Arliss Howard

Arliss Howard

Date of Birth: 18 Oct 1954

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 30 (Actor), 1 (Director)

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    Big Bad Love
    Based on the acclaimed short-story collection by celebrated Mississippi writer Larry Brown, Big Bad Love is a tale of Viet Nam veteran Barlow (Howard) struggling to make fiction from his past, his dreams, and the dim sound of the future bearing down on him. (IFC Films)
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    Birth
    A metaphysical love story that explores the space between what we know and what we feel. Like many fairy tales, Birth is part romance, part mystery, and part family drama - woven into a magical whole about love, mortality and the unknown.
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    Full Metal Jacket
    The story of an 18-year-old marine recruit named Private Joker - from his carnage-and-machismo boot camp to his climactic involvement in the heavy fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive. [Warner Bros.]
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    The Lost World: Jurassic Park
    It has been four years since the disaster at Jurassic Park and two groups are in a race against time that will determine the fate of the remote island's prehistoric inhabitants.
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    A Map of the World
    School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting charges of child abuse. (imdb)
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    Dandelion
    In his feature debut, director/co-writer Mark Milgard delivers a powerfully authentic look at young love and a poetic exploration of how love - romantic, filial, platonic - frees and heals. (Ruth Pictures)
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    The Sandlot
    Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball... (imdb)
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    Tequila Sunrise
    Mac Mckussic is an unlikely drug dealer who wants to go straight. His old and best friend Nick Frescia is now a cop who is assigned to investigate and bring him to justice (imdb)
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    Johns
    It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A.... (imdb)
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    To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
    Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town. (imdb)
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    I Know My First Name Is Steven
    7-year old Steven Stayner is kidnapped a few days before Christmas by Reverend Kenneth Parnell. Under the belief that Parnell has been given legal custody of him, and that his family has moved away, he stays with Parnell for seven years, enduring repetitive sexual abuse the entire time. (imdb)
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    Ruby
    An exploration of certain conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination from Jack Ruby's perspective... (imdb)
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    Wilder Napalm
    Wilder and Wallace are brothers and pyrokinetics. Ever since childhood they've been able to start fires with their minds but following a tragedy in which they accidentally killed a man, the brothers have grown up very differently. Wilder has become a regular 9-5 workaday joe but Wallace performs his feats with a traveling circus. When the circus comes to Wilder's home town Wallace starts coming on strong to Wilder's wife, Vida who, ironically, is a slight pyromaniac. (imdb)
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    Awake
    While undergoing open heart surgery, a man's failed anesthetic leaves him completely alert, but paralyzed and unable to tell his doctors (imdb)
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    Men Don\
    A mother of two sons finds life considerably difficult on her own after the death of her beloved husband. Due to debt she must move them to Baltimore, and deal with the hardships and all that comes with the city life. (imdb)
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    You Know My Name
    Fact-based bio of early film director-producer, Bill Tilghman. Tighman was a real life cowboy, who rode with the Earps & faced down countless bad guys. When he turned to films, he was determined to make authentic Westerns, rather than the fake carrying on of Tom Mix & other Western movie stars of the day. The only problem was that no one wanted to see his non-stars in any story. Arliss Howard co-stars as a cocaine-addled law enforcement nemesis of Tighman, who attempts to stop him at every turn. (imdb)
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    The Time Traveler\
    A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian (Bana) with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage.
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    Those Secrets
    A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl. (imdb)
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    The Infiltrator
    A Jewish freelance journalist goes to Germany to write an article on neonazism, where he realizes that the roots of this movement go deeper than he thought.
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    Tales of Erotica
    A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings. (imdb)
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    The Lightship
    A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back. (imdb)
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    CrissCross
    Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out about her activities and tries to convince her to stop, to no avail. A local restaurant owner hires him to collect fish from a boat out in the bay, and the boy discovers that the restaurant owner is using the fish to bring drugs in to shore. He steals one load and goes about selling it so his mother can afford to quit her job. (imdb)
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    Plain Clothes
    To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with crushes, bullies, humiliations, popularity swings, and quirky teachers and staff to find the real murderer. (imdb)
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    The Lesser Evil
    Four old friends reunite when they become suspects in a double murder. The murders took place twenty years ago and the men covered it up and went on with their lives. The story weaves back and forth between the four men in the present day and their teenage selves twenty years ago. As the police investigation tightens around the four men, they turn on each other. Soon it becomes clear that one of the men will have to take the fall, or they will all go down for the crimes. (Wikipedia)
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    The Man Who Captured Eichmann
    The story of the 1960 hostile extraction of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, by the Mossad to Israeli justice. (imdb)
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    Last Flight Out
    Fact based story set in Saigon in April, 1975 shortly after the US combat troops have withdrawn and immediately before the Communist forces over run the city. American citizens try to help South Vietnamese refugees escape on the last commercial flight that will be permitted to leave the city.
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    Rubicon
    Rubicon (2010) - TV Series
    Will Travers is an analyst at a New York City-based federal intelligence agency who is thrown into a story where nothing is as it appears to be.
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    Mank
    Follows screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz's tumultuous development of Orson Welles' iconic masterpiece Citizen Kane (1941). (imdb)
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    Lapsis
    Struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother, delivery man Ray takes a strange job in a strange new realm of the gig economy. (imdb)
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    The Killer
    In the heart of a world shrouded in darkness, an enigmatic assassin known only as "The Killer" meticulously executes his assignments, leaving no trace of his deadly presence. His life is one of precision, solitude, and detachment, his mind a fortress impenetrable to emotions. However, when a carefully orchestrated hit goes awry, The Killer's carefully constructed world begins to crumble.
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