Alex Karpovsky

Alex Karpovsky

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Alex Karpovsky is an American director, actor, screenwriter, producer and editor.

Alex Karpovsky's first feature-length film, The Hole Story, was completed in 2006. The critically acclaimed dark comedy garnered numerous awards on the festival circuit before being released theatrically by Indiepix. Karpovsky's follow-up feature, Woodpecker premiered at the 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival and was released by Carnivalesque Films in September 2009. Alex's most recent film, Trust Us, This Is All Made Up, premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival and was released by B-Side Entertainment in February 2010 before the company folded a few days later (the film was subsequently released by the New Video Group and continues to air regularly on The Documentary Channel).

As an actor, Karpovsky recently played the male lead in Beeswax which premiered at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival; the voices of several Russian gangsters in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV; Mean Man Mike in Harmony and Me, which premiered at the 2009 New Directors/New Films Series; Paul Lucas in Lovers of Hate, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival; Vlad in Bass Ackwards, which also premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival; Jed in Tiny Furniture, which premiered at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival, where it won the Narrative Jury Prize for Best Feature Film; Paul in The Grownups, which screened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Rookie Agent in Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and Wally Combs in Wuss, which is set to premiere at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival.

Karpovsky also recently acted or is committed to act in the following films, set to be released later in 2011: Almost in Love, Home, Incredibly Small, The Third Day, Marvin Seth and Stanley, and Seven Chinese Brothers. This fall Karpovsky will also appear as Ray in the HBO comedy series Girls.

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Pillow Fortress
Title: Pillow Fortress
Character: Bart
Released: February 11, 2024
Type: Movie
When Lana brings her new boyfriend Bart on a visit to Tommy’s house, it doesn’t take long for the two men to realize that they knew each other as young children. Soon though, they disagree about their memories of a specific, trivial event. And as the disagreement lingers, some of Bart’s other resentments surface.
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Title: Angelyne
Character: Jeff Glaser
Released: May 19, 2022
Type: TV
A mysterious blonde bombshell takes over Los Angeles billboards in the mid-80s, ushering in the era of famous-for-being-famous influencer culture.
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Cryptozoo
Title: Cryptozoo
Character: David (voice)
Released: August 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.
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The Ride
Title: The Ride
Character: Chris
Released: January 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Wayne, a 40-year-old rideshare driver and spiritual coach, recently moved back in with his mom. He discovers that the key to giving his life meaning is to help his unsuspecting passengers let go of their negative thoughts—whether they want his help or not.
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The Return of the Yuletide Kid
Title: The Return of the Yuletide Kid
Character: Michael
Released: December 14, 2019
Type: Movie
The Christmas Kid stars Craig Roberts (Red Oaks, Submarine,) in a warm-hearted comedy from writer/director Jamie Adams (Black Mountain Poets), about a former child star who learns what’s really important at Christmastime. Anthony Richards (Roberts) – you know, the Anthony Richards, The Actor – is depressed. His agent (Dolly Wells) has just dropped him, he’s unemployed, and he has little choice but to go home for Christmas - home to his doting mother, his jealous brother and a claustrophobic Welsh community that still reveres him as the home town boy who made it big. Back in his childhood home Anthony has demons to confront. But when Patricia (Erin Richards), the Head of Drama at the area’s most prestigious stage school, presents Ant with an offer to write and direct a play, Anthony finally has the chance to leave his Christmas Kid’s baggage in the past, once and for all.
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The Sound of Silence
Title: The Sound of Silence
Character: Landon
Released: September 13, 2019
Type: Movie
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
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Being Frank
Title: Being Frank
Character: Ross
Released: June 14, 2019
Type: Movie
A seventeen-year-old boy blackmails his father after discovering his secret second family
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The Front Runner
Title: The Front Runner
Character: Mike Stratton
Released: November 6, 2018
Type: Movie
Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a seemingly clear path to the White House. All that comes crashing down when allegations of an extramarital affair surface in the media, forcing the candidate to address a scandal that threatens to derail his campaign and personal life.
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Title: Homecoming
Character: Craig
Released: November 1, 2018
Type: TV
Heidi Bergman is a caseworker at Homecoming, a Geist Group facility helping soldiers transition to civilian life. Years later she has started a new life, living with her mother and working as a waitress, when a Department of Defense auditor questions why she left the Homecoming facility. Heidi quickly realizes that there's a whole other story behind the story she's been telling herself.
