Bruce McGillFilmography

From Mexico With Love

Actors: Kuno Becker, Bruce McGill, Alex Nesic, Steven Bauer, Danay Garcia, Stephen Lang

Synopsis: Jimmy Nickerson, fight coordinator on such films as Raging Bull and Rocky, takes the directorial reins for this tale of a self-destructive amateur boxer seeking to follow in his father's footsteps by making a name for himself in the ring. Hector Villa (Kuno Becker) may have the spirit of a winner Read More

Obsessed

Actors: Idris Elba, Beyoncé Knowles, Ali Larter, Bruce McGill, Jerry O'Connell

Synopsis: Enticement leads to terror when a sexy office temp forms a dangerous fixation on a successful and happily married asset manager. Derek Charles (Idris Elba) is good at his job; so good that he's recently earned a big promotion. He's worked hard to get to the top, and when his workday is finished Read More

W.

Actors: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn, Thandie Newton, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Josh Brolin stars as George W. Bush in this Oliver Stone biopic that traces the head of state's rise to power from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. Co-written by Stanley G. Weiser, Bush is Read More

The Perfect Game

Actors: Clifton Collins, Jr., Cheech Marin, Emilie de Ravin, Jake T. Austin, Moisés Arias

Synopsis: William Dear (Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann) helms the period baseball drama The Perfect Game, a cinematization of real-life events that transpired in 1957. Clifton Collins Jr. stars as Cesar Faz, a 1950s baseball player who immigrated from Mexico to the U.S. with the intent of making it Read More

Vantage Point

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Bruce McGill, Edgar Ramirez

Synopsis: Forest Whitaker, Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, and Matthew Fox star in director Pete Travis' Rashomon-style thriller in which an assassination attempt on the president of the United States is detailed from five unique perspectives. As the president arrives in Salamanca, gunshots ring out. An Read More

Recount

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley, Jr., Laura Dern, John Hurt

Synopsis: Kevin Spacey and Bob Balaban headline Austin Powers director Jay Roach's all-star docudrama examining the events surrounding the most controversial presidential election in United States history. The highest office in the country is up for grabs, and the fate of the free world may hang in the Read More

Slow Burn

Actors: Ray Liotta, LL Cool J, Mekhi Phifer, Bruce McGill, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Synopsis: A cop trying to clear the name of a woman he loves falls deep into a morass of corruption in this crime thriller. Ford Cole (Ray Liotta) is the district attorney in a crime-ridden town where he's contemplating a run for mayor in a bid for greater power. Cole is also having an affair with one of Read More

The Lookout

Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino

Synopsis: A former high-school hockey star handicapped in a tragic car accident becomes an unlikely ally to a crack team of determined bank robbers in this thriller starring Jeff Daniels and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. When his promising career on the ice is suddenly cut short, former athlete Chris Pratt (Gordon-Levitt Read More

The Good Life

Actors: Mark Webber, Zooey Deschanel, Harry Dean Stanton, Drea de Matteo, Patrick Fugit, Chris Klein

Synopsis: First-time helmer Steve Berra writes and directs the finely felt coming-of-age story The Good Life, a film à clef loosely based on Berra's experiences growing up in a Nebraskan small town during the '70s and '80s. Mark Webber stars as the director's alter ego, a more or less well-adjusted Read More

American Fork

Actors: Hubbel Palmer, William Baldwin, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Kathleen Quinlan, Vincent Caso

Synopsis: A terminally optimistic working class dreamer attempts to shed a few extra pounds, inspire others, and finally get his driver's license so he can fuel up and set out on the road to success. Tracy (Hubbel Palmer) is a 400 pound grocery clerk who's convinced he's destined for greatness. While he's Read More

Outlaw Trail

Synopsis: The great nephew of famed outlaw Butch Cassidy sets out to redeem the family name and discover his distant uncle's true fate in this Wild West adventure for the entire family. Legend has it that Cassidy died during a late night gunfight in Bolivia, but some historians remain convinced that the Read More

Bionic Woman [TV Series]

