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Nov. 11, 2009 4:02 PM ET (AP)
Actors: Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Deborah Kara Unger, David Paymer
Synopsis: Seven years after seeing his original vision butchered under studio interference as well as his star's, director Brian Helgeland finally was given the chance to piece together his director's cut under the name Payback: Straight Up. Along with reinstating the original third act, this version Read More
Actors: Patrick Warburton, Marie Matiko
Synopsis: Fed up with American women and determined to procure a docile Asian wife, an angry L.A. misogynist gets a mail order bride in this romantic re-imagining of Beauty and the Beast starring Patrick Warburton, Marie Matiko, and Jennifer Tilly. Max Bright (Warburton) is fed up with independent Read More
Synopsis: Eric Marsh (Zachery Bryan), Smallville High's star baseball player, is inhaling kryptonite to enhance his athletic prowess. Having become addicted to the substance, Eric ends up stealing some refined kryptonite from LutherCorp -- a theft witness by Clark Kent (Tom Welling). Keeping a low profile Read More
Synopsis: Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) is convinced that she is being visited by the ghost of Emily Eve Dinsmore (Jodelle Micah Ferland), a childhood friend who drowned at the age of ten. In his efforts to determine if Lana is actually having a paranormal experience or if she is merely imagining things, Clark (Tom Welling Read More
Synopsis: In the first episode of Smallville's two-part season-two finale, Clark (Tom Welling) finally works up the nerve to kiss Lana (Kristin Kreuk) -- only to be distracted by a perplexing message from beyond. The message, consisting of the words "The Day Is Coming," has also been received by Dr. Walden (Rob La Belle Read More
Actors: John Glover
Synopsis: In the conclusion of Smallville's two-part season-three opener, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) has tracked down his adopted son, Clark (Tom Welling), to Metropolis, where, under the influence of the dread red kryptonite, the rebellious Clark has fallen in with criminal boss Morgan Edge (Rutger Hauer Read More
Synopsis: The two-part season-three opener of Smallville picks up three months after the cataclysmic events that brought season two to a close. Feeling responsible for the series of disasters that culminated in the death of his adoptive mother Martha's (Annette O'Toole) unborn baby, troubled teenager Clark Read More
Synopsis: In the concluding episode of Smallville's two-part season-two finale, Clark Kent (Tom Welling) has made contact with the spirit of his real father, Jor-El of Krypton (his voice supplied by Terence Stamp, who played the villainous Zod in the 1978 and 1980 theatrical features Superman and Superman II Read More
Synopsis: Upon learning that his father, Lionel (John Glover), has placed him under surveillance, a spiteful Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) schemes to plant a bug in his father's office. Unfortunately, the crooks whom Lex has hired to do the job decide to double-cross him and rob LutherCorp -- taking Lionel Read More
Synopsis: Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) is found in possession of a gun and a bottle of tequila. Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) has previously witnessed Jonathan in a bitter argument with billionaire Lionel Luthor (John Glover). And Lionel's assistant Dominic (Jason Connery) offers even more damaging testimony. Read More
Synopsis: The Indian caves introduced in the previous episode "Skinwalker" happen to harbor an alien parasite which feeds on the adrenal glands of teenagers. Among those infected by the parasite is Clark Kent's (Tom Welling) best friend, Pete (Sam Jones III). His mind and personality altered by the Read More
