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Christmas With the Kranks

Actors: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Erik Per Sullivan, Cheech Marin

Synopsis: Based on John Grisham's novel Skipping Christmas, Christmas With the Kranks revolves around Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Luther Krank's (Tim Allen) decision to put their normally fanatical enthusiasm for the holidays aside for a tropical cruise. With their daughter in Peru with the Peace Corps, the Read More

11/24/04
Angel: The Price

Synopsis: The dark spell Angel (David Boreanaz) cast to force Sahjhan to materialize (see "Forgiving") has unexpected repercussions at the Hotel Hyperion. A client who visits the premises soon perishes after becoming grotesquely dehydrated and downing inhuman amounts of liquid. It turns out he's been Read More

2002
The Associate

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Tim Daly, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: In this comedy, a woman discovers that it's impossible to get ahead in business without a man to guide her -- so she invents one. Laurel (Whoopi Goldberg) is an expert financial analyst with a top Wall Street brokerage; however, she keeps getting passed over for raises and promotions, and she's Read More

1996
Apollo 13

Actors: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan

Synopsis: "Houston, we have a problem." Those words were immortalized during the tense days of the Apollo 13 lunar mission crisis, and the suspense, fear, and excitement of those days are captured in Ron Howard's epic recreation of the 1970 crisis. When the commander of the original mission Ken Read More

6/30/95
Peephole

Actors: Rick Dean, Nancy Mette, William Hunt

Synopsis: In this movie, the position of trust a psychiatrist holds is clearly being bent, if not broken, by a prostitute with the doctor's active encouragement. It seems that he enjoys seeing her have sex with his clients. At home, he has a very, very close relationship with his sister. In fact, it Read More

1994
Brenda Starr

Actors: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Diana Scarwid, Charles Durning

Synopsis: Brook Shields plays the comic-strip journalist, Brenda Starr, who travels to a South American jungle on an assignment. It is there that she covers the story about a mad scientist who plans to blow up the planet with his newly developed rocket fuel. Also appearing are Timothy Dalton and Charles Durning Read More

8/21/92
Diggstown

Actors: James Woods, Louis Gossett, Jr., Bruce Dern, Oliver Platt, Heather Graham

Synopsis: In this comedy, a charming con man teams up with a boxer fallen on hard times in hopes of making some quick money. After doing time for selling art that turned out to be forged, Gabriel Caine (James Woods) and his partner Fitz (Oliver Platt) set their sights on a village called Diggstown; Fitz Read More

8/14/92
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Actors: Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Laila Robins, Thomas Wilson Brown, Joan McMurtrey

Synopsis: In this film, the small town of Clyde, Ohio is buzzing with excitement when it is said that the famous Roxy Carmichael is leaving her luxurious Hollywood life to return to her old hometown. Her return causes upheaval in the lives of family-man Denton Webb (Jeff Daniels), her old boyfriend, and an Read More

10/12/90
Gross Anatomy

Actors: Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga, Christine Lahti, Todd Field, John Scott Clough

Synopsis: Gross Anatomy is to medical school what Paper Chase was to law school, with perhaps a little less sobriety. Mathew Modine plays a blue-collar kid attending a posh school of medicine, where everyone--teacher and student alike--seems to be well above Modine's social strata. Perhaps as a reaction to Read More

10/20/89
A Fine Mess

Actors: Ted Danson, Howie Mandel, Richard Mulligan, Stuart Margolin, Maria Conchita Alonso

Synopsis: Blake Edwards comes a cropper in this lunk-headed slapstick homage to Laurel and Hardy, Mack Sennett, and Jerry Lewis. Ted Danson and Howie Mandell play Spence Holden and Dennis Powell, a couple of idiots who find themselves involved with a pack of gangsters. Spence is a two-bit actor who is at a Read More

8/9/86
Maximum Overdrive

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Yeardley Smith, John Short

Synopsis: Writer-director Stephen King falls short in his debut at the helm with Maximum Overdrive, an absurd tale about a radiation storm that somehow animates machines across the world, causing them to turn on their makers. The film focuses on a group of survivors held captive at the Dixie Boy Diner by a Read More

7/25/86
The Other Lover

Synopsis: In this drama, a marketing director at a publishing house is assigned to represent an author. In his presence, she soon forgets her marital vows. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1985
Flash the Sheepdog

Synopsis: According to the press release, Flash the Sheepdog was based on the "beloved" novel by Kathleen Fiddler. This film version was not held in so high an esteem. Earl Younger plays a Scottish orphan living with his uncle. The boy trains his Uncle's shaggy sheepdog, enabling the hirsute pooch to win Read More

1967

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John ShortFilmography

Christmas With the Kranks

Angel: The Price

The Associate

Apollo 13

Peephole

Brenda Starr

Diggstown

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Gross Anatomy

A Fine Mess

Maximum Overdrive

The Other Lover

Flash the Sheepdog

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