Recess: School's Out
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Joe Ansolabehere
E. G. Daily
Ashley Edner
Kevin Michael Richardson
Tress Macneille
Clyde Kusatsu
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For the kids of Third Street School, there's only one thing better than recess, and that's summer vacation. It's been a long, hard year, and now, T.J. Detweiler is ready to play hard--he's got nothing to do except hang out with friends. T.J.'s plans go awry, however, when he finds out that all his pals are going away to summer camp without him--leaving him alone all summer. His boredom comes to an end when, riding his bike past school, T.J. notices an empty light emanating from the main building. Convinced that something weird is going on in the school, he tries to tell his parents and the local cops who dismiss him. A series of events leads him to uncover a horrible scheme that not only does away with summer vacation--but eliminates summer itself. Former principal Dr. Benedict, who once tried to outlaw recess, now plans to use a laser beam to create winter year-round. To foil this, T.J. calls on all his friends, who are then joined by the faculty in a schoolwide effort to save summer.
Cast
E. G. Daily
Ashley Edner
Kevin Michael Richardson
Tress Macneille
Clyde Kusatsu
Erica Mer
Jack Johnson
Nick Turturro
Kath Soucie
Robert Goulet
Peter Macnicol
Murphy Dunne
Tony Jay
W. K. Stratton
Doug Stone
Phil Proctor
Danielle Judovits
James Woods
Mark Robert Myers
Erik Von Detten
Andrea Martin
Jessica Gee
Pamela Adlon
Ben Diskin
Rachel Crane
Wendy Hoffmann
Toran Caudell
Michael Shulman
Clancy Brown
Francesca Smith
Ashley Michael Bell
Klee Bragger
April Winchell
Ashley Johnson
Ryan Sean O'donohue
Robert Stack
Justin Shenkarow
Allyce Beasley
Dan Castellaneta
Rickey D'shon Collins
Melissa Joan Hart
Richard Jannone
Aaron Alexander Spann
Ken Swofford
Jason Davis
Jon Bruno
Gregg Berger
Charity James
Dabney Coleman
Jackie Gonneau
Erin Donavan
Ron Glass
Anndi Mcafee
Paul Willson
Jack Riley
Andrew Lawrence
Patrick Renna
Shane Sweet
Courtland Mead
Sarah Rayne
Glen-bob Sweet
Diedrich Bader
Charles Kimbrough
Steve Buellin
Crew
David Adler
Pamela Adlon
Kenneth J Alford
Elliot Anders
Joe Ansolabehere
Joe Ansolabehere
Joe Ansolabehere
Mark Archuleta
Steve Arenas
Bruce Babcock
Bruce Babcock
Bruce Babcock
Sung-chul Ban
Francis Barrios
Don Barrozo
Laurie Bean
Kevin Bernier
Robert Berryhill
Mark Bollinger
Mars Bonfire
Allyson Bosch
Allyson Bosch
Marshall Bowen
Susan Bradley
Mark Brammeier
Jeanette Browning
Cary Butler
Russell Calabrese
John I Carrillo
John Carter
Dominick Certo
Mi-kyung Chang
Mi-hye Cho
Mi-suk Cho
Myung-a Cho
Se-jeong Cho
Sung-hwan Cho
Un-cheal Cho
Bok-soon Choi
Hea-joung Choi
Jin-hee Choi
Jung-won Choi
Sung-wook Choi
Yoon-young Choi
Plamen Christov
Plamen Christov
Jae-hee Chung
Terry Claborn
Darren Clark
Harvey Cohen
Harvey Cohen
Keith Cohen
Brian E Cole
Andrea Coleman
Ricky D'shon Collins
Patrick Connolly
Dawn Connors
Christine Craig
Randy Crenshaw
Tom Dahl
Patrick Dalton
Joe Davenport
Barry Devorzon
Jennifer Dolde
Barbara Donatelli
Joan Drake
Mark Drop
Ken Dufva
Robert Duran
Dennis Dutton
Jerry Edemann
Louis L Edemann
Ronald Eng
Rick Evans
Blake Mciver Ewing
William Exter
Robert Fernandez
Michael Ferris
Sandy Frame
Nancy Frazen
James Fuller
Pete Gaffney
Eric Garcia
Marvin Gaye
Christopher K Gee
Paul Germain
Paul Germain
Paul Germain
Paul Germain
Leonard T Geschke
Michael Giammarese
Timothy Gilbert
Robert Goulet
Michael Gracey
Nicole Graham
Jonathan Greenberg
Jonathan Greenberg
Jonathan Greenberg
Carolyn Guske
Joel Halvorson
Denis M Hannigan
Denis M Hannigan
Lee Harting
Karen Hathaway
Brant Hawes
Ginny Hawes
Jimi Hendrix
Sun-mi Heo
Gloria Hoffman
Kent Holaday
Tommy Holmes
Yoo-mi Hong
Sun-wook Houng
Stark Howell
Jamie Huang
Robert Hughes
Ivy Joe Hunter
O'kelley Isley
Ronald Isley
Rudolph Isley
Doug Jackson
Jill Jacobs
Bart Jennett
Jason Phillip Johnson
Rob Jones
Eun-joo Jun
Baik-ma Jung
Jae-young Jung
Soo-yeon Jung
Doc Kane
Celia Kendrick
Eric Keyes
Eric Keyes
Bo-kyung Kim
Chan-joo Kim
Doo-you Kim
Hae-joung Kim
Il Kim
Jane Kim
Jong-beom Kim
Jong-tae Kim
Mi-jin Kim
Mi-jung Kim
Mi-sook Kim
Mi-young Kim
Min-sung Kim
Myung-hwa Kim
Myung-suk Kim
Sang-hee Kim
Seo-han Kim
Seung-hwan Kim
Seung-hwan Kim
Sung-eun Kim
Sung-ha Kim
Sung-hee Kim
Tae-jun Kim
Wu-hyun Kim
Yong-ho Kim
You-hee Kim
Young-che Kim
Yu-min Kim
Raymond King
Andrea Klein
David Knott
David Knott
Steve Kohler
Christopher Kracker
Ok-gil Kwon
Sang-kook Kwon
Angela Lee
Gun-shik Lee
Gyu-chang Lee
Hee-jung Lee
Hye-won Lee
Hyun-ae Lee
Il-hyun Lee
In-suk Lee
Joon-woo Lee
Jun-hae Lee
Kyung-hwa Lee
Kyung-pil Lee
Seung-hee Lee
Seung-hee Lee
Seung-ik Lee
Suk-chun Lee
Sun-young Lee
Yeon-kyeong Lee
Yoon-joo Lee
Yun-hee Lee
Paul Leka
