Julio Oscar MechosoFilmography

Rise: Blood Hunter

Actors: Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis, Carla Gugino, James D'Arcy, Samaire Armstrong

Synopsis: A woman who joins the undead against her will seeks vengeance against the ghouls who transformed her in this thriller. Sadie Blake (Lucy Liu) is a journalist who becomes acquainted with a group of beautiful but doomstruck partiers while following a story, led by the charismatic Bishop (James D'Arcy Read More

Planet Terror

Actors: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Jeff Fahey

Synopsis: Maverick filmmaker Robert Rodriguez details the violent struggle between a ravenous army of zombie-like humanoids who have taken control of the planet and the remaining survivors who refuse to go down without a fight. A dangerous government experiment has unleashed an abominable contamination that Read More

Little Miss Sunshine

Actors: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin

Synopsis: When a pudgy, bespectacled seven-year-old, Olive (Abigail Breslin), voices her desire to take home the coveted Little Miss Sunshine crown at an upcoming beauty pageant, her wildly dysfunctional family sets out on an interstate road trip to ensure her a clear shot at realizing her dreams in former Read More

The Lost City

Actors: Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Ines Sastre

Synopsis: Veteran actor Andy Garcia steps into the director's chair for his first voyage into feature filmmaking with this heartfelt tribute to revolutionary, late-'50s-era Cuba featuring Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Tomas Milian, and offering the director himself in the starring role. Fico Fellove (Garcia) Read More

Grey's Anatomy: Yesterday

Synopsis: With the dust barely settled from the literally explosive climax of the previous episode, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) endures the one-two punch of finding out about her mother's uniquely colorful love life. Also learning a few secrets is Burke (Isaiah Washington), who doesn't entirely like what he now Read More

The Legend of Zorro

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Nick Chinlund, Julio Oscar Mechoso

Synopsis: The legendary Mexican hero returns to the screen in this swashbuckling sequel to the 1998 box-office hit The Mask of Zorro. It's 1850, and the people of California, eager to improve their difficult lot in life, have launched a campaign to become part of the United States. Don Alejandro de la Vega (Antonio Banderas Read More

Lords of Dogtown

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, John Robinson, Michael Angarano, Nikki Reed

Synopsis: The true story of the kids who created modern skateboard culture is recreated in this drama. In the early '70s, skateboards were seen as a fad of the 1960s that had all but died out, but in a rough-and-tumble Venice, CA, community known as "Dogtown," that was about to change. Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk Read More

The Virgin of Juarez

Actors: Minnie Driver, Ana Claudia Talancón, Esai Morales, Angus MacFadyen, Jorge Ververa Jr., Jacob Vargas

Synopsis: The Virgin of Juarez stars Minnie Driver as a reporter investigating numerous deaths in the border town of the title. During the course of her work, she befriends a young woman named Mariela who claims to have survived a vicious attack by the assailant. Since the attack, she believes she has Read More

Back When We Were Grownups

Actors: Blythe Danner, Faye Dunaway, Peter Fonda, Jack Palance

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by Anne Tyler, the made-for-TV "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation Back When We Were Grownups stars Blythe Danner as 53-year-old Baltimore widow Rebecca Davitch. Having long since given up her dreams of college to get married and raise a family, and also having abandoned Read More

Phone Booth

Actors: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell

Synopsis: One man's life is thrown into turmoil by picking up a telephone in this claustrophobic thriller. Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is a brash, cynical, and self-centered public relations man who juggles a busy career with both a wife, Kelly (Radha Mitchell), and a mistress, Pamela (Katie Holmes). Stu Read More

Assassination Tango

Actors: Robert Duvall, Rubén Blades, Kathy Baker, Luciana Pedraza, Julio Oscar Mechoso

Synopsis: Leading man Robert Duvall writes and directs his third feature, the romantic thriller Assassination Tango. John J. (Duvall) is an aging hit man who has settled down into family life in New York with teacher Maggie (Kathy Baker). After he is offered a good sum of money, he accepts a job to kill an Read More

Pumpkin

Actors: Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn, Dominique Swain, Marisa Coughlan

Synopsis: Adam Larson and Tony R. Abrams' directorial debut Pumpkin is an unconventional love story. College senior Carolyn McDuffy (Christina Ricci) agrees to coach handicapped athletes from a local town in order to help her sorority win an award. She and her sorority sister Jeanine (Dominique Swain) are Read More

