Lauren TomFilmography

Men in Trees: Season 02

Actors: Anne Heche, Abraham Benrubi, Emily Bergl, Seana Kofoed, Suleka Mathew

God's Waiting List

Actors: Nicki Micheaux, Roger Guenveur Smith, Nian Aster

Synopsis: The religious drama God's Waiting List concerns a brother and sister who have become business rivals. When a suspicious, horrific accident causes a serious injury to the sister, she begins to work on her relationship with the Almighty. However she can't shake the suspicion that her brother might Read More

Grey's Anatomy: Begin the Begin

Synopsis: Workaholic Cristina (Sandra Oh) feels stiffed when the hospital "celebrates" the New Year by imposing a mandatory work limit. Back at Seattle Grace, patient Denny Duquette (Jeffrey Dean Morgan in his first series appearance) looks forward to receiving a heart transplant--and to express his ardor Read More

Men in Trees: Season 01

Actors: Anne Heche, Abraham Benrubi, Emily Bergl, Seana Kofoed, Suleka Mathew

In Good Company

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, Marg Helgenberger, David Paymer

Synopsis: A middle-aged man finds a callow twentysomething usurping his professional life and worming his way into his family in this alternately funny and poignant comedy drama. Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) is a middle-aged man who has spent 20 years as the head of advertising sales for Sports Read More

Mulan II

Actors: Ming-Na Wen, B.D. Wong, Mark Moseley, Lucy Liu, Harvey Fierstein

Synopsis: Mulan II, the direct-to-video sequel to the Disney hit Mulan, begins with the title character becoming engaged to General Shang. Before they can begin a life of wedded bliss, they must escort a trio of princesses to weddings of their own in order to facilitate a peace between warring nations. Read More

King of the Hill: Season 09

Synopsis: Season nine of the animated redneck comedy series King of the Hill begins as Peggy Hill briefly leaves Arlen, TX and returns to her Montana hometown when her mother is threatened with losing her land as the result of an influx of Hollywood movie stars -- including Henry Winkler, heard as himself. Read More

Bad Santa

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: The Christmas season just got a lot less joyous in this very dark comedy. Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) is a con man and a thief who teams up with his friend Marcus (Tony Cox), a midget, for a very special scam each year during the holiday season. Willie gets a job as Santa Claus at a Read More

Manhood

Actors: Nestor Carbonell, Janeane Garofalo, John Ritter, Tom Arnold

Synopsis: When Jill (Janeane Garofalo), the sister of reformed womanizer and former high-profile fashion photographer Jack (Nestor Carbonell), leaves her 17-year-old son with his uncle in an unstable bid to find herself, her brother and sister face an increasingly uncertain future in this dark drama from Read More

Clifford's Puppy Days [Animated TV Series]

Monk: Mr. Monk and the 12th Man

Synopsis: Nine San Franciscans have been murdered in what seems to be a random homicide spree. Only after two more people have died does Monk (Tony Shalhoub) discover the unifying link of the eleven homicides: All of the victims had served on the same jury. Normally, the most likely suspect would be the Read More

King of the Hill: Season 08

Synopsis: Brad Pitt provides the voice of a fellow named Path, the brother of supremely inarticulate good ol' boy Boomhauer, in the opening episode of King of the Hill's eighth season. In subsequent episodes, Texan Hank Hill regrets forcing his son Bobby to join a "positive" Christian youth group (their Read More

Fillmore! [Animated Series]

Actors: Orlando Brown, Tara Strong, Horatio Sanz, Wendie Malick, Lukas Behnken

Synopsis: A freewheeling animated spoof of the "hard-boiled private eye" school of fiction, Fillmore revolves around the adventures of seventh grader Cornelius Fillmore, a safety monitor in an extremely accident-prone middle school. Under the guidance of safety chief Vellejo, and with the help of sidekick Read More

King of the Hill: Season 07

Actors: Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Segall, Brittany Murphy, Johnny Hardwick

Synopsis: Redneck reactionary Hank Hill should by rights be delighted that his "not right" son Bobby has a new girlfriend named Jordan as King of the Hill launches its seventh season; unfortunately, Jordan's parents are the "progressive" kind -- and if there's anything that Hank is opposed to, it is Read More

The Zeta Project: Season 02

Actors: Diedrich Bader, Julie Nathanson, Ulysses Cuadra, Kurtwood Smith, Michael Rosenbaum

