Biography: John Cusack is, like most of his characters, an unconventional hero. Wary of fame and repelled by formulaic Hollywood fare, the Chicago-born actor has built a successful career from playing underdogs and odd men out--all the while avoiding the media spotlight. With the exception of mom, Nancy (a former math teacher), the Cusack clan is all show business: father Dick Cusack is an actor and filmmake ... show all John Cusack is, like most of his characters, an unconventional hero. Wary of fame and repelled by formulaic Hollywood fare, the Chicago-born actor has built a successful career from playing underdogs and odd men out--all the while avoiding the media spotlight. With the exception of mom, Nancy (a former math teacher), the Cusack clan is all show business: father Dick Cusack is an actor and filmmaker, and John's siblings Joan Cusack, Ann Cusack, Bill Cusack, and Susie Cusack are all thespians by trade.
Like his brother and sisters, John became a member of Chicago's Piven Theatre Workshop while he was still in elementary school. By age 12, he already had several stage productions, commercial voiceovers, and industry films under his belt. He made his feature film debut at 17, acting alongside Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy in the romantic comedy "Class (1983)".
His next role, as a member of Anthony Michael Hall's geek brigade in "The Sixteen Candles (1984)", put him on track to becoming a teen-flick fixture. Cusack remained on the periphery of the Brat Pack, sidestepping the meteoric rise and fall of most of his contemporaries, but he stayed busy with leads in films like "Sure Thing (1985)" and "Better Off Dead... (1985)".
Young Cusack is probably best remembered for what could be considered his last adolescent role: the stereo-blaring romantic Lloyd Dobler in "The Say Anything... (1989)". A year later, he hit theaters as a grown-up, playing a bush-league con man caught between his manipulative mother and headstrong girlfriend in "Grifters (1990)".
The next few years were relatively quiet for the actor, but he filled in the gaps with off-screen projects. He directed and produced several shows for the Chicago-based theater group The New Criminals, which he founded in 1988 (modeling it after Tim Robbins 's Actors' Gang in Los Angeles) to promote political and avant-garde stage work. Four years later, Cusack's high school friends Steve Pink and D.V. DeVincentis joined him in starting a sister company for film, New Crime Productions. New Crime's first feature was the sharply written comedy "Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)", which touched off a career renaissance for Cusack. In addition to co-scripting, he starred as a world-weary hitman who goes home for his 10-year high school reunion and tries to rekindle a romance with the girl he stood up on prom night (Minnie Driver). In an instance of life imitating art, Cusack actually did go home for his 10-year reunion (to honor a bet about the film's financing) and ended up in a real-life romance with Driver.
Cusack's next appearance was as a federal agent (or, as he described it, "the first post-Heston, non-biblical action star in sandals") in "Con Air (1997)", a movie he chose because he felt it was time to make smart business decisions. He followed that up with Clint Eastwood's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)", in which he played a Yankee reporter entangled in a Savannah murder case. Cusack has always favored offbeat material, so it was no surprise when he turned up in the fiercely original "Being John Malkovich (1999)". Long-haired, bearded, and bespectacled, he was almost unrecognizable in the role of a frustrated puppeteer who stumbles across a portal into the brain of actor John Malkovich. The convincing performance won him a Best Actor nomination at the Independent Spirit Awards. In 2000, Cusack was back to his clean-shaven self in "High Fidelity (2000)", another New Crime production. He worked with Pink and DeVincentis to adapt Nick Hornby 's popular novel (relocating the story to their native Chicago), then starred as the sarcastic record store owner who revisits his "Top 5" breakups to find out why he's so unlucky in love.
