Ernie HudsonFilmography

Dragonball: Evolution

Actors: Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Jamie Chung, Emmy Rossum, Eriko, Joon Park, Chow Yun-Fat

Synopsis: James Wong adapts the rich mythos of the Dragonball series that grew from a manga into various popular animated series with this 20th Century Fox production starring Justin Chatwin. The plot revolves around Goku (Chatwin), Earth's greatest champion, who must defend the planet against an Read More

Nobel Son

Actors: Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Eliza Dushku

Synopsis: A young man's moment of triumph is spoiled when he gets kidnapped before he can impress his father in this black comedy. Eli Michaelson (Alan Rickman), a well-respected scientist, has learned that he's won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, which is a mixed blessing for his friends and family; while Read More

Lonely Street

Actors: Jay Mohr, Robert Patrick, Joe Mantegna, Mike Starr

Synopsis: A notoriously gullible detective becomes the number one suspect in the murder of a tabloid reporter after accepting the task of protecting a once-famous celebrity who faked his death to escape the public eye in director Peter Ettinger's quirky adaptation of Steve Brewer's popular series of novels. Read More

Balancing the Books

Actors: Dina Meyer, Vincent Spano, Lea Thompson, Lela Rochon, Ed Begley, Jr.

Synopsis: A desperate woman enlists the aid of two close friends in contending with a volatile situation that is fast threatening to spiral out of control. Julia (Dina Meyer) is a successful, independent woman. The only thing missing from her life is the right man. Though Julia is currently sleeping with Read More

Final Approach

Actors: Dean Cain, Anthony Michael Hall, William Forsythe, Ernie Hudson, Sunny Mabrey

Synopsis: Dean Cain and Anthony Michael Hall go toe-to-toe at 30,000 feet in this action-packed mini-series that finds a radical terrorist poised to take down domestic flight or die trying. FBI hostage rescue specialist Jack Bender (Cain) is traveling across the country on a domestic flight when the members Read More

All Hat

Actors: Luke Kirby, Keith Carradine, Lisa Ray, Rachael Leigh Cook, Noam Jenkins

Synopsis: Luke Kirby and Keith Carradine star in director Leonard Farlinger's adaptation of author Brad Smith's laid back neo-western novel. Ray Dokes (Kirby) has just been released from prison, and now as the laconic ex-con makes his way back home he is stunned to see just how much progress has transformed Read More

The Man in the Silo

Actors: Ernie Hudson

Synopsis: A successful executive, devoted husband, and loving father is left to care for his wife's bedridden grandmother and come to terms with the truth that he has avoided his entire life following a tragic car accident that robbed him of his entire family. Marcus Wells (Ernie Hudson) had everything that Read More

Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror

Actors: Snoop Dogg, Ernie Hudson, Danny Trejo, Daniella Alonso, Method Man

Synopsis: Hip-hop superstar Snoop Dogg takes horror fans on a ride through the scary underside of life in the 'hood in this horror anthology. The self-described "gatekeeper of the after-party" (Snoop Dogg) introduces three stories of life in a ghetto neighborhood in which the unscrupulous get what's coming Read More

Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen, John Goodman, Sean Astin

Synopsis: Randall Miller's Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School compiles an all-star cast to tell an unabashedly emotional story about life, love, and destiny. Robert Carlyle portrays Frank Keane, a man who has been in a deep depression ever since his wife passed away. One day while driving Read More

The Ron Clark Story

Actors: Matthew Perry, Ernie Hudson, Hannah Hodson, Brandon Mychal Smith

Synopsis: Helmed by the gifted Randa Haines (Children of a Lesser God, The Doctor), the inspirational drama The Ron Clark Story tells the real-life tale of Clark (Matthew Perry), a teacher from upstate New York who moves to Manhattan and re-instills courage and hope into the lives of many down-and-out Read More

The One: Making a Music Star [TV Series]

Synopsis: One of the most expensive reality programs ever mounted by a major American network, The One: Making a Music Star was inspired by the Spanish series Operación Triunfo, which had enjoyed international success in a host of incarnations in a variety of countries (the British version, for example, was Read More