King of the Hill: Season 06

Actors: Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Segall, Brittany Murphy, Johnny Hardwick

Synopsis: Season six of the animated redneck sitcom King of the Hill begins as 13-year-old Bobby Hill, unable to enroll in the Arlen YMCA's boxing class, takes the next available slot in a women's self-defense class, convincing his macho dad Hank all the more that Bobby "ain't right." In other episodes Read More

Jack the Dog

Actors: Nestor Carbonell, Barbara Williams, Andrew J. Ferchland, Travis Fine, Micole Mercurio

Synopsis: One man's insatiable appetite for sex begins upending his life in this biting independent comedy. Jack (Nestor Carbonell) is a photographer known to his friends as "Jack the Dog," thanks to his compulsive womanizing; Jack seems incapable of staying with one partner for long before he finds himself Read More

The Zeta Project: Season 01

Actors: Diedrich Bader, Julie Nathanson, Ulysses Cuadra, Kurtwood Smith, Michael Rosenbaum

Catfish in Black Bean Sauce

Actors: Paul Winfield, Mary Alice, Chi Muoi Lo, Lauren Tom, Kieu Chinh

Synopsis: In Catfish In Black Bean Sauce, Paul Winfield and Mary Alice play an African-American couple who in the 1970's adopted two Vietnamese children, a brother and sister. 20 years on, the two kids have grown to adulthood; Dwayne (Chi Muoi Lo) has absorbed a great deal of black culture from his adopted Read More

Futurama: Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: The episode "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love" is a take on the Star Trek episode "Amok Time," where Spock has to go back to Vulcan to mate. Leela and Amy take Fry and Bender to the gym to work out, where Dr. Zoidberg goes crazy. The Professor tells him that he is full of male jelly and needs to Read More

Futurama: Lesser of Two Evils

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: While visiting Past-O-Rama, Fry is mistaken for an employee and has to park an antique 20th century car. He crashes it and ends up meeting Flexo, a joking robot that looks just like Bender only he has a goatee. Bender and Flexo become friends and go to the robot strip club, but Fry thinks that Read More

Futurama: Put Your Head on My Shoulder

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: When Amy takes Fry for a spin around Mercury in her new car, they run out of fuel and wind up starting a romance just in time for Valentine's Day. Because they work at the same place, Fry thinks Amy is smothering him and he wants to break up. Just as he is about to tell her that it's over, they Read More

Futurama: Anthology of Interest I

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: In the season finale episode, "Anthology of Interest I," Professor Farnsworth unveils his "What-if" machine and Bender, Leela, and Fry each get a chance to ask it a question. Bender asks what it would be like if he were 500 feet tall, so he becomes a giant and flies to Earth to the tune of Black Sabbath Read More

Futurama: Mother's Day

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: On Mother's Day, all the robots buy presents for Mom, the corporate owner of Mom's Friendly Robot Company. However, when the robots get together for her annual speech, she uses a remote control to reprogram them in order to take over the world. Robots everywhere start rebelling and refusing to Read More

King of the Hill: Season 05

Actors: Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Segall, Brittany Murphy, Johnny Hardwick

Synopsis: The fifth season of King of the Hill opens as the Hill family of Arlen, TX eagerly prepares to meet then-governor George W. Bush, in an episode ironically titled "The Perils of Polling." In later episodes, Peggy Hill gets into a fierce blood-donating competition with her Laotian neighbor, Minh; Read More

Futurama: The Problem With Popplers

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: After they go to the planet of the Moochers, the Planet Express crew stop for food. They discover a tasty delicacy and bring it home, naming them Popplers. Teaming up with fast food mogul Fishy Joe, they plan to market the Popplers and make a lot of money off them. Then Free Waterfall Jr. (voice Read More

Futurama: A Clone of My Own

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: On Professor Farnsworth's 150th birthday, the Planet Express crew goes to Mars University to attend a party held in his honor. After the party, he reveals his latest creation: his 12-year-old clone, Cubert Farnsworth (Kath Soucie). The crew can't take the clone's obnoxious behavior and the Read More

Dag

Actors: David Alan Grier, Delta Burke, David Rasche, Stephen Dunham, Emmy Laybourne

Synopsis: The title of this NBC sitcom refers to its protagonist, Secret Service agent Jerome "Dag" Daggett (by an amazing coincidence, the letters in the title also form the initials of the series' star, David Allen Grier). During an assassination attempt on the president of the United States (David Read More

