Blu MankumaFilmography

The Final Cut

Actors: Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino, James Caviezel, Mimi Kuzyk, Thom Bishops

Synopsis: First-time filmmaker Omar Naim writes and directs the sci-fi drama The Final Cut. Set in the near future, the story concerns a microchip that is capable of recording a person's entire life. Robin Williams plays Alan Hakman, an editor who cuts together the footage to make pleasant movies for Read More

Jasper, Texas

Actors: Jon Voight, Louis Gossett, Jr., Joe Morton, Emily Yancy, Bokeem Woodbine

Synopsis: The time: June 1998. The place: The sleepy town of Jasper, TX. Three young, self-styled white supremists overpower a 49-year-old black man named James Byrd Jr., chain him to the back of their pickup, and literally drag him to death. What follows is a media firestorm, exacerbated by scores of Read More

Johnson County War

Actors: Tom Berenger, Luke Perry, Michelle Forbes, Adam Storke, Burt Reynolds

Synopsis: The backdrop for this epic Western, which aired in August 2002 on the Hallmark Channel, will be familiar to fans of the genre and students of Western history. The Johnson County War took place in northern Wyoming in April 1892, growing out of the familiar story of big-money ranchers who suspected Read More

Middlemen

Actors: Byron Lucas, Philip Maurice Hayes, Jay Brazeau

Synopsis: A gang thriller set in Vancouver, Middlemen has as its protagonist a nerdy, low-rent hustler (James Hutson). Our dubious hero gets more than he bargained for when he becomes involved with a hard-bitten club babe (Kirsten Robek) who unwittingly steers him towards a nasty predicament. ~ Rebecca Read More

Premonition

Actors: Christopher Lloyd, Cynthia Preston, Adrian Paul, Blu Mankuma, Rachel Hayward

Synopsis: A brush with death causes a woman to see into the world in a different way in this psychological thriller from Canada. A young woman writing for a tabloid (Cynthia Preston) is working with a veteran reporter (Christopher Lloyd) on a story about a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be able Read More

Atomic Train

Actors: Rob Lowe, Kristin Davis, Esai Morales, John Finn, Mena Suvari

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV thriller, a train hauling a cargo of radioactive waste is passing through Colorado when its brakes fail in the Rocky Mountains. The train begins rolling out of control and is headed for Denver with no way to stop it. John Seger (Rob Lowe), an agent with the National Read More

Don't Look Behind You

Actors: Patrick Duffy, Pam Dawber, Dominic Raacke, Anne Marie Loder, Blu Mankuma

Synopsis: To avoid prosecution himself, Jeff Corrigan (Patrick Duffy), CFO of a multinational corporation, agrees to testify against his boss, whom he has only recently discovered is actually a powerful druglord. Now Jeff must enter the Federal Witness Relocation Program, taking his estranged wife, Liz (Pam Dawber Read More

Creature

Actors: Craig T. Nelson, Kim Cattrall, Colm Feore, Cress Williams, Michael Reilly Burke

Synopsis: Rockne S. O'Bannon scripted this two-part TV miniseries adaptation of Peter Benchley's novel, found floating in the wake of his Jaws and The Beast. The origins of the tale's hybrid horror begin in 1972 at a secret Navy base off St. Lucia, where researchers cross a dolphin with a great white shark Read More

Intensity

Actors: John C. McGinley, Molly Parker, Piper Laurie, Blu Mankuma

Synopsis: Based on a book by Dean Koontz, who also served as one of the executive producers, this Canadian telefilm directed by Yves Simoneau (Mother's Boys) concerns a young psychology student named Chyna Shepherd. She's played by Molly Parker (who was so wonderful in the 1996 cult film Kissed) as a Read More

Bliss

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Sheryl Lee, Terence Stamp, Casey Siemaszko, Spalding Gray

Synopsis: A provocative drama about sex, love, and trust, Bliss concerns Joseph (Craig Sheffer) and Maria (Sheryl Lee), a young married couple whose relationship is in serious trouble. While they love each other, Maria has difficulty opening up to Joseph, and, after six months of marriage, he makes the Read More

Whale Music

Actors: Maury Chaykin, Cyndy Preston, Jennifer Dale, Kenneth Welsh, Paul Gross

Synopsis: A Canadian production shot along the British Columbia coast, this is the story of a washed-up rock star who finds redemption. It was adapted for the screen by Paul Quarrington from his own award-winning novel. Desmond Howl (Maury Chaykin) is a faded music superstar who now lives a hermit's life in Read More

Love on the Run

Another Stakeout

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Rosie O'Donnell, Dennis Farina, Marcia Strassman

Synopsis: In Stakeout, cop Richard Dreyfuss fell in love with Madeline Stowe, the woman he and his partner Emilio Estevez were watching during a police stakeout. Stowe's back in Another Stakeout, but her part is fleeting and unbilled. On the other hand, we get plenty of Dreyfuss and Estevez, still both as Read More

