Tom Skerritt
Date of Birth: 25 Aug 1933
Country: USA
Biography: Thomas Roy "Tom" Skerritt is an American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes since 1962. Skerritt made his film debut in War Hunt, produced by Terry Sanders and released in 1962. Skerritt's notable film appearances include M*A*S*H (1970; his role was pared down considerably by director Robert Altman), Harold and Maude (credited as "M. Borman") (1971), Big Bad Mama, Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke (1978), Ice Castles (1978)...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 88 (Actor)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (88)
- Thanksgiving (1992) - S1 E9
- Pageantry (1992) - S1 E11
- High Tidings (1992) - S1 E12
- Remembering Rosemary (1992) - S1 E6
- Squatter's Rights (1994) - S2 E17
- Be My Valentine (1993) - S1 E17
- Forgotten Front (1962) - S1 E1
- A Day in June (1962) - S1 E11
- The Prisoner (1962) - S1 E12
- Nicest Fella You'd Ever Want to Meet (1965) - S2 E18
- Joshua's Kingdom (1966) - S4 E6
After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
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Jodie Foster stars as headstrong visionary astronomer Ellie Arroway in Contact, a drama of discovery, based on the best-selling 1985 novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and noted astronomer Carl Sagan. (Warner Bros.)
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When Carla Tate, now a young woman, is 'graduated' out of the training school where she has resided for many years because she is mentally challenged, her hope is that she will be accepted for all that she can now do for herself. But Carla's family is wealthy which permits her mother, already blinded to her daughter's rather high-functioning abilities, to try and provide for Carla beyond her needs or desires, bringing forth the inevitable confrontations... (imdb)
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Though Victor and Thomas have lived their entire young lives in the same tiny town, they couldn't have less in common! But when Victor is urgently called away, it's Thomas who comes up with the money to pay for his trip. There's just one thing Victor has to do: take Thomas along for the ride! (Miramax)
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The dance- and music-filled story of Anthony Verdi (Casey), a young man caught between his dream of being a full-time musician and the conventional life of his security-minded father (Skerritt) and long-time fiancé (Waingort). (Swing Movie LLC)
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Bruce Willis stars as Lt. A.K. Waters, the loyal veteran officer of a Navy S.E.A.L unit. When he's sent into the heart of Africa, the usually hard-bitten Waters finds himself deeply conflicted at having to choose between following orders and the dictates of his own conscience. (Sony)
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An epic adventure of love and courage in a rugged land, Texas Rangers revives the great tradition of the pure American Western. (Dimension Films)
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Two fly-fishing sons of a Presbyterian minister--one reserved, one rebellious--grow up in rural Montana.
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Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral (imdb)
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A group of twenty-something friends, most of whom live in the same apartment complex, search for love and success in grunge-era Seattle. (imdb)
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Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law. (imdb)
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The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. (imdb)
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A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic detective ability. (imdb)
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The macho students of an elite US Flying school for advanced fighter pilots compete to be best in the class, and one romances the teacher. (imdb)
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When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family. (imdb)
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A sexy teen (Barrymore) who lives with her aunt moves in with a reclusive teen (Gilbert) and slowly works her way into the lives of her adopted family... (imdb)
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Based on a true incident of screenwriter Harling's mother and sister. The story is set in a small-town beauty shop near New Orleans, and spans several years in the lives of the shop's owner and her customers.
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Clint Eastwood plays a veteran cop who gets stuck with a rookie cop (Charlie Sheen) to chase down a German criminal (Raul Julia.) (imdb)
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Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. (imdb)
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The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999) - TV Movie
An account of early 1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and then fled the Country. (imdb)
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Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend (Moore) embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers (Just call him Robin Hood). (imdb)
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Two stoners unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to L.A., with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail. (imdb)
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Carol Anne is staying with her aunt in a highrise building, and the supernatural forces that have haunted her previously follow her there. (imdb)
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E tanta paura (Plot of Fear) is the second Italian style thriller directed by Paolo Cavara, after he directed La tarantola del ventre nero (Black Belly of the Tarantula) in 1971. The thriller theme of the film, based on a story by Bernardino Zapponi, who wrote for Dario Argento Deep Red. (Cinema Strikes Back)
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Desperation (2006) - TV Movie
En route to Lake Tahoe for a much anticipated vacation, the Carver family is arrested for blowing out all four tires on their camper. Collie Entragian is the arresting officer, the self-made sheriff of a town called Desperation, Nevada, and the quintessential bad cop... (imdb)
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Detectives Steve Carella, Meyer Meyer, and Bert Kling are part of the 87th Precinct's team investigating a murder-extortion racket run by a mysterious deaf man. While attempting to investigate and prevent the murders of several high-ranking city officials, they also must keep track of the perpetrators of a string of robberies. Further complicating matters is a rash of arson attacks on homeless men. (imdb)
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A young girl is on top of the world until a tragic accident dashes her hopes and dreams of becoming a world-class figure skater. Only with the help of those who love her can she prove to the world -- and herself -- that she still has the potential to realize her dreams. (imdb)
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Mammoth (2006) - TV Movie
On a hot summer afternoon in the sleepy town of Blackwater, Louisiana locals exiting a retro-fitted theater excitedly watch as a meteor streaks across the sky and crashes through the roof of the local Natural History Museum. No one realizes that the meteor is actually a spaceship containing a shape-shifting life form. In order to adapt to Earth's atmosphere, the life form latches on to the first organism it comes in contact with - a partially frozen Woolly Mammoth... (imdb)
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Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden hijacks her two best friends and sets off in a vintage '66 Bonneville convertible.
