Reed Birney

Reed Birney

Born: September 11, 1954
in Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Reed Birney (born September 11, 1954) is an American actor. Birney is known for his performances on stage and screen often acting on and off Broadway. Birney gained acclaim in 2016 for his role in The Humans winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He was also nominated previously in the same category for his performance in Casa Valentina in 2014.

He starred in the films Mass (2021), and The Menu (2022). He is also known for his recurring roles in Gossip Girl (2007–2009), House of Cards (2013–2017), The Blacklist (2014–2015), and Home Before Dark (2021–2022). He has also acted in The Americans, The Handmaid's Tale, and Succession.

Movies for Reed Birney...

Asynchronous
Title: Asynchronous
Released: March 28, 2024
Type: Movie
A cancer-stricken professor becomes dangerously obsessed with the town's mayor.
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Baby Ruby
Title: Baby Ruby
Character: Dr. Rosenbaum
Released: February 3, 2023
Type: Movie
After welcoming her baby, Ruby, home, the tightly scripted world of lifestyle influencer Jo starts to unravel. As increasingly sinister happenings mount, Jo is plunged into a waking fever dream where everyone is a threat and nothing is what it seems.
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Title: Poker Face
Character: Ben / Gabriel
Released: January 26, 2023
Type: TV
This mystery-of-the-week series follows Charlie Cale, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve.
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Stomach People
Title: Stomach People
Character: Dad
Released: November 28, 2022
Type: Movie
When Julia returns home for her grandmother's funeral, she has a nervous breakdown and vomits up the imaginary friends that have been living inside her stomach since she was seven.
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The Menu
Title: The Menu
Character: Richard
Released: November 17, 2022
Type: Movie
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
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Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Character: Luq
Released: May 5, 2022
Type: TV
Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.
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Mass
Title: Mass
Character: Richard
Released: October 8, 2021
Type: Movie
Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.
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Someone Will Assist You Shortly
Title: Someone Will Assist You Shortly
Character: Dennis Shields
Released: September 30, 2021
Type: Movie
SOMEONE WILL ASSIST YOU SHORTLY explores a hospice nurse's panic and isolation as he cares for his abusive and cognitively impaired father.
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Strawberry Mansion
Title: Strawberry Mansion
Character: Peter Bloom
Released: July 22, 2021
Type: Movie
In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote farmhouse to audit the dreams of Arabella “Bella” Isadora, an eccentric, aging artist. Entering Bella’s vast VHS archive, which contains a lifetime of dreams, Preble stumbles upon a secret that offers him a chance at love—and hope for escape.
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The Hunt
Title: The Hunt
Character: Pop
Released: March 11, 2020
Type: Movie
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.
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Lost Girls
Title: Lost Girls
Character: Peter Hackett
Released: January 28, 2020
Type: Movie
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered prostitutes.
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The Forty-Year-Old Version
Title: The Forty-Year-Old Version
Character: J. Whitman
Released: January 25, 2020
Type: Movie
Desperate for a breakthrough as she nears the big 4-0, struggling New York City playwright Radha finds inspiration by reinventing herself as a rapper.
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w4m
Title: w4m
Character: Peter
Released: April 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Marley places a Craigslist ad, which is answered by Peter, for a rendezvous with an older man. But when he shows up, things don't quite go as planned. Will everyone leave satisfied?
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The Lost Weekend
Title: The Lost Weekend
Character: Henry
Released: April 5, 2019
Type: Movie
After a rough breakup, Charlie Monahan dives headfirst into the world of online dating. Guided by his charismatic best friend, Rufus, Charlie meets the charmingly complicated Maggie Mae. Quickly learning the differences between expectations and reality, Charlie's forced to confront the challenges of maintaining a relationship in the digital age. In an era where everyone's connected, Charlie's never felt more apart.
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The Last
Title: The Last
Character: Harry
Released: March 29, 2019
Type: Movie
The survivors of four generations of a Jewish family are rocked to their core when the family's 92-year-old matriarch makes a stunning confession
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All the Little Things We Kill
Title: All the Little Things We Kill
Character: Senator Gerald Hess
Released: January 1, 2019
Type: Movie
A college professor takes her students hostage to force the passage of a bill that bans semi-automatic weapons.
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Title: Titans
Character: The Messenger / Dr. Adamson
Released: October 12, 2018
Type: TV
A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.
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Title: A Million Little Things
Character: Eugene Bloon
Released: September 26, 2018
Type: TV
A group of friends from Boston who feel stuck in life experience an unexpected wake-up call after one of their friends dies unexpectedly.
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Title: Succession
Character: Dave Boyer
