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Actors: Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfrancesco Favino
Synopsis: Angels and Demons re-teams director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks for the sequel to their international blockbuster adaptation of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code. Although the book Angels and Demons was written before the novel The Da Vinci Code, the movie transpires after the events of the Read More
Actors: Paul Campbell, Andy Griffith, Doris Roberts, Liz Sheridan, Marla Sokoloff
Synopsis: A handsome young ladies' man attempts to teach his widowed grandfather the finer points of dating in the new millennium in this comedy featuring beloved television icons Andy Griffith, Doris Roberts, and Liz Sheridan. When it comes to meeting women, David knows every trick in the book. Lately Read More
Actors: Justin Ament, Angus MacFadyen, Tonantzin Carmelo, Michael Spears, Marnie Alton
Synopsis: Bounty hunter James Conners (Justin Ament) has his sights set on the evil rancher (Angus Macfadyen) who ruined his life. But when Conners's plan for vengeance goes horribly wrong, he discovers a different way to settle the scores of the past with the help of a Navajo mystic. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Christa Campbell, Derek Hughes, Rance Howard, Richard Riehle, Tara Price
Synopsis: A comedy horror with romantic suspense undertones, Audie and the Wolf tells the tale of a wolf who turns into a man by the light of the full moon, and traces his attempt to unlock the mystery of his condition with the help of a punk rock grocery delivery girl. John Doe may be a friendly wolf, but Read More
Actors: Richard Grieco, Jeffrey Asch, Rance Howard
Synopsis: Former 21 Jump Street heartthrob Richard Grieco directs and stars in this supernatural western set in the late 1800s and concerning a group of outlaws who are violently killed and return back from hell to terrorize the small western town of Tularosa. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Michael Rooker
Synopsis: Michael Rooker and Rance Howard star in co-directors Terry Leonard and Thadd Turner's take on the adventures of a legendary old-west gunfighter and his quick-draw compatriots. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: According to Appalachian folklore, in the year 1856 a man emerged from the mountain wilderness around Cold Springs, North Carolina to avenge his father's death. His vengeance was so powerful that by the time he was finished, nothing was left but a ghost town. Twenty years later, when his Read More
Actors: Charles Durning, Steve Harris, Corbin Bernsen, Jello Biafra, Pamela Tice Chapman
Synopsis: Death & Texas mixes humor and drama in order to tell the story of a football player who ends up on death row. However, when his team begins to lose without him there is a movement to get him released. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: David Carradine, Wes Studi, Michael Parkes, Tim Abell, Sarah Aldrich
Synopsis: When disaster strikes and necessity dictates that the festering rivalry between the Franklin and Red Eagle families be set aside in the name of survival, the resulting tale of brotherhood gives testament to mankind's remarkable power for forgiveness in this family-oriented Western starring David Carradine Read More
Actors: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko, Paddy Considine
Synopsis: The true story of an athlete who achieved his greatest success against the most daunting odds of his life is brought to the screen in this historical drama. In the 1920s, James Braddock (Russell Crowe) from Bergen, NJ, was a promising contender in professional boxing; he had strength, spirit, and Read More
Actors: Mimi Michaels, Rance Howard, Kiera Chaplin, Charles Hoyes, Teres Byrne
Synopsis: Richard Rossi's low-budget, direct-to-video feature Sister Aimee dramatizes the life of controversial American evangelist McPherson (here portrayed by Mimi Michaels). One of the leaders of the prohibition movement of the 1920s (alongside Billy Sunday) and the sort of person for whom the term "fire Read More
Actors: Hank Azaria, Jesse Bradford, Zooey Deschanel, Glenne Headly, Famke Janssen
Synopsis: Writer/director Michael Clancy makes his feature film debut with the black comedy Eulogy. Zooey Deschanel plays Kate Collins, an unhappy college student who is made even more unhappy when her grandfather (Rip Torn) dies. Even though the entire family hates each other, they reunite at the home of Read More
Actors: Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, Juliet Landau, Greg Travis, Adam Gierasch
Synopsis: Tobe Hooper, who directed one of the truly iconic American horror films of the 1970s, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, offers his take on another well-remembered scare-fest of the era with this remake. Steve (Brent Roam) and Nell (Angela Bettis) are a young couple living in Los Angeles who are short Read More
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Eric Schweig, Evan Rachel Wood, Jenna Boyd, Aaron Eckhart
