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Christian Tessier
Christian Tessier (born January 23, 1977) is a Canadian actor and singer who began his career as a child actor on ''You Can't Do That On Television.'' He has since appeared in numerous TV and film roles. Early life Tessier was born in Toronto on January 1, 1978. He graduated from Etobicoke School of the Arts with a course of acting. Career Early career Tessier first came to television in 1989, appearing in 18 episodes of the Canadian children's show ''You Can't Do That on Television''. He notably appeared in the remake of ''The Tomorrow People'' (1992 to 1995), and the motion picture adaptation of '' Battlefield Earth'' as Mickey. He also appeared on two episodes in the TV series ''Are You Afraid of the Dark?'' (1992's "Laughing in the Dark" and 1994's "The Curious Camera"). He also appeared in the 1992 episode of the animated TV series '' A Bunch of Munsch'' (" The Paper Bag Princess"), He also appeared in the teen drama special, ''Crystal Clear'', and on a 1996 episode of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kingston, Canada
Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the northeastern end of Lake Ontario. It is at the beginning of the St. Lawrence River and at the mouth of the Cataraqui River, the south end of the Rideau Canal. Kingston is near the Thousand Islands, a tourist region to the east, and the Prince Edward County tourist region to the west. Kingston is nicknamed the "Limestone City" because it has many heritage buildings constructed using local limestone. Growing European exploration in the 17th century and the desire for the Europeans to establish a presence close to local Native occupants to control trade led to the founding of a French trading post and military fort at a site known as "Cataraqui" (generally pronounced ) in 1673. The outpost, called Fort Cataraqui, and later Fort Frontenac, became a focus for settlement. After the Conquest of New France (1759–1763), the site of Kingston was relinquished to the British. Cataraqui was renamed Kingston after the British took possession ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Day After Tomorrow
''The Day After Tomorrow'' is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film conceived, co-written, co-produced, and directed by Roland Emmerich, based on the 1999 book '' The Coming Global Superstorm'' by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, and Ian Holm. The film depicts catastrophic climatic effects following the disruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation, in which a series of extreme weather events usher in climate change and lead to a new ice age. Originally slated for release in the summer of 2003, it premiered in Mexico City on May 17, 2004, and was theatrically released in the United States by 20th Century Fox on May 28. The film was a commercial success, grossing $552 million worldwide against a production budget of $125 million, becoming so the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2004. Filmed in Montreal, it was the highest-grossing Hollywood film made in Canada at its time of release. The film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Timeline (2003 Film)
''Timeline'' is a 2003 historical science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Donner and starring Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis, and Anna Friel. Based on Michael Crichton's 1999 novel of the same name, the screenplay concerns a team of present-day archaeology and history students who are sent back in time to medieval France to rescue their professor from the middle of a battle. Jerry Goldsmith composed the original score, which would have been his last released before his death in 2004, but was replaced with a new score by Brian Tyler, after the first cut of the film was re-edited and Goldsmith's increasing health problems prevented him from continuing. The film was poorly received by critics and bombed at the box office, losing an estimated $49 million. Plot Castlegard, a village near La Roque Castle in Dordogne, France, is the site of the 1357 hanging of Lady Claire, sister to Arnaut de Cervole. Her martyrdom led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Shattered Glass (film)
''Shattered Glass'' is a 2003 biographical drama film about journalist Stephen Glass and his scandal at ''The New Republic''. Written and directed by Billy Ray in his feature directorial debut, the film is based on a 1998 '' Vanity Fair'' article of the same name by H. G. Bissinger and chronicles Glass' fall from grace when his stories were discovered to be fabricated. It stars Hayden Christensen as Glass, alongside Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny, and Steve Zahn. The film premiered at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2003, and received a North American limited release on November 26, 2003. Although a commercial failure, ''Shattered Glass'' received acclaim from critics, with particular praise for Christensen and Sarsgaard's performances. Plot In 1998, Stephen Glass is an associate editor at ''The New Republic''. The youngest, inexperienced of the magazine's staff, Glass is popular with his colleagues for his entertaining stories. Glass serves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Levity (film)
''Levity'' is a 2003 drama (film and television), drama film directed by Ed Solomon starring Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter, and Kirsten Dunst. The soundtrack was composed by Mark Oliver Everett of the band Eels (band), Eels. ''Levity'' was filmed in Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was the opening film at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and went into a limited release on April 4, 2003. Plot Manuel Jordan, a man who served nearly 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery, is released on parole in spite of his objections. After spending his time staring at a clipping of Abner Easley, the boy he killed, he returns to the city he used to live in to find redemption. He ends up living at a community house which is run by Miles Evans, a preacher. He offers Manuel work so he can pay for the room, and Manuel places Abner's photo in his room to remind himself of his crime. While staying at the community house, he befriends Sofia Mellinger, a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Score (2001 Film)
