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Matt Thompson (film Director)
Matt Thompson (born in Roseville, California on 19 May 1984), is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He also directed some music videos and commercials and acted on stage productions. Born to Tim and Cindy Thompson, he grew up in Sacramento, California and graduated from Granite Bay High School, starting his acting debut at 18 and has appeared in many movies since. He made his feature directorial debut with the feature film '' Listen to Your Heart'', starring Cybill Shepherd, Kent Moran, Alexia Rasmussen and Ernie Sabella. He also played lead role of Stanley Kowalski in the stage presentation of ''A Streetcar Named Desire''. He was named as one of 15 people to watch early in their careers by ''Sacramento Magazine'' in its March 2010 cover story. Filmography Director *2005: ''Fallen Soldier'' (short film) *2010: ''Listen to Your Heart'' *2011: ''Two to Tango'' (as associate editor) *2011: ''Bloodline'' Producer *2005: ''Fallen Soldier'' (short film) *20 ...
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Roseville, California
Roseville is the most populous city in Placer County, California, located within the Sacramento metropolitan area. As of 2019, the US Census Bureau estimated the city's population to be 141,500. Interstate 80 runs through Roseville and State Route 65 runs through part of the northern edge of the city. History The settlement was originally a stage coach station called Griders. According to the Roseville Historical Society, in 1864 the Central Pacific Railroad tracks were constructed northeastward from Sacramento. The point where the tracks met the California Central Railroad line was named "Junction". Junction eventually became known as Roseville. In 1909, three years after the Southern Pacific Railroad moved its facilities from Rocklin to Roseville, the town became an incorporated city. What followed was a period of expansion, with the community building more than 100 structures, including what was the largest ice manufacturing plant in the world (Pacific Fruit Express building ...
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Sacramento, California
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Granite Bay High School
Granite Bay High School is located in Granite Bay, California, United States. Granite Bay High School was founded in 1996 and was named a National Blue Ribbon School by the United States Secretary of Education in 2002 and a California Distinguished School in 2007. It is one of the five comprehensive schools in the Roseville Joint Union High School District. Granite Bay High School has more than 20 Advanced Placement classes, and is one of two schools in RJUHSD to have the International Baccalaureate program. Extracurricular activities Theatre arts Granite Bay High School has a full-time theatre arts department, known as "Theatre at Granite Bay." The program offers beginning, intermediate and advanced level acting courses, as well as musical theatre and technical theatre. Productions are staged in the James T. Prichard Performing Arts Center, the 500-seat theater on campus named after the high school's late theatre arts teacher. After Prichard retired in 2011, Kyle Holmes took ...
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Listen To Your Heart (2010 Film)
''Listen to Your Heart'' is a 2010 romantic drama written by Kent Moran and produced by Kent Moran and Luke Moran and directed by Matt Thompson. Plot Struggling musician Danny Foster (Kent Moran) never dreamed he'd fall in love with a woman who couldn't hear his compositions. But when he meets Ariana Scott (Alexia Rasmussen), a privileged girl who lost her hearing in childhood, he's willing to believe anything's possible. As the young couple's love takes hold, however, Ariana's overbearing mother (Cybill Shepherd) proves to be their most vocal critic. Cast * Alexia Rasmussen as Ariana "Sam" * Kent Moran as Danny Foster * Cybill Shepherd as Victoria Scott * Frank Watson as Roger * Ernie Sabella as Tony * Lisa Benner as Marianne * Amy Lockwood as Nicole * Robert Ousley as George * Luke Moran as Mitch * Shirley Knight as Grandma Sam Official Festival Selections * Rhode Island International Film Festival * Action On Film International Film Festival (Pasadena, California) * New Yor ...
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Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born February 18, 1950) is an American actress and former model. Her film debut and breakthrough role came as Jacy Farrow in Peter Bogdanovich's coming-of-age drama ''The Last Picture Show'' (1971) alongside Jeff Bridges. She also had roles as Kelly in Elaine May's '' The Heartbreak Kid'' (1972), Betsy in Martin Scorsese's ''Taxi Driver'' (1976), and Nancy in Woody Allen's '' Alice'' (1990). On television, her first major role was as Colleen Champion in the one season of the night-time drama ''The Yellow Rose'' (1983). Shepherd played Madeline Hayes on the detective comedy-drama ''Moonlighting'' (1985–1989) opposite Bruce Willis, for which she won two Golden Globes for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical TV Series out of three such nominations. She later starred as Cybill Sheridan on ''Cybill'' (1995–1998), for which she won her third Golden Globe Award as Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical TV series. Her later television roles included Phyllis Kroll on '' ...
