Richard RiehleFilmography

Audie and the Wolf

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

Messengers 2: The Scarecrow

Actors: Norman Reedus, Heather Stephens, Claire Holt, Richard Riehle, Darcy Fowers

Synopsis: In this prequel to the Pang Brothers' terrifying English-language debut, the eerie backstory of farmer John Rollins plays out in all its bone-chilling glory. Doing what he believes must be done in order to save his family and livelihood, John places an odd scarecrow among his crops and promptly Read More

Red

Actors: Brian Cox, Noel Fisher, Tom Sizemore, Kyle Gallner, Shiloh Fernandez

Synopsis: After his 14-year-old dog, Red, is senselessly murdered by three thrill-seeking teenagers, an aging recluse sets out seeking justice for his four-legged companion and finds himself gradually pushed to take extreme measures. Brian Cox and Tom Sizemore star in this adaptation of the Jack Ketchum Read More

A Plumm Summer

Actors: William Baldwin, Lisa Guerrero, Owen Pearce, Chris Kelly, Henry Winkler

Synopsis: A highly unlikely crime helps bring together two brothers in this nostalgic comedy drama. Rocky Plumm (Owen Pearce) is a five-year-old boy growing up in a small Montana town in the mid-'60s. In Rocky's eyes, there's no star bigger or brighter than local kid's show host Happy Herb (Henry Winkler) Read More

Little Big Top

Actors: Sid Haig, Richard Riehle, Hollis Resnik, Mel England, Jacob Zachar

Synopsis: A former circus clown and current raging alcoholic begins his belated struggle for redemption after moving back to his small hometown and being recruited by a childhood friend to help a group of local clowns hone their act and get ready for their first performance under the big top. Seymour Smiles Read More

Necessary Evil

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Kathryn Fiore, Gary Hudson, Richard Riehle, Eric Feldman

Synopsis: While trying to shed some light on the mystery surrounding a bizarre psychiatric institute, persistent investigative journalist Deborah Fielding (Knowing's Kathryn Fiore) falls headlong into a twisted, mind-altering world of lies, deceit, and unimaginable terror. Shocking secrets are unlocked in Read More

Bait Shop

Actors: Bill Engvall, Billy Ray Cyrus, Harve Presnell, Richard Riehle, Billy Joe Shaver

Synopsis: Bill Engvall and Billy Ray Cyrus star in this down-home comedy concerning a small-town bait-shop owner who enters into a local Bass Tournament in hopes of raising the money needed to keep his struggling store in business. Bill's Bait Shop is going under fast, and in order to remain afloat Read More

National Lampoon Presents The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell

Actors: Richard Riehle, Kevin Wheatley, Bill English, Chandler Adrian Parker, Jonathan L. Davidson

Synopsis: A handful of America's least likely icons set out to reclaim the nation in the wake of a nuclear apocalypse in this ambitious independent satire from filmmakers Kevin Wheatley and Jonny Gillette. In the year 2075, America's major cities are wiped out by nuclear warfare, and the nation's survivors Read More

Hatchet

Actors: Joel David Moore, Tamara Feldman, Deon Richmond, Mercedes McNab, Joleigh Fioreavanti

Synopsis: A handful of college students looking for a good time are thrown into a world of danger in this homage to the slasher film cycle of the 1970s and '80s. Ben (Joel David Moore) has just been given his walking papers by his girlfriend and is deeply depressed. Needing a pick-me-up, Ben and his friend Read More

Midnight Clear

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, K Callan, Kirk B.R. Woller, Mary Thornton, Mitchell Jarvis

Synopsis: A handful of desperate characters come together unexpectedly one winter evening in this comedy-drama. Lefty (Stephen Baldwin) is a luckless sad sack whose life has been in a tailspin since his wife Heather (Faline England) left him two years ago. Lefty has been struggling to win back the right to Read More