Ken Park

Actors: James Ransome, Tiffany Limos, Stephen Jasso, James Bullard, Mike Apaletegui

Synopsis: Filmmaker Larry Clark reunites with Kids screenwriter Harmony Korine, with some additional directorial assistance from cinematographer Ed Lachman, for this look at a group of troubled teens and their guardians living in Southern California. Ken Park takes its name from the skate park where an Read More

Greetings from Tucson [TV Series]

Actors: Julio Oscar Mechoso, Rebecca Creskoff, Pablo Santos, Lupe Ontiveros, Jacob Vargas

Synopsis: Series creator Peter Murrieta based the weekly, half-hour sitcom Greetings From Tucson on his own experience growing up in a multicultural household. When he received a promotion on his job, Mexican-American patriarch Joaquin (Julio Oscar Mechoso) moved his family into a slightly more upscale Read More

Tortilla Soup

Actors: Hector Elizondo, Jacqueline Obradors, Elizabeth Peña, Tamara Mello, Nikolai Kinski, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: A remake of Ang Lee's family comedy Eat Drink Man Woman, Maria Ripoli's Hispanic-American ensemble feature set in Southern California about a veteran chef named Martin Naranjo (Hector Elizondo), who is slowly losing his sense of taste. He has three daughters, all of whom have chosen different Read More

Jurassic Park III

Actors: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan

Synopsis: Director Joe Johnston takes over the creative reins from Steven Spielberg for this third installment in the thriller franchise. Sam Neill returns as Dr. Alan Grant, a scientist who's tricked by wealthy couple Paul and Amanda Kirby (William H. Macy and Tea Leoni) into a fly-over of Isla Sorna. The Read More

Heartbreakers

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta, Jason Lee, Gene Hackman

Synopsis: After the little white lies of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), director David Mirkin focuses on scheming of a different sort in Heartbreakers. Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt play Max and Page Conners, a mother and daughter who share everything with each other Read More

NYPD Blue: Hit the Road, Clark

Actors: Henry Simmons

Synopsis: Detective John Clark Jr. (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) is put in the uncomfortable position of choosing between his father, John Sr. (Joe Spano), and his new partner, Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz). Back on the job, John Jr., Andy, Greg (Gordon Clapp), and Baldwin (Henry Simmons) investigate the death of an Read More

All the Pretty Horses

Actors: Matt Damon, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black, Penélope Cruz, Rubén Blades, Bruce Dern, Sam Shepard

Synopsis: Director Billy Bob Thornton explores coming of age in this Western based on Cormac McCarthy's prize-winning novel of the same name. John Grady Cole (Matt Damon) and Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas) are young Texan men who seek a more fulfilling life as cowboys in the slowly fading Old West, circa Read More

Touched by an Angel: With God As My Witness

Synopsis: Fired for revealing a structural flaw in the building where he worked, hardhat Jim Sullivan (David Andrews) takes a job as a limo driver to support his family. Among his customers is a well-heeled but disreputable character named Stuart Deane (played by episode director Stuart Margolin), who Read More

Boy Meets World: Brave New World, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of Boy Meets World's two-part series finale (originally telecast as a single hour-long episode), Cory (Ben Savage) has mixed feelings about relocating to New York so that Topanga (Danielle Fishel) can begin her internship at the Brown-Elliot law firm. Meanwhile, Eric (Will Read More

Missing Pieces

Actors: Lisa Zane, James Coburn, Paul Kersey, Finn Carter, William R. Moses

Synopsis: Based on Atticus, a novel by Ron Hansen, this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation stars James Coburn as widowed Colorado rancher Atticus Cody. In the months since Atticus' wife was killed in a car accident caused by his artist son Scott (Paul Kersey), the boy has ached for his father's forgiveness. Read More

Virus

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacula, Marshall Bell

Synopsis: When the salvage tug Sea Star is caught unprepared in a violent storm, it slowly sinks, and the crew, led by Captain Everton (Donald Sutherland), wander upon another ship for refuge. The ship, apparently deserted, turns out to be a Russian research vessel loaded with high-tech electronics. The Sea Read More

Boy Meets World: We'll Have a Good Time Then

Synopsis: In an unusually somber episode, Shawn (Rider Strong) is upset when his ne'er-do-well father Chet (Blake Clark) comes back into his life, feeling as he does that Chet was never around for him or his half-brother Jack (Matthew Lawrence) when they really needed him. The situation takes an unexpected Read More

