Dalene Young

Dalene Young

Dalene Young (June 29, 1939 — May 9, 2025) was an American screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor. She was best known for writing the coming-of-age comedy-drama Little Darlings (1980), featuring Tatum O’Neal and Kristy McNichol, and the Mary Steenburgen-starring drama Cross Creek (1983). Young received a Daytime Emmy nomination for co-writing the Showtime children’s special Locked in Silence (1999) and landed a Christopher Award and a Humanitas Prize nomination for her work on the NBC telefilm Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted (1992).

  • Title: Dalene Young
  • Popularity: 0.8348
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1939-06-29
  • Place of Birth: Hawaii, U.S.
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Dalene Young Movies

  • 1983
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    Will There Really Be a Morning?

    Will There Really Be a Morning?

    7 1983 HD

    This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.

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  • 1960
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    Juke Box Racket

    Juke Box Racket

    6 1960 HD

    Mario, a gangster, takes the fifth amendment when being questioned by the Senate Sub Committee on his connection with racketeering within the juke box industry. While in a small New Jersey town, teenagers Bob, Judy, Ginger, Seymour and Betty go to the train station to pick up Judy's cousin-from-Tennessee, Lulubelle . They take her to their local hangout, a pizzeria called "Mom & Pops", a broken down place ran by a couple named Mom and Pop.

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  • 1989
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    Sonny Boy

    Sonny Boy

    4.8 1989 HD

    A small-town car thief and his transgender wife come across an abandoned infant; they amputate his tongue and train him for a life in crime.

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  • 2000
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    Baby Luv

    Baby Luv

    10 2000 HD

    A story centered around Lee, a young woman whose considerable charm masks an almost innate desire to destroy - especially when it comes to the man who loves her most, a struggling artist named Angelo. Unable to earn a living Lee Ann has found a way out, selling her babies whenever she finds herself pregnant. Caring deeply for children, Angelo is troubled by this, but is torn by his love for Lee Ann. It takes on a whole new dimension when he learns the strange and funny middle class childless couple that has agreed to buy Lee Ann's baby has a past more shocking than he'd ever imagined.

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  • 1978
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    Teen Lust

    Teen Lust

    3.2 1978 HD

    Kirsten Baker and Leslie Cedarquist are the Girls Next Door in this buoyant sexploitationer. The ladies move in bag and baggage into a sleepy suburban community. Before long, every husband in the vicinity has fallen for their charms.

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  • 2021
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    Pig

    Pig

    6.632 2021 HD

    A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must visit Portland to find the mysterious person who stole his beloved foraging pig.

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  • 1984
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    Why Me?

    Why Me?

    5.4 1984 HD

    An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident in which she also loses her baby.

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  • 1999
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    Silk Hope

    Silk Hope

    4 1999 HD

    Frannie Vaughn (Fawcett) comes back home after being away a long time, only to find that her mother has died. She also finds out that her sister, Natalie (Crow) and her husband, Jake (Bryce), are planning to sell the acres once owned by Frannie and Natalie's family. To buy the land back from her sister, Frannie gets a job and falls in love with a fellow worker, Rubin (Johnson). In the end, Frannie's dreams come true and Natalie comes to her senses and moves in to the old family house with Frannie and Rubin.

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  • 1980
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    Marilyn: The Untold Story

    Marilyn: The Untold Story

    6.8 1980 HD

    The story of the life and times of the legendary Hollywood blonde bombshell, Marilyn Monroe, from her meteoric rise to stardom to her marriages and untimely death.

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  • 1999
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    Silk Hope

    Silk Hope

    4 1999 HD

    Frannie Vaughn (Fawcett) comes back home after being away a long time, only to find that her mother has died. She also finds out that her sister, Natalie (Crow) and her husband, Jake (Bryce), are planning to sell the acres once owned by Frannie and Natalie's family. To buy the land back from her sister, Frannie gets a job and falls in love with a fellow worker, Rubin (Johnson). In the end, Frannie's dreams come true and Natalie comes to her senses and moves in to the old family house with Frannie and Rubin.