Synopsis: After being reported missing in Indonesia while serving with the Marines, Whitney Fordman (Eric Johnson), former boyfriend of Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) abruptly returns to Smallville. Not unexpectedly, Whitney's presence causes a strain in the blossoming relationship between Lana and Clark Kent (Tom Welling Read More
Synopsis: Christopher Reeve, who played the dual role of Clark Kent and Superman in four theatrical features of the 1970s and '80s, makes a guest appearance in Smallville as Dr. Virgil Swann. Having dedicated his life to studying all things extraterrestrial, the wheelchair-bound Swann is fascinated by a Read More
Synopsis: While burying the key to her adopted son Clark's spaceship in the cellar of her home, Martha Kent (Annette O'Toole) is exposed to kryptonite spores. Deathly ill, Martha is rushed to the hospital in a coma. Her husband, Jonathan (John Schneider), is later informed that Martha is pregnant -- meaning Read More
Synopsis: Paul Wasilewski guest stars as Lucas Luthor, the long-lost brother of wannabe supermogul Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum). After rescuing Lucas from a messy entanglement with foreign criminals, Lex tries to inveigle his brother in a scheme to take control of LucasCorp, the billion-dollar enterprise Read More
Actors: Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack
Synopsis: Season three of Smallville brought several more hidden facts about the Kryptonian heritage of young Clark Kent (Tom Welling) to the forefront -- and also provided a few additional links to Clark's future life as Superman. The series also found the unsavory past of billionaire industrialist Lionel Read More
Synopsis: Unbeknownst to Clark (Tom Welling), his new high-school ring has a red kryptonite setting. The mind-controlling extraterrestrial mineral has an adverse affect on Clark, unleashing all his inhibitions -- and his inborn aggressions. As Clark's behavior dangerously deteriorates, a secondary drama Read More
Synopsis: While rescuing the victim of a hit-and-run accident, Pete Ross (Sam Jones III) stumbles upon the spaceship that brought his friend Clark Kent (Tom Welling) from the planet Krypton. Rather than continue deceiving Pete, Clark reveals his true identity, thereby putting a strain on their friendship. Read More
Synopsis: Amy Palmer (Azura Skye), a girl working as a domestic at the Luther mansion, harbors an obsessive crush on young Lex Luther (Michael Rosenbaum). Before long, Lex's girlfriend, Victoria Hardwick (Kelly Brook), is victimized by an invisible but highly dangerous entity. Is Amy behind these unseen Read More
Synopsis: Season two of Smallville resolves the cliffhanger established at the end of season one, with Clark Kent (Tom Welling) using his superpowers to save Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) from an approaching tornado, and Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) likewise managing to rescue his father, Lionel (John Glover Read More
Synopsis: Apparently killed in a fall from a high hospital window, Tyler Randall (Reynaldo Rosales) in fact survives. Unfortunately, a kryptonite band on his wrist has become imbedded in Tyler's arm, imbuing him with the power to burn people to death with the slightest touch. Suffering under the delusion Read More
Synopsis: The Kent family brings a teenager whom Martha (Annette O'Toole) accidentally struck with her car into their home. The teen turns out to be lad named Ryan James (Ryan Kelley), who has the power to read minds -- and who was fleeing from his homicidal stepfather at the time of the accident. Ryan's Read More
Synopsis: Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) is outraged when his billionaire father, Lionel (John Glover), closes down the Smallville branch of LutherCorp, thereby throwing hundreds out of work. Elsewhere, Clark (Tom Welling) and Chloe (Allison Mack) are about to share their first kiss -- a tender moment Read More
Synopsis: Chloe (Allison Mack) is fed up with the fact that Clark (Tom Welling) seems impervious to her charms. Thus, Chloe begins dating Justin Gaines (Adam Brody), former cartoonist for the Smallville High newspaper, who has lost the use of his hands in an accident. Alas, it seems that Justin has been Read More
