Rent-a-Kid
''Rent-a-Kid'' is a 1995 American comedy film. It stars Leslie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd, and Matt McCoy. It was directed by Fred Gerber. Plot Cliff Haber (Tony Rosato) runs an orphanage, and decides to go on a vacation. He has his father, Harry (Leslie Nielsen), run the orphanage while he is away. Harry has a rental store and decides that it would be a good idea to rent out orphans to prospective adoptive parents after he hears Cliff's testimony on how hard it is for him to find parents for the orphans he takes care of. Meanwhile, as Cliff is away, he gets a bigger idea by overhearing a couple at a Mexican restaurant, Russ and Valerie Syracuse ( Matt McCoy and Sherry Miller), arguing over the issue of wanting to have children. Through enough persuasion from Harry and giving it thought on their own, they decide to rent all three Ward children, Brandon (Amos Crawley), Kyle ( Cody Jones), and Molly (Tabitha Lupien). A couple, the Lachmans, come to the orphanage wanting to adopt a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Matt McCoy (actor)
Matt McCoy (born May 20, 1958) is an American actor. His credits include '' The Hand that Rocks the Cradle'', '' Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach'' and '' Police Academy 6: City Under Siege'' as Sgt. Nick Lassard, ''DeepStar Six'' as Jim Richardson, in ''L.A. Confidential'' as Brett Chase, and as Lloyd Braun on TV's ''Seinfeld''. Early life McCoy was born in Austin, Texas. He grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, and attended Walter Johnson High School, graduating in 1974. McCoy briefly attended University of Maryland, College Park. He worked briefly at the Harlequin Dinner Theater in Rockville. McCoy began acting when he appeared in two plays in the student-directed one act festival: ''Winners'' by Brian Friel, and ''Footsteps of Doves'' by Robert Anderson. Moving to New York City, he graduated from Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in 1979. Career Since starring as Sgt. Nick Lassard in '' Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach'' (1988) and '' Police Academy 6: C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fred Gerber
Fred Gerber is an American film and television director and television producer. Gerber has directed several popular television series which include ''The X-Files'', ''Desperate Housewives'' and ''House''. Gerber has also served as a producer on ''China Beach'', ''Threat Matrix'', ''Family Law'' and ''The Lying Game''. Yahoo! TV Filmography *'''' (2013) TV series **episode 1.03 "A Few Good Talismen" *'' Haven'' (2010–11) TV series **episode 1.13 "Spiral" **episode 2.06 "Audery Parker's Day Off" *''[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938) is an American actor. He has appeared in many theater productions, films, and on television since the 1960s. He is known for portraying Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in the ''Back to the Future'' trilogy (1985–1990); and Jim Ignatowski in the comedy series ''Taxi'' (1978–1983), for which he won two Emmy Awards. Lloyd came to public attention in Northeastern theater productions during the 1960s and early 1970s, earning Drama Desk and Obie awards for his work. He made his cinematic debut in '' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (1975), and his television debut in ''The Adams Chronicles'' the following year. He also starred as Commander Kruge in '' Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'' (1984), Professor Plum in ''Clue'' (1985), Judge Doom in ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' (1988), and Uncle Fester in ''The Addams Family'' (1991) and its sequel ''Addams Family Values'' (1993). He earned a third Emmy for his 1992 guest appearance as Alistai ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rene Ohashi
Rene Ohashi is a Canadian cinematographer living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His career spanned more than 25 years. Ohashi has been nominated for over 30 awards, winning 16. His projects include ''Anne of Green Gables'', ''The Wonder Years'', ''To Catch a Killer'', ''Gold Fever'' and ''Shades of Black: The Conrad Black Story''. Rene Ohashi has also shot thousands of commercials for national brands including: American Express, General Motors, New York Health Department, Nissan, CMA, H&R Block, Campbell's, Harvey's, Kraft, Maple Leaf, Michelina and Labatt. He is Director of Photography for Sesler Company. Filmography Awards Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards *2007 won the ''Best Cinematography in TV Series'' for: Kidnapped Special Delivery episode (2006)'' *2003 won the ''Best Cinematography in Theatrical Feature'' for: They (2002) *2002 won the ''Best Cinematography in TV Drama'' for: Club Land (2001) (TV) *1997 won the ''Best Cinematography in TV Drama'' for: The Ar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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GK Films
GK Films is a British-American film and television production company founded in 1990 by Graham King, located in Santa Monica, California. In 2005, the firm, which was known as Initial Entertainment Group at that time, signed a deal with Warner Bros. In 2012, GK signed a new deal with Warner Bros. Pictures. In June 2016, Revolution Studios acquired the worldwide rights to five of GK Films' productions: ''Hugo'', '' The Tourist'', ''Edge of Darkness'', '' The Rum Diary'' and ''The Young Victoria''. In August 2017, GK signed a three-year first-look deal with Paramount Pictures. Filmography As GK Films * ''The Young Victoria'' (2009) * ''Edge of Darkness'' (2010) * '' The Town'' (2010) * ''London Boulevard'' (2010) * '' The Tourist'' (2010) * '' Rango'' (2011) * '' The Rum Diary'' (2011) * ''Hugo'' (2011) * ''In the Land of Blood and Honey'' (2011) * ''Dark Shadows'' (2012) * ''Argo'' (2012) * ''World War Z'' (2013) * ''Jersey Boys'' (2014) * '' The 5th Wave'' (2016) * ''Allied ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sherry Miller
