I mean, this scene pretty much sells it as a date movie.
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"It was a terrible date movie, but he got points for that," she said.
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Park City, Utah (CNN)It's the ultimate date movie -- a winsome romance touched by presidential ambitions.
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PARK CITY, Utah – To call Southside With You the Obamas' first-date movie is to sell it terribly short.
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If early screenings are to be believed, the film might end up being a kind of date movie for mom gangs.
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" Thomas added, while Reiner chimed in that "Equity" is "a really good date movie because guys love it, because it is a thriller.
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The movies In past years, the repertoire was familiar: a "date movie," a musical that people could sing along to, an art-house film.
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It is not a good date movie, or really a good anytime movie if you plan on doing anything else productive for the next several hours.
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Another rookie mistake is horror movies, which seems like a good date movie in concept, until your make out sesh is punctured by the screams of violent teen death.
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When I learned that it's a parody of the Fast and Furious franchise from the directors of Date Movie, Epic Movie, and Disaster Movie, I knew it would be fucking awful.
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In the film's best scene, M & M make love inside a car during a sandstorm: It's like Lawrence of Arabia as a date movie, or maybe The English Patient, only vehicular instead of aerial.
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As Cosmopolitan reports, things got awkward around the 48-minute mark, when Monk — whom you might know from her role in Date Movie, but probably not — asked the co-stars about the craziest places they've hooked up.
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We included The Tribe in our list of the best movies to watch while high for some reason, but the Ukrainian drama about a student gang in a school for the deaf ain't your typical date movie either.
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What makes the French masterpiece Portrait of a Lady on Fire — one of my favorite movies ever made, and the perfect Valentine's Day date movie — so good is that it's both a great romance and a great love story.
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In February, Mubi will start a "Discoveries" program, which, as its title implies, focuses on new films that have impressed its programmers at film festivals; it kicks off with "Le Parc," directed by Damien Manivel, a surreal animated date movie.
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The film won a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress (Carmen Electra, also in Date Movie).
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On other versions, the whole song is "clean", removing all explicit verses. The song was also featured in the 2006 films Step Up and Date Movie.
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At the box office in the United Kingdom, the film grossed just over £1 million. The BBC review noted that it is a "date movie that's well worth making a date with".
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Date Movie is a 2006 American romantic comedy parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. It was released on February 17, 2006 by 20th Century Fox and stars Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Sophie Monk, Tony Cox, Jennifer Coolidge, Eddie Griffin, and Fred Willard. A parody of the romantic comedy film genre, the film mostly references My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Meet the Fockers, Hitch, Legally Blonde, and Bridget Jones's Diary. Date Movie was panned by critics and has a 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but was a box office success, grossing almost $85 million on a $20 million budget.
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She appeared in the 2006 film Date Movie as a spoof of Barbra Streisand's Meet the Fockers character. The film received unfavorable critic reviews and Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film 77th in the 100 worst reviewed films of the 2000s, with a rating of 6%. However, Variety did praise Coolidge for providing a few bright moments with a spot-on spoof of Barbra Streisand, but was otherwise unimpressed describing the film as "padded and repetitious". Epic Movie, released in 2007 and made by the same people behind Date Movie, was the first movie in which she received a starring role.
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It was released on March 28, 2008 in the United States to generally negative reviews from critics (but more positive than earlier entries such as Date Movie and Meet the Spartans), but received a moderate box office success, grossing over $71 million worldwide.
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Meera Simhan is an English film and stage actress and writer. She appeared in Date Movie (2006) and several television and stage productions. She had a recurring role in Anger Management in 2013 and 2014. She was born in England and is now based in Los Angeles.
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Reportedly, Jackson told Moss, "You look really good." Moss has impersonated Jackson in a number of movies, including the third and fourth Scary Movie films and Date Movie. Moss also appeared as Michael Jackson on E! Entertainment, Sky News, and Sky 1's reenactment of the Michael Jackson Trial.
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" He also praised the musical editing, the close-up shots of the protagonists, and performances of Bernardo and Richards, describing them as tour de force. He wrote, "This is a date movie if ever there’s one. As they say back home, “just feel the feeling.” Sit back, secretly dab the tears away... resistance is futile.
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Filming took place in the state of Louisiana from April 28 to June 6. Oscar-nominated production designer William Elliott (who has done production design on the duo films since Date Movie), did the production design for the sets. The Chamber of commerce building in Shreveport was used for filming the natural history museum scenes in the film.
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Adam Campbell (born Adam Jones; 19 August 1980) is an English actor. He has appeared in films, such as Date Movie (2006), Epic Movie (2007), and Wolves at the Door (2016). He played the role of Cal Vandeusen in the horror miniseries Harper's Island (2009). Campbell also appeared as Greg Walsh in the sitcom Great News (2017).
