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John Kapelos

John Kapelos (born March 8, 1956) is a Canadian actor from London, Ontario. He is best known for his portrayals of janitor Carl Reed in The Breakfast Club and Detective Donald Schanke in Forever Knight. more

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The Breakfast Club
(1985)
Comedy, Drama
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
John Hughes
Cast:
Emilio Estevez, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall
7.8
89%
66
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The Shape of Water
(2017)
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Runtime:
123 min
Director:
Guillermo del Toro
Cast:
Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Michael Shannon, Sally Hawkins
7.4
92%
87
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Tootsie
(1982)
Comedy, Romance
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego - Dorothy Michaels - in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
Sydney Pollack, Gavin Reed
Cast:
Dustin Hoffman, Dustin Hoffman, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr
7.4
90%
88
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Sixteen Candles
(1984)
Comedy, Romance
A teenage girl deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
John Hughes
Cast:
Molly Ringwald, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, John Cusack, Gedde Watanabe
7.0
84%
61
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Legally Blonde
(2001)
Comedy
Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen, is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school, but while there, she figures out that there is more to herself than just looks.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Robert Luketic
Cast:
Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber
6.4
70%
59
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Weird Science
(1985)
Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary ...
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
John Hughes
Cast:
Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Bill Paxton, Suzanne Snyder
6.6
57%
46
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Thief
(1981)
Action, Crime, Thriller
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.
Runtime:
123 min
Director:
Michael Mann
Cast:
James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, Jim Belushi, Robert Prosky
7.4
94%
78
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Roxanne
(1987)
Comedy, Romance
Based on the play 'Cyrano de Bergerac', large-nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne—while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Fred Schepisi
Cast:
Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, Rick Rossovich, Shelley Duvall, John Kapelos
6.6
88%
73
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Stick It
(2006)
Comedy, Drama
Haley is a naturally gifted athlete but, with her social behavior, the teen seems intent on squandering her abilities. After a final brush with the law, a judge sentences her to an elite gymnastics academy run by a legendary, hard-nosed coach. Once there, Haley's rebellious attitude wins her both friends and enemies.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Jessica Bendinger
Cast:
Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym, Vanessa Lengies, Maddy Curley, Nikki SooHoo
6.4
31%
53
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Internal Affairs
(1990)
Crime, Drama
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devio...
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Mike Figgis
Cast:
Richard Gere, Andy García, Laurie Metcalf, Nancy Travis, Elijah Wood
6.5
88%
63
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The Shadow
(1994)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller
Based on the 1930's comic strip, puts the hero up against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "The power to cloud men's minds", the Shadow comes blazing to the city's rescue with explosive results.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Russell Mulcahy
Cast:
Alec Baldwin, Alec Baldwin, John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle
6.1
35%
50
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The Relic
(1997)
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Peter Hyams
Cast:
Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore, Clayton Rohner
5.8
92%
55
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The Deep End of the Ocean
(1999)
Drama, Mystery
Michelle Pfeiffer is ferocious in the role of a desperate mother whose 3-year-old son disappears during her high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated. Based on Jacquelyn Mitchard's best-selling novel (an Oprah book club selection), the movie effectively presents the...
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Ulu Grosbard
Cast:
Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Jackson, Cory Buck
6.3
44%
45
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Whisper
(2007)
Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Stewart Hendler
Cast:
Blake Woodruff, Josh Holloway, Sarah Wayne Callies, Michael Rooker, Julian Christopher
5.7
N/A
N/A
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Afternoon Delight
(2013)
Comedy, Drama
Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable stay-at-home mom. Frustrated with the realities of preschool auctions, a lacklustre sex life and career that's gone kaput, she visits a strip club to spice up her marriage and meets McKenna, a stripper she adopts as her live-in nanny.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Jill Soloway
Cast:
Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor, Jane Lynch, Annie Mumolo
5.8
68%
50
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Vibes
(1988)
Action, Comedy, Romance
Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. Not long after, they're contacted by Harry Buscafusco, who offers them $50,000 to find his lost son in South America, in the heart of Incan territory where they discover an ancient mystical secret, and each other.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Ken Kwapis
Cast:
Jeff Goldblum, Cyndi Lauper, Peter Falk, Julian Sands, Googy Gress
5.7
14%
N/A
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The River King
(2005)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Abel Grey is sent to investigate the death of a boy from an exclusive local school, who is found floating in the river. Fearing scandal, the school insists it was suicide. But after discovering from the boy's girlfriend, Carlin, that he was being badly bullied, Abel suspects that a dangerous schoolboy initiation has gone horribly wrong...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Nick Willing
Cast:
Edward Burns, Jennifer Ehle, Thomas Gibson, John Kapelos, Rachelle Lefevre
5.8
N/A
N/A
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Snow Buddies
(2008)
Adventure, Family
Dylan Sprouse, Jim Belushi and Kris Kristofferson lend their voices to this family-friendly tale about a feisty pack of golden retriever puppies that embarks on an Alaskan adventure. When they find themselves stranded in the northern wilderness, the canine offspring of famed sports star Air Bud team up with an experienced sled dog and ...
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Robert Vince
Cast:
Cynthia Stevenson, Cynthia Stevenson, Richard Karn, Lise Simms, Jim Belushi
5.2
N/A
N/A
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Everybody Wants to Be Italian
(2007)
Comedy, Romance
Are all relationships based on lies? Jake Bianski runs a fish market in north Boston, surrounded by Italians. For years, he's carried a torch for Isabella, an ex-girlfriend now married with three children and no interest in Jake. Yet, he tells everyone she's his girlfriend, including Marisa, a veterinarian his employees set him up with...
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Jason Todd Ipson
Cast:
Jay Jablonski, Cerina Vincent, John Kapelos, Blake Lee, John Enos III
5.8
9%
26
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Shallow Ground
(2005)
Horror
A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he ...
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Sheldon Wilson
Cast:
Rocky Marquette, Timothy V. Murphy, Stan Kirsch, Lindsey Stoddart, Patty McCormack
4.9
57%
N/A
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The Boost
(1988)
Drama, Romance
Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to turn. His friend, Joel, introduces him to cocaine to give Lenny that needed "boost". What ensues next is a descent into drug addiction and insanity a...
Runtime:
95 min
6.0
50%
N/A
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Fifty Pills
(2006)
Comedy
Unless Darren can survive New York's largest drug mogul, write a paper on Dante's "Inferno," escape three thugs chasing the wrong guy and sell fifty pills of ecstasy to make his tuition payment, he'll never date the girl of his dreams.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Theo Avgerinos
Cast:
Lou Taylor Pucci, Kristen Bell, John Hensley, Nora Zehetner, Monica Keena
5.0
N/A
N/A
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Don't You Forget About Me
(2010)
Documentary
Throughout the ’80s John Hughes defined the teen movie genre and spoke not only to that generation’s teens, but every generation that has followed. Then in 1991 he hung up his director’s hat and disappeared into obscurity ala J.D Salinger. In 2008, a group of young Canadian filmmakers set out to complete a documentary about the man wit...
Runtime:
74 min
Director:
Matt Austin
Cast:
David Anderle, Mike Bender, Jackie Burch, Scott Coffey, Sean Covel
6.1
N/A
N/A
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The Babysitter
(2008)
Comedy
What happens when an 18-year-old babysitter finds out she's sitting for a 27-year-old slacker?
Runtime:
5 min
Cast:
Josh Cooke, Brie Larson, John Kapelos, Molly Hagan
7.8
33%
N/A
Flight 29 Down: The Hotel Tango
(2007)
Adventure, Drama, Family
Flight 29 Down series finale. The castaways split into two groups. One stays on the beach, and one travels to find life on the island. Just when they think the place is deserted, they find an old concrete hotel used in WWII, along with other old buildings rotting away. They find the pilot, and the two other survivors in the hotel. The ...
Runtime:
120 min
7.7
N/A
N/A
And the Sea Will Tell
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And the Sea Will Tell
(1991)
Crime, Drama
A wealthy couple (James Brolin and Deidre Hall) are killed on their yacht off the coast of a secluded South American island called Palmyra. The suspects are a hippyish pair (Hart Bochner and Rachel Ward) whom the rich folks had befriended. It’s fairly clear that the hippies were involved in the crime: The question is, did the man do it...
Runtime:
179 min
Director:
Tommy Lee Wallace
Cast:
Richard Crenna, Rachel Ward, Hart Bochner, James Brolin, John Kapelos
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Nick Knight
(1989)
Crime, Drama, Horror, TV Movie
Detective Nick Knight is investigating a series of murders in which the bodies are found drained of blood - but the most recent one doesn't fit the pattern. Instead it involves the cure that Nick has been searching for for decades, so that he himself can face the light of day. Later remade as the first two episodes of Forever Knight.
Runtime:
92 min
Cast:
Rick Springfield, Cec Verrell, Craig Richard Nelson, John Kapelos
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Wiseguy
(1996)
Crime, TV Movie
Vinnie Terranova is back, foiling a staged kidnaping of computer mogul Paul Callendar's son in order to probe possible inside information brokering. Meanwhile, McPike is having a hard time working with his young boss, who feels Terranova and McPike are dinosaurs not worth supporting.
Runtime:
95 min
7.2
N/A
N/A
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Deep Red
(1994)
Science Fiction, TV Movie, Thriller
After a young girl is accidently infected with an alien substance known as "Deep Red", the astonishing results attract the attention of the illustrious scientist Dr. Newmeyer. Disillusioned security expert Joe Keyes must team up with his estranged wife to protect the girl and her mother from the obsessed scientist who will stop at noth...
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Craig R. Baxley
Cast:
Lindsey Haun, Michael Biehn, Tobin Bell, Daniel W. Barringer, John Alden
5.2
N/A
N/A
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Fire & Ice
(2001)
TV Movie
While many celebrities believe their fame gives them good luck with the opposite gender, one man with a successful television career discovers fame is spoiling his chances with the woman he loves in the made-for-TV romantic drama. Holly Aimes (Lark Voorhies) is the daughter of a prominent politician (Glynn Turman), and recently broke o...
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Bryan Goeres
Cast:
Lark Voorhies, Kadeem Hardison, Glynn Turman, Tempestt Bledsoe, John Kapelos
8.2
N/A
N/A
For the Love of Aaron
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For the Love of Aaron
(1994)
Family Ties' Meredith Baxter Birney stars in this made-for-television movie about a woman threatened with losing her son to her ex-husband. Following her divorce, Margaret's son Aaron is the only person who matters to her. But when Margaret unexpectedly begins showing symptoms of mental-illness, the boy's father decides she is incapabl...
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
John Kent Harrison
Cast:
Meredith Baxter, Keegan Macintosh, Nick Mancuso, John Kapelos
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Not That Funny
(2012)
Comedy, Drama
A love story about a woman who "just wants someone who makes her laugh" and a man who is not that funny. As he tries to learn how to be the man she says she wants, they each find an unexpected chance at happiness.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Lauralee Farrer
Cast:
Tony Hale, Timothy V. Murphy, Brigid Brannagh, Erin Way, John Kapelos
5.3
N/A
N/A
Tripping Forward
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Tripping Forward
(2009)
Comedy
.Ford Coleman is a struggling actor in Hollywood who fears never achieving fame other then appearing in local TV commercials. After over a year living in L.A., Ford is broke and in danger of being evicted from his apartment. His slacker roommate Tripp, who has given up his music career out of hopelessness, convinces Tripp to become a d...
Runtime:
82 min
5.6
N/A
N/A
The Beneficiary
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The Beneficiary
(2008)
Thriller
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Runtime:
17 min
8.8
N/A
N/A
Sincerely Yours
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Sincerely Yours
(2008)
Documentary
12-part documentary featuring the cast reflecting on the making of the film that defined an entire generation
Runtime:
51 min
5.1
N/A
N/A
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Cool and the Crazy
(1994)
Action, Drama, Romance, TV Movie, Thriller
Unhappily married couple Roslyn and Michael lead separate affairs that lead to violent repercussions for all.
Runtime:
85 min
3.9
N/A
N/A