Dan Hedaya

Dan Hedaya

Date of Birth: 24 Jul 1940

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 59 (Actor)

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    Alien: Resurrection
    Ellen Ripley (Weaver) died fighting the perfect predator. Two hundred years and eight horrific experiments later, she's back. A group of scientists has cloned her-along with the alien queen inside her-hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the resurrected Ripley must team up with a band of smugglers, including a mechanic named Call (Ryder), who holds more than a few surprises of her own. (20th Century Fox)
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    Blood Simple
    A bar-owner in Texas is certain that his wife is cheating on him and hires a private detective to spy on her. This is just the beginning of a complex plot which is full of misunderstandings and deceit. Ethan and Joel Coen's first feature film. (imdb)
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    Clueless
    It's not easy being the most popular and glamorous girl at Beverly Hills High. Especially when you're the envy of scheming Betties (female babes), persistent Barney's (unattractive guys), loser loadies (potheads), and teachers who go postal (freak out) when you turn your homework in late! Yet somehow 15-year-old Cher (Silverstone) keeps it all together, even fining time for extracurricular projects like finding a love match for her debate class teacher... (Paramount)
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    The Crew
    Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home. (imdb)
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    Dick
    After taking a wrong turn on a White House tour, teens Betsy Jobs (Dunst) and Arlene Lorenzo (Williams) stumble across a room packed full of presidential secrets. To find out exactly what the girls know, "Tricky Dick" Nixon (Hedaya) himself appoints them as official White House dog walkers. Suddenly and accidentally, the two girls are swept up in the political intrigue of the world's most famous break-in: Watergate. (Columbia Tristar)
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    The Hurricane
    This film tells the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, an African-American man who rose above his troubled youth to become a top contender for the middle-weight boxing title. However, his dreams are shattered when he is accused of a triple murder, and is convicted to three natural-life terms. Despite becoming a cause celebre and his dogged efforts to prove his innocence through his autobiography, the years of fruitless efforts have left him discouraged... (imdb)
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    A Life Less Ordinary
    Ewan McGregor stars as a cleaning man in L.A. who takes his boss's daughter hostage after being fired and replaced by a robot. Two "angels" who are in charge of human relationships on earth, offer some unsolicited help to bring this unlikely couple together. The "angels" are so successful that the daughter soon turns on her father in order to save her captor. (imdb)
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    Mulholland Drive
    In this complex tale of suspense, set in the unreal universe of Los Angeles, writer/director David Lynch explores the city's schizophrenic nature, an uneasy blend of innocence and corruption, love and loneliness, beauty and depravity. (Universal Focus)
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    New Suit
    In the tradition of "The Player" and "Swimming with Sharks" comes this biting comedy about Hollywood and the sycophants and schemers that feul its increasingly vacuous ideas. (Trillion Entertainment)
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    A Night at the Roxbury
    Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan play the Roxbury Guys, Steve and Doug Butabi, who want to get into the best club in town, and also hope to open their own club. Elisa Donovan plays Vivica, a gold-digging supermodel. Vivica and her friend Cambi (Gigi Rice) try to work the Roxbury Guys for their money, only to find out the pair is broke. (imdb)
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    Shaft
    New York City police detective John Shaft goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder.
