Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and editor. During his career as a New York City journalist, he was described as "the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of New York City's politics and sports and the particular pathos of its crime."

  • Title: Pete Hamill
  • Popularity: 0.4876
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1935-06-24
  • Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • Homepage: http://petehamill.com/
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Pete Hamill Movies

  • 2005
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    Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today

    Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today

    1 2005 HD

    The Museum of the City of New York’s award-winning short documentary explores how New York City grew from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans into the metropolis we know today and features animated maps and archival photographs, prints, and paintings from the Museum’s collections. Now expanded and updated, the film's final chapter captures the astonishing – if sometimes challenging – transformations the city has experienced in the first decades of the 21st century.

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  • 1996
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    One Fine Day

    One Fine Day

    6.5 1996 HD

    Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other, but end up needing to rely on each other to watch the children as each must save his job. Humor is added by Sammy's propensity for lodging objects in his nose and Maggie's tendency to wander.

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  • 1979
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    From Corleone to Brooklyn

    From Corleone to Brooklyn

    6.2 1979 HD

    Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his prisoner face a series of traps set up by the Mafia.

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  • 1999
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    The Insider

    The Insider

    7.456 1999 HD

    A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

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  • 1983
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    Exposed

    Exposed

    4.5 1983 HD

    Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a vernissage she's approached by a mysterious man whose motives are unclear...

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  • 2005
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    Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story

    Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story

    8 2005 HD

    A story of violence, love, sex, politics and media centered around the life of Griffith, a six-time world welterweight champion.

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  • 2013
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    If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent

    If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent

    7.6 2013 HD

    The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.

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  • 1990
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    King of New York

    King of New York

    6.8 1990 HD

    A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

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  • 2018
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    Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

    Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

    7.1 2018 HD

    Directors Jonathan Alter, John Block and Steve McCarthy bring New York columnists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill’s courageous writing to life, celebrating the acclaimed journalists and the city they loved.

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  • 2006
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    Home

    Home

    8.6 2006 HD

    Young Irish immigrant, Alan Cooke contemplates the great metropolis New York City, and the very meaning of home itself. A vivid moving and poetic portrayal of life in contemporary New York featuring a host of celebrities, native New Yorkers and immigrants via candid interviews.

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  • 1973
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    Badge 373

    Badge 373

    5.5 1973 HD

    When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the experience only emboldens him. Ryan eventually learns that his partner was caught up in a Puerto Rican gun-running scheme masterminded by a crook named Sweet Willie, who wants to foment revolutionary war.

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  • 1973
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    Nightside

    Nightside

    1 1973 HD

    The story of three people - a press agent, a private detective and a nightclub owner - whose careers require them to spend most of the night awake and on the prowl. In the pilot episode, Carmine manages to rescue Smitty's night club from being demolition and manages to resurrect a fading star's acting career.

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  • 1971
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    Doc

    Doc

    5.9 1971 HD

    Doc Holliday travels to Tombstone, Ariz., with prostitute Katie Elder. Although the trip is difficult because Doc is ill with tuberculosis, they eventually reach their destination, where Holliday is reunited with his old friend Marshal Wyatt Earp, who has been clashing with the Clanton gang. Tensions between Earp and the Clantons rise until their infamous final showdown brings it to a head.

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  • 2001
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    Snow in August

    Snow in August

    7 2001 HD

    When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the Kaballah, for help.

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  • 1989
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    The Neon Empire

    The Neon Empire

    5.5 1989 HD

    New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling.

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  • 1973
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    Badge 373

    Badge 373

    5.5 1973 HD

    When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the experience only emboldens him. Ryan eventually learns that his partner was caught up in a Puerto Rican gun-running scheme masterminded by a crook named Sweet Willie, who wants to foment revolutionary war.

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  • 1992
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    Split Images

    Split Images

    1 1992 HD

    A journalist knows more about a grizzly murder than is good for her. All her evidence points toward a mysterious millionaire but no one will believe her.

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  • 1979
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    Flesh & Blood

    Flesh & Blood

    5.5 1979 HD

    A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous relationship with his mother.

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  • 1979
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    The Gift

    The Gift

    1 1979 HD

    A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brooklyn.

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  • 1987
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    Laguna Heat

    Laguna Heat

    3.8 1987 HD

    Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquility is shattered when he gets involved in the investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders.

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  • 2011
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    The Yellow Handkerchief

    The Yellow Handkerchief

    7.3 2011 HD

    Set in Hokkaido, revolving around an ex-convict named Shima Yusaku (Abe) who has just been released from prison. Along with two young strangers that he meets, he sets out on a journey back to where his wife is, uncertain of what awaits him. Horikita Maki (22) and Hamada Gaku (23) will play the two strangers (originally played by Momoi Kaori and Takeda Tetsuya), while Natsukawa Yui will play the wife (originally Baisho Chieko).

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  • 1986
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    Liberty

    Liberty

    5 1986 HD

    Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.

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  • 1977
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    The Yellow Handkerchief

    The Yellow Handkerchief

    6.9 1977 HD

    A convict, newly released from prison for murder, joins two strangers on a road trip through Hokkaido to visit his ex-wife, whom he hasn't seen in four years, knowing that if she puts a yellow handkerchief on the window, it would mean that she wants him back at home.

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  • 2024
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    The Book Signing

    The Book Signing

    1 2024 HD

    William Carmody is a successful, high profile writer living in LA. When a signing for his latest book brings him back home to Brooklyn for the first time in many years, he is forced to confront the life he left behind, and the people he would sooner forget. An adaptation of the Pete Hamill short story "The Book Signing."

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  • 2009
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    The Yellow Handkerchief

    The Yellow Handkerchief

    6.248 2009 HD

    A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.

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  • 1981
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    You'll Always Have My Love

    You'll Always Have My Love

    6 1981 HD

    Jeud is a young man deceived by love. With all the money he has left, he buys a car in order to go on a road trip. By chance, he picks up two people who go along with him.

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  • 2011
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    Prohibition

    Prohibition

    7.88 2011 HD

    The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33). After nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve the lives of all citizens by protecting individuals, families and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse; but paradoxically it made millions of people rethink their definition of morality.

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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.5 1962 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

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  • 1970
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    1 1970 HD

    New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling.

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