Released: June 3, 2018
Type: TV
Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Title: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Character: Dr. George Gey
Released: April 22, 2017
Type: Movie
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
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Shy Guys
Title: Shy Guys
Character: Carl
Released: October 17, 2016
Type: Movie
Two strangers bravely confront and resolve one of the most terrifying and perplexing scourges to ever afflict mankind… all while standing at neighboring urinals.
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Title: Bull
Character: Judge Humphrey
Released: September 20, 2016
Type: TV
Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.
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Half the Perfect World
Title: Half the Perfect World
Character: Peter
Released: August 26, 2016
Type: Movie
When solid and steadfast hat maker Lily (Heather Lind) is seduced by her boyfriend's cousin Daniel (Ryan O'Nan), her seemingly perfect world is turned upside down.
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Dinner with Jeffrey
Title: Dinner with Jeffrey
Character: Jeffrey
Released: May 29, 2016
Type: Movie
Oliver has just come out of the closet and is struggling with the feeling that he has to change who he is to fit in with other gays, when his gay uncle Jeffrey takes him to dinner and tries to teach him about the 'gay lifestyle'.
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Occupy, Texas
Title: Occupy, Texas
Character: Uncle Nolan
Released: April 15, 2016
Type: Movie
After years away from home, and receiving news of his parents’ deaths, a disillusioned Occupier is forced from his tent in Zuccotti Park to upper middle class Texas, where he must repair his two sisters, his past, and himself.
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Mad Women
Title: Mad Women
Released: June 10, 2015
Type: Movie
A mother of three daughters (one died at the age of three) commits a crime of conscience and becomes radicalized in prison; she turns into an idealist run amok, determined to change her little corner of the world for the better. Her middle daughter, with a physician for a father, an older sister who joins Doctors Without Borders, and a baby sister who dies, is fanatically trying to find a place for herself in this family of overachievers.
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Jackrabbit
Title: Jackrabbit
Character: Paul Bateson
Released: April 18, 2015
Type: Movie
Following a worldwide event known as The Reset, humanity rebuilds a society with aging mechanics where gleaming technology once stood. Surveillance now the status quo, society is slowly putting its shattered pieces back together under a watchful eye. After a friend’s suicide leaves behind a mysterious computer drive, a young computer prodigy and a shadowy hacker join together to decipher the clues that he’s left behind. The youthful creators of Jackrabbit have successfully constructed a world, which we haven’t previously seen on film. Mixing retro production design with slick storytelling, they deliver a cinematic dissonance that will result in a shock to the senses.
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In Your Eyes
Title: In Your Eyes
Character: Dr. Maynard
Released: April 20, 2014
Type: Movie
Two seemingly unconnected souls from different corners of the United States make a telepathic bond that allows them to see, hear and feel the other's experiences, creating a bond that apparently can't be broken.
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: Tom Connolly
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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Adult World
Title: Adult World
Character: Todd
Released: April 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.
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Title: House of Cards
Character: Donald Blythe
Released: February 1, 2013
Type: TV
Set in present day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, a ruthless and cunning politician, and his wife Claire who will stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama penetrates the shadowy world of greed, sex and corruption in modern D.C.
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Title: The Americans
Character: Patrick McCleesh
Released: January 30, 2013
Type: TV
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
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Girl Most Likely
Title: Girl Most Likely
Character: Dr. Chalmers
Released: September 7, 2012
Type: Movie
A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.
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Title: American Horror Story
Character: Dexter Harding
Released: October 5, 2011
Type: TV
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
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Twelve Thirty
Title: Twelve Thirty
Character: Martin
Released: January 14, 2011
Type: Movie
TWELVE THIRTY is drama about a family with adult children that is broken, and a self-centered young man who, in the span of a week, becomes entangled in each of their lives, wreaking havoc in the process.
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Morning Glory
Title: Morning Glory
Character: Governor Willis
Released: November 10, 2010
Type: Movie
A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.
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Title: Blue Bloods
Character: Burden Maxwell
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: TV
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.
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Title: The Good Wife
Character: Lee Tripke
Released: September 22, 2009
Type: TV
Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.
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Changeling
Title: Changeling
Character: Mayor Cryer
Released: October 24, 2008
Type: Movie
Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
