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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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Terminator 2, Judgment Day is a 1991 American science-fiction action film co-written, produced and directed by James Cameron. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick and it is the sequel to the 1984 film The Terminator, and the second installment in the Terminator franchise. A second, less advanced Terminator is also sent back in time to protect John, after a troubled pre-production characterized by legal disputes, Mario Kassar of Carolco Pictures emerged with the franchises property rights in early 1990. This paved the way for the completion of the screenplay by a Cameron-led production team, the production of Terminator 2 required a $102 million budget making it the most expensive film made up to that point. Much of the massive budget was spent on filming and special effects. The film was released on July 3,1991, in time for the U. S, Terminator 2 was a critical and commercial success and influenced popular culture, especially the use of visual effects in films. It received many accolades, including four Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Makeup, in 1995, John Connor is living in Los Angeles with foster parents. Skynet sends a new Terminator, designated as T-1000, back in time to kill John, the T-1000 arrives under a freeway, kills a policeman and assumes his identity. Meanwhile, the future John Connor has sent back a reprogrammed T-800 Terminator to protect his young counterpart, the Terminator and the T-1000 converge on John in a shopping mall, and a chase ensues after which John and the Terminator escape together on a motorcycle. Fearing that the T-1000 will kill Sarah in order to get to him and they encounter Sarah as she is escaping from the hospital, although she is initially reluctant to trust the T-800. After the trio escapes from the T-1000 in a police car, in addition, it would create machines that will hunt and kill the remnants of humanity. Finding him at his home, she wounds him but finds herself unable to kill him in front of his family, John and the Terminator arrive and inform Dyson of the future consequences of his work. They learn that much of his research has been engineered from the damaged CPU. Convincing him that these items and his designs must be destroyed, they break into the Cyberdyne building and retrieve the CPU, the police arrive and Dyson is shot, but he manages to trigger several explosives, destroying the lab and his research while sacrificing himself. The T-1000 relentlessly pursues the trio, eventually cornering them in a steel mill. The T-1000 and the Terminator engage in combat, with the advanced model severely damaging its adversary. The T-800 is seemingly shut down until its emergency back-up system brings it back online, the T-1000 nearly kills John and Sarah until the T-800 appears and shoots it into a vat of molten steel with an M79 grenade launcher, destroying it. John tosses the arm and CPU of the original Terminator into the vat as well, as Sarah expresses relief that the ordeal is over, the Terminator explains that to ensure that he is not used for reverse engineering he must also be destroyed
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Saturn Award
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The award was initially, and is still sometimes, loosely referred to as a Golden Scroll. The Saturn Awards were created in 1973 and are the oldest Award ceremony dedicated to science fiction, fantasy. The physical award is a representation of the planet Saturn, with its ring composed of film, the Saturn Awards are voted upon by members of the presenting Academy. The Academy is a organization with membership open to the public. Its members include filmmakers Jeff Rector, Rich Correll, Tom De Santo, Mark A. Altman and Irwin Keyes, among others. Although the Award still primarily focuses on films and television in the fiction, fantasy and horror categories. There are also awards for lifetime achievement in film production. The 42nd Saturn Awards were held on June 22,2016, in Burbank, the Saturn Awards are often criticized for having a broad and inconsistent definition of genres, as well as for nominating and awarding movies not related to sci-fi, fantasy or horror. Hugo Award Scream Awards Official website Saturn Awards 2009 at FEARnet Saturn Award at the Internet Movie Database
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Anthony Hopkins
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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE, is a Welsh actor of film, stage, and television. In 1968, he got his break in film in The Lion in Winter, since 2016, he has starred in the critically acclaimed HBO television series Westworld. Along with his Academy Award, Hopkins has won three BAFTA Awards, two Emmys, and the Cecil B, in 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, Hopkins was born on New Years Eve 1937, in Margam, a suburb of Port Talbot, Glamorgan. His parents were Annie Muriel and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker and his school days were unproductive, he would rather immerse himself in art, such as painting and drawing, or playing the piano, than attend to his studies. In 1949, to discipline, his parents insisted he attend Jones West Monmouth Boys School in Pontypool. He remained there for five terms and was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School in the Vale of Glamorgan. Hopkins was influenced and encouraged by Welsh compatriot Richard Burton, whom he met at the age of 15, Hopkins promptly enrolled at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, from which he graduated in 1957. After two years in the British Army doing his national service, he moved to London, where he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Hopkins made his first professional appearance in the Palace Theatre, Swansea. In 1965, after years in repertory, he was spotted by Laurence Olivier. Hopkins became Oliviers understudy, and filled in when Olivier was struck with appendicitis during a production of August Strindbergs The Dance of Death, despite his success at the National, Hopkins tired of repeating the same roles nightly and yearned to be in films. He made his debut in a 1967 BBC broadcast of A Flea in Her Ear. His first starring role in a film came in 1964 in Changes, in 1968, he got his break in The Lion in Winter playing Richard I. Although Hopkins continued in theatre he gradually moved away from it to more established as a television. He portrayed Charles Dickens in the BBC television film The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens in 1970, and Pierre Bezukhov in the BBCs mini series War and Peace. In 1972 he starred as British politician David Lloyd George in Young Winston, in 1980, he starred in The Elephant Man as the English doctor Sir Frederick Treves, who attends to Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man in 19th century London. That year he starred opposite Shirley MacLaine in A Change of Seasons
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Linda Hamilton
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She also starred as Vicky in the cult classic horror film Children of the Corn. Hamilton had a role as Mary Elizabeth Bartowski on NBCs Chuck. Hamilton was born in Salisbury, Maryland, hamiltons father, Carroll Stanford Hamilton, a physician, died when she was five, and her mother later married a police chief. Hamilton has a twin sister, one older sister and one younger brother. She has said that she was raised in a boring, white Anglo-Saxon family. Hamilton went to Wicomico Junior High and Wicomico High School in Salisbury, with Leslie and she studied for two years at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, before moving on to acting studies in New York City. Hamilton has said that her professor at Washington College told her she had no hope of earning a living as an actress. In New York, she attended acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg, hamiltons acting debut came first on television, followed by a major role as Lisa Rogers in the prime-time soap opera Secrets of Midland Heights. Her big-screen debut was in the thriller TAG, The Assassination Game and as a result, she was listed as one of twelve Promising New Actors of 1982 in John Willis Screen World, Vol.34. She also shared a role in the CBS made-for-TV movie Country Gold, with Loni Anderson. Hamilton played the role in Children of the Corn, based on the horror short story by Stephen King. The movie, which made $14 million at the box office, was panned by critics, hamiltons next role was in The Terminator, opposite Michael Biehn, in 1984. The movie was a huge commercial and critical success. Following The Terminator, Hamilton starred in Black Moon Rising, a thriller with Tommy Lee Jones. She then returned to television as a guest-star in the mystery series Murder, She Wrote, Hamilton next starred opposite Ron Perlman in the TV series Beauty and the Beast. The series was acclaimed, and she received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Hamilton left the series in 1989 and it ended in 1990, Hamilton returned to the big screen in 1990 with Michael Caine in Mr. Destiny and in 1991 with Terminator 2, Judgment Day, the sequel to The Terminator. The latter was a smash at the box office, grossing over $500 million, Hamilton underwent intense physical training to emphasize the characters transformation from the first film
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Mercedes Ruehl
