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Mr. Fix It (2006 Film)
''Mr. Fix It'' is a 2006 American romantic comedy film starring David Boreanaz. It was directed by Darin Ferriola. The former working titles were ''Deception'' and ''Boyfriend Girlfriend Relationship'', while the former main title was ''The Perfect Lie''. Synopsis Lance Valenteen (Boreanaz) makes a living as "Mr Fix It", a guy who is hired by men to get them back together with their ex-girlfriends. Lance dates the guy's ex-girlfriend and becomes the worst date ever, sending her back to her ex-boyfriend's arms. When Lance is hired by Bill Smith ( Pat Healy) to get Sophia Fiori (Alana de la Garza) back, Lance ends up falling for her. Cast * David Boreanaz - Lance Valenteen (Mr Fix It) * Alana de la Garza - Sophia Fiori * Scoot McNairy - Dan * Pat Healy - Bill Smith * Paul Sorvino - Wally * Terrence Evans - Charlie * Lee Weaver - Ralph * Rodney Rowland - Tip * Miranda Kwok - Melanie * Herschel Bleefeld - Shiffy * Patrica Place - Mrs. Cliverhorn * Gemini Barnett - Walter * Dalla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romantic Comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a sub-genre of comedy and Romance novel, romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount all obstacles. Romantic comedy evolved from Ancient Greek comedy, Middle Ages, medieval romance, and 18th-century Restoration comedy, later developing into sub-genres like Screwball comedy, screwball comedies, career woman comedies, and 1950s Sex comedy, sex comedies in Hollywood. Over time, the genre has expanded beyond traditional structures, incorporating unconventional themes, challenging gender roles, and addressing adult topics while maintaining its core focus on romance and humor. A common convention in romantic comedies is the "Meet cute, meet-cute", a humorous or unexpected encounter that creates initial tension and sets up the romantic storyline. History Comedies, rooted in the fertility rites and satyr plays of Ancient Greek comedy, ancient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s English-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Romantic Comedy Films
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics A six-sided polygon is a hexagon, one of the three regular polygons capable of tiling the plane. A hexagon also has 6 edges as well as 6 internal and external angles. 6 is the second smallest composite number. It is also the first number that is the sum of its proper divisors, making it the smallest perfect number. It is also the only perfect number that doesn't have a digital root of 1. 6 is the first unitary perfect number, since it is the sum of its positive proper unitary divisors, without including itself. Only five such numbers are known to exist. 6 is the largest of the four all-Harshad numbers. 6 is the 2nd superior highly composite number, the 2nd colossally abundant number, the 3rd triangular number, the 4th highly composite number, a pronic number, a congruent number, a harmonic divisor number, and a semiprime. 6 is also th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Romantic Comedy Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Films
The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Pixar celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2006 with the release of its 7th film, ''Cars''. Evaluation of the year Philip French of ''The Guardian'' described 2006 as "an outstanding year for British cinema". He went on to emphasize, "Six of our well-established directors have made highly individual films of real distinction: Michael Winterbottom's '' A Cock and Bull Story'', Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'', Christopher Nolan's '' The Prestige'', Stephen Frears's '' The Queen'', Paul Greengrass's '' United 93'' and Nicholas Hytner's '' The History Boys''. Two young directors made confident debuts, both offering a jaundiced view of contemporary Britain: Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton. In addition the gifted Mexican Alfonso Cuaron came here to m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uggie
Uggie (February 14, 2002 – August 7, 2015) was a trained Parson Russell Terrier famous for his roles in ''Water for Elephants'' and '' The Artist''. His memoir ''Uggie, My Story'' was published in the United States, the UK, and France in October 2012. The campaign "Consider Uggie" was launched in December 2011 on Facebook by S.T. VanAirsdale, an editor at Movieline, for Uggie to receive a real or Honorary Academy Award nomination. BAFTA announced that he would be ineligible for one of its awards, while he received a special mention at the Lumière Awards in France. He won the Palm Dog Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Early life and family Uggie was rejected by at least his first two owners as being too wild. He was about to be sent to a dog pound, but was adopted by animal trainer Omar Von Muller after his friends alerted him to the dog. Von Muller intended only to foster the dog while he found him a new home, but decided that Uggie should stay. He said of the dog, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miranda Kwok