Terry Lennon
Rachel Lipman
Joseph M Lohmar
Charlie Luce
Charles Lyons
Galt Macdermot
Andy Mackey
Maria Delia Manhit
Tris Mast
Thomas Mazzocco
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Robert Stack, 1919-2003
Stack was born in Los Angeles on January 13, 1919 to a well-to-do family but his parents divorced when he was a year old. At age three, he moved with his mother to Paris, where she studied singing. They returned to Los Angeles when he was seven, by then French was his native language and was not taught English until he started schooling.
Naturally athletic, Stack was still in high school when he became a national skeet-shooting champion and top-flight polo player. He soon was giving lessons on shooting to such top Hollywood luminaries as Clark Gable and Carol Lombard, and found himself on the polo field with some notable movie moguls like Darryl Zanuck and Walter Wanger.
Stack enrolled in the University of Southern California, where he took some drama courses, and was on the Polo team, but it wasn't long before some influential people in the film industry took notice of his classic good looks, and lithe physique. Soon, his Hollywood connections got him on a film set at Paramount, a screen test, and eventually, his first lead in a picture, opposite Deanna Durbin in First Love (1939). Although he was only 20, Stack's natural delivery and boyish charm made him a natural for the screen.
His range grew with some meatier parts in the next few years, especially noteworthy were his roles as the young Nazi sympathizer in Frank Borzage's chilling The Mortal Storm (1940), with James Stewart, and as the Polish flier who woos a married Carole Lombard in Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942).
After serving as a gunnery officer in the Navy during World War II, Stack returned to the screen, and found a few interesting roles over the next ten years: giving Elizabeth Taylor her first screen kiss in Robert Thorp's A Date With Judy (1948); the leading role as an American bullfighter in Budd Boetticher's The Bullfighter and the Lady (1951); and as a pilot in William Wellman's The High and the Mighty (1954), starring John Wayne. However, Stack saved his best dramatic performances for Douglas Sirk in two knockout films: as a self-destructive alcoholic in Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind (1956), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for supporting actor; and sympathetically portraying a fallen World War I pilot ace who is forced to do barnstorming stunts for mere survival in Tarnished Angels (1958).
Despite proving his capabilities as a solid actor in these roles, front rank stardom oddly eluded Stack at this point. That all changed when Stack gave television a try. The result was the enormously popular series, The Untouchables (1959-63). This exciting crime show about the real-life Prohibition-era crime-fighter Eliot Ness and his G-men taking on the Chicago underworld was successful in its day for several reasons: its catchy theme music, florid violence (which caused quite a sensation in its day), taut narration by Walter Winchell, and of course, Stack's trademark staccato delivery and strong presence. It all proved so popular that the series ran for four years, earned an Emmy for Stack in 1960, and made him a household name.
Stack would return to television in the late '60s, with the The Name of the Game (1968-71), and a string of made-for-television movies throughout the '70s. His career perked up again when Steven Spielberg cast him in his big budget comedy 1941 (1979) as General Joe Stillwell. The film surprised many viewers as few realized Stack was willing to spoof his granite-faced stoicism, but it won him over many new fans, and his dead-pan intensity would be used to perfect comic effect the following year as Captain Rex Kramer (who can forget the sight of him beating up Hare Krishnas at the airport?) in David and Jerry Zucker's wonderful spoof of disaster flicks, Airplane! (1980).
Stack's activity would be sporadic throughout the remainder of his career, but he returned to television, as the host of enormously popular Unsolved Mysteries (1987-2002), and played himself in Lawrence Kasden's comedy-drama Mumford (1999). He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Rosemarie Bowe Stack, a former actress, and two children, Elizabeth and Charles, both of Los Angeles.
by Michael T. Toole
Robert Stack, 1919-2003
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Released in United States Winter February 16, 2001
Released in United States on Video August 7, 2001
Based on the ABC children's television series "Disney's Recess".
Released in United States Winter February 16, 2001
Released in United States on Video August 7, 2001