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Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American theater, television, and film actor. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 for The Fisher King, Ruehl was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, the daughter of Mercedes J. Ruehl, a school teacher, and Vincent Ruehl, an FBI agent. Her father was of German and Irish descent and her mother was of Cuban, Ruehl attended College of New Rochelle and graduated in 1969. She is married to painter David Geiser, with whom she adopted a son and she had another son, Christopher, whom she placed in adoption in 1976, he later became Jakes godfather. Her brother, Peter Ruehl, moved to Australia in 1987 where he was a newspaper columnist until his death in 2011. Ruehl began her career in theatre with the Denver Center Theatre Company. Her first starring role on Broadway came in 1984s Im Not Rappaport and she then went on to win the 1984 Obie Award for her performance in The Marriage of Bette and Boo and twenty years later, an Obie for Woman Before a Glass. She also received a 1991 Tony Award as Best Actress for Neil Simons Lost in Yonkers, earlier she had won the 1989 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Married to the Mob. She played KACL station manager Kate Costas in five episodes of Frasier and she is the first Cuban-American female Academy Award winner. In 2005, she received the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors and she later played the mother of main character Vincent Chase in HBOs Entourage. In 2009, Ruehl returned to the Broadway stage in Manhattan Theater Clubs production of Richard Greenbergs The American Plan playing the role of Eva Adler, the production opened at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and the limited engagement ran From January 22 until March 22. In his rave review in The New York Times, Ben Brantley called Ruehls performance masterly, Ruehl next appeared in the drama/horror film What Ever Happened to Barker Daniels. In January 2012, Ruehl starred in Sarah Treems play The How and The Why, directed by Emily Mann at McCarter Theatre of Princeton University
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James Cameron
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James Francis Jim Cameron is a Canadian filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter, inventor, engineer, philanthropist, and deep-sea explorer. He first found success with the science fiction action film The Terminator. He then became a popular Hollywood director and was hired to write and direct Aliens and he found further critical acclaim for his use of special effects in Terminator 2, Judgment Day. After his film True Lies Cameron took on his biggest film at the time, Titanic, despite Avatar being his only movie made to date in 3D, Cameron is the most successful 3D film-maker in terms of box-office revenue. In the time between making Titanic and Avatar, Cameron spent several years creating many documentary films and co-developed the digital 3D Fusion Camera System, described by a biographer as part scientist and part artist, Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies. On March 26,2012, Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench and he is the first person to do this in a solo descent, and is only the third person to do so ever. In total, Camerons directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$2 billion in North America, not adjusted for inflation, Camerons Titanic and Avatar are the two highest-grossing films of all time at $2.19 billion and $2.78 billion respectively. Cameron also holds the achievement of having directed two of the three films in history to gross over $2 billion worldwide, in March 2011, he was named Hollywoods top earner by Vanity Fair, with estimated 2010 earnings of $257 million. Cameron was born in 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley, an artist and nurse, and Phillip Cameron and his paternal great-great-great-grandfather emigrated from Balquhidder, Scotland, in 1825. Cameron grew up in Chippawa, Ontario, and attended Stamford Collegiate School in Niagara Falls and his family moved to Brea, California in 1971, when Cameron was 17 years old. He dropped out of Sonora High School, then attended Brea Olinda High School to further his secondary education, Cameron enrolled at Fullerton College, a two-year community college, in 1973 to study physics. He switched to English, then dropped out before the start of the fall 1974 semester, next, he worked several jobs, including as a truck driver, writing when he had time. That way I could sit down and read it, and if theyd let me photocopy it, Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry after seeing Star Wars in 1977. When Cameron read Syd Fields book Screenplay, it occurred to him that science and art was possible. They raised money, rented camera, lenses, film stock and they dismantled the camera to understand how to operate it and spent the first half-day of the shoot trying to figure out how to get it running. He was the director, writer, producer, and production designer for Xenogenesis and he then became a production assistant on a film called Rock and Roll High School, though uncredited, in 1979. While continuing to educate himself in film-making techniques, Cameron started working as a miniature-model maker at Roger Corman Studios, making rapidly produced, low-budget productions taught Cameron to work efficiently and effectively. He soon found employment as an art director in the sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars and he did special effects work design and direction on John Carpenters Escape from New York, acted as production designer on Galaxy of Terror, and consulted on the design of Android
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Edward Furlong
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Edward Walter Furlong is an American actor and musician. A former teen idol, Furlong won Saturn and MTV Movie Awards for his performance as John Connor in Terminator 2. The following year he gave an Independent Spirit Award-nominated turn opposite Jeff Bridges in American Heart and he won a Young Artist Award for his performance alongside Kathy Bates in A Home of Our Own, and shared a further ensemble nomination with the cast of the film. Furlong received acclaim for his roles in the 1998 motion pictures Pecker co-starring Christina Ricci. Other noteworthy titles from his career include Little Odessa, Brainscan, The Grass Harp. He reprised his role as John Connor in the international Universal Studios parks attraction T2 3-D, Furlong briefly pursued a singing career, releasing a 1991 album, Hold on Tight, which was only sold in Japan. Furlongs last significant roles were in the comedy Detroit Rock City and his career subsequently declined due to multiple arrests and court cases, and chronic substance abuse and alcoholism. Furlong played the character in the direct-to-video horror film The Crow. In 2011 he played a role in The Green Hornet. Edward Furlong was born in Glendale, California, the son of Eleanor Torres, Furlong is of Mexican descent on his mothers side, and has also described himself as half-Russian. His mothers sister, Nancy Tafoya, and their half-brother Sean Furlong obtained custody of him for years, including 1990–91. Initially, the two served as Furlongs managers, in 1991, Furlong began his film career as John Connor in Terminator 2, Judgment Day, a role that earned him an MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Role and a Saturn Award for best young actor. He was discovered for the part by casting director Mali Finn while visiting the Pasadena Boys, in 1993, Furlong was featured in Aerosmiths music video for Livin on the Edge. This was also the only major Aerosmith video from Get a Grip not to feature Alicia Silverstone and he played the lead role of Michael Brower, a horror and videogame-obsessed teen in the 1994 film Brainscan. In 1995, he starred in the adaptation of Truman Capotes The Grass Harp. In 1998, he starred in American History X alongside Edward Norton and appeared in his first comedy role in Pecker, of his title role in Pecker, Furlong stated, Its true most of the characters that Ive played so far are kind of like suicidal. Really dark roles, which I like, but I wanted to do something different and John gave me a chance to do that. In 1998, he starred in the film Detroit Rock City, during filming he met Natasha Lyonne, whom he then dated
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Frankenstein Unbound
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Frankenstein Unbound is a 1990 science fiction horror movie based on Brian Aldiss novel of the same name. The film was directed by Roger Corman, returning to the chair after a hiatus of almost twenty years. This is his final effort to date. The film starred John Hurt, Raúl Juliá and Bridget Fonda, Corman was paid $1 million to direct. In 2031, Dr. Buchanan and his work to develop the ultimate weapon. Buchanan hopes he can create a weapon so powerful that it will end all war and have the benefit of no impact on the environment. Unfortunately, the prototype has unpredictable side effects, creating erratic global weather patterns and rifts in space, as he drives home from the testing facility, Buchanan himself is caught in one such rift. Buchanan and his futuristic computer-controlled car reappear in Switzerland in 1817, in a village, he meets Victor Frankenstein. The men discuss science over dinner and it is revealed that Frankensteins young brother has been killed, a trial is to determine the guilt or innocence of the boys nanny, who is suspected in the murder. Several villagers claim to have seen a monster in the woods, Buchanan observes the trial and becomes interested in a young woman taking notes. She turns out to be Mary Shelley, author of the Frankenstein novel, Shelley gives credence to the talk of monsters, but the judge does not. The nanny is found guilty and sentenced to die at the gallows, Buchanan knows the monster killed the child. He implores Frankenstein to come forward and reveal the truth, Buchanan then asks Shelley for help, telling her that he is from the future. They are attracted to other, but Mary, fearing to know too much about the future and her own destiny. He drives his car to Frankensteins workshop and finds the doctor in discussion with the monster, the monster has killed Frankensteins fiance, saying that if a mate was not made for him then he would deprive Frankenstein of his. Frankenstein asks Buchanan to use his knowledge of electricity to assist in resurrecting the dead woman, Buchanan instructs the monster to run cables to a weather vane on the roof. While the monster is distracted, Buchanan re-routes some of the cables to begin powering up the prototype laser in his car. As the lightning strikes the tower again and again, the battery on the laser begins to charge, at the same moment, the woman is restored to life and Buchanans energy beam is fully charged, he fires
