David Hemblen Filmography

Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story

Synopsis: A real-life murder story that commanded headlines for several months in 1990 served as the basis for the tense but unsatisfying cable-TV movie Judgment Day: Ellie Nesler Story. Christine Lahti stars as Ellie Nesler, who cannot help but notice that her seven-year-old son Brandon (Andrew Ducote) has Read More

The Last Don II

Actors: Jason Gedrick, Patsy Kensit, Kirstie Alley, David Marciano, James Wilder

Synopsis: This four-hour miniseries is a sequel to 1997's top-rated miniseries, The Last Don,based on the novel by Mario Puzo of The Godfather fame, but several critics noted that The Last Don II is unintentionally funny. After Don Clericuzio (Danny Aiello, the pivotal figure in the first series) dies from Read More

The Herd

Actors: Colm Feore, David Hemblen, Mark McKinney, Don McKellar, Jim Allodi

Synopsis: Peter Lynch directed this Canadian docudrama about events after the Canadian government authorized Laplander Andrew Bahr to feed starving Inuit in 1929 by herding several thousand reindeer from Alaska to the McKenzie River region. The project turned into a logistical nightmare, with six years Read More

The Sweet Hereafter

Actors: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Gabrielle Rose

Synopsis: Atom Egoyan's haunting adaptation of the Russell Banks novel The Sweet Hereafter was the Canadian filmmaker's most successful film to date, taking home a Special Grand Jury Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and scoring a pair of Academy Award nominations, including Best Director. Restructured Read More

Booty Call

Actors: Ric Young, Jamie Foxx, Tommy Davidson, Vivica A. Fox, Tamala Jones, Art Malik

Synopsis: It's 3 a.m. -- do you know where your condoms are? That's one of the dilemmas befalling the characters in this raunchy comedy. Rushon (Tommy Davidson) is a mild-mannered Buppie who has been going out with his girlfriend Nikki (Tamala Jones) for about seven weeks; they seem to like each other well Read More

Family of Cops II

Actors: Charles Bronson, Angela Featherstone, Barbara Williams, Sebastian Spence, Andrew Jackson, Kim Weeks

Synopsis: A priest has been murdered in the neighborhood of Inspector Paul Fein's youth, and it's up to the seasoned cop to crack the case in director David Greene's entry into the tense Family of Cops series. It's not going to be easy going back to the streets of his childhood, but despite the demons that Read More

Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach: Sarabande

Actors: Yo-Yo Ma, Lori Singer, Arsinée Khanjian, Don McKellar, George Sperdakos, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: Quirky Canadian director Atom Egoyan helmed this, the only fictional entry in a series of six films, titled "Yo-Yo Ma Inspired Bach." The story centers on the world-renowned cellist and is a free-form series of unrelated connections between people. As the story begins, Ma is flying to Toronto via Read More

Iron Eagle IV: On the Attack

Actors: Louis Gossett, Jr., Jason Cadieux, Al Waxman, Joanne Vannicola, Rachel Blanchard

Synopsis: The fourth entry in the Iron Eagle series follows the return of General Charles "Chappy" Sinclair (Louis Gosset Jr., who deserves better) as he trains a Dirty Dozen-style team of juvenile delinquents to improve their quality of life by flying planes and combatting evil. This time the Air Force Read More

Hollow Point

Actors: Thomas Ian Griffith, Tia Carrere, Donald Sutherland, John Lithgow, David Hemblen

Synopsis: Tempered with action and adventure, this romantic comedy centers on a pair of rivalrous government agents from different agencies who are forced to team up to stop a wicked crime lord. The FBI agent is a beautiful sexy woman while the handsome DEA agent oozes machismo. Both of their employers are Read More

Maximum Risk

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Natasha Henstridge, Zach Grenier, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Stéphane Audran, Paul Ben-Victor, Frank Senger

Synopsis: Alain Moreau (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a French cop whose colleagues make a startling discovery -- a man named Mikhail, who was killed in a high-speed chase with police, looks exactly like him. Curious about the stranger with his face, Alain is told by his mother Chantal (Stephane Audran) that Read More

Tommy Boy

Actors: Chris Farley, David Spade, Bo Derek, Brian Dennehy, Dan Aykroyd, Rob Lowe

Synopsis: Saturday Night Live star Chris Farley had his first starring role in this frankly lowbrow comedy, which teamed him with fellow SNL cast member {$David Spade). Big Tom Callahan (Brian Dennehy) is the street-smart owner of a company that makes auto parts, and one day he'd like his son Tommy Callahan Read More

The Champagne Safari

Actors: Colm Feore

Synopsis: The Champagne Safari was a foolhardy 1,200 mile expedition across Northern Canada backed by millionaire entrepreneur Charles Bedaux. To make the 1934 journey Bedaux brought along five Citroen half-track tanks, 130 pack horses, kegs of champagne and tons of gourmet French cuisine. He also brought Read More