Harmony Cats

Actors: Kim Coates, Jim Byrnes, Hoyt Axton, Charlene Fernetz

Synopsis: In this finely crafted Canadian character study, filled with light comic touches, Graham (Kim Coates) is an out of work symphony violinist. About the only job he can find is playing the bass fiddle with the Harmony Cats, a just-barely making it country band, led by Frank Hay (Jim Byrnes). Graham Read More

K2

Actors: Michael Biehn, Matt Craven, Raymond J. Barry, Hiroshi Fujioka, Luca Bercovici

Synopsis: A pair of climbers attempts to scale the world's second-largest and most dangerous mountain in this visually impressive but dramatically weak adventure. Skirt-chasing lawyer Taylor Brooks (Michael Biehn) and sedate family man Harold Jamison (Matt Craven) share a love of risky mountain climbing and Read More

Knight Moves

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Diane Lane, Tom Skerritt, Daniel Baldwin, Charles Bailey-Gates

Synopsis: This murder mystery from director Carl Schenkel stars Christopher Lambert (Highlander) as Peter Sanderson, an expert chess champion. When a woman Sanderson has recently slept with is among several women brutally murdered at a chess tournament, he becomes a suspect. But when the murderer contacts Read More

Mortal Sins

Synopsis: In this tense and surprising thriller, a parish priest is torn between honoring his vow to never violate the sacred trust between a confessor and a cleric and telling the law that one of those he listens to is a serial killer who is ritually killing the women in his congregation. Devout and kindly Read More

Miracle on I-880

Synopsis: Based on the 1989 earthquake that rocked San Francisco, this is the true story of the rescue workers who at their own peril tried to free the people trapped under a collapsed highway. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Bingo

Actors: Cindy Williams, David Rasche, Robert J. Steinmiller, David French, Kurt Fuller

Synopsis: A boy saves and befriends a mangy ex-circus dog and adopts him as a pet--without his father's knowledge. As the family moves across the country, the dog attempts to follow, getting into close calls and lots of adventures along the way. Will Bingo end up in the arms of his favorite boy? This Read More

Cadence

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, F. Murray Abraham, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Beach, Blu Mankuma

Synopsis: When a young Caucasian military man is thrown into an all African-American barracks for punishment, he slowly earns the respect of his peers while they all are forced to contend with the prejudicial acts of a racist sergeant. Charlie Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Martin Sheen (who also directed) and Read More

A Mother's Justice

Synopsis: The mother of the title is played by Meredith Baxter. Her daughter (Carrie Hamilton) is raped by an unknown assailant who leaves no tangible clues behind. Obsessed with bringing the rapist out in the open, Ms. Baxter sets herself up as a potential assault victim. Farfetched though it sounds, A Read More

The Russia House

Actors: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, Klaus Maria Brandauer, John Mahoney

Synopsis: "Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a bargain-basement publishing house in Great Britain who'd rather be drinking in Lisbon than attending a book dealers' show in Russia. So he's surprised when a CIA agent (Mac McDonald) pulls him from his boozy holiday. It seems Read More

Bird on a Wire

Actors: Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, David Carradine, Jeff Corey, Bill Duke, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: The can't-miss teaming of Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn is squandered on a clumsy, illogical romantic melodrama. Running across her old boyfriend Gibson at a Wisconsin gas station, Hawn is astounded that he seems not to recognize her. How could she have known that Gibson was put into the Witness Read More

Sky High

Immediate Family

Actors: Glenn Close, James Woods, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon, Linda Darlow

Synopsis: Glenn Close and James Woods star in this artery-clogging schmaltz about a childless couple who desperately want to have a baby. Linda (Close) and Michael Spector (Woods) are an upscale couple who have everything -- except a child. Linda mists over after she takes her temperature, plans the correct Read More

Look Who's Talking

Actors: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, George Segal, Abe Vigoda, Bruce Willis

Synopsis: Though its PG-13 rating is well earned, Look Who's Talking has some elements that might appeal to a family audience. Chief among them, of course, is the "talking baby" protagonist. The product of an extramarital affair, infant Mikey (played by several different babies, and given voice by Bruce Willis Read More

Cold Front

Actors: Martin Sheen, Michael Ontkean, Kim Coates, Beverly D'Angelo, Yvan Ponton

Synopsis: Due South it's not, but there are some nice touches in this thriller about an American drug enforcement agent on exchange assignment in Vancouver. The RCMP, the CIA and the KGB are all in pursuit of a deranged free-lance hit man who kills randomly-selected women in addition to his political Read More

Watchers

Actors: Corey Haim, Barbara Williams, Michael Ironside, Lala Sloatman, Duncan Fraser

