Ned Beatty
Date of Birth: 06 Jul 1937
Country: USA
Biography: Ned Thomas Beatty is an American actor who has appeared in more than 100 films and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain and a Golden Globe Award; won a Drama Desk Award. These nominations stemmed from his performances in films and television series like Network (1976), Friendly Fire (1979), Last Train Home (1990), Hear My Song (1991), the adaptation film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (2004) and Toy Story 3 (2010)...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 106 (Actor)
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- The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982) - S1 E25
- Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985) - S4 E11
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends. (imdb)
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Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth, the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation. Jesus and his dream to make it to the big ranks in professional basketball are overshadowed by his father, Jake, who is spending his life in prison for killing Jesus' mother. (imdb)
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In the mid-1990s, two inmates bury the burned bodies of two lifers at Mississippi's infamous Parchman Farm; a third old-timer relates their story. They'd served 65 years for a murder they didn't commit, framed by a local sheriff while buying moonshine whiskey for a Manhattan club owner to whom they owed money... (imdb)
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As the seasons change in a Connecticut town, two men of different age and backgrounds who work together outdoors for the local park system, share thoughts and feelings that gradually deepen into a relationship approaching father and son.
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An adventure re-told, spanning the Man of Steel's life from his Krypton infancy and Midwest boyhood to his career as Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent (Reeve) and through his titanic struggle with archnemesis Lex Luthor (Hackman). (Warner Bros.)
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A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit. (IMDB.com)
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This movie tells the intersecting stories of various people connected to the music business in Nashville. (imdb)
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Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation.
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Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. (imdb)
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Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to marry Lois, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth. (imdb)
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An underemployed reporter finds himself literally purchased as a toy for a rich spoiled brat. (imdb)
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Set in New Orleans. Remy McSwain, lieutenant in Homicide finds that he has two problems, the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne... (imdb)
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Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame. (imdb)
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Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor. (imdb)
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To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself. (imdb)
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Pazuzu, the demon of the first movie, takes a shot at possessing victim Linda Blair once again. (imdb)
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A CIA agent tired of his incompetent colleagues retires and dares them to stop him from publishing an embarrassing book of memoirs. (imdb)
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Frozen in the ice for decades, Captain America is freed to battle against arch-criminal, The Red Skull. (imdb)
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Bobby Earl is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime he calls in Paul Armstrong, a professor of law, to help prove his innocence. Armstrong quickly uncovers some overlooked evidence to present to the local police, but they aren't interested - Bobby was their killer. (imdb)
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The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear powered bus is going Non-stop from New York to Denver and is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the Oil lobby. (imdb)
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An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becoming an astronaut. (imdb)
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When an ordinary woman is exposed to a unique mix of chemicals, she begins to uncontrollably physically shrink. (imdb)
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13-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of an unreported plane crash. Alone in the Yukon wilderness, Brian must learn to survive by his wits, find food and shelter, and brave wild, hungry animals until or if he is found. (imdb)
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In 1939, WBN, a 4th netwok is about to take to America's airwaves. As if the confusion of the premiere night wasn't enough, Penny Henderson, the owner's secretary, must deal with an unhappy sponsor, an overbearing boss and a soon-to-be ex-husband who desperately wants her back. (imdb)
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On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train. (imdb)
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A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church. (imdb)
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T Bone N Weasel (1992) - TV Movie
An ex-con and a crazy man are an unlikely duo on the road looking for a better life. All they have is an old gun and a stolen car to aid them in finding some much needed luck and plenty of cold hard cash. (imdb)
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Set in Southern Minnesota's farm country, Sweet Land is a poignant and lyrical celebration of land, love, and the American immigrant experience. (Libero LLC)