Synopsis: Lana (Kristin Kreuk) is surprised to find that someone has left her a love poem near the graves of her parents. Lana's secret admirer is a elusive boy named Byron Moore (Sean Faris), who only appears under cover of night. When Lana tries to find out more about him, Byron's parents insist that Read More
Synopsis: Honor student Ian Randall (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) has the ability to clone himself into any human shape. Ian hopes to use this gift to date both Chloe (Allison Mack) and Lana (Kristin Kreuk) without either girl suspecting that they're sharing the same boyfriend. And on a more sinister note, Ian Read More
Synopsis: Clark Kent (Tom Welling) befriends a Native American girl named Kyla Willowbrook (Tamara Feldman). Exploring a cave near Kyla's home, Clark comes across ancient tribal paintings depicting the prophecy of Naman, who like Clark himself descended from the sky with awesome superpowers. While the Read More
Synopsis: Season two of the WB network's popular Smallville upheld its excellent ratings by adhering religiously to the same mixture as before: combining tantalizing elements of the Superman legend with the sort of "teen angst" indigenous to such series as Beverly Hills 90210 and Dawson's Creek, all the Read More
Synopsis: Rachel Dunlevy (Blair Brown) shows up in Smallville claiming to be the biological mother of Clark Kent (Tom Welling). Not only that: Rachel insists that Clark's real father is none other than Lionel Luthor (John Glover). The only way that the matter can be solved is if Clark agrees to undergo a Read More
Synopsis: Introduced in the first-season episode "Stray," Ryan Kelley (Ryan James), a teenager gifted with the ability to read minds, is reunited with his friend Clark Kent (Tom Welling). Upon finding out that an unscrupulous scientist (Martin Cummins) is conducting experiments on Ryan, Clark vows to shield Read More
Synopsis: Inadvertently displaying his awesome superpowers, Clark (Tom Welling) is invited to join the Smallville high school football team by ruthless, "winning is the only thing" coach Walt Arnold (Dan Lauria). Worried that Clark's alien origins will be exposed if he does any sort of contact sports, the Read More
Synopsis: The Kents' former hired hand Earl Jenkins (Tony Todd) comes back to Smallville with an uncontrollable case of "the jitters." Exposed to the kryptonite held in storage at LutherCorp, Earl has not only developed a devastating nervous disorder, but has also killed a man in Metropolis. Things get Read More
Actors: Jason Alexander, John Glover, Scott Hamilton, Chris Hogan, A.J. Langer
Synopsis: The world of competitive figure skating takes a pratfall in this satiric comedy. Professor Robinson (Chris Hogan) is a documentary filmmaker whose latest project presents an in-depth look at three figure skaters hoping to someday rise from the lowest rungs of amateur competition into the ranks of Read More
Synopsis: It has been 12 years since the meteor shower which all but devastated the rural Kansas community of Smallville in 1989. On that fateful evening, the parents of little Lana Lang were killed; Lex Luthor, son of billionaire business mogul Lionel Luthor (John Glover), was rendered totally bald; and on Read More
Actors: James Coburn, Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Deborah Kara Unger, David Paymer
Synopsis: Porter (Mel Gibson) is pulled into a heist by his old friend, Val (Brian De Palma regular, Gregg Henry). As they're stealing $130,000 in laundered drug money from Chinese Triads, no one is going to call the police. Everything goes smoothly until Porter's wife, Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger), shoots Read More
Actors: Gina Gershon, Paula Marshall, Danny Nucci, Paula Jai Parker, Edward Kerr
Actors: Gloria Reuben, David Lansbury, Nick Gregory, John Glover, Harold Perrineau, Jr.