Smiley Face

Actors: Anna Faris, Roscoe Lee Browne, Danny Masterson, Ben Falcone, Adam Brody

Synopsis: One woman's day goes all to pot in this resinous comedy from independent filmmaker Gregg Araki. Jane (Anna Faris) is a college dropout and aspiring actress who suffers from a certain lack of ambition, doubtless reinforced by her fondness for marijuana. One morning, Jane wakes with a busy day ahead Read More

Resurrection Mary

Actors: Kevin Schmidt, Sally Kirkland, Pamela Jean, Richard Riehle, Charlie Schlatter

Synopsis: A moonlit encounter with an urban legend sends the life of an unassuming high school kid spinning out of control. Seventeen year old Jeff Pryce (Kevin G. Schmidt) was driving down a winding country road when he nearly ran over a mysterious beauty walking alone by Resurrection Cemetery. After Read More

Hindsight

Actors: Leonor Varela, Jeffrey Donovan, Waylon Payne, Miranda Bailey, Richard Riehle

Synopsis: A pregnant woman who lacks the means to properly raise her child convinces her boyfriend to sell the baby on the black market, only to discover that the couple they have selected have a horrifying agenda of their own in this thriller from debut director Paul Holahan. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Read More

The Man From Earth

Actors: David Lee Smith, Richard Riehle, John Billingsley, William Katt, Tony Todd

Synopsis: In the tradition of such psychologically-charged sci-fi outings as The Next One (1982) and K-PAX (2001) comes the cerebral science fiction opus The Man From Earth (2007). The story concerns Professor John Oldman, a scientist who summons a group of associates to a cabin one freezing night, and Read More

The Only Girl

Actors: Brian Sounalath, Carlee Avers, Matthew Cardarople, Michael J. Conti, Richard Riehle

Death & Texas

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

The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

Actors: Daniel Letterle, Meredith Baxter, David Monahan, Diego Serrano, Dean Shelton

Synopsis: After years of relying on the "it's not you, it's me" excuse, a gay man in his late twenties begins to realize that he might really be the one to blame for his failed relationships in this broad comedy. Based on a serialized comic strip of the same name, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Read More

Nanny Insanity

Actors: Larry Dorf, Cynthia Preston, Alla Korot, Mindy Sterling, Howard Hesseman

Synopsis: Two happily married expectant parents get more than they bargained for after hiring a free-spirited Ukrainian housekeeper to help clean up their suburban palace in Killer Wave director Kevin Connor's playful domestic comedy. Marsha and David McMillan (Cynthia Preston and Larry Dorf) are about to Read More

National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2

Synopsis: The rowdy students of Billingsley University arrive in Mexico on a study-abroad trip in this sequel to the collegiate comedy that left viewers in stitches. The Surveyor has left stateside port and set sail for Mexico. Now, as the spring heat flares and the azure waters beacon the ship ashore, the Read More

The Frank Anderson

Actors: Richard Riehle

Dark Mind

Actors: Christopher Kennedy Masterson, Lyndsy Fonseca, Tom Everett, David DeLuise

Synopsis: A young inventor struggling to protect his latest creation becomes convinced that he is the subject of a secret Russian spy ring in this thriller starring Malcolm in the Middle's Christopher Kennedy Masterson. Paul Lionette is a gifted young scientist who was betrayed by the people he trusted Read More

Dismal

Actors: William Gregory Lee, Scott Miles, Richard Riehle, Joy Pfister, Eleanor Drew

Synopsis: What was supposed to be a relaxing long weekend of trout fishing in the wilderness quickly descends into a bloody battle for survival when a pair of over-stressed urbanites cross a reclusive survivalist looking to elude the law in Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp. All Bill Matherson (William Gregory Lee Read More

Intellectual Property

Actors: Christopher Kennedy Masterson, Lyndsy Fonseca, David DeLuise, Richard Riehle, Clayton Landey

Synopsis: An eccentric genius is forced to confront the consequences of his own madness in this independent drama. Paul Hadley (Christopher Masterson) is a brilliant but emotionally fragile inventor who has developed a deep and not unjustifiable paranoia after a number of his most advanced ideas have Read More

Down the P.C.H.

