
Lily Tomlin
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She has won multiple awards from many quarters, including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award and has also been nominated for an Academy Award.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.356 |
Birthday | 1939-09-01 |
Place of Birth | Detroit, Michigan, USA |
Also Known As | Mary Jean Tomlin, Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin, لیلی تاملین, |

1996

Flirting with Disaster
6.2/247
Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country ques...
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Flirting with Disaster

2023

80 for Brady
6.347/167
Four lifelong friends set out on an unforgettable journey to see their hero Tom Brady play in Super Bowl LI and witness one of the greatest comebacks...
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80 for Brady

1993

Short Cuts
7.2/605
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a bo...
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Short Cuts

2004

I ♥ Huckabees
6.3/654
A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind...
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I ♥ Huckabees

1975

Nashville
7.2/407
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Te...
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Nashville

1984

All of Me
6.5/342
Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb, to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the yo...
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All of Me

1999

Tea with Mussolini
6.4/146
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate M...
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Tea with Mussolini

1992

The Player
7.2/841
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
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The Player

1993

And the Band Played On
6.5/101
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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And the Band Played On

2000

The Kid
6.7/1028
Powerful businessman Russ Duritz is self-absorbed and immersed in his work. But by the magic of the moon, he meets Rusty, a chubby, charming 8-year-ol...
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The Kid

1993

The Beverly Hillbillies
6.3/542
Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with rega...
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The Beverly Hillbillies

1995

Blue in the Face
6.5/166
Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During t...
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Blue in the Face

2018

TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
0/0
A documentary about Top Value Television (TVTV), a band of merry video makers who, from 1972 to 1977, took the then brand-new portable video camera an...
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TVTV: Video Revolutionaries

1998

Krippendorf's Tribe
4.6/82
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a h...
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Krippendorf's Tribe

2004

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2/1
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's birth, 150 leading artists of the stage, screen and music worlds deliver 150 of the Irish scribe...
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Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

1996

Getting Away with Murder
4.8/18
When the very moralistic college ethics instructor Jack Lambert finds himself living next door to an accused German death camp commander, he takes it...
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Getting Away with Murder

2006

A Prairie Home Companion
6.3/296
A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country m...
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A Prairie Home Companion

1981

The Incredible Shrinking Woman
5.3/106
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warm...
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman

2007

The Walker
5.3/100
An escort who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.
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The Walker

2022

The Martha Mitchell Effect
6.3/68
She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: a Republican wi...
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The Martha Mitchell Effect

1988

Big Business
6.3/272
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local...
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Big Business

2006

The Ant Bully
5.738/1388
Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the i...
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The Ant Bully

1977

The Late Show
6.2/57
Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who had gotten himself involved in a case concerning...
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The Late Show

1976

TVTV Looks at the Oscars
6/1
Made in 1976, TVTV's close-up look at Hollywood's annual awards ritual mixes irreverent documentary with deadpan comedy. TVTV's cameras go behind the...
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TVTV Looks at the Oscars

2021

Live at Mister Kelly's
0/0
The iconic Mister Kelly’s bedazzled the country by launching superstars like Barbra Streisand, Richard Pryor, Bette Midler, and Steve Martin. It smash...
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Live at Mister Kelly's

2009

The Pink Panther 2
5.733/1143
When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen, including the priceless Pink Panther Diamond, Chief Inspector Dreyfus is forced to assign I...
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The Pink Panther 2

1995

Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
0/0
The story of Peter Allen, Australia's beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly gay entertainers, Allen won a unique star...
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Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz

2023

Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
8.3/10
Paying tribute to a beloved national icon for her birthday, NBC celebrates Carol Burnett’s illustrious career with a star-studded event featuring an A...
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Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love

1999

Get Bruce!
6.2/10
Affectionate tribute to Bruce Vilanch, who writes material for celebrities who make public appearances, from Oscar hosts and award recipients to Presi...
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Get Bruce!

2020

Waging Change
0/0
Waging Change weaves the stories of individual workers such as Nataki Rhodes of Chicago and Naomi Debebe of Detroit with the efforts of thousands of r...
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Waging Change

1980

Nine to Five
6.9/504
Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage of the women who work with him in the grossest manner. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own...
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Nine to Five

1991

Shadows and Fog
6.7/369
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
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Shadows and Fog

2007

Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
0/0
In the late 1950s, a fresh, unconventional style of standup comedy emerged in sharp contrast to the standard "Take my wife, please" approach. It tackl...
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Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s

1981

The Muppets Go to the Movies
7.1/8
In this one-hour special taped between March 9-17, 1981, Lily Tomlin and Dudley Moore join the Muppets in a tribute to film classics. Kermit the Frog...
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The Muppets Go to the Movies