''The Score'' is a 2001 American heist film directed by Frank Oz, and starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Angela Bassett, and Marlon Brando in his final film role. It was the only time that Brando and De Niro appeared onscreen together. The screenplay was based on a story by Daniel E. Taylor and Kario Salem. Plot After nearly being caught during a burglary, master safe-cracker Nick Wells considers retiring to live with his girlfriend Diane and run his Montréal jazz club as a legitimate businessman. He declines another job from his fence Max, and is approached by the job's mastermind Jack Teller, an ambitious fellow thief. Nick sends his associate Burt to intimidate Jack into leaving town, but Jack gains the upper hand and arrives at Nick's home to change his mind. Nick agrees to join the heist in exchange for total control of the operation, and negotiates a $6 million cut from Max. Their target is a royal sceptre smuggled into Canada but discovered by customs, now st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Time At The Top
''Time at the Top'', is a 1999 cable television film for Showtime that was directed by Jimmy Kaufman and written by Linda Brookover and Alain Silver based on the book by Edward Ormondroyd. It stars Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Busfield, and Lynne Adams. Synopsis Susan Shawson (Elisha Cuthbert), a 13-year old high-school, inadvertently travels back in time in her apartment building's elevator. As altered by Dr. Reynolds (Michael Sinelnikoff), a retired physicist living upstairs, this secret time machine transports Susan from New York of 1998 back to exactly the same spot in 1881. There she meets Victoria Walker (Gabrielle Boni), a girl her age in need of assistance with her own family problems, most notably a schemer named Cyrus Sweeney (Jean LeClerc) trying to take advantage of her widowed mother Nora (Lynne Adams). When she returns to the present, Susan discovers that her widower father Frank (Timothy Busfield) has been frantically searching for her, assisted by neighbor Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Night Of The Demons 3
''Night of the Demons 3'' (released as ''Demon House'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1997 Canadian comedy horror film directed by Jimmy Kaufman and starring Amelia Kinkade, Vlasta Vrána, Gregory Calpakis, Tara Slone, Christian Tessier, Joel Gordon, Larry Day, Kris Holden-Reid, Stephanie Bauder, and Patricia Rodriguez. It is the third and final film in the '' Night of the Demons'' series before the 2009 remake, and follows a group of teenagers who are pursued by the demon-possessed Angela Franklin while hiding out in Hull House on Halloween night. Plot Several years have passed after the massacre at St. Rita's Academy and on Halloween night, officer Larry is on night watch at Hull House, where he is confronted and murdered by Angela with his own police badge. Sociopath teenager Vince, his promiscuous girlfriend Lois, and their friends Nick and Reggie are cruising through town in Vince's sidekick Orson's van. They stop to pick up head cheerleader Holly and her shy friend Abb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Habitat (film)
''Habitat'' is a 1997 science fiction film produced for the direct-to-video market and shown on the Sci Fi Channel. The film's message is largely one of ecological warning, mixed with science fiction elements of genetic engineering, family angst and redemption. It is the only theatrical movie filmed in Sony's early analog High Definition format. Sony donated the equipment and technical support in an attempt to popularize the format. The High Definition video was then transferred to film for release. The film won a Global Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography. Plot In a future where the Earth's ozone layer is severely decreased in size, the Symes family is on the run from the father's former employers and the government. Hank Symes a molecular biologist, has become so obsessed with saving the world that he has placed his entire family's lives in danger. They stop in a desert community to hide out and continue work when a terrible accident occurs that transforms Hank into a fan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
19-2 (2014 TV Series)
''19-2'' is a Television in Canada, Canadian police procedural crime drama television series developed by Bruce M. Smith, based on the French-Canadian, Canadian French-language 19-2 (2011 TV series), series of the same name created by Réal Bossé and Claude Legault. It was produced by Sphere Media and Echo Media, in association with Bell Media; Smith served as showrunner. The series premiered on Bravo (Canada), Bravo in Canada on January 29, 2014, and aired for three seasons, before it moved to CTV Television Network, CTV for its fourth and final season. It finished its four-year run on September 18, 2017, with 38 episodes. Set in Montreal, ''19-2'' follows the professional and personal lives of patrol officers from the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal, Montreal Police Service's Station 19, which covers an inner-city area of the city. The series' name comes from the callsign of the patrol car of the two main characters. Adrian Holmes and Jared Kees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wayward Pines
''Wayward Pines'' is an American mystery science fiction television series based on the ''Wayward Pines'' novels by Blake Crouch. Developed for television by Chad Hodge, the pilot was directed by M. Night Shyamalan, with both as executive producers. The series premiered on Fox on May 14, 2015, and the first season concluded on July 23, 2015. On December 9, 2015, Fox renewed the series for a second season which aired from May 25 to July 27, 2016. The series was canceled in 2018. Premise In the first season, Ethan Burke is a U.S. Secret Service agent investigating the disappearance of two fellow agents in the mysterious small town of Wayward Pines, Idaho. Ethan awakens from a car accident unable to contact the outside world and unable to leave. He finds one of the agents dead and the other, his former lover Kate Hewson, settled down in the seemingly idyllic town. But the inhabitants of Wayward Pines are trapped there by an electrified fence and set of rules enforced by the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Godzilla (2014 Film)
''Godzilla'' is a 2014 American monster film directed by Gareth Edwards (filmmaker), Gareth Edwards. Produced by Legendary Entertainment, Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a reboot of Toho's Godzilla (franchise), ''Godzilla'' franchise, and the first film in Legendary's Monsterverse franchise. It is the 30th film in the ''Godzilla'' franchise, and the second ''Godzilla'' film to be completely produced by a Hollywood studio. The film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn, and Bryan Cranston. In the film, an American soldier attempts to return to his family while caught in the crossfire of an ancient rivalry between Godzilla (Monsterverse), Godzilla and two parasitic monsters known as MUTOs. The project began under executive producer Yoshimitsu Banno (director of ''Godzilla vs. Hedorah'') as an IMAX 3D film in 2004, but was transferred to Legendary in 2009 to be redeveloped a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
