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The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

Actors: Jodi Benson, Sam Wright, Jim Cummings, Parker Goris, Kari Wahlgren

Synopsis: This prequel to Disney's widely acclaimed feature film The Little Mermaid follows Ariel's adventures from long before she gave up her fins for true love. When she wasn't singing alongside her sisters, Ariel spent her time with her mother, Queen Athena. Ariel is devastated when Athena is kidnapped Read More

2008
Dinosaur

Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis, Max Casella, Hayden Panettiere, Sam Wright

Synopsis: Walt Disney Pictures redefined computer animation with this technically accomplished fantasy of prehistoric life, combining live-action backgrounds with computer-generated animals. After a pterodactyl snatches a dinosaur's egg and accidentally drops it while flying away, the egg is rescued by a Read More

5/19/00
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea

Actors: Jodi Benson, Sam Wright, Tara Charendoff, Pat Carroll, Buddy Hackett

Synopsis: In this direct-to-video sequel to Disney's animated hit The Little Mermaid, Ariel (Jodi Benson) and Eric (Christopher Daniel Barnes) are the proud parents of a little girl named Melody (Tara Charendoff), who has begun to hear the call of the sea she has inherited from her mother. But wicked Read More

2000
Law & Order: Trade This

Synopsis: A ruthless young stockbroker is murdered in his Wall Street office. No sooner have the detectives made an arrest than the suspect is also killed. Acting upon the likelihood that both victims were rubbed out by a professional assassin, the DA's office bears down upon the Mob -- and in so doing Read More

2000
Law & Order: Entrapment

Synopsis: Huey Tate (Chris McKinney) is arrested for the double murder of a black-activist congressman and his bodyguard. Subsequent investigation reveals that one of the victims may have been responsible for an innocent person's death. Crucial to the D.A.'s prosecution is the eyewitness testimony of a Read More

1997
The Keeper

Actors: Giancarlo Esposito, Regina Taylor, Isaach de Bankolé, Ron Brice, O.L. Duke

Synopsis: Much of this absorbing, grim psychological thriller is set within Brooklyn's Kings County House of Detention and follows the moral downfall of an idealistic, straight-arrow black correctional officer, 36-year-old Paul Lamont. Strongly believing in prison reform yet horrified by the never-ending Read More

1996
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

1994
Trusting Beatrice

Actors: Mark Jacobs, Irène Jacob, Charlotte Moore, Pat McNamara, Leo Cimino

Synopsis: Claude is a landscaper who is having a terrible day. He has been abandoned by his girl friend, humiliated by his boss, and just vented his rage on an innocent girl scout selling cookies. Later he is burning pictures of his girlfriend when something goes amiss and he ends up torching his apartment Read More

1993
Strapped

Actors: Michael Biehn, Kia Joy Goodwin, Bokeem Woodbine

Synopsis: An impoverished African American teen, raised in a grim and desperate Brooklyn project finds himself forced to set aside his dreams in order to face the realities of daily survival. This well-wrought and disturbing portrait of a young man's life was penned by New York Times reporter Dena Kleiman. Read More

1993
The Boy Who Cried Bitch

Actors: Harley Cross, Karen Young, Jesse Bradford, J.D. Daniels, Gene Canfield

Synopsis: This disturbing tale is as intensely dark and twisted as the relationship between the psychotic boy and the neglectful, mentally unstable mother it chronicles. The story opens as 12-year-old Danny Love holds a gun to his mother Candice's head. The events that led him there provide the bulk of the Read More

1992
Sebastian's Caribbean Jamboree

Synopsis: Take a guided tour of the amazing Walt Disney World with animated host Sebastian--the singing crab from the hit Disney animation, The Little Mermaid. Your co-host is Sam Wright. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Sebastian's Party Gras

Synopsis: Here, Sebastian (the singing crab from Disney's The Little Mermaid), takes the viewer to a musically snappy calypso atmosphere where he's throwing a reggae party. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1991
The Little Mermaid

Actors: Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll, Sam Wright, Kenneth Mars, Buddy Hackett

Synopsis: Disney's The Little Mermaid was the first in a series of blockbusters that restored the venerable firm's reputation as the world's premiere animated-feature factory. The title character is a precocious teenager named Ariel, the daughter of Triton, king of the Sea. Against her dad's wishes, Ariel Read More

11/15/89
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

Actors: Charles Rouse, Harry Colomby, Barry Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Thelonious Monk

Synopsis: This documentary of the late jazz great Thelonius Monk) (1917-1982) uses footage taken from 14 hours of European concert performances filmed in 1967-68 by Christian Blackwood. From his childhood in New York City's San Juan Hill, Monk grew up to become one of the most innovative jazz pianists of Read More

10/1/89
Me and Him

Actors: Griffin Dunne, Ellen Greene, Kelly Bishop, Carey Lowell, Craig T. Nelson, Kim Flowers

Synopsis: Loosely based on the novel by Alberto Moravia, Me and Him concerns an architect (Griffin Dunne) whose penis begins giving him advice on business and love. It urges him to leave his wife and seduce a series of co-workers and acquaintances. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

8/4/89
Bird

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Sam Wright, Keith David

Synopsis: Forest Whitaker stars as the brilliant jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker in this elegiac biopic. Director Clint Eastwood pays full homage to Parker's musical genius, but also devotes ample time to the musician's twin demons--drugs and alcohol-which accelerated his death at the age of 34. In Read More

9/30/88
The Cosby Show: Close to Home

Synopsis: Broadway musical star Samuel E. Wright guests as Dr. Dan Morgan, who shows up at the Huxtable household to discuss the annual hospital charity benefit with Cliff (Bill Cosby). After he sees Cliff teasing Denise (Lisa Bonet) and Clair (Phylicia Rashad) about their failed pottery-class project, Dr. Read More

1986
Brass

Actors: Vincent Gardenia, Carroll O'Connor

Synopsis: Carroll O'Connor stars as NYPD chief of detectives Frank Nolan in Brass. The script, pseudonymously cowritten by O'Connor and Alvin Boretz, dramatizes two real-life incidents: a sniper attack on Penn Station and a murder in the CBS network parking lot. Though consigned to a desk job, Nolan insists Read More

1985