Ann Magnuson

Ann Magnuson

Born: January 4, 1956
in Charleston, West Virginia, U.S
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Ann Magnuson (born January 4, 1956) is an American actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer who first gained prominence in the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan. The New York Times described her as "An endearing theatrical chameleon who has as many characters at her fingertips as Lily Tomlin does".

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Title: Gossip Girl
Character: Donna Calloway
Released: July 8, 2021
Type: TV
Eight years after the original website went dark, a new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl.
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Title: The Flight Attendant
Character: Janet Sokolov
Released: November 26, 2020
Type: TV
Flight attendant Cassandra Bowden wakes in her hotel room hungover from the night before in Dubai with a dead body lying next to her. Afraid to call the police, she continues her morning as if nothing happened. In New York, she is met by FBI agents who question her about her recent layover in Bangkok. Still unable to piece the night together, she begins to wonder if she could be the killer.
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Title: Star Trek: Picard
Character: Admiral Kirsten Clancy
Released: January 23, 2020
Type: TV
Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.
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Title: Titans
Character: Jillian
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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One More Time
Title: One More Time
Character: Lucille
Released: April 8, 2016
Type: Movie
Beautiful aspiring rock star Jude is stuck in a rut - relegated to recording commercial jingles and lost in a series of one night stands. When she is evicted from her Brooklyn apartment, she is forced to move into the Hamptons home of her wealthy - and selfish - father Paul Lombard, an over-the-hill, Sinatra-esque crooner angling for a musical comeback.
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Title: The Man in the High Castle
Character: Caroline Abendsen
Released: January 15, 2015
Type: TV
Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.
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Title: Looking
Character: Stina
Released: January 19, 2014
Type: TV
Three friends in San Francisco who explore the fun and sometimes overwhelming options available to a new generation of gay men.
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Jobriath A.D.
Title: Jobriath A.D.
Character: Herself
Released: June 15, 2012
Type: Movie
Called "The American Bowie," "The True Fairy of Rock & Roll" and "Hype of the Year," Jobriath's reign as the first openly gay rock star was brief and over by 1975. Now, 35 years later, "Jobriath A.D." spotlights his life, music, groundbreaking influence and the new generations of fans slowly re-discovering him.
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Small Pond
Title: Small Pond
Character: Luann
Released: April 13, 2012
Type: Movie
It's summertime in Columbia, Missouri. The college students have all gone home and Kirsten (Hari Leigh), a blissfully irresponsible register jerk, reigns as the clown princess of the downtown bar scene. Kirsten works ten hours a week at Shakespeare's Pizza and is entirely satisfied with her humble but comfortable world, although she is despised by her long-suffering roommate (Amy Seimetz) and her best friend (Josh Fadem) has come to tire of shepherding Kirsten's drunken antics. While reluctantly reconnecting with an eccentric childhood friend (Susan Burke) who has recently moved to town, an ill-fated nitrous oxide bender unexpectedly forces Kirsten's first baby steps into adulthood.
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Woman's Picture
Title: Woman's Picture
Character: Miriam
Released: July 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Woman's Picture is an anthology film inspired by classic women's films of the thirties, forties, and fifties. The story is divided into three sections, each of which deals with its own specific female character. The segments function as parallel dimensions, exploring thematic connections between women whose immediate experiences seem very far removed from one another.
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Blank City
Title: Blank City
Character: Self
Released: April 6, 2011
Type: Movie
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.
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Happiness Runs
Title: Happiness Runs
Character: Chad's Mom
Released: May 14, 2010
Type: Movie
The neglected child of parents living on a commune, Victor is helpless to resist the atmosphere of sex and drugs that permeates his world, but he's smart enough to know that if he is going to survive, he has to get out.
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Title: Modern Family
Character: Shelley
Released: September 23, 2009
Type: TV
The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
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Our House
Title: Our House
Character: Geena
Released: May 1, 2006
Type: Movie
March 25, 2006 Ruth Galloway is a well-to-do socialite who's not quite as secure inside as she seems from the outside. When a young woman named Billy saves her life, Ruth decides to turn her mansion into a shelter for the city's homeless.
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Title: American Dad!
Character: Lisa Collins (voice)
Released: February 6, 2005
Type: TV
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."
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Title: Unscripted
Character: Casting Agent
Released: January 9, 2005
Type: TV
Three young, struggling actors (played by three young, less-struggling actors) try to navigate the maze of agents, auditions and avarice that is Hollywood, frequently turning to their acting teacher for advice. As the title implies, the dialogue is mostly improvised, with situations based on the lives of the cast and creators.