Actors: Michelle Ryan, Miguel Ferrer, Molly Price, Will Yun Lee, Chris Bowers

Synopsis: A remake of the popular 1970s fantasy/adventure series of the same name, NBC's Bionic Woman starred Michelle Ryan as Jaime Sommers, the character originally played by Lindsay Wagner. In the earlier series, Jaime was a professional athlete; in the new version, she was a bartender and soon-to-be Read More

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil

Actors: Peter Coyote, Keith David, Bruce McGill, Nicholas Gonzalez

Synopsis: North Korea is threatening to flex its nuclear muscle, and it's up to a team of US Navy SEALs to prevent a catastrophe in this action-packed sequel to Behind Enemy Lines starring Bruce McGill, Keith David, and Peter Coyote. Everything was going as planned, but when the mission is aborted after the Read More

Elizabethtown

Actors: Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Judy Greer, Jessica Biel

Synopsis: A young man in need of a fresh start gets one under highly unexpected circumstances in this emotionally resonant comedy drama from writer and director Cameron Crowe. Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) is considered the big success story in his family, having moved away from the small Kentucky town where Read More

Cinderella Man

Actors: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko, Paddy Considine

Synopsis: The true story of an athlete who achieved his greatest success against the most daunting odds of his life is brought to the screen in this historical drama. In the 1920s, James Braddock (Russell Crowe) from Bergen, NJ, was a promising contender in professional boxing; he had strength, spirit, and Read More

Valley of the Heart's Delight

Actors: Gabriel Mann, Pete Postlethwaite, Bruce McGill, Diana Scarwid, Tom Bower

Synopsis: A young reporter is forced to take an active role in a story he's covering in this drama inspired by a true story. Jack Daumier (Gabriel Mann) is a journalist who has just been hired to write for The Valley Standard, a newspaper in San Jose, California published by Albion Munson (Pete Read More

Collateral

Actors: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg

Synopsis: A taxi driver is unexpectedly taken on the ride of his life in this stylish thriller from acclaimed director Michael Mann. Max (Jamie Foxx) is a cab driver who hopes to some day open his own limo company; one night behind the wheel begins promisingly when he picks up Annie (Jada Pinkett Smith), an Read More

Runaway Jury

Actors: John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce Davison, Jeremy Piven

Synopsis: Three people attempt to bend justice for their own purposes in this drama based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham. After a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun, with her lawyer, Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman), arguing that Read More

Matchstick Men

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman, Bruce Altman, Bruce McGill, Fran Kranz

Synopsis: Ridley Scott directs the crime comedy Matchstick Men, based on the novel of the same name by Eric Garcia. Neurotic con man Roy (Nicolas Cage) suffers from several emotional problems, including obsessive-compulsive disorder. He and his partner Frank (Sam Rockwell) swindle people out of money by Read More

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field, Regina King, Jennifer Coolidge, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Taking home a paycheck that nearly rivals the budget of the first film, Reese Witherspoon reprises the role of Elle Woods in this sequel to 2001's surprise blockbuster Legally Blonde. When she's fired from her job at an upscale law firm for voicing her stance against the testing of cosmetics on Read More

Unseen + Untold: Animal House

Actors: Tim Matheson, Peter Riegert, Karen Allen, Bruce McGill, John Landis

Synopsis: On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the release of the classic "raunch comedy" National Lampoon's Animal House, the Spike TV cable channel offered this behind-the-scenes special on the making of the film. Amidst a sea of anecdotes concerning the mercurial behavior of the film's star, John Belushi Read More

Justice League: Eclipsed, Part 2

Actors: Tracey Walter, Enrico Colantoni, Brian Doyle-Murray, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, an evil alien spirit continues to wage war against mankind via the Black Heart, a powerful lunar gemstone. The stone has cast its sinister spell on virtually every member of the Justice League, transforming them from heroes to villains. Only The Flash has Read More