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A parody of "The Exorcist", the famous horror. The main female character plays a mother in a family now. She watch the TV all day, and the devil possesses her certainly. The modern devil chaser is Leslie Nielsen, who fights with the devil in a TV show. (imdb)
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Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress up in giant chicken suit) he spends the rest of the movie trying to bed the buxom Pembrook. (imdb)
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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006) - Direct-to-Video
In Richard Donner's original vision of Superman II, the Man of Steel faces his greatest challenge yet! Three villainous outcasts, Non, Ursa, and their leader, General Zod, are freed from the Phantom Zone only to wreak havoc, devastation, and chaos unto Earth... (imdb)
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Homicide: The Movie (2000) - TV Movie
Former Homicide Shift Commander Al Giardello is now the leading candidate for Mayor of Baltimore. As he walks toward the platform to do a political speech he is shot. Former and current Homicide Detectives try to find out who shot their former boss. All of the actors that were regulars or recurring characters in the series are in the movie. (imdb)
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An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring. (imdb)
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Shooter is an edgy, non-stop action thriller about an honorable and brilliant marksman (Wahlberg) who finds himself in an unthinkable situation: framed as a Presidential assassin. Plunged into a shocking vortex of terror and conspiracy, the rogue shooter discovers the race is on to prove his innocence even as he is pursued by every law enforcement agency in the country, as well as a shadowy organization on a relentless manhunt aimed at destroying the secrets he has uncovered. (Paramount Pictures)
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Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals. Their adventures make for a whimsical and gentle comedy, in the Bill Forsyth vein. (imdb)
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Ed misses his mother who has been dead for a year. He has lived almost his whole life with his mother, so when a stranger appears one day from a company called "Happy People Ltd." and claims that they can bring his mother back for $1000, he doesn't think long before he agrees... (imdb)
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Jimmy Dean's popular 1950 song is translated into a feature length movie about a young couple who elopes to escape the girl's evil stepfather. (imdb)
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Lamont Johnson's subtle direction graces this true-life success story about racecar driver Junior Jackson (Jeff Bridges), based on stock-car champion Junior Johnson. (All Movie Guide)
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The Execution of Private Slovik (1974) - TV Movie
The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War. (imdb)
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An escort (Harrelson) who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case. (imdb)
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A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it. (imdb)
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A drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects. (imdb)
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Based upon the true story of Jim Jones, a self proclaimed prophet. Jim Jones had a loyal following of about 1000 people, who had donated their entire life savings to him to join his commune. When possible illegal activities came to the attention of the authorities, they started to investigate. Rather that faces the charges, Jim Jones committed suicide, and convinced virtually All of his followers to do the same. (imdb)
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A kid plays the old novelty song "Purple People Eater" and the creature actually appears. The two then proceed to help an elderly couple who are being evicted by their greedy landlord. (imdb)
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A no account outlaw establishes his own particular brand of law and order and builds a town on the edges of civilization in this farcical western. With the aid of an old law text and unpredictable notions Roy Bean distinguishes between lawbreakers and lawgivers by way of his pistols. (imdb)
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Gulliver's Travels (1996) - TV Mini-Series
Elaborate production, stunning special effects, and stellar cast give Swift justice to the 1726 social and political satire. (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide)
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Caine plays the British agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians hoping this will shatter the 'special relationship' between the two countries. (imdb)
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Based on a true story, this film tells the story of a Korean war veteran who ends up in a mental institution. He finds the conditions intolerable, and fights to change them, just as he fights for his own dignity as a resident.
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Inernational disaster looms as the USS Sub Standard has to race to get a nuclear weapon ahead of the Russian forces. (imdb)
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Dying Room Only (1973) - TV Movie
A married couple are traveling on a desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect foul play. (imdb)
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George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small hotel with several busybody guests. He probes them for information about Trent, their former neighbor. Meanwhile, the spy survives several attempts on his life as he attempts to solve the mystery. (imdb)
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A Navy Captain uses his experimental Snark to reach a nuclear submarine stuck on an ocean ledge. (imdb)
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A detective in the deep South is led into a series of surreal encounters with a troop of Confederate soldiers.
