
Maury Chaykin
Maury Chaykin, born on July 27, 1949, was a Canadian actor known for his versatile and captivating performances. With his distinctive appearance, rich voice, and remarkable acting talent, Chaykin left a lasting impact on both the stage and screen throughout his career.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Chaykin moved to Toronto, Canada, at a young age. He developed a passion for acting and pursued his craft at the University of Toronto and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Chaykin began his career in theater, performing in numerous productions and earning critical acclaim for his stage work.
Chaykin's talent and dedication soon caught the attention of filmmakers, leading to his transition to film and television. He made his on-screen debut in the 1973 film "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz." Over the years, Chaykin became known for his ability to inhabit a wide range of characters, bringing depth, complexity, and nuance to each role he portrayed.
Throughout his career, Chaykin worked extensively in both Canada and the United States, collaborating with renowned directors and fellow actors. He appeared in notable films such as "My Dinner with Andre" (1981), "Dances with Wolves" (1990), "The Sweet Hereafter" (1997), and "Being Julia" (2004). Chaykin's performances often garnered critical acclaim and earned him awards and nominations, including several Genie Awards (Canada's equivalent of the Oscars) for Best Actor.
On television, Chaykin showcased his versatility in a wide range of roles. He appeared in numerous acclaimed series, including "The Sopranos," "Entourage," "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," and "Nero Wolfe Mysteries." One of his most notable television roles was as Nero Wolfe in the A&E television series "A Nero Wolfe Mystery," for which he received widespread praise.
Maury Chaykin's acting style was characterized by his ability to fully embody the essence of a character, no matter how eccentric or complex. He had a commanding presence on screen, capable of effortlessly transitioning between comedy, drama, and everything in between. Chaykin's performances were marked by his commitment to authenticity and his profound understanding of the human condition.
Tragically, Maury Chaykin passed away on July 27, 2010, on his 61st birthday. His untimely death left a void in the acting community, but his legacy as a talented and versatile performer continues to inspire aspiring actors and entertain audiences worldwide. Chaykin's body of work serves as a testament to his remarkable talent, leaving an indelible mark on the world of film and television.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.181 |
Birthday | 1949-07-27 |
Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Мори Чайкин, |

1983

WarGames
7.071/1935
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwitt...
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1990

Dances with Wolves
7.8/4306
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junct...
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1995

Cutthroat Island
5.8/563
Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by...
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1997

The Sweet Hereafter
6.9/395
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives...
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1999

Entrapment
6.224/2046
Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.
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1986

The Vindicator
4.397/34
An employee of a secret company operation becomes the victim of the company's special weapons project. He is transformed into a robotic killing machin...
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1989

Millennium
5.341/132
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2000

The Art of War
5.7/497
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1987

Nowhere to Hide
6.3/12
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1997

MouseHunt
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2008

Blindness
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1997

A Life Less Ordinary
6.1/461
A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a sp...
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1995

Devil in a Blue Dress
6.437/414
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2005

The Hunt For the BTK Killer
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1988

Twins
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Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proporti...
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1981

Death Hunt
6.622/185
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2005

Where the Truth Lies
6.2/295
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
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2006

Heavens Fall
7.3/16
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2001

Plan B
4.7/9
A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman.
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1991

The Adjuster
6.1/65
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1985

DEFCON-4
4.5/53
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1999

Mystery, Alaska
6.254/258
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1983

Of Unknown Origin
5.844/96
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2003

Owning Mahowny
6.8/165
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2006

It's a Boy Girl Thing
6.533/1044
A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a s...
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2002

Hostage
6.6/82
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2010

Casino Jack
5.836/299
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1987

The Bedroom Window
6.349/129
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1990

Where the Heart Is
6.023/43
A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.
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1996

Harriet the Spy
6/183
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1984

Harry & Son
5.9/64
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1989

Cold Comfort
5.6/7
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2001

Varian's War
6.1/5
Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.
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1998

Jerry and Tom
6.1/33
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1987

Wild Thing
5.853/17
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1994

Camilla
5.7/20
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1989

George's Island
6.5/2
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1984

Hockey Night
5.9/7
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1994

Whale Music
5.6/7
Shot around the breathtaking coastline of B.C.'s Howe Sound, Whale Music is the triumphant adaptation of Paul Quarringaton's Governor General's Award-...
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1988

Stars & Bars
4.4/19
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
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2001

