Don McKellar

Don McKellar

Born: August 17, 1963
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Don McKellar CM (born August 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor, writer, playwright, and filmmaker.

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Crimes of the Future
Title: Crimes of the Future
Character: Wippet
Released: May 25, 2022
Type: Movie
With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin, an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission -- to use Saul's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
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The Middle Man
Title: The Middle Man
Character: Doctor
Released: September 17, 2021
Type: Movie
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
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The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
Title: The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
Character: Bernard Buckley
Released: September 30, 2020
Type: Movie
A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.
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Target Number One
Title: Target Number One
Character: Norm
Released: July 10, 2020
Type: Movie
Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok incarceration, the news of his conviction captures the attention of Globe and Mail journalist Victor Malarek, who decides to go after the shady undercover cops responsible for wrongly accusing Daniel.
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Title: Hey Lady!
Character: Dr. Wolfe
Released: January 14, 2020
Type: TV
Nothing is safe when fearlessly off-the-charts senior citizen Lady and her chain-smoking best friend embark on a rampage of urban vengeance, upturning everything in their path.
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American Woman
Title: American Woman
Character: Newscaster 1 (voice)
Released: September 12, 2019
Type: Movie
A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well-known, recently radicalized heiress.
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Through Black Spruce
Title: Through Black Spruce
Character: Journalist
Released: March 29, 2019
Type: Movie
The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her.
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Waiting for Ishtar
Title: Waiting for Ishtar
Character: Self
Released: December 14, 2017
Type: Movie
A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting list, while simultaneously examining the fate of the famous Hollywood bomb Ishtar (1987).
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Meditation Park
Title: Meditation Park
Character: Gabriel
Released: September 8, 2017
Type: Movie
A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.
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Blood Honey
Title: Blood Honey
Character: Dr. Bert Morrison
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Tortured by the memory of a childhood trauma, a woman returns after a decade to her family's fly-in hunting lodge to assist her siblings with their dying father, only to find herself stuck in a life threatening nightmare.
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Lolz-ita
Title: Lolz-ita
Character: Eric
Released: August 30, 2017
Type: Movie
A naïve but internet savvy 22 year old navigates the reality of her boring, small town Canadian life juxtaposed with the fantasy of her provocative and powerful Instagram celebrity.
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Your Mother and I
Title: Your Mother and I
Character: Father
Released: September 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Johnna's dad changed the world. Or so he says. Whilst Johnna and her dad are talking, they can't seem to connect, each growing more and more frustrated with one another, revolving around one another in their own orbits.
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Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
Title: Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
Character: Dietmar
Released: June 13, 2016
Type: Movie
Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home with her over-protective Chinese grandparents and has never been anywhere by herself. Once in Iran, she finds herself in the company of poets and Persians, all who tell her stories that force her to confront her past; the Iranian father she assumed abandoned her and the nature of Poetry itself. It’s about building bridges between cultural and generational divides. It’s about being curious. Staying open. And finding your own voice through the magic of poetry. Rosie goes on an unwitting journey of forgiveness, reconciliation, and perhaps above all, understanding, through learning about her father’s past, her own cultural identity, and her responsibility to it.
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Zoom
Title: Zoom
Character: Horowitz
Released: September 11, 2015
Type: Movie
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.
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Title: Sensitive Skin
Character: Al
Released: July 20, 2014
Type: TV
Davina and her husband Al try to revamp their lives as they struggle with the uncertainties of middle age.
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Three Days in Havana
Title: Three Days in Havana
Character: Pepe
Released: March 28, 2014
Type: Movie
A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.
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Treading Water
Title: Treading Water
Character: Richard
Released: September 13, 2013
Type: Movie
Mica is born smelling of fish that soap and doctors can't remove. Problems increase starting school as no one'll be his friend. He sees a therapist. His life seems doomed until he meets Laura.
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Subconscious Password
Title: Subconscious Password
Character: The Host (voice)
Released: June 10, 2013
Type: Movie
In this short animation, Oscar®-winning director Chris Landreth uses a common social gaffe - forgetting somebody's name - as the starting point for a mind-bending romp through the unconscious. Inspired by the classic TV game show Password, the film features a wealth of animated celebrity guests who try (and try, and try) to prompt Charles to remember the name. Finally, he realizes he will simply have to surrender himself to his predicament.
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I'm Yours
Title: I'm Yours
Character: Phil
Released: April 20, 2012
Type: Movie
A road movie romance that conjures a heady concoction of free love and end of the world conspiracy.
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Trigger
Title: Trigger
Character: Brian
Released: September 12, 2010
Type: Movie
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Title: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Character: Director
Released: August 12, 2010
Type: Movie
As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ex-boyfriends who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors.
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Cooking With Stella
Title: Cooking With Stella
Character: Michael Laffont
Released: March 19, 2010
Type: Movie
Inside the Canadian diplomatic compound in New Delhi, a mischievous cook affects the lives of her employers and fellow staff.
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Title: Republic of Doyle
Character: J.J. Murphy
Released: January 6, 2010
Type: TV
Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.