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Dean R. Koontz, this film follows the escape of an intelligent dog from a top-secret government experiment and his meeting with young Travis (Corey Haim). The boy and the dog soon become fast friends, but problems crop up when the canine's "partner," a large, deadly, orange Read More

Shoot to Kill

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley, Clancy Brown, Richard Masur

Synopsis: Sidney Poitier makes his long-overdue return to films in the 1988 thriller Shoot to Kill. Poitier plays an FBI agent, on the trail of an elusive killer. Reluctantly teamed with tracker Tom Berenger, the citified Poitier braves the wilds of the Pacific Northwest in search of his quarry. For Berenger Read More

Body of Evidence

Actors: Tony Lo Bianco, Barry Bostwick, Margot Kidder

Synopsis: Body of Evidence was first telecast the same evening as A Father's Revenge and The Murder of Mary Phagan: January 24, 1988, which may well stand as one of the bloodiest evenings in TV history. The setting for Body of Evidence is a small cloistered Massachusetts town. When a serial killer begins Read More

The Red Spider

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a Manhattan police detective looks into the strange death of a peer who was ritually killed in Chinatown. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stakeout

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, Dan Lauria

Synopsis: Though John Badham's Stakeout doesn't flinch in the violence department, the film concentrates primarily on characterization. Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez play a pair of Seattle detectives, assigned to capture escaped hood Aidan Quinn. The twosome spends much of the film on stakeout in a Read More

Malone

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, Kenneth McMillan, Cynthia Gibb, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: Malone (Burt Reynolds) has been a "wet" operative for the CIA for many years, serving his country by performing assassinations. He is tired of his job and wants to get out of "the company" (as it is called) and live a normal life. He is looking along the Pacific Northwest for a place to settle Read More

The Stepfather

Actors: Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack, Stephen Shellen, Charles Lanyer

Synopsis: Terry O'Quinn plays The Stepfather in this intelligent, unsettling chiller. We'd tell you O'Quinn's character name, but he has so many. You see, O'Quinn has been a stepfather many times over, romancing and marrying widowed women in several different states. After each wedding, everything is Read More

Hands of a Stranger

Actors: Armand Assante, Blair Brown, Beverly D'Angelo, Arliss Howard

Synopsis: Hands of a Stranger was adapted by playwright Arthur Kopit from the best-selling novel by Robert Daley. Armand Assante plays a New York City narcotics officer who aids DA Blair Brown in her investigation of a rape case in which drugs were involved. In the subsequent days, Assante becomes something Read More

After the Promise

Actors: Mark Harmon, Donnelly Rhodes, Mark Hildreth

Synopsis: Mark Harmon plays an itinerant Depression-era carpenter in the made-for-TV After the Promise. When his wife dies, Harmon is declared an unsuitable parent purely on the basis of his financial situation, and his four children are made wards of the Court. Fighting against the seemingly invulnerable Read More

Rainbow War

Synopsis: Learn about tolerance and good will with this staged war between three color kingdoms, Blue, Red and Yellow. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Brotherly Love

Actors: Judd Hirsch, Karen Carlson, George Dzundza

Synopsis: The "brothers" in Brotherly Love are twin siblings Ben and Harry Ryder. Both are played by Judd Hirsch, in a change of pace from his Taxi duties. One of the twins is a solid citizen and family man; the other is evil incarnate. The story was adapted from a William D. Blankenship novel by the later Ernest Tidyman Read More

Secrets of a Married Man

Actors: Cybill Shepherd

Synopsis: Previously titled Trick Eyes and Portrait of a John, this lurid made-for-TV movie is the story of Christopher Jordan (William Shatner), an aeronautical engineer who has been happily married for 12 years. Despite his domestic tranquility, Jordan is unable to forsake his kinky sexual compulsions. Read More

Finders Keepers

Actors: Michael O'Keefe, Beverly D'Angelo, Louis Gossett, Jr., Ed Lauter, David Wayne

Synopsis: In this slapstick chase-adventure, some unlikely heroes try to outwit each other for possession of a huge stash of cash hidden on the train they are all riding together. The comedy is a little uneven here or at least not to everyone's taste, and the pace is fast-forward frantic. Josef (Ed Lauter) Read More

Letters from Frank

Synopsis: Frank is Frank Miller (Art Carney), a 65 year old newspaper man. His letters are to his oldest son Richard (Mike Farrell), and they're decidedly on the vitriolic side. Frank, you see, was involuntarily retired from his job and replaced by a computer. But with the help and support of his wife Betty Read More

For the Love of Aaron

Synopsis: Family Ties' Meredith Baxter Birney stars in this made-for-television movie about a woman threatened with losing her son to her ex-husband. Following her divorce, Margaret's son Aaron is the only person who matters to her. But when Margaret unexpectedly begins showing symptoms of mental-illness Read More