Synopsis: A group of young actors rehearsing a production of Macbeth find their roles are at once reflecting and shaping their personalities in Macbeth in Manhattan. Claudia (Gloria Reuben) and Max (David Lansbury) are a couple living together who both audition for an upcoming New York production of Read More
Actors: Peter Horton, John Glover, Currie Graham, Peter Woodward
Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller TV series, set in NYC, Detective Ezekiel Stone (Peter Horton) murdered his wife's rapist, was killed on duty, and was then sent to Hell by the Devil (John Glover). After 113 evil escapees flee the netherworld and return to Earth, Zeke gets a second chance. If he can Read More
Actors: Peter Fonda, John Glover, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Katherine Heigl, John Pyper-Ferguson
Synopsis: This adaptation of the classic Shakespearean tale of an exiled ruler who happens to be a very powerful magician is set in a pre-Civil War Mississippi bayou, with the main characters as powerful slaveowners instead of heads-of-state. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety
Synopsis: A case of road rage results in the deaths of both drivers. As Kellerman (Reed Diamond) and Munch (Richard Belzer) investigate this tragedy, medical examiner Julianna Cox (Michelle Forbes, in her final series appearance) receives orders from "higher up" to falsify her autopsy report. Meanwhile, the Read More
Actors: Paul Sorvino, John Glover, Tony Roberts, Jill Hennessy, Justin Theroux
Synopsis: The potential witnesses to a mysterious murder all become suspects when a determined detective fails to crack the case in a hard-boiled mystery directed by Edward Vilga and starring Jill Hennessy, Paul Sorvino, and John Glover. When gunshots pierce the black stillness of the night and a body Read More
Actors: Jason Alexander, Randy Becker, Stephen Bogardus, John Glover, John Benjamin Hickey
Synopsis: Eight friends spend three weekends in the country over the course of a summer as they explore their sometimes conflicting attitudes about love, sex, friendship, life, and death in this screen adaptation of Terrence McNally's award-winning play. Gregory Mitchell (Stephen Bogardus) is a successful Read More
Actors: Jesse Ventura, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone
Synopsis: This was the third follow-up to Tim Burton's Batman (1989), the original revisionist look at the Gotham City legend, as well as the second in the Batman series directed by Joel Schumacher and the first featuring George Clooney as the Caped Crusader; it features not one but two super-villains, and Read More
Synopsis: The double trauma of seeing his wife Vivian (Gail O'Grady) walk out on him and having his government funding eliminated causes nuclear scientist Rogers Henry (John Glover) to go off the deep end. But Vivian doesn't know about her husband's insanity when she agrees to deliver what she thinks is his Read More
Synopsis: John Larkin (Timothy Hutton would seem to have the ideal life: A great job, a beautiful home, a happy marriage. Nonetheless, John has always been nagged by the feeling that "something is missing." The truth of this suspicion is violently driven home when John is inexplicably kidnapped from his Read More
Synopsis: This independently produced film, The Broken Giant, depicts the almost affectless life and loves of an eccentric, unpopular preacher in a very remote Maine country community. Ezra Caton (Will Arnett) is the minister with a somewhat drab life, and he is not unhappy to see it disrupted when he Read More
Actors: Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, Charlton Heston, David Warner
Synopsis: Hired to help locate a missing author, an insurance investigator discovers to his terror that the nightmarish events depicted in the writer's best-selling horror novels are coming true. Wishing to be both a horror film and a parody of the genre, John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness combines Read More
Synopsis: Bigotry and values are questioned when a Black West Point cadet is singled out and harassed by fellow cadets and senior officers. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Olivier Gruner, John Glover, Daphne Ashbrook
Synopsis: A kickboxing cyborg security agent accidentally kills a corporate officer who was trying to rape a blonde employee in this sci-fi copy of Die Hard. The head of the corporation orders his security teams to kill both the cyborg and the employee to prevent word of the attempted rape from getting out. Read More
Actors: Scott Glenn, Andrew McCarthy, John Glover, Wayne Newton