Synopsis: Director Ron Howard turns to the Western genre in this tale of a father and daughter who are brought together under difficult circumstances. Samuel Jones (Tommy Lee Jones) is a man living in New Mexico in the 1880s. He had abandoned his family years before to live and travel with a band of Read More
Actors: Lindsay Pulsipher, Joe Estevez
Synopsis: Old duffer Marcus Rosco (Rance Howard) loathes his life in a nursing home, so he bones up on his magic and learns to switch bodies with younger folks -- a process that proves fun for him but extremely hard on his host bodies. Of course, a vampire body is immortal, so Angel (David Boreanaz) turns Read More
Actors: Mario Lopez, Gary Busey, Bentley Mitchum
Synopsis: Some young people lost in the woods pick the wrong cabin while looking for help in this story of horror and suspense. Jeremiah (Rodger Hewlett) was raised by his mother (Tracy Scoggins), a woman with a paranoid fear of strangers and outsiders, in a small cabin in a remote woodland community. Read More
Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Kim Hunter, James Morrison, Wendell Pierce, Park Overall
Synopsis: Reminiscent of David Lynch's acclaimed The Straight Story, this drama focuses on forgiveness, redemption, and a rider lawnmower. Ernest Borgnine stars as aging war veteran Hotis Brown, who learns that his brother -- to whom he has not talked in 50 years -- is dying. Too proud to accept a police Read More
Actors: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy
Synopsis: Independent film director Gus Van Sant attempts a first in American film history: a shot-by-shot remake of the classic 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho. With a few minor, modern-day changes (including filming it in color), his version is essentially the same film with a different cast and the Read More
Actors: Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Christopher Sieber, Sally Wheeler, Orlando Brown
Synopsis: Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, star in this TV sitcom as the Burkes, twin daughters with a widowed dad, college science prof Kevin Burke (Christopher Sieber). Tomboy Mary-Kate and sis Ashley don't like the babysitter dad hired, so they scheme to replace her with college student Carrie (Sally Wheeler Read More
Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas
Synopsis: President Clark is dead, and the civil war on Earth is over. Delenn triumphantly stage-manages the convergence of the Earth, the Minbari and the Narn into a new alliance. Captain Sheridan's role in the Alliance must, however, wait until the Earthgov decides his ultimate fate. Elsewhere, Ivanova Read More
Actors: Sally Kellerman, Ed Begley, Jr., Sandra Taylor, Stuart Margolin, Tyne Daly
Synopsis: A pair of not-so-happily married academics confront their various emotional problems as temptations appear on all sides in this comedy. Mary Jane Dankworth (Sally Kellerman) teaches film at the same university where her husband Harvey (Ed Begley, Jr.) teaches Russian literature. Their relationship Read More
Synopsis: Three years after the cancellation of her popular series Murder She Wrote, Angela Lansbury returns for the first of several TV-movie followups to that selfsame series. Once again, Lansbury is cast as Jessica Fletcher, best-selling mystery writer and amateur sleuth. As indicated by the film's Read More
Synopsis: Although dimwitted Lonnie (Charles Esten) has only recently held the Bundy family hostage, Kelly Bundy (Christina Applegate) has fallen madly in love with him--and in fact wants to become his bride. Al (Ed O'Neill) is dead set against the union, rightly summing up Lonnie as a faithless fool, but Read More
Synopsis: Country-western singer LeAnn Rimes plays herself in this made-for-TV adaptation of her autobiographical novel. The film charts LeAnn's Nashville childhood, her rise to fame on the nightclub and honky-tonk circuit, and the fulfillment of her lifelong dream: To sing at the Grand Ole Opry. Alas, on Read More
Actors: T.J. Roberts, Jennifer Lyons, Robert La Sardo, Rance Howard, Timothy Williams
Synopsis: In this martial arts actioner, a tough young fighter risks his life to protect his girl and her family from criminal creeps. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, Glenne Headly, Daryl Mitchell
Synopsis: The classic 1955-59 sitcom The Phil Silvers Show (also known as "You'll Never Get Rich" in its first few episodes) became this high concept comedy with an all-star cast. Steve Martin stars as U.S. Army Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko, a conniving motor pool supervisor who uses his position to Read More
Actors: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch
Synopsis: A group of intrepid humans attempts to save the Earth from vicious extraterrestrials in this extremely popular science-fiction adventure. Borrowing liberally from War of the Worlds, Aliens, and every sci-fi invasion film inbetween, director Roland Emmerich and producer and co-writer Dean Devlin Read More
Synopsis: In the conclusion of "The Bottle Deposit," Kramer (Michael Richards) is halfway to Michigan when he spots the car stolen from Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) -- and in so doing messes up his "double deposit" scheme. Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) has a vested interest in the stolen car, since it carries the Read More
