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Peter Riegert Peter Riegert (born April 11, 1947) is an American actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for his roles as Donald "Boon" Schoenstein in "Animal House" (1978), "Mac" MacIntyre in "Local Hero" (1983), fast-talking gangster Aldo in "Oscar" (1991), tough, no-nonsense Lt. Kellaway in "The Mask" (1994), newspaper editor Delbert McGinty in "We Bought a Zoo" (2011) and glove manufacturer Lou Levov in "American Pastoral" (2016). He directed the short film "By Courier" (2000) and, along with producer Ericka Frederick, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
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We Bought a Zoo We Bought a Zoo is a 2011 American family comedy-drama film loosely based on the 2008 memoir of the same name by Benjamin Mee. It was written and directed by Cameron Crowe and stars Matt Damon as widowed father Benjamin Mee, who purchases a dilapidated zoo with his family and takes on the challenge of preparing the zoo for its reopening to the public. The film also stars Scarlett Johansson, Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Thomas Haden Church, Patrick Fugit, Elle Fanning, Colin Ford, and John Michael Higgins. The film was released in the United States on December 23, 2011 by 20th Century Fox. The film earned $120.1 million on a $50 million budget. "We Bought a Zoo" was released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 3, 2012 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Dartmoor Zoological Park (originally Dartmoor Wildlife Park), on which the film is based, is a 33-acre zoological garden located near the village of Sparkwell, Devon, England.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1901 novel by American author Alice Hegan Rice, telling of a southern family's humorously coping with poverty. The book was highly popular on its release, and has been adapted to film several times.
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Life on the Mississippi (film) Life on the Mississippi is a made-for-television feature film, based loosely on the 1883 book of the same title by Mark Twain. It was directed by Peter H. Hunt, and starred David Knell as the young Mark Twain and Robert Lansing as his teacher, Horace Bixby. A pre-"All My Children" Marcy Walker played a character named Emmeline. It aired in 1980 as part of the PBS series, "Great Performances", and was released for home video in 1984 by MCA Entertainment.
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Beverly Donofrio Beverly Ann Donofrio (born 23 September 1950) is an American memoirist, children's author and creative writing teacher most noted for her 1992 best selling memoir, "Riding in Cars with Boys". The memoir was adapted into the 2001 film "Riding in Cars with Boys", directed by Penny Marshall, with Drew Barrymore portraying Donofrio. She also is a prolific essayist, having published work in numerous anthologies, in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post Sunday Magazine", "The Village Voice", the "Los Angeles Times", and in such magazines as "Allure", "Cosmopolitan", "O, The Oprah Magazine", and "Marie Claire".
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Buffalo Boys Buffalo Boys is a drama inspired by a true story, set in Buffalo, New York. It is about a teen and his best friend who become involved in a plot to murder an old woman, to collect her life insurance as a means to escape their troubled family lives.
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Down These Mean Streets Down These Mean Streets is a memoir by Piri Thomas, a Latino of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent who grew up in El Barrio (aka Spanish Harlem), a section of Harlem that has a large Puerto Rican population. The book follows Piri as he goes through the first few decades of his life, lives in poverty, joins and fights with street gangs, faces racism (in both New York City and the South), suffers through heroin addiction, gets involved in crime, and ends up in prison.
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What Richard Did What Richard Did is a 2012 Irish film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Malcolm Campbell. The film is loosely based on Kevin Power's "Bad Day in Blackrock", a fictionalised novel inspired by the real-life death of Brian Murphy in 2000. It won the best Irish film of the year award at the 10th Irish Film & Television Awards and was the most commercially successful Irish film of 2012.
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Rizal sa Dapitan Rizal sa Dapitan (lit. Rizal in Dapitan), is a 1997 film adaptation of life of the Filipino national hero Dr. José Rizal, starring Albert Martinez as José Rizal and Amanda Page as Josephine Bracken, the screenplay is by Pete Lacaba.
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Beaches (film) Beaches (also known as Forever Friends) is a 1988 American comedy-drama film adapted by Mary Agnes Donoghue from the Iris Rainer Dart novel of the same name. It was directed by Garry Marshall, and stars Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, Mayim Bialik, John Heard, James Read, Spalding Gray, and Lainie Kazan.
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A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, also known as Aren't You Even Gonna Kiss Me Goodbye?, is a 1988 American coming of age drama film written and directed by William Richert and starring River Phoenix, Ann Magnuson, Meredith Salenger, Matthew Perry, Ione Skye, and Louanne. It is based upon the novel "Aren't You Even Gonna Kiss Me Goodbye?", also by William Richert. The story centers on a high school graduate who must decide if he wants to go to business school at the request of his father, or go his own way and find a full-time job, while also deciding on who he wants to be in life and if he should leave his house.
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Marshfield Dreams Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid is a memoir written by the American writer, poet and educational consultant Ralph Fletcher, it covers his life from birth to age thirteen when his family moved from Marshfield, Massachusetts to Chicago.
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Millions (2004 film) Millions is a 2004 British comedy-drama film directed by Danny Boyle, and starring Alex Etel, Lewis Owen McGibbon, and James Nesbitt. The screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce adapted his novel while the film was in the process of being made. The novel "Millions" was subsequently awarded the Carnegie Medal. This is Danny Boyle's only film not R rated by the Motion Picture Association of America.
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My Father's Glory My Father's Glory (French: "La Gloire de mon père" ) is a 1957 autobiographical novel by Marcel Pagnol. Its sequel is "My Mother's Castle". It is the first of four volumes in Pagnol's "Souvenirs d'enfance" series. It is also a 1990 film based on the novel, and directed by Yves Robert.
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Why Shoot the Teacher? Why Shoot the Teacher? is a 1977 Canadian comedy-drama film based on a book of the same name by Max Braithwaite.
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My Friend Leonard My Friend Leonard is a memoir written by James Frey. Continuing where "A Million Little Pieces" left off, the book centers on the father-son relationship Frey develops with Leonard, a friend from the addiction clinic featured in his earlier book.
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Leni Riefenstahl's Memoiren Leni Riefenstahl's Memoiren is the 1987 autobiography of German film director, Leni Riefenstahl. The book received a 1993 American release and coincided with the release of the acclaimed documentary; "The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl" as well as Riefenstahl's ninetieth birthday. It was featured on the 1993 "New York Times" list of notable books of the year.
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Rebound (2005 film) Rebound is a 2005 autobiographical comedy film directed by Steve Carr. It stars Martin Lawrence as a disgraced college basketball coach who returns to his old middle school to coach the boys' basketball team.
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Life Itself (film) Life Itself is a 2014 American biographical documentary film about film critic Roger Ebert, directed by Steve James and produced by Zak Piper, Steve James and Garrett Basch. The film is based on Ebert's 2011 memoir of the same name. It premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was an official selection at the 67th Cannes Film Festival. The 41st Telluride Film Festival hosted a special screening of the film on August 28, 2014. Magnolia Pictures released the film theatrically in the United States and simultaneously via video on demand platforms on July 4, 2014.
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His Family His Family is a novel by Ernest Poole published in 1917 about the life of a New York widower and his three daughters in the 1910s. It received the first Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918.
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A Little Bit Wicked A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages, or simply known as A Little Bit Wicked, is the 2009 memoir of actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth. In the book, Chenoweth describes her early life and the first 16 years of her varied career in show business.
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Hurry Down Sunshine Hurry Down Sunshine is a best-selling 2008 memoir by nonfiction writer Michael Greenberg. The book tells the story of the author's daughter and her battle with mental illness.