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  • 2000
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    Baby Luv

    Baby Luv

    10 2000 HD

    A story centered around Lee, a young woman whose considerable charm masks an almost innate desire to destroy - especially when it comes to the man who loves her most, a struggling artist named Angelo. Unable to earn a living Lee Ann has found a way out, selling her babies whenever she finds herself pregnant. Caring deeply for children, Angelo is troubled by this, but is torn by his love for Lee Ann. It takes on a whole new dimension when he learns the strange and funny middle class childless couple that has agreed to buy Lee Ann's baby has a past more shocking than he'd ever imagined.

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  • 1976
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    Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway

    Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway

    4.9 1976 HD

    15-year-old Dawn runs away from what she feels is an intolerable home life. In the big city, she ends up turning to prostitution when she is unable to get a job due to her age. She meets Alexander, a young male hustler who takes her in, but when she starts working for a pimp, Alexander becomes a target.

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  • 1977
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    Panic in Echo Park

    Panic in Echo Park

    4.9 1977 HD

    A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.

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  • 1980
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    The Plutonium Incident

    The Plutonium Incident

    5 1980 HD

    A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for negligent safety procedures, and she soon finds her life in peril.

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  • 1997
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    Journey of the Heart

    Journey of the Heart

    4.813 1997 HD

    Janice is the subject of the town gossips for four reasons: she wears too much lipstick, her hair is too big, she is a single-mother and her two children are strange. Ray (6) is a hellraiser and Tony (9) is autistic. One day, however, Tony sits down at the piano and plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Janice knows there may be hope for him (and them) yet.

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  • 1983
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    Will There Really Be a Morning?

    Will There Really Be a Morning?

    7 1983 HD

    This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.

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  • 1978
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    Deadman's Curve

    Deadman's Curve

    5.2 1978 HD

    Things were cool. Chicks were pretty. Waves were groovy. Cars had muscle. Jan and Dean rode their wave to the top of the pop charts. Then, in 1966, on their way to becoming rock and roll legends, they have to cope with a devastating car crash that leaves Jan brain-damaged and their dreams shattered.

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  • 1998
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    Evidence of Blood

    Evidence of Blood

    6.4 1998 HD

    When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears.

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  • 1995
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    The Baby-Sitters Club

    The Baby-Sitters Club

    5.4 1995 HD

    Seven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains.

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  • 1999
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    Locked in Silence

    Locked in Silence

    5.7 1999 HD

    A story of a young boy who becomes an elective mute after witnessing what he believes to be the killing by his older brother of a teenage boy. The young boy's brother then tells him not to say anything because of the trouble it would cause in the family... so he doesn't say anything again. The problem is that the young boy so enjoys his acceptance by others of his mutism that it brings his family, a loving and caring farm family, to the brink of financial ruin in medical and psychological costs to cure him. Based on a true story, this is the intelligent telling of a family in crisis, and the work of doctors in dealing with this mental illness.

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  • 1989
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    I Love You Perfect

    I Love You Perfect

    1 1989 HD

    A woman, her lover and her best friend cope with the tragedy of her misdiagnosed medical condition.

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  • 1989
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    I Love You Perfect

    I Love You Perfect

    1 1989 HD

    A woman, her lover and her best friend cope with the tragedy of her misdiagnosed medical condition.

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  • 1977
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    Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.

    Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.

    5.4 1977 HD

    Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.

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  • 1994
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    Is There Life Out There?

    Is There Life Out There?

    5 1994 HD

    Lily Marshall has a loving, supportive husband, two great kids and an unfulfilled dream: to return to college and get the degree she always wanted. "Is there life beyond her family and home?", Lily wonders. The hole in Lily's life is soon filled by too much. There's a confusing new social life on campus, schoolwork keeping her up late, a part-time job keeping her from her husband and kids whose mom is turning into a stranger. Lily's strength, love and perseverance are the only things that can help her now.

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  • 1988
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    The People Across the Lake

    The People Across the Lake

    5.833 1988 HD

    In an effort to get away from the city and all its crime, Chuck Yoman and his family move to a big old house in a peaceful lakeside town. The discovery of a mutilated corpse in the lake and another body in the woods, however, suggests that the Yomans would have been safer if they had stayed put...