Synopsis: After several weeks of cat-and-mouse, the Shadows finally make an open attack. Hoping to rally support against the aggressors, Sheridan turns to Kosh for help. And Londo's efforts to patch up his differences with Morden (Ed Wasser) only makes a bad situation worse. Rance Howard, the father of Read More
Synopsis: Appalled by the civil unrest on Earth, Sheridan declares Babylon 5 as an independent state. As President Clark summons his forces to seize control of B5, Delenn asks Minbari for help. A Ranger arrives with news that throws Delenn for a loss. And that is all that can be said without giving away the Read More
Synopsis: In a spoof of the popular NBC sitcom Friends, Kelly (Christina Applegate) goes out with delivery guy Tom (Matt Borlenghi), who is trying to get even with his regular girl Shannon (Nicole Eggert). In retaliation, Shannon agrees to date a middle-aged millionaire named Henry (Alan Thicke). Both Read More
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
Actors: Matt McCoy, Crystal Chappell, Clint Howard, Rance Howard, Zachery Ty Bryan
Synopsis: Lost in the Northwest woods, a young boy ends up caught in a bear trap and threatened by a ferocious grizzly. Fortunately, he is saved by a friendly Sasquatch. Later the boy unwittingly plays a role in the Bigfoot's capture. Now it is the lad's turn to save his shaggy friend from those who would Read More
Actors: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini, Christopher McDonald, Gary Bullock
Synopsis: Party-hard skydiving teacher Ditch Brodie (Charlie Sheen) has a knack for getting himself into trouble, but his booze-babes-and-planes shenanigans hardly prepare him for an international plot that pits Brodie and a mysterious KGB agent against a post-Cold War Russian villain called Kerr (Chris Read More
Actors: Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid
Synopsis: Director Ron Howard's drama follows a beleaguered reporter during a hectic 24 hours at a New York City tabloid. Michael Keaton stars as Henry Hackett, a metro editor for the struggling New York Sun. Hackett is being wooed by the Sentinel, a more upscale paper, but he's addicted to the Read More
Actors: Rosalind Allen, Ami Dolenz, Seth Green, Virginya Keehne, Ray Oriel
Synopsis: Oversized mutant ticks start terrorizing a nearby campground and eating its campers. ~ Sean D. MacLaggan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Woody Harrelson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, Ernie Hudson, Cara Buono
Synopsis: In this action comedy, director Gregg Champion relies on the premise that, indeed, "country boys can survive," as Sonny (Kiefer Sutherland) and Pepper (Woody Harrelson, always game) head off to the Big Apple in order to rescue a mutual friend's daughter from the clutches of an evil sweatshop Read More
Actors: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones
Synopsis: Hollywood visionary Tim Burton pays homage to another Hollywood visionary, albeit a less successful one, in this unusual fictionalized biography. The film follows Wood (Johnny Depp) in his quest for film greatness as he writes and directs turkey after turkey, cross-dresses, and surrounds himself Read More
Synopsis: With no more rural Midwestern adults left to slaughter, two brothers from Gatling, Nebraska are sent to foster homes in the Windy City. The little brother, who murdered his own father, is a disciple of the dreaded "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" and has brought a few corn seeds with him so his evil Read More
Actors: Olivier Gruner, Marc Singer, James Brolin
Actors: Rick Moranis, Ed O'Neill, John Madden, Shawna Waldron, Mary Ellen Trainor
Synopsis: A successful retired jock and his geeky younger brother play out their sibling rivalry by coaching rival little league football teams in this family comedy. Ed O'Neill plays the older brother, Kevin O'Shea, a former Heisman Trophy winner whose gridiron exploits have made him a local hero in his Read More
Actors: Paul Rudd, Julie Bowen, Dee Wallace, Jenny Lewis, Holly Fields
Synopsis: Some teen girls take to the road in this made-for-cable remake of the 1956 original. Set in 1957, three guy-crazy friends take to the road in a stolen car, trying to track down one of their ex-lovers before he goes off into the Navy. The film is part of Showtime's "Rebel Highways" series of Read More
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez, Isabella Rossellini, Tom Hulce, John Turturro
Synopsis: Adapted by screenwriter Rafael Yglesias from his own novel, Fearless explores the complex struggle back to mental health of post-traumatic stress disorder victim Max Klein (Jeff Bridges). One of few survivors of a fatal plane crash, Klein remains calm and assists other survivors out of the burning Read More
Synopsis: This erotic psychological thriller marks the feature film debut of popular actress Pamela Anderson in a leading role. After two johns were murdered while having sex with a prostitute, Sergeant Peg Peckham (Chelsea Field) is transferred from the vice squad to homicide and assigned to investigate. Read More