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    Swimfan
    Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and an appointment with swim scouts from Stanford. It's not easy; Ben must train for countless hours in the pool for a critical swim meet, work at the local hospital and find quality time with his high school sweetheart, Amy. His wonderful life is disrupted by the arrival of Madison Bell. The new girl in town quickly sets her sights on the impressionable Ben. While their first few meetings are innocent enough, the seductive Madison wants more. (imdb)
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    To Die For
    Structured in a documentary style, the film focuses on the life of a woman (Kidman) obsessed with the dream of becoming a media personality. (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
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    The Usual Suspects
    Following a truck hijack in New York, five conmen are arrested and brought together for questioning. As none of them is guilty, they plan a revenge operation against the police. The operation goes well, but then the influence of a legendary mastermind criminal called Keyser Söze is felt. It becomes clear that each one of them has wronged Söze at some point and must pay back now. The payback job leaves 27 men dead in a boat explosion, but the real question arises now: Who actually is Keyser Söze? (imdb)
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    Commando
    A retired elite commando has only a few hours to find and rescue his daughter from an exiled dictator
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    The Addams Family
    Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester. (imdb)
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    Benny & Joon
    A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton. (imdb)
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    Searching for Bobby Fischer
    A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer. (imdb)
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    Freeway
    A twisted take on 'Little Red Riding Hood' with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker traveling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer/pedophile. (imdb)
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    Marvin\
    A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow. (imdb)
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    Daylight
    Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety. (imdb)
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    The First Wives Club
    Reunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women. (imdb)
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    Joe Versus the Volcano
    When a hypochondriac learns that he is dying, he accepts an offer to throw himself in a volcano at a tropical island, and along the way there, learns to truly live. (imdb)
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    Rookie of the Year
    When an accident miraculously gives a boy an incredibly powerful pitching arm, he becomes a major league pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. (imdb)
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    Running Scared
    Danny and Ray are two street wise cops in Chicago. When they are almost killed on a case, they are forced to take a vacation by their captain... (imdb)
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    The Hunger
    The Egyptian vampire lady Miriam subsists upon the blood of her lovers. In return the guys or girls don't age... (imdb)
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    Maverick
    Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief. (imdb)
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    The Shaft
    When the express elevators in the Millennium Building, one of New York's most famous landmarks, start to malfunction and behave in erratic ways, elevator mechanic Mark Newman is sent out to find the cause of the problems. (imdb)
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    Strangers with Candy
    Strangers with Candy is a daring leap backwards. A prequel to the critically acclaimed Comedy Central series of the same name, it is the tale of Jerri Blank (Sedaris), a forty-seven year old ex-con, junky whore who decides to return home after thirty-two years as a runaway. (ThinkFilm)
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    Search and Destroy
    A would-be movie producer (Griffin Dunne) strives to convince a self-help guru (Dennis Hopper) to let him film his book. As the guru is only interested in money, the producer solicits the help of a shady businessman (Christopher Walken) and the guru's own secretary (Ileana Douglas), who wants to write movie scripts (a horror story about brain-scraping monsters). (imdb)
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    Wise Guys
    Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they fail to rob a mafioso, they are set up to kill each other. (imdb)
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    Tightrope
    Wes Block (Eastwood) is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened. (imdb)
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    The Second Civil War
    A simple immigration issue spins wildly out of control for those involved, ranging from the President of the United States, to a news producer (imdb)
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    Endangered Species
    The definitive screen treatment of the cattle mutilation phenomenon to date. (Chas. Balun)
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    The Seduction of Joe Tynan
    Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment...
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    The Extra Man
    A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
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    Night of the Juggler
    A tough, New York ex-cop relentlessly searches for his kidnapped teenage daughter whom is held by a twisted psycho after mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy businessman. (imdb)
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    Mulholland Drive
    NOT THE FILM but the TV Pilot for the never-realized program: Lynch's Picture Factory joined with Imagine Television in association with Touchstone Television to produce this two-hour ABC pilot. ABC passed on it due to the violence and the pilot was left in limbo until 18 months later Studio Canal Plus agreed to pay ABC $7 million to turn "Mulholland Dr." into a film.
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    Reckless
    Rebellious footballer Johnny, falls for cheerleader Tracy. They come from opposite backrounds; she's from a comfortable well off family, his is poor and broken. Tracy already has a boyfriend but he acts like a jerk, so Johnny has to win Tracy's heart - something she seems reluctant to let him do.