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Regina King, Enrique Murciano Jr., William Shatner, Ernie Hudson

Synopsis: FBI agent-turned-reluctant beauty queen Gracie Hart (played by Sandra Bullock) is taking on both bad guys and high glamour again in this sequel to the comedy smash Miss Congeniality. After her undercover mission at the Miss United States pageant becomes public knowledge, Gracie becomes something Read More

Lackawanna Blues

Actors: S. Epatha Merkerson, Julie Benz, Robert A. Bradley, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Kathleen Chalfant

Synopsis: A young boy grows up among a makeshift family of oddballs and dreamers in this adaptation of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's acclaimed one-man show. Ruben Junior (Marcus Carl Franklin) is a young boy who was born in the late '40s into a family that started crumbling not long after he was born. Ruben Read More

Sledge: The Untold Story

Actors: David Leitch, Holmes Osborne, Nathan Lee Graham, Chris Palermo, Lin Shaye

Synopsis: Track the rise and fall of fictional action superstar Frank Sledge in this rapid-fire mockumentary featuring special appearances by Angelina Jolie, Carrie-Ann Moss, Hugo Weaving, Richard Lewis, Sean Young, Ernie Hudson, Kelly Hu, and more. Laugh along as filmmakers parody some of the most popular Read More

Halfway Decent

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Finn Carter, Steven Williams, Jamil Walker Smith

Synopsis: Given an ultimatum by his wife to have a second child or see their marriage dissolved, Detective Tom Black's life becomes a depressive cycle of alimony and rehab payments for his firstborn as his crooked partner makes life on the job a living hell. Left alone in the world with no one to count on Read More

Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story

Synopsis: This made-for-cable drama is based on the true story of Marilyn Gambrell, a former parole officer determined to give the children of habitual criminals the opportunity to live the decent and worthwhile life that had been denied their parents. Jamie Gertz stars as Gambrell, who has signed on a Read More

Oz: Season 06

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Eamonn Walker, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: Although Oz's longtime narrator, wheelchair-bound prison inmate Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau Jr.), was killed at the end of the series' fifth season, he is still very much in attendance at the beginning of season six -- albeit from beyond the grave. Hill is, in fact, one of several ghostly Read More

10-8 [TV Series]

Actors: Danny Nucci, Ernie Hudson, Scott William Winters, Christina Vidal, Mercedes Colon

Synopsis: The title of this ABC cop series referred to the patrol-car code used to indicate that said car was "in service." The central character was Rico Amonte (Danny Nucci), a former Brooklyn street punk who after relocating to Los Angeles opted to work on the right side of the law. A deputy trainee with Read More

Oz: Season 05

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Eamonn Walker, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: Previously fired from his job as manager of "Emerald City," the experimental unit set up at Oswald Correctional Facility, Tim McManus (Terry Kinney) has been reinstated by the time Oz's fifth season gets under way. The season begins with an accounting of the damage caused by the gas explosion at Read More

Walking Shadow: A Spenser Mystery

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Ernie Hudson, Marcia Gay Harden, Eric Roberts, Christina Moore

The Last Siege: Never Surrender

Synopsis: Disgraced federal agent Eddie Lyman (Jeff Fahey) is foiled by his nemesis, the ruthless American militia terrorist known as Anderson (Brent Huff), for the last time; Lyman is dismissed from his agency and sent home to his girlfriend, Valerie (Beth Toussaint), who happens to be the public relations Read More

Touched by an Angel: The Perfect Game [2]

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the sixth-season episode of the same title, this one concerns a talented minor-league baseball player named Ben McCloud (Omar Gooding) and his obsessive, hypercritical father Norm (Ernie Hudson). Not only is Norm living vicariously through Ben's athletic accomplishments Read More

Miss Congeniality

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, William Shatner, Ernie Hudson, John DiResta, Candice Bergen

Synopsis: Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) is an FBI agent with a reputation for being aggressive and hard-nosed, who has long wanted to duplicate the career of her deceased mother, also an FBI agent, who died in the line of duty. Her cantankerous nature, though, has made her few friends, excepting her Read More