Actors: Michael Ironside, Corey Michael Eubanks
Synopsis: Stunt man Corey Michael Eubanks plays a repo man in Forced to Kill. While claiming a Jaguar, Johnny (Eubanks) is captured by a strange family. Before long, he's in the thick of a subrosa boxing tournament, where bare fists are de rigeur and the participants are obliged to kill one another. A 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
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Ally Walker, Ed O'Ross, Jerry Orbach
Synopsis: Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren play archenemies from beyond the grave in this action film. During the Vietnam War, Luc (Van Damme), hoping to be sent home, comes upon blood-crazy Scott (Lundgren), who is starting a one-man genocide program. When Luc tries to stop Scott's carnage, Scott Read More
Actors: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock
Synopsis: In this epic Ron Howard film, Joseph Donelly (Tom Cruise) is an impoverished 19th-century Irish tenant farmer who has recently lost both his father and his home to the agents of his unscrupulous landlord. On a mission to avenge his family's injustice at the hands of the ruthless land baron Joseph Read More
Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Kerwin, Ed Asner, John M. Jackson, Lois Smith
Synopsis: The two-part, four-hour TV movie Switched at Birth is based on an actual event which began unfolding in Wauchula, Florida in 1978. Brian Kerwin and Judith Hoag play the new parents of a baby girl; a few days later, another couple, played by John M. Jackson and Bonnie Bedelia, have a baby at the Read More
Actors: Frances Fisher, Maurice Benard, Robin Pearson Rose, John Wheeler
Synopsis: This unflattering TV movie offers a portrayal of the stormy marriage between comedienne Lucille Ball (Frances Fisher) and her Cuban bandleader husband (Maurice Benard). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Michael Phenicie, Andee Gray, Robert Fieldsteel
Synopsis: Some sources list John Morrissey as director of 9 1/2 Ninjas, while others credit Aaron Worth. There's no confusion, however, as to whom the "one-half" is. That honor goes to leading lady Andee Gray, who joins an all-male Ninja training group. Gray gets a big kick out of her lessons (no pun Read More
Actors: Adam Ant, David Packer, Talia Balsam, William de Acutis, Joyce Van Patten
Synopsis: Rock star Adam Ant tops the cast in Trust Me. The premise is as old as dirt, maybe older: art dealer Ant decides that his paintings would be far more valuable if the artists were dead. Now comes the twist: Ant fully intends to make certain that his artists are dead. In particular danger is Ant's Read More
Actors: Nancy Allen
Synopsis: In this Faustian tale, a Chicago Grain Exchange employee (Nancy Allen) signs a pact with the Devil in order to get a leg up in soybean futures. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, Jason Robards, Jr., Rick Moranis
Synopsis: This feel-good ensemble comedy tracks a quartet of suburban siblings and their families over the course of a single summer. Hardworking Gil Buckman (Steve Martin) and his stay-at-home wife, Karen (Mary Steeenburgen), have just a few months to help their oldest son, Kevin (Jasen Fisher), overcome Read More
Actors: Kirk Cameron, Jami Gertz, Amanda Peterson, Tim Quill
Synopsis: A college debate team heads to Washington to argue the abortion issue in front of the Supreme Court. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman
Synopsis: Ward and June Cleaver have nothing on suburban couple Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher. Together with their perfect son, Hanks and Fisher are so clean that they squeak. Thus, when new neighbors Henry Gibson, Brother Theodore and Courtney Gains begin evincing bizarre behavior, Hanks is slightly put out. Fisher Read More
Actors: Sonny Gibson, Doug McClure, Reparata Mazzola, Ben Johnson, Billy Drago
Synopsis: The good people of Milo, Kansas (pop. 1,972) combine forces to battle against the evil agribusiness Farmco that conspires to drive up the price of bread to six dollars a loaf. Farmer Jeff Parker (Sonny Gibson) and the crusading journalist Charlie Stevens (Buck Henry) recruit former Farmco Read More
Actors: Ross Hagen, P.J. Soles, Hoke Howell, William Smith, Russ Tamblyn
Synopsis: This gory medical thriller managed to pre-date an early-'90s spate of direct-to-video exploitation films dealing with sleazy black-market organ banks. The plot centers on the activities of the "Body Organ Replacement Network," a secret criminal organization (led by ubiquitous movie villain William Smith Read More
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis
Synopsis: Director Joe Dante infuses this science fiction comedy with the visual razzle-dazzle and manic, goofball performances typical of his cartoon-inspired sensibilities. Navy test pilot Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) has volunteered for a highly dangerous medical experiment. A submersible craft Read More
