
Del Close
Actor · 1934 – 1999 · Manhattan, Kansas, USA
Del Close (March 9, 1934 – March 4, 1999) was an American actor, writer, and teacher who coached many of the best-known comedians and comic actors of the late twentieth century. In addition to an acting career in television and film, he was one of the influences on modern improvisational theater. Close is co-founder of the ImprovOlympic (iO). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Movie7.8CrimeHistoryElliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.
The Untouchables
1987 · 6.3K votes
Movie7.6ComedyAfter high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986 · 5.6K votes
Movie6.9HorrorScience FictionIn Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
The Blob
1988 · 1.1K votes
Movie7.1ComedyDramaA couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
American Graffiti
1973 · 1.6K votes
Movie7.2ComedyDramaAs America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.
A League of Their Own
1992 · 1.6K votes
Movie7.2CrimeThrillerFrank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.
Thief
1981 · 897 votes
Movie5.9ActionCrimeTruman Gates, a Chicago cop, sets out to find his brother's killer. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.
Next of Kin
1989 · 258 votes
Movie6.2DramaHistoryAssigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989 · 170 votes
Movie6.2CrimeDramaA crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
The Public Eye
1992 · 102 votes
Movie5.6DocumentaryDel Close was never a household name, but any comedy enthusiast is aware of his impact. From Bill Murray to Chris Farley to Amy Poehler, many of the most famous comedians consider him their mentor. Fifteen years after Del Close’s death, thousands of Improv students, comedy fans, actors, and successful comedians gather to celebrate the most important person in modern comedy that no one knows.
Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon
2015 · 5 votes
Movie4.2ComedyThe problems faced by both teenagers and adults in a small Minnesota town who are trying to get dates for a Saturday night.
One More Saturday Night
1986 · 5 votes
Movie5.5DramaRomanceIt is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.
The Big Town
1987 · 60 votes
Movie5.5MusicDramaCleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems.
Light of Day
1987 · 60 votes
Movie4.6ComedyHorrorA technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the it, it terrorizes the populace-- the local hippies, cops, drunks and bowlers must all face the Blob!
Beware! The Blob
1972 · 83 votes
Movie8.0DramaTeenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new research by Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, about using external electric stimulations to enable paralyzed people to use their frozen muscles. She enters the research as a test subject and gets her reward when she walks up to receive her college diploma.
First Steps
1985 · 1 votes
Movie5.7ComedyEddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.
Opportunity Knocks
1990 · 54 votes
Movie7.0DramaThe wife of a sterile man steps outside the marriage with a gigolo in order to conceive.
The Last Affair
1976 · 1 votes
Movie4.4MusicDocumentaryA montage of the weird, a freak-out film that appeared when the expression was in fashion and in flower, along with the flower people. The film was one of the first exponents of the mobile camera-rock track-optical effect school of filmmaking, and it is much a document as it is a documentary. A repellent and fascinating depiction of the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, along with Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco and the East Village in New York. Tiny Tim amounts to something resembling a recurring motif and narrator.
You Are What You Eat
1968 · 9 votes
Movie9.0A movie about a Chicago family -- a building contractor and his two sons who have opposing ideologies. One brother works for a power-hungry builder with underworld connections; the younger son, a priest in one of the city's poor parishes, is fighting the forces for which his brother works.
Dream Breakers
1989 · 1 votes
Movie2.0ComedyUptight killjoy square cop Captain Harold Jinks doesn't approve of the local hippies in an Old West-style rural community romping about naked, so he zealously enforces various strict laws to ban public nudity. It's up to loopy long-haired rebel Hawk to save the townspeople from Jinks' oppressive reign.
Gold
1972 · 2 votes
Movie3.3MysteryHorrorAfter escaping a lethal injection for the murders Mommy (Patty McCormack) had committed, she is given a special implant in her arm that will keep her from having homicidal urges. However, since she still tries to see her daughter and other murders are continuing, it doesn't look very good for Mommy.
Mommy's Day
1997 · 10 votes
Movie5.8ComedyA fable about an old man with an odd effect on those he encounters.
Goldstein
1965 · 4 votes
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TV8.0ComedySci-Fi & FantasyMaxwell Smart, a hilariously inept and maladroit secret agent for CONTROL, battles the nefarious—though equally incompetent—KAOS.
Get Smart
1965 · 448 votes
TV7.5CrimeDramaThe Untouchables is an American crime drama series that aired for two seasons in syndication, from January 1993 to May 1994. The series portrayed work of the real life Untouchables federal investigative squad in Prohibition-era Chicago and its efforts against Al Capone's attempts to profit from the market in bootleg liquor. The series features Tom Amandes as Eliot Ness and William Forsythe as Al Capone, and was based on the 1959 series and 1987 film of the same name.
The Untouchables
1993 · 13 votes
TV4.8ComedySci-Fi & FantasyThe story of the relationship between a man and his mother, the latter having been reincarnated as a 1928 Porter automobile.
My Mother the Car
1965 · 11 votes
TV5.8DramaCrimeSable is a short-lived television program that aired on ABC during the 1987-1988 season, and is based on the comic book, Jon Sable: Freelance, by Mike Grell. Only seven episodes ever aired. The show was a one-hour adventure/drama about mercenary and vigilante Jon Sable, who by day was children's book author Nicholas Fleming. The program ran on Saturdays at 8:00, and aired its final episode on January 2, 1988. Rene Russo had her first television role on the series. Lara Flynn Boyle also had one of her first acting roles playing a kidnapped girl in the series pilot.
Sable
1987 · 4 votes