1978

Moment by Moment
3.3/22
Trisha Rawlings, a Beverly Hills socialite suffering from loneliness following the separation from her womanizing husband, develops a May–December rom...
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Moment by Moment

1988

Free to Be... a Family
9.5/2
Seminal TV special about two groups of children, one in New York City and the other in Moscow, who befriend each other over a satellite connection and...
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Free to Be... a Family

2023

Moving On
5.9/80
Two old friends reconnect at their friend's funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged all three of them decades earlier.
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Moving On

2004

Goodnight, We Love You
6.5/2
GOODNIGHT, WE LOVE YOU is a film that chronicles the final stand-up comedy performance of a true living legend - the first female stand-up comic in hi...
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Goodnight, We Love You

2013

Admission
5.609/617
Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school...
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Admission

2023

Bella!
0/0
Bella! tells the story of Bella Abzug, who first rose to prominence as a scrappy grassroots activist in New York's West Village, and then went on to c...
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Bella!

2012

Stars In Shorts
0/0
Seven short films, all of which feature name actors, including Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Colin Firth, Lily Tomlin, Keira Knightley, Jesse Tyler Fer...
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Stars In Shorts

1972

Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
10/2
An aspiring actress from Kansas comes to New York and meets a host of zany characters.
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Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers

2013

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
7.1/58
Mike Epps, Richard Pryor Jr. and others recount the culture-defining influence of Richard Pryor - one of America's most brilliant, iconic comic minds.
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Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

2022

Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration
5/23
A group of LGBTQ+ comedians get together to celebrate a brand of queer comedy. Legends, headliners, and emerging talent all perform at The Greek Theat...
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Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration

2013

An Apology to Elephants
7.9/7
Elephants are among the most majestic and intelligent creatures on Earth--but for hundreds of years, they have suffered at the hands of humans. Narrat...
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An Apology to Elephants

2022

Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin: Ladies Night Live
6/15
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin host an iconic celebration of women in comedy with stand-up sets from Cristela Alonzo, Margaret Cho, Michelle Buteau and mo...
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Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin: Ladies Night Live

2002

Orange County
6/463
Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional famil...
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Orange County

1996

The Celluloid Closet
7.2/103
What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serv...
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The Celluloid Closet

2022

The Best of Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival
3/3
Top stand-ups and rising stars sound off on sex, parenting, politics, pettiness and more in these highlights from the Netflix Is a Joke comedy festiva...
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The Best of Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival

2013

Inequality for All
7.5/113
Based on Reich's 2010 book Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, the film examines widening income inequality in the United States. U.S....
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Inequality for All

2014

Altman
6.4/34
Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution o...
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Altman

1991

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
8.8/4
The filmed version of the one-woman stage show written by Jane Wagner and starring Lily Tomlin, which won the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical E...
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The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

1977

The Paul Simon Special
8/1
Paul Simon just wants to perform his songs although an arrogant director keeps on interrupting him with crazy ideas.
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The Paul Simon Special

2024

The World According to Allee Willis
0/0
Take one look at award-winning songwriter / artist Allee Willis and you see someone unafraid to be themselves. Dressed in a cacophony of prints and co...
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The World According to Allee Willis

2015

Grandma
6.5/362
Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them...
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Grandma

1986

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
5/1
For the first time in their careers, all the Muppets (except the ones that couldn't make it, like the Doozers, Gorgs and most of the Fraggles) have ga...
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The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years

1993

An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
0/0
On January 22, 1993 at the historic Castro Theater in San Francisco, Lily Tomlin, Robin Williams, Harvey Fierstein, Marga Gomez, and Lypsinka performe...
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An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends

2011

Vito
7.4/12
In the aftermath of Stonewall, a newly politicized Vito Russo found his voice as a gay activist and critic of LGBTQ+ representation in the media. He w...
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Vito

2013

Why We Laugh: Funny Women
7.2/3
An uncensored look into the lives of the female stand-up comedian. Featuring interviews and live performance footage from some of today's most promine...
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Why We Laugh: Funny Women

1981

Lily: Sold Out
6.5/2
After taking her successful Broadway show to Las Vegas, Lily Tomlin is faced with a tough decision: soften her act for mass appeal, or keep her materi...
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Lily: Sold Out

2024

Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
6.2/10
This rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the powerful cultural influence it has had on social change in...
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Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution

1987

Lily Tomlin
5/1
Backstage record of how Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner and their associates put together "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe," Miss To...
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Lily Tomlin

2012

The Procession
6.5/2
A mother and son attend a funeral for someone they really don't know, and intend to leave right after, but end up leading the procession to the burial...
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The Procession