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Monk quickly landed her break-out role in the spoof comedy film Date Movie. In July 2007, Monk made her American television debut in the HBO Comedy series Entourage. That same year she appeared in the dark comedy Sex and Death 101. Monk starred in the Warner Premiere comedy film Spring Breakdown alongside Parker Posey and Amy Poehler.
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He also made a short appearance in the movie Woo, with no lines. Over the summer of 2005, he regularly auditioned for opportunities which led to his being cast for the comedy Date Movie. After his success in the role of Chamo on the VH1 series I Love New York, Sanchez appeared in the straight-to-DVD sequel Bachelor Party 2 in 2008.
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Valery Milagros Ortiz (born August 1, 1984) is a Puerto Rican-American actress and model. She has appeared in various television series including South of Nowhere (2005-2008), Diary of a Single Mom (2009-2011), Hit the Floor (2013-2016) and Gabby Duran & the Unsittables (2019–present). Ortiz has also appeared in films including Date Movie (2007), Dumbbells (2014) and Thriller (2018).
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Joseph Anthony Cox (born March 31, 1958) is an American actor known for his roles in Bad Santa, Me, Myself & Irene, Date Movie, Epic Movie and Disaster Movie. He is also known for his role in George Lucas's Willow, as an Ewok in Return of the Jedi and as The Preacher in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice. Cox also appeared in various music videos.
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The following is a list of Teen Choice Award winners and nominees for Choice Movie - Romance. It was formally awarded under different titles and separate categories: Choice Movie - Date Movie in 2004 and 2005, Choice Movie - Chick Flick from 2006 to 2008, Choice Movie - Bromantic Comedy in 2009 and Choice Movie - Romantic Comedy in 2008, 2010 and 2011 before being retitled to its current title from 2009 in 2012.
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Challenging acting work from the start, she won the role of May, a heroin-addict and indentured servant trapped by NY Chinatown's Triads. Under the direction of James Foley (Glengarry Glen Ross), Chow Yun-Fat and Mark Wahlberg share textured scene work alongside Matiko. In Fox's 2007 release Date Movie, Matiko made her comedic debut alongside Fred Willard and Jennifer Coolidge, playing Betty. In the 2007 Dennis the Menace Christmas, she played Mrs.
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In 1998, Akrobatik released his first single, "Ruff Enough", on Boston's Detonator Records label. It was followed by "Internet MCs" and "Say Yes Say Word". His music has appeared on television series such as HBO's The Wire and ESPN's Playmakers, in films such as Date Movie and Wholetrain, and in video games such as NBA Live '06, Amplitude, Frequency, and Need for Speed: Most Wanted. In 2003, Akrobatik released an album, Balance, on Coup D'état.
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She has also appeared in multiple parody films, including the Scary Movie film series (2000–2006), Date Movie (2006), Epic Movie (2007), Meet the Spartans (2008), and Disaster Movie (2008). In 2005, Electra joined the voice cast of the animated television series Tripping the Rift and was a regular until the series ended. She has also occasionally worked as a dancer, most notably with The Pussycat Dolls, as a featured guest of the group on VH1 Divas 2004.
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Electra doing an infomercial for the "Thigh Styler". Electra's 2000s feature film appearances include the horror film Scary Movie (2000). In 2004, she appeared in the remake of the 1970s TV show Starsky & Hutch (2004), for which she won an MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss. Her subsequent films during that decade include Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005); Scary Movie 4 and Date Movie in 2006; Epic Movie (2007); and Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie in 2008.
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Epic Movie debuted at number one at the box office with a gross of $18.6 million over the opening weekend.Epic Movie - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes As of May 8, 2007, the film has grossed $86,865,564, with $39,739,367 of that amount earned domestically, despite negative reviews from critics. The film was an economic success for its producers not least because it had a comparatively low budget, estimated at $20 million (the same as Date Movie).
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The song was featured several television series and films including The Simpsons episode "The Great Simpsina", Family Guy episode "Sibling Rivalry", Jane the Virgin, South Park episode "Hummels & Heroin", The Glee Project, Nip/Tuck, Mean Girls, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, King's Ransom, The Big Short, Date Movie, 2 Broke Girls, Norbit and Identity Thief. The song was also covered by Ashleigh Murray, Asha Bromfield and Madelaine Petsch in the episode "Chapter Fifteen: Nighthawks" from the second season of the television series Riverdale.
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Campbell was first cast in Commando Nanny, an unaired sitcom for The WB Television Network, which was originally scheduled to premiere in 2004. He subsequently starred as Grant Fockyerdoder with Alyson Hannigan in the 2006 parody of romantic comedy films, Date Movie, which was a mild success at the American box office. He also starred in You Are Here, an independent film about a group of twenty-somethings, released in 2007. One of his biggest roles was in Epic Movie where he played a lead, Peter Pervertski.
