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Annabelle Gurwitch

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Annabelle Gurwitch is a New York Times Bestselling author, actress, and television host. Her most recent book is Wherever You Go, There They Are: Stories About My Family You Might Relate to (Penguin Random House), in which Gurwitch writes stories inspired by her hilariously dysfunctional childhood. Other books: I See You Made an Effort, (Penguin Random House) was a Thurber Prize for American Humor Writing Finalist and a New York Times Bestseller; You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up (Random House), and Fired! (Simon and Schuster), premiered as a Showtime Comedy Special. Co-host of the popular Dinner & a Movie on TBS, she's written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, amongst other publications and was a regular commentator for NPR's All Things Considered. Gurwitch is adapting Wherever You Go, There They Are for Janollari Entertainment and NBC. She adapted I See You Made an Effort with Liz Tuccillo and producer Sarah Condon for F/X, and You Say Tomato, I Say Shut up with Jeff Kahn, for Lifetime.

04-11-1961

Birthday

Scorpio

Zodiac Sign

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42

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Anabelle Gurwitch, Annabele Gurwitch

Also known as (female)

Mobile, Alabama, USA

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

42 Works

producer

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director

2 Works

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2 Works

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Ambulance

Ambulance

Decorated veteran Will Sharp, desperate for money to cover his wife's medical bills, asks for help from his adoptive brother Danny. A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million.
6.6

Year:

2022

It's Us

It's Us

A volatile young married couple moves from Los Angeles to Vermont in search of a geographical marriage fix.
4.7

Year:

2016

Atlas Shrugged: Part I

Atlas Shrugged: Part I

A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
5.4

Year:

2011

A Buddy Story

A Buddy Story

Buddy Gilbert (Gavin Bellour) is a struggling musician living in NYC. He spends his days touring the northeast with his pet turtle, playing community centers, dive bars and coffee shops because, he says, it beats a 9-to-5. One day, Buddy overhears his neighbor Susan (Elisabeth Moss) get in a particularly bad argument with her boyfriend and, although he barely knows her, he finds himself taking her out for some cheer-me-up ice cream.
0.0

Year:

2010

Fired!

Fired!

When actress Annabelle Gurwitch was fired from a play by Woody Allen, she wondered how she would cope with being downsized by a cultural icon. Turning to friends in show business, she was assured she was not alone. Everyone she knew, from her rabbi to her gynaecologist, had their own account of getting the boot. Featuring interviews with comedians, economists and regular working folks, and drawing on her hugely popular book, Fired! is a humorous look at downsizing in America.
6.0

Year:

2007

Moola

Moola

Just as the business which Steve helped create, American Lightsticks, is on the brink of collapse, a huge 'deal' suddenly materializes, and he and his partners are sure that their lives have changed forever. A true-to-life comedy inspired by actual events.
3.6

Year:

2007

The Shaggy Dog

The Shaggy Dog

The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.
4.9

Year:

2006

Melvin Goes to Dinner

Melvin Goes to Dinner

Marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizards jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, and how it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
5.4

Year:

2003

Daddy Day Care

Daddy Day Care

Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.
5.9

Year:

2003

ManFast

ManFast

4 women fast from men for 100 days. No talking to, no touching of, no flirting with, and above all: no sex with men. When $1 million is offered to the first man who can break the fast, all hell breaks loose.
4.2

Year:

2003

The 4th Tenor

The 4th Tenor

A restaurant owner falls in love with an opera singer and, desperate to impress her, travels to Italy to learn how to sing.
4.1

Year:

2002

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920

On summer break from college, Indy stage-manages a new Broadway musical revue composed by George Gershwin. Indy also trades quips with the razor wits of the famed Algonquin Round Table - when not soothing temperamental stars, worrying over suspicious backstage malfunctions, and romancing three women simultaneously.
5.2

Year:

2002

Teddy Bears' Picnic

Teddy Bears' Picnic

In Harry Shearer's tongue-in-cheek comedy, a waiter at Zanbesu Glen (a chi-chi Northern California resort) uses his movie camera to spy on the annual communal vacation of a group of rich, white U.S. government and business leaders who drink and carouse to excess while plotting their next move on the global stage. His goal? To sell the embarrassing and incriminating footage to the media and expose the "leaders" for what they really are.
3.0