Synopsis: In this taut thriller, a Las Vegas taxi driver must run for his life after stealing a cool million's worth of Mafia money. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: A grieving widower discovers that the kindness of his late wife's best friend is malevolently motivated in this thriller starring James McCaffrey, John Glover, and Leslie Hope. When his wife passed away he thought he had nothing more to live for. Though at first the comforting embrace of a close Read More
Synopsis: Rumors are flying that the executives at radio station KACL are planning to fire one of the on-the-air personalities. With no facts to back him up, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) speculates that the unlucky employee will be his nemesis, macho sports-show host Bulldog (Dan Butler). Overhearing this bit Read More
Synopsis: A sudden space storm forces an evacuation of DS9. During the crew's absence, a band of outlaws, headed by a Trill named Verad (John Glover), seizes control of the station. Verad refuses to relinquish control of DS9 until Jadzia surrenders a valuable Dax symbiont which will give Verad powers that Read More
Actors: Steve Buscemi, Ned Beatty, Miriam Margolyes, John Glover, Sam Jenkins, Rance Howard
Synopsis: Though it's been a year since her death, Ed (Steve Buscemi) is still pining over his deceased mother (Miriam Margolyes). Enter a firm called Happy People Ltd, which for a hefty fee will bring Ed's mom back to life. He ponies up the money, and miracle of miracles, mother returns. At first all is Read More
Synopsis: The expensively assembled two-part TV movie Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel is the true story of a successful "bust" engineered by the Drug Enforcement Administration. Part One detailed an undercover attack on the Colombian drug lords' refineries (see separate entry for further details). In part Read More
Actors: Julie Carmen, Dennis Farina, John Glover
Synopsis: Meticulously researched and elaborately produced, the two-part TV movie Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel is based on a true story. In addition, to quote the original print ads, "This is the one we won!" Incorruptible agents of the DEA declare war against Colombia's Medelin drug lords. To undermine Read More
Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Mel Harris, Reginald VelJohnson, John Glover, Katherine Helmond
Synopsis: A made for TV, two-part series, this is the story of a Southern attorney who suddenly finds himself embroiled in politics, a particularly controversial murder trial and a public battle with a vindictive journalist -- all at the same time. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: A U.S. general confronts the struggle of her lifetime when she decides to run for president in this drama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Amanda Pays, John Glover, Eleanor Parker, Kevin McCarthy
Synopsis: Plot twists abound in this suspenseful made-for-television thriller as a beautiful actress tries to save her cousin from the schemes of a conniving murderer who just may be her lover. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Mark Frankel, John Glover
Synopsis: Season of Giants succeeds more in ambition than in execution. This 195-minute TV movie proposes that a great professional rivalry existed between Renaissance geniuses Michelangelo (Mark Frankel) and Leonardo da Vinci (John Glover). While the Florentine and Roman scenery is authentic, certain Read More
Synopsis: Whoever hit upon the idea that What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? would make a good TV movie remake forgot one essential fact. The original 1962 Baby Jane was at best a ludicrous melodrama, which only reached the level of art thanks to the bravura performances of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. This Read More
Actors: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan
Synopsis: The serialized story structure and barbed social commentary from comic book creator and co-writer Frank Miller earned critical respect in this satirical science fiction sequel directed by Irvin Kershner. Peter Weller returns as RoboCop, a futuristic cyborg fashioned from cutting-edge technology Read More
Actors: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo
Synopsis: Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy, with a couple of horrifying touches. As the film starts, the fantastical trinket shop in Chinatown, which sold the Mogwai in the first film, is demolished by a crazed Read More
Actors: Anthony Edwards, M.C. Gainey, Robert Beltran
Synopsis: In the made-for-cable El Diablo, Anthony Edwards plays a bespectacled Eastern schoolteacher who is bullied and cowed by the wild westerners all around him. Soon, however, he is forced to summon up his courage to expedite the rescue of his prettiest female student (M.C. Gainey), who has been Read More
