Biography: Alan Cumming was born on the 27th January 1965 in Aberfeldy, Scotland. His family lived nearby in Dunkeld, where his father, Alex, was a forester for Atholl Estate. The family (Alex, mother Mary, big brother Tom and Alan) moved to Fassfern near Fort William soon after, before moving to the east coast of Scotland in 1969 where Alan's dad took up the position of Head Forester of Panmure Estate, and ... show all Alan Cumming was born on the 27th January 1965 in Aberfeldy, Scotland. His family lived nearby in Dunkeld, where his father, Alex, was a forester for Atholl Estate. The family (Alex, mother Mary, big brother Tom and Alan) moved to Fassfern near Fort William soon after, before moving to the east coast of Scotland in 1969 where Alan's dad took up the position of Head Forester of Panmure Estate, and it is here Alan grew up. He went to Monikie Primary School and Carnoustie High School where he began appearing in plays and soon after with the Carnoustie Theatre Club and Carnoustie Musical Society. In 1981 he left high school with 8 'O' Grades and 4 Highers, but because he was too young to enter any university or drama school he worked for just over a year as a sub-editor at D.C. Thompson publishers in Dundee. There he worked on the launch of a new magazine 'Tops' and was also the 'Young Alan' who answered readers' letters. In September 1982 he began a three year course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. He graduated in 1985 with a B.A. (Dramatic Studies) and awards for verse speaking and direction. He also had formed a cabaret double act with fellow student Forbes Masson called Victor and Barry, which went on to become hugely successful with tours (including two Perrier Pick of the Fringe seasons in London and a month long engagement at the Sydney Opera house as part of an Australian tour), records (Hear Victor and Barry and Faint, Are We Too Loud?) and many TV appearances throughout the UK. Before graduating Alan made his professional theater and film debuts in 'Macbeth' at the Tron theater in Glasgow and in Gilles McKinnon's 'Passing Glory'. After graduating Alan worked extensively in Scottish theater and television including a stint on the soap opera 'Take The High Road', before moving to London when 'Conquest of the South Pole', a play by German playwright Manfred Karge transferred from the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh to the the Royal Court in London, earning him his first Olivier award nomination for Most Promising Newcomer of 1988. Alan performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and then the Royal National Theatre where he starred in 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist', which he also adapted with director Tim Supple. The production was nominated for Best revival at the 1991 Olivier awards and Alan won for Comedy Performance of the Year. Then his film career began with Ian Sellar's 'Prague' in which he starred with Sandrine Bonnaire and Bruno Ganz. The film premiered at the 1992 Cannes film festival and went on to win him Best Actor award at the Atlantic film festival and a Scottish BAFTA Best Actor nomination. In the same year he made two films for the BBC - 'The Last Romantics' and 'Bernard and the Genie', the latter winning him the Top Television Newcomer award at 1992 British Comedy Awards. In the 1992 Olivier awards he was also nominated for Comedy Performance of the Year for 'La Bete'. in 1993 Alan played Hamlet for the English Touring Theare to great critical acclaim ('An actor knocking on the door of greatness' - Daily Mail; ranked first and second (with his performance in Cabaret) in the Daily Telegraph's performances of the year) and then immediately went on to play the Emcee in Sam Mendes' revival of Cabaret at the same venue (London's Donmar Warehouse). He received a 1994 Olivier award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical for Cabaret, and for Hamlet he received the 1994 TMA Best Actor award and a Shakespeare Globe award nomination. in 1994 he made his first Hollywood film, 'Circle of Friends' and his performance as the oleaginous Sean Walsh along with those in two films released in quick succession ('Emma' and 'Goldeneye') brought him to the attention of America, where he began to be offered roles in Hollywood, and in 1996 he lived there whilst shooting 'Romy and Michele's High School Reunion' and 'Buddy'. He returned to the UK in 1997 to work with Stanley Kubrick and the Spice Girls before returning stateside in 1998 to reprise his role in 'Cabaret' on Broadway. The show and his portrayal were a sensation, and he received the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics' Circle, Theatre World, FANY, New York Press and new York Public Advocate's awards for his performance. Since then he has alternated between theater and films, and also between smaller independent films and more mainstream fare. His theater work includes 2001's "Design for Living' on Broadway and the hugely successful 'Elle' by Jean Genet which he adapted and starred in Off-Broadway in 2002. Films have included Julie Taymor's 'Titus', 'Urbania', the 'Spy Kids' trilogy, 'Josie and the Pussycats', 'X2;X Men United', 'Nicholas Nickelby', 'Son of the Mask' and the Showtime movie musical 'Reefer Madness'. He wrote, directed, produced and acted in 'The Anniversary Party' with Jennifer Jason Leigh, which premiered at the Cannes Film festival in 2002 and went on to win a National Board of Review award and two Independent Spirit award nominations. More recently he has produced the documentary 'Show People' and the movies 'Sweet Land' and 'Full Grown Men' (and appears in both) and acted in the movies 'Grey Matters' opposite Heather Graham and 'Bam Bam and Celeste' opposite Margaret Cho. in 2006 he will return to Broadway as Macheath in 'The Threepenny Opera'. He has also found the time to write a novel 'Tommy's Tale' in 2002 and a fragrance 'Cumming' (cummingthefragrance.com) in 2005. hide |