Rude Awakening

Actors: Sherilyn Fenn, Lynn Redgrave, Jonathan Penner, Rain Pryor, Richard Lewis

Synopsis: This TV comedy series, an attempt to find humor in 1990s self-help, rehab and recovery programs, focuses on hard-drinking, former actress Billie Frank (Sherilyn Fenn), once the teen queen of primetime soaps, who now works for lowlife "B"-movie producer Harve Schwartz (Richard Lewis). Johnny (Michael Rapaport Read More

Krippendorf's Tribe

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, Natasha Lyonne, Gregory Smith, Carl Michael Lindner

Synopsis: Todd Holland directed this Charlie Peters adaptation of Frank Parkin's novel. Respected anthropologist James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) and his wife, Jennifer (Barbara Williams), bring their three children along during their failed search in New Guinea for a lost tribe. After Jennifer's death Read More

Switchback

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, Jared Leto, R. Lee Ermey, Ted Levine

Synopsis: Scripter Jeb Stuart (Die Hard) made his directorial debut with this thriller about an FBI agent in pursuit of a serial killer. Politically ambitious Amarillo police chief Jack McGinnis (William Fichtner) uses a local murder to gain votes in his campaign, a setback for Sheriff Buck Olmstead (R. Lee Ermey Read More

Vegas Vacation

Actors: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Ethan Embry, Wayne Newton, Marisol Nichols

Synopsis: This is the fourth in a series of movies that began with National Lampoon's Vacation in 1983 and feature the family headed by Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) going on wacky vacations. This time, the Griswolds visit Las Vegas. Clark immediately goes to the blackjack table and starts blowing all his Read More

White Squall

Actors: Balthazar Getty, Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Scott Wolf, Jeremy Sisto

Synopsis: Based on a true incident from 1960, White Squall is the story of the tragic sinking of the Albatross, a prep school educational two-masted schooner, during a Caribbean storm. Screenwriter Todd Robinson wrote the script after meeting one of the tragedy's survivors, Chuck Gieg. In the film, Gieg (Scott Wolf Read More

Bad Boys

Actors: Michael Imperioli, Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Téa Leoni, Theresa Randle, Tchéky Karyo, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Former video director Michael Bay had his first big hit with this action comedy, which also returned producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson to the big-budget, high-violence movies that they successfully churned out in the '80s. Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are Read More

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

Actors: William Baldwin, John Leguizamo, Sadie Frost, Erika Eleniak, Michael Lerner

Synopsis: This is an offbeat romantic comedy that's the directorial debut of TV producer Joshua Brand, co-creator of St. Elsewhere (1982-88) and Northern Exposure (1990-95). John Leguizamo stars as Sergio, a Toronto pastry shop worker who faints whenever he sees Hattie (Sadie Frost), a neighborhood girl Read More

A Million to Juan

Actors: Paul Rodriguez, Polly Draper, Pepe Serna, Bert Rosario, Jonathan Hernandez

Synopsis: This comedy, set in the barrios East L.A. is loosely based upon Mark Twain's parable The Million Pound Bank Note. The new version tells the tale of Juan Lopez a nice, but uneducated hombre trying to earn enough money to support his little boy. Though Juan was born in the States, he lacks proper Read More

Final Combination

Actors: Michael Madsen, Lisa Bonet, Gary Stretch, Tim Russ, Damian Chapa

Synopsis: Sex and death are the main themes running through this thriller. Matt Dickson is a former hockey player turned L.A. cop. Since his wife left him he has become a hard-drinking carouser. Dickson is on the trail of Welton, a psychotic boxer, using the names of famous fighters for his aliases has left Read More

Day of Reckoning

Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills

Actors: Edward James Olmos, Beverly D'Angelo, Damian Chapa, Travis Fine, Julio Oscar Mechoso

Synopsis: We'd rather not rehash the sordied Menendez murder case in this space; besides, it isn't necessary, inasmuch as no fewer than two TV movies were produced on the subject in 1994. The first was Fox's Honor Thy Father and Mother; the second, telecast less than a month later, was Menendez: A Killing Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Survivor

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is shocked when her computer technician is murdered--and even more so when it turns out that the dead man was actually a rookie cop, working undercover. Investigating the situation, Jessica forms a strong bond with the late cop's veteran partner. At the same time, the Read More

