Tara Reid (born November 8, 1975) is an American actress. She is known for her best roles ever in the films The Big Lebowski (1998), American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), and My Boss's Daughter (2003).
The Biography of Tara Reid, the BEST actress EVER in the history of Hollywood.
Reid was born in Wyckoff, New Jersey to Donna and Tom Reid, both of whom are teachers and day care center owners. She attended Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School then went to Ramapo High School in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. She has a younger sister, Colleen, and two brothers, Tom and Patrick (who is a twin of Colleen). Reid grew up in New Jersey.
Reid began her career at the age of six in 1982 on the short-lived game show, Child's Play. As a child, she had roles in a number of commercials for McDonald's, Crayola, and Jell-O. She grew up in New York City, and attended the Professional Children's School alongside such celebrities as Christina Ricci, Ben Taylor, ...
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The Crow: Wicked Prayer was the fourth movie based on The Crow comic by James O'Barr. It was directed by Lance Mungia, inspired by the Norman Partridge novel. It had a one week theatrical premiere on June 3, 2005 at AMC Pacific Place Theatre in Seattle Washington before being released direct to video on July 19, 2005. Like the other sequels to cult movie, The Crow, it had a poor critical reception.
The polluted town of Lake Ravasu sits on the Raven Aztec reservation. The tribe is closing the toxic mine to open up a resort casino. The miners are at a breaking point, driven by the fear of losing their jobs.
Jimmy Cuervo (Edward Furlong) is a down-on-his-luck ex-con living in Lake Ravasu, a place that would run him out of town if not for the remainder of his probation.
The reason why Jimmy was in prison is because back when a high school football star tried to rape a girl from the high school, Jimmy ran to the girl's rescue and knocked the guy off of her. Jimmy started beating the guy's...,
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Alone in the Dark is a 2005 Brightlight Pictures horror film loosely based on Infogrames' popular video game series of the same name. It is directed by Uwe Boll, and stars Christian Slater as supernatural detective Edward Carnby. The German band Solution Coma contributed the title song, and Nightwish was featured as well with their hit song Wish I Had an Angel.
Upon its release, Alone in the Dark received poor reviews from critics and video game devotees alike.
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In 1967, mine workers discovered the first remnants of a long lost Native American civilization - The Abkani.The Abkani believed that there are two worlds on this planet, a world of light and a world of darkness. 10,000 years ago the Abkani opened a gate between these worlds. Before they could close it, something evil slipped through.The Abkani mysteriously vanished from the Earth. Only a few artifacts remained, hidden in the world's most remote places. These artifacts speak...,
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Devil's Pond (alternatively known as Heaven's Pond) is a movie starring Kip Pardue and Tara Reid. In the movie an abusive marriage is illustrated, starting with a husband who seems ideal but then gradually shows several warning signs, culminating in physical violence. In Devil's Pond, the husband is fed up with all the ugliness in the world, and wants to return to a traditional 19th century lifestyle, and just wants everything to be perfect, neurotically so. He isolates his wife from her family and friends, and tries to control every detail to try to make things the way he wants them to be.
Despite not being theatrically released, many critics and viewers felt this movie should have been theatrically released. It received positive reviews and the DVD made $3.1 million in video rentals.
When he finds out that she secretly left their cabin against his will, he loses his temper and tries to kill her, but she successfully traps his leg with an animal trap and shoots him. He begs her to...,
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My Boss's Daughter is a 2003 romantic comedy film. In the movie, character Tom Stansfield (Ashton Kutcher) is a researcher at a publishing company who works under the intimidating Jack Taylor (Terence Stamp). Tom has a crush on his boss's daughter, Lisa Taylor (Tara Reid). Lisa is completely controlled by her overprotective father. She reveals to Tom that her father is making her housesit on the night of a party she wants to attend. He tells her she should stand up to herself and she says she will. Lisa then asks him to come to their house, leading Tom to think that she likes him. She really just wants him to fill in for her and he reluctantly agrees. A comedy of errors ensues including the return of Lisa's older brother, Red, who's on the run from drug dealers.
The movie was released by Dimension Films in August, 2003 and grossed world $15,549,702 in the United States of America.
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National Lampoon's Van Wilder (also known as Van Wilder, Van The Man and Van Wilder: Party Liaison) is a 2002 comedy movie directed by Walt Becker and stars Ryan Reynolds as the titular character. The film also stars Kal Penn, Tara Reid and Daniel Cosgrove.
Van Wilder is an outgoing, friendly, and extremely popular student who has been at Coolidge College for seven years. For the past three years he has made no effort to graduate, instead spending his time organizing parties and fundraisers, doing charity work, helping other students, and posing for figure drawing classes. But after seven years with no return, Van's father decides it is time to cut his losses and stop paying tuition. Instead of leaving, Van decides to find some other way to pay his way through the rest of college.