The real Cusack has been romantically linked with several celebs, including Driver, Alison Eastwood, Claire Forlani, and current squeeze Neve Campbell. He's also something of a family man, acting frequently opposite sister Joan and pulling other Cusacks into his films on a regular basis. He seems pleased with the spate of projects on his horizon, but admits that he still hasn't reached his ultimate goal: to be involved in a "great piece of art." hide |
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| Lane Meyer is obsessed with his girlfriend Beth and is crushed when she falls for the new captain of the ski team, Roy. After several failed suicide attempts, narrow escapes from the relentless paper boy, and nearly unbearable dinners at home with his crazy family, Lane finds a new love in French exchange student Monique Junot. Meanwhile, he must beat Roy on the slopes to regain his honor. |
Categories: 1985, Comedy, Romance, USA
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| Nick "The Zone" Falzone is an air traffic controller at New York TRACON, where it's busy 24 hours a day. He's acknowledged as the best, until a quiet guy Russell Bell arrives on the scene from the Southwest somewhere. Russell and his wife Mary don't quite fit into the close-knit community of controllers and their wives, and a rivalry soon builds. Search keywords
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Categories: 1999, Comedy, Drama, Germany, USA
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| Disappointed at the way their lives have turned out, four longtime friends reunite at the ski resort where they used to party and find themselves transported back to the year 1986 by a magical jacuzzi. Adam (John Cusack), Lou (Rob Corddry), Nick (Craig Robinson), and Jacob (Clark Duke) have all seen better days; Adam's and Nick's love lives are in the dumps, Lou is clinging to his hard-partying past, and video-game addict Jacob can't even muster the courage to walk outside. A fun stay at the ski resort where the gang made some of their best memories seems like just the thing to cheer everyone up, but after a night of heavy drinking in the hot tub, the four friends wake up to find they're about to live through the '80s a second time. Determined not to make the same mistakes twice, Adam, Lou, Nick, and Jacob decide to take full advantage of the unique opportunity presented to them, and create the lives they've always wanted. Chevy Chase, Crispin Glover, and Lizzy Caplan co-star. Search keywords
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Categories: 2010, Canada, Comedy, USA
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| Gwen and Eddie were at one time Hollywood's premier couple on and off the screen. But during the filming of their latest movie, Gwen took up with a Latin guy she met on the set. She and Eddie have since split up. Now their movie is ready to be shown but the director will only first show it at the press junket. But the studio boss, concerned of what the movie will be, instructs Lee his P.R. man to handle to junket and to try and distract the press from asking about the movie by making them think that Gwen and Eddie are back together. Only problem is that he just fired Lee, but after giving in to Lee's demands he agrees. Lee enlists the aid of Gwen's assistant, Kiki, who is her sister to help. When they get to the junket, things are still tense between them. And Kiki is trying hard to keep in check her feelings for Eddie. Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Comedy, Romance, USA
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| Anastasia, the daughter of the last Russian czar, is at a party, when Rasputin, an evil monk, declares a curse on the Romanov family. Anastasia and her grandmother escape with the help of a young kitchen boy Dimitri, but Anastasia falls, hits her head, and loses her memory. Ten years later, Anya (Anastasia) leaves the orphanage where she grew up, and goes to St. Petersburg with her puppy fried Pooka. There she meets a grown-up Dimitri, and his friend, Vladimir, who are holding auditions, for an "Anastasia" to fool the empress, and get a lot of money. They choose Anya, and take her to Paris. Rasputin, who has died, uses minions to try and kill Anya, failing twice. During the course of all these events, Dimitri and Anya fall in love. Search keywords
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Categories: 1997, Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, USA
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| It's a drama about theatre life in the 1930s during the times of the Great Depression, the Red Scare (communism), facism, unions, Hitler, Mussolini, New York mayor Nelson Rockefeller, director Orson Welles, painter Diego Rivera, and William Randolph Hearst. This film focuses on the lives of several people during hard times in New York as many struggle to find their place in America. The main focus of the film is a play entitled "Cradle Will Rock," which tells a pro-union story about lower class workers trying to survive in a growing power-hungry world. Search keywords
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Categories: 1999, Drama, USA