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Kent Moran
Kent Moran is an American actor/filmmaker best known for his roles in '' Listen to Your Heart'' and '' The Challenger''. Personal life Moran was born on June 12, 1982, in New York City and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, with his younger brother Luke and older brothers, Clay and Fred. Kent is an alumnus of Rye Country Day School and Lehigh University, and currently resides in Los Angeles. His younger brother, Luke Moran, is also an actor. Career After college, Moran moved to New York City to pursue acting and music. For the year that Moran was in New York, he was one of the lead singers of an R&B group as well as a singer/songwriter. Moran's first principal role in a movie came as a football player in Julie Taymor's ''Across the Universe''. He then was cast as James Dean in Guy Guido's documentary ''Icons''. After doing several commercials, short films, and a small role on ''As the World Turns'', Moran moved to Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, Moran studied under numerous acting ...
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Alexia Rasmussen
Alexia Rasmussen is an American actress and assistant director, known for Listen to Your Heart (2010), Our Idiot Brother (2011) and Tanner Hall (2009). Biography Rasmussen was born on July 10, 1985, in Los Angeles, California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori .... Alexia Rasmussen trained at the Experimental Theater Wing, the Classical Studio and the International Theater Wing in Amsterdam, all part of her time at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Filmography Film and Movies References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rasmussen, Alexia 1985 births Living people 21st-century American actresses American film actresses English actresses ...
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Ernie Sabella
Ernest Sabella (born September 19, 1949) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Pumbaa from ''The Lion King'' franchise, voicing the character in all media except the 2019 film. Sabella's TV roles include Mr. Donald "Twinkie" Twinkacetti in '' Perfect Strangers'' (1986-1987), George Shipman in '' A Fine Romance'', and Leon Carosi in ''Saved by the Bell'' (1991). His work in Broadway theatre includes starring roles in ''Guys and Dolls,'' ''Curtains (musical), Curtains,'' and ''Man of La Mancha''. Life and career Born in Westchester County, New York, Sabella graduated from the University of Miami, where he studied at the Department of Theatre Arts and performed at the university's Jerry Herman Ring Theatre. His stage credits include ''The Robber Bridegroom (musical), The Robber Bridegroom'' (1976), ''Little Johnny Jones'' (1982), ''Guys and Dolls (musical), Guys and Dolls'' (1992) as Harry the Horse, ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'' ...
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A Streetcar Named Desire (play)
''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her once-prosperous situation to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister and brother-in-law. Williams' most popular work, ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is one of the most critically acclaimed plays of the twentieth century.Williams, Tennessee (1995). ''A Streetcar Named Desire''. Introduction and text. Oxford: Heinemann Educational Publishers. It still ranks among his most performed plays, and has inspired many adaptations in other forms, notably a critically acclaimed film that was released in 1951.Production notesDecember 3, 1947—December 17, 1949IBDb.com Plot After the loss of her family home to creditors, Blanche DuBois travels from Laurel, Mississippi, to the New Orleans French Q ...
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Sacramento Magazine
''Sacramento Magazine'', sometimes titled ''Sacramento'', is a monthly regional magazine based in Sacramento, California, published and owned by Hour Media. The magazine was established in 1975. Mike O'Brien bought the magazine from Micromedia Affiliates, based in Morristown, New Jersey, in 1993. In 2015 Hour Media LLC, based in Michigan, acquired the Sacramento Magazines Corporation. Since then Joe Chiodo has been the publisher and Krista Minard is the editor of the magazine. The magazine has 25,000 monthly subscribers and 7,500 newsstand copies.Local Journalists Lead "Paying for Content" Panel
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Bloodline (2011 Film)
''Bloodline'' is an American horror film written, produced and directed by Matt Thompson Matthew or Matt Thompson may refer to: Entertainment * Matthew Thompson (actor), American actor * Matthew Thompson (writer), American-born Australian writer * Matt Thompson (animator), American producer, writer, and voice actor in animation * Mat .... It stars Thompson himself, in addition to Kimberly Alexander and Jesse Kristofferson. It follows his debut long feature '' Listen to Your Heart'' and is shot mainly on location in El Dorado, Placer and Sacramento counties. Cast References External links * * 2011 films 2011 horror films 2010s English-language films American horror films {{2010s-horror-film-stub ...
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Dead Tone
''Dead Tone'' (originally released as ''7eventy 5ive'') is a 2007 American slasher film directed and written by Brian Hooks and Deon Taylor. It stars Hooks, Antwon Tanner, Cherie Johnson, Rutger Hauer, German Legarreta, Gwendoline Yeo and Aimee Garcia. Plot The film begins with a sleepover of children. They prank call people while playing the game Seventy Five. Meanwhile, their parents are in the other room having drinks. The rules of the game are that you must keep a random person on the line for 75 seconds, and they must believe what you’re saying. As the night goes on, the kids go to bed, and a man whom the kids recently called calls back, before jumping from a closet and attempting to kill one of the kids before a parent jumped in front of him. The killer goes on to killing the parents in the house with an axe. As the children hide in the bedroom, the killer opens a closet to discover some of the kids and attempts to murder them. Before he can, one of the kid’s mothers jump ...
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