Synopsis: Set in a small Maine town in 1883, this made-for-TV production tells the tale of an honest physician's attempt to warn his community about a public hazard that politicians and investors want to hide. The story begins with Thomas Stockman, M.D. (John Glover), who is awaiting results of the Read More
Actors: John Glover, Nancy Mette, Richard Portnow, Matt Shakman, Juliette Lewis
Synopsis: In a futuristic society, a menial worker (John Glover) invites his boss (Richard Portnow) over for dinner to ingratiate himself with the business hierarchy. The two begin to fight however, and the tranquil meal turns ugly. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Margaret Colin, John Glover, John Lithgow, Jonathan Silverman
Synopsis: John Lithgow sets aside his patented drooling villainy to play the sympathetic title character in Traveling Man. Beset by business and marital problems, salesman Lithgow feels as though he's at the end of his rope. But it's at this point that he avoids the Willy Loman syndrome by realizing that Read More
Actors: Ben Cross, Veronica Hamel, John Glover, Bruce Greenwood, Sarah Jessica Parker
Synopsis: The four-part British miniseries Pursuit, based upon Robert L. Fish's novel of the same name, was first telecast in the United States as the two-part "movie special" Twist of Fate. Bruce Greenwood essayed the leading role of Helmut Von Schraeder, an ex-S.S. officer on the run after conspiring to Read More
Actors: Joanna Pacula
Synopsis: Breaking Point is a TV remake of the 1965 theatrical feature 36 Hours. Corbin Bernsen plays a wartime US intelligence officer, who carries within him secrets of the upcoming D-Day invasion. Captured by the Germans, Bernsen refuses to buckle under torture, and passes out. He wakes up in an American Read More
Actors: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane
Synopsis: A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard Read More
Actors: John Glover, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Wally Ward, Doug Hutchison, Adam Baldwin
Synopsis: The independently produced Chocolate War marked actor Keith Gordon's directorial debut. Adapted from the popular novel by Robert Cormier (I Am the Cheese), it functions as a political allegory set in a curricular context, in the same vein as Rene Daalder's Massacre at Central High (1976). In Read More
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Suzy Amis, Patricia Clarkson, Frances Conroy, Sinéad Cusack, John Glover, Bill Pullman, Macaulay Culkin
Synopsis: On the occasion of wealthy patriarch Burt Lancaster's 77th birthday, his Long Island home is invaded by well-meaning family members. Lancaster is bored by the well-meaning interference of his grown children, but he thrives on the company of his grandchildren, especially 5-year-old Macaulay Culkin Read More
Actors: Peter Weller, Kathy Baker, John Glover, Bill Smitrovich
Synopsis: When reviled labor boss Pink Gresham (Bill Smitrovich) is found murdered, his wife Maggie (Kathy Baker) is visited by Baston Morris (Peter Weller). Morris claims to have killed Pink before leaving his lifeless corpse symbolically in an outhouse. Instead of leaving, Morris moves in on the backwoods Read More
Actors: Rob Lowe, Meg Tilly, Doug Savant, Kim Cattrall, John Glover
Synopsis: American-born French film director Bob Swaim directed this sordid tale of greed, deception, machinations and murder. The darkly beautiful Meg Tilly stars as Olivia Lawrence, member of the Hamptons social elite and heiress to a vast fortune, who becomes attracted to dangerous newcomer Tim Whalen (Rob Lowe Read More
Actors: Bernadette Peters
Synopsis: In this above-average made-for-television drama, Bernadette Peters stars as a mother facing the greatest challenge of her life. Based a true story, Matthew Lawrence stars as David Rothenberg, a six year-old who was viciously set on fire by his jealous father. Severely burned and disfigured, David Read More
Synopsis: Made for television, Moving Target bears a few faint echoes of the 1986 theatrical feature Out of Bounds. Jason Bateman plays a teenaged musician returning home from summer camp. He is hardly greeted with open arms; as a matter of fact, his family has moved out in his absence. Compounding this Read More
Synopsis: The inadvertent theft of a valuable Renoir force an actor and an unemployed salesman into the limelight in this crime comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: The 1986-87 TV season was graced by two "dueling" biopics of Frances Bradshaw, the socialite convicted of coercing her own son into murdering Frances' millionaire father Frank. The first was the four-hour At Mother's Request, starring Stefanie Powers as Frances. The second, and superior adaptation Read More
