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My Giant My Giant is a 1998 comedy drama film starring Billy Crystal and NBA player Gheorghe Mureșan in his only film appearance, and directed by Michael Lehmann. Crystal also produced and co-wrote the story, which was inspired by professional wrestler André the Giant, whom Crystal had met during the filming of "The Princess Bride".
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The Princess Bride (film) The Princess Bride is a 1987 American romantic fantasy adventure comedy-drama film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner, and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant and Christopher Guest. Adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 novel of the same name, it tells the story of a farmhand named Westley, accompanied by befriended companions along the way, who must rescue his true love Princess Buttercup from the odious Prince Humperdinck. The story is presented in the film as a book being read by a grandfather (Peter Falk) to his sick grandson (Fred Savage), thus effectively preserving the novel's narrative style.
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Giant (magazine) Giant (stylized as GIANT) was a men's magazine based in New York City geared to the urban music market. It began in October 2004 as a bimonthly publication catering to the interests of 20-something men, focusing on pop culture including reviews of video games, movies, fine tobacco, music, everyday happenings and celebrity interviews.
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Giant (Buddy Holly album) Giant is a compilation album by American rock and roll singer Buddy Holly. The album was released as an LP record in stereo format in January 1969 (see 1969 in music).
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King Kong King Kong is a giant movie monster, resembling a giant ape, that has appeared in various media since 1933. The character first appeared in the 1933 film "King Kong" from RKO Pictures, which received universal acclaim upon its initial release and re-releases. A sequel quickly followed that same year with "The Son of Kong", featuring Little Kong. In the 1960s, Toho produced "King Kong vs. Godzilla" (1962), pitting a much larger Kong against Toho's own Godzilla, and "King Kong Escapes" (1967), based on "The King Kong Show" (1966–1969) from Rankin/Bass Productions. In 1976, Dino De Laurentiis produced a modern remake of the original film directed by John Guillermin. A sequel, "King Kong Lives", followed a decade later featuring a Lady Kong. Another remake of the original, this time set in 1933, was released in 2005 from filmmaker Peter Jackson.
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My Run My Run is a 2009 documentary film directed and produced by Tim VandeSteeg and produced by Mark Castaldo. The film chronicles Terry Hitchcock's journey of completing 75 marathons in 75 consecutive days to raise awareness for single parent families. It first screened at the Austin Film Festival on October 23, 2009.
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Arnold Laven Arnold Laven (February 3, 1922 – September 13, 2009) was an American film and television director and producer. He was one of the founders and principals of the American film and television production company Levy-Gardner-Laven. Laven was a producer of, among other things, the long-running western television series "The Rifleman" and "The Big Valley". He also directed motion pictures, including "Without Warning!", "The Rack", "The Monster That Challenged the World", "Geronimo", "Rough Night in Jericho", and "Sam Whiskey". In the 1970s and early 1980s, Laven directed dozens of episodes of television series, including episodes of "Mannix", "The A-Team", "Hill Street Blues", "The Six Million Dollar Man", "Fantasy Island", "The Rockford Files" and "CHiPs".
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The Big Man The Big Man (US title: Crossing the Line) is a 1990 feature film. It stars Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley and Billy Connolly. The film's score was composed by Ennio Morricone. It is based on the novel of the same name by William McIlvanney.
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The Naked Monster The Naked Monster is a 2005 American ultra low-budget science fiction and horror comedy fan-film written by Ted Newsom and directed by Newsom and Wayne Berwick as an homage to and spoof of the "giant monster-on-the-loose" films of the 1950s. The final project took 21 years to make, and was actor Kenneth Tobey's last film.
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King Kong (1976 film) King Kong is a 1976 American monster film produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. It is a modern remake of the 1933 classic film of the same name about a giant ape that is captured and imported to New York City for exhibition. Featuring special effects by Carlo Rambaldi, it stars Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, and Jessica Lange in her first film role.
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Inspired Guns Inspired Guns is a 2014 comedy film. It was written, directed, and produced by Adam White, who also plays a role in the film. It is distributed by Pitch White Entertainment. Most of the cast and crew are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and one of the primary goals of the movie as to "create good clean content" for family audiences.
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Me and the Big Guy Me and the Big Guy is a 1999 short film that parodies "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by way of lampooning the fact that Big Brother is watching everyone, even those he'd rather not.
