James Karen

James Karen

Total Credits at Criticker: 42 (Actor)

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    A House on a Hill
    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. (Calliope Films)
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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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    The Return of the Living Dead
    A bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air... (imdb)
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    Wall Street
    A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing. (imdb)
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    Return of the Living Dead Part II
    Curious kids unearth the barrels that helped revive the dead of the first film, which proves the second time's an undead charm. (imdb)
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    Film
    Film (1965) - Short Film
    A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton... (imdb)
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    Hercules in New York
    Hercules (Schwarzenegger) is sent to Earth where he finds true love and starts a promising career in the bodybuilder business. (imdb)
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    Invaders from Mars
    In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines. (imdb)
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    The Pursuit of Happyness
    Chris Gardner (Smith) is a bright and talented, but marginally employed salesman. Struggling to make ends meet, Gardner finds himself and his five-year-old son evicted from their San Francisco apartment with nowhere to go. When Gardner lands an internship at a prestigious stock brokerage firm, he and his son endure many hardships, including living in shelters, in pursuit of his dream of a better life for the two of them. (Sony)
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    Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster
    When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space capsule manned by an android. With his electronic brain damaged, the android terrorizes the island while the Martians raid beaches and pool parties. (imdb)
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    F.I.S.T.
    Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob. (imdb)
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    Time Walker
    Professor Doug McCadden is in charge of opening his university's latest acquisition - a sealed Egyptian sarcophagus. Opening it reveals an ancient mummy and a mold substance which proves to eat the flesh of anyone touching it.(imdb)
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    Hardbodies 2
    A film crew is travelling from America to Greece to produce a movie. Before their work is done they will have to face many unusual situations, along with numerous opportunities for the actresses to take their clothes off. (imdb)
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    Joyride
    A motel in an out-of-the-way little town, a mysterious woman calling herself Ms. Smith comes to stay. J.T., the son of the motel's owner steals her car in an attempt to liven up his dull life and to impress Tanya, a hotel guest who flirts with him and wants to be a model. Ms. Smith is a professional killer, and J.T. thinks he can make things work to his advantage when the they find a corpse in the trunk of the stolen vehicle. (IMDb)
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    Trail of the Screaming Forehead
    A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to extract foreheadazine and things go horribly horribly wrong. (imdb)
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    The Willies
    Two brothers camping with their cousin try to frighten each other by telling stories. There are two main narrations: one involves strange happenings at an elementary school; the other, a teenage boy with a peculiar interest. (imdb)
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    Piranha
    Piranha (1995) - TV Movie
    Doctor Baines has been conducting genetic experiments on piranhas and has made them virtually unstoppable. Unfortunately, his assistants, Maggie and Paul, accidentally release the hybrids into the Lost River Lake threatening to destroy everyone in their path. Can they prevent the flesh-eating piranhas from escaping into the ocean and spawning? (imdb)
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    Amazing Grace
    An elderly woman in a Baltimore neighborhood finds out that a somewhat slow-witted neighbor is being put up for local office by some shady politicians who have no interest in their neighborhood but are interested in getting their hands on the money that comes into it. She gets some neighborhood people together and together they plan to thwart the politicians' schemes. (imdb)
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    Universal Horror
    Documentary on Universal Horror productions.
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    Tough and Deadly
    Tough and Deadly (1995) - Direct-to-Video
    Elmo Freech is a private investigator and was contracted by John Portland, a CIA agent who suffers amnesia, in oder to reveale a dubious case of drug smuggling in which are involved big fishes of the CIA and from Washington. (imdb)
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    Always Say Goodbye
    Nick Evans is a womanizer who hasn't found a reason to settle down till he meets clothing designer Anne Kidwell.
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    Cult People
    Cult People (1989) - Direct-to-Video
    In interviews, various actors and directors discuss their careers and their involvement in the making of what has come to be known as "cult" films. (imdb)
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    Drive-In Madness!
    A compilation of trailers and previews from classic low-budget sci-fi and horror films.
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    Dark and Stormy Night
    In the 1930s the family of old Sinas Cavinder, gathered for the reading of his will, find themselves being murdered by a mysterious phantom while two rival reporters compete for the story. (imdb)
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    The Cowboy and the Movie Star
    Depressed at the thought of losing his family ranch to settle his divorce, cowboy Clint Brannan decides to drive his cattle up to their high pasture. One day into the drive Clint happens across actress Sean Livingston who has run her car off the road in the middle of nowhere whilst out on a drive to clear her head. Faced with the prospect of a two or three day wait for rescue or accompanying Clint on his cattle drive, Sean decides to go on the cattle drive. (imdb)
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    The Unborn
    A couple who cannot have children joins an in-vitro fertilization program. While she is with child, she finds strange occurrences happening within her body. The horror surrounding the child comes to light when the parents find that their child has been part of a mad experiment.
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    So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM
    A TCM documentary about Keaton's rocky relationship with MGM and the events that eventually led to his downfall.
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    Bonanza: Under Attack
    The television movie Bonanza: Under Attack involves characters made popular in the long-running television western Bonanza. The story involves the dastardly Frank James hiding on the Cartwright family's Ponderosa in order to escape bloodthirsty rogue Pinkerton detectives who want to do more than simply apprehend James. James befriends the Cartwright siblings, and together they stand up to the Pinkertons. (allmovie.com)
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    The Companion
    In the near-distant future, a female romance writer is planning to write her next book in a remote mountain cabin. A friend convinces her to bring along a "companion", a nearly-human android to cook and clean. She settles on a male companion named "Geoffrey." Bored with some of Geoffrey's behavior, she tinkers with his programming -- first his personality, then his sexuality. Real trouble comes when she gives his mind access to "random data." (imdb)
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    Little House: The Last Farewell
    Final episode in which the town of Walnut Grove is destroyed. (imdb)
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    Notfilm
    A documentary inquiry into the strange but true collaboration of Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton. (imdb)
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    Green Briefs
    Green Briefs (2013) - Direct-to-Video
    GREEN BRIEFS is a collection of five gay-themed short films filled with family drama, including PRIDE (directed by Marc Saltarelli); THE COMMITMENT (directed by Albert M. Chan); SHABBAT DINNER (directed by Michael Morgenstern); KIMCHI FRIED DUMPLINGS (directed by Jason Karman); and THE SYMPHONY OF SILENCE (directed by Cedric Thomas Smith). (Amazon Video)
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    America\
    The crew of a popular ghost hunting show gets more than they bargained for when they come across a location that's actually haunted. (imdb)
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    Ambush at Dark Canyon
    U.S. Marshall Duke Donovan is imprisoned, accused of being an accomplice in a bank robbery. After discovering that his partner is planning to kill his wife, he must escape prison in time to save his wife and clear his name. (imdb)
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    Bender
    The unsettling true story of America's first serial killing family. A troubled doctor searches for patients swallowed by the prairie and encounters the Benders, homesteaders trapped by a life of unspeakable sin. (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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    The China Syndrome
    A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant. (imdb)
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    The Boy Who Loved Trolls
    Paul feels life should be an adventure, and sets out on one to prove that Trolls really exist.
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    MacGyver
    MacGyver (1985) - TV Series
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    Cynthia
    Cynthia is a horror film about the 'perfect' couple and their desperate obsession to have a child which descends into a terrifying dark comedy.
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    The Streets of San Francisco
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    Lies Before Kisses
    A wealthy publisher is accused of murdering a prostitute he had once spent the night with. The accusations appear false until his own son testifies against him. Desperate to discredit her stepson, the publisher's wife tries to clear her husband's name, but is drawn deep into a tangled web. (imdb)
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