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Phoebe Cates
Phoebe Cates (born July 16, 1963) is an American film actress known for her roles in several teen films, most notably Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Gremlins.
Cates was born in New York City, New York, to a family of TV and Broadway production insiders. Her father Joseph Cates (originally Katz)...
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Bright Lights, Big City
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age teen comedy film and is the brain-child of Cameron Crowe. It was adapted from Crowe's 1981 book where, as a free-lancer for Rolling Stone magazine, he went undercover at a California high...
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Gremlins
Gremlins is an American comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante and released in 1984 by Warner Bros. It is about a young man who receives a strange creature (called a mogwai) named Gizmo as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform...
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Gremlins 2: The New Batch is a 1990 American comedy horror film, and a sequel to Gremlins (1984). It was directed by Joe Dante and written by Charles S. Haas, with creature designs by Rick Baker. It stars Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover,...
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Paradise
Paradise is a 1982 English language romance and adventure film starring Phoebe Cates and Willie Aames, written and directed by Stuart Gillard. The original music score was composed by Paul Hoffert with the theme song sung by Phoebe Cates. Location...
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Princess Caraboo
Princess Caraboo is a 1994 film directed by Michael Austin, based on the real-life 19th-century character Princess Caraboo, who passed herself off in British society as an exotic princess who spoke a strange foreign language. She is played in the...
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Date with an Angel
Date with an Angel is an American film which was released in 1987, starring Emmanuelle Béart and Michael E. Knight. The romantic fantasy/comedy was an updated reworking of the 1942 film I Married an Angel and released by De Laurentiis Entertainment...
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Drop Dead Fred
Drop Dead Fred is a 1991 fantasy comedy film directed by Ate de Jong, produced by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films and released and distributed by New Line Cinema. Although touted as a light-hearted children's film, there are...
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Private School
Private School (full title Private School ... for Girls) is a 1983 sex comedy film, directed by Noel Black.
Christine Ramsay (Phoebe Cates) goes to an all-girls private school. She is in love with Jim Green (Matthew Modine), who also is going to a...
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Lace
Lace is a television miniseries, produced in 1984, based on the novel of the same name by author Shirley Conran. The plot concerns the search by sex symbol Lili (Phoebe Cates) for her natural mother, who surrendered her for adoption as a newborn....
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Shag
Shag (also released as Shag: The Movie) is a 1989 comedy film starring Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates, Annabeth Gish, Jeff Yagher and Scott Coffey. The film features Carolina shag dancing and was produced in cooperation with the North Carolina Film...
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Father of the Bride
Father of the Bride is a 1991 comedy film starring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams, George Newbern, Martin Short, B.D. Wong and Kieran Culkin. It is a remake of the 1950 movie of the same name. In 1995, a theatrical sequel, Father of...
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Heart of Dixie
Heart of Dixie is a 1989 drama film -adaptation of the 1976 novel Heartbreak Hotel by Anne Rivers Siddons- about three sorority women at a 1957 Alabama college who face the experience of integration. The film was directed by Martin Davidson, and...
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Bright Lights, Big City
Bright Lights, Big City is a 1988 drama film starring Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland and Phoebe Cates, based on the novel of the same name by Jay McInerney.
Originally from Pennsylvania, Jamie Conway (Michael J. Fox) works as a fact-checker for a...
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Baby Sister
Baby Sister is a 1983 television film directed by Steven Hilliard Stern.
Annie Burroughs is a wild college drop-out who moves in with her older sister Marsha. She immediately falls in love with her boyfriend David Mitchell. She tries to do...
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Bodies, Rest & Motion
Bodies, Rest & Motion is a 1993 American drama film directed by Michael Steinberg. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
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