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Jeremy Ratchford
Jeremy Ratchford (born August 6, 1965) is a Canadian actor. He starred as Nick Vera on the TV series ''Cold Case''. Career While in Canada, Ratchford played Marvel Comic book character Banshee in the live action TV super hero film ''Generation X''. Ratchford also starred in a series of Canadian Crispy Crunch candy bar commercials. When he relocated to Hollywood, California, he played a sexual predator on an episode of ''NYPD Blue'' and two episodes of ''The Practice'', as well as the vampire Lyle Gorch in the ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' episodes "Bad Eggs" and "Homecoming" before being cast on ''Cold Case A cold case is a crime, or a suspected crime, that has not yet been fully resolved and is not the subject of a current criminal investigation, but for which new information could emerge from new witness testimony, re-examined archives, new or re ...''. On ''Cold Case'', he played detective Nick Vera. Filmography Film Television References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitchener, Ontario
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Hot Water (1985 Film)
Hot Water may refer to: * ''Hot Water'' (novel), a 1932 novel by P.G. Wodehouse * ''Hot Water'' (album), an album by Jimmy Buffett * "Hot Water" (song), a 1984 song by Level 42 * ''Hot Water'' (1924 film), feature film starring silent comedian Harold Lloyd * ''Hot Water'' (1937 film), 55-min American comedy directed by Frank R. Strayer *''Hot Water'', a 1978 film directed by Su Friedrich Su Friedrich (born December 12, 1954) is an American avant-garde film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer. Early life Su Friedrich was born in 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut. Her mother was German and came to the US with Friedric ... * "Hot Water" (''American Dad!''), a 2011 episode of ''American Dad!'' {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leatherheads
''Leatherheads'' is a 2008 American sports comedy film from Universal Pictures directed by and starring George Clooney. The film also stars Renée Zellweger, Jonathan Pryce, and John Krasinski and focuses on the early years of professional American football. The film was released on April 4, 2008. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed just $41 million against its $58 million budget. Plot In 1925, Jimmy "Dodge" Connelly (George Clooney) is captain of the Duluth Bulldogs, a struggling professional American football team. Dodge is determined to save both his team and pro football in general when the players lose their sponsor and the league is on the brink of collapse. He convinces Princeton University's college football star, Carter "the Bullet" Rutherford, to join the Bulldogs, hoping to capitalize on Carter's fame as a decorated hero of the First World War (like Alvin York, he single-handedly captured a large group of German soldiers). In addition to his legendary ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Century Hotel
''Century Hotel'' is a 2001 Canadian drama/mystery/romance film Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey .... It is directed and co-written by David Weaver and Bridget Newson. The film explains seven different stories, that happen in the same hotel room in different eras, from the 1920s to the 1990s. The stories are not told one after the other, but interspersed. Cast External links * 2001 films English-language Canadian films Canadian mystery drama films 2001 romantic drama films 2000s mystery drama films Films set in the 1920s Films set in the 1930s Films set in the 1940s Films set in the 1950s Films set in the 1960s Films set in the 1980s Films set in the 1990s 2000s English-language films 2000s Canadian films {{mystery-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angel Eyes (film)
''Angel Eyes'' is a 2001 American romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki and starring Jennifer Lopez, Jim Caviezel, Terrence Howard, and Jeremy Sisto. Written by Gerald Di Pego, the film is about a mysterious man who finds himself drawn to a female police officer with whom he forms a relationship that helps each to deal with trauma from their past. The original music score was composed by Marco Beltrami. The film received ALMA Award Nominations for Outstanding Actress (Jennifer Lopez) and Outstanding Director (Luis Mandoki). Plot On a wet rainy night in Chicago, police officer Sharon Pogue is at the scene of a serious traffic accident holding the hand of one of the victims, pleading that he hold on and not give up. One year later, Sharon is frustrated with the men she dates, and has become estranged from her family for having her father arrested for beating her mother Josephine. Her father and brother, Larry, have never forgiven her, and her anger is affecting her police wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crew (2000 Film)
''The Crew'' is a 2000 American black comedy crime film directed by Michael Dinner and starring Burt Reynolds, Seymour Cassel, Richard Dreyfuss, Dan Hedaya, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jeremy Piven and Jennifer Tilly. Barry Sonnenfeld was one of the film's producers. The film is about four retired mobsters doing one last crime against a drug lord. It was released on August 25, 2000. ''The Crew'' garnered negative reviews and was a box-office bomb, grossing $13.1 million against a $38 million budget. Plot Four retired mobsters Bobby - the straight man leader, Bats - a cantankerous man with a short fuse and a pacemaker, Mouth - a silent ladies man many years past his prime, and Brick - a nice but dimwitted man plan one last crime to save their apartment at a retirement home (the owners are forcing them out with a rent increase so that the apartments can be rented to young, affluent South Beach couples). The four steal a corpse from the mortuary to use as the "victim" in a staged murder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fly Away Home