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Open House
Title: Open House
Character: Sarah Jane Tibbett
Released: May 7, 2004
Type: Movie
A tangled tale of intrigue, romance, lost love, and the one thing everyone has in common: the American dream of finding a home. The off-kilter real estate agent desperate to sell a house, a pair of "Sexy Swipers" who make quickie love in open houses, down-on-his-luck jewel thief Dave, a couple of adulterous cops trying to break a big case, and Marjorie - a real estate agent whose life is as empty as her bottle of tequila: These strangers come together in the search for true love, a bag of jewels, and the perfect two-story Spanish colonial.
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The Nomi Song
Title: The Nomi Song
Character: Herself
Released: March 23, 2004
Type: Movie
Looks like an alien, sings like a diva - Klaus Nomi was one of the 1980s' most profoundly bizarre characters to emerge through rock music: a counter tenor who sang pop music like opera and brought opera to club audiences and made them like it. The Nomi Song is a film about fame, death, friendship, betrayal, opera, and the greatest New Wave rock star that never was!
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Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
Title: Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig
Character: Self
Released: September 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Documentary about the creation of the stage musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and its subsequent film adaptation.
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The United States of Leland
Title: The United States of Leland
Character: Karen Pollard
Released: May 15, 2003
Type: Movie
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the prison, decides to write about Leland's case. Meanwhile, others affected by the murder, including Becky and her sister, Julie, must contend with their own problems.
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Title: All Grown Up!
Character: Miss O'Keats (voice)
Released: April 12, 2003
Type: TV
All Grown Up! is an animated television series created by Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó for Nickelodeon. After the success of All Growed Up, the Rugrats 10th anniversary special, Nickelodeon commissioned All Grown Up! as a spin-off series based on the episode. The series ran from April 12, 2003 to August 17, 2008, and currently airs in reruns on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons. The show aired in reruns on The N from August 18, 2003 until November 12, 2005, it was dropped from the channel on February 2006, but then returned in April 2007 until June 25, 2009, then on July 7, 2009, All Grown Up! was dropped from The N again. The show's premise is that the characters of the Rugrats are ten years older. Tommy, Dil, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Kimi, Angelica and Susie now have to deal with teen and pre-teen issues and situations. It was the first Nicktoon spin-off receiving positive review among critics, and developed a cult following after its run.
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Title: All Grown Up!
Released: April 12, 2003
Type: TV
All Grown Up! is an animated television series created by Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó for Nickelodeon. After the success of All Growed Up, the Rugrats 10th anniversary special, Nickelodeon commissioned All Grown Up! as a spin-off series based on the episode. The series ran from April 12, 2003 to August 17, 2008, and currently airs in reruns on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons. The show aired in reruns on The N from August 18, 2003 until November 12, 2005, it was dropped from the channel on February 2006, but then returned in April 2007 until June 25, 2009, then on July 7, 2009, All Grown Up! was dropped from The N again. The show's premise is that the characters of the Rugrats are ten years older. Tommy, Dil, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Kimi, Angelica and Susie now have to deal with teen and pre-teen issues and situations. It was the first Nicktoon spin-off receiving positive review among critics, and developed a cult following after its run.
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Title: Wanda at Large
Released: March 26, 2003
Type: TV
Wanda at Large is an American sitcom that ran for two seasons on the Fox network in 2003. The series was created by and stars comedian Wanda Sykes.
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The Groovenians
Title: The Groovenians
Character: Lalasha/Mom/Zazzy
Released: November 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Two space misfits named Jet and Glindy, who are searching for a planet called Groovenia.
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Title: The Groovenians
Character: Lalasha / Mom / Zazzy (voice)
Released: November 10, 2002
Type: TV
A couple, Jet and Glindy, live on a planet named Jeepers, where society is uniform and artistic qualities are shunned. Jet and Glindy, meanwhile, are artists and performers. Jet's parents do not approve, and they tell Jet and Glindy that art is not everything in life. However, another boy, named Nixon, is dropped next door from a spaceship. He had been evicted from Groovenia, which he tells Jet and Glindy is a paradise for artists.