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  • 1988
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    The People Across the Lake

    The People Across the Lake

    5.833 1988 HD

    In an effort to get away from the city and all its crime, Chuck Yoman and his family move to a big old house in a peaceful lakeside town. The discovery of a mutilated corpse in the lake and another body in the woods, however, suggests that the Yomans would have been safer if they had stayed put...

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  • 1991
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    Living a Lie

    Living a Lie

    1 1991 HD

    Way out west, it's a moral dilemma for Jill Eikenberry. Her character, manicurist Joanne Johnson, is the kind of woman who stands by her man. She and her husband, Matt (Coyote), have held their marriage and family together, even though times on their small Southwestern ranch have been tough. One night, Matt and a couple of his buddies get drunk in a local saloon before heading home. They're also stewing in anti-Hispanic racial resentment. Matt is having a hard time making a living and has just had to sell off the last chunk of his inherited ranch property to a family named Martinez. The tragic result of their mean-spirited horseplay is a small Mexican church. burned to the ground, two young people critically injured and three men tangled up in fear, loathing, and lies. Joanne senses the awful truth way ahead of her spiteful, narrow-minded pals down at the local beauty parlor, and she sets out to do the right thing.

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  • 1991
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    Living a Lie

    Living a Lie

    1 1991 HD

    Way out west, it's a moral dilemma for Jill Eikenberry. Her character, manicurist Joanne Johnson, is the kind of woman who stands by her man. She and her husband, Matt (Coyote), have held their marriage and family together, even though times on their small Southwestern ranch have been tough. One night, Matt and a couple of his buddies get drunk in a local saloon before heading home. They're also stewing in anti-Hispanic racial resentment. Matt is having a hard time making a living and has just had to sell off the last chunk of his inherited ranch property to a family named Martinez. The tragic result of their mean-spirited horseplay is a small Mexican church. burned to the ground, two young people critically injured and three men tangled up in fear, loathing, and lies. Joanne senses the awful truth way ahead of her spiteful, narrow-minded pals down at the local beauty parlor, and she sets out to do the right thing.

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  • 1991
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    Living a Lie

    Living a Lie

    1 1991 HD

    Way out west, it's a moral dilemma for Jill Eikenberry. Her character, manicurist Joanne Johnson, is the kind of woman who stands by her man. She and her husband, Matt (Coyote), have held their marriage and family together, even though times on their small Southwestern ranch have been tough. One night, Matt and a couple of his buddies get drunk in a local saloon before heading home. They're also stewing in anti-Hispanic racial resentment. Matt is having a hard time making a living and has just had to sell off the last chunk of his inherited ranch property to a family named Martinez. The tragic result of their mean-spirited horseplay is a small Mexican church. burned to the ground, two young people critically injured and three men tangled up in fear, loathing, and lies. Joanne senses the awful truth way ahead of her spiteful, narrow-minded pals down at the local beauty parlor, and she sets out to do the right thing.

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  • 1979
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    Can You Hear the Laughter? The Freddie Prinze Story

    Can You Hear the Laughter? The Freddie Prinze Story

    6 1979 HD

    The true and tragic story of a very young and very talented comedian from the 70's whose sudden rise to fame had some of its benefits -- and some of its burdens.

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  • 1988
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    The People Across the Lake

    The People Across the Lake

    5.833 1988 HD

    In an effort to get away from the city and all its crime, Chuck Yoman and his family move to a big old house in a peaceful lakeside town. The discovery of a mutilated corpse in the lake and another body in the woods, however, suggests that the Yomans would have been safer if they had stayed put...

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  • 1998
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    Cab to Canada

    Cab to Canada

    5.6 1998 HD

    Fact-based story about a Pasadena cab driver who picks up what he believes is a routine fare, an elderly woman on her way to a funeral. However, the wealthy woman is soon is insisting that the cabbie drive her on a cross-country trip that ends up entailing 3100 miles and ending in Vancouver. Initially contentious, the two eventually find a reluctant friendship growing.

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  • 2000
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    Going Home

    Going Home

    5.3 2000 HD

    A daughter must choose between her career as a book editor at a high powered New York firm, or return home to care for her aging father whose mental state is deteriorating.