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| Jack Carter (Michael Caine) — a vindictive and amoral London gangster — returns to his home town of Newcastle after his brother dies in a car accident. Carter, however, is convinced that he was murdered, and begins an investigation into Newcastle's criminal underworld. When Carter is ordered to leave town by the minions of a shadowy mob boss, his suspicious become confirmed, and he begins his brutal vengeance. Search keywords
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Categories: 1971, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, UK
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| This jet-black comedy of manners observes the doings and intersections of many despicable characters, including egomaniacal, self-serving artists, soulless agents, and nasty sexual predators. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, UK
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| Riverworld was previously adapted as a television film in 2003.
Penikett, best known to genre fans from Battlestar Galactica, plays Matt Ellman, an American war zone reporter who has witnessed the worst of humanity first-hand yet still grasps on to an optimistic spirit.
When a suicide bomber kills both Matt and his fiance Jessie (Vandervoort), they awaken, separated in a mysterious world where everyone who has ever lived on Earth, seems to have been 'reborn' along the banks of a seemingly endless river.
Determined to locate Jessie, Matt joins forces with a 13th century female samurai warrior named Tomoe (Jeananne Goossen) and American novelist Sam ‘Mark Twain’ Clemens (Mark Deklin). Together they sail upriver in search of its source, and to discover where they are and who put them there. Alan Cumming will guest star as the mysterious 'Caretaker.' Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Sci-Fi, USA
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| War begets revenge. Victorious general, Titus Andronicus, returns to Rome with hostages: Tamora queen of the Goths and her sons. He orders the eldest hewn to appease the Roman dead. He declines the proffered emperor's crown, nominating Saturninus, the last ruler's venal elder son. Saturninus, to spite his brother Bassianus, demands the hand of Lavinia, Titus's daughter. When Bassianus, Lavinia, and Titus's sons flee in protest, Titus stands against them and slays one of his own. Saturninus marries the honey-tongued Tamora, who vows vengeance against Titus. The ensuing maelstrom serves up tongues, hands, rape, adultery, racism, and Goth-meat pie. There's irony in which two sons survive. Search keywords
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Categories: 1999, Drama, Fantasy, Italy, UK, USA, War
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| A drama centered around three high school seniors - an aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner - who become engaged in an intimate and complicated relationship. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Drama, USA
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| A group of men and two female stenographers scientifically study sex. Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Comedy, Drama, Germany, USA
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| For years, the record industries have inserted subliminal messages into music so that they can turn teenagers into braindead zombies who do nothing but buy, buy, buy. And whenever the musician or band finds out the truth, the record company silences them to keep the truth from coming out. When the hot boy band DuJour discovers this, their manager, Wyatt Frame (Alan Cumming), under his evil, corrupt boss, Fiona (Parker Posey), has the plane they are flying in crashed and him looking for a new band to use for their evil schemes. Enter Josie (Rachel Leigh Cook), the ditzy Melody (Tara Reid), and the tough Valerie (Rosario Dawson), from Josie and the Pussycats, a small band who wants to make it to the big top. When they are discovered by Wyatt, they give in and become big rock stars. But will they find out that they are just pawns for the record industry or will fame take them over? Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Comedy, Music, USA
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Categories: 2003, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller, USA
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| Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez are the world's best secret agents. Their mission is to assassinate each other. When they get within one inch, they fall in love. They marry, and have two kids, Carmen and Juni. They don't tell their kids. Ten years later, they are called into a mission. When their Uncle Felix babysits the Cortez kids, and rogue agents invade the house, Uncle Felix reveals the truth, their parents are spies and were just kidnapped, and Felix is not their uncle. Carmen and Juni escape, and try to rescue Mom and Dad, and save the world. Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, USA