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More recently, parodies have taken on whole film genres at once. One of the first was Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood and the Scary Movie franchise. Other recent genre parodies include. Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The 13th, Not Another Teen Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, Superhero Movie, Disaster Movie, Vampires Suck, and The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It, all of which have been critically panned.
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Meet the Spartans is a 2008 American parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer.Meet the Spartans at IMDb The film is mainly a parody of the 2007 film 300, although it also references many other films, TV shows, people and pop cultural events of the time, in a manner similar to previous films that Friedberg and Seltzer had been involved in such as Scary Movie, Date Movie and Epic Movie. The film stars Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra and Kevin Sorbo. Meet the Spartans opened at 1 in the United States.
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Sapan and AMC Networks funded Boyhood, a critically acclaimed movie that garnered six Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and for Best Original Screenplay. During Sapan's time as CEO of IFC Films parent AMC Networks, IFC had significant success with day-and-date movie releases. Recently, Sapan led the acquisitions of RLJ Entertainment in July 2018 and Levity Live in April 2018. In addition, in April 2018, he led AMC Networks to join 21st Century Fox and Sky Plc in a $75 million funding round for sports TV service FuboTV.
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While attending the University of Central Florida for a Bachelor in Fine Arts, Ortiz was given an opportunity to work on television show Splat! as a host. After the first season, a two-week road trip "vacation" to Los Angeles turned into permanent relocation to Los Angeles. Ortiz quickly started working on a local television show called LATV Live as a VJ. While working at the Hard Rock Cafe as a hostess, Ortiz was cast as in the comedy Date Movie as Jell-O, a Jennifer Lopez impersonation.
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Matiko is known for her starring roles as Julia in The Art of War and as Betty in the 2006 film Date Movie. For her performance in The Art of War, she garnered the nomination for Best Actress in a Feature Film at the 2001 AX Awards (the Asian-American Film and TV awards). Matiko was one of the AX Awards Top 20 Newcomers in 2006. In New Line Cinema's The Corruptor, produced by Oliver Stone, Marie Lan Matiko debuted on film as the love interest of Chow Yun-Fat.
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Sophie Charlene Akland Monk (born 14 December 1979) is an Australian singer, actress, model, and media personality. Monk was a member of the girl group Bardot, winners of the first series of Popstars Australia in 2000, and later released a solo album called Calendar Girl (2003). She has appeared in films, such as Date Movie (2006), Click (2006), Sex and Death 101 (2007), and Spring Breakdown (2009). Monk was the winner of the fourth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia in 2015, and in 2016, she was a judge on Australia's Got Talent.
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Blogcritics criticized some parts of the film, such as some "obvious holes" and plot lulls, but stated that the film was interesting and beautifully shot.Blu-ray Review: The Matrimony Blogcritics Variety praised the film, noting some similarities between the plot of Rebecca and The Matrimony.Matrimony Variety Dread Central gave the film three blades, writing that it "still manages to fall into the same quasi-supernatural trappings in its final act (including the aforementioned frustrating ending), but it sure is a touching date movie if nothing else."Matrimony, The (2007) Dread Central HorrorNews.
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From 2005 to 2006, the show experimented with a "Wagging Finger of Shame" feature, denoting films that were not made available for a standard advance screening and therefore could not be given either a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down". Failure to prescreen a film for reviewers is generally considered an indicator of low confidence by the distributor, apparently believing that negative reviews would harm opening-weekend box office sales. Films so spotlighted included The Amityville Horror, The Fog, In the Mix, Æon Flux, Underworld: Evolution, and Date Movie. This public rebuke was discontinued when Ebert decided the studios were not taking it seriously.
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In early 2004, Hannigan made her West End debut, starring in a stage adaptation of When Harry Met Sally... at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, opposite Luke Perry. In 2005, Hannigan returned to starring in a regular television series, taking the main role of Lily Aldrin in the hit comedy How I Met Your Mother, and also playing a recurring guest role on Veronica Mars as Trina Echolls. In February 2006, she starred as Julia Jones in Date Movie, a parody of romantic comedies. She was also a guest star on the ABC animated sitcom The Goode Family in 2009.
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Pre-Code Hollywood is the era in the American film industry between the introduction of sounds in the late 1920sLaSalle (2002). pg.1 and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become effectively enforced until July 1, 1934. Before that date, movie content was restricted more by local laws, negotiations between the Studio Relations Committee (SRC) and the major studios, and popular opinion than strict adherence to the Hays Code, which was often ignored by Hollywood filmmakers.
