Richard C. Kratina

Nascimento : 1928-11-02, New York City, New York, USA

Morte : 1999-02-12

Filmes

Money, Power, Murder.
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Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has interest in a missing anchorwoman's story.
Que Sorte Danada!
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Lauren Ames (Shelley Long) e Sandy Brozinsky (Bette Midler) são duas aspirantes a atriz que não se dão bem. Isto só piora quando elas descobrem que estavam transando com o mesmo homem, Michael Sanders (Peter Coyote), que supostamente foi um professor que morreu em um atentado terrorista. Logo elas constatam que ele está vivo, pois quando foram ver o corpo concluíram que aquele pequeno membro não era o de Michael. Aos poucos tomam consciência de que ele é um agente duplo, que quer pôr as mãos em um vírus desfolhante, que acaba com toda a vegetação num raio de centenas de quilômetros. Michael ameaça não fazer isto apenas se lhe pagarem US$ 20 milhões.
Garbo Talks
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Quando o contador de Nova York Gilbert Rolfe descobre que sua mãe tem um tumor no cérebro, ele fica arrasado. Sua mãe incorrigível, Estelle, tem um último desejo: conhecer a grande Greta Garbo. Gilbert, querendo fazer esta última coisa por ela, sai em uma perseguição selvagem pelas ruas de Nova York para rastrear a estrela icônica, às custas de sua vida pessoal e para desgosto de sua esposa, Lisa. Ele pode encontrar Garbo antes que seja tarde demais?
Scream for Help
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A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.
Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
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A New York-based bounty hunter who makes a living chasing and capturing bail jumpers matches wits with a heavily-armed drug dealer in this pilot to a prospective series.
Hair
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"Hair" é uma adaptação cômico-dramática-musical do musical da Broadway de 1968 "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical". Claude (John Savage), um jovem do Oklahoma que foi recrutado para a guerra do Vietnã, está indo se apresentar no campo de treinamento do exército. No meio do caminho ele passa por Nova York onde conhece e é "adotado" por um grupo de hippies comandados por Berger (Treat Williams), que como seus amigos tem conceitos nada convencionais sobre o comportamento social e tenta convencê-lo dos absurdos da atual sociedade. Acaba sendo rapidamente conquistado pela subcultura juvenil do Paz e Amor. Lá Claude também se apaixona por Sheila (Beverly D'Angelo), uma jovem proveniente de uma rica família.
A Sentinela dos Malditos
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A New York City model with a troubled past relocates to an apartment in a brownstone building where the only other tenant is a withdrawn blind priest. After experiencing strange occurrences, she begins to realize her building houses a sinister evil.
Aaron Loves Angela
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Aaron and Angela, two young adults living in the Harlem ghetto of New York City, are deeply in love with each other. The only thing standing in the way of their love is their families. Aaron is black, while Angela is Puerto Rican, and neither family wants one of their own to associate with the others. As the pair rebel against the prejudices of their families, they soon find the conflict spreading out to their friends and neighbors, until the hatred threatens to spiral out of control.
The Happy Hooker
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Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent. After a while she decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation grows she graduates to a high-class bordello. Soon she realises she has the right talents to make a real success of a place of her own.
The Super Cops
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The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".
The Migrants
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A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside
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Two New York City cops investigate a drug-smuggling ring that they believe is run by New York-based foreign diplomats.
The Connection
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An out-of-work newspaperman in need of money becomes the go-between for a jewel thief and an insurance company that wants to settle.
Come Back, Charleston Blue
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Sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers.
Believe in Me
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Remy is a medical student who has a flair for making his patients comfortable. His genuine concern for the patients in his charge marks him as a hot prospect in his internship program. Pamela works at a children's book publishing company. The two meet via Pamela's brother, who is also Remy's good friend. They fall in love and get an apartment in the East Village of New York. Soon after, the couple begins to indulge in speed and barbiturates. They become heavily addicted. Remy is thrown out of medical school and Pamela quits her job. Remy soon finds himself in debt with the local dealer, Stutter, who introduces his customer to heroin as a revenge for his late bill. Pamela faces the prospect of getting sober at her brother's clinic, but must leave behind a destitute Remy in order to do it.
Morte Silenciosa
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A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just "one more fix".
A Safe Place
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A young woman in Manhattan lives in a world where the past, present and future mix.
The Pursuit of Happiness
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William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over a woman in his car entirely by accident, he accepts a sentence for manslaughter.
Love Story: Uma História de Amor
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Oliver Barrett IV, um estudante de direito de Harvard, conhece Jenny Cavilleri, uma aluna de música de Radcliffe. É amor à primeira vista, e eles decidem se casar. No entanto, o pai de Oliver, um multimilionário, não aceita tal união e deserda o filho. Jenny não consegue engravidar e descobre que está muito doente.
The Angel Levine
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Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
Perdidos na Noite
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Joe Buck é um simplório jovem texano que decide abandonar seu passado conturbado e se muda para Nova Iorque, onde tentará ganhar a vida como garoto de programa para mulheres ricas. Mas sua excessiva ingenuidade o impedirá de ganhar dinheiro se prostituindo. Em uma de suas caminhadas, encontra Rizzo, um aleijado que sobrevive de pequenos golpes e furtos e com quem terá um laço de amizade. Filme baseado no romance homônimo de James Leo Herlihy, lançado em 1965.
The Incident
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Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.