Synopsis: Paroled after 20 years, a convicted murderer (John Glover) returns to his home town of Cabot Cove to find the man whom he thinks actually committed the crime for which he was imprisoned. The trail leads to a local high-school coach (Kenneth MacMillan) on the verge of retirement, and to another man Read More
Actors: Pamela Segall, Eric Gurry, Mary Tanner, Patty Duke, John Glover
Synopsis: Pamela Segall gives a winning performance in this gender-bending comedy about a girl who wants to be a boy and gets her wish. 14-year-old Milly Niceman's "deepest, darkest heart's desire" is to be a boy, as she feels that boys' lives are simpler and more interesting than girls' lives. After her Read More
Actors: Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover, Robert Trebor
Synopsis: Wealthy metallurgist Harry Mitchell (Roy Scheider) lives to regret his extramarital affair with pretty young Cini (Kelly Preston). A trio of vicious blackmailers (John Glover, Robert Trebor, Clarence Williams III) show Mitchell a videotape of his most recent roll in the sack with Cini. They demand Read More
Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads to Washington to attend a special concert performed by an Eastern Bloc orchestra. Before long, Jessica is kidnapped and swept into a maelstrom of intrigue involving a pair of defecting musicians and a murdered British intelligence agent. The man behind Jessica's Read More
Actors: Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Weller, George Loros
Synopsis: Apology stars Lesley Anne Warren (with a Stefanie Powers hairdo) as a Manhattan-based sculptor/performance artist. To enhance her latest project, Warren invites the participation of anonymous phone callers, whose voices she records. One of her unseen "collaborators" calls her up to confess to a Read More
Actors: Aidan Quinn, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney, John Glover
Synopsis: Originally telecast November 11, 1985, An Early Frost was the first TV movie to deal with the subject of AIDS. Aidan Quinn plays a personable young gay lawyer who is stricken with the HIV virus. As his health deteriorates, Quinn finds that his physical agony is secondary to his mental anguish. Ben Gazzara Read More
Actors: Kelly Wolf, Niki Scalera, Lenny Von Dohlen, Blair Brown, John Glover
Synopsis: The sensitive topic of child molestation is compellingly (and tastefully) handled on this ABC Afterschool Special. While babysitting for six-year-old Molly Stewart (Niki Scalera), teenager Karen Anderson (Kelly Wolf) cannot help but notice the inordinate amount of attention showered upon the child Read More
Actors: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Page
Synopsis: The fancy footwork and star appeal of Gregory Hines as Raymond, an exiled American, and the powerful grace of Mikhail Baryshnikov as Nikolai, a defector, combine with a great production design to carry this otherwise thinly-stretched tale of intrigue. With a stellar supporting cast (Isabella Rossellini Read More
Actors: José Ferrer, Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher, Rene Enriquez
Synopsis: In yet another slick, formulaic Charles Bronson vengeance film (they would continue until the actor was in his mid-70s, still playing the morally insulted friend/husband/lover), Bronson is Holland, an assassin for hire who has just come out of retirement to finish off a Guatemalan thug by the name Read More
Actors: Ed Harris, Blair Brown, George Coe, Joan Goodfellow
Synopsis: A John D. MacDonald novel was the source material for A Flash of Green. Ed Harris plays a reporter for a Florida resort-town newspaper. His best friend is shady county-commissioner Richard Jordan. When Harris shows signs of sympathizing with a local ecology group that is dead set against a new Read More
Actors: Edie Adams, Melody Anderson, Jeff Goldblum, Cloris Leachman, Madolyn Smith
Synopsis: Physically, the gangling, long-necked Jeff Goldblum is all wrong for the role of fabled TV comedian Ernie Kovacs (1919-1962) but you tend to forget this as Goldblum expertly reenacts some of Kovacs' most famous comic bits. No Kovacs bio would be complete without such scenes as the mustachioed Read More
Synopsis: Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the made-for-TV The Face of Rage is set in a rehabilitation facility. Here a group of rapists are required to confront their victims face-to-face. The film concentrates on the bitter verbal sparring session between assaulter Richard (Graham Bechel) and Read More
Synopsis: Another two-part TV movie from the pen of novelist Sidney Sheldon, Rage of Angels stars Jaclyn Smith as attractive lawyer Jennifer Parker. While working as assistant D.A., Parker is targeted for persecution by organized crime, but she perseveres and emerges as one of the most successful defense Read More
