Dummy
Sometimes you need a little help finding yourself.
Genres
Overview
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$71646
Runtime
91 min
Release Date
2002-09-12
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
93
Vote Average
5.9
Adrien Brody
Steven Schoichet
Milla Jovovich
Fangora "Fanny" Gurkel
Illeana Douglas
Heidi Schoichet
Vera Farmiga
Lorena Fanchetti
Jessica Walter
Fern Schoichet
Ron Leibman
Lou Schoichet
Jared Harris
Michael Foulicker
Helen Hanft
Mrs. Gurkel
Richmond Hoxie
Sorensen
Mirabella Pisani
Bonnie
Adam LeFevre
Theater Director
6.7
Dreamgirls
A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.
2006-12-25 | en
8.3
Falsettos
The 2016 Broadway revival of William Finn's Tony-winning musical tells the story of Marvin, a Jewish family man who leaves his wife and son for a male lover during the height of the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York City.
2017-07-12 | en
6.1
The Jazz Singer
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
1927-10-06 | en
6.2
Go for Zucker
Germany director Dani Levy filmed this comedy about Jewish life in today’s Germany along side the familiar east-west conflict. With it great success this film is a joyful comedy of humor and knowledge.
2004-12-31 | de
7.9
Ben-Hur
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
1959-11-18 | en
6.3
Homicide
A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result.
1991-05-28 | en
5.3
Jeff Panacloc : À la poursuite de Jean-Marc
Feature-length adaptation of the ventriloquist duo.
2023-12-20 | fr
6.7
The Song of Names
A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.
2019-12-25 | en
6.5
Sunshine
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
1999-09-13 | en
6.7
Liberty Heights
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1999-11-17 | en
5.6
The Unholy Three
A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.
1930-07-12 | en
7.5
Jeff Dunham: Beside Himself
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2019-09-24 | en
6.8
200 Pounds Beauty
Based on a Japanese manga, Kanna-San, Daiseikou Desu, this story revolves around Kang Han-na, an overweight phone sex employee and secret vocalist for Ammy, a famous Korean pop singer who actually lip syncs as she cannot sing. After getting humilitated publicly by an ungrateful Ammy, Han-na undergoes an extreme makeover to become a pop sensation herself.
2006-12-14 | ko
5.2
Keeping Up with the Steins
All hilarity breaks loose in this heartwarming coming-of-age comedy when three generations of Fiedlers collide in a crazy family reunion. As they prepare for the biggest Bar Mitzvah on the block, they begin to see that they're much more alike than they'd originally thought.
2006-05-12 | en
0.0
Muppet Man
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5.3
As They Made Us
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2022-04-08 | en
0.0
The Actress
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1988-10-12 | de
6.9
The Believer
A hardcore US racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant scholar whose questioning of the tenets of his faith has left him angry and confused, turning against those who he thinks have a tragic history of their own making.
2001-08-23 | en
6.7
Jakob the Liar
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
1999-09-16 | en
7.0
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port.
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