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  • 2000
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    Going Home

    Going Home

    5.3 2000 HD

    A daughter must choose between her career as a book editor at a high powered New York firm, or return home to care for her aging father whose mental state is deteriorating.

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  • 1983
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    Cross Creek

    Cross Creek

    6.6 1983 HD

    In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

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  • 1992
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    A Message from Holly

    A Message from Holly

    6 1992 HD

    Kate is a high-powered, workaholic executive who discreetly takes time off from her work to live with her artist friend Holly, who reveals she has terminal cancer which leaves her with only six months left to live. Over the course of those months, things get tense after Kate accepts custody of Holly's daughter.

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  • 1992
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    A Message from Holly

    A Message from Holly

    6 1992 HD

    Kate is a high-powered, workaholic executive who discreetly takes time off from her work to live with her artist friend Holly, who reveals she has terminal cancer which leaves her with only six months left to live. Over the course of those months, things get tense after Kate accepts custody of Holly's daughter.

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  • 1997
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    Journey of the Heart

    Journey of the Heart

    4.813 1997 HD

    Janice is the subject of the town gossips for four reasons: she wears too much lipstick, her hair is too big, she is a single-mother and her two children are strange. Ray (6) is a hellraiser and Tony (9) is autistic. One day, however, Tony sits down at the piano and plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Janice knows there may be hope for him (and them) yet.

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  • 2000
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    Baby Luv

    Baby Luv

    10 2000 HD

    A story centered around Lee, a young woman whose considerable charm masks an almost innate desire to destroy - especially when it comes to the man who loves her most, a struggling artist named Angelo. Unable to earn a living Lee Ann has found a way out, selling her babies whenever she finds herself pregnant. Caring deeply for children, Angelo is troubled by this, but is torn by his love for Lee Ann. It takes on a whole new dimension when he learns the strange and funny middle class childless couple that has agreed to buy Lee Ann's baby has a past more shocking than he'd ever imagined.

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  • 1980
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    Little Darlings

    Little Darlings

    6.5 1980 HD

    Two 15-year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.

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  • 1992
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    Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted

    Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted

    1 1992 HD

    A Down-syndrome boy left in an institute by his parents. Ginny works in the institute and wants to have Jonathan but has to fight the system and the parents.

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  • 1994
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    The Yarn Princess

    The Yarn Princess

    6.4 1994 HD

    Margaret, who has certain mental disabilities, struggles when her husband, Jake, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and the authorities wish to take her children away from her. She has to prove in a court of law that she is capable of taking care of her family.

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  • 1994
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    The Yarn Princess

    The Yarn Princess

    6.4 1994 HD

    Margaret, who has certain mental disabilities, struggles when her husband, Jake, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and the authorities wish to take her children away from her. She has to prove in a court of law that she is capable of taking care of her family.

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  • 1977
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    Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

    Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

    5.5 1977 HD

    In this sequel to Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Alexander's story is told in both the past and the present. Alexander's parents send him away from home for being too sensitive and not helping enough on their farm. He goes to Los Angeles in hopes of going to art school, but when he can't find a job as a minor, he turns to prostitution. After being arrested, he wants to head to Arizona to marry Dawn, but he falls into a lucrative job/relationship with a gay football star.

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  • 1998
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    Cab to Canada

    Cab to Canada

    5.6 1998 HD

    Fact-based story about a Pasadena cab driver who picks up what he believes is a routine fare, an elderly woman on her way to a funeral. However, the wealthy woman is soon is insisting that the cabbie drive her on a cross-country trip that ends up entailing 3100 miles and ending in Vancouver. Initially contentious, the two eventually find a reluctant friendship growing.

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  • 2000
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    The Last Dance

    The Last Dance

    7.6 2000 HD

    A retired school teacher is reminded of her past after she befriends with one of her former students, Todd Cope.

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  • 1982
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    Little Darlings

    Little Darlings

    1 1982 HD

    Two young girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.

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  • 1981
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    Pale Horse Pale Rider

    Pale Horse Pale Rider

    1 1981 HD

    Katherine Ann Porter's story of a young woman's dreams of death. The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.

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  • 2011
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    Grimm

    Grimm

    8.267 2011 HD

    After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.

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