The Watcher

Actors: James Spader, Marisa Tomei, Keanu Reeves, Ernie Hudson, Chris Ellis

Synopsis: A detective is urged on by the lunatic he's trying to put behind bars in this crime thriller. Joel Campbell (James Spader) is a police detective who has recently relocated to Chicago after spending eight frustrating years trying to track down a vicious serial killer who has been terrorizing Los Read More

Everything's Jake

Actors: Debbie Allen, Doug E. Doug, Stephen Furst, Robin Givens

Synopsis: Matthew Miele directs this tale about a mysterious homeless guy. Jake (Ernie Hudson) lives relatively contently in his homeless routine -- he wakes in the morning, plays the bongos for change, and collects dog feces. Everything seems hunky-dory, as it were, until he encounters Cameron, who is Read More

Red Letters

Actors: Peter Coyote, Nastassja Kinski, Fairuza Balk

Synopsis: Nastassja Kinski and Peter Coyote star in this suspense thriller about a college professor who finds himself in a whirlwind of danger when he agrees to help a beautiful woman who has just escaped from prison. She was convicted of murdering a woman who was having an affair with her husband, and she Read More

Oz: Season 04

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Eamonn Walker, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: As season four of Oz begins, the experimental unit at Oswald State Correctional Facility known as "Emerald City" is not living up to manager Tim McManus' (Terry Kinney) hopes. Ever since he set up the unit, wherein convicts are given more freedom of movement, extra privileges, and the opportunity Read More

Nowhere to Land

Actors: Jack Wagner, Christine Elise, James B. Sikking, Ernie Hudson, Mark Lee

Synopsis: Even as security is beefed up in Australia in anticipation of the 2000 Olympics, someone manages to slip a deadly nerve gas device -- and a detonator -- on a 747 jet bound from Sydney to L.A. The authorities are uncertain as to whether the person responsible for this outrage is a terrorist or Read More

A Stranger In The Kingdom

Actors: David Lansbury, Ernie Hudson, Martin Sheen, Bill Raymond, Sean Nelson

Synopsis: Jay Craven directed this post-WWII period drama adapted from a fact-based novel by Howard Frank Mosher. During the '50s, the service record of former Army chaplain Walter Andrews (Ernie Hudson) makes such an impression that he's hired over the telephone to serve as minister at a small town in Read More

The Wrecking Crew

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Ice-T, Snoop Dogg

Synopsis: The streets of Detroit are cleared of all gang members and their various illegal activities through the intervention of a top secret governmentally-funded goon squad. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Stealth Fighter

Actors: Costas Mandylor, Ice-T, Ernie Hudson, Erika Eleniak

Synopsis: This action-adventure saga stars rapper turned actor Ice-T as Turner, who was once an ace pilot for the Air Force before faking his own death ten years ago. Now, in cahoots with an underground arms dealer who has gotten his hands on a nuclear submarine, Turner steals a Stealth bomber and together Read More

Shark Attack

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Jenny McShane, Ernie Hudson, Bentley Mitchum

Synopsis: Casper Van Dien, Ernie Hudson, Jenny McShane and Bentley Mitchum star in this thriller about a marine biologist doing research at a facility off the coast of Africa. Hammerhead sharks have long been a presence to be respected in local waters, but now they've started attacking people without reason Read More

Oz: Season 03

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Eamonn Walker, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: Idealistic, "New Age" unit manager Tim McManus (Terry Kinney) persists in trying to mold "Emerald City" (aka Cell Block 5 of Oswald State Correctional Facility -- formerly Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary) into a model "prison within a prison" as Oz begins its third season. Part of McManus' Read More

October 22

Actors: Tate Donovan, Ernie Hudson, Michael Paré, Amanda Plummer

Synopsis: In this offbeat drama, a group of people who have nothing in common are having breakfast at the same diner, with Denise the waitress (Amanda Plummer) serving them coffee. As we view the unrelated strands of their lives, the patrons are suddenly and dramatically brought together when a lunatic with Read More