Year:

2002

The Medicine Show

The Medicine Show

A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
4.7

Year:

2001

Pollock

Pollock

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
6.7

Year:

2000

Goosed

Goosed

Sheltered rich girl Charlene has an over-protective mother who insists that her daughter should marry a rich doctor. After Charlene's psychic predicts that her future lover is named Steven, she heads to L.A. to search for him.
3.7

Year:

1999

Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss

Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss

Billy Collier is a photographer working on a series of pictures featuring recreations of movie kisses, with drag queens playing the female roles. For his male model, he hires Gabriel, a young waiter on whom he has developed a serious crush. While Billy is openly gay, Gabriel says that he is straight and even claims to have a girlfriend. However, as they spend more time together and grow closer, Billy becomes increasingly unsure that this is true.
5.9

Year:

1998

MouseHunt

MouseHunt

Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is worth millions. Before they can cash in, they have to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant—a tiny and tenacious mouse.
6.5

Year:

1997

One Night Stand

One Night Stand

In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat run-ins with a beautiful woman, Karen, and eventually sleeps with her. Though he goes home the next day and doesn't return until a year later, Carlyle's infidelity still lingers.
5.6

Year:

1997

Cadillac

Cadillac

Three friends experimented with acid in high school, Jimmy had a terrible acid trip that ended in a stint in a psychiatric hospital. Afterwards he spends his days restoring a 1970 Cadillac and clinging to long-gone ideals, while his two friends try to get on with their lives.
0.0

Year:

1997

Masterminds

Masterminds

A rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the students at his prestigious private school hostage.
5.3

Year:

1997

Love-Struck

Love-Struck

Two years after her last failed relationship, Emily Vale has stopped believing in love. This brings her to the attention of Venus who sends her son Cupid down to Earth to pierce her with an arrow in the hope of changing her mind. Unfortunately, the handsome but hapless Cupid misses and the arrow strikes his own heart making him fall hopelessly in love with Emily. Thus he is granted temporary leave from paradise in order to pursue her. However, not only does he have a limited time on Earth, but also Emily's last boyfriend, the handsome but sleazy Ted has just shown up intent on winning her back. Which one will Emily choose? And is she ready to open her heart and accept love into her life once more?
3.0

Year:

1997

'Til There Was You

'Til There Was You

Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
3.9

Year:

1997

Changing Habits

Changing Habits

An aspiring artist runs from men as a result of an early life problem that has left her relationship with her father strained. She decides to move into a convent where troubled women receive cheap lodging in exchange for work. She finds a dirty area in the basement where she paints a mural that deals with all of her psychological problems. While some find it gaudy, others such as the mother superior realizes its potential to save the convent which is to be closed. During all this the artist starts a relationship with a man who owns an art supply shop where she shop-lifts her supplies. Written by John Sacksteder
1.3

Year:

1997

The Cable Guy

The Cable Guy

When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the 'friendship', Chip shows his dark side. He begins stalking Steven, who's left to fend for himself because no one else can believe Chip's capable of such behaviour.
6.0

Year:

1996

Encino Woman

Encino Woman

After thawing, a young prehistoric woman, Lucy, gets herself taken care of by David, a young intern at a marketing firm. Working on a campaign ad for a cosmetics company, David becomes Mr. Bigshot when his protégé is chosen to be the model/spokeswoman for her animal personality.
4.0

Year:

1996

Intimate Betrayal

Intimate Betrayal

Two old friends reunite before a wedding to put the sins of their past behind them. What starts out as an evening of reconciliation turns into a night of sex and betrayal. A woman once again comes between them - one friend sets up another.
0.0

Year:

1996

Three Wishes

Three Wishes

While Jane Holman is driving with her two sons, she accidentally runs into a drifter, Jack McCloud, who breaks his leg. Being responsible, Jane invites Jack, and his dog, to stay at her home until his leg has healed. Jack struggles to adapt their lifestyle, and finds himself loved by the family.
6.2