Actors: Vincent Grashaw

Mysterious Skin

Actors: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jeff Licon, Bill Sage

Synopsis: Two young men are haunted by similar events from their past, though the effects manifest themselves in very different ways, in this powerful drama from independent filmmaker Gregg Araki. In the summer of 1981, Brian (George Webster) and Neil (Chase Ellison) are both eight years old and playing on Read More

Palindromes

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly-Guirgis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Emani Sledge, Valerie Shusterov

Synopsis: Palindromes opens with the dedication, "In loving memory of Dawn Wiener," a reference to the lead character in writer/director Todd Solondz' early feature, Welcome to the Dollhouse. Aviva has just attended Dawn's funeral. Dismayed by her older cousin's untimely death, Aviva asks her mother (Ellen Barkin Read More

Home on the Range

Actors: Roseanne, Judi Dench, Jennifer Tilly, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Randy Quaid

Synopsis: Disney presents the animated musical Western Home on the Range, featuring an original musical score by Alan Menken. The Little Piece of Heaven family farm is about to go under and outlaw cattle rustler Alameda Slim (voice of Randy Quaid) sets his sights on it. Three dairy cows -- tough Maggie Read More

The 12 Dogs of Christmas

Actors: Jordan-Claire Green, Adam Hicks, Susan Wood, Eric Lutes, John Billingsley, Bonita Friedericy

Synopsis: The 12 Dogs of Christmas concerns a twelve-year-old girl named Emma who lives in a town that has outlawed owning dogs. She attempts to win over the hearts and minds of the town's mayor by putting together a memorable Christmas pageant using many of her canine friends. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Read More

The Hebrew Hammer

Actors: Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Andy Dick, Mario Van Peebles, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: He's hip, he's fly, and he never mixes meat with dairy -- he's the world's first Jewish private eye, and he's out to save the world in this satiric comedy. Mordechai Jefferson Carver (Adam Goldberg) is a super-cool Jewish detective who takes no mess and is always ready to do the right thing for Read More

Married to the Kellys [TV Series]

Actors: Breckin Meyer, Kiele Sanchez, Nancy Lenehan, Emily Rutherfurd, Josh Braaten

Synopsis: The ABC sitcom Married to the Kellys was reportedly based on the life experiences of its producer, Tom Hertz. An only child who had lived a blissful solitary existence most of his life, Manhattanite Tom Wagner (Breckin Meyer) was swept off his feet by Susan Kelly (Kiele Sanchez), an attractive Read More

NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323

Synopsis: Flight 323 has crashed in the Colorado Rockies, killing everyone on board. Was the disaster the result of carelessness, incompetence, malfunctioning equipment--or terrorism? To answer these question, a team of experts from the National Transportation Safety Board, headed by Al Cummings (Mandy Read More

Time Changer

Actors: D David Morin, Gavin MacLeod, Hal Linden, Jennifer O'Neill, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: A man is sent into the future to see the possible results of his actions in this mixture of sci-fi adventure and Christian drama. In 1890, Russell Carlisle (D. David Morin) is a philosopher and college professor who has completed a manuscript he calls "The Changing Times." The university where Read More

Another Pretty Face

Synopsis: The media's tendency to favor youth and cosmetic perfection over experience and intelligence is the gist of this mildly trenchant TV movie. Mel Harris stars as Diana, a top TV news anchor who is summarily dumped from her lofty perch in favor of a younger and prettier journalist named Amber (Julianne Morris Read More

ER: A Hopeless Wound

Synopsis: Don Cheadle makes his first series appearance as Paul Nathan, an overaged med student who chose to enter school only after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. During his first shift, Nathan plunges in to help the other staffers treat the victims of a Halloween party fire -- whereupon his Read More

