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The Family Fang (film)
''The Family Fang'' is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Bateman and written by David Lindsay-Abaire, based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Kevin Wilson. The film stars Bateman, Nicole Kidman, and Christopher Walken. The film was released on April 29, 2016, by Starz Digital. Plot The family Fang enters a bank, Baxter robs a teller of her lollipops, shoots and Caleb rushes him as a security guard. Their mother Camille pretends to be shot, and Annie grieves over her body. They get up and leave, Caleb giving a speech about cherishing life and bows. The adult Annie, a failing actress, is on a film set where the director has asked her to go topless in a scene. Initially refusing, she later returns to the set without her top. A crew member snaps her photo, selling it to a tabloid. The adult Baxter sees the photos in a convenience store. After having published two novels, he accepts a job writing about potato guns. Drinking with his subjects, Baxter allow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Bateman
Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor, director and producer known for his roles of Michael Bluth in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox/Netflix sitcom ''Arrested Development (TV series), Arrested Development'' and of Marty Byrde in the Netflix crime drama series ''Ozark (TV series), Ozark'' (2017–2022). He has received several awards including a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Satellite Award. He began acting on television in the early 1980s on the NBC drama series ''Little House on the Prairie (TV series), Little House on the Prairie''. He has starred in the films ''Teen Wolf Too'' (1987), ''Necessary Roughness (film), Necessary Roughness'' (1991), ''Dodgeball (film), Dodgeball'' (2004), ''Juno (film), Juno'' (2007), ''Hancock (film), Hancock'' (2008), ''Up in the Air (2009 film), Up in the Air'', ''Couples Retreat'', ''Extract (film), Extract'' (all 2009), ''The Switch (2010 film), The Switch'' (2010), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Toronto International Film Festival
The 40th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 10 to 20 September 2015. On 28 July 2015 the first wave of films to be screened at the Festival was announced. Jean-Marc Vallée's ''Demolition'' starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts was the opening night film; '' Mr. Right'' by Paco Cabezas was the closing night film. The year's edition included two new sections called Platform and Primetime. At Platform, twelve films will be screened in front of a jury, with the best film of the program winning the C$25,000 Platform Prize. Film directors Claire Denis, Jia Zhangke, and Agnieszka Holland were selected as the jurors for this section. At Primetime, six high-quality television programs will be presented at public screenings with Question and Answer sessions with show creators. The lineups for the TIFF Docs, Vanguard, Midnight Madness, and Masters sections were announced on 11 August 2015. More than 100 films were added to the festival's programme on 18 August. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grainger Hines
Grainger Hines (born August 18, 1948)Adams Sloan, Robin (1981)The Gossip Column, ''Lewiston Morning Tribune'', October 6, 1981, p. 12E. Retrieved November 18, 2013 is an American actor, writer, producer, and director. Career He has appeared in numerous television shows - ''True Blood'', ''Boston Legal'', ''Nip/Tuck'', ''CSI: Miami'', ''Cold Case'', ''Las Vegas'', ''Matlock'', '' Saving Grace'', ''Ghost Whisperer'', '' In the Heat of the Night'', '' Blue Bloods'', ''Airwolf'', '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (uncredited), ''Hell on Wheels'' among others. He also has appeared in many films such as ''Lincoln'', ''Protocol'', ''Innerspace'', ''Rocky II'', ''False Identity'', ''Abuse of Power'', ''Thicker Than Water'', ''Amber Waves'', ''Summer School Teachers'', and others. Hines also appeared in the miniseries ''War and Remembrance'' and '' The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory''. Hines also starred in the soap opera, ''One Life to Live'' as Brian Beckett from 1984 - 1986, ''Gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Pais
Joshua Atwill Pais (born June 21, 1958) is an American actor and acting coach. He has appeared in the films ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' (1990), ''Music of the Heart'' (1999), '' Assassination of a High School President'' (2008), '' I Saw the Light'' (2015) and '' Motherless Brooklyn'' (2019). He also appeared in nine episodes of ''Ray Donovan''. He is also the director of the 2002 documentary '' 7th Street'' (the street he grew up on in Alphabet City, Manhattan) depicting various personages living there between the years 1992-2002. Early life Pais was born in New York City, New York, and is the son of Lila Lee (née Atwill), a painter and poet, and Dutch-born physicist, professor, and writer Abraham Pais. His father was from a Jewish family, and his mother converted to Judaism. Career He has appeared in Hollywood films including ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' (in which he was both in the costume and was the voice) as Raphael, ''Music of the Heart'', ''Scream 3'', '' It R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harris Yulin
Harris Yulin (born November 5, 1937) is an American actor who has appeared in over a hundred film and television series roles, such as '' Scarface'' (1983), ''Ghostbusters II'' (1989), ''Clear and Present Danger'' (1994), ''Looking for Richard'' (1996), '' The Hurricane'' (1999), ''Training Day'' (2001), and ''Frasier'' which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1996. Early life Yulin was born on November 5, 1937, in Los Angeles, California. He was raised in a Jewish home. Career Yulin made his New York debut in 1963 in ''Next Time I'll Sing to You'' by James Saunders and continued to work frequently in theater throughout his career. His Broadway debut came in the 1980s ''Watch on the Rhine''. He returned to Broadway multiple times in productions of '' The Visit'', ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', '' The Price'', and ''Hedda Gabler''. In 2010, he played Willy Loman in ''Death of A Salesman'' at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. His first film role was his portrayal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Harts