On Their Knees
2/1
Willie and Mo are half sisters who have never seen eye to eye. A cross-country road trip in an ice cream truck carrying their dead grandmother may not...
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1991

Montreal Stories
5/9
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first...
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1994

Exotica
6.632/342
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, th...
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2002

Crossed Over
4.8/11
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2011

Conduct Unbecoming
0/0
United States Marine Nick Dodd is charged with callously killing several civilians in Afghanistan. A military trial ensues.
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1984

The Guardian
4.2/4
The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burgulary. They decide to hire a security expert to patro...
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1998

Northern Lights
6/10
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2002

The Wet Season
6/1
Jocelyn works at her Uncle's 'Crying Booths' in the country, while crying is forbidden in the cities.
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2004

Wilby Wonderful
5.9/33
A day-in-the-life dark comedy concerning a group of islanders, their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.
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2010

Cooking With Stella
3.8/10
Inside the Canadian diplomatic compound in New Delhi, a mischievous cook affects the lives of her employers and fellow staff.
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2009

Adoration
5.9/49
For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Interne...
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Adoration

1983

Curtains
5.4/124
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
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1980

Nothing Personal
5.8/10
Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter.
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2008

Hooked on Speedman
0/0
Would be filmmakers, Nick and Vince, dream of making it big and getting out of Nowheresville. Their goal is to make the next indie blockbuster of Blai...
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1979

Riel
0/0
A film about the actions of the Metis rebel leader who opposed the Canadian government in two seperate rebellions.
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Riel

2004

White Coats
5/48
Follows the misadventures of a group of young interns at a hospital/medical school - dealing with the pressures of school and love.
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1982

Highpoint
4.8/6
James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia/CIA operation, leaving them squabbling with each other. Unemployed Lewis Kinney gets ca...
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1995

Sugartime
5.9/10
Sam Giancana is a ruthless mob boss from Chicago. During a trip to Las Vegas, he sees a performance by the McGuire Sisters, a popular singing group wi...
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Sugartime

1986

Meatballs III: Summer Job
4.4/39
The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life.
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1992

Leaving Normal
6.2/25
Darly, a waitress with a past that's weighing her down, decides to drive to Alaska to try and come to terms with her unfortunate history. Along the wa...
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1998

Love and Death on Long Island
6.4/51
Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E....
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1995

Unstrung Heroes
5.9/29
Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother became sick, moves in with his two eccentric uncles. As Steven grows closer to his uncles, he...
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Unstrung Heroes

1987

Caribe
3/5
Prepare to get tangled in the jungles of Belize when an arms smuggler loses her partner in a deadly shootout and finds herself on the run in the tropi...
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Caribe

1975

Me
0/0
Frustrated by his unfulfilled professional ambitions, a novelist is torn in different directions by three complicated relationships.
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1985

In Like Flynn
0/0
Life is one cliff-hanger after another for a bright and beautiful woman and the reluctant young man who joins her in defying death as they investigate...
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In Like Flynn

1997

Pale Saints
2/1
Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that they think will get them serious recognition in the mo...
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Pale Saints

1997

Strip Search
2.5/2
Robby Durrell is the prince of the vice squad. A man who's seen it all and done a little of it too. But when the enchanting Sela hires him to help tra...
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Strip Search

2000

What's Cooking?
5.8/24
Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.
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1986

Act of Vengeance
5.9/16
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
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Act of Vengeance

1993

Money for Nothing
5.5/71
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run....
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Money for Nothing

2010

Abroad
5/1
A young Canadian girl struggles to decipher the ways of the English especially the men when she comes to London to take up a junior position at the...
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Abroad

1988

Hot Paint
0/0
Two losers rob a rich guy and discover that, among the loot, they've taken a rare painting worth $2.8 million. John Larroquette plays his usual rude,...
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Hot Paint

1992

Split Images
0/0
A journalist knows more about a grizzly murder than is good for her. All her evidence points toward a mysterious millionaire but no one will believe h...
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Split Images

2001

Bleacher Bums
6.5/5
They're known as the Bleacher Bums, a loud and proud group of fans who watch their team's games from the stadium's cheap seats. Most of them have been...
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Bleacher Bums

1992

Buried on Sunday
10/1
Angry island fishermen declare independence and use a Soviet nuclear submarine to get Ottawa's attention.
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Buried on Sunday

2004

Sugar
4.9/27
Cliff receives an unusual 18th birthday gift from his younger sister — marijuana, alcohol, a subway token and the mission to lose his virginity. This...
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Sugar

1980

Double Negative
3.5/2
Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
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Double Negative

2008

Elijah
0/0
The story of Elijah Harper.....
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Elijah

1985

Turk 182!
5.8/64
After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a young girl, h...
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Turk 182!

