Arliss Howard

Arliss Howard

Born: October 18, 1954
in Independence, Missouri, USA
Arliss Howard (born Leslie Richard Howard; October 18, 1954) is an American actor, writer and film director.

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The Killer
Title: The Killer
Character: The Client - Claybourne
Released: October 25, 2023
Type: Movie
After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
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Title: Mr. Corman
Character: Larry
Released: August 6, 2021
Type: TV
With better luck, better choices, better posture... Josh Corman could’ve been a rock star. Now he teaches fifth grade, and though he loves his students, he still struggles to find happiness and meaning in a world that sometimes feels short on both.
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With/In Volume 2
Title: With/In Volume 2
Character: (segment "Still Life")
Released: June 14, 2021
Type: Movie
Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directors to first-timers, all provided with the same iPhone and basic gear to bring their visions to life.
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The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Title: The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Character: Self
Released: February 27, 2021
Type: Movie
Join acclaimed director David Fincher, actors Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried, and the cast and crew of MANK, for a peek behind the curtain of Netflix's black-and-white ode to Hollywood's Golden Age.
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Lapsis
Title: Lapsis
Character: Dr. Mangold
Released: February 12, 2021
Type: Movie
In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the zone, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out.
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Mank
Title: Mank
Character: Louis B. Mayer
Released: November 13, 2020
Type: Movie
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
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The Boy Downstairs
Title: The Boy Downstairs
Character: Diana's Father
Released: February 16, 2018
Type: Movie
A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.
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Mosaic
Title: Mosaic
Released: October 13, 2017
Type: Movie
A dissection of hybrid identity in ten chapters through the life of a chimeric evolving creature 'Mosaic' and confessions by the most influentials scientists of our time.
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Title: Manhunt
Character: Earl Embry
Released: August 1, 2017
Type: TV
Inspired by actual events, this true crime anthology series takes a deep dive into the dark, twisted minds of terrorists and follows the brave souls who hunt them down.
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Concussion
Title: Concussion
Character: Dr. Joseph Maroon
Released: November 12, 2015
Type: Movie
A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
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Moneyball
Title: Moneyball
Character: John Henry
Released: September 23, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
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Title: Rubicon
Character: Kale Ingram
Released: June 13, 2010
Type: TV
An intelligence analyst at a national think tank in New York City called the American Policy Institute discovers that he may be working with members of a secret society that manipulates world events on a grand scale.
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The Time Traveler's Wife
Title: The Time Traveler's Wife
Character: Richard DeTamble
Released: August 14, 2009
Type: Movie
Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.
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Title: True Blood
Character: Truman Burrell
Released: September 7, 2008
Type: TV
Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic, blood vampires have progressed from legendary monsters to fellow citizens overnight. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu, many remain apprehensive about these creatures "coming out of the coffin." Religious leaders, government officials, and vampire fundamentalists around the world have chosen their sides, but in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, the jury is still out.
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Awake
Title: Awake
Character: Dr. Jonathan Neyer
Released: November 28, 2007
Type: Movie
While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.
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Weapons
Title: Weapons
Character: Mikey's Uncle
Released: January 19, 2007
Type: Movie
Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and tragically reveals how they are all interrelated.
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Title: Medium
Character: Captain Kenneth Push
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.
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Birth
Title: Birth
Character: Bob
Released: October 29, 2004
Type: Movie
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.
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Dandelion
Title: Dandelion
Character: Luke Mullich
Released: January 15, 2004
Type: Movie
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender bond is soon tested after a fatal accident and a series of complications takes Mason away for something he didn't do.
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Word of Honor
Title: Word of Honor
Character: J.D. Runnells
Released: December 6, 2003
Type: Movie
Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 18 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand trial for murder. Tyson, confronted by an army authority anxious to save its own face, an embarrassed federal government, and a threatened marriage, and entangled, furthermore, in his own past lives and present sense of guilt, must call on all his cleverness and his own inner toughness to fight his case.
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Big Bad Love
Title: Big Bad Love
Character: Barlow
Released: October 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Vietnam veteran Leon Barlow is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His unsympathetic ex-wife Marilyn doesn't approve of his visits with his two children, and he has problems with alcohol. Yet even when Leon manages to catch up on alimony and child support payments, things in his life seem to decline further, until a sudden tragedy catches him off guard.
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A Map of the World
Title: A Map of the World
Character: Paul Reverdy
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: Movie
School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting charges of child abuse.
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You Know My Name
Title: You Know My Name
Character: Wiley
Released: August 22, 1999
Type: Movie
In six months, the population of Cromwell, Oklahoma, has climbed from 500 to 10,000. Boom times have come to the oil-rich town. So has a new breed of criminal. You Know My Name is the fact-based story of Bill Tilghman, a lawman and former partner of Wyatt Earp confronted by an emerging era when outlaws run whiskey instead of cattle and are likely to tote a tommy gun as carry a six-gun. An ideally cast Sam Elliott plays Tilghman, whose life takes on a newfangled wrinkle of its own. Tilghman makes a moving picture of his Old West exploits; and the success of that silent film, The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws, spreads his reputation like a brushfire. But that reputation may mean nothing to a thug (Arliss Howard) who hides behind a badge.