Murphy Brown: Two for the Road

Synopsis: In his ongoing crusade to make sweeping changes at "FYI", hotshot network executive Mitchell Baldwin (Julius Carry) decides to subject the show's set to an extreme makeover--much to the dismay of Murphy (Candice Bergen). This incident leads to a full-scale war of nerves between Mitchell and Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Larry's Birthday

Synopsis: Birthdays can sometimes be a touchy subject, especially when using gifts to compete with co-workers for your boss' attention. As Larry's (Garry Shandling) birthday draws ever closer, the crew of The Larry Sanders Show does everything humanly possible to top one another with extravagant gifts for Read More

Toys

Actors: Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack, Robin Wright Penn, LL Cool J

Synopsis: Barry Levinson directed this cautionary fantasy fable--a triumph of production design--concerning the clash between benevolent, funny toys and malevolent, violent war toys and video games. Donald O'Connor is the kindly, gentle Kenneth Zevo, founder of Zevo Toys. The workers love him and the love Read More

Deep Cover

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Victoria Dillard, Charles Martin Smith, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Laurence Fishburne plays no-nonsense LAPD narc Russell Stevens, Jr., who has worked all his life to expunge the memory of his dope-addict father, whom he saw die in a liquor-store robbery. DEA agent Jerry Carver (Charles Martin Smith) orders Stevens to work as an undercover operative on a major Read More

Live! from Death Row

Actors: Bruce Davison, Joanna Cassidy, Jason Tomlins, Michael D. Roberts, Kathleen Wilhoite

Synopsis: On the eve of his televised execution, a serial killer (Bruce Davison) takes a TV newswoman (Joanna Cassidy) hostage. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Internal Affairs

Actors: Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Nancy Travis, Laurie Metcalf, William Baldwin, Richard Bradford

Synopsis: In this glossy L.A. crime drama by Mike Figgis, Andy Garcia stars as Sgt. Raymond Avila, a cop who just joined the Internal Affairs division of the L.A.P.D. An investigation into police corruption has led Avila and his partner, Sgt. Amy Wallace (Laurie Metcalf), to Officer Dennis Peck (Richard Gere Read More

The Take

Actors: Ray Sharkey

Synopsis: In Miami, Ray Sharkey plays a recovering alcoholic-ex-cop/ex-con and possibly a soon-to-be-ex-husband. Upon release from the pen, he tries to go straight, but is confronted once again by the very thing that landed him inside: a Cuban drug cartel. This thriller was made for cable. ~ Kristie Hassen Read More

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach

Actors: Matt McCoy, Janet Jones, George Gaynes, G.W. Bailey, René Auberjonois

Synopsis: America's most inept law enforcement team mixes business with pleasure as they head to sunny Florida in this comedy. The aging and often-confused head of the Police Academy, Commandant Lassard (George Gaynes), has reached mandatory retirement age, much to the pleasure of the devious Capt. Harris (G.W. Bailey Read More

Clinton and Nadine

Actors: Anthony Correa, Andy Garcia, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Michael Lombard, John C. McGinley

Synopsis: This made-for-TV film was originally titled simply Clinton & Nadine when it made its debut on May 28, 1988. Andy Garcia plays Clinton, who is eager to find his brother's murderer. To do so, he enlists the aid of Nadine (Ellen Barkin), a high-priced call girl. Clinton and Nadine get sucked into a Read More

Flight of the Navigator

Actors: Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff De Young, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matt Adler

Synopsis: The year is 1978: 12-year-old Joey Cramer, playing in the woods near his home, is knocked unconscious. He awakens and heads home, only to find strangers living there. He also finds that the year is 1986, and that he's been officially missing for eight years. NASA officials determine that Cramer Read More

Amigos

Actors: Ruben Rabasa, Raynaldo Medina, Lucy Pereda, Juan Granda, Armando Naser

Synopsis: Filmed in Spanish, Amigos is a fairly realistic look at the plight of the Mariel Boat People, the so-called "undesirables" who were shipped off to America by Cuba's Fidel Castro in 1980. Ruben Rabasa plays a Cuban who comes to Miami after nearly 20 years in prison. He is given shelter by his old Read More

Nobody's Perfekt

Actors: Gabe Kaplan, Alex Karras, Robert Klein, Susan Clark, Paul Stewart

Synopsis: This comedy was filmed in Miami and follows the exploits of three frustrated misanthropes who try to sue the city after their car hits a pothole and ends up totaled. Unfortunately, the city has protected itself with a little loophole. When legal means fail, the three try other methods. ~ Sandra Read More