Best of the Best: Without Warning

Actors: Phillip Rhee, Ernie Hudson

Synopsis: Phillip Rhee directed and stars in this action thriller about a martial arts expert who runs afoul of a group of Russian mobsters involved in an elaborate scheme to counterfeit U.S. currency. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Butter

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Nia Long

Synopsis: In this action thriller, a talented singer's career takes off and she decides to change record companies. Unfortunately for her, the ruthless company executives decide that they would rather see her dead than switch. Soon after, she is found dead of a drug overdose and her manager/cousin is the Read More

Oz: Season 02

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Eamonn Walker, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: Season two of Oz gets under way in the wake of the bloody riot at "Emerald City," the experimental unit set up on Cell Block 5 of Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary, in which eight are killed and 34 wounded. Though it is obvious to many observers that the ruthlessly ambitious Governor Devlin (Zeljko Ivanek Read More

Never 2 Big

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Nia Long

Synopsis: Shemar Moore, Ernie Hudson and Nia Long star in this urban drama about a singing star who wants to get out of her recording contract and sign with another label. The top men at her label, however, won't hear of this and have her killed with an overdose of drugs, planting evidence that would Read More

Fakin' Da Funk

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Pam Grier, Margaret Cho, Dante Basco, Duane Martin

Synopsis: A theme of racial harmony underlies this comedy-drama. The couple Joe (Ernie Hudson) and Annabelle Lee (Pam Grier) learn the baby they are adopting is not black but Chinese. As Julian Lee (Dante Basco), reaches teen-hood, his father dies and the adopted boy moves with his mom to Atlanta. Here he Read More

Operation Delta Force

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Jeff Fahey, Hal Holbrook, Joe Lara

Synopsis: When terrorists steal a biological weapon and its antidote, its up to a crack team of military commandos to get it back. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Oz: Season 01

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Eamonn Walker, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: Seen mostly through the eyes of wheelchair-bound prisoner Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau Jr.), who serves as narrator and "tour guide," the first season of Oz begins with the establishment of a "prison within a prison" on Cell Block 5 of Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary -- aka "Oz." Under the Read More

Clover

Actors: Elizabeth McGovern, Ernie Hudson, Loretta Devine, Zelda Harris, Beatrice Winde

Synopsis: Eleven-year-old Clover is angry, confused, frightened, and sad. She didn't ask her father to fall in love with that Yankee white woman, and she certainly didn't expect her father to die in a car crash on his wedding day. Now she feels all alone, caught between her family, who strongly disapprove Read More

Levitation

Actors: Ann Magnuson, Sarah Paulson, Ernie Hudson, Jeremy London

Synopsis: In this independent drama, Sarah Paulson stars as Acey Rawlin, a troubled teenager who discovers that she's pregnant after spending a night with a man she had just met. Acey has few friends to confide in, and her most trusted companion, a fisherman named Bob (Jeremy London), may be a spirit guide Read More

Mr. Magoo

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Kelly Lynch, Matt Keeslar, Nick Chinlund, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: Action-adventure director Stanley Tong (Supercop, Rumble in the Bronx) did a change of pace by directing this live-action adaptation of UPA's bumbling, near-sighted Mr. Magoo the animated-series character created during the '40s by John Hubley and others for the cartoon short Ragtime Bear (1949). Read More

Whiskey Down

Actors: Virginia Madsen, Sean Patrick Flanery, Ernie Hudson, Jon Polito, Alanna Ubach

Synopsis: Abounding with pulp-fiction-like violence, this cynical, black comedy/drama is set in an all-night Manhattan diner and begins when an elderly patron drops dead from heart failure after discovering that he holds a winning lottery ticket. With so much potential wealth within their grasp, it is small Read More

The Substitute

Actors: Tom Berenger, Ernie Hudson, Diane Venora, Marc Anthony, Glenn Plummer

Synopsis: An ex-mercenary (Tom Berenger) becomes a take-no-prisoners teacher in a drug-ridden, gang-infested Miami high school in this campy morality tale about restoring lost American virtues to the inner city. Berenger's character, Shale, has no first name, a shadowy past as a patriotic gun-for-hire, and Read More

Tornado!