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Timescape (1992 film)
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Timescape, released on video as Grand Tour, Disaster in Time, is a 1992 American science fiction film by Director David Twohy. This time-travel-themed film is based on the novella Vintage Season by Henry Kuttner and it stars Jeff Daniels, with Ariana Richards and features a cameo appearance by Robert Colbert, one of the co-stars of Irwin Allens 1960s TV series The Time Tunnel. Haunted by the death of his wife, Ben Wilson, has returned to his hometown and purchased an old guest house on the outskirts of town. Ben soon begins to note their peculiar behaviour, manner and dress, Oscar points out the fact that, while they purport to be tourists, they do not carry cameras or take photographs. Shortly after they settle into their rooms, another stranger, Quish, arrives to join them, bens suspicions are heightened by events of the following day, when Quish has a minor accident while walking through the town. Ben helps him, in the process recovering Quishs dropped American passport, the local doctor then shows Ben an X-ray of Quishs head, which reveals that there is a mysterious object embedded in his skull. Unnerved, Quish will only respond by warning Wilson to leave town immediately, when Ben returns home, he finds Hilary gone and confronts the judge but is threatened with arrest, defeated, he goes to stay at the local hotel. She then gives Ben a euphoric substance and seduces him, leaving him unconscious, late that night, Ben is found and revived by Oscar. They return to the guest house to find out why the Tourists have come, Ben and Hilary work through the night helping the survivors, who are taken to Hilarys local school, which has become the local disaster relief centre. When Ben and Oscar return to the guest house the day, Ben is alarmed to discover that, although the Tourists have left the house. He and Oscar track them to a factory outside the town. The tourists try to detain him, but he evades them and races to the scene and he explains that his people have discovered that time is more resilient than they had first believed. However, because of the changes enacted by Ben and the Tourists, just before they depart, Ben attacks Reeve for her lack of humanity, but as she leaves she embraces him, secretly slipping Quishs passport into his hand. On examining the passport Ben discovers that it one of the Tourists time travel devices. He eventually makes it work and returns to the evening to try and save his daughter. Realising that Hilary is then at her grandfathers house, he tries to sneak her away, but he is caught and thrown into jail, which is itself soon to be destroyed. However he convinces the deputy to allow him his one phone call and manages to contact his pre-existing self at the hotel, just as that self is meeting with Reeve. This alternate self helps the original Ben to escape from the jail and together manage to alert
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Prayer of the Rollerboys
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Prayer of the Rollerboys is a 1990 independent science fiction film directed by Rick King and starring Corey Haim and Patricia Arquette. Haim stars as Griffin, a rollerblader in near future Los Angeles, a rollerblade-wearing white supremacist gang known as the Rollerboys fight for control of whats left of the city. The fascist group is led by a neighbour of Griffins. The Rollerboys carry out their eugenics agenda through violent battles with ethnic gangs, having joined up, Griffins loyalties to the gang are eventually called into question and he is tricked into nearly beating his African-American friend Speedbagger to death. Ethnic bioweapon Sixth Column Prayer of the Rollerboys at the Internet Movie Database Prayer of the Rollerboys trailer at Videodetective. com Prayer of the Rollerboys @ Cyberpunk in Cinema
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Predator 2
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The film is a sequel to 1987s Predator, with Peter Hall reprising the title role of the Predator. It has since become a cult film among fans, a sequel followed 20 years later in 2010. In 1997, Los Angeles is suffering from both a wave and a turf war between heavily armed Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels. The Predator assaults the Colombians, causing a disturbance that prompts Harrigan and his police detectives Leona Cantrell and Danny Archuleta to defy orders and they find the Colombians have been slaughtered. Harrigan pursues the gang leader onto the roof and shoots him when the latter panickedly opens fire at the camouflaged Predator. Harrigan himself catches a glimpse of the alien, but dismisses it as an effect of the extreme heat, at the station, Harrigan is reprimanded by his superiors for his disobedience. He is introduced to Special Agent Peter Keyes, leader of the force investigating the cartels, and Detective Jerry Lambert. Later that evening, several Jamaican cartel members enter the Colombian drug lords penthouse, after they ritualistically murder him, they are slaughtered by the Predator. Harrigans team enter the penthouse where they find the Jamaicans skinned corpses suspended from the rafters, Keyes arrives and kicks Harrigans team out. Archuleta later returns to continue investigating, after he finds one of the Predators speartip weapons in an air conditioning vent, the lurking Predator kills him. Harrigan vows to bring down Dannys killer, believing they are dealing with an assassin, forensic analysis reveals the speartip is not composed of any known element on the periodic table. Seeking answers, Harrigan meets with Jamaican drug lord King Willie, King Willie tells Harrigan that the killer is supernatural, and that he should prepare himself for battle against him. Harrigan, even more puzzled, leaves before the Predator kills King Willie, for Harrigans persistence, the Predator begins to mark him as his ultimate hunting challenge. Tracing a lead indicating Dannys killer had recently been in a slaughterhouse, Cantrell and Lambert take the subway to the rendezvous when the Predator, hunting Harrigans subordinates, suddenly attacks during a standoff between a gang and a group of vigilantes. The Predator kills the gang and multiple vigilantes, and Lambert faces off against the Predator and is killed, Cantrell is spared after the Predators scan of her body reveals that she is pregnant. Arriving on the scene to find numerous armed civilians dead in addition to Lambert, Keyes and his team have set a trap in a nearby slaughterhouse, using thermally insulated suits and cryogenic weapons to capture it for study. When the Predator arrives, the trap is sprung, however, the Predator uses its mask to scan through various electromagnetic wavelengths to identify the light from the teams torches. It easily outmaneuvers and slaughters the men before wounding Keyes, Harrigan then attacks the Predator, badly wounding it before it rallies, destroys his weapon and closes in
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The Rocketeer (film)
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The film is based upon the character of the same name created by comic book artist and writer Dave Stevens. His heroic deeds soon attract the attention of Howard Hughes and the FBI, development for The Rocketeer started as far back as 1983, when Stevens sold the film rights. Steve Miner and William Dear considered directing The Rocketeer before Johnston signed on, screenwriters Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo had creative differences with Disney, which caused the film to languish in development hell. The studio also intended to change the trademark helmet design, Disney CEO Michael Eisner wanted a straight NASA-type helmet, Johnston also had to convince Disney to let him cast unknown actor Billy Campbell in the lead role. Filming for The Rocketeer lasted from September 19,1990 to January 22,1991, the visual effects sequences were created and designed by Industrial Light & Magic, and were supervised by animation director Wes Takahashi. The film was released on June 21,1991 and received favorable reviews from critics. As of 2012, new efforts were being made for a remake, in 1938 Los Angeles, two gangsters in Eddie Valentines gang steal a rocket pack from Howard Hughes. During their escape, they find themselves on an airfield, where they hide the rocket pack, ending in an accident while escaping. Stunt pilot Cliff Secords Gee Bee racer is totaled during the accident, he, Cliffs girlfriend is aspiring actress Jenny Blake, who has a bit part in Sinclairs latest film. On the set, Sinclair overhears Cliff attempting to tell Jenny about the rocket pack, afterward, at a local air show, Cliff uses the rocket pack to rescue his friend Malcolm, who is drunkenly piloting a biplane. The newsreel press and Valentines gangsters all see him in the airshow audience, Sinclair sends Lothar to Cliff and Peevys home to find the rocket pack. The FBI arrives, but Cliff and Peevy escape, while Lothar steals its detailed schematics drawn up by Peevy. Later, at the diner, Cliff and Peevy are trapped by several Valentine mobsters, they learn that Jenny had a date with Sinclair. The diner patrons overpower the gangsters, while a bullet ricochet punctures the rockets fuel tank, Cliff proceeds to the South Seas Club, where he tells Jenny about his new alter ego. The Valentine gang arrives, and Jenny is kidnapped by Sinclair in the ensuing melée, at Sinclairs home, Jenny discovers that he is a Nazi secret agent and knocks him out. She is later detained and forced to leave a message for Cliff to bring the pack to the Griffith Observatory in exchange for her life. Just before he is arrested by the FBI and taken to Hughes and Peevy, the FBI agents mention that they are tracking a Nazi spy in Hollywood, whom Cliff realizes to be Sinclair. When Hughes demands the return of the pack, Cliff explains that he needs it to rescue Jenny, he escapes
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Edward Scissorhands