Actors: Tim Matheson, Kate Capshaw, Edward Herrmann, John Glover, Joan Copeland
Synopsis: In this feature comedy, a womanizer (Tim Matheson) marries his live-in girlfriend (Kate Capshaw) only to quickly resume his wicked ways. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson, Elizabeth Wilson, Maria Smith
Synopsis: The Incredible Shrinking Woman, directed by Joel Schumacher, is an attempted social satire focusing on the position of women in our society and our social values. After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer (Lily Tomlin) begins to shrink. While this baffles Read More
Actors: Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen, Jack Kehoe, Michael J. Pollard, Dabney Coleman, Pamela Reed
Synopsis: Jonathan Demme's breakthrough movie featured the shaggy energy and affection for marginal American eccentrics that marked his earlier Citizens Band (1977) and such later films as Something Wild (1986) and Married to the Mob (1988). Melvin Dummar (Paul LeMat) is a barely-getting-by Nevada milkman. Read More
Actors: Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Victoria Racimo, Stephen Macht, Seymour Cassel, John Glover, Victor Jory
Synopsis: In this subpar western, gratuitous profanity and violence are at odds with the theme of rescuing a Native American from a marriage she does not want. A bearded Charleton Heston (whose son wrote the screenplay) is the fur trader Bill Tyler, out in the remote mountain ranges looking for a legendary Read More
Actors: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith
Synopsis: Fact-based drama starring Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker, the new inmate at a run-down Southern prison that's become notorious for corruption and violence. After he witnesses several instances of gross misconduct and defuses a tense confrontation with a crazed inmate (Morgan Freeman), Brubaker Read More
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Belinda Bauer, Ned Beatty, Bianca Jagger, Steven Keats
Synopsis: In mid-1978, the cult fantasy guru and comic book illustrator Bill Richert -- after months directing Jeff Bridges and Belinda Bauer in the scattergun carnival of a political satire, Winter Kills -- faced a real head-scratcher. With Winter yet to be completed, Richert's backer, Avco-Embassy, lopped Read More
Actors: Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Christopher Walken, Sam Levene, John Glover
Synopsis: In 1979, Jonathan Demme was still a cutting-edge director and The Last Embrace was his first effort at a completely commercial assignment. Very much in the Hitchcock vein, The Last Embrace is an intense suspense film concerning Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider), a government agent recovering from a Read More
Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Wood, Tammy Grimes, John Glover
Synopsis: In this comic mystery, a department store clerk dreams of becoming a famous writer of children's books. He is also having an affair with a lovely patron of the store. The trouble begins when the lovers find that her husband, a pair of neighbors and a bogus detective have been murdered. The lovers Read More
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon
Synopsis: Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy Singer (Allen) ponders the modern quest for love and his past romance with tightly-wound WASP singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton, née Diane Hall). The Read More
Actors: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Jr., Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook
Synopsis: The film traces the lifelong relationship between playwright Lillian Hellman and Julia, a wealthy girl who turns her back on her upbringing to follow her ideals. In the 1930s, while the adult Hellman (Jane Fonda) struggles to establish herself as a playwright with the help of her lover, Dashiell Hammett Read More
Synopsis: Azure Dee (Denyce Liston), a former prostitute who has struck it rich, is found hanging from the chandelier in the living room of her lavish home. Curiously affected by this death, Kojak begins to investigate Azure's friends, family members and customers, hoping to determine if the woman committed Read More
Actors: John Glover, Tony Amato Jr., Jimmy Kelly, Lou Martell, Burt Reynolds, Dyan Cannon, John Ryan, Joe Santos, Georgio Tozzi
Synopsis: This detective-themed action-adventure film spoofs The Big Sleep, which was based on the novel by Raymond Chandler. Burt Reynolds plays McCoy, a hard-nosed private detective. The story has more tangles than a bowl of spaghetti, but it begins when McCoy is called to the house of Hume (Ron Weyand) Read More
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