Justice League: Eclipsed, Part 1

Actors: Tracey Walter, Enrico Colantoni, Brian Doyle-Murray, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, peacekeepers in the Middle East unearth "The Black Heart," a lunar gemstone with awesome powers. It turns out that the stone is possessed by an evil alien spirit, bent on destroying everyone on earth. The Justice League is drawn into the story when Wonder Read More

The Sum of All Fears

Actors: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates

Synopsis: The successful franchise of Paramount motion pictures based on novelist Tom Clancy's techno-thrillers featuring heroic CIA intelligence analyst Jack Ryan stages a much-publicized "do-over" with this action-adventure that recasts the character of Ryan as a rookie to the complex game of geopolitical Read More

Live From Baghdad

Actors: Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Lili Taylor, Joshua Leonard, David Suchet

Synopsis: As America geared itself for another possible armed conflict in Iraq, the HBO cable service offered a dramatization of events surrounding the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Originally telecast on December 8, 2002, Live From Baghdad recounted the efforts by the CNN network to be first on the scene when Read More

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Felonius Monk

Synopsis: The CSI team is called in after four monks are shot to death at close range while worshipping in a Buddhist temple. As Grissom (William L. Petersen) looks into this possible hate crime -- and also advises Sara (Jorja Fox) to be more respectful of the dead than usual -- Catherine (Marg Read More

Ali

Actors: Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver

Synopsis: Notoriously obsessive director Michael Mann and star Will Smith devoted nearly two years and over 100 million dollars from the coffers of Columbia Pictures and other financiers to creating this biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time Read More

Shallow Hal

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Black, Jason Alexander, Joe Viterelli, Rene Kirby

Synopsis: Jack Black continues his march to stardom with this typical Farrelly brothers blend of broad comedy and a heartfelt message. Black is Hal Larsen, a shallow man rapidly approaching middle age whose superficiality can be attributed to his father's deathbed admonition to only date young, beautiful Read More

Exit Wounds

Actors: Steven Seagal, DMX, Isaiah Washington, Anthony Anderson, Michael Jai White, Jill Hennessy

Synopsis: Returning to his action feature terrain after a short hiatus, Steven Seagal plays Orin Boyd, a maverick Detroit detective with an unconventional way of taking down foes. After a failed intervention in a terrorist kidnapping case that humiliates his superiors, Boyd -- who is hailed as a top-drawer Read More

61*

Actors: Barry Pepper, Thomas Jane, Anthony Michael Hall, Richard Masur, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Noted baseball fan Billy Crystal directed this made-for-cable drama set in the summer of 1961, as two of the strongest hitters in the major leagues, Mickey Mantle (Thomas Jane) and Roger Maris (Barry Pepper), find themselves neck and neck in a battle to break Babe Ruth's long-standing record for Read More

Wolf Lake

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Tim Matheson, Graham Greene, Sharon Lawrence, Scott Bairstow

Synopsis: Due to the round-the-clock coverage of the World Trade Center tragedy, the beginning of the fall 2001 TV season was delayed on all of the major networks. The first "new" primetime series to be unveiled was CBS's Wolf Lake, a quirky supernatural effort in the tradition of The X-Files and Twin Read More

Inside the Osmonds

Actors: Bruce McGill, Veronica Cartwright, Joel Berti, Pat Kirkpatrick, Jason Knight

Synopsis: The second of two made-for-TV biopics on the same topic (the first was Side by Side: The True Story of the Osmond Family), Inside the Osmonds was co-produced by Jimmy Osmond and Dick Clark, and as such can be regarded as reasonably accurate, if a tad on the hokey side. Matt Dorff's teleplay Read More

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Actors: Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch

Synopsis: Robert Redford directed this adaptation of a novel by Steven Pressfield that uses golf as a metaphor for one man's spiritual and philosophical journeys. Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) was a gifted amateur golfer from Savannah, GA, until traumatic experiences during World War I shattered his Read More

Running Mates

Actors: Tom Selleck, Laura Linney, Nancy Travis, Teri Hatcher, Bob Gunton, Bruce McGill, Faye Dunaway

