Teen hearthrob James Van Der Beek dies at 48, stream his biggest titles
Teen hearthrob James Van Der Beek dies at 48, stream his biggest titles
From ‘Dawson’s Creek’ to ‘Varsity Blues’ to ‘Don’t Trust the B——’ to ‘POSE,’ watch all of his greatest hits.
For those of us of a certain age, there was likely never a more defining series in our youth than “Dawson's Creek.” The cultural phenomenon that surrounded Dawson, Joey, Jen, and Pacey catapulted four young actors to instant stardom. At the center of the cast was James Van Der Beek, who played the title character. In the late ’90s and early 2000s, Van Der Beek was a constant presence on screens large and small from turns in cult-classic football movie “Varsity Blues” to an iconic cameo in the original “Scary Movie.”
While his career never grew took off quite as much as his “Dawson’s Creek” costars, he routinely turned in compelling and interesting performances in shows and movies like, “Don't Trust the B—— in Apartment 23” (in which he played himself”, as the mercurial DJ Diploin “What would Diplo Do?”, and in the first season of the Emmy-winning series “POSE.”
On Wednesday, Feb. 11, Van Der Beek passed away at the age of 48 after fighting colorectal cancer for two and a half years. If you long for the days of Paula Cole’s “I Don’t Want to Wait” signaling the start of a new episode of “Dawson’s Creek,” we have assembled a list of where you can stream some of Van Der Beek’s best series and films.
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Dawson's Creek
January 20, 1998Dawson’s Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.
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Varsity Blues
January 15, 1999In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. When star quarterback Lance Harbor suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup under the questionable leadership of John Moxon, a second-string quarterback with a slightly irreverent approach to the game.
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Scary Movie
July 7, 2000A familiar-looking group of teenagers find themselves being stalked by a more-than-vaguely recognizable masked killer! As the victims begin to pile up and the laughs pile on, none of your favorite scary movies escape the razor-sharp satire of this outrageously funny parody!
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The Rules of Attraction
October 11, 2002The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
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Don't Trust the B—— in Apartment 23
April 11, 2012After a naive Midwestern girl’s big city dreams are dashed her first week in New York, she finds herself living with her worst nightmare in this hilarious, contemporary comedy about a female odd couple who are surrounded by an outrageous cast of characters.
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Friends with Better Lives
March 31, 2014A comedy about six friends at different stages in their lives – married, divorced, newly engaged and single – who are outwardly happy, but secretly questioning if their friends have it better. Andi and Bobby are happily married with two kids but at times long for the days they had less responsibility and more fun; Will is newly single and preaching the bachelor lifestyle, but still pining for his ex-wife; Jules and Lowell are high on their passionate new relationship; and Kate has a successful career but may take a swan dive into the L.A. River when she finds out her last remaining single friend, Jules, just got engaged. When it comes to relationships, these six friends are finding it a challenge to look at each other without wondering… who really has the better life?
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CSI: Cyber
March 4, 2015The FBI’s team of Cyber Crime Investigators, headed by Special Agent Avery Ryan, works to solve cases involving the dark-net. Avery, a Special Agent in Charge and esteemed Cyber-Psychologist heads up a team, including Senior Special Agent Elijah Mundo, tasked with solving murders, cyber-theft, hacking, sex offences, and blackmail.
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What Would Diplo Do?
August 3, 2017Being an international superstar DJ and producer doesn’t make you good at life. But ain’t nobody got put on this earth ‘cause they were perfect, right? So as long as we’re still in the game, we got a chance to get it right.
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POSE
June 3, 2018A dance musical that explores the juxtaposition of several segments of 1980s life and society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene.
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Sidelined: The QB and Me
February 6, 2025Dallas, a burdened but headstrong dancer, is determined to get into the best dance school in the country—her late mother’s alma mater. However, that dream is suddenly derailed when the cheeky yet secretly grieving football star, Drayton, crashes into her life with a unique story of his own. Will the two of them be able to grow into their dreams together, or will their dreams be sidelined?
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Sidelined 2: Intercepted
November 27, 2025Freshman star quarterback Drayton struggles with the weight of expectations after a devastating setback, while dancer Dallas begins to question the future she thought she wanted. As their high school relationship begins to unravel under the pressures of distance and self-discovery, they’ll learn that the bravest versions of themselves emerge when they let life redirect them.
