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Catchfire

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Catchfire is a 1990 American action thriller film directed by Dennis Hopper and starring Jodie Foster, Hopper, Fred Ward and Vincent Price with cameo appearances by several other notable actors, including Charlie Sheen, Joe Pesci and Catherine Keener. [1]

27 relations: Action film, Alan Smithee, Alex Cox, Bob Dylan, Burke Byrnes, Cable television, Cameo appearance, Catherine Keener, Charlie Sheen, Curt Sobel, Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper, Dick Clark, Director's cut, Fred Ward, Jodie Foster, Joe Pesci, John Turturro, Julie Adams, Screenwriting, Thriller (genre), Tod Davies, Toni Basil, United States, Vestron Pictures, Vincent Price, 1988 Writers Guild of America strike.

Action film

Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist or protagonists are thrust into a series of challenges that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases.

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Alan Smithee

Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) is an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project.

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Alex Cox

Alexander B. H. Cox (born 15 December 1954) is an English film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author, broadcaster and sometime actor.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Burke Byrnes

Burke Byrnes (born December 9, 1937) is an American actor and voice actor.

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Cable television

Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to paying subscribers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fiber-optic cables.

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Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a work of the performing arts, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves.

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Catherine Keener

Catherine Ann Keener (born March 23, 1959) is an American actress.

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Charlie Sheen

Carlos Irwin Estévez (born September 3, 1965), known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor.

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Curt Sobel

Curt Elliot Sobel, born on October 26, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan, is an American composer, and music editor.

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Dean Stockwell

Robert Dean Stockwell (born March 5, 1936) is an American actor of film and television, with a career spanning over 70 years.

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Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist.

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Dick Clark

Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1957 to 1987.

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Director's cut

A director's cut is an edited version of a film (or television episode, music video, commercial, or video game) that is supposed to represent the director's own approved edit.

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Fred Ward

Freddie Joe "Fred" Ward (born December 30, 1942) is an American character actor, producer and model.

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Jodie Foster

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress, director, and producer.

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Joe Pesci

Joseph Frank Pesci (born February 9, 1943) is an American actor, comedian and singer.

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John Turturro

John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an Italian-American character actor, writer and filmmaker known for his roles in the films Do the Right Thing (1989), Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Quiz Show (1994), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and four entries in the ''Transformers'' film series, most recently ''The Last Knight'' (2017).

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Julie Adams

Julie Adams (born Betty May Adams; October 17, 1926) is an American actress, primarily in television.

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Screenwriting

Screenwriting, also called scriptwriting, is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games.

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Thriller (genre)

Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres.

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Tod Davies

Tod Davies (born 1955, San Francisco) is a writer, publisher and producer.

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Toni Basil

Antonia Christina Basilotta (born September 22, 1943), better known by her stage name Toni Basil, is an American singer-songwriter, actress, filmmaker, film director, choreographer, and dancer, best known for her multi-million-selling worldwide 1982 hit "Mickey", which reached No 1 in several countries.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vestron Pictures

Vestron Pictures is an American film studio and distributor, and a former division of Austin O. Furst, Jr.'s Vestron Inc., best known for their 1987 release of Dirty Dancing.

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Vincent Price

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films.

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1988 Writers Guild of America strike

The 1988 Writers Guild of America strike was a strike action taken by members of both the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) against major United States television and film studios represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catchfire

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