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The young man is taken in by a suburban family and falls in love with their teenage daughter Kim. Additional roles were played by Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Vincent Price, Burton conceived Edward Scissorhands from his childhood upbringing in suburban Burbank, California. During pre-production of Beetlejuice, Caroline Thompson was hired to adapt Burtons story into a screenplay, Edward Scissorhands was then fast tracked after Burtons critical and financial success with Batman. The majority of filming took place in Lakeland, Florida between March 10 and June 10,1990, the film also marks the fourth collaboration between Burton and film score composer Danny Elfman. The character of The Inventor was devised specifically for Vincent Price, Edwards scissor hands were created and designed by Stan Winston. Edward Scissorhands was released to positive feedback from critics, and was a financial success, the film received numerous nominations at the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Saturn Awards, as well as winning the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Both Burton and Elfman consider Edward Scissorhands their most personal and favorite work, an elderly woman tells her granddaughter a bedtime story of where snow comes from, by telling her the story of a young man named Edward who has scissor blades for hands. As the creation of an old Inventor, Edward was a boy who was in the penultimate stage of work. The Inventor homeschooled Edward, but suffered a heart attack. Some years later, Peg Boggs, a local Avon door-to-door saleswoman and she finds Edward alone, and though he is initially startled, Peg offers to take him to her home when she realizes he is virtually harmless. Peg introduces Edward to her family, her husband Bill, their young son Kevin and they are initially fearful of Edward but come to see him as a kind person and allow him to stay. The Boggs neighbors are all curious to their new house guest, there, most of the neighbors are fascinated by Edward and befriend him, except for the eccentric religious fanatic Esmeralda and Kims boyfriend Jim. After the barbecue, Edward repays the neighborhood for their kindness by trimming their hedges into beautiful topiaries and this incidentally leads him to discovering he can craftfully trim and style dogs hair, and later as a hair stylist for many of the neighborhood women. One of the neighbors, Joyce, suggests that she can help Edward open a hair salon and charge money for his unique talent. While scouting for a location, Joyce attempts to him, leaving Edward scared, though Joyce tells the other neighborhood women that he attempted to seduce her. The bank refuses to give Edward a loan for the salon, Jim, jealous of Kims growing attraction to Edward, suggests Edward help pick the lock on his parents home to acquire a van for himself and Kim. Edward agrees, but when he picks the lock, the alarm goes off. The police find through psychological examination that his period of isolation has left him no sense of reality or common sense
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Defending Your Life
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The film was written by, directed by, and stars Albert Brooks. It also stars Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant, the film was shot in and around Los Angeles, California. Despite its comedic overtones, Defending Your Life contains elements of drama, Daniel Miller, a Los Angeles advertising executive, dies in a car accident on his 39th birthday and is sent to the afterlife. His defense attorney, Bob Diamond, explains to Daniel that people from Earth use so little of their brains that they spend most of their lives functioning on the basis of their fears. When you use more than five percent of brain, you dont want to be on Earth, believe me. Otherwise, his soul will be reincarnated on Earth to live life in another attempt at moving past his fears. Daniels judgment process is presided over by two judges, Diamond argues that Daniel should move onto the next phase. His formidable opponent is Lena Foster, Diamond informs Daniel that she is known as the Dragon Lady. Each utilizes video-like footage from select days in the defendants lives, during the procedure, Daniel meets and falls in love with Julia, a woman who lived a seemingly perfect life of courage and generosity, especially compared to his. The proceedings do not go well for Daniel, Foster shows a series of episodes in which Daniel did not overcome his fears, as well as various other bad decisions and mishaps. It is ruled that Daniel will return to Earth, meanwhile, Julia is judged worthy to move on. Before saying goodbye Diamond comforts Daniel with the knowledge that the court is not infallible, Daniel finds himself strapped to a seat on a tram poised to return to Earth, when he spots Julia on a different tram. On impulse, he himself, escapes from the moving tram. The judges agree and open the doors on Julia’s tram, allowing Daniel in, reuniting him with Julia, Defending Your Life was released on VHS and Laserdisc in early 1992. Home Video released the film on DVD on April 3,2001 and it features 1.85,1 anamorphic widescreen formatting, subtitles in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, cast and crew information, and the films theatrical trailer. Warner re-released the film in 2008 in a two-pack DVD set with Brooks Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World. Variety called it an inventive and mild bit of whimsy in which Brooks has a little fun with the Liliom idea of being judged in a fanciful afterlife, but he doesnt carry his conceit nearly far enough. Roger Ebert called it funny in a warm, fuzzy way and a film with a satisfactory ending
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The Fisher King
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The Fisher King is a 1991 American comedy-drama film written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges, with Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer, the film is about a radio shock jock who tries to find redemption by helping a man whose life he inadvertently shattered. The film was released in the United States by TriStar Pictures on September 20,1991, grossing $42 million over a $24 million budget, the film received positive reviews from critics and was a moderate commercial success. The film also received several accolades, Jack Lucas, a narcissistic, misanthropic shock jock, becomes despondent after his insensitive comments prompt an unstable caller to commit a mass murder-suicide at a popular Manhattan restaurant. Three years later, Jack is drunk and depressed, working with his girlfriend Anne in a video store, one night while drinking, he attempts suicide but is attacked and nearly set aflame by thugs. He is rescued by Parry, a homeless man on a mission to find the Holy Grail. The latter feels responsible for Parrys condition, a result of witnessing his wifes death during the mass murder-suicide while also continually terrified by an hallucinatory red knight, Jack learns that Parrys real name is Henry Sagan, a former teacher at Hunter College. Following his wifes death, he took on the persona of Parry, according to Parry, the Fisher King was charged by God with guarding the Holy Grail, but incurred an incapacitating wound for his sin of pride. A Fool asks the King why he suffers, and when the King says he is thirsty, the Fool gives him a cup of water, the King asks, How did you find what my brightest and bravest could not. The Fool replies I dont know, I only knew that you were thirsty. Jack seeks to redeem himself by helping Parry find love again and sets him up with Lydia, Jack and Anne then join them for a dinner date. Following dinner, Parry declares his love for Lydia but is again haunted by the Red Knight. As he flees his hallucinatory tormentor, he is attacked by the thugs from earlier, Jack breaks up with Anne and begins to rebuild his career, having a crisis of conscience during a sitcom pitch after snubbing a vagrant who had previously done him a favor. Wearing Parrys clothing, Jack infiltrates the Upper East Side castle of an architect and retrieves the Grail. When he brings it to Parry, he regains consciousness, Jack learns that he inadvertently thwarted the famous architects suicide attempt by triggering the alarm when leaving the Upper East Side castle. Lydia comes to visit Parry as usual in the hospital and she finds that Parry is awake and aware with Jack leading the patients of the ward in a rendition of How About You. Afterwards, Jack goes back to the store and confesses to Annie. Jack and Parry lie naked in Central Park gazing at the clouds and this was the first film Gilliam directed in which he was not involved in writing the screenplay, as well as his first film not to feature any other members of Monty Python
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If Looks Could Kill (film)
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If Looks Could Kill is a 1991 American action comedy spy film directed by William Dear and stars Richard Grieco. Eighteen-year-old Michael Corben of Detroit, Michigan, is a slacker, because important details about the agents identity have been kept meticulously secret, Michael is mistaken for the CIA agent. He is inexplicably boarded first class on his flight to Paris, the late Agent Corbens mission had been to protect Augustus Steranko, who has been murdering European finance ministers as part of his plan. A. Gear sneakers with suction cups, as well as a Lotus Esprit, despite being briefly captured and imprisoned by Sterankos men, Michael escapes, rescues Mrs. Grober and his friends, and battles and defeats Zigesfeld in the films climax. Steranko, his duplicitous nature exposed by Michael, kidnaps Mariska, Michael manages to rescue Mariska, and Steranko is subsequently killed when he falls out of the helicopter, and it and the onboard gold supply both drop on him. Afterwards, Mrs. Grober agrees to give Michael the French credit, Richard Grieco as Michael Corben Linda Hunt as Ilsa Grunt Roger Rees as Augustus Steranko, a leader of European Economic Community. The film received disappointing to negative reviews from critics, although some praised it, notably Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times. The film had scored a 33% on rotten tomatoes, If Looks Could Kill at the Internet Movie Database If Looks Could Kill at AllMovie If Looks Could Kill at Box Office Mojo If Looks Could Kill at Rotten Tomatoes