Futurama: Bender Gets Made

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: In the episode "Bender Gets Made," also known as "Bendfellas," the Planet Express crew sit in the guest audience during a cooking show hosted by Bender's hero, Elzar. Bender blasts Leela in the eye with a spice weasel and she gets temporarily blinded as a result. In order to make it up to them Read More

Futurama: The Deep South

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: In the episode "The Deep South," the Planet Express crew goes fishing on their day off. Bender catches huge fish and ends up sinking the whole ship. The crew experiences their version of the lost city of Atlantis myth by landing in Atlanta, an old U.S. city that now exists at the bottom of the Read More

Futurama: How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: Leela invites her old co-workers from the cryogenics lab over for a game of poker. When Bender uses x-ray specs to cheat, Leela's friends beat him up and inadvertently destroy Hermes' office. The anal-retentive Central Bureaucracy officer Morgan Proctor (voice of Nora Dunn) sees Hermes negligence Read More

Futurama: A Bicyclops Built for Two

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: The Professor goes online using AOL, which has turned into a virtual reality experience. While in a chat room, Leela meets Alcazar, who claims to be a cyclops. She visits his planet and learns that they are the last two living cyclopses from the planet Cyclopia. After they spend the night Read More

Futurama: Raging Bender

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: In this take on Raging Bull, the episode "Raging Bender" starts with the Planet Express crew going out to the movies. Bender gets into a fight with another robot in the theater and knocks him out, only to find out that the robot was the champion of the Robot Fighting League. Bender immediately Read More

Futurama: A Flight to Remember

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: The first episode of the second season of Futurama is a take on the Hollywood blockbuster romance Titanic. During the Planet Express company vacation, the whole crew goes on a luxury space cruise. Leela pretends that Fry is her boyfriend in order to thwart the advances of the ship's captain, Zapp Read More

Futurama: Mars University

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: The Planet Express crew makes a delivery to the Professor's office at Mars University. Realizing that he's just a high school dropout, Fry decides to enroll in school and become a college dropout. He ends up sharing a room with the Professor's super-intelligent experimental monkey, Guenter. Read More

Futurama: Brannigan Begin Again

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: Zapp Brannigan accidentally explodes the Democratic Order of Planets (DOOP) and he loses his rank in a court sentence after Leela testifies against him. He and his assistant, Kif Kroker, become homeless vagrants, so Professor Farnsworth hires them to work for Planet Express. While delivering Read More

Futurama: A Head in the Polls

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: Titanium becomes worth a lot of money, so Bender sells his body and tries to live as just a head. After he visits the head museum and has a binary number nightmare, he decides he wants his body back. Unfortunately, the head of a crazed Richard Nixon bought it so he can run for president against Read More

Futurama: I Second That Emotion

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: On Nibbler's birthday, Bender gets jealous because nobody is paying attention to him. Even when he tries to get noticed for baking a cake, Nibbler eats the whole thing. Angry, Bender flushes him down the toilet and Leela is heartbroken. Because the uncaring Bender feels no remorse, the Professor Read More

Futurama: Xmas Story

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: Fry is sad about his first Christmas away from his family and Leela is sad because she's the only one of her species in the galaxy. Fry wants to comfort her, but he just ends up making her feel worse. To make up for it he goes out to buy her a present, despite warnings that an evil Robot Santa Read More

Futurama: When Aliens Attack

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: While trying to relax on the beach, the Planet Express crew gets involved in an alien attack from the planet Omicron Persei 8. Zapp Brannigan leads the counterattack to destroy the mothership, but he destroys the Hubble telescope instead. It turns out that all the aliens want is the season finale Read More

Futurama: Fry and the Slurm Factory

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: In this parody of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Fry tries to find a golden bottle cap in his favorite beverage, Slurm. He tries using the professor's latest invention that can see through metal, but he ends up swallowing a golden bottle cap and winning the contest. The crew gets to go on Read More

Futurama: Hell Is Other Robots

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: Bender becomes addicted to jolts of electricity at a "jacking-on" party. He goes on a jolt spree and almost kills the rest of the crew. A robot priest offers him the Good Book 3.0 and he kicks his addiction by finding religion. Fry and Leela want the old Bender back, so they take him out for a Read More

Futurama: The Series Has Landed

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: Fry, Leela, and Bender meet the rest of the Planet Express crew: boss man Hermes Conrad (voice of Phil LaMarr), intern Amy Wong (voice of Lauren Tom), and doctor John Zoidberg (voice of Billy West). With Leela as their captain, the first assignment is a delivery to the moon. Fry is really excited Read More

