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Tillamook Treasure
''Tillamook Treasure'', also known as ''The Legend of Tillamook's Gold'', is a 2006 American independent family film directed by Jane Beaumont Hall. It is set in the city of Manzanita, Oregon. Based on a Native American legend about a treasure buried on Neahkahnie Mountain by Spanish sailors in the 1590s, a 14-year-old girl discovers what is important in life. Production and distribution ''Tillamook Treasure'' played the film festival circuit in 2006 and 2007, and was released theatrically in 2008 as ''The Legend of Tillamook's Gold''. The film opened in one theater in Mesa, Arizona on March 28, 2008 as a theatrical test by Maitland Primrose Group, publishers of '' Moving Pictures'' magazine, in conjunction with film festival producers Kids First! The film premiered in Tillamook, Oregon in July 2007. The film was shot almost exclusively in Tillamook County. Plot Sixteenth century Spanish sailors beach their launch on the Manzanita beach. They carry a treasure chest up Neahkahn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian McNamara
Brian McNamara is an American actor. His first major role was in the film ''The Flamingo Kid'' (1984). He then went on to appear in a few films, such as ''Short Circuit (1986 film), Short Circuit'' (1986), ''Caddyshack II'' (1988), ''Arachnophobia (film), Arachnophobia'' (1990) and ''Mystery Date'' (1991). McNamara was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Golden Globe Award for playing Dean Karny in the television film ''Billionaire Boys Club (1987 film), Billionaire Boys Club'' (1987). However, his most popular role was as Michael Holden (character), Michael Holden in the television series ''Army Wives'' (2007–2013). Career Early in his career, he played Todd Young in ''Caddyshack II'' (1988). He had roles in such feature films as ''Arachnophobia (film), Arachnophobia'' and ''Short Circuit (1986 film), Short Circuit''. He guest starred in such television series as ''NYPD Blue'', ''The O.C.'', ''Seinfeld'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escher Holloway
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American Coming-of-age Drama Films
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2006 Films
The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year Legendary film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' described 2006 as "an outstanding year for British cinema". He went on to emphasize, "Six of our well-established directors have made highly individual films of real distinction: Michael Winterbottom's ''A Cock and Bull Story'', Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'', Christopher Nolan's ''The Prestige'', Stephen Frears's ''The Queen'', Paul Greengrass's '' United 93'' and Nicholas Hytner's ''The History Boys''. Two young directors made confident debuts, both offering a jaundiced view of contemporary Britain: Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton. In addition the gifted Mexican Alfonso Cuaron came here to make the dystopian thriller '' Children of Men''." He also stated, "In the (Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Independent Films
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2000s Coming-of-age Drama Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kids First! Film Festival
Kid, Kids, KIDS, and K.I.D.S. may refer to: Common meanings * Colloquial term for a child or other young person ** Also for a parent's offspring regardless of age * Engage in joking * Young goats * The goat meat of young goats * Kidskin, leather from young goats Entertainment Performers * K.I.D (band), Canadian indie rock band * K.I.D. (musician), a disco project by Geoff Bastow * Kid 'n Play, American hip-hop duo from New York * Kid Capri (born 1967), American DJ and rapper * Kid Carpet, musician from Bristol, UK * Kid Crème (born 1974), house music producer and DJ * Kid Cudi (born 1984), American rapper Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi * Kid Jensen (born 1950; David Jensen), Canadian-British radio DJ * Kid Ory (1886–1973), American jazz trombonist and bandleader * Kid Rock (born 1971), American singer Robert James Ritchie * Kid Creole (born 1950), American musician August Darnell, leader of Kid Creole and the Coconuts * The Kid Laroi (born 2003), Australian rapper and si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiburon International Film Festival
Tiburon (Spanish ''Tiburón'', "shark") may refer to: Places ;United States * Tiburon, California * Tiburón Golf Club Naples, Florida * Tiburon Peninsula (California), a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California ;Mexico * Tiburón Island, an island in the Gulf of California ;Haiti * Tiburon Peninsula, Haiti * Tiburon, Sud, commune in Haiti ;Denmark * Thyborøn, a fishing village on the west coast of Jutland Arts * ''Tiburon'', a 1935 prize winning first novel about the people of the eponymous town by Kylie Tennant * ''El Tiburón'', a single by Proyecto Uno. Also covered by Henry Mendez * "Tiburón" (Rubén Blades song), by Willie Colón and Rubén Blades Others * Hyundai Tiburon, a car built by the Hyundai Motor Company * Hoyt Tiburon, a take-down recurve bow built by Hoyt Archery * USS ''Tiburon'' (SS-529) * ROV ''Tiburon'', a deep-sea research robot of the R/V ''Western Flyer'' * EA Tiburon, an Electronic Arts studio in Orlando, Florida; developer of the ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Fantasy Worldwide Film Festival
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon (company), Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Film Festival
The Virginia Film Festival is a film festival hosted by the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The festival is held annually, usually in late October or early November. History Created in October 1988, the Virginia Festival of American Film (renamed The Virginia Film Festival) was endorsed by the state's Department of Economic Development and adopted by the University of Virginia. The intent was twofold: to stimulate economic development by encouraging film production in Virginia and increasing tourism, and to meld the creative interests and crafts of the American film industry with the intellectual resources of a nationally ranked university. In 1996, the festival was affiliated with the drama department of the University of Virginia. In 2002, the Festival moved to the Dean's office in the College of Arts and Science and then to the media studies department. The Festival's focus was expanded to encompass a broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Stein
Mary Margaret Stein is an American actress. Early life Stein was born in Marquette, Michigan, and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She began her acting career performing in plays. She graduated from Franklin High School and she received a B.A. degree from Marquette University in 1980. She then attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division as a member of ''Group 13'' (1980–1984). Other students at Juilliard during that time include Val Kilmer (''Group 10''), Kevin Spacey (''Group 12''), and Thomas Gibson (''Group 14''). Acting career Following graduation from Juilliard, Mary got her first screen acting job in the " Time's Arrow" episode of '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', playing an alien nurse. As her career developed, she played roles such as Miss Floom, the landlady and owner of the Flealands Hotel in '' Babe: Pig in the City'' and Miss Rue Who in ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas''. Some of her well-known television roles include Ms. Sneed on '' General Hospital'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