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| Craig, a puppeteer, takes a filing job in a low-ceilinged office in Manhattan. Although married to the slightly askew Lotte, he hits on a colleague, the sexually frank Maxine. She's bored but snaps awake when he finds a portal leading inside John Malkovich: for 15 minutes you see, hear, and feel whatever JM is doing, then you fall out by the New Jersey Turnpike. Maxine makes it commercial, selling trips for $200; also, she's more interested in Lotte than in Craig, but only when Lotte is inside JM. JM finds out what's going on and tries to stop it, but Craig sees the portal as his road to Maxine and to success as a puppeteer. Meanwhile, Lotte discovers others interested in the portal. Search keywords
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Categories: 1999, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, USA
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| Craig, a puppeteer, takes a filing job in a low-ceilinged office in Manhattan. Although married to the slightly askew Lotte, he hits on a colleague, the sexually frank Maxine. She's bored but snaps awake when he finds a portal leading inside John Malkovich: for 15 minutes you see, hear, and feel whatever JM is doing, then you fall out by the New Jersey Turnpike. Maxine makes it commercial, selling trips for $200; also, she's more interested in Lotte than in Craig, but only when Lotte is inside JM. JM finds out what's going on and tries to stop it, but Craig sees the portal as his road to Maxine and to success as a puppeteer. Meanwhile, Lotte discovers others interested in the portal. Search keywords
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Categories: 1999, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, USA
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| When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash. Search keywords
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Categories: 1993, Comedy, Crime, Drama, USA
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| An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Action, Canada, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA
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| College freshman John (Gib) Gibson decides to go cross country to visit his friend in California during winter break. Awaiting there is a bikini-clad babe whom his friend assures him is a "sure thing". Meanwhile, Allison, a cute (but somewhat anal retentive) girl at Gib's college has also decided to head out to Cal. to see her boyfriend during break. Gib and Allison are thrust together on a road trip from hell, and somewhere along the way, they find each other's company to be tolerable. Now, what will become of Gib's "sure thing?" Search keywords
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Categories: 1985, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, USA
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| JONASANTOREGA, met SARATOMASU, go shopping for gloves in New York. Their respective lovers to buy, even though the rights of magic and romance of Christmas shopping was a strange night. John will explore it further, but her fate was愛NARU thought I do not know. The fate of their division to test the fate and brought together decided to see if ... Many years later, each of the night, and both engaged to be married and the other missing He said. However, both of which are destined to meet the need for one to give a last chance to shake. John He's the best man I met at the rate he can not forget to keep track of the girl, and help participants. Sarah, get married before the rest of her fiance's request for a new-age musicians, in tow, her best friend, her back to New York, California, Soulmate - bring about the fate of lovers I hope it will jump from. Shakespeare's classic confusion and a few times close to the fate of the conference was meant to be whether or not to be the final word, missed nearly two.
ジョナサントレーガー、サラトーマスに会ったが、ニューヨークで手袋を買いに行く。は、それぞれの愛好家の買いもかかわらず、魔法の権利とクリスマスの買い物の夜だった恋愛に変わった。さらにジョンことを探究することが、サラの愛なる運命だったんだか分からないみたいと思っていた。彼らの運命が分裂するのをテストすると運命を一緒に持ってきた場合を見て決めた...多くの年後には、それぞれのその夜、両方結婚していると婚約している他の紛失している。とはいえ、どちらも運命の必要性を再会させる1つの最後のチャンスを与えるに振ることができます。ジョン彼の最高の男の彼は店で会った料金が忘れられない少女を追跡するために、ヘルプ参加。サラは、結婚する前に、休憩のため彼女の婚約者を要求し、新しい時代のミュージシャン、後ろに従えて、彼女の親友で、カリフォルニア州ニューヨークに戻る彼女のソウルメイト-恋人たちの運命をもたらすことを願っからジャンプします。古典シェークスピアの混乱に近いと数回の会議が運命されることを意味したかどうかの最終単語になるには、 2つの近くを見逃してしまいます。 Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, USA
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| "Igor" is an in joke irreverent comedy which brings a new twist in the type of classical monster. In the world filled with scientists madmen and Mediocre Inventions, the helper of hunchbacked laboratory of a gifted scientific villain has big dreams to become a scientist madman himself and to earn the Mediocre Fair of annual Science.
"Igor" est une comédie pour plaisanter irrévérencieuse qui apporte un nouveau tortillon au genre de monstre classique. Dans un monde rempli des Scientifiques Fous et les Méchantes Inventions, l'assistant de laboratoire bossu d'un méchant scientifique doué a de grands rêves de devenir un Scientifique Fou lui-même et gagner la Méchante Foire de Science annuelle. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Animation, Comedy, USA
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| Peter Burton and Tim Garrity both meet when they go to the lawful school. Tim comes from a rich family, while Peter comes from the working class, of which he is a bit ashamed. Tim a noble person who wants to make what is fair, while Peter disposed to make whatever it takes to advance. And it includes blackmail and threat. And when his last plan burns Tim, Tim decides to learn if Peter betrayed it deliberately or if the man he works, John Palmeri made him him make and if it is case to make them answer for him.
