Stansfield Turner (uncredited)

title: Clear History

overview: Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He plots revenge when his former business partner moves to the same town.

title: The Chicago 8

overview: Based on actual court transcripts of 8 anti-war protesters on trial for conspiring to cause riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

title: Implicated

overview: In this offbeat thriller, Ann is a young woman trying to put her life back together after she lost her child in a car wreck. Formerly a single mother, Ann has recently started dating a man named Tom, and one day Tom asks Ann for a favor -- would she be willing to baby sit for his boss' daughter? Ann agrees, and she soon finds herself becoming quite fond of the little girl. However, before long, Ann discovers Tom has something less than honest up his sleeve

title: Bad Words

overview: Forty-year-old misanthrope, Guy Trilby, enters the National Golden Quill Spelling Bee through a loophole in the rules.

title: Dream on!

overview: Dream On! takes real risks with cinema as form...manifesting a kind of narrative-collage. The film's action follows a group of young actors as they struggle to survive in L.A. and hang on to their artistic principles.

title: The Night the Bridge Fell Down

overview: A group of random individuals get stranded on a bridge that begins collapsing at both ends. Not only that, but there's a gun-wielding bank robber using the bridge as his means of escape refusing to let any of the rescuers draw near the survivors. Time is running out ...

title: Eye for an Eye

overview: It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.

title: Showing Up

overview: An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Griffiths, Zoe Kazan, Nathan Lane, Chris Messina, Sam Rockwell and Eli Wallach.

title: This House Possessed

overview: A sinister force permeating a secluded mountain estate convinces the nurse/companion of rock star Parker Stevenson, who has had a nervous collapse, that the house is alive and determined to keep her prisoner.

title: Kiss of Death

overview: Jimmy Kilmartin's an ex-con who's trying to go straight. But he can't say no to a quick driving job because his so-called friend's life is threatened. The job is for Little Junior Brown, a violent and powerful villain. When things go wrong, Jimmy is left to do the time, and his whole life is turned upside-down, but if that wasn't enough, the cops won't leave Jimmy alone when he gets out... They want Little Junior Brown.

title: The Spirit

overview: A legally dead police detective decides to battle crime as a masked superhero.

title: Say Anything...

overview: Average student and eternal optimist Lloyd Dobler seeks to capture the heart of Diane Court, a beautiful but unattainable valedictorian classmate. He surprises just about everyone - including himself - when she returns the sentiment. However, Diane's divorced, over-protective father soon begins to disapprove of the match, and Lloyd realises that it's going to take more than just the power of love to conquer all.

title: Kill Me If You Can

overview: The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.

title: Psycho

overview: A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

title: The Little Death

overview: A photographer obsessed with a wealthy man's beautiful wife kills her jealous husband in self-defense. The deceased man's down-and-out musician son soon is drawn in by his sexy stepmother who, unbeknownst to him, is scheming to collect the entire estate.

title: Terror Out of the Sky

overview: TV sequel to "The Savage Bees" featuring more rampaging insects. This time a marching band and a school bus get in the path of the bees.

title: The Contender

overview: The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. When Senator Laine Hanson is nominated as the first woman in history to hold the office, hidden agendas explode into a battle for power.

title: Altman

overview: Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution of his art form, but also on the western zeitgeist. With its use of rare interviews, representative film clips, archival images, and musings from his family and most recognizable collaborators, Altman is a dynamic and heartfelt mediation on an artist whose expression, passion and appetite knew few bounds.

title: Mrs. Harris

overview: Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris.

title: Witness to the Mob

overview: Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino crime family. However, betrayals within the family saw him break the code of silence and became the highest ranking member of the mob to turn into a rat - 'a rat in a suit,- assisting the government to finally put away the Teflon Don, John Gotti.

title: Zodiac

overview: Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder.

title: Midnight Run

overview: A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.

title: Games Mother Never Taught You

overview: Hard-working career wife Laura becomes the first female executive in an all-male office and is dismayed to find she now has to learn the rules of the corporate game.

title: Playing It Cool

overview: A young man meets and instantly falls in love with an engaged woman.

title: Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

title: Sour Grapes

overview: The bond between cousins is tested when one wins a fortune with the other's money at Atlantic City.

title: Duck

overview: An aging widower and a duck encounter helpful and hostile characters as they search for a place and a reason to live.

title: Cradle Will Rock

overview: A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

title: Person to Person

overview: Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.

title: The Last Word

overview: A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.

title: Air Force One

overview: When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

title: People Like Us

overview: After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son.

title: Love-In '72

overview: A man must decide whether to flee the U.S. draft and go to Canada or stay or go fight for his country in Vietnam.

title: Psycho Path

overview: Documentary on the making of Gus Van Sant's "Psycho." Featured at the Berlin Film Festival, 2000.

title: Goddess of Love

overview: The god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love.

title: A House on a Hill

overview: A once-successful architect (Philip Baker Hall) has become a grumpy loner, but a young couple plead with him to come out of retirement to rebuild his crumbling old house for them.

title: Roswell

overview: Based on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher's field in July of 1947. Told by his superiors that what he has found is nothing more than a downed weather balloon, Marcel maintains his military duty until the weight of the truth, however out of this world it may be, forces him to piece together what really occurred.

title: Who Is Julia?

overview: A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful womans brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Janes husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful womans husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.

title: Live Wire

overview: Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within the human body.