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stretches his dramatic range by playing a liberal Democrat in this comedy-drama satirizing the underside of party politics. Governor James Pryce (Tom Selleck) is a well-respected politician with a strong reformist streak who is a shoo-in for the Democratic Party's presidential Read More

Deep Core

Actors: Craig Sheffer, James Russo

Synopsis: Ego-driven industrialist Alan Morrisey (Harry VanGorkum) has paid to develop the ultimate mining machine -- a nearly invincible vehicle that uses laser energy to burrow through anything. But the machine's creator, Brian Goodman (Craig Sheffer), knows that it is too good at what it does and Read More

The Insider

Actors: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: The Insider tells the true story of a man who decided to tell the world what the seven major tobacco companies knew (and concealed) about the dangers of their product. Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) was a scientist employed in research for a tobacco firm, Brown and Williamson. Not long after he Read More

A Dog of Flanders

Actors: Jack Warden, Jeremy James Kissner, Jesse James, Jon Voight, Cheryl Ladd

Synopsis: The fifth film version of the classic 19th century children's tale by Ouida (aka Marie-Louise de la Ramée), A Dog of Flanders tells the story of young Nello (Jesse James), a boy growing up with his grandfather Jehan (Jack Warden) after the death of his parents. Although Jehan has little in the way Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Relativity

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Ground Control

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Sean Leonard, Kelly McGillis, Kristy Swanson

Synopsis: Ground Control follows the reluctant return to work of Jack Harris (Kiefer Sutherland), a retired air traffic controller who is still haunted by his role in a probably unavoidable plane crash that has left him guilt-ridden and professionally gun shy. When a Phoenix airport fighting budget cutbacks Read More

Everything That Rises

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Mare Winningham, Harve Presnell, Meat Loaf, Ryan Merriman

Synopsis: Dennis Quaid made his directorial debut with this TV movie, a contemporary western filmed in Livingston, Montana with Quaid also down as executive producer. Tough, unemotional ranchowner Jim Clay (Quaid) and his faithful wife Kyle (Mare Winningham) have a teenage son Nathan (Ryan Merriman) who Read More

Rosewood

Actors: Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill, Loren Dean

Synopsis: Rosewood is the true story of an almost unknown incident in a small Florida town, (fictionalized, but faithful to the known facts, as documented in a 1994 report by the Florida Legislature). The town was inhabited almost entirely by quiet, "middle-class" African- Americans (most of them home and Read More

Lawn Dogs

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Christopher McDonald, Kathleen Quinlan, Bruce McGill, Mischa Barton

Synopsis: A young girl finds friendship on the wrong side of the career tracks in this drama. Camelot Gardens is a "gated community" where wealthy people can purchase luxurious (if sterile) homes and a security force ensures that riffraff will be kept away from your door after nightfall. The Stockard family Read More

Black Sheep

Actors: Chris Farley, David Spade, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Handsome, smooth-talking Al Donnelly (Tim Matheson) has everything going for him. A politician, he is engaged in a heated gubernatorial race with the feisty Governor Tracy (Christine Ebersole), a tough old bird who doesn't hesitate to play hardball with opponents. Unfortunately for her, things are Read More

Babylon 5: Severed Dreams

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: Appalled by the civil unrest on Earth, Sheridan declares Babylon 5 as an independent state. As President Clark summons his forces to seize control of B5, Delenn asks Minbari for help. A Ranger arrives with news that throws Delenn for a loss. And that is all that can be said without giving away the Read More

Courage Under Fire

Actors: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt Damon

Synopsis: A soldier discovers how elusive the truth can be in this first major film about America's role in the Gulf War. Lt. Col. Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) was the commander of a unit during Operation Desert Storm who mistakenly ordered the destruction of what he believed to be an enemy tank Read More

Perfect Alibi

Actors: Teri Garr, Hector Elizondo, Lydie Denier, Kathleen Quinlan, Charles Martin Smith

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a detective and a widow pair up to solve a double homicide in Beverly Hills. A conniving French nanny seems to hold the key to cracking the case. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Timecop