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The Lesser Evil
Title: The Lesser Evil
Character: Ivan
Released: October 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Four best friends reunite in a remote cabin for the first time in two decades. They are not there to reminisce about the good old days, but rather, to sort out the deadly details of one fateful afternoon in their past, when they all skipped school - and their lives were altered forever. Now the haunting truth has caught up with them, along with the reality that they are probably heading for jail. But in the soul-searching angst of deciding right from wrong, the though of going down after all this time seems incomprehensible. And with the authorities hot on their trail, the old friends quickly realize that someone has to pay and their only option to remain free is to sacrifice the only thing they've held on to for years... each other!
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Amistad
Title: Amistad
Character: John C. Calhoun
Released: December 10, 1997
Type: Movie
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Title: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Character: Peter Ludlow
Released: May 23, 1997
Type: Movie
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.
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Old Man
Title: Old Man
Character: J.J. Taylor
Released: February 10, 1997
Type: Movie
A prisoner set on serving his time gets recruited to save a pregnant woman trapped in a tree during the Great Flood of 1927. A massive storm drives them farther from their destination and they soon must decide to go off on their own or find their way home.
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Johns
Title: Johns
Character: John Cardoza
Released: December 10, 1996
Type: Movie
It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night and the next day at the posh Park Plaza Hotel. Meanwhile, Donner, a lad new to the streets, wants John to leave the city with him. John spends the day trying to figure out how to deal with Donner's friendship.
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The Man Who Captured Eichmann
Title: The Man Who Captured Eichmann
Character: Peter Malkin
Released: November 8, 1996
Type: Movie
Set in 1960, the story follows the efforts of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, to find former SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who ran from Germany to Argentina and took the name Ricardo Clement. He was wanted for the murders of both Europeans and Jews during the Holocaust. Learning of Eichmann's living in Argentina, the Mossad sends a team to capture him, led by agent Peter Malkin. The standing order: bring Eichmann back alive to Israel for trial.
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Beyond the Call
Title: Beyond the Call
Character: Keith O'Brien
Released: June 23, 1996
Type: Movie
Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is stunned to learn this and does not believe he could commit such a crime. She writes to him much to the dismay of her husband Keith and becomes obsessed with the case, exploring every avenue that may still be open to the doomed man. The trips to the prison take a toll on both her marriage and her family.
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Tales of Erotica
Title: Tales of Erotica
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Title: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Character: Virgil
Released: September 7, 1995
Type: Movie
A cross country trip to Hollywood is cut short by an unreliable engine & an unpleasant encounter with law enforcement. With the power of drag, three self proclaimed career-girls bring a bit of much needed beauty to rural middle America!
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The Infiltrator
Title: The Infiltrator
Character: Eaton
Released: June 24, 1995
Type: Movie
In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bringing Nazism back to the forefront in Germany.
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Natural Born Killers
Title: Natural Born Killers
Character: Owen Traft
Released: August 26, 1994
Type: Movie
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
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Wet
Title: Wet
Character: Bruce Lomann
Released: May 4, 1994
Type: Movie
The attractive Davida enters a shop shortly before off-time and wants to buy a bathtub. Just the manager is still there. As business is not well, he is willing to stay longer. Davida wants to try the bathtubs. Although this is not allowed in the shop the manager agrees. As if that is not enough, Davida says she wants the bathtub for two and needs to be sure it fits her needs. She wants the manager to take place in the bathtub too.
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Wilder Napalm
Title: Wilder Napalm
Character: Wilder
Released: August 20, 1993
Type: Movie
Wilder and Wallace are brothers and pyrokinetics. Ever since childhood they've been able to start fires with their minds but following a tragedy in which they accidentally killed a man, the brothers have grown up very differently. Wilder has become a regular 9-5 workaday joe but Wallace performs his feats with a traveling circus. When the circus comes to Wilder's home town Wallace starts coming on strong to Wilder's wife, Vida who, ironically, is a slight pyromaniac.
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The Sandlot
Title: The Sandlot
Character: Adult Scotty Smalls (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1993
Type: Movie
During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confronting the terrifying mystery beyond the right field wall.
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CrissCross
Title: CrissCross
Character: Joe
Released: May 8, 1992
Type: Movie
Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out about her activities and tries to convince her to stop, to no avail. A local restaurant owner hires him to collect fish from a boat out in the bay, and the boy discovers that the restaurant owner is using the fish to bring drugs in to shore. He steals one load and goes about selling it so his mother can afford to quit her job.
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Ruby
Title: Ruby
Character: Maxwell
Released: March 27, 1992
Type: Movie
Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.