title: Incident at Dark River

overview: When Tim McFall's young daughter dies as the result of toxic waste dumped in the local river, he tries to shut down the company and everybody turns against him. In his fight he is joined by a beautiful student activist, and soon his obsession with revenge threatens his marriage as well as his career.

title: The Truman Show

overview: In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.

title: The Last Survivors

overview: When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.

title: Zabriskie Point

overview: Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.

title: Islander

overview: After a tragic accident at sea, Eben Cole loses his family, friends and stature in his island fishing community. He returns to the island an outcast but determined to win back the way of life he fought so hard to protect. Set against the stunning backdrop of the Maine coast, Islander captures the grit and integrity of this hard working community and celebrates man's unerring need for redemption.

title: Samurai

overview: Lee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.

title: That Moment: Magnolia Diary

overview: A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through a gruelling 80+ days of shooting for the film Magnolia (1999), containing behind-the-scenes footage and interviews.

title: Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

overview: Authentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an emergency landing at Sioux City Gateway Airport on July 19, 1989. 184 people survived, partly thanks to the ground rescue workers who had 40 minutes to prepare for the event

title: Tempting Fate

overview: Ben Creed, a doctor still mourning the death of his love, meets a man who's created a machine that can transport anyone to a parallel world. For a chance to see his beloved Melody again, Ben risks everything and uses the machine. In this new—at once familiar and foreign—world, Ben meets an alternate Melody, but after he explains himself, she's uninterested in returning to his dimension.

title: Dear Chickens

overview: When a stubborn old man and a fretful teenaged girl are forced to share a hospital room, an unexpected friendship forms over their hatred of fake cheerfulness and bad hospital food.

title: The Zodiac

overview: An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.

title: A Buck's Worth

overview: Gun in hand, a homeless man requests a dollar.

title: Wonderful World

overview: Ben Singer is a failed children's folk singer, a career proofreader, a less-than-extraordinary weekend dad, and perhaps the most negative man alive. Floundering in all aspects of his life, Ben's only comfort comes from regular chess games and friendly debates on game theory with his Senegalese roommate Ibou. When Ibou is suddenly struck ill, Ben's pessimistic worldview seems unequivocally confirmed. It takes an extended visit from Ibou's sister Khadi for Ben to realize that cynicism may be all a matter of perspective.

title: Buddy

overview: An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.

title: The Rock

overview: When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

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: Enemy of the State

overview: When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean, he is framed for the murder. With the help of the mysterious Brill, Dean attempts to throw the NSA off his trail and prove his innocence.

title: Mayday at 40,000 Feet

overview: The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne after a marshal onboard, transporting a murderer to prison, has a heart attack and the killer uses his gun to shoot the captain and blow out the hydraulics.

title: Altman on His Own Terms

overview: A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. The genius director who shook the cinema industry with countless films examines some of his most important works, along with friends and regular collaborators.

title: Bruce Almighty

title: Magnolia

title: The Talented Mr. Ripley

title: Dogville

title: Rush Hour

title: The Amityville Horror

title: The Shaggy Dog

title: In Good Company

title: Lost Souls

title: Throw Out the Anchor

title: Rules of Engagement

title: The Sum of All Fears

title: Boogie Nights

title: Rush Hour 3

title: Path to War

title: Hard Eight

title: You Kill Me

title: The Insider

title: The Matador

title: Three O'Clock High

title: How I Got Into College

title: 50/50

title: Nothing in Common

title: The Lodger

title: Without Warning

title: Judas Kiss

title: Die, Mommie, Die!

title: Bending The Rules

title: All Good Things

title: The Man with Bogart's Face

title: Coma

title: M.A.N.T.I.S.

title: Fired Up!

title: Hit Me

title: The TV Set

title: A Gentleman's Game

title: Secret Honor

title: Stormy Weathers

title: Blue Desert

title: Let the Devil Wear Black

title: Mr. Popper's Penguins

title: The Last Reunion

title: Ghostbusters II

title: Cigarettes & Coffee

title: The Hostage Heart

title: Dog Eat Dog

title: Argo

title: Clear History

title: The Chicago 8

title: Implicated

title: Bad Words

title: Dream on!

title: The Night the Bridge Fell Down

title: Eye for an Eye

title: Showing Up

title: This House Possessed

title: Kiss of Death

title: The Spirit

title: Say Anything...

title: Kill Me If You Can

title: Psycho

title: The Little Death

title: Terror Out of the Sky

title: The Contender

title: Altman

title: Mrs. Harris

title: Witness to the Mob

title: Zodiac

title: Midnight Run

title: Games Mother Never Taught You

title: Playing It Cool

title: Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

title: Sour Grapes

title: Duck

title: Cradle Will Rock

title: Person to Person

title: The Last Word

title: Air Force One

title: People Like Us

title: Love-In '72

title: Psycho Path

title: Goddess of Love

title: A House on a Hill

title: Roswell

title: Who Is Julia?

title: Live Wire

title: Incident at Dark River

title: The Truman Show

title: The Last Survivors

title: Zabriskie Point

title: Islander

title: Samurai

title: That Moment: Magnolia Diary

title: Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

title: Tempting Fate

title: Dear Chickens

title: The Zodiac

title: A Buck's Worth

title: Wonderful World

title: Buddy

title: The Rock

title: An Innocent Man

title: Enemy of the State

title: Mayday at 40,000 Feet

title: Altman on His Own Terms