Actors: Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George Wendt, Mimi Rogers, John Turturro
Synopsis: Michael Keaton stars as a wheeler-dealer who hopes to save a failing Pennsylvania automobile-assembly factory from having to close its doors. Keaton persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen the factory, retrain its staff, and streamline the operation. It isn't long before the American-born workers Read More
Actors: Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Jim Nabors, Ron Howard, Howard Morris
Synopsis: Inspired by the success of previous TV sitcom "reunion" films, Return to Mayberry debuted on April 13, 1986. Eleven of the original cast members of the classic Andy Griffith Show were reunited in this marvelous blast from the past. The plot finds former sheriff Andy Taylor (Griffith, of course) Read More
Actors: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon
Synopsis: Cocoon is a warm-hearted science-fiction fable that avoids becoming overly corny thanks to the performances of its mostly senior cast. Wilford Brimley, Don Ameche, and Hume Cronyn are three old-timers who sneak out of their retirement home a few days a week to swim in the large pool on an Read More
Actors: Lauren Hutton, Pamela Reed, Robert Urich, Burt Lancaster
Synopsis: Burt Lancaster is eminently hissable as a tabloid publisher in the made-for-TV Scandal Sheet. The current target of Lancaster's smears is alcoholic actor Robert Urich, who is on the verge of making a comeback through the auspices of his movie-star wife Lauren Hutton. Ruthlessly going after Urich Read More
Actors: Jeff Corey, Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, John Dehner, Ellen Geer, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen, Rance Howard, David Ogden Stiers
Synopsis: This romantic, melancholy twist on the Frankenstein formula stars Peter O'Toole as Professor Harry Wolper, a lonely eccentric who has dedicated decades of research to cloning his long-dead wife Lucy from a culture of living tissue. To this end, he enlists the services of likeable Graduate Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a disturbed teenager turns to arson in order to vent his anger and frustration over his parent's upcoming divorce. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Steve Martin, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Steve Lawrence, Robyn Douglass
Synopsis: In a comedy as flat as the cardboard cut-outs of movie stars that appear in one scene, Steve Martin plays Larry Hubbard, a wild and lonely guy who has been dumped by his girlfriend. Since misery loves company, he takes up with Warren, a fellow Lonely Guy (Charles Grodin), and eventually both Read More
Actors: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Dody Goodman
Synopsis: "I'm in love with a mermaid!" read the opening line of Leonard Maltin's original review for Splash. And with the delightful Darryl Hannah in the lead, who could fault Maltin for his public declaration of ardor? The story begins in 1959, when a young boy is rescued from a watery grave by an Read More
Synopsis: Jose Ferrer guest stars in this episode--but not for long!--as a famed hypnotist known as The Amazing Cagliostro. As a publicity stunt, Cagliostro shepherds a group of six journalists behind locked doors, then hypnotizes them en masse. The act comes to an abrupt conclusion when Cagliostro is Read More
Actors: Jason Bateman
Synopsis: The made-for-TV Fantastic World of D.C. Collins is curiously not a pilot film, despite the presence of the principal character's name in the title. D. C. Collins (played by Gary Coleman) is the son of a U.S. diplomat. His own life is deadly dull, so D.C. escapes into fantasy. At various junctures Read More
Synopsis: Nick Newell (Gary Coleman) doesn't like being called a "genius," but the word certainly fits. The 13-year-old is starting as a freshman at Brighton University, and he's excited to be in a class taught by his idol, famous astronomer Jason Mills (Robert Guillaume). He gets along great with his Read More
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, James Keach, Amy Madigan, Bud Cort, Matt Clark
Synopsis: Unmarried disc jockey Jamie Lee Curtis happens across a packet of love letters, written by her late mother. As she peruses these missives, she learns that her mother had carried on a lengthy extramarital affair. At firt appalled by mom's "double life," Curtis is slowly brought around to another Read More
Actors: Lynda Carter
Synopsis: This is a made-for-TV bio about the film star Rita Hayworth. Lynda Carter stars as the legendary star. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna Arquette, Eli Wallach, Christine Lahti, Steven Keats
Synopsis: Tommy Lee Jones won an Emmy for his searing performance as wanton killer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song. The film covers the last nine months of Gilmore's life, beginning with his release from prison in 1976. Linking up with teen-age divorcee Nicole Baker (Rosanna Arquette), Gilmore makes Read More
Actors: Gary Coleman
Synopsis: Gary Coleman stars as a teen-age angel who must return to Earth to help out three troubled families in order to earn his wings. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Crew: Producer, Screenwriter, Teleplay By
