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Labor Pains (film)
''Labor Pains'' is a 2009 American romantic comedy film directed by Lara Shapiro and written by Stacy Kramer. It stars Lindsay Lohan, Luke Kirby, Bridgit Mendler, Chris Parnell, Cheryl Hines, and Kevin Covais. The film was released theatrically on June 19, 2009, only in Europe, Latin America, and United Arab Emirates. In United States, the film premiered on ABC Family on July 19, 2009. It drew 2.1 million viewers, a better-than-average prime-time audience for ABC Family; according to the network, it was the week's top cable film among coveted female demographic groups. ''Labor Pains'' was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 4 and 31 in the United States and United Kingdom, respectively. Plot Thea Clayhill is about to lose her position as secretary to a very cranky publisher. She decides to lie about being pregnant to save her job, after seeing on an episode of ''Law & Order'' that it is discriminatory to fire a pregnant woman. The plan works, and she gets to keep her job. With h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Schwartz
Rick Schwartz is an American film and television producer and financier based in New York, whose credits include ''The Departed'', '' Black Swan'', ''Gangs of New York'', ''Machete'', '' The Others'', and '' Lip Sync Battle''. He has contributed articles to ''The Huffington Post'', ''Times of London'', ESPN's ''Grantland'', and ''The Daily Beast''. Career Schwartz began his film career at Miramax under Harvey and Bob Weinstein, working there for seven years and eventually serving as the company's senior vice president of production. At Miramax, Schwartz oversaw the development and production of projects including Martin Scorsese’s ''Gangs of New York'', and ''The Departed'', and Alejandro Amenabar’s '' The Others''. In 2008, Schwartz founded Overnight Productions, which has financed and produced movies by directors including Robert Rodriguez, Darren Aronofsky Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Kirby
Luke Farrell Kirby (born June 29, 1978) is a Canadian actor. In 2019, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role as Lenny Bruce on the television series ''The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel''. Early life Kirby was born in Hamilton, Ontario, to American parents. His mother is from Brooklyn, New York, and his father grew up "along the eastern seaboard." His parents moved from New York City, New York, to Canada in 1974. Kirby studied drama at the National Theatre School of Canada, a theatre conservatory which focuses on classical works, and graduated in 2000. Career Kirby has been performing since his teens after he was accepted at The National Theatre School of Canada. He graduated in May 2000 and after two auditions he began working on two separate projects: the CBS/Alliance mini-series ''Haven'', and director Léa Pool's feature '' Lost and Delirious'' (2001). Soon after, Kirby performed the role of Morgan in the Factory Theatre's production of ''Geometry in Venice'' in Toront ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celine Rattray
Celine Rattray (born 1975) is an English film producer who co-founded the production company Maven Pictures. In 2010, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for '' The Kids Are All Right''. In 2020, she and Trudie Styler launched Maven Screen Media, a multi-platform UK production company. Career Rattray earned a degree in mathematics and philosophy from St Hilda's College, Oxford prior to entering the entertainment industry. In 2003, Rattray co-founded New York-based production company Plum Pictures with Galt Niederhoffer and Daniela Taplin Lundberg. The company produced several films before its 2009 disestablishment, including ''Grace Is Gone'' (2007), which won an Audience Award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. She was president of Mandalay Vision, the independent film division of Mandalay Entertainment, until 2011. In that role she produced several films, including '' The Kids Are All Right'' (2010), for which she won the Golden Globe Award f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All's Faire In Love
''All's Faire in Love'' is a 2009 romantic comedy film directed by Scott Marshall and written by R. A. White and Jeffrey Ray Wine. The film stars Owen Benjamin as Will, a college student who is assigned to work at a renaissance fair by his professor (Cedric the Entertainer) after missing several classes, and Christina Ricci as Kate, an investment banker who leaves her job to work at the fair. The film was shot primarily at the Michigan Renaissance Festival. Local residents, costumed participants and fairegoers were used as extras. The film was originally titled ''Ye Olde Times'' but was renamed in late September 2008. Jack Black and Lindsay Lohan were attached at one point to star in the film. Cast * Owen Benjamin as Will * Christina Ricci as Kate * Louise Griffiths as Jo *Chris Wylde as Prince Rank *Cedric the Entertainer as Professor Shockworthy *Matthew Lillard as Crockett *Ann-Margret as Mrs. Banks *Martin Klebba as Count Le Petite *Sandra Taylor as Princess Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burbank, California
Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located northwest of downtown Los Angeles, Burbank has a population of 107,337. The city was named after David Burbank, who established a sheep ranch there in 1867. Billed as the "Media Capital of the World" and only a few miles northeast of Hollywood, numerous media and entertainment companies are headquartered or have significant production facilities in Burbank, including Warner Bros. Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, The Burbank Studios, Cartoon Network Studios with the West Coast branch of Cartoon Network, and Insomniac Games. The broadcast network The CW is also headquartered in Burbank. The Hollywood Burbank Airport was the location of Lockheed's Skunk Works, which produced some of the most secret and technologically advanced airplanes, including the U-2 spy planes that uncovered Soviet Union missile components ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nailed (film)
''Accidental Love'' is a 2015 American romantic comedy film directed by David O. Russell (under a pseudonym) and written by Russell, Kristin Gore, Dave Jeser, and Matt Silverstein, based on Gore's 2004 novel ''Sammy's Hill''. The film stars Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Catherine Keener, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan, James Brolin and Kirstie Alley in her final film role. Production started in 2008 under the title ''Nailed'', but filming was frequently halted due to financial difficulties, leading to Russell quitting the project in 2010. The film was completed without his involvement and he has since disowned it, leaving the finished product credited to " Stephen Greene". The film was released online on February 10, 2015, before a limited release on March 20, 2015, by Millennium Entertainment. ''Accidental Love'' was panned by critics. Premise Alice, a waitress in small-town Indiana, is accidentally shot in the head by a nail gun. Her lack of health insurance renders her unable t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitol Films