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Back in 1957, sweet-talking W.W. lived in a '55 Olds, loved bubble gum, Errol Flynn, country music, fried chicken, robbing filling stations, and a girl named Dixie. Not necessarily in that order. (imdb)
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American Playhouse (1980) - TV Series
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In New Orleans, a series of horrific murders of priests are occurring around the city's Catholic churches. The diocese calls in Father Michael to fight the powerful demon, known as Daesidarius, or The Unholy. The Father's faith is tested almost to the breaking point as the demon - disguised as a stunningly beautiful lady - attempts to seduce Father Michael into breaking his vows. Father Michael soon learns how the Unholy works. (imdb)
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O'Neal plays a computer expert named Webster, who alleviates on-the-job doldrums by moonlighting as a successful jewel thief. Webster invites himself to upscale soirees, where he cases out the location and proceeds with his heists. During his adventures, he meets up with Laura, a high society woman who teams up with Webster to assist on his heists... (Answers.com)
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A British attorney on vacation in Tennessee is blamed for a local murder. (imdb)
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William, a lonely mail-room employee, is obsessed with Leanne, a beautiful secretary in his office, who also just happens to live in the apartment opposite his. At home he spies on her with a telephoto-lens camera, and one night he sees her having sex with another co-worker from the office, Greg. Shortly afterwards Greg is murdered, and Leanne begins to suspect that William might have done it. (imdb)
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A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story. (imdb)
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A Woman Called Golda (1982) - TV Movie
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (imdb)
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A man searches for Josef Locke after his life starts to fall apart due to his business failing.
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A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appointed attorney to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle to find the missing link before time runs out. (imdb)
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Roughing It (2002) - TV Movie
Adapted from the autobiography of legendary American writer Mark Twain, Roughing It is a compelling, poignant drama infused with an air of youthful adventure. Award-winning actor James Garner plays the irrepressible Twain, a man whose relationship with the unexplored frontier of the American West informs his entire artistic output.
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The Deadly Tower (1975) - TV Movie
The infamous story of Charles Whitman, "America's favourite sniper" (in Stephen King's words), is told here once again. (imdb)
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The Wool Cap (2004) - TV Movie
This TV movie (a remake of the 1962 Jackie Gleason film Gigot) stars William H. Macy as Charles Gigot, the mute superintendent of a run-down apartment building who solemnly goes about his daily work. But his life changes when a young woman leaves her daughter Lou (Keke Palmer) with him, asking him to look after her for a bit. When it appears that Lou has been abandoned, Gigot reluctantly becomes her guardian and the two soon form an unusual bond.
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Toy cowboy Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), his astronaut pal, Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), and their friends cope with their owner's departure for college and their new home in a daycare center.
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After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough. (imdb)
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Streets of Laredo (1995) - TV Mini-Series
Captain Woodrow Call, now retired from the Rangers, is a bounty hunter. He is hired by an eastern rail baron to track down Joey Garza, a new kind of killer, only a boy, who kills from a distance with a rifle. Joined by his old compadre Pea Eye, it is a long ride to south Texas and the Mexican side of the border, where the past, in the form of Maria Garza, Joey's mother, haunts Call. (imdb)
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A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family and raped his girlfriend. (imdb)
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When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the bank themselves. (imdb)
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Based on the novel by Wilson Rawls, this is a story of a boy, Billy Coleman, who sets his heart on acquiring his own hunting dogs. After months of hard work, Billy saves up enough to purchase two young pups named Old Dan and Little Ann. He trains them to hunt racoons, and eventually enters them in the annual hunting contest.
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A group of adventurers sneak into Cuba to try to recover $1 million in cash that when hidden when Fidel Castro took over in 1959. They find themselves trying to avoid detection by Cuban authorities while also battling modern-day pirates who are also after the treasure. (imdb)
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Our Town (1977) - TV Movie
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors.
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Woody Harrelson gives a ferocious performance as a dirty cop, balancing a home life with two ex-wives as he becomes embroiled in the Los Angeles Police Department's infamous Rampart corruption scandal. (tiff.net)
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Robert Kennedy & His Times (1985) - TV Mini-Series
A personal portrait of one of the most controversial men of this century and the turbulent times in which he lived. An entire era, including the fight for civil rights, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the American entry into Vietnam, and the eventual protest against it, was shaped by Bobby Kennedy. (imdb)
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The Last Days of Pompeii (1984) - TV Mini-Series
This costume series portrays aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian volcano, which wipes it from the face of the earth. (imdb)
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A rather dull minded bank robber suddenly suffers from a change of heart and decides to give the money back. However, he then learns that getting the money back into the bank is much more difficult than taking it out. (imdb)
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Illusions (1992) - TV Movie
After she has a nervous breakdown, a wife and her husband move into a new house. However, she begins to suspect that that her husband and his sister, who is visiting, are up to something and may have had something to do with her breakdown. (imdb)
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Hostage Flight (1985) - TV Movie
Trans Allied Flight 136 is hijacked in flight and diverted by its 4 captors to New York's JFK Airport. When it leaves for London, the passengers begin to uprise when the terrorists begin murdering hostages. (imdb)
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The Affair (1995) - TV Movie
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.