Futurama: I, Roommate

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: Everyone in the Planet Express offices is tired of sloppy Fry hanging around all the time and making messes. He tries to stay at Bender's place in Robot Arms Apartments, but it doesn't work out. He makes Bender look for a better apartment but his robotic characteristics keep ruining things. After Read More

Y2K

Actors: Ken Olin, Kate Vernon, Joe Morton, Jane McGregor, Michal Suchanek

Synopsis: "What if they're right?" screamed the ad copy for the TV movie Y2K, referring to the millions of otherwise rational, level-headed people who lived in mortal terror that virtually every computer in the world would malfunction on December 31, 1999, because of an imbedded inability to "read" Read More

King of the Hill: Season 04

Actors: Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Segall, Brittany Murphy, Johnny Hardwick

Synopsis: Season three of King of the Hill had ended with the fate of Peggy Hill literally up in the air when, while skydiving, her chute failed to open. Season four begins with Peggy in a full body cast -- and it will be several episodes before she will make a full recovery. (Who knew that cartoon Read More

Futurama: Love's Labors Lost in Space

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: While trying to save the animals on the dying planet Vergon 6, the Planet Express crew meet arrogant Zapp Brannigan (voice of Billy West), captain of the Nimbus. He tries to seduce Leela by taking her to his bedroom (called "the Lovenasium") while Fry and Bender go to jail. After spending a night Read More

Futurama: My Three Suns

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: When Hermes threatens to stop paying him if he doesn't get to work, Bender becomes the ship's cook. The crew has to make a delivery on Trisol 3 in the Galaxy of Terror. When Fry has to walk through the heat of the three suns in order to deliver a package, he gets thirsty and drinks a strange blue Read More

Futurama: A Big Piece of Garbage

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: Professor Farnsworth submits his Death Clock in the Academy of Inventors ceremony, but his old rival Wernstrom tells him that he already submitted it last year. The Professor quickly comes up with another invention called the Smell-O-Scope, a device which can smell any object in space. He doesn't Read More

Futurama: Fear of a Bot Planet

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: During a "blernsball" game, Bender gets upset about the mistreatment of robots, while Fry struggles to understand the rules of blernsball. The Planet Express crew gets a delivery request to Chapek 9, a planet ran by robots where humans are routinely killed. Bender tries to get out of it by Read More

Futurama: A Fishful of Dollars

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: Fry has a dream with a commercial in it, and everyone develops a strange urge to go shopping. Bender gets arrested for shoplifting, but the crew doesn't have enough money to bail him out of jail. Fry decides to look up his old bank account, which has since accrued billions of dollars in interest Read More

With Friends Like These...

Actors: Adam Arkin, Robert Costanzo, Beverly D'Angelo, Elle MacPherson, Amy Madigan

Synopsis: Life among insecure, middle-aged character actors, former New Yorkers in L.A., is the main plot focus of this Philip Frank Messina comedy about four friends who want the same role in the next Martin Scorsese gangster flick. Balding Johnny DiMartino (Robert Costanzo) is so excited by the news of a Read More

King of the Hill: Season 03

Actors: Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Segall, Brittany Murphy, Johnny Hardwick

Synopsis: Season three of King of the Hill begins by resolving the cliffhanger ending of season two; specifically, did anyone survive the propane explosion at the Mega Lo Mart? The good news is that practically everyone emerged intact, although Luanne, niece of series protagonists Hank and Peggy Hill, has Read More

Murder Live!

Actors: Marg Helgenberger, David Morse, Christine Estabrook, Lauren Tom, Eloy Casados

Synopsis: In the middle of a live talk-show telecast hosted by the supremely arrogant Pia Postman (Marg Helgenberger), audience member Frank McGrath (David Morse) suddenly pulls out a gun and seizes control of the studio. Slapping a piece of tape over Pia's mouth (a moment that is invariably applauded by Read More

The Batman Superman Movie

Actors: Kevin Conroy, Tim Daly, Clancy Brown, Dana Delany, Mark Hamill

Synopsis: If given the chance, would Batman have the hots for Lois Lane? Would Lex Luthor get along well with The Joker? And what, if anything, would be left for Robin to do? All these questions and more are answered in this conflation of two of the most venerable comic book legends, The Batman Superman Read More

King of the Hill: Season 01

Actors: Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Segall, Brittany Murphy, Johnny Hardwick