Synopsis: The two-part TV movie Through the Magic Pyramid stars Chris Barnes as a contemporary youngster who is whisked back to the days of King Tut. Neither the Egyptian ruler nor his minions are any match for the Yankee resourcefulness of Master Barnes, as he wriggles in and out of various misadventures. Read More
Actors: Helen Hunt, Sharon Gless, Frank Converse, Bill Beyers
Synopsis: Helen Hunt is outstanding as the real-life Kathy Miller, a 13-year-old Arizona athlete and honor student whose world came screeching to halt in 1977. Struck by a car on a lonely highway, Kathy spends the next ten weeks in a coma. Upon awakening, she is unable to walk, talk, read or write: she has Read More
Actors: Kim Darby, Fred Willard
Synopsis: Flatbed Annie is played by Annie Potts; her sidekick Sweetiepie, aka Ginny La Rosa, is played by Kim Darby. Annie is a hard-bitten veteran, Sweetiepie a starry-eyed novice. Harry Dean Stanton co-stars as a mean, nasty, awful bad guy who wants to repossess the girls' truck. The plot is further Read More
Synopsis: Reunited with her seafaring brother Bobby (Ed Begley Jr.) after many years, Shirley (Cindy Williams) is struck by the fact that she and Bobby do not resemble one another in the least. Can it be that Shirley is not a "natural" offspring of the Feeney family, but was instead adopted? To find out Read More
Synopsis: In this made-for-television movie, a group of high-school nerds form a band to gain both renown and romance. Directed by Ron Howard, the film was co-scripted by Howard and brother Clint. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos
Synopsis: In an outer-space replay of a familiar western plotline, the Gallactica must gather enough seed to replant its devastated agroships, lest the crew and passengers starve. In order to gain the necessary seed from a group of alien farmers, Adama (Lorne Greene) is obliged to romance a former Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Ron Howard, Nancy Morgan, Marion Ross, Peter Isacksen, Barry Cahill
Synopsis: In exchange for being allowed to make his directorial debut in Grand Theft Auto, Ron Howard agreed to take no salary as a director, merely as star and co-screenwriter (with his dad Rance). The plot finds Sam Freeman (Howard) eloping with his heiress girlfriend Paula Powers (Nancy Morgan). Her Read More
Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson
Synopsis: After helping Doc Baker (Kevin Hagen) tend to a mountain fever epidemic in another town, Mr. Edwards (Victor French) returns to Walnut Grove, which has already been quarantined. Unwittingly, Edwards has brought the fever virus into town, and as a result, his adopted daughter falls seriously ill. Read More
Synopsis: A quick-shot rifleman with a tragic past seeks refuge in a God-fearing Arizona town, only to discover that there's no running from the way of the gun in directors Hagen Smith andRichard Robinson's bullet-riddled Western. It was self-defense when Frank Woods killed three drunken hoodlums in a Read More
Actors: James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Francis Huster, Susan Tyrrell, Jennifer Warren
Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's Another Man, Another Chance is set in 1870. Fleeing from the Franco-Prussian war, Jeanne (Genevieve Bujold) and boyfriend Francis (Francis Huster) escape to the American west. Their course does not run smooth, and soon Jeanne is left alone to care for her baby. Meanwhile, American Read More
Actors: Ron Howard, Christopher Norris, Warren Kemmerling, Dave Madden, Robert Broyles
Synopsis: Charles B. Griffith, author of Little Shop of Horrors, was the writer/director of the low-budget Eat My Dust!. Ron Howard heads the cast as Hoover Niebold, the hell-raising son of rural sheriff Harry Niebold (Warren Kemmerling). The sheriff is forced to chase after his own son when Hoover and his Read More
Synopsis: The third and final TV-movie in the "Joshua Cabe" saga, this ABC effort stars John McIntire as rascally rancher-turned-sheriff Joshua Cabe, a role played by Buddy Ebsen in the original The Daughters of Joshua Cabe) and by Dan Dailey in The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return. This time out, Cabe is Read More
Actors: Stewart Petersen, Jerry Dexter, Rance Howard, Devon Ericson, Betty Beaird
Synopsis: Teenaged farm boy Tucker "Tuck" Holland (Stewart Petersen) is shy and lonely, afraid that he will be ridiculed because he stutters. As he walks home from school -- alone, as usual -- Tuck notices a construction site, where a new skating rink is being built. For the next several weeks, he hangs Read More
Synopsis: Ricou Browning, the Olympic swimmer best known as the man inside the suit of The Creature from the Black Lagoon, directed this amazing bit of weirdness which could only have been a product of the cinematically insane 1970s. Richard Jaeckel stars as a Florida policeman tracking a gang of heroin Read More