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Title: Gossip Girl
Character: Mr. Prescott
Released: September 19, 2007
Type: TV
An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.
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The Ten
Title: The Ten
Character: Jim Stansel
Released: August 3, 2007
Type: Movie
Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.
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Uptown Girls
Title: Uptown Girls
Character: Executive
Released: August 15, 2003
Type: Movie
Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored daughter of a music executive she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Fred Martz
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: A.D.A. Stillman
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Harry Waters
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.
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The Trey Billings Show
Title: The Trey Billings Show
Character: Mr. Hiney
Released: July 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A late-night cable access show goes to hell!
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A Perfect Murder
Title: A Perfect Murder
Character: Merchant Prince #1
Released: June 5, 1998
Type: Movie
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory.
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Title: From the Earth to the Moon
Character: John Houbolt
Released: April 5, 1998
Type: TV
The story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972.
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You Are Here
Title: You Are Here
Character: Jack's Boss
Released: March 24, 1997
Type: Movie
After getting laid-off, a businessman accepts his boss' offer of a week at his gorgeous country estate. On a whim, the businessman asks a casual acquaintance (at whom he frequently waves while en route to work) to join him.
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Karen Black Like Me
Title: Karen Black Like Me
Character: King Dong (voice)
Released: January 18, 1997
Type: Movie
David Briggs' Karen Black Like Me is a weirdly funny homage to the 70s cult classic Trilogy of Terror.
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Title: Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Character: Actor
Released: December 19, 1994
Type: Movie
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by the final difficult years. Includes some of the most celebrated scenes from film adaptations of Williams' work, among them extracts of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951),Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Night of the Iguana, The (1964), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1993) (TV). Contains footage of Williams being interviewed, including conversations with David Frost, 'Edward R. Murrow (I)', and Melvyn Bragg, as well as reminiscences from people who knew and worked with him, among them Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, and his lifelong friend, Lady Maria St. Just. Features readings from Elia Kazan's Notebook by Kim Hunter.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Everett Brown
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Archdioces Attorney
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Malcolm Barclay
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Paul
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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Title: Beverly Hills Buntz
Character: Wininger's Campaign Director Larry Fielding
Released: November 5, 1987
Type: TV
Beverly Hills Buntz is a spinoff from Hill Street Blues. It aired on NBC during the 1987–88 season.
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Title: Kane & Abel
Character: Matthew Lester
Released: November 17, 1985
Type: TV
Kane & Abel is a television miniseries, based on the novel of the same name written by Jeffrey Archer, that aired on CBS in 1985. It stars Peter Strauss as Rosnovski and Sam Neill as Kane.
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Chain Letters
Title: Chain Letters
Character: Greg
Released: September 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Nine Manhattanites receive a chain letter. Depending on their decision to either pass the letter on or to break the chain, the various characters can encounter romance, fulfillment -- and sudden death.
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Crimewave
Title: Crimewave
Character: Vic Ajax
Released: April 12, 1985
Type: Movie
Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When things go drastically wrong and they murder the wrong man, the race is on to frame an innocent video surveillance man.
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Means and Ends
Title: Means and Ends
Character: Ryan
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A 1985 Canadian drama.
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Four Friends
Title: Four Friends
Character: Louie
Released: December 11, 1981
Type: Movie
A young immigrant comes to America in the 60s and is caught up in the counterculture movement which tests his bonds of friendship and love.
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The Greatest Man in the World
Title: The Greatest Man in the World
Character: Smidgeon
Released: June 9, 1981
Type: Movie
This version of James Thurber's tale tells the story of a young amateur pilot who beats Charles Lindbergh's feat of nonstop flying around the world--with his own unique ways of conserving fuel and energy.
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Too Far to Go
Title: Too Far to Go
Character: Young Driver
Released: March 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.
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Not a Pretty Picture
Title: Not a Pretty Picture
Character: Fred
Released: January 3, 1976
Type: Movie
Mixing narrative and documentary filming in a unique way the story is autobiographical and is about a date rape dissecting the characters and circumstances around it.