Synopsis: The first season of King of the Hill opens with its pilot episode, in which suburban Texas redneck Hank Hill is falsely accused of child abuse when his chubby son Bobby turns up with a black eye, and Luanne Platter, niece of Hank and his wife Peg, moves in with the Hills after her mom is carted Read More

King of the Hill: Season 02

Actors: Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Segall, Brittany Murphy, Johnny Hardwick

Synopsis: Those tuning in as the animated redneck sitcom King of the Hill began its second season may have noticed that the characters have been slightly redesigned; made to appear more appealing and less grotesque. The season opener is "How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying," one of several Read More

Tell Me No Secrets

Actors: Lori Loughlin, Bruce Greenwood, Tracey Walter

Synopsis: Los Angeles district attorney Jess Kostner (Lori Laughlin) inaugurates her own personal descent into hell when she agrees to prosecute an accused rapist named Sean Ferguson (Tracey Walter). Having just recovered from a nervous breakdown brought about by the mysterious death of her mother, Jess is Read More

Friends: The One with Russ

Synopsis: Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) dates a guy named Russ who looks a lot like Ross (both played by David Schwimmer) -- at least he does to everyone except Rachel. Meanwhile Monica's (Courteney Cox) date with former beau Fun Bobby (Vincent Ventresca) has plenty of Bobby but no fun now that he doesn't Read More

Escape to Witch Mountain

Actors: Erik Von Detten, Elisabeth Moss, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dourif, Lynne Moody

Synopsis: This made-for-television remake of Disney's popular feature tells the tale of two orphan twins with special powers who go looking for their origins. The two are hindered by an avaricious tycoon who only wants to exploit their abilities. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Timothy Busfield, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: The FBI investigates a fallen IRS agent who has apparently been using taxpayer's most personal information to formulate and execute kidnapping and extortion schemes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Friends: The One with Phoebe's Husband

Synopsis: Is Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) so desperate for a husband that she's willing to marry a gay Canadian ice skater? Not exactly: It seems that Phoebe's new hubby, a guy named Duncan (Steve Zahn), needs an American wife so that he can get a green card and stay in the country. In another affair of the heart Read More

Friends: The One with the List

Synopsis: Using Chandler's (Matthew Perry) new computer, Ross (David Schwimmer) draws up a list of plusses and minuses to decide between Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) and Julie (Lauren Tom). Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and Chandler try to help compile the list, and guess what happens next. Elsewhere, Monica (Courteney Cox Read More

Friends: The One with the Breast Milk

Synopsis: Already displeased that Ross (David Schwimmer) is attached to Julie (Lauren Tom), Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) isn't prepared for the news that Monica (Courteney Cox) is becoming friends with Julie. In other developments, Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and a rival in love (Joel Beeson) are hired as Read More

Friends: The One Where Rachel Finds Out

Synopsis: Joey (Matt LeBlanc) can't go to bed with his new girlfriend, but not for the reasons one might expect. In a potentially more positive story development, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) learns second-hand that Ross (David Schwimmer) is in love with her -- just as Ross is about to leave the country. Read More

Friends: The One with Ross's New Girlfriend

Synopsis: Friends' second-season opener resolves the nagging question left unanswered at the end of season one: Who is that girl at the airport with Ross (David Schwimmer)? The answer is Ross' new girlfriend, Julie (Lauren Tom) -- an answer that will please neither Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), who has been Read More

When a Man Loves a Woman

Actors: Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan, Lauren Tom, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tina Majorino

Synopsis: A dramatic treatment of a family torn apart by alcoholism and recovering from it, this was a star vehicle for popular actress Meg Ryan, who plays Alice Green, a school counselor who has a serious drinking problem. Her husband is Michael (Andy Garcia), an airline pilot. Though she's lighthearted Read More

North

Actors: Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jon Lovitz, Matthew McCurley, Alan Arkin, Richard Belzer

Synopsis: A boy divorces his parents in this comic fantasy for the family. North (Elijah Wood) is the sort of kid most parents dream of -- he's bright, well-behaved, a good student, and a great baseball player. But North's Mom and Dad (Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander) are so busy with their lives Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: A Model Citizen

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: The serial killer responsible for the recent spate of "white glove" murders sues Pembleton (Andre Braugher) for violating her civil rights -- but that's only the beginning of his troubles. Elsewhere, Munch (Richard Belzer) is forced to attend an alcohol awareness seminar; Felton's (Daniel Baldwin) Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Happy to Be Here