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Those Secrets
Title: Those Secrets
Character: Simon
Released: March 16, 1992
Type: Movie
A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
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Till Death Us Do Part
Title: Till Death Us Do Part
Character: Vincent Bugliosi
Released: February 18, 1992
Type: Movie
This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Charles Manson away.) On December 11, 1966, a murder occurs in a small neighborhood of El Sereno, CA. In the middle of the night, Henry Stockton is shot three times in the head and twice in the chest and then his house is set on fire. The murderer left no clues, baffling the police, until a year later when a young pregnant woman is found bludgeoned to death in a Jaguar. Strangely, these two murders are related. As the mystery unfolds a horrific tale of greed, lust and ambition are revealed.
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For the Boys
Title: For the Boys
Character: Sgt. Michael Leonard (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1991
Type: Movie
On a USO tour during World War II, entertainer Eddie Sparks needs a partner to round out his act. Soon after hiring performer Dixie Leonard, Eddie decides he wants her out of the show — mostly because she upstages him. Dixie is close to leaving of her own accord, but her uncle, Art Silver, convinces her to stay. As the years and wars go by, Eddie and Dixie experience a tumultuous relationship onstage and off while they continue the act for the troops.
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Men Don't Leave
Title: Men Don't Leave
Character: Charles Simon
Released: February 2, 1990
Type: Movie
A widowed mother and her two sons move to Baltimore and struggle to adjust to urban life, encountering numerous eccentric characters along the way.
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Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
Title: Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
Character: Raymond Eames
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Taut thriller about a photographer who races the clock to clear a man about to be executed.
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Title: I Know My First Name Is Steven
Character: Kenneth Parnell
Released: May 22, 1989
Type: TV
In 1973, 7-year-old Steven Stayner is kidnapped by pedophile Kenneth Parnell. Under the belief that Parnell has been given legal custody of him, and that his family has moved away, he stays with Parnell for seven years, enduring repetitive sexual abuse the entire time. Finally, in 1980, when Parnell kidnaps another young boy, Steven finds a way for them both to escape and return home.
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Tequila Sunrise
Title: Tequila Sunrise
Character: Gregg Lindroff
Released: December 2, 1988
Type: Movie
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with restaurateur Jo Ann -- a love interest of Mac's -- unwittingly leading his friend into a police-orchestrated trap.
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Plain Clothes
Title: Plain Clothes
Character: Nick Dunbar
Released: April 15, 1988
Type: Movie
To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with crushes, bullies, humiliations, popularity swings, and quirky teachers and staff to find the real murderer.
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Full Metal Jacket
Title: Full Metal Jacket
Character: Pvt. Cowboy
Released: June 26, 1987
Type: Movie
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
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Hands of a Stranger
Title: Hands of a Stranger
Character: Felix Lyttle
Released: May 10, 1987
Type: Movie
A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.
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The Ladies Club
Title: The Ladies Club
Character: Ed Bricker
Released: April 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A policewoman who was raped forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men who have committed repeated violations of women and gotten away with it through legal technicalities.
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The Lightship
Title: The Lightship
Character: Eddie
Released: December 14, 1985
Type: Movie
A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: TV
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
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Sylvester
Title: Sylvester
Character: Peter
Released: March 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a wild horse she names Sylvester and turn him into an Olympic jumping champion.
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Door to Door
Title: Door to Door
Character: Leon Spencer
Released: January 8, 1985
Type: Movie
A smooth-talking vacuum cleaner salesman takes a young man under his wing and teaches him how to swindle his way to riches. The two team up, conning everyone from car dealers to widows.
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The Day After
Title: The Day After
Character: Tom Cooper
Released: November 20, 1983
Type: Movie
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.
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A Killer in the Family
Title: A Killer in the Family
Character: John Lyons
Released: October 30, 1983
Type: Movie
Three teenage boys break their father out of prison only to discover that he is a murderous sociopath. Based on a true story.
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The Prodigal
Title: The Prodigal
Character: Scott Stuart
Released: October 14, 1983
Type: Movie
They were a family torn apart by redemption...kept apart by pride...but brought together by a miracle.
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Title: Hill Street Blues
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: TV
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: J.J. Taylor
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Iran: Days of Crisis
Title: Iran: Days of Crisis
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Follows the events of Iran hostage crisis of 1979 and people who were held as hostages in the US embassy in Tehran, Iran for over 400 days.
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The Thicket
Title: The Thicket
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An innocent young man, Jack, goes on an epic quest to rescue his sister Lula after she has been kidnapped by the violent killer Cut Throat Bill and her gang. To save her, Jack enlists the help of a crafty bounty hunter named Reginald Jones, a grave-digging alcoholic son of an ex-slave, and a street-smart prostitute. The gang tracks Cut Throat Bill into the deadly no-man’s land known as The Big Thicket — a place where blood and chaos reign.
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Butterfly in the Typewriter
Title: Butterfly in the Typewriter
Character: Shelby Foote
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Troubled author John Kennedy Toole's struggle to bring A Confederacy of Dunces to print.