2015

Take Flight
6.5/6
2015's best actors lift off in a series of tributes to the ultimate Hollywood magic trick.
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Take Flight

1997

Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
6/2
A special celebrating Elizabeth Taylor's 65th birthday featuring never-before-seen footage of her life and career.
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Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life

1987

Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
0/0
An all-star cast lead by Richard Dreyfus perform sketches celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, including new animation done by Disne...
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Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville

2024

An Unexpected Community
0/0
In the early days of the pandemic, Andrea Meyerson, founder of Women On A Roll, launched an online platform for lesbians and queer women. She called i...
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An Unexpected Community

2018

Jane Fonda in Five Acts
7.5/58
Girl next door, activist, so-called traitor, fitness tycoon, Oscar winner: Jane Fonda has lived a life of controversy, tragedy and transformation – an...
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Jane Fonda in Five Acts

2004

Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
3/4
Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her...
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Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

2018

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
8.4/15963
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive sp...
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

1986

Waiting Tables
0/0
Interviews with people whom Gloria Steinem calls "pink collar" workers--those who wait tables.
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Waiting Tables

2018

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
7.7/94
In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity....
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Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

1993

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
6/2
A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.
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Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

1979

Appearing Nitely
9/1
Lily Tomlin's Tony Award-winning show "Appearing Nitely" features a repertoire of over 20 zany characters--from Edith Ann and Ernestine to Crystal "th...
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Appearing Nitely

1973

Juke and Opal
0/0
“WINTER, 1973. Late afternoon: the entr'acte between dusk and darkness, when the people who conduct their business in the street -- numbers runners in...
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Juke and Opal

2019

I Am Richard Pryor
6.8/15
The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005), the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who transcended racial and social barriers with his ho...
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I Am Richard Pryor

2019

Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
5.3/15
Hollywood's finest pay tribute to "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" for an uncensored and unforgettable celebration at The Dolby Theater.
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Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate

1994

But... Seriously
10/1
A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.
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But... Seriously

2019

Dolly Parton: Here I Am
7.338/34
Dolly Parton leads a moving, musical journey in this documentary that details the people and places who have helped shape her iconic career.
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Dolly Parton: Here I Am

1973

Lily
0/0
TV special starring Lily Tomlin
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Lily

2009

George Carlin : The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize
7.6/4
The award is not intended to be given posthumously, but Carlin's death occurred between the announcement and the ceremony. Those there to honor Carlin...
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George Carlin : The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize

1994

Edith Ann: Homeless Go Home
0/0
A young quirky girl finds her way in a crazy world.
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Edith Ann: Homeless Go Home

1994

Edith Ann: A Few Pieces of the Puzzle
0/0
Edith Ann is NOT your average 6-year-old. She sees the world unlike any other child her age. Created by the multi-talented Lilly Tomlin, Edith Ann doe...
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Edith Ann: A Few Pieces of the Puzzle

1996

Edith Ann's Christmas (Just Say Noël)
0/0
Drama engulfs the household of Edith Ann and her family during the holidays.
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Edith Ann's Christmas (Just Say Noël)

1999

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
6.8/16
A TV special celebrating the 25th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity audience, many of the former cast members and guest hosts ret...
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Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

2021

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
0/0
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos interweaves Emily Levine’s live performance with animation, appearances by scientists, and animated characters. The film use...
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Emily @ the Edge of Chaos

1982

Lily for President?
0/0
Comedian Lily Tomlin stars in this comical farce which deals with her experiences running for the office of President of the United States.
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Lily for President?

2020

One World: Together at Home
7/33
A global broadcast & digital special organized by Global Citizen and the World Health Organization featuring comedians, musicians, and actors to raise...
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One World: Together at Home

1994

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
7/3
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ABC to celebrate Sesame Street's 25th anniversary....
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Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

2013

The Making of 'Nashville'
0/0
Retrospective documentary on the making of Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).
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The Making of 'Nashville'

2022

Still Working 9 to 5
10/1
Examines the 40-year evolution of gender inequality and discrimination in the workplace since the 1980 release of the comedy film “9 to 5” starring Ja...
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Still Working 9 to 5

1974

Flip Wilson... Of Course
0/0
Flip Wilson's stand-up special.
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Flip Wilson... Of Course

2025

Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
0/0
In 1965, Janis Ian, a 14-year-old singer-songwriter from New Jersey, wrote “Society’s Child” about an interracial relationship. Recorded and released...
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Janis Ian: Breaking Silence

2000

Altman on His Own Terms
0/0
A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. The genius director who shook the cinema industry w...
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