Peter Burton et Tim Garrity tous les deux se rencontrent quand ils vont à l'école légale. Tim vient d'une famille riche, pendant que Peter vient de la classe ouvrière, dont il a honte un peu. Tim une personne noble qui veut faire ce qui est juste, pendant que Peter disposé à faire quoi qu'il prenne pour progresser. Et cela inclut le chantage et l'intimidation. Et quand son dernier plan brûle Tim, Tim décide d'apprendre si Peter l'a trahi délibérément ou si l'homme il travaille, John Palmeri l'a fait le faire et si c'est le cas les rendre la réponse pour lui. Search keywords
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Categories: 1991, Drama, USA
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| A political satire game in Turaqistan, a country occupied by a private society American directed by an ancient American Vice-president (Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the offers of nation torn by the war, the president of the corporation rents a killer to worried salary (Cusack), to kill the minister of oil of Middle East. Now, fighting against his own growth demons, it must make pass the killer for the Producer of Trade fair of the corporation in order to carry out the latter blow, supporting his lid organizing the prominent wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Duff) a star of scandalous pop music of the Middle East, and keeping a reporter of an attractive left wing (Tomei) under control.
Un juego de sátira político en Turaqistan, un país ocupado por una sociedad privada americana dirigida por un antiguo Vicepresidente estadounidense (Aykroyd). En un esfuerzo de monopolizar las oportunidades las ofertas de nación rasgadas por la guerra, el presidente de la corporación alquila a un asesino a sueldo preocupado (Cusack), para matar a un ministro de petróleo de Oriente Medio. Ahora, luchando con sus propios demonios de crecimiento, el asesino debe hacerse pasar por el Productor de Feria de muestras de la corporación a fin de llevar a cabo este último golpe, manteniendo su tapa organizando la boda prominente de Yonica Babyyeah (Duff) una estrella de música pop del Medio Oriente escandalosa, y guardando a un reportero de un ala izquierda atractiva (Tomei) bajo control. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA
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| The teacher Sarah at preschool (Diane Lane) parted from her beloved man before eight moths, but she is still alone very vulnerably and. Their family presses them to find new man. . com. She has engagements with a stranger with odd guys, but she likes particularly Jake (John Cusack) who parted three months ago and still misses his former woman. Jake also likes them, but Sarah has a bedside table with bobsleigh (Dermot Mulroney), the father of one of her students, and on her given Jakes. Later Sarah thinks that Jake is her perfect match.
Der vorschulische Lehrer Sarah (Diane Lane) schied von ihrem geliebten Mann vor acht Motten, aber sie ist noch sehr verwundbar und allein. Ihre Familie drückt sie, um einen neuen Herrn zu finden. Recht, und ihre Schwester Carol (Elizabeth Perkins) stellen ihr Profil auf die Seite PerfectMatch. com. Sie hat Verabredungen mit einem Unbekannten mit sonderbaren Kerlen, aber sie mag besonders Jake (John Cusack), der vor drei Monaten schied und noch seine ehemalige Frau vermisst. Jake mag sie auch, aber Sarah hat einen Nachttisch mit Bob (Dermot Mulroney), der Vater von einem ihrer Studenten, und auf ihr gegebenen Jakes. Spätere Sarah findet, dass Jake ihr vollkommenes Match ist. Search keywords
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Categories: 2005, Comedy, Romance, USA
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| The teacher of widower and baseball and the coach of basketball Ray Keene lost his wife who died from the cancer two years ago. When his youthful son Chris Keene is caught by the police smoking the pot, Ray invites him to make of the walking and to camp in wood to augment their obligations. During this time, the interested murderer Frank Carden is stopped by the federal Detective police forces after a car accident in the middle of a contract to kill an important target. While Frank trip on the road accompanied by three agents of federal judicial police, his men try to save it, but his motorized falls in a river and is carried by drift. Ray helps the Hurt and frank agent given a slap to leave the river and feels responsible to deliver in Franc in justice. Ancient policeman and stubborn Ray do not listen to the proposal of Franc to leave him peace and trip by wood with Chris, by trying to find a sure place. But the men of Franc and a secret agent in the team follow the group with different lethal intentions.
L'enseignant de veuf et le base-ball et l'entraîneur de basket-ball Ray Keene ont perdu sa femme qui est morte du cancer il y a deux ans. Quand son fils adolescent Chris Keene est attrapé par la police fumant le pot, Ray l'invite à faire de la randonnée et camper dans les bois pour augmenter leurs obligations. Pendant ce temps, l'assassin intéressé Franc Carden est arrêté par la Police judiciaire fédérale après un accident de voiture dans le milieu d'un contrat pour tuer une cible importante. Pendant que Franc voyage sur la route accompagnée par trois agents de Police judiciaire fédérale, ses hommes essaient de le sauver, mais ses chutes automobiles dans un fleuve et est porté par la dérive. Ray aide l'agent blessé et Franc donné une claque à quitter le fleuve et se sent responsable pour livrer à Franc à la justice. Ancien agent de police et Rayon entêté n'écoutent pas la proposition de Franc de lui laisser la paix et le voyage par les bois avec Chris, en essayant de trouver un endroit sûr. Mais les hommes de Franc et un agent secret dans l'équipe poursuivent le groupe avec de différentes intentions mortelles. Search keywords
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Categories: 2006, Crime, Drama, Germany, Thriller, USA
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| On hearing his wife it was killed during the war of Iraq, a father takes his two daughters on a street trip.