Sherry Miller is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Jane on the CTV drama ''E.N.G.'' (1990), as Jennifer Taylor on the Showtime drama '' Queer As Folk'' (2000–2005), and as Dorothy O'Sullivan on the Global teen drama ''The Best Years'' (2007–2009). Biography Miller began her career in the 1970s as a singer and dancer, who later gained attention in Canadian television for representing Spumante Bambino wine in commercial advertisements, as well as for her role as the host of the children's television series, ''Polka Dot Door''. She also appeared in Sofia Coppola's ''The Virgin Suicides''. She won a 2001 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for her work as Elisha Cuthbert's mother in '' Lucky Girl''. Miller is best known for her recurring role as Justin's mother Jennifer Taylor on the American version of '' Queer As Folk'', during the entire run of the series from 2000 to 2005. She als ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Family Plan (1997 Film)
''Family Plan'' is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Fred Gerber. It stars Leslie Nielsen and Judge Reinhold. It is the second movie in which Nielsen portrayed Harry Haber, the first being ''Rent-a-Kid''. Plot Saul Reubens, an old millionaire (Harry Morgan) died and left everything to his niece Julie (Emily Procter), including a children's summer camp "Sedona". Julie's fiancé Jeffrey (Judge Reinhold) wants to sell this camp to rich investors, so he transforms the camp into an adult health resort without telling Julie and invites investors to take a rest there. At the same time Harry Haber (Leslie Nielsen), after a misunderstanding about a scheduling conflict, takes the children up from Mid Valley Children House to the now-adult health resort. Two brothers from there, Alec and Eli Mackenzie, recently lost their dad in a car accident and are trying to find their biological mother. According to their case, their mother lives in Phoenix, Arizona, which Camp Sedona is located ne ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tabitha Lupien
Tabitha Lupien (born February 4, 1988) is a Canadian actress and competitive dancer trained in ballet, tap, jazz, pointe, hip hop, and acrobatics. She trains with her sisters Lindsay and Samantha and her brother Isaac at the Canadian Dance Company, owned by her parents Allain and Dawn, located in Oakville, Ontario. She is best known for her role as Julie Ubriacco from ''Look Who's Talking Now''. She had a minor role in the 2007 film version of ''Hairspray Hairspray may refer to: * Hair spray, a personal grooming product that keeps hair protected from humidity and wind * ''Hairspray'' (1988 film), a film by John Waters ** ''Hairspray'' (1988 soundtrack), the film's soundtrack album ** ''Hairspray ...'' as Becky and guest starred in the TV series '' The L.A. Complex'' as a defeated dancer 6 years later. Filmography References External links *Tabitha Lupien at Canadian Dance Company {{DEFAULTSORT:Lupien, Tabitha 1988 births Canadian film actresses Canadian female danc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michael Anderson Jr
Michael Joseph Anderson Jr. (born 6 August 1943) is an actor whose 40-year career includes roles in '' The Sundowners'', ''In Search of the Castaways'', ''The Sons of Katie Elder'', and ''Logan's Run''. During the 1966 television season he starred as Clayt Monroe in '' The Monroes''. Early life Anderson was born in Hillingdon, England on 6 August 1943, the son of Betty Jordan and film director Michael Anderson. He grew up wanting to act in his father's films. He studied drama and ballet at Arts Educational Schools, London, and by the age of 8 began performing on live radio and television shows. He also danced with the London Festival Ballet, now the English National Ballet. American acting career Anderson's first major American film was '' The Sundowners'' (1960). In 1962 he was cast as John Glenarvan in the Walt Disney film ''In Search of the Castaways''. From September 7, 1966, to August 30, 1967, Anderson played 18-year-old Clayt Monroe, one of five orphaned siblings, in t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century. At its peak, it had more than 6,000 media subscribers. Since the first of several sales and staff cutbacks in 1982, and the 1999 sale of its broadcast client list to its main U.S. rival, the Associated Press, UPI has concentrated on smaller information-market niches. History Formally named United Press Associations for incorporation and legal purposes, but publicly known and identified as United Press or UP, the news agency was created by the 1907 uniting of three smaller news syndicates by the Midwest newspaper publisher E. W. Scripps. It was headed by Hugh Baillie (1890–1966) from 1935 to 1955. At the time of his retirement, UP had 2,900 clients in the United States, and 1,500 abroad. In 1958, it became United Press Intern ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Initial Entertainment Group Films
In a written or published work, an initial capital, also referred to as a drop capital or simply an initial cap, initial, initcapital, initcap or init or a drop cap or drop, is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is derived from the Latin ''initialis'', which means ''standing at the beginning''. An initial is often several lines in height and in older books or manuscripts are known as "inhabited" initials. Certain important initials, such as the Beatus initial or "B" of ''Beatus vir...'' at the opening of Psalm 1 at the start of a vulgate Latin. These specific initials in an illuminated manuscript were also called initiums. In the present, the word "initial" commonly refers to the first letter of any word or name, the latter normally capitalized in English usage and is generally that of a first given name or a middle one or ones. History The classical tradition was slow to use capital letters fo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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American Comedy Films
American comedy films are comedy films produced in the United States. The genre is one of the oldest in American cinema; some of the first silent movies were comedies, as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions, without requiring sound. With the advent of sound in the late 1920s and 1930s, comedic dialogue rose in prominence in the work of film comedians such as W. C. Fields and the Marx Brothers. By the 1950s, the television industry had become serious competition for the movie industry. The 1960s saw an increasing number of broad, star-packed comedies. In the 1970s, black comedies were popular. Leading figures in the 1970s were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks. One of the major developments of the 1990s was the re-emergence of the romantic comedy film. Another development was the increasing use of " gross-out humour". History 1895–1930 Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |