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The first or given name Richard derives from German, French, and English "ric" (ruler, leader, king) and "hard" (strong, brave, court), therefore it means "powerful leader" as well as "King's Court". The name Richard is most often used as a boy name or male name.
Richard is a typical name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Swedish and Dutch.
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Stakeout, Always, What About Bob?, Poseidon, and Mr. Holland's Opus.
Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland's Opus. He has also won a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and was nominated in 2002 for Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries categories.
Dreyfuss was born Richard Stephen Dreyfus in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Norman, an attorney and restaurateur, and Geraldine, a peace activist. Dreyfuss is Jewish. He has commented that he "grew up thinking that Alfred Dreyfus and [he] are of the same family." His father disliked New York City, and moved the family first to Europe, and later to Los Angeles, when Dreyfuss was nine. Dreyfuss attended Beverly Hills High School.
Justin Drew Bieber ( /ˈbiːbər/ BEE-bər, born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian Pop/R&B singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. Bieber was discovered in 2008 by Scooter Braun, who came across Bieber's videos on YouTube and later became his manager. Braun arranged for him to meet with Usher in Atlanta, Georgia, and Bieber was soon signed to Raymond Braun Media Group (RBMG), a joint venture between Braun and Usher, and then to a recording contract with Island Records offered by L.A. Reid. Bieber's debut single, "One Time", was released in 2009 and peaked in the top twenty in Canada and charted in the top thirty in several international markets. His debut album, the seven-track EP My World, followed in November 2009, and was soon certified platinum in the United States. He became the first artist to have seven songs from a debut album chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
Actors: Vince Cosentino (producer), Vince Cosentino (editor), Vince Cosentino (writer), Vince Cosentino (director), Heidi Harian (actress), Anthony Taylor (actor), Ronald Dean Blackwell (actor), Jimmy Cosentino (actor), David Chavarria (actor), Gary Hanson (producer), Kristin Cosentino (miscellaneous crew), Ivan Ferruzola (actor), Victor Sotelo (composer), Joel Abels (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Jamie Sives (actor), Susan Vidler (actress), Arttu Salmi (editor), Aaron Ellis (actor), Olly Hunter (miscellaneous crew), Joe Cole (actor), Lawrence Mason (miscellaneous crew), David Acton (actor), Jonathan Hill (composer), Ben Mortimer (miscellaneous crew), Casey Herbert (producer), Anna Brewster (actress), Jake Davies (actor), Glen Goodey (miscellaneous crew), Blair Powell (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Sam lives in a place where everything is polished and secrets are cleaned up and kept. So when Georgina goes missing, everyone acts like nothing happened. But Sam can't stop thinking about her, the enigma who lived next door, swimming daily in her pool. As Sam drifts back into his memories of Georgina, he comes to realise he may know more than he wants to remember.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Grant Martin (director), Noel Gates (actress), Keyla Teixeira (writer), Kegan Schell (miscellaneous crew), Andrew Garraway (composer), Mike Ferrara (producer), Rebecca Nguy (writer), Matthew Nelson (producer), Michael Adams (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Andrew Sensenig (actor), Richard Dillard (actor), Denis Hennelly (miscellaneous crew), Heather Wallis (actress), Storme Wood (producer), Austin Chittim (actor), Lee Rothenflue (editor), Storme Wood (director), Wendy Zavaleta (actress), Dane Hurlburt (actor), Oliver Luke (actor), Marina Seitsinger (actress), Patrick J. Neese (actor), Andie Redwine (producer), Andie Redwine (writer),
Plot: Esther Harris, a young woman praised for her virtue and devotion to Warren F. Vanderbilt's Prophetic Watchman Ministries, has been given the opportunity of a lifetime - to attend Vanderbilt's Kingdom Bible College and to marry Phillip Sawyer, the son of a minister and a Kingdom student being groomed for the ministry. When the fundamentalist Christian sect falls on hard times, Esther looks for employment at a local health food store to supplement the group's income. At the store, Esther gets a chance to share her faith with her new manager, Gabriel, a devout skeptic and preacher's kid, and his roommate, Mark, a college drop-out who finds Christian television to be great entertainment. Shot entirely on location in Southern Indiana and Austin, Texas, Paradise Recovered attempts a modern-day retelling of the parable of the Good Samaritan while addressing the important topics of faith, tolerance, and spiritual abuse in modern culture.