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
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Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves is a 1991 American romantic action adventure film. The film, an iteration of the legendary English folk tale, was directed by Kevin Reynolds, the film grossed over $390 million worldwide, ranking as the second-highest-grossing film of 1991. For his role as George, Sheriff of Nottingham, Rickman received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Robin of Locksley – an English nobleman who joined Richard the Lionheart, King of England in the Third Crusade – is imprisoned in Jerusalem along with his comrade, Peter Dubois. Facing the amputation of his hand by the Ayyubid prison guards, Robin escapes with Peter, Robin, Peter, and Azeem escape through a sewer and into an alley, but Peter is shot and mortally wounded by an archer. Before making his last stand against the guards, he has Robin swear to protect his sister. Robin returns to England with Azeem, who has vowed to accompany him until Azeems life-debt to Robin is repaid. In England, with King Richard still away, the cruel Sheriff of Nottingham rules over the land, aided by his cousin, Guy of Gisbourne, the witch Mortianna, and the corrupt Bishop of Hereford. At Locksley Castle, Robins father, who is loyal to King Richard, is killed by the Sheriffs men after refusing to join them, Robin returns to England to find his father dead, his home in ruins, and the Sheriff and his men oppressing the people. After telling Marian of Peters demise, and while fleeing the Sheriffs forces afterwards, Robin and Azeem encounter a band of outlaws hiding in Sherwood Forest, among the band is Will Scarlet, who holds a belligerent grudge against Robin. Robin ultimately assumes command of the group, encourages his men to fight against Nottingham and they rob soldiers and convoys that pass through the forest, then distribute the stolen wealth among the poor. One of their targets is Friar Tuck, who subsequently joins these Merry Men. Marian begins to sympathize with the band and renders Robin any aid she can muster, Robins successes infuriate the Sheriff, who increases the mistreatment of the people, resulting in greater local support for Robin Hood. The Sheriff kills Gisbourne for his failure to prevent the looting of several convoys, the Sheriff manages to locate the outlaws hideout and launches an attack, destroying the forest refuge and capturing most of the outlaws. He confines Marian when she tries to help from France. In order to consolidate his claim to the throne, the Sheriff proposes to Marian, nevertheless, several of the rebels are due to be executed by hanging as part of the wedding celebration. Among the captured is Will Scarlet, who makes a deal with the Sheriff to find, will meets back with Robin and a handful of his most trusted aides who survived the assault by the Celts. Instead of attacking Robin, Will informs him of the Sheriffs plans to marry Marian, will continues to display anger against Robin, which motivates Robin to question why Will hates him so much
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Warlock (1989 film)
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Warlock is a 1989 American cult supernatural horror film produced and directed by Steve Miner and starring Julian Sands, Lori Singer, and Richard E. Grant. It was written by David Twohy with a soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith, the story concerns an evil 17th century warlock who flees to the 20th century pursued by a witch-hunter. The Warlock is taken captive in Boston, Massachusetts in 1691 by the witch-hunter Giles Redferne, the Warlock attempts to assemble The Grand Grimoire, a Satanic book that will reveal the true name of God. Redferne and The Warlock then embark on a chase with the Grand Grimoire and Kassandra. The Warlock assembles two-thirds of the Grimoire, and Giles is stunned to learn that the last portion is buried in his grave, the Warlock appears and starts a ritual to assemble the Grimoire. After seeing the name of God appear on the book, The Warlock is about to call it out and unmake existence when Kassandra injects him with salt water, Redferne returns to his own time. In the epilogue, Kassandra is seen burying the Grimoire in the Great Salt Flats, Twohy revised and refined the story, but he had to compromise some of his ideas due to limitations of the budget. Because the film begins in the colonial United States, director Steve Miner insisted that the leads were portrayed by British actors, theyd been off the boat for five years, ten years at most. Producer Arnold Kopelson suggested Julian Sands, but it was director Miner who decided to cast Sands against type as the evil Warlock instead of goodhearted Redferne, Sands had been offered many roles in horror movies and initially wasnt interested. When I first got the script, it sat around for a while because I didnt think it was my kind of thing, when I read it, I saw it was a black comedy rather than a slasher-type film was very happy at the prospect of working with Steve. Problems arose with actress Lori Singer, who was reportedly difficult, an elaborate series of makeups to progressively age Singer had been designed, tested and approved. However, on the day of her transformation into a 40-year-old, Singer refused to wear any prosthetics, for her 60-year-old incarnation, she agreed to wear prosthetics on her cheeks and chin but refused to let them put appliances on her nose or eyes. The bulk of the movie was shot on location around the United States, the opening 17th century sequence was filmed at Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts, and later scenes were shot in the Boston area. The farmhouse with the red barn is the George Washington Faulkner House. Because of the logistics of the special effects involved, however, the post-production optical effects work was to have been supplied by Dreamquest Images but they were replaced by Perpetual Motion for budgetary reasons. Due to a variety of factors, several scenes were cut, several deleted scenes are glimpsed in the theatrical trailer and other photographs and information have surfaced. In the original version of the sequence, actress Mary Woronov ripped open her blouse to reveal the Eyes of Satan in place of her nipples. After mouthing the words of the devil, the channeler freezes, the Warlock then pushes her body to the ground causing it to shatter and stomps on her chest to retrieve the eyes
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The Silence of the Lambs (film)
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The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American horror-thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Scott Glenn. Adapted by Ted Tally from the 1988 novel of the name by Thomas Harris, his second to feature the character of Dr. In the film, Clarice Starling, a young U. S, FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Lecter to apprehend another serial killer, known only as Buffalo Bill. The Silence of the Lambs was released on February 14,1991 and it is also the first Best Picture winner widely considered to be a horror film, and only the third such film to be nominated in the category, after The Exorcist in 1973 and Jaws in 1975. The film is considered culturally, historically or aesthetically significant by the U. S, library of Congress and was selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 2011. A sequel titled Hannibal was released in 2001 with Hopkins reprising his role, FBI trainee Clarice Starling is pulled from her training at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia by Jack Crawford of the Bureaus Behavioral Science Unit. Starling travels to the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, although initially pleasant and courteous, Lecter grows impatient with Starlings attempts at dissecting him and rebuffs her. As she is leaving, one of the prisoners flicks semen at her, Lecter, who considers this act unspeakably ugly, calls Starling back and tells her to seek out an old patient of his. This leads her to a shed where she discovers a mans severed head with a sphinx moth lodged in its throat. She returns to Lecter, who tells her that the man is linked to Buffalo Bill and he offers to profile Buffalo Bill on the condition that he be transferred away from Chilton, whom he detests. Crawford authorizes Starling to offer Lecter a fake deal promising a prison if he provides information that helps them find Buffalo Bill. Instead, Lecter demands a quid pro quo from Starling, offering clues about Buffalo Bill in exchange for personal information, Starling tells Lecter about the murder of her father when she was ten years old. Chilton secretly records the conversation and reveals Starlings deceit before offering Lecter a deal of Chiltons own making, Lecter agrees and is flown to Memphis, Tennessee, where he verbally torments Senator Ruth Martin and gives her misleading information on Buffalo Bill, including the name Louis Friend. Starling notices that Louis Friend is an anagram of iron sulfide — fools gold and she visits Lecter, who is now being held in a cage-like cell in a Tennessee courthouse, and asks for the truth. Lecter tells her all the information she needs is contained in the case file. Starling admits that she still sometimes wakes thinking she can hear lambs screaming, Lecter gives her back the case files on Buffalo Bill after their conversation is interrupted by Chilton and the police, who escort her from the building. Later that evening, Lecter kills his guards, escapes from his cell, Starling analyzes Lecters annotations to the case files and realizes that Buffalo Bill knew his first victim personally. Starling travels to the hometown and discovers that Buffalo Bill was a tailor, with dresses
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Body Parts (film)