Auf das Hören seiner Frau wurde im Krieg von Irak getötet, ein Vater nimmt seine zwei Töchter auf einer Straßenreise. Search keywords
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Categories: 2007, Drama, USA
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| In Welville, in the fight brook, eccentric rich Dr.. John Harvey Kellogg (a historical number) leads an elegant health farm for the empires, an idea before his time, being based on extreme vegetarianism, no gender, masturbation or even sensuous suggestion, but laughing therapy and the cleaning of the 'dirty' body, primarily by exercises, often in country air, evil diet, his invention cornflakes, purges, anal yoghurt remedy, enemas and the crude mechanical cleaning. Eleanor Lightbody drags her sicklyy, incredulous man wanting forward to the therapy; the pair is separated almost immediately and for more available members of the opposite gender horny becoming. Kellogs stubbornly more unconventionally accepted son (among more than 30 children) George is paid a dirty uncomfortableness, just to stay away. Panic of Charles Ossining, in the fight brook inwardly, he finds the luck of his aunt, allowed to combine him in the empty bowl - health food store food society Per - fo, not the planned cornflakes factory; however, with a former Welville-hired and the name of George they hope to become richly from her own cornflakes brand. If an electric therapy goes fatally wrong and several other patients die, the incredulous aversion of wanting panic turns.
In Welville, am Kampfbach, exzentrischem reichem Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (eine historische Zahl) führt eine elegante Gesundheitsfarm für den Reichen, eine Idee vor seiner Zeit, beruhend auf äußersten Vegetarismus, kein Geschlecht, Masturbation oder sogar sinnliche Anregung, aber lachende Therapie und das Reinigen des 'beschmutzten' Körpers, hauptsächlich durch Übungen, häufig in Landluft, bösartiger Diät, seinen Erfindungscorn-Flakes, Abführmitteln, analem Joghurt-Heilmittel, Klistieren und dem brutalen mechanischen Reinigen. Eleanor Lightbody schleppt ihren kränklichen, ungläubigen Mann Will vorwärts zur Therapie; das Paar wird fast sofort getrennt und das für verfügbarere Mitglieder des entgegengesetzten Geschlechtes hornige Werden. Kellogs störrisch eigenwilliger angenommener Sohn (unter mehr als 30 Kindern) George ist eine schmutzige Unbehaglichkeit, ausgezahlt, um gerade fernzubleiben. Panik von Charles Ossining, im Kampfbach ankommend, er findet das Glück seiner Tante, ließ ihn in der leeren Schale - Reformhauskost-Gesellschaft Pro - fo, nicht die geplante Cornflakes-Fabrik vereinigen; jedoch mit einem ehemaligen Welville-Angestellten und dem Namen von George hoffen sie, reich von ihrer eigenen Cornflakes-Marke zu werden. Wenn eine elektrische Therapie tödlich falsch geht und mehrere andere Patienten sterben, wendet sich der ungläubige Widerwille von Will Panik zu. Search keywords
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Categories: 1994, Comedy, USA
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| The life of Samantha is quickly in decline. The fifteen-year-old person is loving the most popular boy in the school and the geekiest boy in the school am loving her. His sister getting married and with all glow the rest of its family forgets its birthday! All that to a pair of dreadfully embarrassing grandfathers add, a student of trade of currencies called For a long time Dong de duke and we have the inclinations of a hilarious trip in young womanhood.
La vie de Samantha est sur le déclin vite. La personne de quinze ans est amoureuse du garçon le plus populaire dans l'école et le garçon geekiest dans l'école est amoureux d'elle. Sa soeur se mariant et avec toute l'excitation le reste de sa famille oublie son anniversaire! Ajoutez tout cela à une paire de grand-pères horriblement embarrassants, un étudiant de commerce des devises appelé Longtemps le Dong de Duc et nous avons les inclinations d'un voyage hilarant dans la jeune féminité. Search keywords
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Categories: 1984, Comedy, Drama, Romance, USA
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