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill, Gloria Reuben

Synopsis: Based on a comic book story, this futuristic film follows the time-travel exploits of policeman Max Walker (Claude Van Damme). In 1994, Walker's wife Melissa (Mia Sara) is about to tell him that she is expecting their first child when they are attacked by a group of criminals. Walker is shot and Read More

A Perfect World

Actors: Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, T.J. Lowther, Keith Szarabajka

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood, hot off of his Academy Award win for Unforgiven, directed this small character study, appearing in the guise of a cops-and-robbers action picture. The film takes place during the fall of 1963. Eight-year old Phillip Perry (T.J. Lowther), the son of a devout Jehovah's Witness Read More

Cliffhanger

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner, Rex Linn, Paul Winfield, Ralph Waite

Synopsis: In Cliffhanger, Sylvester Stallone plays Gabe Walker, a member of a mountain-climbing rescue team. Gabe is haunted by an incident from his past when he couldn't save the girlfriend of his best friend, Hal Tucker (Michael Rooker), from falling to her death. As the story begins, Gabe has left Read More

Black Widow Murders: the Blanche Taylor Moore Story

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, David Clennon, John M. Jackson, Grace Zabriskie, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Former Bewitched TV-star Elizabeth Montgomery plays against type and stars as a murderess in this made-for-television movie. Based on the book Preacher's Girl by Jim Schutze, Montgomery stars as the real-life killer Blanche Taylor Moore who was caught by authorities in 1989. The movie chronicles Read More

My Cousin Vinny

Actors: Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei, Mitchell Whitfield, Fred Gwynne

Synopsis: When sweet Northern college kid Bill (Ralph Macchio) and his buddy Stan (Mitchell Whitfield) are picked up and thrown into the slammer in a hick Southern town, at first it looks like no big deal. Then they are informed that they are accused of murder. Penniless and without a single friend in the Read More

Desperate Choices: To Save My Child

Actors: Joanna Kerns, Bruce Davison, Reese Witherspoon, Joseph Mazzello, Jeremy Sisto

Synopsis: When his daughter Renee Witherspoon is stricken with leukemia, father Bruce Davison hopes to find a bone-marrow transplant within his own family. The most likely candidate is Renee's half-brother Joe Mazzello. But Joe's natural mother (and Renee's stepmother) Joanna Kerns, fearful that her son Read More

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

Actors: Charlton Heston, Richard Thomas, James Coburn, Leon Russom, John M. Jackson

Synopsis: On July 19, 1989, a DC-10 en route from Denver to Philadelphia lost all its hydraulics and broke apart just outside of the Sioux City, Iowa airport, killing 110 of the 285 passengers and a single crew member, and risking the lives of everyone else on board. At that point, the rescue crew, which Read More

Play Nice

Synopsis: In this complex whodunit, a detective must find a psychotic killer without realizing that it is someone he knows all too well. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Boy Scout

Actors: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham, Taylor Negron

Synopsis: Producer Joel Silver, director Tony Scott, and screenwriters Shane Black and Greg Hicks team up for this gridiron-set action thriller. Bruce Willis stars as Joe Hallenbeck, who was once a top-of-the-line Secret Service agent but has since become an alcoholic, flea-bag detective. While performing Read More

Tales From the Crypt: The Trap

Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance

Synopsis: This police story chronicles the true story of two partners who started out as best friends and later became the bitterest of enemies when one of them becomes corrupted. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Perfect Tribute

Actors: Lukas Haas, Campbell Scott

Synopsis: Jason Robards, who portrayed Abraham Lincoln in a 1964 Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Abe Lincoln in Illinois, reprised the role 27 years later in the made-for-TV The Perfect Tribute. The film intertwines two separate plot threads. In one, Lincoln, plagued by the war and the conduct of his Read More

Little Vegas

Actors: Anthony John Denison, Catherine O'Hara, Anne Francis, Michael Nouri, Perry Lang

Synopsis: Anthony John Denison stars as Carmine DeCarlo, a man trying to break free of familial mob ties after his middle-aged lover (Anne Francis) dies. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Good Night Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston

Actors: Ken Olin, Margaret Colin, B.D. Wong, James Handy, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Based on a true events, this is the story of Charles Stuart, who claimed that a robber had shot him and killed his pregnant wife. Needless to say, the investigation started turning up some pieces that just didn't fit into this puzzle. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Out Cold

Actors: John Lithgow, Teri Garr, Randy Quaid, Bruce McGill, Lisa Blount

Synopsis: Dave (John Lithgow), a meek, unassuming man who's the co-owner of a butcher shop, discovers his obnoxious business partner Ernie (Bruce McGill) dead in the meat locker. Dave thinks he might have accidentally locked Ernie in and caused his death. Much of the movie involves Dave's efforts to dispose Read More

Three Fugitives

Actors: Nick Nolte, Martin Short, Sarah Rowland Doroff, James Earl Jones, Alan Ruck

Synopsis: Another of Disney's Touchstone Pictures rehashes of a lightweight French farce, Three Fugitives goes the trend one better by importing French director Frances Veber to supervise a shot-for-shot remake of his French original Les Fugitifs. Nick Nolte stars as a bank robber named Lucas, recently Read More

Quantum Leap: Pilot

Actors: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Premiering on NBC in 1989 and continuing for five seasons, Quantum Leap gained a cult following for its ability to balance the qualities of science fiction with the hour-long television drama format. Each episode features a different adventure as Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps through time, into Read More

Baby M

Actors: John Shea, Robin Strasser, JoBeth Williams

Synopsis: Baby M is a two-part TV movie predicated on a headline-making true event. In 1985, Mary Beth Whitehead accepted $10,000 to bear a child, which then would be adopted by William and Elizabeth Stern. But after the baby's birth in March of 1986, Whitehead reneged on the agreement. The subsequent Read More

End of the Line

Actors: Wilford Brimley, Levon Helm, Mary Steenburgen, Barbara Barrie, Henderson Forsythe

Synopsis: Two Southern railroad workers drive a train engine to Chicago to protest the closing of the station in Clifford, Arkansas. Will Haney (Wilford Brimley) and his friend Leo Pickett (Levon Helm) steal the engine and hope to confront the company president to prevent the shutdown. The duo gathers Read More

The Secret of My Success

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan, Margaret Whitton, John Pankow

Synopsis: Released at the height of his popularity on Family Ties and in the wake of Back to the Future and Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox stars in this "country boy in the big city" comedy, directed by Herbert Ross. After making the move from Kansas to New York City, Brantley Foster (Fox) secures a job in the Read More

Waiting for the Moon

Actors: Linda Hunt, Linda Bassett, Andrew McCarthy, Bernadette Lafont, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Well into the 1930s, there was an expatriate community of Americans who lived in Paris or the French countryside, and who eventually became influential artists and writers. These included the painter Edward Hopper, the writer Ernest Hemingway, and the musician Virgil Thomson. Writer and poet Read More

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, actually a television pilot inspired by Nicolas Roeg's provocative 1976 film, chronicles the exploits of an alien marooned on Earth. All he wants is to go back to his dying planet. He is hindered by military forces determined to find him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Innocent Man

Actors: Ed Harris, Roxanne Hart, David Suchet, Bruce McGill, Darrell Larson

Synopsis: Filmed in Portland, Oregon, The Last Innocent Man stars Ed Harris as an adroit criminal lawyer. Having gotten several obviously guilty clients off the hook, Harris suffers a conscience attack and takes a few months off to get his act together. He is pulled out of his sabbatical by his girl friend Roxanna Hart Read More

No Mercy

Actors: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbé, George Dzundza, Gary Basaraba

Synopsis: High-powered gangsters move this crime drama along at a fast pace. When two cops, Eddie Jillette (Richard Gere) and Joe Collins (Gary Basaraba), hear about a contract out on local crime boss Losado (Jeroen Krabbe), they go undercover posing as hitmen, and the result is murder. Collins and the man Read More

