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Oliver Platt
	Date of Birth: Jan 12, 1960 Country: USA Biography: Oliver James Platt is an American actor. He is currently starring in the Showtime original series, The Big C with Laura Linney. Platt makes his decisions about accepting acting roles based on the role being "different from what I just did...I do have to be interested in the role". After Married to the Mob, he appeared in Working Girl (1988), Flatliners (1990), The Three Musketeers (1993), A Time to Kill (1996) and Bulworth (1998)...(Wikipedia) Total Films at Criticker: 41 - You've Seen 0
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X-Men: First Class (2011)

Summary: In this exciting prequel to the X-Men series, Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) -- the future Professor X and Magneto -- are best friends dedicated to harnessing their powers and promoting the education of fellow mutants during the turbulent 1960s. The duo works together to stop a powerful adversary that threatens mankind, but their ideological differences drive them apart and turn them into ferocious enemies.

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Please Give (2010)

Summary: In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in apartment the couple owns. (imdb)

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Love and Other Drugs (2010)

Summary: Maggie (Hathaway) is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie (Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love. (imdb)

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2012 (2009)

Summary: An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

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Wonder Woman (2009)

Summary: In antiquity, the Amazons defeat the war god, Ares, and Zeus charges them to hold him prisoner as eternally young warriors on the hidden island of Themyscira. Centuries later, US Air Force pilot Steve Trevor is lured to crash land on the island and the distraction of that trespass allows Ares to escape. In response, Princess Diana wins the responsibility to both take Trevor home and recapture the fugitive god (imdb)

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Year One (2009)

Summary: When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Black and Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.

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Frost/Nixon (2008)

Summary: A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.

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Martian Child (2007)

Summary: Crushed by the death of his fiancée, a writer (Cusack) adopts a 6-year-old boy in an effort to create a family. The boy, who desperately wants a father, is troubled by the idea that he's from Mars. (imdb)

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The Ten (2007)

Summary: The Ten is comprised of ten blasphemous and hysterical stories inspired by the Biblical Commandments, each told in a different style, but with characters and themes that overlap. The film is held together by a narrator who, in turn, has his own moral problems. (THINKFilm)

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The Ice Harvest (2005)

Summary: A wickedly funny thriller about thick thieves and thin ice. (Focus Features)

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Loverboy (2005)

Summary: Brilliant, beautiful and financially secure, Emily Stoll (Sedgwick) never wanted a husband or a house with a picket fence. She knew she needed just one thing to make her happy: a child with whom she could share life's wonders. (ThinkFilm)

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Casanova (2005)

Summary: 1700s Venice. He was the legendary adventurer whose amorous dalliances would go on to inspire countless lovers throughout the centuries. She was the most virtuoso writer of her time who was waiting to find that rare man with a true understanding of steadfastness and passion. When Giacomo Casanova (Ledger) discovers Francesca Bruni (Miller), he met his ultimate romantic match, succumbing to the only woman ever to refuse his charms -- until he could prove himself to be one man worthy of her romantic ideals. (Touchstone Pictures)

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Kinsey (2004)

Summary: This film turns the microscope on Alfred Kinsey (Neeson) in a portrait of a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. (Fox Searchlight)

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Pieces of April (2003)

Summary: Poignant and funny, Pieces of April is an up-close look at an extraordinary day in the life of the not-so-ordinary Burns family. (MGM)

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Zigzag (2002)

Summary: An autistic 15-year-old boy steals money from his boss to provide rent for his abusive father, who uses the money to repay a loan shark.

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Ash Wednesday (2002)

Summary: Hell's Kitchen on Ash Wednesday, 1983. Rumors are flying that Francis Sullivan's younger brother Sean, dead for three years, has reappeared. If he wasn't killed by rivals, then old scores still need settling, putting Fran and Sean in danger. (imdb)

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Don't Say a Word (2001)

Summary: A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group and take off with the precious stone.

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Gun Shy (2000)

Summary: On the verge of a mental breakdown, and in complete fear of trigger-happy Mafia leader, undercover DEA agent Charlie Mayough seeks psychiatric help and finds himself relying on the support of an unstable therapy group and nurse Judy just to get through his work.