Actors: Bruce Campbell, Ernie Hudson, Shannon Sturges, L.Q. Jones

Synopsis: Twister made for TV. Although paling to its big-screen rival, Tornado! is made interesting by the performances of Bruce Campbell and Ernie Hudson and manages to sneak in an original plot twist every now and then. ~ Sean D. MacLaggan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cherokee Kid

Actors: Sinbad, James Coburn, Gregory Hines, A. Martinez, Ernie Hudson

Synopsis: In this Western, a young sodbuster learns the ways of a gunfighter from one of the best quick-draw artists and then uses his knowledge for revenge. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Basketball Diaries

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jimmy Papiris, Nick Gaetani, Bruno Kirby, Lorraine Bracco, Alexander Gaberman, Ben Jorgensen, Ernie Hudson, Patrick McGaw, Akiko Ashley

Synopsis: Very loosely based on the memoir of the same name, The Basketball Diaries transposes the late '60s adolescence of writer/artist Jim Carroll to some unspecified time period at least 15 years later, further confusing the timeframe with three decades of rock music, some by Carroll himself. Jim Read More

Congo

Actors: Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney, Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry, Grant Heslov

Synopsis: Good gorillas meet bad gorillas while human beings search for treasure in this jungle advnture saga. R.B. Travis (Joe Don Baker) is the ruthless head of Travi-Com, a telecommunications firm on the cusp of a major breakthrough in laser communications technology. However, Travis needs diamonds to Read More

The Crow

Actors: Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, David Patrick Kelly, Angel David

Synopsis: Based on the graphic novel by James O'Barr, this fantasy follows Eric Draven (Brandon Lee), a rock musician who is murdered along with his fiancée Shelly (Sofia Shinas) by a group of marauding thugs who terrorize the decaying city in which they live. One year to the day after his death (which Read More

Sugar Hill

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Michael Wright, Theresa Randle, Clarence Williams III, Abe Vigoda

Synopsis: Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright play druglord brothers who have a mob-like crime empire in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem. Through flashbacks, we see how Roemello Skuggs (Snipes) and Raynathan Skuggs (Wright) entered the drug culture, with Raynathan helping his mother inject heroin. She died Read More

The Cowboy Way

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, Ernie Hudson, Cara Buono

Synopsis: In this action comedy, director Gregg Champion relies on the premise that, indeed, "country boys can survive," as Sonny (Kiefer Sutherland) and Pepper (Woody Harrelson, always game) head off to the Big Apple in order to rescue a mutual friend's daughter from the clutches of an evil sweatshop Read More

Speechless

Actors: Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Christopher Reeve, Bonnie Bedelia, Ernie Hudson

Synopsis: A mix of political satire and a modern take on 1930's-style screwball comedy, this romance from director Ron Underwood was assumed by many to be based on the real-life relationship between liberal political consultant James Carville and conservative commentator Mary Matalin. Michael Keaton stars Read More

Airheads

Actors: Daniel Zacapa, Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Joe Mantegna, Chris Farley

Synopsis: Airheads is a variation on Dog Day Afternoon, as well as a comic look at the trials and tribulations of both the music business and Generation X. A hapless rock trio consisting of Chazz (Brendan Fraser), Rex (Steve Buscemi), and Pip (Adam Sandler) hits a brick wall with their attempts to get their Read More

No Escape

Actors: Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon, Ian McNeice

Synopsis: A man from the future fights to survive in a society thrown back to the dark ages in this sci-fi adventure set in 2022. Capt. Robbins (Ray Liotta) is a military man who, after he's convicted of the murder of his superior officer, is sentenced to a high-tech prison ruled by the Warden (Michael Lerner Read More

Wild Palms

Synopsis: Just after the turn of the 21st century in L.A., Harry (Belushi) works for a television station that uses a revolutionary technology, virtual reality projected for at-home viewers with 3-D holographic programs. A sinister group known as the Fathers, headed by Senator Kreutzer (Loggia), has a Read More