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Leslie, My Name Is Evil
Title: Leslie, My Name Is Evil
Character: Prosecutor
Released: September 14, 2009
Type: Movie
A young jury member becomes infatuated with Leslie, a troubled teenager and former homecoming princess, who became a follower of Charles Manson's cult and is now on trial for murder.
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Green Door
Title: Green Door
Character: Ron
Released: September 7, 2008
Type: Movie
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Blindness
Title: Blindness
Character: Thief
Released: May 14, 2008
Type: Movie
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
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Redacted
Title: Redacted
Character: Criminal Investigator (voice)
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: Movie
A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.
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Monkey Warfare
Title: Monkey Warfare
Character: Dan
Released: September 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radical who goes from smashing SUVs to fighting gentrification with firebombs.
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Title: Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story
Character: Clarence Fines
Released: March 12, 2006
Type: TV
In 1930s Saskatchewan, a small town parish has a new young new pastor, Tommy Douglas. However, for all his regular duties, which include boxing lessons, Tommy sees the poverty and injustice around him which seem beyond his power to address with the pulpit. With that in mind, Douglas enters politics with the socialist Canadian Commonwealth Federation and starts a career where his steadfast idealism runs headlong into the powerful opposition of the rich and the powerful. Despite the long odds, Douglas' new calling would soon make him a leader that would transform Canada and have him hailed as the greatest Canadian of all.
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Title: At the Hotel
Released: March 7, 2006
Type: TV
At the Hotel is a Canadian drama-comedy-musical mini-series concerning the goings-on at an illustrious Montreal hotel, known for its favourable treatment of struggling artists. Created by Ken Finkleman and produced by One Hundred Percent Television, the series aired on CBC Television in 2006. The music is composed by Robert Carli. This is the only Ken Finkleman production in which he did not cast himself as a character. He does however make a very brief on-screen appearance as a member of the crew shooting a music video in the hotel.
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Where the Truth Lies
Title: Where the Truth Lies
Character: Publishing Executive
Released: October 7, 2005
Type: Movie
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
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Childstar
Title: Childstar
Character: Rick
Released: September 10, 2004
Type: Movie
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
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Clean
Title: Clean
Character: Vernon
Released: September 1, 2004
Type: Movie
After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.
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Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
Title: Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
Character: Self / Pokey Jones / Patrick Wheeler / Matt Shapiro / Brad
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.
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Title: Slings & Arrows
Released: November 3, 2003
Type: TV
This darkly comic Canadian series follows the fortunes of a dysfunctional Shakespearean theatre troupe at the fictional New Burbage Festival, exposing the high drama, scorching battles, and artistic miracles that happen behind the scenes.
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Title: Slings & Arrows
Character: Darren Nichols
Released: November 3, 2003
Type: TV
This darkly comic Canadian series follows the fortunes of a dysfunctional Shakespearean theatre troupe at the fictional New Burbage Festival, exposing the high drama, scorching battles, and artistic miracles that happen behind the scenes.
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Title: Odd Job Jack
Character: Jack Ryder (voice)
Released: March 5, 2003
Type: TV
Odd Job Jack was a Canadian animated comedy television show featuring Don McKellar, about one man's misadventures in temporary employment. Seen on and produced for the The Comedy Network, a cable specialty channel, and shown on Adult Swim in Latin America, the show has currently finished its production run as of its fourth season. The second season has been released to DVD, and seasons two through four can currently be seen on the on demand streaming video service Hulu.
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The Event
Title: The Event
Character: Matt Shapiro
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a musician who had AIDS. As she questions Matt's loyal family members -mother Lila and sister Dana- she comes to learn that his closest pal, health-care worker Brian, is an ardent believer in assisted suicide and that he threw Matt a big party before his death. This presents a dilemma for the humane but dutiful Nick.
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Public Domain
Title: Public Domain
Character: Host
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A dark, wryly funny film about a game show run by smug pseudo-intellectuals that awards money to the contestant with the most pathetic life. The "contestants" are unaware they're even playing the game: the show's producers infiltrate houses, install surveillance cameras and broadcast footage for viewers to judge in such existential categories as doubt, alienation and disillusionment. A biting critique of the culture of surveillance as entertainment.
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Rub & Tug
Title: Rub & Tug
Character: Conrad
Released: September 10, 2002
Type: Movie
The new manager of a full-body massage parlor must make sure his employees do not grant sexual favors to clients.
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Trudeau
Title: Trudeau
Character: Greenbaum
Released: March 31, 2002
Type: Movie
This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians.
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Waydowntown
Title: Waydowntown
Character: Brad
Released: January 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Four young office workers have a bet going to see who can last the longest without going outside. In the maze that is the downtown core of a large city, glass skywalks connect apartment buildings, office towers and shopping malls. Its day 28 of the bet and over the lunch hour, as the office prepares for the company founder's retirement party, things start to seriously unravel.
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I Was a Rat
Title: I Was a Rat
Character: Oliver Tapscrew
Released: December 9, 2001
Type: Movie
A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is cold, wet and desperate for shelter, but Bob and Joan are perplexed by his claims that he was once a rat. Meanwhile, rumours are rife at the newspaper about the prince's new love: a girl who captivated everyone at the palace ball.