''Fly Away Home'' ( ''Flying Wild'' and ''Father Goose'') is a 1996 family drama film directed by Carroll Ballard. The film stars Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels, and Dana Delany. ''Fly Away Home'' was released on September 13, 1996, by Columbia Pictures. ''Fly Away Home'' dramatizes the actual experiences of Bill Lishman who, in 1986, started training Canada geese to follow his ultralight aircraft, and succeeded in leading their migration in 1993 through his program "Operation Migration". The film is also based on the experience of Dr. William J. L. Sladen, a British-born zoologist and adventurer, who aided Lishman with the migration. Plot After her mother Aliane dies in a car accident, 13-year-old Amy Alden is brought from New Zealand to Ontario, Canada, by her estranged father Thomas Alden, a sculptor and inventor, to live with him and his girlfriend Susan. When a construction crew destroys a small wilderness area near the Alden home, Amy finds an abandoned nest of 16 goose eg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stupids (film)
''The Stupids'' is a 1996 adventure comedy film starring Tom Arnold and directed by John Landis. It is based on ''The Stupids'', characters from a series of books written by Harry Allard and illustrated by James Marshall. The film follows the fictional family, the Stupids, with a last name synonymous with their behavior. The story begins with patriarch Stanley Stupid believing "sender" from letters marked "return to sender" is a wicked man planning a conspiracy. Adding several misunderstandings, they unwittingly save the world from military chaos, while believing a fake story about a fictional man named Sender and his plot to confiscate everyone's mail and garbage. Plot Stanley and Joan Stupid are convinced they are victims of a conspiracy that steals their garbage every week. In an attempt to uncover this, Stanley follows the garbage truck to the city dump, where he stumbles across Colonel Neidermeyer, who is selling contraband weaponry to a group of terrorists. He believes Stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Change Of Heart (1993 Film)
''Change of Heart'' is a 1993 Canadian-British family road movie directed and co-produced by Donald Shebib, based on a story by Shebib and Terence Heffernan. The film stars newcomer Sarah Campbell (ten years old when the film was released) Jeremy Ratchford, and veteran Canadian actors Barbara Hamilton and Heath Lamberts. Synopsis Maggie ( Sarah Campbell) is a precocious girl of about seven, who, since the recent accidental death of her mother, lives with her bedridden aunt Bea ( Barbara Hamilton) in a small town in Ontario. With Bea's health failing and the bills piling up she may lose the house and Maggie may end up in a foster home. Maggie does what she can to help, washing cars among other odd jobs. When Maggie wins $10,000 in a lottery, her ne'er-do-well grifter uncle Felix (Jeremy Ratchford) tries to con her out of her winnings, making a deal with her to find her unknown father in exchange for paying his $8,000 gambling debt. She agrees and they go on a road trip to Toro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unforgiven
''Unforgiven'' is a 1992 American Revisionist Western film starring, directed, and produced by Clint Eastwood, and written by David Webb Peoples. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job, years after he had turned to farming. The film co-stars Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris. ''Unforgiven'' grossed over $159 million on a budget of $14.4 million and received widespread critical acclaim, with praise for the acting (particularly from Eastwood and Hackman), directing, editing, themes and cinematography. The film won four Academy Awards: Best Picture and Best Director for Clint Eastwood, Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman, and Best Film Editing for editor Joel Cox. Eastwood was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but he lost to Al Pacino for '' Scent of a Woman''. The film was the third Western to win Best Picture, following '' Cimarron'' (1931) and ''Dances with W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Events Leading Up To My Death
''The Events Leading Up to My Death'' is a Canadian comedy film, released in 1991.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 71. Written and directed by Bill Robertson, the film revolves around the dysfunctional Snack family around the time of the death of Busty, the family's pet dog."Suburban wackos more dead than deadpan". ''Toronto Star'', June 5, 1992. Plot The film stars John Allore as Angus, who is visiting for his 21st birthday after escaping the stifling family home in Don Mills to get his own apartment in downtown Toronto with his girlfriend Julia ( Maria Del Mar). His parents (Peter MacNeill and Rosemary Radcliffe) barely communicate, with his dad spending most of his time golfing and his mom spending all her time in the kitchen baking and cooking too much food and having an affair with the milkman (Frank McAnulty). Meanwhile his sister Lindsay (Linda Kash) spends all her time making strange dough art in the hopes of setting off a house f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Kiss
"Last Kiss" is a 1961 romantic love song by Wayne Cochran, covered by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers, Canada's Wednesday, Pearl Jam, and others. Last Kiss or The Last Kiss may also refer to: Film * ''The Last Kiss'' (1931 film), a British Indian silent film * ''The Last Kiss'' (2001 film) or ''L'ultimo bacio'', an Italian romantic comedy-drama * ''The Last Kiss'' (2006 film), an American remake by Tony Goldwyn Music * ''The Last Kiss'' (album), a 2009 album by Jadakiss * "Last Kiss" (Bonnie Pink song), 2004 * "Last Kiss" (Tanpopo song), 1998 * "Last Kiss", a 2009 song by Joe Bonamassa from '' The Ballad of John Henry'' * "Last Kiss", a 2010 song by Taylor Swift from ''Speak Now'' * "The Last Kiss", a 1999 song by AFI from '' Black Sails in the Sunset'' * "The Last Kiss", a 1985 song by David Cassidy from ''Romance'' Other uses * "Last Kiss", a comic strip by John Lustig See also * ''The Kaiser's Last Kiss ''The Kaiser's Last Kiss'' is a 2003 novel written by Alan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
