Marcella LoweryFilmography

Waltzing Anna

Actors: Emmanuelle Chriqui, Robert Capelli Jr., Pat Hingle, Betsy Palmer, Grant Shaud, Artie Lange

Synopsis: A doctor learns there's more to his profession than making money in this comedy-drama. Charlie Keegan (Robert Capelli Jr.) is a physician who has built up a lucrative practice by caring more about profits and working the loopholes of medical insurance claims than looking after the needs of his Read More

Law & Order: Sheltered

Actors: Fred Dalton Thompson

Synopsis: The "D.C. Sniper" case was still very much in the news when this Law & Order episode first appeared in the spring of 2003. Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) race against time to track down the unknown gunman who has randomly picked off four victims in broad daylight. Read More

Vibrations

Actors: Christina Applegate, James Marshall, Scott Cohen, Faye Grant, David Burke

Synopsis: A talented young rock keyboardist allows his life to fall into the gutter after he loses both hands during a mugging. He is later fitted with special hand extensions, but these neither allow him to play music nor much of anything else. Despondent, he starts drinking heavily and soon finds himself Read More

Ghostwriter: Into the Comics

Synopsis: This film is part of a past PBS television series that featured young people solving mysteries. The popular series was acclaimed for its educational value, as it taught children the skills of cooperation, reading, writing, logic, deduction, and problem solving. In this episode, renowned film Read More

Ghostwriter: Who Burned Mr. Brinker's Store?

Synopsis: This children's video is part of a popular series from PBS that featured young people solving mysteries. Presented in a format both educational and entertaining for a children's audience, a group of young sleuths set out to find the culprit who burned Mr. Brinker's store. In the ensuing drama, the Read More

Law & Order: Competence

Synopsis: The focus in this episode is on Lt. Anita Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson), the boss of detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Logan (Chris Noth). During an attempted holdup, Van Buren shoots and kills one of her teenaged assailants. Already racked with guilt, Van Buren must also endure the ordeal Read More

Law & Order: Breeder

Synopsis: A private adoption racket is exposed when a woman claims that she fainted in a taxi and awoke to find baby missing. In the course of their investigation, detective Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Logan (Chris Noth) encounter all manner of human anguish and desperation. Particularly compelling are Debra Read More

Just Like in the Movies

Synopsis: A divorced, thirtysomething private investigator has an early mid-life crisis and goes looking for love. As a detective, Ryan specializes in providing evidence of infidelity for spouses seeking grounds for divorce. He is assisted by his partners Vernon, a genius with technical gadgetry and Dean Read More

Ghostwriter: Ghost Story

Synopsis: This educational video is aimed at the young set and teaches kids problem-solving skills in an entertaining fashion. A ghost leaves written clues for children to solve various mysteries. Children are invited to join in and keep a log of the clues, using their own materials. Skills that can be Read More

What About Bob?

Actors: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo, Kathryn Erbe

Synopsis: In this comedy about a doctor-patient relationship pushed way beyond the office, Bill Murray plays Bob Wiley, a neurotic New Yorker struggling with a whirlwind of paralyzing phobias. When an exasperated colleague pawns the handful off on Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss), the psychologist has no Read More

New Jack City

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Allen Payne, Judd Nelson

Synopsis: The ruthless leader of a New York City drug syndicate battles to maintain his power and avoid imprisonment in this fast-moving action drama. While the film's heroes are Scotty (Ice-T) and Nick (Judd Nelson), a pair of tough, streetwise cops, the main focus is their target, drug lord Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes Read More

Fletch Lives

Actors: Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, Cleavon Little, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: Though the original Fletch was drubbed by critics, it proved a major success for star Chevy Chase. It was inevitable, then, that a sequel would make an appearance. Surprisingly, Fletch Lives didn't come out until 1989--a full five years after the original. Once more, Chase stars as Irwin Maurice Read More

Lean on Me

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Robert Guillaume, Beverly Todd, Lynne Thigpen, Jermaine Hopkins

Synopsis: After earning rave notices for powerful supporting turns as a pimp in Street Smart (1987) and an alcohol abuse counselor in Clean and Sober (1988), actor Morgan Freeman began his ascent to stardom with this, his first lead role in a major motion picture. Freeman is real-life high school principal Read More

The Cosby Show: It Comes and It Goes

Synopsis: Not only has new mom Sondra (Sabrina LeBeauf) been worn to a frazzle caring for the twins, but she is also sore that her med-school student husband Elvin (Geoffrey Owens) seems to be taking her for granted. As for Elvin, his efforts to convince Sondra that he's as caring and concerned as ever fail Read More

The Cosby Show: Cliff's Wet Adventure

Synopsis: Cliff (Bill Cosby) braves a terrific rainstorm to purchase a few extra ingredients for the Huxtables' Thanksgiving dinner--only to be forced back into the deluge time and again because he keeps forgetting one "little" item after another. To top off the situation, Martin's ex-wife Paula (Victoria Read More

The Cosby Show: Day of the Locusts

Synopsis: Coming down with a bad case of strep throat, Sondra (Sabrina LeBeauf) is temporarily unable to care for the twins by herself. This situation proves to be a golden opportunity for the babies' grandmothers Clair (Phylicia Rashad) and Francine (Marcella Lowery), who swoop down and "kidnap" the twins Read More

The Cosby Show: The Birth, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally networkcast as an hour-long special), Sondra (Sabrina LeBeau) gives birth to twins, a boy and a girl, whom she names Nelson and Winnie (as in "Mandela"). Grandfather Cliff (Bill Cosby) is of course elated, but he's also worried that Sondra's Read More

Without a Trace

Actors: Kate Nelligan, Judd Hirsch, David Dukes, Stockard Channing, Jacqueline Brookes

Synopsis: Young divorced mother Kate Nelligan refuses to go into a panic when her six-year-old son disappears. She manages to maintain an even emotional keel even when detective Judd Hirsch unearths several clues which point to sexual molestation. After several false leads, the truth is revealed. We won't Read More

Arthur

Actors: Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jill Eikenberry

Synopsis: The ads for Arthur suggested that this was an obnoxious film about an obnoxious man, an eternally drunken millionaire indulging his every whim. Instead, Arthur (Dudley Moore) is a sweet, somewhat pathetic character whose millions have left him lonely and with no motivation in life. When the film Read More

Super Spook

Synopsis: In this blaxploitation comedy, a private clutzy detective and his bumbling assistant attempt to clean up the crime in Harlem. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Broad Coalition

Synopsis: The Broad Coalition is about a coalition of broads. In this broad satire, they are members of the women's liberation movement. One of the movement stalwarts is a mad-scientist type, and she has developed a way to make men pregnant. Among those in her group is a woman with a policeman boyfriend who Read More