Tales From the Crypt: Food for Thought

Heart and Souls

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: Director Ron Underwood follows up his crowd-pleasing hit City Slickers (1991) with this likable, feel-good comedy drama about a selfish businessman who discovers that he's permanently being followed by a group of ghosts. In 1959, a bus accident links the spirits of four fatally injured passengers Read More

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Actors: Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay, Matt McCoy, Ernie Hudson, Julianne Moore

Synopsis: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is director Curtis Hanson's suburban horror story of a demented nanny bent on revenge for past wrongs. Peyton (Rebecca De Mornay) was once a happily married woman, but when her doctor husband is accused of assaulting a patient and he commits suicide, her world falls Read More

Ghostbusters 2

Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: Ivan Reitman's sequel to the phenomenally successful Ghostbusters is looser and more self-assured than the original. The film opens with a title reading "Five Years Later" and finds the ghostbusters living in hard times. A restraining order has forbidden the boys to partake in paranormal warfare Read More

Leviathan

Actors: Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern, Ernie Hudson

Synopsis: Leviathan, a sci-fi thriller directed by George Pan Cosmatos, is the story of a group of scientists who discover a sunken Russian submarine which contains a monster that is the product of a genetic experiment. This film, a hybrid of both The Abyss and Alien, has a decent cast, including Peter Weller Read More

Trapper County War

Actors: Rob Estes, Betsy Russell, Bo Hopkins, Don Swayze

Synopsis: In this grim actioner, two city dudes head out for the country and find themselves involved in a feud when one of them falls in love with a country boy's gal. The jealous lover belongs to the murderous clan that runs the area and now the city boys, one of whom is a Vietnam vet, must team up or Read More

The Wrong Guys

Actors: Louie Anderson, Richard Lewis, Richard Belzer, Franklyn Ajaye, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: In this comedy, a group of former Cub Scouts (Louie Anderson, Richard Belzer, and Richard Lewis) get together for a reunion over twenty years later and land themselves in a mess of trouble when a deranged convict (John Goodman) takes them for FBI agents. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Collision Course

Actors: Jay Leno, Chris Sarandon, Ernie Hudson, John Hancock

Synopsis: An arrogant Detroit cop (Jay Leno) must work with his efficient Japanese counterpart (Pat Morita) to corner an evil ganglord. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission

Synopsis: Made for television, this is the third sequel to the popular war adventure. This time, a group of rag-tag soldiers must somehow shape up and take on a group of Nazi soldiers who are riding the Orient Express to Istanbul to establish their latest empire. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Weeds

Actors: Nick Nolte, Lane Smith, William Forsythe, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: In this film, based on a true story, convicted criminal Lee Umstetter (Nick Nolte) is sentenced to life in San Quentin prison, with no possibility of parole. Despairing at his interminable sentence, Lee spends his time reading and educating himself. When he writes and performs a play that attracts Read More

Full House: Knock Yourself Out

Synopsis: San Francisco TV sportscaster Danny (Bob Saget) gets his big chance at nationwide exposure when he is tapped to cover a major boxing match. Alas, the fight is over virtually before it begins--and it's all Danny's fault. Meanwhile, Joey (David Coulier) and Jesse (John Stamos) explore their "inner Read More

The Last Precinct

Synopsis: In this pilot film for the short-lived satirical TV series The Last Precinct, a group of misfit police-academy rejects are given one final opportunity to distinguish themselves in the field of law enforcement when they are assigned to the LA's seediest and most woebegone precinct, the 56th. Under Read More

Love on the Run

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, an attorney aids her wrongly-convicted client in his escape from prison, then joins him on the lam. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians - Brainchild

Synopsis: While enjoying a day off with Firestorm, Cyborg is captured by the robot minions of supercriminal Brainiac, who intends to use the bionic dogooder for one of his typically evil "mind-blowing" experiments. To save the life of his fellow Galactic Guardian, Firestorm enlists the aid of Batman and Read More

Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians - The Death of Superman

Synopsis: The unthinkable has happened: Superman is dead, the victim of Kryptonite poisoning. Injured in the mishap which felled Superman, a weakened Firestorm is captured by Darkseid, who wants the Galactic Guardian to reveal the details of the Man of Steel's demise. Meanwhile, several members of the Super Read More

Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians - The Bizarro Super Powers Team

Synopsis: Bizarro #1, the weird Superman doppelganger from Bizarroworld, uses his duplicator ray to create Bizarro versions of Wonder Woman, Firestorm and Cyborg. These "opposite clones" are then called upon to protect Bizarroworld from its many enemies. Unfortunately, the prankish Mr. Mxyzptlk plans to Read More

Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians - The Wild Cards

Synopsis: There's a new supervillain in town, and his name is The Ace. Gathering together a gang of four hardened delinquents, the Ace decks them out in sinister playing-card costumes, and thus the Royal Flush Gang is born. In their efforts to defeat this scurrilous quintet of no-goods, Robin and Cyborg Read More

Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians - The Seeds of Doom

Synopsis: After single-handedly capturing Superman's perennial nemesis Lex Luthor, the bionic Cyborg is invited to join the Super Powers Team--but surprisingly turns down the offer. Anxious to have someone his own age as a fellow Team member, the nuclear-powered Firestorm seeks out Cyborg to learn the Read More

Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians - Ghost Ship

Synopsis: With Darkseid and his minions in hot pursuit, Superman, Firestorm and Cyborg temporarily take shelter in a huge derelict space vessel. It turns out that the three Galactic Guardians have boarded a ghost ship, controlled by a fugitive princess who uses hologram images to ward off pirates and to Read More

Joy of Sex

Actors: Cameron Dye, Michelle Meyrink, Lisa Langlois, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: The abysmal teen comedy Joy of Sex is stripped down to just sex in every line and in every joke except where other bodily functions come into play. Alan (Cameron Dye) lusts after Leslie (Michelle Meyrink), whose father is a phys ed instructor with the heart of an army drill sargent and no Read More

California Girls

Actors: Al Music, Lantz Douglas, Mary McKinley, Alicia Allen, Barbara Parks

Synopsis: The thin storyline for this film is that three young women hope to gain a foothold in the acting profession, so they perform nude in front of the window of the disk jockey (Mad Man Jack played by Al Music) who is running a contest that would launch their careers. Along with many songs by a wide Read More

Ghostbusters

Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts

Synopsis: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based "paranormal investigators". When their government grants run out, the former three go into business as The Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is Read More

Going Berserk

Actors: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Alley Mills, Pat Hingle, Elizabeth Kerr

Synopsis: In this comedy, a stuffy congressman is dismayed when he discovers that his beloved daughter intends to marry limousine driver John Bourgignon (John Candy). While intending to put on a good show for his father-in-law to be, John is captured by some political opponents of the congressman. His Read More

Two of a Kind

Actors: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning, Beatrice Straight, Scatman Crothers

Synopsis: John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John attempt to rekindle the box office sparks of Grease with this screwball fantasy comedy. The tale begins during a golf match in heaven among four angels --Charlie (Charles Durning), Earl (Scatman Crothers), Gonzales (Castulo Guerra), and Ruth (Beatrice Read More

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

Actors: Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Andrea Marcovicci, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: In this weakly scripted, dull sci-fi adventure, three women have been shipwrecked somewhere in the galaxy on planet Terra Eleven and now Wolff (Peter Strauss), the pilot of a salvage ship, his friend Washington (Ernie Hudson), and the orphaned Niki (Molly Ringwald) are out to rescue them. Along Read More

The A-Team: The Taxicab Wars

Synopsis: The A-Team comes to the rescue of the independent LoneStar cab company, which is being driven out of business by the monolithic Love Cab firm. The villains, led by Crane (Michael Ironside) and Ryder (Brion James), are of course using their own taxis for various illegal purposes. Before the Read More

Women of San Quentin

Synopsis: In this drama, a crack corps of female prison guards are assigned to watch over the men in the most dangerous cell-block. Mayhem ensues as the physical and emotional pressures the women face begin to take their toll. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Penitentiary 2