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Body Parts is a 1991 horror thriller film directed by Eric Red and released by Paramount Pictures. The film stars Jeff Fahey, Kim Delaney, Brad Dourif, Bill Chrushank is a psychologist working with convicted killers at a prison. While driving to work, Bill gets in a car accident. At the hospital, Dr. Agatha Webb convinces Bill’s wife to sign off on a transplant surgery. Bill is wheeled into the room where he notes several armed police in hospital scrubs. While Bills surgery takes place, Dr. Webb removes the unknown donor’s head from his body on an operating table. Bill awakens from the surgery and begins to adjust to his new arm, after he is released from the hospital, he resumes his work and things seem to be back to normal. However, Bill starts seeing visions of horrible acts of murder, at the prison, Ray, a convict whom Bill is interviewing, tells Bill that the tattoo on his new arm is only given to inmates on death row. Bill has a police friend scan his new fingerprints and is shocked to discover the arm came from convicted serial killer Charley Fletcher, Bill confronts Dr. Webb, who dismisses his concerns. Unconvinced, he follows her and finds the identities of two patients, Mark Draper and Remo Lacey who received the killer’s legs and other arm. Bill visits Remo, who was a struggling artist before the transplant, noting Remo’s paintings depict the same visions he had, Bill tells him that he is painting what the killer saw. Remo, however, only cares about his success and dismisses Bill’s warnings. Bill meets Mark and tries to him but Mark is just happy to be able to walk again and advises Bill to be grateful. Bill becomes increasingly agitated and violent and he involuntarily hits his son and almost strangles his wife to death while sleeping. For the safety of his family, Bill stays in hotel and he demands that Dr. Webb removes his arm but she refuses, stating that the problems he is experiencing are insignificant compared to her experiments success. Bill meets up with the Remo and Mark at a bar, a drunk man recognizes Bill from news about the surgery, and demands to see his arm. Bill snaps and a bar fight breaks out where Bill single-handedly takes out several men, as Mark returns home, his legs suddenly stop functioning. Scared, Mark calls Bill, who hears Mark yell and struggle with someone, Bill goes to Mark’s apartment and finds him dead, with both legs ripped out and missing
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Children of the Night (1991 film)
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Children of the Night is a 1991 American horror film directed by Tony Randel. Lucy drops her crucifix, which drifts down onto the remains of an ancient vampire. Mark Gardner, a teacher from a nearby town, gets directed to Allburg by an old friend of his. Once there he tries to help Lucy, as she has now become the target of a town-turned-vampires, Lucy, Mark, and a drunken preacher make camp in an abandoned building outside of town and make plans to fight the vampire army. Utilizing the preachers cross mobile they battle Allburgs entire vampire populace, once Czakyr has been killed, the towns folk return to normal, with some complaining of splinters in their chests. The Gothic in Childrens Literature, Haunting the Borders, horror in Childrens Literature from the Nineteenth Century. Mary and the Demons, Marian Devotion and Ritual Healing in Tanzania, journal of Religion in Africa 39.2009, 295-318. Religion and Philosophy Collection. Web. Children of the Night at the Internet Movie Database Children of the Night at AllMovie
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Child's Play 3
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Childs Play 3 is a 1991 American supernatural slasher film directed by Jack Bender and written by Don Mancini. It is the installment in the Childs Play series, with Brad Dourif returning as the voice of Chucky. Although released only one later, the story takes place eight years following the events of 1990s Childs Play 2. It was executive produced by David Kirschner who produced first two Childs Play films, the film was followed by Bride of Chucky. The company releases a new line of Good Guy dolls and recycles Chuckys remains, however, the soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray still inhabits the remains, and Chucky is soon revived. Chucky is unwittingly given to Play Pals CEO Mr. Sullivan and he then uses computer records to relocate Andy Barclay. Still troubled by his past encounters with Chucky, 16-year-old Andy Barclay has been sent to Kent Military Academy after having failed to cope in several foster homes, colonel Cochran, the schools commandant, begrudgingly enrolls Andy, but advises him to forget his fantasies about the doll. Andy befriends cadets Harold Aubrey Whitehurst, Ronald Tyler, and Kristin DeSilva, Shelton, a lieutenant colonel who routinely bullies the cadets, especially Andy. Shortly after Andy arrives, Tyler is asked to deliver a package to his room, Tyler realizes that the package contains a Good Guy doll and, excited, takes it to the cellar to open it, only to have Chucky burst free from the package. Cochran throws Chucky into a truck, but Chucky escapes by luring the driver into the trucks compactor. That night, Chucky attacks Andy and tells him his plans for taking over Tylers soul, before Andy can attack Chucky, Shelton comes in and takes the doll from him. Andy tries to get the back by sneaking into Sheltons room. Upon realizing the doll has vanished, Shelton suspects it stolen, Andy unsuccessfully tries to warn Tyler about Chucky. At one point, Chucky lures Tyler into playing hide-and-seek in Cochrans office, however, they are interrupted by De Silva and, moments later, Cochran himself. When the cadets leave, Cochran is suddenly confronted by a knife-wielding Chucky, the resulting shock causes Cochran to suffer a fatal heart attack. Chucky later kills the cruel camp barber Sergeant Botnick by slashing his neck with a razor before saying Presto, despite Cochrans death, Sgt. Clark declares that the schools annual war games will proceed as planned, with Andy and Shelton on the same team. However, Chucky secretly replaces the blank paint bullets of the Red team with live ammunition, when the simulation begins, Chucky accosts Tyler, then threatens the boy when he refuses to take part. Tyler stabs Chucky with a knife and flees, trying to find Andy
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Dolly Dearest
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Dolly Dearest is an American 1991 horror film starring Denise Crosby and Rip Torn. The movie was supposed to be direct-to-video, but did get a limited theatrical release in the Midwestern United States. American father, Elliot Wade, obtains ownership of the Dolly Dearest factory in Mexico, not far from the factory lies the underground, Mayan tomb of Sanzia, or Satan on Earth. Upon its escape Sanzia takes refuge in the porcelain moppets of Dolly Dearest, despite the demise of the archaeologist, the sale is finalized and the unsuspecting Wade family travels from Los Angeles to Mexico to see their new home. Upon arrival, the family meets their realtor, Mr. Jimmy decides to tag along as well, during the conversation, Jessica goes exploring. On a high shelf she discovers many well-preserved dolls covered by a sheet and she asks her father if she may have one and he acquiesces. Outside, Jimmy finds the entrance to the cave which is blocked by a wire fence, unaware of recent events, Jimmy inquires about that area, but his father warns him to never go back there again. That night, Marilyn tucks Jessica in bed and wishes her good night, as she falls asleep, Dolly slowly turns her head to stare at the sleeping child. The next day, when Jessica goes outside to play with Dolly, although curious, Marilyn does not confront her. As the day progresses, Marilyn begins to experience unusual activities, in the beginning, she hears phantom footsteps. As time progresses Camilla sends a priest to bless the house, during the session, the Wade family is driving back to their house, and Jessica throws a tantrum in the car. Upon reaching their home, the Priest is seen walking away, Jessica demands that she be given her Dolly immediately, and as the family walks into the house, she looks back and glares at Camilla. That night, Marilyn recounts the events to Elliot. However, Jessica becomes progressively more violent and obsessive with Dolly, to not arouse her fathers suspicion, Jessica acts normal when he is around, but resumes her evil and threatening behavior around her mother. Camilla believes the doll is controlling Jessica, when the daughter speaks harshly in Sanzian tongue, Camillas suspicions are proven correct and she tries to warn Marilyn of the evil but is killed by the spirit. The mayhem continues as Jimmy sneaks out the one night. He finds the night watchman Luis, dead on the floor and it appears as if Luis died from a heart attack but in truth, the dolls had come to life and toyed with him for a while. Struggling to escape, his hand got caught in a sewing machine
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Misery (film)