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Title: CSI: Miami
Character: Ms. Arena
Released: September 23, 2002
Type: TV
CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
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Night at the Golden Eagle
Title: Night at the Golden Eagle
Character: Sally
Released: May 17, 2002
Type: Movie
Two elderly criminals spend their final night in Los Angeles, California at the Golden Eagle Hotel prior to their departure to Las Vegas, Nevada, to lead a life without crime. Unfortunately, on the hottest night of the summer, these two ex-criminals seemingly get caught in the malice of prostitutes, pimps, drunken bums, fighting monkeys, and young runaways.
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Panic Room
Title: Panic Room
Character: Lydia Lynch
Released: March 29, 2002
Type: Movie
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
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Glitter
Title: Glitter
Character: Kelly
Released: September 21, 2001
Type: Movie
A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.
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The Caveman's Valentine
Title: The Caveman's Valentine
Character: Moira
Released: January 19, 2001
Type: Movie
Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by a prominent art photographer but how can he prove he's right when everyone thinks he's insane?
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Housebound
Title: Housebound
Character: Brandy
Released: September 2, 2000
Type: Movie
A woman with a tragic past rents her bungalow to a man who loves cooking, but according to her distorted mind he uses his knives more than he should.
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Love & Sex
Title: Love & Sex
Character: Monique Steinbacher
Released: July 26, 2000
Type: Movie
When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.
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Friends & Lovers
Title: Friends & Lovers
Character: Katherine
Released: April 16, 1999
Type: Movie
Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. Meanwhile, David is gay and virginal; Ian's business partner, Keaton, is unhappy that his sister Jane is pregnant with no plans to tell the father; Lisa is everybody's pal and no one's lover; John, stuck in adolescence, is always on the make. He brings German-born stunner, Carla, and promptly loses her affection to Hans, a fast-talking ski instructor. David meets Manny: they have chess in common. Soon, surprises abound as relationships take new turns.
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I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
Title: I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
Character: Loan Secretary
Released: September 13, 1998
Type: Movie
A mental patient escapes from the looney bin in drag, robs a bank, and goes on the lam!
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Small Soldiers
Title: Small Soldiers
Character: Irene Abernathy
Released: July 10, 1998
Type: Movie
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
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Title: From the Earth to the Moon
Character: Dee O'Hara
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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Hugo Pool
Title: Hugo Pool
Character: Drowning Matron
Released: December 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Hugo Pool is a quirky tale of a Los Angeles pool cleaner who falls in love with a young man dying of Lou Gerhig's Disease.
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Still Breathing
Title: Still Breathing
Character: Elaine
Released: September 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsessed with. She resists, afraid of his kooky ideas until she travels with him to San Antonio and meets his wise grandmother. Story of two disparate people linked by "fate" gets increasingly interesting as it rolls along.
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Levitation
Title: Levitation
Character: Sarah
Released: April 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Sarah Paulson stars as a pregnant teenager who searches for her biological mother, with the help of a guardian angel.
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The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
Title: The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
Character: Lily Munster
Released: December 17, 1996
Type: Movie
The made for television movie Munster's Scary Little Christmas, created three decades after the demise of the original series, concerns son Eddie missing his home in Transylvania. Soon the entire family bands together to teach the young boy everything great about the holiday season.
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Before and After
Title: Before and After
Character: Terry Taverner
Released: February 23, 1996
Type: Movie
Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.
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The Barefoot Executive
Title: The Barefoot Executive
Released: November 11, 1995
Type: Movie
A young man working in the mailroom of a television network rises to the top of the company after he discovers that his girlfriend's chimp is capable of picking hit shows.
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Title: Caroline in the City
Released: September 21, 1995
Type: TV
Caroline in the City is an American situation comedy that ran on the NBC television network. It stars Lea Thompson as cartoonist Caroline Duffy, who lives in Manhattan in New York City. The series premiered on September 21, 1995 in the "Must See TV" Thursday night block after Seinfeld. The show ran for 97 episodes over four seasons, before it was cancelled; its final episode was broadcast on April 26, 1999.
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Title: The Drew Carey Show
Character: Kyra Sullivan
Released: September 13, 1995
Type: TV
Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with co-worker Mimi, his hobbies include drinking beer and not being able to get dates. To make a few extra bucks he has a micro-brewery going in his garage with his buddies.
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Tank Girl
Title: Tank Girl
Character: The Madam
Released: March 31, 1995
Type: Movie
After a comet disrupts the rain cycle of Earth, the planet has become a desolate, barren desert by the year 2033. With resources scarce, Kesslee — head of the powerful and evil Water & Power Corporation, the de facto government — has taken control of the water supply. Unwilling to cower under Kesslee's tyrannical rule, a pair of outlaws known as Tank Girl and Jet Girl rise up, joining the mysterious rebel Rippers to destroy the corrupt system.