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Les Guthman Les Guthman is an American director, writer and production executive, who has the distinction of both having produced three of the "20 Top Adventure Films of All Time", according to "Men’s Journal" magazine, and having won the National Academy of Science’s (U.S) nationwide competition to find the best new idea in science television, which led to his film, "Three Nights at the Keck", hosted by actor John Lithgow.
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Heavy Metal (film) Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian-American adult animated sci-fi-fantasy film directed by Gerald Potterton and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of "Heavy Metal" magazine, the basis for the film. The screenplay was written by Daniel Goldberg and Len Blum.
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Frozen (franchise) Frozen is a Disney media franchise started by the 2013 American animated feature film, "Frozen", which was directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee from a screenplay by Lee and produced by Peter Del Vecho, with songs by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. Walt Disney Animation Studios' chief creative officer John Lasseter served as the film's executive producer. The original film was inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, "The Snow Queen".
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My Giant Life My Giant Life is an American reality television series that premiered on the TLC cable network, on July 14, 2015. Season 1 of the series revolved around 4 women who are taller than 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m). Season 2 follows three of the four women from the first season, with Nancy Mulkey replaced by a new woman, 6'9" German-born New Yorker Katya, and her 5'2" American wife.
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Giant Giants are monsters of human appearance but prodigious size and strength common in the mythology and legends of many different cultures. The word "giant", coined in 1297, was derived from the "Gigantes" (Greek: Γίγαντες , "Gígantes") of Greek mythology.
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Kenneth Thomson (actor) Kenneth Thomson (January 7, 1899 – January 26, 1967) was an American character actor active during the silent and early sound film eras. He, along with his wife Alden Gay, was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild. The group was founded after meetings held at the Thomsons' home during 1933. During his brief twelve-year career in front of the camera, he appeared in over 60 films. After appearing in several Broadway plays during the early and mid-1920s, Thomson would make his film debut with a starring role in 1926's "Risky Business". Over the next four years, he would appear in over a dozen films, in either starring or featured roles. In 1930 alone he would appear in ten films, half of which were in starring roles, such as "Lawful Larceny", which also starred Bebe Daniels and Lowell Sherman (who also directed), and "Reno", whose other stars were Ruth Roland and Montagu Love; the other half would see him in featured roles as in "A Notorious Affair", starring Billie Dove, Basil Rathbone, and Kay Francis. During the rest of the 1930s, he would appear in numerous films, mostly in either supporting or featured roles, such as "The Little Giant" (1933), starring Edward G. Robinson and Mary Astor, and "Hop-Along Cassidy" (1935), starring William Boyd; although he occasionally would have a starring role, as in opposite Harold Lloyd in 1932's "Movie Crazy".
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Henry Ginsberg Henry Ginsberg (1897–1979) was head of production at Paramount Studios in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He subsequently produced "Giant" (1956).
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L'Homme du large L' Homme du large (English: "Man of the Sea" or "Man of the Open Seas") is a 1920 French silent film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and based on a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was filmed on the rugged southern coast of Brittany creating atmosphere in a film about the forces of good and evil that motivate human behaviour.
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Tangled (franchise) Tangled is a Disney media franchise started by the 2010 American animated feature "Tangled", which was directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard from a screenplay by Dan Fogelman and produced by Roy Conli, with songs by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater. Walt Disney Animation Studios' chief creative officer John Lasseter served as the film's executive producer. The original film was inspired by the German fairy tale "Rapunzel" in the collection of folk tales published by the Brothers Grimm.
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Bill Barretta William Paul "Bill" Barretta (born June 19, 1964) is an American puppeteer and producer who has been performing with The Muppets since 1991, when he puppeteered the body of Sinclair family patriarch, Earl Sinclair on "Dinosaurs". He later developed several new characters on "Muppets Tonight", including Pepe the King Prawn, Johnny Fiama, Big Mean Carl and Bobo the Bear. Along with having his own Muppet characters, Barretta has taken over several of Jim Henson's roles, such as Dr. Teeth, Rowlf the Dog, Mahna Mahna and Swedish Chef, and briefly took over Jerry Nelson's role of Lew Zealand. His film debut as a principal puppeteer was in 1996's "Muppet Treasure Island" as Clueless Morgan. In addition, Barretta has produced two of the Muppets' television films, "It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie" (2002) and "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz" (2005). Barretta also provides additional voices on "Kim Possible". His most recent film performance was in Disney's "Muppets Most Wanted", where he also served as a co-producer. Barretta also served as an executive producer on the ABC series, "The Muppets".