John Friesen

John Friesen

Movies for John Friesen...

Title: Mutant X
Character: Harve
Released: October 6, 2001
Type: TV
Mutant X is a science fiction television series that debuted on October 6, 2001. The show was created by Avi Arad, and it centers around Mutant X, a team of "New Mutants" who possess extraordinary powers as a result of genetic engineering. The members of Mutant X were used as test subjects in a series of covert government experiments. The mission of Mutant X is to seek out and protect their fellow New Mutants. The series was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Even though the series had high ratings and was meant to be renewed for a fourth season, it was abruptly canceled in 2004 after the dismantling of Fireworks Entertainment, one of the show's production companies, ending the show on a cliffhanger.
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Seasons of Love
Title: Seasons of Love
Character: Brian Brierly
Released: March 7, 1999
Type: Movie
Sprawling tale spanning 50 years in the life of the fictional Linthorne family as seen through the eyes of the rugged head of the clan as he and his wife weather the years of hardship on the prairie after settling on a parcel of untilled Midwestern farmland in 1866 in hopes of living a prosperous life together.
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Pale Saints
Title: Pale Saints
Character: Uncle Sam
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that they think will get them serious recognition in the mob. Things soon get out of control.
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Fly Away Home
Title: Fly Away Home
Character: Smalltown Businessman
Released: September 13, 1996
Type: Movie
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest was torn down. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". When Winter comes, Amy, and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South.
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Two If by Sea
Title: Two If by Sea
Character: Sheriff Herbert Horn
Released: January 12, 1996
Type: Movie
Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, where he wants to sell the painting and also hopes that their sagging relationship will get a positive push back up. Not everything goes as planned.
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Title: Goosebumps
Character: Mayor
Released: October 27, 1995
Type: TV
Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations, and how they work to confront and overcome their fears.
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To Catch a Killer
Title: To Catch a Killer
Character: Detective #1
Released: May 15, 1992
Type: Movie
"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.
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Naked Lunch
Title: Naked Lunch
Character: Hauser
Released: December 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
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Where the Spirit Lives
Title: Where the Spirit Lives
Character: Mr. Babcock
Released: June 6, 1990
Type: Movie
In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.
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Young Again
Title: Young Again
Character: Coach
Released: May 11, 1986
Type: Movie
A 40-year-old bachelor gets his wish to be 17 again, and he goes back to high school where he romances the daughter of the woman he dated in high school the first time.
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One Magic Christmas
Title: One Magic Christmas
Character: Mr. Noonan
Released: November 22, 1985
Type: Movie
Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel.
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Charlie Grant's War
Title: Charlie Grant's War
Character: Fritz
Released: January 27, 1985
Type: Movie
A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of the Third Reich.
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Hide and Seek
Title: Hide and Seek
Released: July 1, 1984
Type: Movie
In this adaptation of the 1977 sci-fi novel, "The Adolescence of P-1," a high school whiz kid's computer program accidentally hooks into the mainframe computer of a nuclear power plant.
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And When They Shall Ask
Title: And When They Shall Ask
Character: Menno Simons
Released: November 22, 1983
Type: Movie
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Double Negative
Title: Double Negative
Character: Trucker
Released: May 12, 1980
Type: Movie
Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
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City on Fire
Title: City on Fire
Character: Albert
Released: July 11, 1979
Type: Movie
An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
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Why Shoot the Teacher?
Title: Why Shoot the Teacher?
Character: Dave McDougall
Released: June 23, 1977
Type: Movie
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.
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Age of Innocence
Title: Age of Innocence
Character: Constable
Released: April 28, 1977
Type: Movie
A British schoolteacher finds trouble in a conservative Canadian town.