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1) Shades
Publisher
Madacy
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Mickey Rourke plays himself in this film about the trials and tribulations involved in getting a film made.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Despite the success of his highly-rated (but critically-panned) sitcom, Andy can't help but wonder if true artistic respectability will ever come his way. Andy decides to take drastic measures: he fires his loyal but useless agent Darren; pulls the plug on his hit show; and turns down roles he considers "beneath him." He even goes so far as to lash out at his best friend Maggie.
4) Birdman
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A black comedy story of an actor famous for portraying an iconic superhero as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Gavin Stone, a washed-up former child star is forced to do community service at a local mega-church and pretends to be Christian so he can land the part of Jesus in their annual passion play only to discover that the most important role of his life is far from Hollywood.
7) Childstar
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Taylor Burns is the world's most famous child actor, thanks to his work on a popular sitcom. Life is perfect in a sitcom world, but in the real world, his parents are divorcing, and his 13th birthday approaches along with pimples and voice changes.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Originally conceived as a novel but then transformed into a play by Ayn Rand, Ideal is the story of beautiful but tormented actress Kay Gonda. Accused of murder, she is on the run, and she turns for help to six fans who have written letters to her, each telling her that she represents their ideal a respectable family man, a far-left activist, a cynical artist, an evangelist, a playboy, and a lost soul. Each reacts to her plight in his own way, their...
9) 3 geezers!
Publisher
Green Apple Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
It's 'Cocoon' meets 'The Hangover' in this hilarious romp through the golden years. Hollywood actor J Kimball takes up residence at The Coconuts convalescent home to research what it's like to be old for an upcoming movie role.
10) Tootsie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy."
11) Charrito
Publisher
Multimusic
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
A distracted villainous actor causes problems for the director.
12) Así es la suerte
Publisher
Quality Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
Español
Description
Ramiro is a classical stage actor with a great career, but an incident leads into an uncontrollable streak of bad luck. He loses his job and suddenly everything goes wrong for him and all those around him. On top of this, his father, with whom he has a distant and tense, is seriously ill and asks him and Guillermo, his half brother, to find the love of his life so he can die in peace. Ramiro desperately tries to shake off his bad luck while dealing...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Super spy Orson Fortune must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds. Reluctantly teamed with some of the world's best operatives, Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood's biggest movie star Danny Francesco to help them on their globe-trotting undercover mission to save the world.
Publisher
Hannover House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In order to graduate despite skipping too many classes, a college football star takes a job at a local Renaissance fair as a favor to his professor. There he meets a former investment banker-turned-actress and helps turn the fair's ragtag theatrical troupe into a real class act, a feat made more challenging when the fair's aging benefactress hires a competing professional troupe to drive up ticket sales.
15) Red rocket
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A washed-up porn star clashes with his estranged wife after returning to his hometown in Texas.
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful and inspiring family drama about diversity and inclusion. When a deaf actor who plays a superhero on television looks beyond his cape to influence a deaf boy to redefine what "being normal" means, he also finds inspiration to transform himself.
17) The goodbye girl
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000], ©1977
Language
English
Description
When a woman's ex-husband sublets her apartment right out from under her and she refuses to move, the new tenant, a Chicago actor, moves in, touching off a comic, hate-love relationship.
18) The artist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1927, George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. However, the advent of the talkies will kill his career and he will sink into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. Though their careers are taking different paths their destinies will become entwined.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
Escándalo de estrellas: Comedic story of a young man who wants to become an actor, despite the objections of his father. = Comedia musical sobre las aventuras del hijo de un productor de cine que quiere hacer una película sin el consejo de su padre.
Sobre las olas: Primer película con color profesional en México. Esta historia narra parte de la vida del gran compositor Juventino Rosas en la etapa donde logra una de sus máximas composiciones...
Series
Shirley Temple volume 5
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A talent scout believes that little Rebecca could be the next big thing on radio and tries to get her on the air.
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