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The hobbling scene in the film was ranked #12 on Bravos 100 Scariest Movie Moments. Famed novelist Paul Sheldon is the author of a series of Regency romance novels featuring a character named Misery Chastain. Wanting to focus on more serious stories, he writes a manuscript for a new novel that he hopes will launch his post-Misery career. While traveling from Silver Creek, Colorado to his home in New York City, he is caught in a blizzard and his car goes off the road, Paul is rescued by a nurse named Annie Wilkes, who brings him to her remote home. When Paul regains consciousness he finds himself bedridden, with both his legs broken as well as a dislocated shoulder, Annie claims she is his number one fan and talks a lot about him and his novels. As a reward for saving him, Paul gives Annie his new manuscript, while feeding him, she is angered by the profanity in the new manuscript and spills soup on him but apologizes. She buys a copy of Pauls most recently published book, Miserys Child, however, when she discovers that Misery dies at the end of the book, she flies into a rage. She reveals that she lied about calling his agent and the authorities, Paul tries to escape from his room, but she has locked the door. The next morning, Annie forces Paul to burn his latest manuscript, when he is well enough to get out of bed, she insists he write a new novel titled Miserys Return, in which he brings the character back to life. Paul complies, believing Annie might kill him otherwise and he also tells her he will use Annies name in the book in appreciation of her nursing him back to health. When the first few chapters show continuity errors, Annie chides him angrily, one day, Paul sneaks out when Annie is away and begins stockpiling his painkillers. He tries poisoning Annie during dinner, but fails, Paul later finds a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about Annies past. He discovers that she was suspected and tried for the deaths of several infants, Annie had quoted lines from his Misery novels during her trial. Annie later drugs Paul and straps him to the bed, when he wakes, she tells him that she knows he has been out of his room and breaks his ankles with a sledgehammer to prevent him from escaping again. The local sheriff, Buster, is investigating Pauls disappearance, when a shopkeeper informs the sheriff he has sold Annie considerable quantities of typing paper, Buster pays Annie a visit. When he finds Paul drugged in the basement, Annie fatally shoots Buster and he agrees, on the condition that he must finish the novel in order to give Misery back to the world. He then conceals a can of fluid in his pocket. When the book is done, he reminds Annie it is his practice to have a single cigarette, after he gets them, Paul sets the manuscript on fire, giving him the chance to hit Annie over the head with the typewriter
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Night of the Living Dead (1990 film)
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Night of the Living Dead is a 1990 American horror film directed by Tom Savini and starring Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman and Tom Towles. It is a remake of George A. Romeros 1968 horror film of the same name, Romero rewrote the original 1968 screenplay co-authored by John A. Russo. Siblings Barbara and Johnnie visit their mothers grave in a remote Pennsylvania cemetery, during their visit, Barbara is attacked by a zombie. Her brother comes to her defense but is killed, Barbara flees the cemetery and discovers what at first seems to be an abandoned farmhouse. She seeks shelter there, only to find another pack of zombies, shortly after, a man named Ben arrives, and the two clear the house of the dead and begin the process of barricading the doors and windows. The group is divided over what their next course of action should be, Harry believes everyone should retreat to the cellar and barricade the door to wait for the authorities. The loud construction attracts even more zombies to the farmhouse, soon collecting a large mob, the group devises a plan to escape using Bens truck, which is out of fuel, by refueling at a locked gas pump a couple hundred yards away. A search of the corpse who lived in the farmhouse produces a set of keys. Judy Rose, Tom, and Ben proceed up the hill toward the gas pump, to their horror, the key to the gas pump is not among the bunch they brought with them. When Tom shoots the lock off, the leaking gasoline is ignited by a piece of wood in the truck. The resulting explosion kills both Tom and Judy, Ben returns to the house to find things beginning to dissolve into chaos. Harry has wrestled Barbaras gun away from her and is now armed, when Sarah makes her way upstairs she triggers a shootout between her father, who is trying to protect her, and Ben and Barbara, who are trying to protect themselves. Both Ben and Harry are badly wounded, Barbara shoots Sarah, Harry retreats upstairs to the attic, while Ben makes his way to the cellar, where he shoots a reanimated Helen. Ben gradually goes into shock, and after realizing the gas key has been in the cellar the entire time, meanwhile, Barbara leaves the house alone and attempts to find help. She eventually joins a group of Countryside locals who are clearing the area of the undead, shes awoken the next day and is surrounded by safety of the media and townspeople. Noticing hillbillies playing around with a couple of zombies, she comments on the similarities between the living and the undead and she returns to the farmhouse to find Ben, who died of his wounds and has been reanimated. He gazes at Barbara before being shot in the head by one of the posse members. When Harry emerges from the attic alive, Barbara kills him in a fit of rage for causing Ben to die, the film ends as Barbara hypnotically watches the bodies being burned in the fire
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Sleeping with the Enemy
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Sleeping with the Enemy is a 1991 psychological thriller film directed by Joseph Ruben and starring Julia Roberts and Patrick Bergin. The film is based on Nancy Prices 1987 novel of the same name, Roberts plays a woman who escapes from her abusive husband, from Cape Cod to Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she captures the attention of a kindly college drama teacher. Laura Burney lives in a home by the beach on Cape Cod with her husband, Martin. Beneath his charm, however, Martin is an angry, possessive control freak who who has been physically and emotionally abusing Laura throughout their marriage, one day, Martin believes Laura has been flirting with an attractive neighbor, and he physically assaults her in a jealous rage. In an effort to escape Martin, Laura fakes her own death at sea in a storm while the couple are boating, because Laura had deliberately led Martin to believe that she could not swim, he believed she had died once she was lost overboard. However, Laura was able to safely to shore, because she had recently taken swimming lessons at the YWCA. Laura secretly returns home, retrieves some clothing and cash she had hidden away in preparation, disguises herself, Laura moves to Cedar Falls, Iowa. In preparation, she has told Martin that her mother, Chloe Williams, died, and pretends to attend the funeral and she rents a modest house and adopts the name Sara Waters. In Cedar Falls, she meets Ben Woodward, who teaches drama at University of Northern Iowa, a relationship develops, but suffers a setback when Ben discovers that her real name is not Sara. After a date, Laura is unable to be intimate with Ben. Meanwhile, Martin receives a phone call from a friend of Lauras from the YWCA. His suspicions aroused, Martin heads home and finds Lauras wedding ring in the bowl where it failed to flush. From the Cape Cod nursing home, he learns that Lauras mother is alive and he visits Lauras mother and tells her he is a police officer needing information about Laura. He learns from her that Laura is seeing a college teacher in Cedar Falls. Martin finds Laura and Ben at a fair, then follows her home. After leaving idiosyncratic clues of his presence around the house for Laura to find, Ben appears at the front door and Martin, brandishing a gun, threatens to kill Ben if she doesnt make him leave. Laura talks to Ben and he appears to leave, but then he breaks down the door and struggles with Martin, as Martin points the gun at Ben, Laura distracts Martin then attacks him. He drops the gun and Laura manages to control of it, she fires at Martin
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John Connor
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John Connor is a fictional character of the Terminator franchise. In the narrative of his universe, John Connor is a messianic figure who will lead the Resistance to defeat an empire of robotic Terminators amassed by Skynet following Judgment Day. With foreknowledge from his parents, John fends off Terminator assassination attempts in the second, in the fourth film, John fights with the Resistance in a post-apocalyptic setting after Skynet has taken over. In The Terminator, John is mentioned and is the basis of the film, the Terminator is attempting to kill Sarah Connor because she will be his mother, but does not make a physical appearance. However, at the end of the film, Sarah is shown to be pregnant with John, John makes his first true appearance in Terminator 2, Judgment Day which takes place in 1995, played by Edward Furlong. He was a 10-year-old juvenile delinquent living with foster parents while his mother was at a hospital for the mentally insane, one day, while in an arcade with a friend, the T-1000 and the T-800 - a reprogrammed android sent by Johns future self, fight over him. This starts a sequence where the T-800 and John try to lose the T-1000. Later that night, his mother out and he and the T-800 go to save her. John teaches The Terminator how to be like a human and he teaches him sayings like hasta la vista, baby. Also, John Connor is briefly seen as an adult, played by Michael Edwards, in this battle scene, his face is heavily scarred. Dalton Abbot, also played John as a toddler in a dream sequence, the alternate ending for Terminator 2, Judgment Day depicts Sarah Connor alive and well on August 29,2029. John Connor has become a U. S. senator and father to a daughter in a world where Skynet was never able to start its war on humanity. While Sarah states that Judgment Day has been averted, John accepts that he still has a destiny to make a difference, in Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines, which takes place in 2003, John Connor, portrayed by Nick Stahl, is now a young adult. John has been living off-the-grid after the events of the second film and his mother eventually developed terminal leukemia and died. In the film, John crosses paths with Katherine Kate Brewster and he is attacked by a T-X Terminator, which was sent from the future. Unlike its predecessors, the T-Xs objective was to terminate his future officers as secondary targets because Johns location was unknown, when it encounters John it changes its priority to focus entirely on him and Kate. A protector T-850 is also sent back in time to protect John and it is via the radios in this bunker that John begins to organize the resistance. Since Judgment Day, John has been broadcasting radio messages to both the Resistance forces and surviving refugees in an effort to maintain morale and hope, the story features a new character named Marcus Wright, and a younger Kyle Reese
