Robert Mandel

Robert Mandel

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Mandel (born 1945) is a film producer and director and television director from Oakland, California. He is best known for his film School Ties, which launched the careers of Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Cole Hauser and Chris O'Donnell. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Mandel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Robert Mandel
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  • Known For: Directing
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  • Place of Birth: Oakland, California, U.S.
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Robert Mandel Movies

  • 1996
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    The Substitute

    The Substitute

    6.9 1996 HD

    When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.

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  • 2001
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    Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story

    Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story

    7 2001 HD

    A dramatization of the early years of the hard rock band, Def Leppard, the group faces both success and personal tragedies such as drummer, Rick Allen losing his arm in a car accident and guitarist Steve Clark's alcohol addiction.

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  • 1986
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    F/X

    F/X

    6.6 1986 HD

    A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.

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  • 1992
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    School Ties

    School Ties

    6.5 1992 HD

    When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.

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  • 1991
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    The Haunted

    The Haunted

    5.9 1991 HD

    When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out it's haunted. When the Catholic Church is no help, they reach out to famous demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren

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  • 1986
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    Touch and Go

    Touch and Go

    6.2 1986 HD

    A Chicago hockey star is accosted by a youth gang who attempt to rob him; after he chases them off he catches the youngest member and gives him a ride home, where he meets the boy's mother.

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  • 1987
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    Big Shots

    Big Shots

    6.3 1987 HD

    Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a young hustler and, after stealing a gangster's car, the two embark on an adventure down south in search of the hustler's estranged father.

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  • 2002
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    The Secret Life of Zoey

    The Secret Life of Zoey

    5.4 2002 HD

    Marcia always thought her overachieving daughter Zoey was the dream child. But then she discovers that her perfect teen has a not-so-perfect drug addiction. Marcia and her ex-husband go through plenty of denial as their daughter spirals out of control. It's a true-to-life tale that parents and their kids should watch together.

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  • 1983
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    Independence Day

    Independence Day

    5.6 1983 HD

    Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers. Mary Ann's real passion is photography, but pursuing her dream of becoming a photographer means leaving Mercury behind.

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  • 1989
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    Perfect Witness

    Perfect Witness

    6.5 1989 HD

    An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Quinn) reports the crime. Overzealous attorneys (Brian Dennehy and Stockard Channing) put pressure on Paxton to testify in court, but Paxton is in a tough spot when the mob starts threatening his family. Paxton now faces an impossible choice: testify and put his family at risk … or go to jail.

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  • 2001
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    WW3

    WW3

    5.3 2001 HD

    Terrorists release a deadly biological-warfare virus in the United States.

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  • 2000
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    Thin Air

    Thin Air

    5 2000 HD

    Frank Belson didn't ask too many questions about the past of his new wife Lisa St. Claire, even after she suddenly and mysteriously disappeared one night. He brings in Spenser to help locate her, who begins to piece together her complete life story while submerged in the Latino shadow world of the town of Proctor.

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  • 1983
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    Andrea's Story: A Hitchhiking Tragedy

    Andrea's Story: A Hitchhiking Tragedy

    1.5 1983 HD

    A teenage girl is traumatized after being assaulted by a stranger from whom she hitched a ride.

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  • 1980
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    Nights at O'Rears

    Nights at O'Rears

    1 1980 HD

    Young Mildred, a carhop waitress at O'Rear's Drive-In Theater, falls for Max, an egotistical bitter once-popular local high school football star.

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  • 1980
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    Nights at O'Rears

    Nights at O'Rears

    1 1980 HD

    Young Mildred, a carhop waitress at O'Rear's Drive-In Theater, falls for Max, an egotistical bitter once-popular local high school football star.

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  • 1984
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    Welcome Home, Jellybean

    Welcome Home, Jellybean

    1 1984 HD

    A CBS Schoolbreak Special about a 12-year-old mentally-challenged girl whose parents decide to remove her from the institution where she was raised, and try to give her a home life.

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  • 1995
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    Kansas

    Kansas

    5 1995 HD

    When a single mother and high-powered Chicago ad executive returns to her home town in Kansas to care for her ailing father, she rediscovers the joys and hardships of farm life.

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  • 1996
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    Special Report: Journey to Mars

    Special Report: Journey to Mars

    5 1996 HD

    When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission, and then the problems start. The landing computer malfunctions; Captain Eugene T. Slader gets very sick; and back on Earth, it is discovered that big financial corporations have an interest in the failure of the mission - and we, the viewers, can see it all live on television.

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  • 2002
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    A Season on the Brink

    A Season on the Brink

    4 2002 HD

    ESPN original movie, based on the best-selling book by John Feinstein, which chronicles Indiana's 1985-86 season, when controversial basketball coach Bobby Knight granted Feinstein unprecedented access to his team and its practices, meetings, and huddles. We see dramatizations of some of Knight's infamous tantrums and the team's inter-personal struggles.

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  • 1996
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    Special Report: Journey to Mars

    Special Report: Journey to Mars

    5 1996 HD

    When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission, and then the problems start. The landing computer malfunctions; Captain Eugene T. Slader gets very sick; and back on Earth, it is discovered that big financial corporations have an interest in the failure of the mission - and we, the viewers, can see it all live on television.

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  • 1970
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    6.7 1970 HD

    Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using his keen sense of humor and charm. Joe Dominguez comes out of retirement to become Bridges' wisecracking yet more rule-abiding partner.

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  • 1970
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    7.6 1970 HD

    A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”

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  • 1970
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    8.4 1970 HD

    The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

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  • 1970
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    8.1 1970 HD

    Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.

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  • 1970
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    7.945 1970 HD

    Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    Hard Time on Planet Earth is an American science fiction series that aired on CBS as a midseason replacement in 1989. Airing for 13 episodes, the series starred Martin Kove and was created by Jim and John Thomas. Scheduled opposite NBC's Unsolved Mysteries and ABC's Growing Pains on Wednesdays, Hard Time on Planet Earth ranked 65th out of 81 programs upon its premiere. Ratings for the series never improved and the series was canceled by CBS in May 1989. The last episode aired on June 21, 1989.

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  • 1970
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    6.4 1970 HD

    Dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were either in animated form or presented as documentaries. Topics included illiteracy, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy.

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  • 1970
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    5.2 1970 HD

    A successful Atlanta attorney's long-lost childhood friends unexpectedly reappear after 25 years. When a dark secret they thought they'd buried resurfaces, the brotherhood bands together to right the wrongs of their shared past - a journey that will push the limits of their loyalty and quench their thirst for revenge.

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 HD

    CBS Schoolbreak Special is an American anthology series for teenagers that aired on CBS from April 1980 to January 1996. The series began under the title CBS Afternoon Playhouse, and was changed during the 1984 - 85 season. The concept was very similar to ABC's Afterschool Special.

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