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Crazy Horse (1996) - TV Movie
Biography of the famous Lakota Sioux war chief that tells his story without the usual bias found in other bio-pics.
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the story of Harry Flowers (Bridges), a Milquetoast employee of a credit card company, married to the daughter (Bauer) of his tyrannical boss (Beatty). Flowers allows himself to be shoved around and coddled by everyone, until he suddenly decides to slip into an assumed identity -- that of a gruff, bull-by-the-horns modern-day prince, determined to "rescue himself" from wimpdom by learning sexual aggression from a prostitute (Jagger) and ultimately wresting millions from the hand that feeds him. (Moviefone)
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Attack on Terror (1975) - TV Movie
After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers. (imdb)
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This is yet another telling of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as the two try to clear their friend Jim of murder charges. (imdb)
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Friendly Fire (1979) - TV Movie
When they try to learn how how their son died in Vietnam, the Mullens meet lies and evasion on all sides. (imdb)
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Minister's family is killed by Arab terrorists, he takes revenge. (imdb)
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Trial: The Price of Passion (1992) - TV Movie
A promising attorney is desperate to revive his faltering career. An offer to join forces with a famous colleague on a high-profile case seems like a dream come true - but means dropping his current assignment of defending an immigrant on a murder charge. As Warren wrestles with his conscience, it becomes clear that there may be an unexpected connection between the two cases.
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A retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and interviews with cast and crew members who worked with him. (imdb)
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Three couples head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anything for him - except for the one thing he wants. (imdb)
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Two companies are competing to develop equipment that can replicate any kind of material, including human tissue. However, one of the companies has more plans for this machine, and more ... (imdb)
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Numbed by career demands and a recent divorce, Dr. Alexandra Kendall hides behind a hard shell of professional detatchment - until she treats Buffy Koenig, a dying 17-year-old cancer patient who reawakens Kendall to life's possibilities.
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When an evil scientist steals his colleague's time machine, his colleague's beautiful, brilliant daughter, aided by an L.A. cop and a hapless admirer (Wil Shriner), pursues him back to twelfth century England, where, disguised as a damsel in distress, she enlists the help of a knight errant whose secret past holds the key to her future.
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Lincoln (1992) - TV Movie
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War. (imdb)
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A married man suffering from midlife crisis obsesses over a girl from his romantic fantasy. He meets her exact duplicate on vacation and helps her get rid of her abusive husband. They run off together but a caller starts blackmailing him.
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Tail Gunner Joe (1977) - TV Movie
A dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
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The Wilgus Stories (2000) - TV Movie
Hitchhiking home from the movies at age 9, going for a joy ride with an uncle at age 14, or giving a ride home to the woman of his dreams at 23 are three events that change Wilgus Collier and those around him. Starting from the 1950's up to a tie-dyed 1969, this movie presents a humorous and poignant perspective on the significant moments of daily life. (imdb)
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Denmark Vesey's Rebellion (1982) - TV Movie
Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.
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The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973) - TV Movie
Lt. Theo Kojak believes that a black youth who confessed to the murder of two white girls was beaten and coerced by his police interrogators and is innocent of the crime. (Kojak Wiki)
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The Violation of Sarah McDavid (1981) - TV Movie
Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after school hours and decides to buck the school system in an attempt to make schools safer for students and teachers alike, against the advice of the school's principal, Dr. Keys, who tries to gloss over the hazardous conditions and the incident itself to avoid bad publicity and decreased enrollment. (imdb)
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