Model by Day

Actors: Famke Janssen, Sean Young

Synopsis: If Ms. Famke Janssen is a Model By Day in this TV movie, what does she do by night? If this were a USA cable movie, perhaps she'd be walking the streets. But since it's network movie, Famke spends her evenings as a masked crimefighter. She runs into trouble with the law when a murderer Read More

Brainscan

Actors: Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, T. Ryder Smith, Amy Hargreaves, James Marsh, Victor Ertmanis

Synopsis: Unlike most teen horror movies, Brainscan relies more on atmosphere and plot than gore and bloodsoaked effects. Edward Furlong plays Michael, a 16-year-old horror movie fan, computer whiz, and misfit who responds to an ad for Brainscan, an CD-ROM virtual reality game that promises to "interface Read More

Exotica

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Don McKellar, Arsinée Khanjian, Elias Koteas, Sarah Polley, Victor Garber

Synopsis: The action in Canadian provocateur Atom Egoyan's cryptic Exotica revolves largely around the strip club, which lends the film its name, a faux-tropical hothouse where young female dancers cater to their customers' sexual and psychological needs. Among the regulars is Francis (Bruce Greenwood), a Read More

Lifeline to Victory

Actors: Michael Riley, Simon Reynolds, Robyn Steven, Elizabeth Mermur, David Hemblen

Synopsis: Under the helm of an experienced merchant seaman, a bunch of inexperienced Canadian sailors are called to serve in their country's navy during WWII. Their assignment was to escort a merchant ship to and from Europe. Along the way, they demonstrated amazing courage and skill when they found Read More

I Love a Man in Uniform

Actors: Tom McCamus, Brigitte Bako, Kevin Tighe, David Hemblen, Alex Karzis

Synopsis: Actor Henry Adler (Tom McCamus) has a tenuous hold on his identity in Canadian director David Wellington's I Love a Man in Uniform. On his way to audition for a violent TV police show, he sees an officer shot in the line of duty. Using what he witnessed in his tryout, he impresses the casting Read More

M. Butterfly

Actors: Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Ian Richardson, Annabel Leventon, Shizuko Hoshi

Synopsis: David Cronenberg's cinematic intensity eviscerates this adaptation of David Henry Hwang's passionate stage production. Based on a true incident involving a French diplomat who carried on an affair for 18 years with a man the diplomat thought was a woman, M. Butterfly begins in 1964 Beijing when Read More

The Adjuster

Actors: Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose, Jennifer Dale

Synopsis: Written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, The Adjuster is an examination of the sexual quirks of a married couple. Starring such Egoyan regulars as Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, and Don McKellar, the film focuses on Noah Render (Koteas), an insurance adjuster who Read More

Le Peloton d'Execution

First Circle

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Victor Garber, Laurent Malet, Christopher Plummer, Robert Powell, Robert Joy

Synopsis: Based on a Solzhenitsyn book, this is the story of a Moscow official in Stalinist Russia whose future freedom depends on a technological break-through. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

In Defense of a Married Man

Actors: Judith Light, Michael Ontkean

Synopsis: This TV movie is not necessarily in defense of married man Michael Ontkean. That responsibility is taken by Judith Light, Ontkean's wife. When Ontkean is accused of murdering his mistress (Cynthia Sikes), his wife Light, a defense attorney, handles the case. Beyond the unavoidable emotional Read More

Where the Spirit Lives

Actors: Clayton Julian, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Ron White

Synopsis: The Canadian Where the Spirit Lives begins on a sombre note, as several Native American children are forcibly rounded up by the government and placed in orphanages. As sparse as life was on the reservation, it is even worse in these government-supported institutions. The latest arrival is Michelle Read More

Speaking Parts

Actors: Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose, David Hemblen, Patricia Collins

Synopsis: "In my films, you're always encouraged to remember that you're watching a collection of designed images." Thus spake Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan in describing his calculatedly non-realistic style. In keeping with his earlier works, Egoyan's Speaking Parts, though grounded in reality, could Read More

Short Circuit 2

Actors: Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston, Tim Blaney

Synopsis: Fisher Stevens reprises his role of Ben Jahrvi, the co-inventor of the cute robot Number Five, in this sequel to Short Circuit. Since the last film, Ben has moved to the city, where he lives in a truck and sells toy Number Fives as a street vendor. Ben plies his trade until one day luck strikes in Read More

The Room

Synopsis: In this made for TV drama, two youthful strangers endeavor to rent the room already owned by a strange woman and her almost comatose husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Family Viewing

Actors: David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney, Gabrielle Rose, Arsinée Khanjian, Selma Keklikian

Synopsis: Ignore the title: Family Viewing makes for fascinating viewing, though it is not designed as entertainment for the whole family. This Canadian film stars David Hemblen as Stan, a profoundly disturbed young man. Upon the disappearance of his mother, Stan feverishly tries to piece together existing Read More