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| Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez are the world's best secret agents. Their mission is to assassinate each other. When they get within one inch, they fall in love. They marry, and have two kids, Carmen and Juni. They don't tell their kids. Ten years later, they are called into a mission. When their Uncle Felix babysits the Cortez kids, and rogue agents invade the house, Uncle Felix reveals the truth, their parents are spies and were just kidnapped, and Felix is not their uncle. Carmen and Juni escape, and try to rescue Mom and Dad, and save the world. Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, USA
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| The sequel to Spy Kids; the second film revisits the adventures of the previous film. Carmen and Juni Cortez team up with two other spy kids, Gary and Gerti Giggles, and together they must save the world from the hands of an evil scientist named Romero (Buscemi). Search keywords
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Categories: 2002, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, USA
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| The sequel to Spy Kids; the second film revisits the adventures of the previous film. Carmen and Juni Cortez team up with two other spy kids, Gary and Gerti Giggles, and together they must save the world from the hands of an evil scientist named Romero (Buscemi). Search keywords
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Categories: 2002, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, USA
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| Alby Cutrera (Matt McGrath) yearns for a time when life was carefree and action figures were twelve inches tall. When his wife insults him for being more of a playmate than a father to his young son, Alby heads for safety and tracks down his boyhood pal Elias (Judah Friedlander) whose memory of their younger days is considerably less rosy. They set out on a road trip to Diggityland, their favorite place as kids, but simpler times turn complicated as the two friends confront the land mines of their past. Journeying through the Oz of Central Florida, they encounter a cast of wounded roadside romantics - a disgruntled ex-theme park employee (Alan Cumming), a horny bartending clown (Amy Sedaris), and a delusional mermaid (Deborah Harry) - each one shedding light on the perils of not letting go. Full Grown Men is the bittersweet tale of a man who learns the hard way that the best years of his life may still lie ahead of him. Search keywords
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Categories: 2006, Comedy, Drama, USA
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| As Inge buries her husband Olaf on their Minnesota farm in 1968, we relive her life story as she tells her grown grandson about how she arrived from Germany in 1920 as Olaf's postal bride and of the obstacles they overcame in order to marry... Search keywords
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Categories: 2005, Drama, Romance, USA
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| This is in fact based story of an English socialite (Rene Russo) and her husband (Robbie Coltrane) who live in a mansion with young animals, including chimpanzees who are raised as her children. When a child discovers ailing gorilla, she decides to take care of it as well. Years later, gorilla, it is fully grown and its strength is sometimes out of control. However, the gorilla shows love for his mistress, and listens to her commands. That all changes when it is invited to view the gorilla and chimps at the Chicago World Fair. Incidentally released one of the chimps, the gorilla terrorizes fair. From this point, what has become moody and uncontrollable attacks until his mistress in bestial frenzy.
To je skutečně založeno příběh anglického prominent (Rene Russo) a její manžel (Robbie Coltrane), kteří žijí v rezidenci se mláďata zvířat včetně šimpanzů, kteří jsou vznesena jako její děti. Když odhalí churavějících dítě gorila, ona se rozhodne pečovat o to, jak dobře. Roky později, gorila, je plně pěstované a její síla se někdy vymykat kontrole. Nicméně, gorila ukazuje lásku k jeho milenka a poslouchá její příkazy. Že veškeré změny, když je pozván k zobrazení gorila a chimps na Chicago světové veletrhu. Omylem uvolnil jeden z chimps, že gorila terrorizes veletrhu. Od tohoto bodu, co se stal moody a nekontrolovatelné útoky dokud mu jeho milenka v bestiální zuřivosti. Search keywords
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Categories: 1997, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, USA
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| James Bond has a mission to attain the 'Goldeneye' access key again. A Russian computer programmer called Natalya Siminova survives a murder booze by Xenia Onatopp and general Ourumov. Tape must work with Natalya to find this key, and uncovers a disastrous secret. His coagent, Alec Trevelyan, which, as one believed, had been shot and 9 years ago killed, appears again. Tape soon understands that Trevelyan is behind all. Now tape must fight with his former friend to prevent him, to destroy London with the Goldeneye satellites.