The Fluffer

Actors: Scott Gurney, Taylor Negron, Richard Riehle

Synopsis: The gay adult film industry is the backdrop for this drama focusing on Sean (Michael Cunio), a young gay man who is looking for a job in the movie business. While trying to rent a video of Citizen Kane, Sean accidentally brings home a video from Men of Janus Productions, an outfit that churns out Read More

Bandits

Actors: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Troy Garity, Brian F. O'Byrne

Synopsis: Director Barry Levinson follows up the low-budget An Everlasting Piece (2000) with another comedy, this one of the homegrown variety from former Twin Peaks (1990) TV series writer Harley Peyton. Bruce Willis stars as suave bank robber Joe, who has escaped from prison with his hypochondriac buddy Read More

Say It Isn't So

Actors: Chris Klein, Heather Graham, Orlando Jones, Sally Field, Richard Jenkins

Synopsis: Bobby Farrelly and brother Peter Farrelly continue exploring outrageous premises with this comedy directed by their first assistant director J.B. Rogers. In this wacky spin on the boy-meets-girl tale, Gilly Noble (Chris Klein) enters a sexually charged, passionate love affair with girl of his Read More

Grounded for Life: Season 01

Actors: Donal Logue, Megyn Price, Kevin Corrigan, Richard Riehle, Lynsey Bartilson, Jake Burbage, Griffin Frazen

Grounded for Life: Season 02

Actors: Donal Logue, Megyn Price, Kevin Corrigan, Richard Riehle, Lynsey Bartilson, Jake Burbage, Griffin Frazen

Columbo: Murder with Too Many Notes

Synopsis: Peter Falk returns to the role of Lt. Columbo -- he of the grimy trenchcoat, dumb-like-a-fox interrogations, and the inevitable "Just one more question" -- in this two-hour TV-movie special. British comic actor Billy Connolly guest stars as famed movie composer/conductor Findlay Crawford, who Read More

The Gristle

Actors: Michael Dorn, Barry Corbin, Orson Bean, Richard Riehle, Carsten Norgaard

Synopsis: David Portlock's darkly comic film about race, The Gristle, concerns a pair of struggling medical technicians who get a moonlighting gig to deliver kidneys to a Senator. Complications ensue when a drug deal set to go down in the same place and at the same time leads to the wrong deliveries being Read More

The Laramie Project

Actors: Christina Ricci, Peter Fonda, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Buscemi, Dylan Baker, Amy Madigan, Joshua Jackson, Jeremy Davies, Clea Duvall

Synopsis: Laramie, WY, is a small town which became infamous overnight in the fall of 1998, when Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was found tied to a fence after being brutally beaten and left to die, setting off a nationwide debate about hate crimes and homophobia. A month after the crime, Moises Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Spirit Folk

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Synopsis: In this follow-up to the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Fair Haven," a computer glitch causes the citizens of Fair Haven, an 18th century Irish village created in the Holoprogram, to cross over into the "real" Voyager. Observing the crew playing holographic games, the "fabricated" villagers assume Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Fair Haven

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Synopsis: Fair Haven is the name of a quaint 18th century Irish village, created in the ship's Holoprogram by crewmen Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) and Kim (Garrett Wang). With the threatened approach of a dangerous neutrino wave weighing heavily upon her, Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) permits herself and her crew Read More

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

Actors: Rob Schneider, William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin, Arija Bareikis, Oded Fehr

Synopsis: Yet another Saturday Night Live alumnus makes his bid for big-screen success as Rob Schneider, best remembered as the "Making copies!" guy, tackles his first leading role in this broad comedy. Deuce (Rob Schneider) earns a meager living as a professional fish tank cleaner until he's asked to Read More

Office Space

Actors: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu

Synopsis: Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a computer programmer working for Initech in Houston. Every day, he and his friends Samir (Ajay Naidu) and Michael Bolton (David Herman as not THAT Michael Bolton), suffer endless indignities and humiliations in their soulless workspace from their soulless boss Read More

