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Benjamin Immanuel
Benjamin Immanuel (also credited as Ben Ratner or Benjamin Ratner) is a Canadian actor, film director and screenwriter. He is most noted for his performances in the films ''Last Wedding'' and ''Looking for Leonard''. Career Immanuel has appeared in the films ''Moving Malcolm'', ''Ignition'', '' Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity'', '' Amazon Falls'', '' Fathers & Sons'' and ''Sisters & Brothers'', and regular supporting roles as Sam Berger in the television series '' Da Vinci's City Hall'' and Ivon Teslia in '' Travelers''. He was also the director of ''Moving Malcolm''."Movie has feeling of baseball player who lost a close one". ''Vancouver Sun'', October 17, 2003. For his role in ''Last Wedding,'' he won a Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Actor in a Canadian Film in 2001. He won the VFCC's Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film award in 2002 for ''Looking for Leonard''. He was also director of the film '' Down River'', which won the VFCC's award for Best British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award For Best British Columbia Film
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle presents an award for Best British Columbia Film as part of its annual critics awards program, honouring the best films made within the Canadian province of British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that ... within the previous year. Winners 2000s 2010s 2020s References {{VFCC Awards British Columbia Film Awards for best film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Dragons
''American Dragons'' (also known as ''Double Edge'') is a 1998 action crime thriller film directed by Ralph Hemecker and starring Michael Biehn, Park Joong-hoon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Don Stark and Byron Mann. It was written by Erik Saltzgaber and Keith W. Strandberg and produced by Brad Krevoy. Plot Detective Tony Luca is sent on a homicide investigation of a Yakuza leader after a bungled undercover sting to capture notorious gangster Rocco. After finding a folded origami lotus with the black lotus insignia Tony is assigned a partner, Detective Kim from Seoul, South Korea. Kim is described by Luca's captain as an expert on the league of ninja assassins known as the Black Lotus Society. Both Yakuza and Mafia gangsters are being assassinated all over town by the mysterious assassin known to Kim as "Shadow". After squeezing information out of Yakuza businessman Nakai and Mafia "Mafia", as an informal or general term, is often used to describe criminal organizations that bear a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrongfully Accused
''Wrongfully Accused'' is a 1998 parody film written, produced and directed by Pat Proft (in his feature directorial debut) and starring Leslie Nielsen as a man who has been framed for murder and desperately attempts to expose the true culprits. The film is a parody of the 1993 film '' The Fugitive'', and also parodies numerous other films. Plot World-famous violinist Ryan Harrison is seen giving a concert. Afterwards, he goes to a party where he meets Hibbing Goodhue, a millionaire who sponsors Harrison's performances, as well as Goodhue's seductive wife Lauren and his possible mistress Cass Lake. The next evening, he finds a note from Lauren in his car which summons him to the Goodhue residence. When he goes to the Goodhue mansion, he bumps into Sean Laughrea, who has just killed Goodhue (together with an unknown accomplice). A violent fight follows, during which Harrison discovers that Sean is missing an eye, an arm, and a leg, and he overhears the preparations for an operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirty (1998 Film)
''Dirty'' is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Bruce Sweeney and released in 1998.Emanuel Levy"Dirty" ''Variety'', February 22, 1998. The film stars Babz Chula as Angie, a woman who deals marijuana out of her home in the Vancouver neighbourhood of Kitsilano, and Tom Scholte as David, a young university student with whom she has a sexual relationship. The cast also includes Benjamin Ratner as Tony, David's roommate who has just moved to the city from Port Alberni and is feeling lonely and isolated as he tries to establish himself, and Nancy Sivak as Nancy, a depressed shopaholic woman who lives in Angie's basement apartment, as well as Vincent Gale, Frida Betrani, Abby J. Arnold, Rondel Reynoldson, Brendan Beiser, John Henry Canavan, Rob Carpenter, Fulvio Cecere, Marya Delver, Kathleen Duborg, Marcy Goldberg, George Gordon, Rebecca Harker and Micki Maunsell in supporting roles. The film premiered on January 14, 1998, at the Sundance Film Festival. It had its Canadian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firestorm (1998 Film)