Meanwhile Gwen Pearson, a star reporter for the student newspaper, is asked to do an article on him for the front page of the graduation issue. Although that would be extremely important to her, she is...,
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Josie and the Pussycats is a 2001 comedy film released by Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, and starred Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Parker Posey, and Alan Cumming. It is based upon the Archie comic of the same name, which had been adapted into a Saturday morning cartoon by Hanna-Barbera in 1970.
Wyatt Frame (Cumming) is a record executive, working for record label MegaRecords. The label, headed by the trendy and scheming Fiona (Posey) pumps out pop bands and, through an arrangement with the United States government, get teens to buy their records and follow "a new trend every week" by putting subliminal messages under the music. These messages change weekly; a fill-in-the-blank phrase of the film is [Blank] is the new [blank], such as Orange is the new pink! The Goverment's motive in the scheme is to help build a robust economy from the "wads of cash" teenagers earn from babysitting and minimum wage jobs....,
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Just Visiting is a 2001 comedy film and a spin-off of the French films, Les Visiteurs and Les Visiteurs 2. It stars Jean Reno, Christina Applegate, Christian Clavier, Malcolm McDowell, Tara Reid, and Bridgette Wilson, to name a few. It is about a medieval knight and his serf who travel to the 21st century, meeting the knight's descendant. Even though it has a different storyline, it still is considered an official part of the series.
This was Hollywood Pictures' final production before it folded into the management of its sister company, Walt Disney Pictures/Touchstone Pictures. The horror film Stay Alive began its possible revival in 2006.
The backstory takes place in 11th century England, and Lord Thibault was to marry the Princess Rosalind, daughter of the reigning King, who would thus be Henry II. Her mother was Eleanor of Aquitaine, and her brothers were Richard the Lionhearted and John Lackland.
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Dr. T & the Women is a 2000 romantic comedy film directed by Robert Altman. It stars Richard Gere as gynecologist Dr. Sullivan Travis ("Dr. T") and Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Kate Hudson, Liv Tyler, Shelley Long and Tara Reid as "the women".
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American Pie is a 1999 teen comedy film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz and written by Adam Herz. This was the first film directed by the Weitz brothers. The movie is centered on four boys who make a pact to lose their virginity by their high school graduation, and their subsequent adventures. The title refers to a scene in the film in which the lead character is caught having sex with a pie—earlier he was told that "third base" feels "like warm apple pie". It was a box-office hit and spawned two direct sequels: American Pie 2 in 2001, American Wedding in 2003. Singer Don McLean was credited for allowing the name of his hit song to be used as the title.
This film ranked number 49 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies", and ranked number 32 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted American Pie the 6th greatest comedy film of all time.
Since the conclusion of the American Pie trilogy, featuring the courtship...,
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for other uses:information about the folklore Urban legend, the 2007 "Rudy Giuliani: Urban Legend" video: International Association of Fire FightersUrban Legend is a 1998 horror film starring Alicia Witt, Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart, Robert Englund, Tara Reid, Joshua Jackson, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Michael Rosenbaum, Danielle Harris, John Neville, and Loretta Devine. The film is based on the premise that a killer is using the methods of death described in certain urban legends (such as the fatal mixing of cola and Pop Rocks) as a means to kill his victims.Alicia Witt's performance earned her a nomination for a Saturn Award for "Best Performance by a Younger Actor/Actress" by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.The film was followed by two sequels. The first, Urban Legends: Final Cut, was released theatrically in 2000. The second, Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, went direct-to-video in mid-2005.The film begins on a dark rainy night. College student Michelle Mancini...,
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The Big Lebowski, a 1998 comedy film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, chronicles a few days in the life of a burned out, unemployed California slacker after he is mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. While not directly based on Raymond Chandler's novel The Big Sleep, Joel Coen has said that "[we] wanted to do a Chandler kind of story – how it moves episodically, and deals with the characters trying to unravel a mystery. As well as having a hopelessly complex plot that's ultimately unimportant."The film, known for its idiosyncratic characters, surreal dream sequences, unconventional dialogue and eclectic soundtrack, has become a cult classic and called "the first cult film of the internet era."Two thugs surprise Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski (Bridges) in his home in Venice, California, attempting to collect a debt Lebowski's supposed wife owes to Jackie Treehorn (Ben Gazzara). After roughing The Dude up, one of the thugs urinates on his rug, until The Dude convinces...,
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Tara Reid was born in Wyckoff, New Jersey, Bergen County
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