Au Pair

Synopsis: After months of unemployment, young MBA Jenny Morgan (Heidi Noelle Lenhart) applies for what she thinks is an administrative position with the firm owned by handsome business executive Oliver Caldwell (Gregory Harrison). Unforutnately, someone's signals have gotten crossed, and Jenny finds she has Read More

Hostage Hotel

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Keith Carradine, Michael Blue, David Rasche

Synopsis: Produced for the TNT cable network, this is the last in a short series of TV movies starring Burt Reynolds as retired police detective Logan McQueen. Something of a bargain-basement Die Hard, the plot is set in motion when a disturbed, vengeance-seeking Vietnam veteran named Arlin Flynn (Keith Carradine Read More

Mercury Rising

Actors: Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens

Synopsis: In this action-suspense thriller, orphaned nine-year-old autistic savant Simon (Miko Hughes) deciphers a government code hidden in a puzzle magazine. Calling for his prize, Simon triggers an alarm at the National Security Agency: NSA chief Nicholas Kudrow (Alec Baldwin), who says the code protects Read More

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Actors: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Craig Bierko, Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey

Synopsis: Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) directed this colorful, stylized, pseudo-psychedelic $21-million adaptation of the 1971 Hunter S. Thompson classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream, about stoned sportswriter Raoul Duke, Thompson Read More

Columbo: Ashes to Ashes

Actors: Peter Falk, Patrick McGoohan, Sally Kellerman, Rue McClanahan, Richard Riehle

Synopsis: In this feature-length episode of the enduring and endearing television detective drama, the world's most rumpled police investigator, Lt. Columbo investigates the mysterious disappearance of a controversial Hollywood gossip columnist. Columbo's prime suspect is a secretive mortician who Read More

The Odd Couple II

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Christine Baranski, Barnard Hughes, Jonathan Silverman

Synopsis: Howard Deutch directed this sequel to the The Odd Couple (1968), originally adapted from the 1965 Broadway comedy by Neil Simon. Thirty years later, Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) and retired sportswriter Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau) meet at LAX and drive a rental car across the desert to attend the Read More

Desperate Measures

Actors: Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Brian Cox, Marcia Gay Harden, Erik King, Joseph Cross

Synopsis: Although he enjoyed great critical success with crime dramas and slice-of-life pictures, director Barbet Schroeder continued dabbling in the thriller genre with this action-oriented film. Andy Garcia stars as Frank Conner, a widowed San Francisco police officer whose young son Matt (Joseph Cross) Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Becoming, Part 1

Synopsis: Acathla, a demon turned to stone by an ancient knight, is dug up during the construction of a new housing project. Angel (David Boreanaz) steals Acathla in hopes of using the demon for the stultifyingly original purpose of opening a portal to Hell. Meanwhile, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Read More

Route 9

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Peter Coyote, Amy Locane, Miguel Sandoval, Wade Williams, Richard Riehle

Synopsis: Two lawmen find the call of corruption too loud to ignore in the drama Route 9. Booth Parker (Kyle MacLachlan) and Earl Whitney (Wade Williams) are two deputies in a small town who discover a crime scene along a deserted highway. There appears to have been a shoot-out with no living witnesses, and Read More

Ally McBeal: Pilot

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski

Synopsis: In the series pilot, Ally (Calista Flockhart) goes to work for a former classmate (Greg Germann). ~ TV Guide, All Movie Guide Read More

Ally McBeal: The Kiss

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Synopsis: Georgia asks Ally to work on an age-discrimination case involving a TV newsanchor (Kate Jackson). ~ TV Guide, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

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

Executive Decision

Actors: Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Steven Seagal, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: In this action thriller, a group of Islamic terrorists, led by Nagi Hassan (David Suchet), highjacks a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers aboard, but Lt. Col. Austin Travis (Steven Seagal), a United States intelligence agent, is convinced that this isn't an ordinary case of air piracy. His Read More