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Killer Wave (2007) - TV Mini-Series
Suddenly the US east coast is hit by a type of natural disaster formerly reserved, except after a major earthquake, for the Pacific and Indian ocean rims: tidal waves of the destructive tsunami type... (imdb)
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Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and now Blue must support herself somehow. Elle, the headmistress at a brothel, talks her into living and working at her establishment. She decides to leave the business and lead a normal life. Elle is hellbent to see that she never has one. (imdb)
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2008) - TV Movie
Modern version of the old Robert Louis Stevenson Gothic classic. (muutanet)
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"Beer for My Horses" tells the story of two best friends that work together as deputies in a small town. The two defy the Sheriff and head off on an outrageous road trip to save the protagonist's girlfriend from drug lord kidnappers. (imdb)
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A bunch of Satanists in the American rural landscape have terrible powers which enable them to melt their victims. However one of the children of an earlier victim vows to destroy them. (imdb)
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Parent Trap II (1986) - TV Movie
Hayley Mills plays twins again in this first of three TV sequels to her fondly remembered 1961 film, The Parent Trap. Here, one of the twins is a divorced mother whose 11-year-old daughter, Nicki, befriends another girl, Mary, in summer school. Mary has a widowed father, (Tom Skerritt) so naturally the two girls try to get them together. But the mother wants to move, so they have to act fast. Eventually, the mother's twin sister is brought in to aid them. (imdb)
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Recruits head to the front lines towards the close of the Korean War. The interaction between two of the soldiers...an idealistic newcomer and a psychotic who goes on one-man patrols slitting enemy throats under cover of night...and the orphan boy who comes between them is examined. The Cease-Fire brings the three to a final resolution. (imdb)
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It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife. Infuriated, Cole wagers everything on the craps table, including the Gem Club itself, and he and Cullen have it out. (imdb)
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A lonely boy wins over his distant father and strict grandmother with help from a brave velveteen rabbit whose one wish is to become a real rabbit someday.
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In this version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", a hunchback is found living in the bell tower of UCLA. He is put on trial and made to go through tests. One of the research doctors falls for him, and he falls for her in the end. (imdb)
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U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko tracks a killer in Antarctica, as the sun is about to set for six months.
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A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues. (imdb)
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Calendar Girl Murders (1984) - TV Movie
Millionaire Richard Trainor is celebrating the fact that his new calendar is a huge success. However the party is ruined when Miss January is pushed off a building and later Miss February is knifed to death. Will the killer be caught before he / she reaches Miss December?
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A Murderer... A Captive Woman ...and a Deranged Arsonist ...in a Deadly Inferno! (imdb)
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Story of Cam Calloway and his family, who live in a densely wooded area in New England. Cam dreams of building a sanctuary for the geese that fly over the area each year, and he tries several schemes to buy a nearby lake for this santuary. He is thwarted at every attempt, it seems; he and his son try to get enough furs from their trapping venture to get the money, but the bottom falls out of the fur market... (imdb)
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One man's journey to find his past leads him to discover the secret to one of America's most haunting mysteries. (Box tag, imdb)
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The commander of an Air Force camp simulates prisoner-of-war conditions for realistic training goes too far, creating all too real torture situations. He prays on the only woman in the experiment. (imdb)
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It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violence and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his team's actions are taken as racial discrimination. (imdb)
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Fallen (2006) - TV Movie
18-year-old Aaron Corbett (Wesley) struggles to come to terms with his newly discovered identity - that he's half-angel. (imdb)
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Two for Texas (1998) - TV Movie
In 1836, two prisoners escape from a Louisiana chain gang run by a vicious strong boss. In the process of the escape, the strong boss is killed which sets his brother, the ex-warden on a chase of the men. However, the two join up with Sam Houston's army to fight the Mexicans which also sets them free from previous charges. The ex-warden then sells guns to the Mexicans which leads to the Alamo massacre and the death of their friend, Jim Bowie... (imdb)
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Moving Target (1988) - TV Movie
A teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home empty and his family gone. (imdb)
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Homeland Security (2004) - TV Movie
In the days prior to and after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, members of the FBI, CIA and various law enforcement communities struggle to ensure America's safety in a new government branch titled Homeland Security. Admiral Ted McKee is assigned to lead the new branch with help from his NSA liaison, Sol Binder, to prevent further terrorist attacks in America. (Written by matt-282)
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The Last Day (1975) - TV Movie
A retired gunman is forced to take up his weapons again when an outlaw gang robs the town banks. (imdb)
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Poker Alice (1987) - TV Movie
Alice Moffit, 'Poker Alice', has been disowned by her Boston family because of her incurable penchant for gambling. She is travelling the West with her cousin, John, when she wins a house in a poker game on a train. The 'house' turns out to be a bordello, which she decides to run until she can sell it. She falls for a bounty hunter, Jeremy Collins, who is about to settle down in California. Marrying him would mean ending the life-long relationship between the two cousins. (imdb)