Synopsis: The future of the Waltons' lumber business is jeopardized when, just after spending a huge sum of money for new equipment, John Walton (Ralph Waite) is stricken with pneumonia. Now that the head of the household is incapacitated, will John-Boy (Richard Thomas) give up his writing career and Jason Read More
Actors: Royal Dano, Jack Elam, Antonio Fargas, Merle Haggard, Ron Howard
Synopsis: It's still the same old story...but what a story. This umpteenth filmization of the classic Mark Twain novel stars Ron Howard as Huck and Donny Most as Tom Sawyer. After faking his own murder to escape his brutish Pap (played by Howard's real-life father Rance), Huck and fugitive slave Jim (Antonio Fargas Read More
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman
Synopsis: "You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't," warns water baron Noah Cross (John Huston), when smooth cop-turned-private eye J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) starts nosing around Cross's water diversion scheme. That proves to be the ominous lesson of Chinatown, Roman Polanski Read More
Synopsis: A post-Andy Griffith Show, pre-Happy Days Ron Howard) guest stars as Seth Turner, the best friend of Jason Walton (Jon Walmsley). Seth has always wanted to learn to play an instrument in his father's band, but it looks as if he won't have the time; he has been diagnosed with leukemia. The concept Read More
Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers, Matthew Burrill
Synopsis: While the title may mislead one into thinking that Where the Lilies Bloom is a picturesque outdoors family film, the story is pretty strong stuff, not altogether suited for younger children. When their father dies, four backwoods kids hide the fact, lest they be separated by the authorities and Read More
Synopsis: On the eve of his 73rd birthday, Grandpa Walton (Will Geer) suffers a heart attack. Though the attack proves to be a mild one, it has a devastating effect on Grandpa, who has completely lost his will to live. As the rest of the family deploys some rather unorthodox methods to restore Grandpa to Read More
Actors: Ron Howard
Synopsis: This TV-movie spin on "Lenningen vs. the Ants" not only features predatory locusts, but grasshoppers as well. The insect invasion threatens the harvest of a small rural community. Ben Johnson plays the father of one of the imperiled farm families. Ron Howard plays Johnson's son, who is considered Read More
Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-part episode), John-Boy (Richard Thomas) refuses to reveal the seriousness of his accident, terrified that he will no longer qualify for a scholarship at Boatwright University. As John-Boy's eyesight grows weaker with each Read More
Synopsis: A genuine DC-9 was used in this episode to simulate a wrecked aircraft. The purpose for this crash is to set up a tense situation, wherein convicted murderer John Stahl (Vic Morrow) is set loose in the Lake Tahoe area. Meanwhile, Stahl's captors Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and Colby (William Read More
Actors: Henry Fonda, Clint Howard, Maureen O'Hara
Synopsis: The Red Pony is a 1973 TV-movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, previously filmed for theatrical release in 1949. Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara star as a turn-of-century farming couple. Clint Howard plays their 10-year-old son, a rebellious lad constantly at odds with his taciturn father. Read More
Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), John-Boy (Richard Thomas) is afforded the opportunity to qualify for a scholarship at Boatwright University--and, as icing on the cake, his former girlfriend Jenny (Sian Barbara Allen) is paying a return Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Charles Cioffi
Synopsis: Charles Chioffi plays the title character in the thrill-packed Bonanza installment Shanklin. Hoss Cartwright is shot by a band of ex-rebel soldiers who want Ben Cartwright to finance the formation of a Second Confederacy. Only Shanklin, the man who pulled the trigger, can save Hoss' life-and he Read More
Synopsis: In this post-Civil War western, an Union soldier sees opportunity abounding in the ruined South, though it's difficult, as everyone he meets there is angry at him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Frank de Kova, Jack Elam, Steve Forrest, Vera Miles, Ron Howard
Synopsis: Fires and tornados add to the difficulties of the Tanners, a Pittsburgh family of three which has pulled up stakes and moved to what they thought would be a fully functional ranch in Wyoming. Instead they find a broken down ruin. In addition to having to rebuild and battle the elements, they have Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Vera Miles
Synopsis: Vera Miles guest-stars as Ben Cartwright's longtime friend April Christopher. While visiting the Ponderosa, April is bitten by a rabid wolf. As the story progresses, both April and Ben must come to grips with the agony April is in for-and even more importantly, the woman's daughter Lori (Melissa Read More
Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Strother Martin