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: Giardello's (Yaphet Kotto) activist friend Sam Thorne (Joe Morton) is shot down after blowing the whistle on a high-scale cocaine operation. The squad searches for the husband of a woman who is still receiving fresh flowers every day, even though she's been dead for two weeks. Munch's (Richard Belzer Read More

The Joy Luck Club

Actors: Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Tamlyn Tomita

Synopsis: Director Wayne Wang and screenwriter Ronald Bass effectively interweave sixteen mother-daughter tales in their silken film version of Amy Tan's best-selling novel about the clash between generations. The film takes place in present-day San Francisco, concentrating on a group of late-middle-aged Read More

Mr. Jones

Actors: Richard Gere, Lena Olin, Anne Bancroft, Tom Irwin, Delroy Lindo, Bruce Altman

Synopsis: The title character, a manic depressive prone to very irrational behavior (Richard Gere), is hospitalized for treatment. While there, the psychiatrist responsible for his rehabilitation (Lena Olin) becomes involved with him and cannot stand to allow his check-out. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Man Trouble

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Ellen Barkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Paul Mazursky, Harry Dean Stanton, Michael McKean

Synopsis: Actor Jack Nicholson, writer Carole Eastman, and director Bob Rafelson re-team 22 years after their classic Five Easy Pieces, for this romantic comedy. Nicholson plays Harry Bliss, a small potatoes security expert unhappily married to a Japanese woman (he sarcastically calls her Iwo Jima during Read More

Cadillac Man

Actors: Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Pamela Reed, Fran Drescher, Zack Norman

Synopsis: Robin Williams stars in this oddball comedy about a fast-talking car salesman who is down on his luck and in over his head until an extreme situation forces him to use his sales skills to save lives. Joey O'Brien (Williams) is the stereotypical car salesman: enterprising, aggressive, and desperate Read More

Blue Steel

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a rookie cop who witnesses a robbery in progress on her first night on the job. With her more experienced partner using the men's room, Megan decides to take action on her own. She creeps into the supermarket where a man (Tom Sizemore in a small role) is holding Read More

Angel of Death

Actors: Brian Bonsall, Jane Seymour

Synopsis: Gregory Harrison is the Angel of Death in this made-for-TV suspenser. In love with artist Jane Seymour, escaped convict Harrison vows to protect Seymour and her six-year-old son Brian Bonsall from any and all antagonists. Trouble is, Harrison is apt to love Seymour and her boy to death. If you Read More

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Actors: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance, Kevin Spacey, Kirsten Childs, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: The third pairing of comic actors Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder was much less successful than their previous team-ups, Silver Streak(1976) and Stir Crazy (1980). Wilder plays Dave, the deaf proprietor of a newsstand and employer of blind gambler Wally (Pryor). When Wally's bookie is shot and Read More

Rooftops

Actors: Jason Gedrick, Troy Beyer, Eddie Velez, Alexis Cruz, Tisha Campbell

Synopsis: Set in the Manhattan street milieu that served him well in West Side Story, Robert Wise’s Rooftops tells the story of T, a quiet, soft-spoken teen-ager who has left his broken home and is living in a makeshift shelter in an old water tower on top of an abandoned tenement building. There are other Read More

Wall Street

Actors: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: "Greed is Good." This is the credo of the aptly named Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), the antihero of Oliver Stone's Wall Street. Gekko, a high-rolling corporate raider, is idolized by young-and-hungry broker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen). Inveigling himself into Gekko's inner circle, Fox quickly learns Read More

Magic Sticks

Actors: George Kranz, Kelly Leigh Curtis, Joe Silver, Chico Hamilton

Synopsis: Felix (George Kranz) is the down-and-out young drummer who obtains a pair of magic drumsticks from a street vendor. He soon finds out the sticks are able to make native New Yorkers dance uncontrollably -- but not visitors to the city. Joe Silver plays a good-hearted pawnbroker, with Kelly Curtis Read More

Nothing Lasts Forever

Actors: Zach Galligan, Apollonia Van Ravenstein, Lauren Tom, Dan Aykroyd, Imogene Coca

Synopsis: Tom Schiller, best known for the short subjects he wrote and directed for Saturday Night Live's early seasons, made his feature film debut with this offbeat fantasy. In the future, the city of New York is governed by the Port Authority, and aspiring artist Adam Beckett (Zach Galligan) is depressed Read More