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Short-Term Bonds (1989)
Character: Bowers
Wall Street business executives Bowers and his assistant Lisa get stuck in an elevator where the lingo of commerce is transformed into the language of love.
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By a Thread (1992)
Character: Quentin Springer
Television journalist Quentin Springer has two obsessions: first, he wants to help his schizophrenic nephew by making video recordings of his life; and second, he dreams of carrying out a "perfect crime".
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Keefer (1978)
Character: Benny
An U.S. Army colonel leads a crack group of secret agents operating behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War II.
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A Case of Deadly Force (1986)
Character: Joe Miller
Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car used in a armed robbery, the two gunned down a black man who entered the car. The two claimed the man had a gun and they shot in self-defense. Police investigation decided it was a rightful shooting. The man's widow knew her husband would not be carrying a weapon and became determined to prove her husband's innocence. She hired a former cop who had become a lawyer to prove her case. Working with his four sons, the lawyer team takes on the police force in what eventually proved to be a landmark legal decision. Written by John Sacksteder
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Fly Away Home (1981)
Character: N/A
Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief. His love interest is a Vietnamese doctor whose brother happens to be a leader in the Viet Cong and whose influential parents are involved in high-level corruption.
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Marciano (1979)
Character: Allie Columbo
A highly romanticized dramatization of the life of Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight champion to have retired with a perfect record.
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Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998)
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair (archive footage)
Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and conflict.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
Character: Riot Police Officer
A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
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The Promise (1979)
Character: Ben Avery
A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.
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Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993)
Character: Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair
The feature-length pilot for this Emmy award-winning show. Babylon 5 is the latest in a series of space stations built by humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer, Jeffrey Sinclair, who has the responsibility of finding the culprit. Otherwise, the space station will fail in its role of bringing many alien races together.
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The Ambulance (1990)
Character: Hal
One minute Josh Baker is meeting the woman of his dreams. The next, he's watching her whisked away by a mysterious ambulance that never arrives at the local hospital. Doubted by the police, Josh is forced to carry on a one-man crusade that leads to a discovery more frightening than his worst fears.
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The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
Character: Car Owner
A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop?
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C.H.U.D. (1984)
Character: Fuller
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photojournalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
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