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Ready to Rumble (2000)

Summary: Two dimwit sewage workers watch their hero, WCW wrestler Jimmy King, get screwed out of the World title by wrestler Diamond Dallas Page and evil WCW owner Titus Sinclair. They embark on a quest to help their hero win his title - and honor - back. Features cameos by lots of WCW wrestlers. (imdb)

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Lake Placid (1999)

Summary: Its placid waters complement the pristine Maine wilderness it borders. This tranquil setting is probably the last place you'd expect a gruesome fatality. But then it's also the last place youÂ’d expect to find a 30-foot, narrow-snouted, multi-toothed, reptilian of the species Crocodylus. An eating machine more commonly known as a crocodile. (20th Century Fox)

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Three To Tango (1999)

Summary: A rich businessman, Dylan McDermott, mistakenly believes that Matthew Perry, who is bidding on a $90 million restoration contract, is gay and asks him to keep tabs on his mistress, Neve Campbell. Perry, who is not gay, falls for Neve in a big way but she thinks he's gay. (imdb)

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Bicentennial Man (1999)

Summary: Follows the life and times of Andrew (Williams), a robot purchased by the Martin family as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martins soon discover they don't have an ordinary robot. (Touchstone Pictures)

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Dr. Dolittle (1998)

Summary: Dr. John Dolittle nearly runs over a dog with his car. The dog yells "bonehead" and disappears. From then on, his childhood ability is back: to communicate with animals.

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The Impostors (1998)

Summary: In an attempt to resurrect the slapstick comedy of Laurel and Hardy or The Marx Brothers, Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt team-up as two out-of-work actors who accidentally stowaway on a ship to hide from a drunken, belligerent lead actor who has sworn to kill them for belittling his talents. (imdb)

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Dangerous Beauty (1998)

Summary: A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft. (imdb)

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Simon Birch (1998)

Summary: Even though Simon Birch is the smallest kid in town, deep down he knows that he was born to do something big. He's on a constant search to discover his destiny, but somehow manages to find nothing but trouble. (Buena Vista Pictures)

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Bulworth (1998)

Summary: A 'tragic-farce,' Bulworth takes a comedic look at race and class in the United States, campaign finance, and the power of big money and media in America. (Twentieth Century Fox)

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Executive Decision (1996)

Summary: When terrorists seize control of an airliner, an intelligence analyst accompanies a commando unit for a midair boarding operation. (imdb)

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A Time to Kill (1996)

Summary: A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK. (imdb)

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Tall Tale (1995)

Summary: A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. (imdb)

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The Infiltrator (1995)

Summary: A Jewish freelance journalist goes to Germany to write an article on neonazism, where he realizes that the roots of this movement go deeper than he thought.

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Funny Bones (1995)

Summary: Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian but his Las Vegas debut is a failure. He goes back to Blackpool, UK, where his father, also a comedian started and where he spent the summers of his childhood. He starts to search for a partner, a comic relief, with whom he can be famous. (imdb)

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Indecent Proposal (1993)

Summary: A married woman agrees to have sex with another man for $1,000,000. (imdb)

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The Temp (1993)

Summary: A cookie company takeover has employees scrambling to make a case for continued employment. An executive's administrative assistant takes paternity leave, and he gets a temp who is too good to be true, doing tasks at a fast pace and doing quite a bit of creative work for the project. The executive starts noticing that all the obstacles to his climb up the corporate ladder are disappearing, including the death of some of his rivals. (imdb)

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Benny & Joon (1993)

Summary: A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton. (imdb)

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The Three Musketeers (1993)

Summary: A Disney-ized retelling of Dumas' classic swashbuckling story of three swordsmen plus one of the disbanded French king's guard who seek to save their King from the scheming of the Cardinal Richelieu (imdb)

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Beethoven (1992)

Summary: A slobbering St Bernard dog becomes the center of attention for a loving family but its vet secretly wants to kill him.

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Diggstown (1992)

Summary: Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man. The business man owns most of a boxing-mad town called Diggstown. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours... (imdb)

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Flatliners (1990)

Summary: Medical students bring themselves near death; their experiment begins to go awry. (imdb)

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Working Girl (1988)

Summary: Tess McGill is a frustrated secretary, struggling to forge ahead in the world of big business in New York. She gets her chance when her boss breaks her leg on a skiing holiday. McGill takes advantage of her absence to push ahead with her career. She teams up with investment broker Jack Trainer to work on a big deal. The situation is complicated after the return of her boss. (imdb)

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Married to the Mob (1988)

Summary: Angela deMarco is unhappily married to high Mafia member Frank deMarco. When Frank is killed, Angela takes the opportunity to break free of the Mafia world entirely and start a new life. But Frank's boss, Tony Russo, begins to court the unresponsive Angela. The FBI begins surveillance on her, thinking her to be his new mistress. FBI agent Mike Downey goes undercover as Angela's neighbor, but soon finds himself attracted to Angela himself. (imdb)

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