Frank Harts (born May 30, 1979) is an American film, television, and theatre actor. He played George Murchison in the 2004 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of ''A Raisin in the Sun'' opposite Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, and Sanaa Lathan. Harts has played supporting roles in several films, including the fil''Home''directed by Jono Oliver, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture in 2014. He played recurring character Deputy Dennis Luckey on the HBO series '' The Leftovers'' created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta. He also played recurring character Dale Christo on the Showtime series '' Billions''. Harts is a graduate of The Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City. Established in 1905, the school trains about 850 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music. It is widely regarded as one of the most elit .... Filmography Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mackenzie Smith
Mackenzie Brooke Smith (born February 6, 2001) is an American actress, most notable for her recurring role on '' Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'' as Savannah, the daughter of Catherine Weaver. She also appeared in the 2016 motion picture ''The Family Fang,'' alongside Kathryn Hahn and Jason Bateman. Smith can also be seen guest starring in television series like ''Grey's Anatomy'', ''100 Things to Do Before High School'', ''Desperate Housewives'' and '' The Middle''. Career Best known for her recurring role in '' Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'' as Savannah Weaver, the daughter of Catherine Weaver and Lachlan Weaver. Early in her career, Smith could be seen in ''The Passenger'' as Claire Currie. She had a small role in '' Road to the Altar'' as Brooke, a girl who plays with her sister in a hair and makeup shop. Smith also had a small part in ''Pushing Daisies'' as the younger Lily Charles in the episode "Kerplunk". In 2010, Smith was also seen in two episo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romeo And Juliet
''Romeo and Juliet'' is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with ''Hamlet'', is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the Title character, title characters are regarded as archetype, archetypal young lovers. ''Romeo and Juliet'' belongs to a tradition of tragic Romance (love), romances stretching back to Ancient history, antiquity. The plot is based on an Italian tale translated into verse as ''The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet'' by Arthur Brooke (poet), Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in ''Palace of Pleasure'' by William Painter (author), William Painter in 1567. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both but expanded the plot by developing a number of supporting characters, particularly Mercutio and Count Paris, Paris. Believed to have been written between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Park
Central Park is an urban park in New York City located between the Upper West Side, Upper West and Upper East Sides of Manhattan. It is the List of New York City parks, fifth-largest park in the city, covering . It is the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 42 million visitors annually , and is the most filmed location in the world. After proposals for a large park in Manhattan during the 1840s, it was approved in 1853 to cover . In 1857, landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a Architectural design competition, design competition for the park with their "Greensward Plan". Construction began the same year; existing structures, including a majority-Black settlement named Seneca Village, were seized through eminent domain and razed. The park's first areas were opened to the public in late 1858. Additional land at the northern end of Central Park was purchased in 1859, and the park was completed in 1876. After a period of de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busking
Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities. In many countries, the rewards are generally in the form of money but other gratuities such as food, drink or gifts may be given. Street performance is practiced all over the world and dates back to antiquity. People engaging in this practice are called street performers or buskers in the United Kingdom. Outside of New York, ''buskers'' is not a term generally used in American English. Performances are anything that people find entertaining, including acrobatics, animal tricks, balloon twisting, caricatures, clowning, comedy, contortions, escapology, dance, singing, fire skills, flea circus, fortune-telling, juggling, magic, mime, living statue, musical performance, one man band, puppeteering, snake charming, storytelling or reciting poetry or prose, street art such as sketching and painting, street theatre, sword swallowing, ventriloquism and washboarding. Buskers may be solo perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Food Court
A food court (in Asia-Pacific also called food hall or hawker centre) is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dinner. It can also be a public dining area in front of a cafe or diner. Food courts may be found in shopping malls, airports, and parks. In various regions (such as Asia, the Americas, and Africa), it may be a standalone development. In some places of learning such as high schools and universities, food courts have also come to replace or complement traditional cafeterias. Typical usage Food courts consist of a number of vendors at food stalls or service counters. Meals are ordered at one of the vendors and then carried to a common dining area. The food may also be ordered as takeout for consumption at another location, such as a home, or workplace. In this case, it may be packaged in plastic or foam food containers, though one common food tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Performance Art
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode. Also known as ''artistic action'', it has been developed through the years as a genre of its own in which art is presented live. It had an important and fundamental role in 20th century avant-garde art. It involves four basic elements: time, space, body, and presence of the artist, and the relation between the creator and the public. The actions, generally developed in art galleries and museums, can take place in the street, any kind of setting or space and during any time period. Its goal is to generate a reaction, sometimes with the support of improvisation and a sense of aesthetics. The themes are commonly linked to life experiences of the artist themselves, or the need of denunci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