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Rosy
Title: Rosy
Character: Marty
Released: July 17, 2018
Type: Movie
A socially awkward young man kidnaps an aspiring actress with the hope that they will fall in love. A psychosexual noir that explores power dynamics between men and women.
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The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
Title: The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
Character: Mr. Bauer
Released: March 2, 2018
Type: Movie
Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
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A Goodbye to Girls
Title: A Goodbye to Girls
Character: Self
Released: April 10, 2017
Type: Movie
A featurette celebrating six seasons of "Girls."
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The Show About the Show
Title: The Show About the Show
Character: Himself
Released: March 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. In the process of creating the show, everything can-and does-go wrong. The cast, a who's who of Brooklyn's independent filmmaking community, includes Alex Karpovsky, Eleonore Hendricks, Dustin Defa, and Onur Tukel.
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Fits and Starts
Title: Fits and Starts
Character: Charles
Released: March 10, 2017
Type: Movie
A struggling writer can't seem to escape his wife's literary success. When a road trip to a publisher's salon takes an unexpected turn, he has to face his own creative shortcomings and find a way to regain control of his life and work.
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Girlfriend's Day
Title: Girlfriend's Day
Character: Styvesan
Released: January 24, 2017
Type: Movie
When he's caught up in a deadly conspiracy, an unemployed greeting card writer must create the perfect card for a new holiday to save his skin.
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Little Sister
Title: Little Sister
Character: Deli Guy
Released: October 6, 2016
Type: Movie
After returning to her childhood home, young nun Colleen finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth and metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but her brother is living as a recluse in the guesthouse since returning home from the Iraq war.
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My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
Title: My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
Character: Drake (voice)
Released: September 11, 2016
Type: Movie
Dash and his best friend Assaf are preparing for another year at Tides High School muckraking on behalf of their widely-distributed but little-read school newspaper, edited by their friend Verti. But just when a blossoming relationship between Assaf and Verti threatens to destroy the boys' friendship, Dash learns of a cover-up by the administration that puts the entire student body in danger.
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Oh Jerome, No
Title: Oh Jerome, No
Character: Barman (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A guy takes surreal measures to conceal his true emotions.
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Crush
Title: Crush
Character: Steven
Released: April 22, 2016
Type: Movie
A diminished gallery girl finds a way to silence her toxic boss.
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Folk Hero & Funny Guy
Title: Folk Hero & Funny Guy
Character: Paul Scott
Released: April 16, 2016
Type: Movie
Two artistically inclined childhood friends, a comedian and a folk-rocker respectively, set out on a tour together in hopes of regaining their "mojo" and finding love in the process.
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Hail, Caesar!
Title: Hail, Caesar!
Character: Mr. Smitrovich
Released: February 5, 2016
Type: Movie
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.
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Happy Baby
Title: Happy Baby
Character: Ben Peterson
Released: February 1, 2016
Type: Movie
An abused, former orphan living in San Francisco returns to New York to reconnect with the love of his life and understand how his past has shaped his future. It's a semi-autobiographical work based on the book of the same name originally published by McSweeney's.
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7 Chinese Brothers
Title: 7 Chinese Brothers
Character: Kaminsky
Released: August 14, 2015
Type: Movie
Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?
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Actor Seeks Role
Title: Actor Seeks Role
Character: Paul
Released: June 22, 2015
Type: Movie
An aspiring method actor (Alex Karpovsky) in New York City resorts to medical acting, a part-time gig performing the symptoms of various illnesses for student doctors. Although his talents are overlooked for traditional roles on stage and screen, they catch the attention of a medical instructor (Dylan Baker) with a flair for the theatric.
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Amy
Title: Amy
Character: Saddler
Released: June 18, 2015
Type: Movie
A pair of ex-lovers spend a spontaneous afternoon together that could either lead to rekindled love or further heartbreak.
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Devil Town
Title: Devil Town
Character: Terrence Bard
Released: April 16, 2015
Type: Movie
A young woman's sister goes missing. She then sets out on a quest through Brooklyn to find her on her own, enlisting the help of a motley crew of New York weirdos.
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Bloomin Mud Shuffle
Title: Bloomin Mud Shuffle
Character: Chuck
Released: April 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Middle-aged Lonnie hasn't done much since he graduated high school. His only shot at greatness is to take his relationship to the next level.
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Tired Moonlight
Title: Tired Moonlight
Character: Mike
Released: January 22, 2015
Type: Movie
Dawn, a middle aged woman who lives alone in a small town in Montana spends her days working as a maid at a roadside motel and scrounging through junk she purchases at local storage auctions hoping to one day 'hit the jackpot' and fund her travels and her escape from the town. Her humdrum life is slowly upended as Paul, a ramblin' man from her past, rolls like a tumbleweed through her small town. Pitting grand landscapes against dinners of fried chicken and the roar of V8 engines on Saturday nights, Tired Moonlight explores the relationship between extravagant nature and the tiny mundane moments of small town life.
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Summer of Blood
Title: Summer of Blood
Character: Jamie
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Lousy lover and egocentric Eric Sparrow is dumped by his girlfriend after rejecting her marital proposal. After a few failed dates his luck turns when a chance encounter with a vampire turns him into a sex god.
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Title: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Character: Bar Patron
Released: April 27, 2014
Type: TV
A half-hour satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events.
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Possibilia
Title: Possibilia
Character: Rick
Released: April 25, 2014
Type: Movie
Alex Karpovsky and Zoe Jarman star as a young couple contemplating breaking up. You witness the events from any of 16 different perspectives.
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Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends
Title: Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends
Character: Alex
Released: April 24, 2014
Type: Movie
You are cordially invited to join Brett Gelman and his Hollywood friends for a lively night of dining, tasty showbiz chit-chat, and psychological torture.
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Inside Llewyn Davis
Title: Inside Llewyn Davis
Character: Marty Green
Released: October 18, 2013
Type: Movie
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.
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The Foxy Merkins
Title: The Foxy Merkins
Character: The Mumbling Erotic Accessory Salesman / CNN Executive
Released: August 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Two lesbian hookers wind their way through a world of bargain-hunting housewives and double-dealing conservative women in this buddy comedy, an homage to and riff on iconic male hustler films. Margaret is a down-on-her-luck hooker in training, who meets up with Jo, a beautiful and self-assured grifter from a wealthy family and an expert on servicing women, even as she considers herself proudly heterosexual. The film follows their adventures together on the street, through encounters with husky-voiced seductresses, mumbling erotic accessory salesmen and shopaholic swingers. Navigating the bizarre fetishes and sexual needs of their 'dates' brings into focus the hilarious and pathetic disparity between the two hookers, fellow travelers who will share the road together but only for a while.
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Good Night
Title: Good Night
Character: Jake
Released: March 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Leigh’s 29th birthday party takes a sudden turn when she announces that the evening maybe the last time her friends see her alive. A night of questions, coping and debauchery immediately follow.
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Red Flag
Title: Red Flag
Character: Alex
Released: February 22, 2013
Type: Movie
Writer/director/star Alex Karpovsky, a familiar face to indie filmgoers, reveals his sterling comic chops in this close-to-the-bone comedy. Teasing the line between fiction and reality, he plays an indie filmmaker named Alex Karpovsky who, dumped by a longtime girlfriend fed up with his refusal to marry, takes to the road with a reluctant old pal for a misbegotten mini tour screening his movie on college campuses and independent cinemas.
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Rubberneck
Title: Rubberneck
Character: Paul Harris
Released: February 22, 2013
Type: Movie
Paul Harris works at a small research facility on the outskirts of Boston. After a weekend tryst with a co-worker leaves him wanting more, his unreciprocated desires gradually mold into an acute infatuation. When Danielle takes interest in a new scientist at the laboratory, Paul's suppressed resentments and perverse delusions finally become unhinged, triggering a horrific course of events that mercilessly engulf a tortured past and fugitive present.
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Almost in Love
Title: Almost in Love
Character: Sasha
Released: February 15, 2013
Type: Movie
A love triangle shot in two continuous 45-minute takes set eighteen months apart: the first over a sunset, the second a sunrise.
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Gayby
Title: Gayby
Character: Peter
Released: September 17, 2012
Type: Movie
Jenn and Matt are best friends from college who are now in their thirties. Single by choice, Jenn spends her days teaching hot yoga and running errands for her boss. Matt suffers from comic-book writer's block and can't get over his ex-boyfriend. They decide to fulfill a promise to have a child together... the old fashioned way. Can they navigate the serious and unexpected snags they hit as they attempt to get their careers and dating lives back on track in preparation for parenthood? 'Gayby' is an irreverent comedy about friendship, sex, loneliness, and the family you choose.