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Shortly thereafter, Cox decided to pursue acting after watching Billy Barty, a dwarf who was an actor and also founder of the organization Little People of America. Encouraged by relatives and friends, he moved to Los Angeles at age 18. He began taking classes at the Merrick Studio School of Acting with Scriptwriter De De Tillman and soon began working in commercials, film, and television roles. He is better known for his roles in Bad Santa where he played Marcus, the brains of a safe cracking duo, and in Date Movie where he played a parody of Dr. Hitch from Hitch.
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Jennifer Biddall, who rose to fame playing Jessica Harris in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2005 to 2008. Richard Cambridge is known for playing Pete Webster in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks Adam Campbell who moved to the United States after graduating from university and who is known for his roles in the American film parodies Date Movie and Epic Movie. Tabitha Wady is best known for playing Katrina Bullen in the BBC soap opera Doctors. Ella Smith made her television debut in an episode of the BBC Medical drama series Holby City in 2006.
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" On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Justin Chang of Variety wrote that the film "stands as something unique, even audacious in American independent movies: a fact-based presidential "prequel" that seeks to present two iconic world figures as convincing and relatable romantic leads. And on that particular score, Tanne's movie — toplined by the very well-cast Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers — is pretty much an unqualified success." Critic Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called it "the date movie of the year," and described it as "gorgeously romantic.
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The Lovin' Spoonful's version was ranked number 216 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In a 2007 DVD entitled The Lovin' Spoonful with John Sebastian - Do You Believe in Magic, author Sebastian illustrates how he sped up the three-chord intro from Martha and the Vandellas' "Heat Wave" to come up with the intro to "Do You Believe in Magic." "Do You Believe in Magic" was featured in The Parent Trap, American Pie, Date Movie, Temple Grandin, and Rolie Polie Olie. The original version was also the theme song for the short-lived TV series State of Grace.
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Despite its unusual story structure, the film was marketed and distributed in China as a romantic event film, and an ideal date movie for its New Year's Eve release. It also received a wide theatrical release. The strategy worked; by 25 December, the film had already sold 100 million yuan ($15 million US dollars) in presales tickets. Despite its strong presales, it faded quickly from the box-office charts, having grossed $41 million US during its initial three weeks (most of it from its 31 December premier). In China, its massive early box office success led to a backlash; the hashtag “can’t understand Long Day’s Journey Into Night” trended on social media, and users of the ticketing platform Maoyan drove its aggregate user rating down.
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Not even recommended as a date movie". Sukanya Venkatraghavan of Filmfare wrote, Jhootha Hi Sahi is like an amateur college play where everyone is trying too hard and the writing is just plain cocky, with no depth or direction". Sukanya Verma of Rediff wrote, "John's the best, forget the rest". She gave a 2 out of 5 rating to the movie. Mathures Paul of The Statesman gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, noting, "It really doesn’t matter if Abraham lost a few stones to play Sid, if Pakhi is a good scriptwriter (though she looks like a middle-aged aunt with two left feet), AR Rahman is the music director and Abbas Tyrewala's last film was the modestly successful Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. They all work in different directions".
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In 2016, Air Jordan released a special Radio Raheem sneaker based on the colors of the shirt that he wears in the film. In 2014, the 25th anniversary of the film Barack and Michelle Obama praised the film, and said they went to see it together on their first date.Obamas Praise First Date Movie Do The Right ThingDo The Right Thing Helped President Obama Impress Michelle On Their First DateObamas Interviewed Directly About Spike Lee This was later referenced in the 2016 film Southside With You where Barack discusses Mookie's motives with a white colleague after seeing the film. In the second season of Netflix series She's Gotta Have It, based on the film of the same name, Rosie Perez returns to portray Tina once more and it is revealed that not only is she the mother of Mars Blackmon (Anthony Ramos), but that Mookie is Blackmon's biological father.
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Jennifer Audrey Coolidge (born August 28, 1961) is an American actress, comedian, and activist. She is best known for her roles as Jeanine Stifler in the American Pie film series (1999–2012), as Paulette Bonafonté Parcelle in the Legally Blonde film series (2001–2003), and as Fiona in the romantic comedy film A Cinderella Story (2004). Coolidge is also a regular actor in Christopher Guest's mockumentary films, such as Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), For Your Consideration (2006), and Mascots (2016). Coolidge has appeared in films, including Click (2006), Date Movie (2006), Epic Movie (2007), American Dreamz (2006), Soul Men (2008), Gentlemen Broncos (2009), Austenland (2013), and Like a Boss (2020). On television, she is known for her roles as Roberta "Bobbie" Morganstern in the NBC sitcom Joey (2004–2006), as Betty in the ABC Family teen drama series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2012), and as Zofia ”Sophie” Kaczyński in the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls (2011–2017).
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