1999

Touched
0/0
A young man runs from the voices in his head into the arms of an elderly cowgirl.
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Touched

1997

Keeping the Promise
5.5/3
A colonial family seeks a better life in Maine's wilderness in this powerful adventure. When William Hallowell leaves behind 13-year-old son Matt to s...
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Keeping the Promise

1987

Hearts of Fire
3.8/13
A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her...
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Hearts of Fire

2003

Hemingway vs. Callaghan
0/0
'Hemingway vs. Callaghan' is based on the true story of the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and Morley Callaghan in Toronto and Paris between 1923...
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Hemingway vs. Callaghan

2004

Being Julia
6.5/111
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant...
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Being Julia

2004

Camp Hollywood
0/0
A porn star, a bank robber and a Shakespearean actor are some of the subjects of Camp Hollywood, a feature documentary about the residents of a legend...
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Camp Hollywood

1980

Jimmy B. & Andre
0/0
Real-life story detailing the relationship between a popular Detroit restaurant owner and a young black youngster whom he tries to adopt.
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Jimmy B. & Andre

2008

The Grift
4.4/8
A 1940's period drama about about a woman who has been wronged by her husband, but must help him after he has fallen in with a family of grifters.
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The Grift

1992

Hero
6.28/499
Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then t...
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Hero

1980

The Kidnapping of the President
4.6/12
A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic...
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The Kidnapping of the President

1991

The Pianist
6.5/8
Jean and her sister, played by Macha Grenon, have a life long infatuation with the Japanese Pianist who once lived across the street from them during...
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The Pianist

1993

Josh and S.A.M.
4.7/17
Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in...
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Josh and S.A.M.

1984

Mrs. Soffel
6.1/52
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting executio...
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Mrs. Soffel

2000

The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
8.1/7
Interrupted at dinner by a street kid with a strange story, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin find themselves drawn into a strange case when their young i...
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The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

2001

Bartleby
5.9/35
An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office.
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Bartleby

1996

If Looks Could Kill
1/1
The true story of John Hawkins as featured on America's Most Wanted.
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1998

The Mask of Zorro
6.574/4052
It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped...
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The Mask of Zorro

2010

Barney's Version
7.026/460
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
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Barney's Version

1982

Soup for One
5.4/8
A neurotic young New Yorker believes he has found his perfect match and desperately tries to win her over.
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Soup for One

1992

My Cousin Vinny
7.5/1631
Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortuna...
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My Cousin Vinny

1989

Breaking In
5.7/29
Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as goo...
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Breaking In

1999

Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
4.1/5
Jacob Two Two Meets The Hooded Fang is about a young boy who strives to be heard. He is nicknamed "Two-Two" for having to say things twice to be heard...
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2008

Static
3.7/13
A trio of brainboxes create a cell phone chip that allows telepathic communication. But when the experiment goes wrong and power falls into the wrong...
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Static

1999

Let the Devil Wear Black
4.3/10
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.
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1988

Iron Eagle II
4.5/85
Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear miss...
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Iron Eagle II

1997

Gone Fishin'
4.8/149
Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.
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Gone Fishin'

2008

Bull
3/2
Bull is a darkly comic neo-noir set among the heatwave-baked skyscraper canyons of the Toronto financial district. A hapless stockbroker named Charlie...
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Bull

1990

Mr. Destiny
6.3/210
Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot...
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Mr. Destiny

1993

Beethoven's 2nd
5.5/991
Beethoven is back -- and this time, he has a whole brood with him now that he's met his canine match, Missy, and fathered a family. The only problem i...
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Beethoven's 2nd

1985

The Suicide Murders
0/0
The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses and...
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The Suicide Murders

1984

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
2.7/26
A futuristic rebel becomes a Humphrey Bogart character after watching repeated reruns of Casablanca.
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1991

In Passing
7/1
A visitor to a conference in Montreal arrives at the airport and has a strange experience with the customs officer. Short film written and directed by...
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2007

To Each His Own Cinema
6.5/138
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...
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2003

Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
7.8/2
Comedy special spotlighting Tracey Ullman’s larger than life character Ruby Romaine from HBO's “Tracey Takes On”. After an illustrious career, vetera...
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1993

Sommersby
6.4/388
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By al...
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