''Firestorm'' is a 1998 American action thriller film directed by Dean Semler and starring Howie Long, Scott Glenn, William Forsythe, and Suzy Amis. Plot During a forest fire in northern Wyoming, smokejumper Jesse Graves ( Howie Long) and his mentor Wynt Perkins (Scott Glenn) are rescuing trapped civilians when a woman begs them to rescue her daughter from a burning cabin. They locate the girl, but Wynt is injured by a travel trailer sent flying by an explosion. Jesse manages to free Wynt and rescue both him and the girl from a flashover; Wynt's injuries mean that he must retire from active duty, but he balks at the idea of "full" retirement due to his inadequate pension plan. Months later, a group of convicts stage an escape with the help of an arsonist on the outside, who sets a fire in the forest so that the prisoners will be taken there to help firemen, giving the prisoners a chance to escape. Randall Alexander Shaye ( William Forsythe), who had stolen US$37 million four y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bounty Hunters (1996 Film)
''Bounty Hunters'' is a 1996 American-Canadian film starring Michael Dudikoff and Lisa Howard. It was directed by George Erschbamer. The film is followed by '' Bounty Hunters 2: Hardball''. Plot Jersey Bellini is a bounty hunter who forms an uneasy partnership with a rival to capture a fugitive Cast * Michael Dudikoff as Jersey Bellini * Lisa Howard as B.B. * Ben Ratner as Deimos * Erin Fitzgerald as Starr * Freddy Andreiuci as Izzy * Ashanti Williams as 'Word' * Steve Makaj as O'Conner * Peter LaCroix as Austraat * Michael McMillian as Clayton * Garry Chalk as Wasser * Mike Mitchell as Ray Colt * Deryl Hayes as Mr. Hervey * Angela Moore as Mrs. Hervey * Claire Riley as Detective Ortega * Ken Kirzinger Kenneth Kirzinger (born November 4, 1959) is a Canadians, Canadian actor and stuntman best known for his portrayals of Jason Voorhees in ''Freddy vs. Jason'' (2003), Pa in ''Wrong Turn 2: Dead End'' (2007), and Rusty Nail in ''Joy Ride 3: Roadki ... as Kesh * Farhad Dordar as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Tiger (1996 Film)
''White Tiger'' is a 1996 Canadian-American action film directed by Richard Martin, starring Gary Daniels, Julia Nickson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, George Cheung and Lisa Langlois. Daniels stars as a disenfranchised DEA agent looking to eliminate the triad boss (Tagawa) responsible for the death of his partner, while succumbing to the charms of a mysterious woman (Nickson) who may be a killer herself. Plot DEA agents Mike Ryan and John Grogan are summoned to Seattle to take part in a raid targeting triad boss Victor Chow. The squad stakes out the rendezvous point between Chow and an associate of his named Tang. Chow introduces Tang to a revolutionary drug he created, but things turn sour between the two factions and a gunfight erupts. Ryan and Grogan have to intervene, but Chow gets a hold of Grogan and uses him as a human shield to protect his escape, before killing him once he has reached his motorboat. Ryan is discharged from the case by his superiors, but decides to track down Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic In The Water
''Magic in the Water'' is a 1995 family adventure An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting, or other extreme spo ... fantasy film directed by Rick Stevenson and written by Icel Dobell Massey and Stevenson from a story by Stevenson, Dobell Massey and Ninian Dunnett. It stars Mark Harmon, Joshua Jackson, Harley Jane Kozak and Sarah Wayne. The film follows two siblings and their preoccupied father who takes them on a vacation to a remote Canadian lake in British Columbia, where the siblings discover the lake is said to be inhabited by a mysterious lake monster. The film was distributed by TriStar Pictures and produced by Triumph Films. It was released to generally negative reviews. Plot Ashley Black is depressed because her father Jack spends all his time focusing on his job instead of her and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