Miranda Kwok is a Canadian-American screenwriter, actress, and television producer best known as the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the Fox drama series '' The Cleaning Lady'', which premiered on January 3, 2022. Kwok won the 2023 Gracie Awards for her work on the show, in the Writer Scripted – Drama (TV – National) category. Studies and early work Kwok began her studies in the arts at the age of ten when she attended the Claude Watson School for the Arts in Toronto, Canada. She majored in visual arts and minored in drama and dance. She made her television debut at the age of thirteen and has performed in several leading, supporting, and guest-starring roles in film, television, and theatre. Kwok continued her education at Earl Haig Secondary School, where she completed the Claude Watson Arts Program as well as the Academy Program for the intellectually gifted. She also completed an Honors Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and psychology at the University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana De La Garza
Alana de la Garza (born June 18, 1976) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Connie Rubirosa for the final 4 seasons of the initial run of the NBC television series '' Law & Order'', as well as in the spinoffs '' Law & Order: LA'' and '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. She also portrayed Marisol Delko-Caine on '' CSI: Miami''. In 2014 and 2015, she starred as Detective Jo Martinez in the ABC series '' Forever''. From 2016 to 2017, she starred in '' Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders'' as Special Agent Clara Seger. In 2019, she began starring as SAC Isobel Castille on ''FBI'', a role she also plays on the spin-off series '' FBI: Most Wanted''. Early life De la Garza was born in Columbus, Ohio, to a Mexican-American father and an Irish-American mother. She was raised in El Paso, Texas. She won the "Miss Photogenic" title in the Miss El Paso Teen USA local beauty pageant. She became a special needs teacher and enrolled at the University of Texas at El Pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Look Studios
First Look Studios, Inc. was an American independent film and home video distributor based in Los Angeles, California. The company specialized in the acquisition and direct distribution of, and worldwide license and sale of distribution rights to, independently produced feature films and television series. History Overseas Filmgroup In 1980, Robert and Ellen Little founded Overseas Filmgroup as a film sales company for foreign markets. Overseas Filmgroup expanded towards film financing to give the company greater control over its output. From the company's foundation, it competed with fellow, also-defunct film producers J&M Film Sales (later J&M Entertainment), Manson International and Producers Sales Organization as the most successful company with global film sales. Overseas Filmgroup decided to pay $3 million in order to set up operations for different areas worldwide such as Spain, Arizona, Texas, Taiwan, Italy, southern California and Colorado in the mid-1980s, and by 1986 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Boreanaz
David Paul Boreanaz (; born May 16, 1969) is an American actor, television producer, and director known for playing the roles of vampire-turned-private investigator Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Angel on The WB/UPN supernatural fiction, supernatural drama television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1997–2003) and its spinoff ''Angel (1999 TV series), Angel'' (1999–2004); Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, a homicide investigator, on the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox television Police procedural, crime procedural comedy-drama series ''Bones (TV series), Bones'' (2005–2017); and United States Navy SEALs, United States Navy SEAL Master Chief Petty Officer List of SEAL Team characters#Jason Hayes, Jason Hayes in CBS/Paramount+ military drama series ''SEAL Team (TV series), SEAL Team'' (2017–2024). Early life David Paul Boreanaz was born in Buffalo, New York, where his father Dave Roberts (broadcaster), Dave Roberts (born David Thomas Bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herschel Bleefeld
Herschel or Herschell may refer to: People * Herschel (name), various people Places * Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa * Herschel, Saskatchewan * Herschel, Yukon * Herschel Bay, Canada * Herschel Heights, Alexander Island, Antarctica * Herschel Island, Canada * Herschel Island (Chile), an island of the Hermite Islands archipelago * Mount Herschel, Antarctica * Cape Sterneck, Antarctica Astronomy * Herschel (crater), various craters in the Solar System * 2000 Herschel, an asteroid * 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, a comet * Herschel Catalogue (other), various astronomical catalogues of nebulae * Herschel Medal, awarded by the UK Royal Astronomical Society * Herschel Museum of Astronomy, in Bath, United Kingdom * Herschel Space Observatory The Herschel Space Observatory was a space observatory built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA). It was active from 2009 to 2013, and was the largest infrared telescope ever launched until the launch of the James We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