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Clear and Present Danger
Title: Clear and Present Danger
Character: Moira Wolfson
Released: August 3, 1994
Type: Movie
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.
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Cabin Boy
Title: Cabin Boy
Character: Calli
Released: January 7, 1994
Type: Movie
A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.
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Title: Frasier
Character: Harvest
Released: September 16, 1993
Type: TV
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
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Title: The John Larroquette Show
Character: Amanda Cox
Released: September 2, 1993
Type: TV
The John Larroquette Show is an American television sitcom .The show was a vehicle for John Larroquette following his run as Dan Fielding on Night Court. The series takes place in a seedy bus terminal in St. Louis, Missouri and originally focused on the somewhat broken people who worked the night shift, and in particular, the lead character's battle with alcoholism.
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Love at Large
Title: Love at Large
Character: Doris
Released: March 9, 1990
Type: Movie
Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.
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Heavy Petting
Title: Heavy Petting
Character: Self
Released: September 22, 1989
Type: Movie
Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie Hoffman, and poet Allen Ginsberg-- recall their earliest sexual experiences.
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Checking Out
Title: Checking Out
Character: Connie Hagen
Released: April 21, 1989
Type: Movie
When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortality. Convinced that all his aches and pains are an indication of his imminent death, Ray's life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria.
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Title: Anything But Love
Character: Catherine Hughes
Released: March 7, 1989
Type: TV
Anything But Love is an American television sitcom, which aired on ABC from March 7, 1989 to June 3, 1992, spanning four seasons and 56 episodes. The show starred Richard Lewis as Marty Gold and Jamie Lee Curtis as Hannah Miller, coworkers at a Chicago magazine with a mutual romantic attraction to each other, who struggled to keep their relationship strictly professional. The series, from creator Wendy Kout and developers Dennis Koenig and Peter Noah, was produced by Adam Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television.
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Tequila Sunrise
Title: Tequila Sunrise
Character: Shaleen McKussic
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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A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
Title: A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
Character: Joyce Fickett
Released: July 26, 1988
Type: Movie
A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he comes to understand his parents and eventually bonds with his father.
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Mondo New York
Title: Mondo New York
Character: Poetry Reader
Released: April 22, 1988
Type: Movie
A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of the city. She sees stand up comedy in Central Park, a prostitution auction, a voodoo ceremony, an S&M club, and a number of very interesting performance artists. These are just a few of the sights and sounds of New York that she encounters.
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Vandemonium Plus
Title: Vandemonium Plus
Released: December 31, 1987
Type: Movie
Ann Magnuson is launched off the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle while doing a bong rip, and into a strange fantasy world airbrushed on the side of a van. Will she make it back to our world in time for the Vulcan Death Grip show?
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Making Mr. Right
Title: Making Mr. Right
Character: Frankie Stone
Released: April 3, 1987
Type: Movie
When image consultant Frankie Stone is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s “Ulysses Robot” how to be a man, she winds up developing very real feelings for the faux human.
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Sleepwalk
Title: Sleepwalk
Character: Isabelle
Released: September 9, 1986
Type: Movie
When Nicole, a young copy-shop employee, is hired to translate an ancient Chinese manuscript, she soon finds that the document has strange powers that little by little begin to exert an eerie influence over her life.
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Desperately Seeking Susan
Title: Desperately Seeking Susan
Character: Cigarette Girl
Released: March 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.
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Perfect Strangers
Title: Perfect Strangers
Character: Malda
Released: July 13, 1984
Type: Movie
A hit-man tries to seduce the mother of a child who witnessed his most recent kill.
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Made for TV
Title: Made for TV
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Combining Rubnitz’s skillful manipulation of the familiar “look” of TV shows with an extraordinary range of characters, performer Ann Magnuson convincingly impersonates the array of female types seen on TV in a typical broadcast day. From glitzy to drab, from friendly housewife to desperate evangelist, Magnuson is a one-woman universe appearing on every channel, the star of every program—giving her all as the chameleon woman who is always on display.
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The Hunger
Title: The Hunger
Character: Young Woman from Disco
Released: April 29, 1983
Type: Movie
Miriam Blaylock, an ageless vampire, collects Renaissance art, ancient Egyptian pendants, lovers, and souls in Manhattan.
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Vortex
Title: Vortex
Character: Pamela Fleming
Released: September 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts through real "corporate wars" and the manipulation of politicians.