Ghosts of Mississippi

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods, William H. Macy, Craig T. Nelson, Bill Cobbs, Susanna Thompson

Synopsis: This is a long-awaited film telling the story of the trials of Medgar Evers' killer. Medger Evers (James Pickens, Jr.) was a black civil-rights activist in Mississippi who was shot to death in 1963. Despite very persuasive evidence that Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) was indeed his killer, the Read More

Soul of the Game

Actors: Delroy Lindo, Mykelti Williamson, Blair Underwood, Edward Herrmann, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: This original HBO production documents, in dramatic form, the rivalry between Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson to see who would be the first African-American to play Major League Baseball. Paige (played by Delroy Lindo) and Gibson (Mykelti Williamson) are more aggressive about Read More

Driven

Actors: Tony Todd, Whip Hubley, Daniel Roebuck

Synopsis: Directed by first-time filmmaker Michael Paradies Shoob, the independent drama Driven tells the story of four L.A. cab drivers working for the Red Star cab company during the week between Christmas and New Year's Day. Darius Pelton (Tony Todd) wants to reunite with his son, who lives with his Read More

Jury Duty

Actors: Shelley Winters, Pauly Shore, Tia Carrere, Stanley Tucci, Brian Doyle-Murray, Abe Vigoda

Synopsis: A goofy slacker wreaks havoc after worming his way onto the jury of a high-profile court case in this broad comedy. The extremely unmotivated Tommy Collins (Pauly Shore) has found himself homeless after being kicked out by his mother, and he needs a place to stay. After hearing how the juries of Read More

Casino

Actors: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles, Alan King

Synopsis: The inner-workings of a corrupt Las Vegas casino are exposed in Martin Scorsese's story of crime and punishment. The film chronicles the lives and times of three characters: "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro), a bookmaking wizard; Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a Mafia underboss and longtime best friend Read More

Dominion

Actors: Brad Johnson, Brion James, Tim Thomerson, Woody Brown, Glenn Morshower

Synopsis: A crazed hunter starts stalking a group of friends on a hunting trip when they enter his territory. Lots of poor action and acting, even for direct-to-video. ~ Sean D. MacLaggan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lone Justice 2

Synopsis: Directed by Jack Bender, Lone Justice 2 centers around the jailed Ned Blessing (Brad Johnson) as he reminisces about his hometown and the skirmishes he had gotten into with the rougher crowd. Ned gets a nasty shock upon his release--not only has the town he remembered so fondly been run down by Read More

Iron Will

Actors: MacKenzie Astin, Kevin Spacey, David Ogden Stiers, August Schellenberg, Brian Cox

Synopsis: A rousing Disney dog-sled adventure based on a real life event -- a 522-mile dog-sled race between Winnipeg, Canada and St. Paul, Minnesota that occurred in 1917. When his father is accidentally killed, South Dakota farmboy Will Stoneman (Mackenzie Astin) decides to enter the dog-sled race in Read More

Holy Matrimony

Actors: Patricia Arquette, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Tate Donovan, John Schuck

Synopsis: As if losing both her husband and her money isn't enough, a woman in her mid-20s also finds herself married to a 12-year-old boy (who doesn't even like her) in the comedy Holy Matrimony. Havana (Patricia Arquette) is an aspiring showgirl who is working at a sleazy carnival while she dreams of her Read More

Lightning Jack

Actors: Paul Hogan, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Beverly D'Angelo, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: In this humorous Western, Aussie Paul Hogan plays a cowboy running from the law. Lightning Jack Kane is a member of the notorious Younger Brother gang. He is the only member to survive their last shoot-out. Fortunately, he was only a minor member of the gang and escapes notice. Jack decides to rob Read More

The Gambler V: Playing for Keeps

Actors: Kenny Rogers, Loni Anderson

Synopsis: Kenny Rogers returns as Brady Hawkes, the Gambler, in this made-for-TV Western. Brady's son Jeremiah (Kris Kamm) is now an adult, and seems to have followed his father's footsteps into a life of adventure; however, Brady learns that Jeremiah has taken a far more dangerous path and has joined the Read More