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The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
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The NeverEnding Story II, The Next Chapter is a 1990 German-American fantasy film and sequel to The NeverEnding Story. It was directed by George T. Miller and stars Jonathan Brandis as Bastian Bux, Kenny Morrison as Atreyu, the only actor to return from the first film was Thomas Hill as Mr. Koreander. The film used plot elements from Michael Endes novel The Neverending Story, upon its American theatrical release in 1991, the Bugs Bunny animated short Box-Office Bunny was shown before the film. This short was included on the VHS and Laserdisc release later that year. Bastian Bux is having troubles at home, his father Barneys busy workload is keeping him from consoling Bastians fear of heights, as such, he then heads to an old bookstore where he again meets Mr. Koreander, who proceeds to help find a book on courage. While waiting, Bastian rediscovers the Neverending Storys book, and is shocked to see its words disappear off its pages. Deciding to take the book instead, Bastian returns home and finds himself able to claim AURYN right off the cover while hearing the Childlike Empress summon him to Fantasia. Aware of his arrival, a sorceress named Xayide orders a creation from one of her servants to stop him. The servant creates a machine that will strip Bastian of a memory each time he uses AURYN, until he is unable to remember where he came from. Xayide then sends a creature named Nimbly to persuade Bastian into making him wish. As the two arrive in a area of Fantasia called Silver City, the sorceress sends large monsters referred to as giants to attack. Despite Nimblys attempts to make him wish them away, Bastian is able to escape them without doing so. While trying to gather Silver Citys inhabitants to him out, Bastian is reunited with Atreyu. As the two try figure out how to get there, Nimbly manages to persuade Bastian into making a wish, however, it goes out of control and flies off with Atreyu trying to pursue it with his horse, Artax. With help from Falkor, Bastian is able to chase the dragon to Xayides castle, after a brief reunion with Rock Biter, Bastian and Atreyu, who has caught up, make their way into the castles entrance with the latters army, several wind up toys. Although Bastian gets through, Atreyu is captured, once getting further into the castle by wishing for climbing steps, Bastian manages to free Atreyu from a giant and the two battle it with the use of a spray can, an item the former had wished for. After the giant falls over and cracks into pieces revealing a hollow shell, Bastian identifies the threat as The Emptiness, the form of humanitys dying imagination. The two make their way to Xayide in her room who admits defeat, stating she had wanted to bring order to dreams and stories
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Jonathan Brandis
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Jonathan Gregory Brandis was an American actor, director, and screenwriter. Beginning his career as a model, Brandis moved on to acting in commercials and subsequently won television. Brandis made his debut in 1982 with a guest role on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Later in 1990, at the age of 14, he became known for his leading role on the Stephen Kings supernatural horror miniseries IT. Then, at the age of 17, he landed the role of Lucas Wolenczak, the character was popular among teenage female viewers, and Brandis regularly appeared in teen magazines. On November 12,2003, Brandis died after hanging himself at the age of 27, at the time of his death, Jonathan had been in a six-year relationship with actress Tatyana Ali, best known for her role as Ashley in the series Fresh Prince of Bel- Air. Brandis was born in Danbury, Connecticut and he was the only child of Mary, a teacher and personal manager, and Gregory Brandis, a food distributor and firefighter. He began his career as a model at the age of 4. At the age of six, Brandis won the role of Kevin Buchanan on the soap opera One Life to Live and he moved to Los Angeles with his family at age nine, and made guest appearances on shows such as L. A. Law, Whos the Boss. Murder, She Wrote, The Wonder Years, Full House, at the age of fourteen, he received his first starring role, as Bastian Bux in The NeverEnding Story II, The Next Chapter. That same year, Brandis played the young Stuttering Bill Denbrough, Brandis performance in the film was lauded by critics and audiences. Brandis then appeared in Sidekicks, costarring Chuck Norris, and in Ladybugs, around the age of 17, Brandis landed one of his best-known roles, as scientific prodigy Lucas Wolenczak in Steven Spielbergs futuristic science fiction series seaQuest DSV. The role propelled him into teen idol status, during his stint on seaQuest DSV, he co-wrote and produced an episode of the series titled The Siamese Dream. He also voiced Mozenrath, a young sorcerer and necromancer. After seaQuest DSV was canceled in 1996, Brandis appeared in the television film Her Last Chance and his next role was in the television film Born Free, A New Adventure. Shot in South Africa, the film also starred Chris Noth as Brandiss characters father and he continued his career in supporting roles in Outside Providence, and Ride with the Devil. In 2000, he costarred in Bad Girls from Valley High, in 2002, Brandis had a small role in Harts War. The following year, he was cast in 111 Gramercy Park and he made his final onscreen appearance in Puerto Vallarta Squeeze, starring Harvey Keitel and Scott Glenn
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Corey Haim
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Corey Ian Haim was a Canadian actor, known for a 1980s Hollywood career as a teen idol. He starred in a number of films, such as Lucas, Silver Bullet, Murphys Romance, License to Drive, Dream a Little Dream and his best-known role was alongside Corey Feldman in The Lost Boys, which made Haim a household name. Known as The Two Coreys, the duo became 1980s icons and appeared together in seven movies, Haims early success led to money and fame. He had difficulties breaking away from his experience as a teen actor and he died of pneumonia on March 10,2010. Haim was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Judy, an Israeli-born data processor, and Bernie Haim, when Haim was 11, his parents divorced after 18 years of marriage. He had a sister, Carol, and a younger half-brother, Daniel Lee. Not particularly interested in acting, Haim participated in activities, such as ice hockey, playing music on his keyboard. His skills on the ice led to his being scouted for the AA Thunderbirds hockey team, Haims time at North Yorks Zion Heights Junior High lasted until grade eight, by which point he had begun to make a name for himself as a child actor. Haim broke into acting at the age of ten, playing the role of Larry in the Canadian childrens educational comedy television series The Edison Twins, Haims first day of shooting was with Weller, and he went up to compliment the older actor on his performance. Weller collared Haim, throwing him up against a wall to him not to speak to him after a take. Haim later admitted that he was terrified by the experience, Weller later apologized to Haim for the incident and attributed it to method acting, as he was trying to stay in character for the villainous role he was playing. Parker remembered Haims staying over many times with her and her then boyfriend Downey Jr. who taught him how to apply hair mousse, saying, He was naturally gifted, and Robert said, youre comin to live with me. In 1985, Haim appeared in roles in Secret Admirer and Murphys Romance, alongside Sally Field. While rehearsing on a Montreal street, Minnelli taught Haim how to walk like someone with muscular dystrophy, following the shoot, Haim decided he would prefer to play boyfriends rather than sons. At the time, Haims father was acting as his manager, producer Stanley Jaffe approached him to remark on Haims gifts, and recommended that he get an agent in Los Angeles. Haim turned 14 on the set in Chicago, and fell in love with Green, not realizing she was 18, he asked her out in an elevator. Haims unrequited love for Green helped inspire his performance, with the dynamics between them mirrored on-screen. Nevertheless, director David Seltzer noticed that some of his peers, Haim seemed at ease with his burgeoning heartthrob status
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Justin Whalin
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Whalin, an only child, was born in the Sunset District of San Francisco, California. His mother, Terry Villanueva, is a teacher and school administrator who owns and his father, Craig Whalin, is a real estate appraiser. His parents divorced when he was seven years old and both remarried and he has a younger half-brother, Danny Quiros, an older stepbrother, Michael Galo-Rothman, and an older stepsister, Michele Dahlberg. He studied acting at the esteemed American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, after years of commuting between Los Angeles and San Francisco, he and his mother eventually relocated to L. A. permanently when he was fifteen years old. He completed his school education through U. C. Whalin has been working as an actor since the age of eleven and he starred in the 1993 CBS Schoolbreak Special production Other Mothers for which he won a Daytime Emmy for his portrayal of a son with lesbian parents. He went on to star in Miracle at Midnight opposite Mia Farrow and he also auditioned to play Billy Loomis in Scream. 1994, Emmy Award, Outstanding Performer in a Childrens Special for CBS Schoolbreak Special for episode, J. Quartermaine, Jr. #5 Charles in Charge TV Series as Anthony Mr. Chaz Havelik Other Mothers TV Episode. net interview
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