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Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999) - TV Movie
New York, the city that never sleeps, is trapped in a nightmare of horror and destruction when a massive earthquake rocks the unsuspecting city. Countless lives are lost, families are torn apart, and chaos runs rampant as the mayor and former Fire Chief race to enact a city-wide emergency plan. An incredible story of undying courage in the face of unimaginable human tragedy. (imdb)
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A member of environmental group is killed while trying to get info on a company's acts of pollution. Later members of the company are being killed by bombs. The ATF investigates and the leader of the group is brought in. While he is not the one who is doing it, he is keeping something from them, so they keep him under surveillance. (imdb)
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A story centered on a man and his teddy bear, who comes to life as the result of a childhood wish. (imdb)
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Nightmare at Bitter Creek (1988) - TV Movie
In this made-for-TV thriller, a quartet of female friends hire a boozy wilderness guide and head into the mountains for a little backpacking fun that is spoiled when they become the target of a militant survivalist group's war games. (allrovi.com)
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One woman's true story of love and courage can give all people hope (imdb)
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The Alien Saga (2002) - TV Movie
Originally aired on AMC, this documentary focuses on one of the most horrifying series ever to be committed to celluloid the Alien film series. With interviews from most of the main players, including Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, and H.R. Giger, the special goes through conception through production of all four films released from 20th Century Fox.
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A man and a woman fall in love while taking their kids on a college admissions tour. (imdb)
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The China Lake Murders (1990) - TV Movie
A small town sheriff (Tom Skerritt) has his suspicions in a murder case which involves a rogue cop who goes on a murder spree. Contains mild sexual situations and violence. (imdb)
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Maneaters Are Loose! (1978) - TV Movie
Man-eating tigers are accidentally set loose near a small California town. (imdb)
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Trial by Media (2000) - TV Movie
A Senator's daughter seems to have a lock on a nomination as the US Surgeon General, until a background check reveals she once neglected to return a jury-duty notice. Then she makes a mistake in comments about her home-maker mother that leaves her open to a media blitz and her sure-fire nomination suddenly appears shaky.
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Marie decides to journey 80 miles on foot to the coast of Oregon to revisit the ocean of her past for the first time in 45 years. (imdb)
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Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (2000) - TV Movie
From her childhood in a privileged but broken home, to her courtship and often lonely marriage to Jack Kennedy, Jackie is revealed as a strong, intelligent and sometimes heartbroken woman, even as she captures the hearts and imaginations of an entire nation. The film follows her through the White House years, and her life after JFK's assassination. (amazon.com)
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The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
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Child in the Night (1990) - TV Movie
A psychologist treats an 8 year old boy who witnessed his father's murder but the child blocks out details that could help the police. (imdb)
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Picket Fences (1992) - TV Series
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Based on a true story of the American Civil War, culminating at the Battle of New Market, May 1864. A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley. Leaving behind their youth, these cadets must decide what they are fighting for. (imdb)
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The Grid (2004) - TV Mini-Series
A team of American and British counter-terrorists are tasked with stopping a terrorist cell who's operating on a global level. (imdb)
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'Return of the River' tells the story the largest dam removal in history, currently unfolding on the Elwha River in Washington State. The film explores an extraordinary community effort to set the river free, and shows an unlikely victory for environmental justice. Told by an ensemble cast of characters, 'Return of the River' offers hope amid grim environmental news, chronicling a dramatic success story that has drawn international attention to the Olympic Peninsula. (imdb)
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The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger. A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of movie-making, the power of myth, and our collective unconscious.
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The young attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shuttle is accidently launched into orbit. (imdb)
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A failed American businessman looks to recoup his losses by traveling to Saudi Arabia and selling his idea to a wealthy monarch.
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Path to War (2002) - TV Movie
In the mid-1960s, President Johnson and his foreign-policy team debate the decision to withdraw from or escalate the war in Vietnam. (imdb)
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Classic romantic melodrama about three convicted killers, Bowie (Carradine), Chicamaw (Schuck), and T-Dub (Remsen)... (imdb)
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Based on the best-selling novel by David Guterson When retired heart surgeon Ben Givens learns that he has terminal cancer, he takes his beloved dog back to his boyhood home in Eastern Washington, determined to end his life on his own terms. Ben's journey, though, takes an unexpected turn, and soon becomes an adventure against which he pits himself with characteristic stoicism, wit, and determination.
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Combat! (1962) - TV Series
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A white family in Africa is preyed on by a pride of lions, and must fight to survive.
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The Fugitive (1963) - TV Series
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Category 7: The End of the World (2005) - TV Movie
A deadly category 7 storm wreaks havoc on the world. Meanwhile, kidnappers threaten to make matters even worse. (imdb)
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