Capitol Films was a British film production and distribution company (number 02392790), incorporated on 6 June 1989 and dissolved on 7 May 2013. In January 2006 it was sold to American Mobius Pictures, owned by entrepreneur and film producer David Bergstein, who placed it at the hub of his Pegasus Studios. In early 2010, David Bergstein's appointment as director for the British company was terminated and the company was placed in receivership. In October 2010 the US branch of the company was forced into bankruptcy, and in January 2012 a group of creditors filed a proposal with a federal bankruptcy court in Los Angeles to take over and liquidate five companies formerly controlled by David Bergstein, among them Capitol Films. Capitol Films was involved in the production of some fifty films, among them ''A Good Man in Africa'' (1994), '' Death and the Maiden'' (1994), ''Wilde'' (1997), ''Dancing at Lughnasa'' (1998), ''Gosford Park'' (2001), ''Elvis Has Left the Building'' (2004), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Thomas
Jay Thomas (born Jon Thomas Terrell; July 12, 1948 – August 24, 2017) was an American actor, comedian, and radio personality. He was heard in New York from 1976–1979 on top-40 station 99X, and later on rhythmic CHR station 92KTU, and in Los Angeles beginning in 1986 on KPWR "Power 106", where he hosted the station's top-rated morning show until 1993. His notable television work included his co-starring role as Remo DaVinci on ''Mork & Mindy'' (1979–1981), the recurring role of Eddie LeBec, a Boston Bruins goalie on the downside of his career, on ''Cheers'' (1987–1989), the lead character of newspaper columnist Jack Stein on '' Love & War'' (1992–1995), and a repeat guest role as Jerry Gold, a talk-show host who becomes both an antagonist and love interest of the title character on ''Murphy Brown''. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 1990 and 1991 for portraying Gold. In 1997, he starred in the television film ''Killing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Crawford Brown
Pat Crawford Brown (June 29, 1929July 2, 2019) was an American actress. Life and career Brown married Calvin B. Brown on January 3, 1961, and they remained married until his death in 1976. They had one daughter, Charlotte Brown Swanson. She began acting in her 50s after a long career as an English teacher. She taught English literature during the 1960s and 1970s at Carson High School in Carson, California. On television, she is best known for her role as Ida Greenberg in ''Desperate Housewives'' (2004–2007). She also had recurring roles on daytime soap operas ''General Hospital'' and ''Days of Our Lives''. She has appeared in feature films, including ''Sister Act'' and '' Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit''. Brown was a resident of the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, where she died on July 2, 2019, at the age of 90. Selected filmography *''The Twilight Zone'' (1986, TV Series) as Mrs. Finnegan (segment "The Little People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creed Bratton
Creed Bratton (born William Charles Schneider, February 8, 1943) is an American actor, singer and musician. A former member of the rock band the Grass Roots, he is best known for playing a fictionalized version of himself on the NBC sitcom ''The Office'', which earned him five nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Early life and education Bratton was born William Charles Schneider in Los Angeles, and grew up in Coarsegold, California, a small town near Yosemite National Park. Musical career Early years Bratton adopted his new name while on a global excursion as a traveling musician. He traveled through Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He played guitar at a large folk festival in Israel, appearing with his group the Young Californians. Fellow American and guitarist Warren Entner witnessed Bratton's performance and asked to give him a call when he got back to the United States. In 1966, they formed a par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janeane Garofalo
Janeane Marie Garofalo ( ; born September 28, 1964) is an American comedian, actress, and former co-host on the now-defunct Air America Radio's ''The Majority Report''. Garofalo began her career as a stand-up comedian and became a cast member on ''The Ben Stiller Show'', ''The Larry Sanders Show'', and ''Saturday Night Live'', then appeared in more than 50 movies, with leading or major roles in ''The Truth About Cats and Dogs'', ''Wet Hot American Summer'', ''The Matchmaker'', ''Reality Bites'', ''The Wild'', '' Steal This Movie!'', ''Clay Pigeons'', '' Sweethearts'', ''Mystery Men'', '' The Minus Man'', and ''The Independent'', among numerous others. She has been a series regular on television programs such as '' Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp'', '' 24'', ''Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce''. and ''Ideal''. Garofalo continues to circulate regularly within New York City's local comedy and performance art scene. Early life Garofalo was born in Newton, New Jersey, the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Ortiz
Ana Ortiz (born January 25, 1971) is an American actress and singer. Having pursued a career in ballet and singing from a young age, she eventually attended University of the Arts. Ortiz began her acting career in theatre, in early 2000s starred in the short-lived NBC sitcoms '' Kristin'' (2001) and '' A.U.S.A.'' (2003), and had recurring roles on '' Over There'' and ''Boston Legal''. Ortiz garnered widespread attention for her role as Hilda Suarez in the ABC comedy-drama series ''Ugly Betty'' from 2006 to 2010. She also appeared in such films like '' Labor Pains'' (2009) and '' Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son'' (2011), and starred in '' Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story'' (2008). From 2013 to 2016, Ortiz starred as Marisol Suarez in the Lifetime television comedy-drama series ''Devious Maids'', for which she received the Imagen Award for Best Actress - Television. In 2020, Ortiz began starring in the Hulu series ''Love, Victor'' as Isabel Salazar, mother of the title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