Body of Evidence

Actors: Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joe Mantegna, Julianne Moore

Synopsis: Madonna plays Rebecca Carlson, a sex bomb who parades naked in front of the open windows of her houseboat at all hours while the lobstermen catch crabs. This entry in the Basic Instinct sweepstakes poses the question: If love hurts, does sex kill? The judge and jury certainly want to find out when Read More

A Dangerous Woman

Actors: Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne, David Strathairn, Chloe Webb

Synopsis: Debra Winger's performance as a slow, mentally disturbed woman in A Dangerous Woman, raises the film far above its conventional, violence-ridden plot. Winger plays Martha, a quiet, lonely woman who has adjusted to a life without a man as she toils away at her small job at a dry cleaners in a small Read More

Free Willy

Actors: Jason James Richter, Jayne Atkinson, Lori Petty, August Schellenberg, Michael Madsen, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: The touching story of a boy and his killer whale made this family drama a surprise box office hit. Jesse (Jason James Richter) is a kid without parents who has bounced from one foster home to another and is living on the streets. One night, he's caught spraying graffiti with his friend Perry (Michael Bacall Read More

The Fugitive

Actors: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Joe Pantoliano, Jeroen Krabbé

Synopsis: This 1993 box-office smash partly adheres to the 1960s TV series on which it is based and partly goes off on several tangents of its own. Harrison Ford stars as Dr. Richard Kimble, convicted of murdering his wife. While being transferred to prison by bus, Kimble is involved in a spectacular Read More

For Their Own Good

Synopsis: Corporate women launch a bitter courtroom battle when their avaricious employer tells them that they will lose their jobs if they do not get sterilized. The fight takes the women through a disillusioning jungle of government red tape. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Public Eye

Actors: Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Stanley Tucci, Jerry Adler, Jared Harris

Synopsis: Howard Franklin wrote and directed this film noir character study based on the famed New York Daily News photographer Weegee. Joe Pesci plays a character named Bernstein, a freelance photographer for the New York City tabloids of the 1940s. His life is dedicated to his work; with a police radio Read More

Hero

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy Garcia, Joan Cusack, Kevin J. O'Connor

Synopsis: Stephen Frears' Hero is a contemporary re-working of a Frank Capra-styled fable about a two-bit criminal named Bernie (Dustin Hoffman) who saves several passengers from a plane crash and leaves the scene without being identified, leaving only a lost shoe for identification. One of the passengers Read More

Of Mice and Men

Actors: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sherilyn Fenn

Synopsis: Gary Sinese directed this respectful re-telling of John Steinbeck's classic novel, with Sinese as the wily George and John Malkovich as the brutish, simple-minded Lennie. Set during the Depression era, the film opens as George and Lennie are running from a woman with a torn dress, who has sent a Read More

Prelude to a Kiss

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Kathy Bates, Ned Beatty, Patty Duke

Synopsis: In this quirky romantic comedy about soul transference, Alec Baldwin plays Peter Hoskins, the straight-laced head of the microfiche department at a company that publishes scientific journals. When he meets a free-spirited, sleep-deprived bartender named Rita (Meg Ryan), the opposites attract and Read More

Shadows and Fog

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, Kathy Bates, Madonna, Lily Tomlin, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and Death Read More

Keeper of the City

Actors: Louis Gossett, Jr., Anthony LaPaglia, Peter Coyote, Renée Soutendijk, Aeryk Egan

Synopsis: A vigilante (Anthony LaPaglia) who is systematically killing the crime lords in control of the Chicago mob crosses paths with a veteran detective (Louis Gossett Jr.) in this made-for-cable thriller. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Roseanne: Lies