Club Paradise

Actors: Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy

Synopsis: Robin Williams' comic shtick sabotages any attempt at comic development in Harold Ramis' patchy comedy farce Club Paradise. Williams plays Jack Moniker, a Chicago fireman injured in the line of duty, who uses his disability money to open up a run-down Caribbean resort. Jack eagerly awaits the Read More

Wildcats

Actors: Goldie Hawn, James Keach, Swoosie Kurtz, Robyn Lively, Brandy Gold, Nipsey Russell, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Blonde-haired, blue-eyed women's libber Molly McGrath (Goldie Hawn) quits her teaching job at a comfortable middle-class school to take a new position as varsity football coach at a predominantly black inner-city school. Culture and gender clashes abound; she must win over the hard-boiled youths Read More

As Summers Die

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Bette Davis, Scott Glenn

Synopsis: As Summers Die was produced as an "HBO Premiere" attraction. Set in the segregationist South of the 1950s, the film pits the wealthy but decadent members of a landed-gentry white family against a feisty old black woman, on whose property oil has been discovered. Idealistic attorney Scott Glenn Read More

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

Actors: Melba Moore

Synopsis: The full title of this made-for-TV film is Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom. But don't be put off by this 21-gun cognomen -- the film is a simple, austere tale of a pioneer African-American educator. Melba Moore plays Charlotte Forten, a northern black woman who heads to Port Read More

Into the Night

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Farnsworth, Irene Papas, Kathryn Harrold

Synopsis: Filled with enough cameos to keep film buffs entertained, this otherwise routine action-comedy by John Landis boasts Michelle Pfeiffer as one of its major attractions. She plays Diana, a woman prone to having affairs with some very dangerous men, and Jeff Goldblum is Ed Okin, an aerospace engineer Read More

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

Actors: Edward James Olmos, Tom Bower, James Gammon, Brion James, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: There was a genuine ballad behind The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, based on a real-life character. Cortez, a San Antonio cowpoke, was arrested in 1901 because he resembled the actual criminal. Unable to speak English, Cortez fights off the authorities, inadvertently killing a sheriff in the process. Read More

Tough Enough

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Carlene Watkins, Stan Shaw, Pam Grier, Warren Oates

Synopsis: In this sports-oriented drama, Art Long (Dennis Quaid), a loser as a country singer, starts competing in local fist-fight matches in order to bring home a little extra cash -- and is caught up in his successes enough to continue on to the big national finals. Predictable from the first round Read More

Silkwood

Actors: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Silkwood begins and ends with Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) driving along a lonely road in 1974, heading to a meeting with a New York Times reporter to deliver evidence of negligence at the Kerr-McGee Plant in Cimarron, Oklahoma. The balance of the film flashes back to Read More

The Hand

Actors: Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Annie McEnroe, Bruce McGill, Viveca Lindfors, Mara Hobel

Synopsis: Oliver Stone's first directorial effort for a major studio (and his second horror film after the 1974 Seizure) came shortly after the phenomenal success of Midnight Express, which was based on Stone's Oscar-winning screenplay. The director turned to Mark Brandel's obscure thriller "The Lizard's Read More

A Whale for the Killing

Synopsis: Based on the book by Farley Mowat, this made-for-TV movie follows the struggle of a New York ecologist (Peter Strauss) to stop the whale killing taking place off the coast of Newfoundland. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

National Lampoon's Animal House

Actors: John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst

Synopsis: Director John Landis put himself on the map with this low-budget, fabulously successful comedy, which made a then-astounding 62 million dollars and started a slew of careers for its cast in the process. National Lampoon's Animal House is set in 1962 on the campus of Faber College in Faber, PA. The Read More

Citizens Band

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Ann Wedgeworth, Bruce McGill, Marcia Rodd

Synopsis: CB radios provide a human connection between the lives of a collection of varied characters in Jonathan Demme's energizing film that exploits the CB radio craze of the mid-'70s. Chrome Angel (Charles Napier) is a truck driver who has an accident and is laid up recuperating at the home of Hot Read More