Year:

1995

Not Like Us

Not Like Us

A sexy, horror-filled story featuring two gorgeous aliens who move into a small American town.
3.7

Year:

1995

Automatic

Automatic

Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks. But one night, an Automatic named J269 discovers a Robgen executive trying to rape a female employee named Nora Rochester. While trying to stop the crime, he inadvertently kills the executive. At this point, J269 then calls Goddard Marx (his creator and a Robgen chairman) to inform him of the incident. Marx tells the android to stay there with Rochester until help arrives, but Marx is intent on sweeping the fiasco under the rug by sending mercenaries to eliminate both J269 and Rochester. Now the two are fugitives on the run from a para-military hit squad.
5.1

Year:

1995

Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick

Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick

Just Like That: A receptionist in a large firm cheats on her voyeuristic lover with a delivery boy who has a crush on her. Another Woman's Lipstick: A young wife discovers lipstick on her husband's collar. She follows him, meets his mistress, and has a lesbian fling with her. Talk To Me, Baby: A man caught cheating in a bar by his wife admits his past dalliances on the drive home, which gets his wife aroused.
8.7

Year:

1993

The Tower

The Tower

A mix-up with a security card causes a malevolent building to try and kill an employee on his first day at work.
3.6

Year:

1993

Life with Mikey

Life with Mikey

Michael Chapman, a former child TV star, runs a struggling talent agency specilizing in child acts. When a young girl off the street puts on a real performance after he catches her picking his pocket, he may have just found the next big thing.
5.7

Year:

1993

Chance of a Lifetime

Chance of a Lifetime

Since the death of her husband 10 years ago, Evelyn has been working hard for her company, but had no private life. Now her doctor shocks her with the news that she may live only another 6 months. Spontanely she follows a TV ad and sets out for vacation in Mexico. There she meets widower Lloyd and they fall in love, go bungee jumping... until she gets another diagnosis from her doctor.
5.2

Year:

1991

Pizza Man

Pizza Man

When someone orders a pizza, Elmo the pizza man uncovers a government conspiracy and will stop at nothing to get his $15.23
2.8

Year:

1991

Teach 109

Teach 109

In the future, surgeons practice their skill on androids designed to imitate patients, but Dr. Garrett sees this as pointless since she cares little about fake robotic patients. However, her latest patient Teach 109 changes her mind.
7.0

Year:

1990

Your Mother Wears Combat Boots

Your Mother Wears Combat Boots

An overprotective single mother tries to stop her son joining the parachute unit by sending him to the college, fearful that he may end up his life like his father did. He secretly leaves the college and joins the army, but the mother finds out and makes a bet with him that if she passes the basic training, he will leave the unit.
5.6

Year:

1989

Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?

Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?

A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.
3.0

Year:

1988

TV-Dad

TV-Dad

TV-Dad has never had a family of his own, and when he finds out that he is going to die, he creates TV-Dad, a series of videotapes that contain his fatherly and husbandly advice in actions. Follow Judy when she purchases the TV-Dad video services and has a child with it as we watch how her life plays out.
0.0

Year:

1988

Bright Lights, Big City

Bright Lights, Big City

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
5.7

Year:

1988

Kiss Daddy Goodnight

Kiss Daddy Goodnight

At night, baby-face Laura dresses up as a vamp and lets random guys at bars pick her up, just to drug and rob them later. But then someone starts stalking her, and a person close to her is killed.
5.5

Year:

1987

Delivery Boys

Delivery Boys

A gang of boys under the Brooklyn Bridge are united by their common interest in break dancing. Some work as pizza delivery boys, hence they call themselves the "Delivery Boys". They form a dance team and enter a local break dance contest, sponsored by a woman's panty manufacturer. A rival gang's sponsor intimidates their employer into thinking she must keep the boys working so they won't be harmed. She gives the boys some "specialized" deliveries to make them late for the contest. The antics and calamities abound as the boys wrestle with her work assignments and getting to the contest on time.
3.5

Year:

1985