Synopsis: Roseanne considers trying to cheat a lie-detector test at Rodbell's because she's been stealing food. Meanwhile, Darlene asks Dan and Becky for advice about her relationship with David (Johnny Galecki). Roseanne gets upset because Darlene didn't go to her. At the end of the episode, Darlene and Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Inner Light

Synopsis: A freak accident causes Picard to wake up in another man's body on the distant planet Kataan. Once he gets his bearings, Picard learns that he has assumed the identity of Kamin, a citizen of the Ressic community. As he lives out Kamin's life over a period of several years, Picard struggles to save Read More

Fried Green Tomatoes

Actors: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson, Nick Searcy

Synopsis: A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in this warm comedy-drama. Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is an emotionally repressed housewife with a habit of drowning her sorrows in candy bars. Her husband Ed (Gailard Sartain) Read More

A Killer Among Us

Actors: Dwight Schultz

Synopsis: Whenever there's a TV movie about a "lone holdout" juror, you can bet that reality will be left behind at the front door. Killer Among Us is no exception. A Different World's Jasmine Guy plays a doubting jury member on a homicide case. She not only believes the defendant innocent, but suspects Read More

Glory

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, Cliff De Young, Andre Braugher

Synopsis: Glory is a celebration of a little-known act of mass courage during the Civil War. Simply put, the heroes involved have been ignored by history due to racism. Those heroes were the all-black members of the 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, headed by Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick Read More

Black Rain

Actors: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Shigeru Koyama, Yusaku Matsuda

Synopsis: Under scrutiny by his superiors for allegedly dipping into confiscated drug money, New York vice cop Michael Douglas can expect no sympathy from his ex-wife, who is gouging him for alimony. Douglas gets a chance to redeem himself when he is assigned to escort Japanese mob boss Yusaku Matsuda back Read More

Rachel River

Actors: Zeljko Ivanek, Pamela Reed, Craig T. Nelson, James Olson, Alan North

Synopsis: Rachel River is a small town in Minnesota. When local "looney tune" Aileen Cole dies, the town comes to the slow realization that the reclusive Cole has in fact touched the lives of virtually every citizen--and nearly always in a positive manner. That realization is so slow because, immediately Read More

Cast the First Stone

Actors: Jill Eikenberry, Joe Spano, Richard Masur

Synopsis: Returning from a Catholic retreat, public school teacher Jill Eikenberry picks up a hitchhiker--who repays her hospitality by brutally raping her. Plunged into shame and self-hatred by the incident, she does not report the attack to the police. Only when she becomes pregnant does she tell the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Dead Letter

Synopsis: Purchasing an antique bureau at a furniture store rummage sale, Jessica finds an old, undelivered letter in one of the drawers. For reasons made clear in the episode, she turns the letter over to a local volunteer fireman (Jonathan Goldsmith)--who later perishes in a blaze that was deliberately Read More

Joyride

Actors: Desi Arnaz, Jr., Robert Carradine, Melanie Griffith, Anne Lockhart, Tom Ligon

Synopsis: Hoping to break out of the boring lives they knew in L.A., a group of young people make the journey to Alaska to work on the oil pipeline that is being built. However, they soon start getting into trouble. Life on the oil pipelines is difficult, violent, and expensive, and soon these city kids Read More

Rooster Cogburn

Actors: John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan, John McIntire

Synopsis: John Wayne returned to the role that won him an Oscar in this sequel to the western classic True Grit. Rooster Cogburn (Wayne) has once again been stripped of his badge after some questionable behavior with his gun, but he's given the chance to earn it back after an especially appalling crime Read More

Ned Blessing: Return To Plum Creek

Actors: Brad Johnson, Luis Avalos, Brenda Bakke, Rob Campbell, Bill McKinney

Synopsis: When the sheriff of Plum Creek is gunned down in cold blood, it's up to Ned Blessing to bring justice back to the lawless town in this made for television western. The sheriff has been murdered, and as the nefarious Emma and her unscrupulous husband take charge the once lawful town quickly takes a Read More