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    The Good Student
    Nerdy teacher Ronald Gibb has trouble hiding his tiny crush on gorgeous student Ally, which all starts to look very bad for Ronald once Ally is kidnapped and he's the last person to be seen with her. (Netflix)
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    The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave
    Super Dave Osborne, our accident-prone stuntman hero, comes out of a self-imposed retirement to raise money for his new girlfriend's son's heart operation. (imdb)
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    Quicksand
    Randi Stewart is a sergeant on a marine base where her father is the commanding officer. She is being treated by the new base psychiatrist, Bill Turner. Her brother, Gordon Stewart is running for political office. General Stewart is murdered and Randi is the key suspect. Once Bill starts investigating the crime through his treatment of Randi, he begins to uncover an unusually large amount of suicides on the base. The intrigue grows and so does Bill's unprofessional feelings towards Randi. (imdb)
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    Slow Burn
    Slow Burn (1986) - TV Movie
    Jacob Asch is hired by Gerald McMurty to find his ex-wife Laine and their son in Palm Springs. Jacob finds Laine and a teenager named Donnie who may or may not be Gerald's son. He also finds an intricate web of deceit and betrayal that begin to lead to death. He takes it upon himself to unravel the mystery and find out who is killing people and why. (imdb)
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    Pizza My Heart
    Because of an old family feud, the Prestolanis and the Montebellos have taken to extremes their fight over who truly has the best pizza. The situation is about to come to a head when Joe Prestolani and Gina Montebello begin a secret romance. (Netflix)
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    The Passover Plot
    Jewish people, oppressed by the Roman Empire, are expecting a messiah. Yeshua decides to accept this role and to enact the prophecies overcoming the pain with his conviction and the death by consuming a death-simulating drug.
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    The Humbling
    An aging actor with bouts of dementia and related issues is institutionalized after an incident during a Broadway play, then returns home, where he contemplates suicide. When he embarks upon an affair with a friend's amoral lesbian daughter, his world starts to fall apart. It ends on stage, with even Axler's audience and fellow actors unsure what's real and what's not. (Wikipedia)
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    Black Dog, Red Dog
    James Franco heads-up a roster of 10 student filmmakers tasked with adapting the poetry of Stephen Dobyns. Comprised of 10 individual short films that were subsequently folded into a feature narrative. (Rotten Tomatoes)
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    Another Midnight Run
    Jack Walsh tries to track down two of the top con-artists around. But they know every trick in the book and Jack has trouble bringing them back to LA and getting a $45,000 pay day reward. (imdb)
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    American Cousins
    Two New Jersey mobsters are almost killed when a deal in Eastern Europe goes wrong. They take refuge with their law-abiding cousin Bobby, who runs a fish and chip shop in Glasgow, Scotland. (Wikipedia)
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    Four Eyes and Six-Guns
    An eye doctor (Judge Reinhold) from New York goes west and takes on outlaws with Marshal Wyatt Earp (Fred Ward) in Tombstone.
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    The Tortellis
    The Tortellis (1987) - TV Series
    Short-lived spin-off series from Cheers (1982) centering on Carla's ex-husband and his family. (imdb)
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    The Dollmaker
    During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly accompanying Colvis is his long-suffering wife, Gertie, a talented woodcarver set in her traditional ways. When the perils of city life and Colvis' reckless squandering of money send the Nevels into precarious financial straits, Gertie starts a business making hand-carved dolls in order to provide for her family.
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    The Big Take
    Douglas Brown is a movie star who wakes up to find he is being blackmailed by someone he doesn't know. He calls his agent Jack Girardi who calls Hollywood private detective Frank Manascalpo to sort things out. Frank does well, at first, but he finds the wrong man. He finds an aspiring writer/director Max O'Leary, who is under the mistaken impression that the sudden attention he is receiving might be because Douglas Brown wants to make his movie. He doesn't.
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    For Love or Money
    Doug is a young man who works all day as a concierge at a luxurious hotel, saving money to make his own business. Unfortunately, when he finds the financial supporter he needs, he discovers that his "saviour" is having an affair with the woman he loves! Now, he must choose between money and love... (imdb)
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    Mr. Wonderful
    Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfill a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends... (imdb)
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    Based on an Untrue story
    Perfume creator Satin Chow is about to reveal her new designer scent 'Puppy' when she is cruelly struck down by a rare condition called anosmia which robs her of her sense of smell, and could even kill her. With time fast running out, she begins a frantic search for the only people who can provide the tissue-donations she desperately needs: her long-lost sisters Corduroy and Velour. (imdb)
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    I\
    The dramatic story of one woman's survival in a battle for her sanity...and her life! (imdb)
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    True Confessions
    De Niro (a Catholic Priest) and Duvall (a Homicide Detective) play brothers drawn together after many years apart, in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a young prostitute. (imdb)
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    Fallen Angels
    Fallen Angels (1993) - TV Series
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