Actors: Leon Isaac Kennedy, Ernie Hudson, Mr. T, Glynn E. Turman, Peggy Blow

Synopsis: A former prison inmate finds he can't leave his violent past behind in this sequel to the cult favorite Penitentiary. After earning his parole by winning the prison boxing tournament, Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone is tired of fighting and wants to move on to a more peaceful life, but as a condition Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Dear Diary

Synopsis: There's panic in the Hazzard County jailhouse when Roscoe (James Best) loses his diary, which contains vivid details of all his illegal dealings in cahoots with Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke). It so happens that the diary is somewhere on the Dukes' property--or at least it WAS on the Dukes' property Read More

Taxi: Of Mice and Tony

Synopsis: Having endured one too many hard knocks in the boxing ring, eTony Banta (Tony Danza) has elected to hang up his gloves and become a trainer. Spotting a young fighter named Terry Carver (Ernie Hudson), Tony immediately senses that the kid has potential. He then offers to become Terry's Read More

Crazy Times

Synopsis: In this socially conscious drama, set in 1955, three tough New York youths must learn to deal with a troubled world. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Matter of Life and Death

Synopsis: This fact-based made-for-television drama tells the story of nurse Joy Ufemal and her invaluable work with those dying of incurable diseases. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The $5.20 an Hour Dream

Synopsis: Clearly inspired by the theatrical feature Norma Rae, The $5.20 an Hour Dream stars Linda Lavin as a recently divorced woman supporting herself and her 12-year-old daughter. The highest-paying job at the Oregon engine factory where she works is on the assembly line--which has traditionally been an Read More

White Mama

Actors: Bette Davis, Ernest Harden Jr.

Synopsis: Bette Davis is White Mama in this custom-made TV movie. Ms. Davis plays a poverty-stricken widow who is too proud to go on welfare. Aware that she can receive a steady income if she takes in a foster child, Davis becomes surrogate mother to tough black teenager Ernest Harden Jr. The relationship Read More

Underground Aces

Synopsis: Ever wonder what happens to your car when you give it to a parking lot attendant? Find out in this zany slapstick comedy set in an exclusive Beverly Hills Hotel. There the attendants gleefully smash and bash the expensive cars of patrons while trying to get them parked. The story really perks up Read More

The Octagon

Actors: Chuck Norris, Karen Carlson, Lee Van Cleef, Tadashi Yamashita, Carol Bagdasarian

Synopsis: Karate champ Chuck Norris returns for another chop-socky vigilante flick in The Octagon, one of a handful of undistinguished Ninja pictures released during the early '80s. Norris appropriately plays a retired karate champ hired as a bodyguard for a wealthy woman (Karen Carlson) plagued by a gang Read More

The Main Event

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Paul Sand, Patti D'Arbanville, Whitman Mayo, Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal attempt to recapture the screwball spark of What's Up, Doc? in the labored farce The Main Event. Streisand plays Hillary Kramer, a bankrupt perfume executive who discovers that one of her tax write-offs from more prosperous times was the ownership of prizefighter Read More

Joni

Actors: Joni Eareckson, Bert Remsen, Katherine de Hetre, Cooper Huckabee, John Milford

Synopsis: In 1967, Joni Eareckson Tada broke her spinal cord in a diving accident, and at the tender age of 17 she was consigned to a wheelchair for life. This biographical drama (based on her book) is about her courage in adjusting to the results of the accident. At first, Tada suffered through several Read More

The Last of the Good Guys

Actors: Robert Culp, Dennis Dugan, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: If it hadn't been a TV movie, Last of the Good Guys might have made a good episode of Car 54 Where Are You? The main good guy is rookie cop Dennis Dugan, who is assigned to take over for an ailing veteran police officer. When the replaced officer dies, Dugan realizes that the man's widow will Read More

Mad Bull

Synopsis: A burly professional wrestler falls in love with a caring woman who helps convince him to abandon his vengeful search for the one who murdered his brother in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Human Tornado

Synopsis: In this violent comedy, the sequel to Dolemite, the rotund rapster must hit the road for California after an Anglo sheriff finds him fooling around with his wife. Once there he gets involved with a sexy, hard-living madame and her flock of kung fu fighting females who are fighting a ruthless local Read More