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Title: Degrassi
Character: Keith
Released: October 14, 2001
Type: TV
The life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School.
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The Art of Woo
Title: The Art of Woo
Character: Nathan
Released: September 9, 2001
Type: Movie
Alessa Woo (Lee) is an ambitious art dealer who meets her match in gifted painter Ben Crowchild (Beach) in this romantic comedy.
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This Might Be Good
Title: This Might Be Good
Released: September 7, 2000
Type: Movie
A festival is a concentration of hope. Audiences hungering for something startingly new, famously familiar or just plain "good". Actors hoping their well-conceived sincerity and ritual entrances have that special glow. Press and critics poised to love or hate lucidly. And proud, desperate filmmakers looking for that little blessing on their latest self-projection. All squeezing together for a few days, in a few rooms wondering whether this will truly be the perfect place at the perfect time. Of course, it rarely is. Mostly it's just a collection of almosts. Delicious, shared almosts.
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Vinyl
Title: Vinyl
Character: Himself
Released: August 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.
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Sea People
Title: Sea People
Character: Mr. Whittaker
Released: June 21, 1999
Type: Movie
At 14, Amanda is a perfect swimmer and a great student. When the factory where his father works closes and he must go to work in another city, she feels very sad. One morning she meets the McRea, a very nice elderly couple who, like her, cannot live without the sea, although in another sense.
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eXistenZ
Title: eXistenZ
Character: Yevgeny Nourish
Released: April 14, 1999
Type: Movie
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
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The Passion of Ayn Rand
Title: The Passion of Ayn Rand
Character: Alfred
Released: January 27, 1999
Type: Movie
Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.
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Last Night
Title: Last Night
Character: Patrick Wheeler
Released: October 23, 1998
Type: Movie
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
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Elimination Dance
Title: Elimination Dance
Character: Male Dance Partner
Released: September 12, 1998
Type: Movie
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.
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The Red Violin
Title: The Red Violin
Character: Evan Williams (Montréal)
Released: September 10, 1998
Type: Movie
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.
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Title: Twitch City
Character: Curtis
Released: January 19, 1998
Type: TV
Twitch City is a surreal sitcom set in the Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood of Kensington Market, and follows Curtis, a television addict who refuses to leave his apartment, and his friends and roommates Nathan and Hope. In the series' first episode, Nathan is sent to prison for killing a homeless man with a can of cat food, leaving Curtis and Hope to find a replacement roommate to help with the rent.
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Sarabande
Title: Sarabande
Character: Max
Released: October 24, 1997
Type: Movie
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels to Canada to perform Bach's Cello Suites.
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Title: In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Character: Paul Heller
Released: April 20, 1997
Type: Movie
In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redemption.
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Title: Once a Thief
Released: September 29, 1996
Type: TV
Once a Thief is a 1997 Canadian television show inspired by the 1996 film of the same name.
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Never Met Picasso
Title: Never Met Picasso
Character: Jerry
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, aspiring painter Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. Though things aren't great for Andrew, neither are they wonderful for his lesbian friend Lucy who constantly bickers with her lover Ingrid. Lucy complicates Andrew's life when she introduces him to the suspicious-looking, enigmatic Jerry.
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Joe's So Mean to Josephine
Title: Joe's So Mean to Josephine
Character: Mike
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it's not a nice place to be. But is it too late?
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When Night Is Falling
Title: When Night Is Falling
Character: Timothy
Released: February 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A prudish woman working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university finds herself attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman who works at a local carnival.
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Exotica
Title: Exotica
Character: Thomas
Released: November 30, 1994
Type: Movie
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.
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Camilla
Title: Camilla
Character: Security Guard
Released: November 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly woman who plays the violin. When the two embark on a journey together, Camilla reclaims a lost love and makes peace with herself and her son, while Freda discovers inner resources she never knew she had.
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Arrowhead
Title: Arrowhead
Character: Ray Bud
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A man claims to have found a dinosaur skeleton in a vacant lot next to his apartment building.
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Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Title: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Character: Concert Promoter
Released: November 26, 1993
Type: Movie
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
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My Niagara
Title: My Niagara
Character: Cabel
Released: September 12, 1992
Type: Movie
Shadowed by the death of her mother, Julie Kumagai's life with her widower father is marked by pained, turbulent exchanges. Indifferent to a break-up with her boyfriend and the lure of a long-planned trip, she finds some refuge in her workplace where she meets Tetsuro, a young Korean man newly emigrated from Japan who is obsessed with all things American. But together they discover no easy resolutions.
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Giant Steps
Title: Giant Steps
Character: Real Estate Hucker
Released: September 12, 1992
Type: Movie
A boy with an alcoholic father befriends a jazz musician.
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The Adjuster
Title: The Adjuster
Character: Tyler, the young censor
Released: November 27, 1991
Type: Movie
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
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Highway 61
Title: Highway 61
Character: Pokey Jones
Released: September 5, 1991
Type: Movie
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.
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Roadkill
Title: Roadkill
Character: Russel, the Serial Killer
Released: September 16, 1989
Type: Movie
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.