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  • Being Julia picture
    Movies

    Being Julia (2004)

    In 1938 London a theatrical actress (Annette Bening) devises an elaborate scheme against the social...

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    Movies

    Music and Lyrics (2007)

    A washed-up '80s superstar (Hugh Grant) must make beautiful music with a lyrically gifted plant...

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    Movies

    The Producers (1967)

    A Broadway producer (Zero Mostel) and his accountant (Gene Wilder) back a sure-fire flop:...

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    Tin Cup (1996)

    A curvy customer (Rene Russo) and a smarmy golf-pro pal motivate a down-and-out Texas driving-range...

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    Movies

    Danny Roane: First Time Director

    A down-and-out actor (Andy Dick) struggles with alcoholism while directing his first movie.

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    Inserts (1976)

    A has-been director (Richard Dreyfuss) cranks out 1930s stag films in his rococo Hollywood mansion.

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    Wonderland (2003)

    In debt and addicted to drugs, porn star John Holmes (Val Kilmer) becomes implicated in a quadruple...

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    Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

    Florida gigolo Chance Wayne (Paul Newman) brings home ex-screen queen Alexandra Del Lago (Geraldine...

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    Heat (1972)

    Dynamic women (Penny Flame, Courtney Simpson, Alicia Alighatti) entertain lucky men.

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    The Champ (1979)

    A has-been boxer (Jon Voight) trains in Florida for a comeback and fights his ex-wife (Faye Dunaway)...

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    Movies

    The Country Girl (1954)

    An alcoholic stage actor (Bing Crosby) leans on his wife (Grace Kelly) as he tries to make a...

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    The Muse (1999)

    A desperate screenwriter (Albert Brooks) with writer's block meets a Greek muse (Sharon Stone)...

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    People

    George Rafferty

    George Rafferty appeared in TV shows such as Law & Order and Third Watch and movies including...

  • Requiem For a Heavyweight picture
    Movies

    Requiem For a Heavyweight

    A punchy boxer (Anthony Quinn) ends his brutal career in the company of a sad trainer (Mickey...

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    Movies

    Whale Music (1995)

    A burned-out rock star is inspired by a teenager to complete his masterpiece, a symphony for the...

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    Movies

    Evil Spawn

    Evil Spawn, a violent, bloody, but surprisingly effective English horror film directed by Kenneth...

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    Movies

    I'll Be There (2002)

    A former Scottish rock star (Craig Ferguson) learns he has a 16-year-old Welsh daughter (Charlotte...

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    Movies

    Life With Mikey (1993)

    The former child star (Michael J. Fox) of a TV show meets a cute little waif (Christina Vidal) who...

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    Movies

    Irma Vep (1997)

    Maggie Cheung, acting out her own role as one of the greatest stars of Asian cinema, comes to Paris...

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    Movies

    Playmates (1941)

    A has-been actor (John Barrymore) coaches a corny bandleader (Kay Kyser) for a Shakespeare festival...

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    Movies

    Hollywood Palms

    A bunch of twenty-somethings living in an apartment complex named Hollywood Palms face the problems...

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    Movies

    Love Dream (1988)

    A rock-star who stopped singing after the death of his brother finds a female genie in a vase. She...

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    Movies

    Girls Will Be Girls (2003)

    An aging actress (Jack Plotnick) takes as a housemate the daughter (Jeffery Roberson) of a now-dead...

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    Movies

    The Morning After (1986)

    A boozing actress (Jane Fonda) wakes up with a stabbed man and tries to figure out why with a...

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    Movies

    The Hard Part Begins

    The Canadian The Hard Part Begins stars Donnelly Rhodes as a struggling country-western singer....

  • Pauly Shore is Dead picture
    Movies

    Pauly Shore is Dead (2004)

    Advice from comic Sam Kinison inspires Shore (Pauly Shore) to boost his sinking career by faking his...

  • Who's The Woman, Who's The Man picture
    Movies

    Who's The Woman, Who's The Man (1996)

    Re-juggling the same theme of sexual confusion, a gender bending comedy which takes up where the...

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    Movies

    Underground U.S.A.

    The "underground" of the title refers not to crime but to the half-hidden world of two-bit hustlers,...

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    Movies

    My Dark Lady (2007)

    Fred A. Keller stars in My Dark Lady as a washed-up classical actor. While taking a seasonal Santa...

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    Movies

    Tandem

    A fading television personality and radio quiz-show host is shielded by his right-hand man from...