James Bond hat eine Mission, den 'Goldeneye' Zugriffsschlüssel wieder zu erlangen. Ein russischer Computerprogrammierer genannt Natalya Siminova überlebt eine Mordsauferei durch Xenia Onatopp und General Ourumov. Band muss mit Natalya arbeiten, um diesen Schlüssel zu finden, und deckt ein unheilvolles Geheimnis auf. Sein Mitagent, Alec Trevelyan, der, wie man glaubte, geschossen worden war und vor 9 Jahren tötete, erscheint wieder. Band begreift bald, dass Trevelyan hinter allem ist. Band muss jetzt mit seinem ehemaligen Freund kämpfen, um ihn zu verhindern, London mit dem Goldeneye Satelliten zu zerstören. Search keywords
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Categories: 1995, Action, Adventure, Thriller, UK, USA
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| Romy and Michele are two ancient colleagues that also room companions were during ten years after the time that they graduated, and his lives are far from being well succeeded, they cannot up to acquiring a date. Since the meeting of class of 10 years approaches they try to do something to do an impression in other ancient colleagues and finally to decide to act how if they are very rich women of business that they invented I Pose his.
Romy e Michele são dois antigos colegas que também estiveram companheiros de quarto durante dez anos depois do tempo que eles graduaram, e as suas vidas são longe de ser bem sucedidas, eles não podem até adquirir uma data. Como a reunião de classe de 10 anos aproxima-se eles tentam fazer algo para fazer uma impressão em outros antigos colegas e finalmente decidir atuar como se eles sejam mulheres de negócios muito ricas que inventaram Poso seu. Search keywords
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Categories: 1997, Comedy, USA
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| A quite polite psychiatrist leaves an academic run to work in an institution where his father, novelist, lived before writing a re-nominated book of children. Getting acclimated to his position, he finds a schizophrenic one that helps to discover it the secrets of the book and his place in the history.
Um psiquiatra bem educado deixa uma carreira acadêmica para trabalhar em uma instituição onde o seu pai, romancista, viveu antes de escrever um livro de crianças renomeado. Aclimatando-se à sua posição, ele encontra um esquizofrênico que o ajuda a descobrir os segredos do livro e o seu lugar na história. Search keywords
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Categories: 2005, Drama, Mystery, USA
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| Emma is a very beautiful young woman who decides to dedicate his life in the discovery of the correct partner for the people about her. But, his cause will come to the answer when she will find the love before a very requested man.
Emma es una mujer joven muy hermosa que decide dedicar su vida en el descubrimiento del compañero correcto para la gente alrededor de ella. Pero, su causa vendrá a la contestación cuando ella encontrará el amor ante un hombre muy solicitado. Search keywords
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Categories: 1996, Comedy, Romance, UK, USA
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| A called caricaturist Tim Avery loves his dog, Otis, more than anything in the world. But when Tim and his wife have a baby, Otis begins feeling skipped. But then Otis finds a delighted mask and conspires to be cleared out from the baby once and for all, but is fruitless. Meanwhile, above in Walhalla, Odin is exasperated in Loki to lose the mask and orders it to go accept it.
Un caricaturiste appelé Tim Avery aime son chien, Otis, plus que n'importe quoi dans le monde. Mais quand Tim et sa femme ont un bébé, Otis commence à se sentir omis. Mais alors Otis trouve un masque enchanté et conspire pour être débarrassé du bébé une fois pour toutes, mais est infructueux. Pendant ce temps, en haut dans le Walhalla, Odin est exaspéré à Loki pour perdre le masque et lui ordonne d'aller le reçoivent. Search keywords
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Categories: 2005, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Germany, USA
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