Synopsis: Paul Newman was nominated for an Oscar and George Kennedy received one for his work in this allegorical prison drama. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to a stretch on a southern chain gang after he's arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters. While the avowed ambition of the Read More
Actors: Dennis Weaver, Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker, Clint Howard, Huntz Hall
Synopsis: The title character is a benign 7-foot-tall grizzly bear (perhaps all grizzlies are benign, but we're not about to get close enough to find out). Little Clint Howard befriends the bear, naming the beast Ben. Clint's wildlife-officer dad Dennis Weaver and mom Vera Miles have some trouble adjusting Read More
Actors: Howard McNear, Aneta Corsaut
Synopsis: Andy is elected to umpire that championship Little League game between Mayberry and Mount Pilot. Exercising fine impartiality, Andy calls his own son Opie out, then promptly gets it in the neck from everyone in town. Ultimately, Andy is redeemed by Howard Sprague's newspaper sports column, but Read More
Actors: Robert Lansing, Slim Pickens, Gloria Talbott, Paul Fix
Synopsis: Talion is the alternate title for the blood-splattered western An Eye for an Eye. You know that the filmmakers aren't kidding around when, in the very first scene, outlaw Slim Pickens puts a bullet into a squalling baby! Robert Lansing plays Talion, a homesteader who, after his ranch is burned to Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a outlaw leads his fugitive band into the desert after they murder a rich woman while robbing her. They are sheltered by an Indian woman who killed her husband after he made advances toward her daughter. The youngest outlaw falls for the daughter. They decide to come clean to the Read More
Synopsis: In need of an inexpensive second car, Fred attends an auction of vehicles recently confiscated by the police. Once the bidding is over, Fred is the proud owner of a vehicle containing a cache of stolen jewels. This puts Fred and Barney's lives on the line when mob boss Big Sparkle--who is so tough Read More
Synopsis: Fred feels like odd man out when rodeo star Bony Hurdle gallops into Bedrock. A former boyfriend of Fred's wife Wilma, the genial Bony seems poised to recapture her affections--and even worse, Hurdle has also won over baby Pebbles. In an effort to reassert himself, Fred decides to take up Read More
Actors: Aneta Corsaut
Synopsis: Jumping to the wrong conclusion as usual, Barney begins spreading a rumor that Andy and Helen have secretly become engaged. Before long, the couple is buried under an avalanche of wedding gifts. The limit comes when Aunt Bee, anticipating a newcomer to the Taylor household, expensively redecorates Read More
Synopsis: In desperate need of money for Pebbles' education, Fred signs up for a champion car race, the Indianrockolis 500. Posing as famed Italian speedster Goggles Pisano, Fred mans the wheel of the custom-made car than Barney has fashioned in his garage. Unfortuantely, while the car is up to the rigors Read More
Synopsis: Using the alias "Joseph Walker", fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) hires on as a fruitpicker in a farming community. His coworkers, many of whom are illegal immigrants, are highly suspicious of "Walker", ironically believing that he is a police officer. Ultimately, Kimble wins the other Read More
Actors: Carl Benton Reid, Parley Baer, Hal Smith
Synopsis: Deputy Barney tickets the Governor's car for illegal parking-then thinks he's in for it when the governor himself prepares to visit Mayberry. Actually, the state's top executive is coming to congratulate Barney for doing his duty without showing any sort of favoritism. Alas, the nervous Barney is Read More
Synopsis: The opening episode of Combat's second season finds Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow) of King Company going head-to-head with Sgt. Marvin Turk (Lee Marvin), a sarcastic, hardbitten demolition expert with an intense hatred for Infantrymen. No sooner has Turk thoroughly alienated Saudners' platoon with his Read More
Synopsis: Andy is informed that a top-secret gold shipment from Denver to Fort Knox is making a stopover in Mayberry. Sworn to silence, Andy makes the mistake of telling Barney about the shipment. Before long, the entire town is preparing to welcome the armored-car drivers. A disaster? Not quite-fate, and a Read More
Actors: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Pert Kelton, Ronny Howard, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford
Synopsis: Meredith Wilson's hit 1957 Broadway musical was transferred to the screen in larger-than-life fashion in 1962. Robert Preston repeats his legendary stage performance as fast-talking con man Harold Hill, who goes from town to town selling citizens on starting a "boy's band," then extracts money Read More
Actors: Michael J. Pollard
Synopsis: A pre-Bonnie and Clyde Michael J. Pollard guest-stars as Barney's cousin Virgil, newly arrived from New Jersey. Not the brightest bulb in the basket, Virgil can't seem to do anything right, messing up even the smallest and easiest of chores. Andy discovers that Virgil has a latent talent which Read More
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