Keywords: abuse, atheist, austin-texas, bible, brainwashing, christian, college, cult, evangelism, faithActors: Noah Baron (actor), Chris Jackson (actor), Anthony B. Phillips (actor), Niki McElroy (actress), Michelle Wicklas (actress), Jeremy Gerard Preimesberger (actor), Tucker Bryan (actor), Chaliss Robinson (actor), Mario Kenyon (actor), Tye White (actor), Jeremy David Munter (actor), James Adam Lim (actor), Brandon Batain (actor), Jeremy David Munter (producer), Angela Bray (actress),
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical,Actors: Alain Chabat (producer), Samir Guesmi (actor), Alain Chabat (actor), Elie Semoun (actor), Emma de Caunes (actress), Lio (actress), Cécile Cassel (actress), Christian Gazio (actor), Francis Leplay (actor), Romain Goupil (actor), Frans Boyer (actor), Brigitte Sy (actress), Émilie Dequenne (actress), Nicolas Duvauchelle (actor), Nicolas Abraham (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Scooby Vincent (miscellaneous crew), Karen Austin (miscellaneous crew), Oliver De Caigny (miscellaneous crew), Lindsay MacAdam (writer), Scott A. Matthews (miscellaneous crew), Leah Tanafranca (miscellaneous crew), Christina Ollson (miscellaneous crew), Laura Harring (actress), Kirk Shaw (producer), Linden Ashby (actor), Nathaniel DeVeaux (actor), Kirk Shaw (producer), Lorna Pineda (miscellaneous crew), Stacey Shaw (producer), Linden Banks (actor),
Plot: Kate Powell was a happy housewife with her husband Tim and accepted working with small children in hospital who lack motherly love. When her best friend Ann Harding gets murdered at Halloween, she becomes her little kids Logan and Ellie's surrogate mother, while widower Mike Harding, who wasn't home again, blames himself for having put his business before his marriage, and gets rid of some of his materialistic show pieces. Then the theory rises that Kate may have wanted kids too much...
Keywords: children, husband-wife-relationship, motherActors: Tom Wontner (actor), Owen Carey Jones (editor), Owen Carey Jones (producer), Owen Carey Jones (actor), Owen Carey Jones (director), Owen Carey Jones (writer), Paul Hurstfield (actor), Ashley Cook (actor), Amanda Rawnsley (actress), Julian Kay (actor), John Barber (actor), Edmund Herd (actor), Mikey North (actor), Declan Wilson (actor), Hayley Taylor-Jones (actress),
Plot: Inspired by a true story, A Mind of Her Own tells the poignant and moving story of Sophie, a determined young girl whose ambition to become a doctor is obstructed by the fact that she is severely dyslexic. But Sophie, encouraged by her closest friend, Becky, has never been one to give up and, despite being advised by parents and school teachers to be realistic and pursue something less academic, she puts herself through college and university, in the process achieving a first class degree in biomedical science and a PhD conducting research into post trauma regeneration of the spinal column which ultimately leads to her achieving worldwide recognition for her work and helping to develop a cure for paralysis.
Keywords: dyslexiaActors: Paul Norman (director), Jay Ashley (actor), T.T. Boy (actor), Tom Byron (actor), Nick East (actor), Peter North (actor), Kaitlyn Ashley (actress), Chasey Lain (actress), Tiffany Mynx (actress), Paul Norman (writer), Jim Enright (director), Paul Norman (producer), Kaylan Nicole (actress), Cody Adams (actor),
Genres: Adult, Romance,Actors: Kevin Bacon (actor), Giancarlo Esposito (actor), Jeffrey DeMunn (actor), John Sayles (writer), David Strathairn (actor), Ellen Barkin (actress), Lou Criscuolo (actor), Steven Gilborn (actor), Eda Reiss Merin (actress), Mary A. Kelly (miscellaneous crew), Ron McLarty (actor), Sudie Bond (actress), Muffie Meyer (director), Muffie Meyer (editor), Zvee Scooler (actor),
Plot: This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three children are left by her shiftless husband and she is courted by an old beau who is now married. In the second, a divorced woman reacts to some unexpected revelations from her aged father. In the third, childless, middle-aged social worker is swept into an affair with cab driver Dennis, and finds herself pregnant.
Keywords: independent-film