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Sleepwalk with Me
Title: Sleepwalk with Me
Character: Ian
Released: August 24, 2012
Type: Movie
A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
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Marvin, Seth and Stanley
Title: Marvin, Seth and Stanley
Character: Seth Greenstein
Released: April 20, 2012
Type: Movie
Marvin's estranged sons, Seth and Stanley, return home for a camping trip. As past grudges are exposed, their weekend getaway slowly unfurls.
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Title: Girls
Character: Ray Ploshansky
Released: April 15, 2012
Type: TV
The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.
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Supporting Characters
Title: Supporting Characters
Character: Nick
Released: January 23, 2012
Type: Movie
Two New York film editors balance their personal relationships while reworking a movie in crisis.
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Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
Title: Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
Character: Rookie Agent
Released: January 6, 2012
Type: Movie
The adventures of lesbian space aliens on the planet Earth, and the story of the romance between Jane, a shy greeting card store employee, and Zoinx, the woman Jane does not realize is from outer-space. Meanwhile, two government agents, or 'Men In Black,' are closely tracking Jane and the aliens while harboring their own secrets.
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Wuss
Title: Wuss
Character: Wally Combs
Released: March 12, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of a high school teacher who faces constant ridicule after he's repeatedly beaten up by several of his own students. Having nowhere else to turn, he eventually teams up with another of his students to fight back. This student, a young girl, is feared school-wide because of a dark family reputation. She also has an unfortunate nickname grafted to her due to her predilection for smoking discarded cigarettes. Bonded in battle, the student and teacher form a friendship that stretches the use of the word inappropriate.
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Tiny Furniture
Title: Tiny Furniture
Character: Jed
Released: November 12, 2010
Type: Movie
After graduating from film school, Aura returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri, and her sister, Nadine, who has just finished high school. Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life. She takes a job in a restaurant and tries unsuccessfully to develop relationships with men, including Keith, a chef where she works, and cult Internet star Jed.
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Lovers of Hate
Title: Lovers of Hate
Character: Paul
Released: February 11, 2010
Type: Movie
Two rival brothers engage in the ultimate challenge when they compete for the affections of the same woman.
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Bass Ackwards
Title: Bass Ackwards
Character: Vlad
Released: January 23, 2010
Type: Movie
A man coming off a disastrous affair with a married woman has a lyrical, strange and comedic cross-country journey in a modified VW bus.
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Harmony and Me
Title: Harmony and Me
Character: Mean Man Mike
Released: January 15, 2010
Type: Movie
Lyricist Harmony insists on wallowing in misery eons after being unceremoniously dumped by his girlfriend. While the members of Harmony's family are long over his antics, that doesn't stop him from milking his heartbreak and telling his tale of woe to anyone who will listen.
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Incredibly Small
Title: Incredibly Small
Character: Tom
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Two recent college graduates, Anne, an ambitious law student and Amir, an aimless escalator attendant and aspiring sculptor move into a 300 square foot apartment and try to start a life together. But the combination of their small apartment, their threateningly handsome neighbor across the hall and unexpected visitors from the past make them realize that maybe they aren't as perfect for each other as they previously had thought.
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Beeswax
Title: Beeswax
Character: Merrill
Released: August 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Jeannie and her estranged business partner Amanda have a falling out leading to Amanda getting back with an ex and Jeannie bonding more with her non-paralyzed twin Lauren.
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Cubby Knowles
Title: Cubby Knowles
Character: Robert Lincoln
Released: March 7, 2008
Type: Movie
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The Hole Story
Title: The Hole Story
Character: Alex
Released: April 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Winter. Brainerd, Minnesota. Despite arctic temperatures sheathing hundreds of surrounding lakes in three feet of solid ice, a massive stretch of water opens up on the surface of North Long Lake. With repeated scientific investigations yielding no answers, the Black Hole captures the heart of the nearby community while attracting national, even international attention. Convinced this charming story would be perfect for the small town mystery show hes been fervently pitching to cable executives for years, Alex decides to cash in his savings from editing karaoke videos, hire a small crew, and make the pilot episode himself. Upon arrival however, this black hole mystery reveals itself to be much more disturbing and personal than expected, slowly engulfing Alex in an existential search that consumes not only his cherished pilot, but with it the very underpinnings of his sanity.
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Cry Funny Happy
Title: Cry Funny Happy
Character: Henry
Released: January 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Unexpected revelations and unraveling friendships mark a 30th birthday celebration.
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Title: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Character: Dr. Seiderman
Released: October 15, 2000
Type: TV
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Stephen Lomatin
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.