Terry O'QuinnFilmography

Lost: Season 04

Actors: Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O'Quinn, Josh Holloway, Jorge Garcia

Synopsis: The survivors choose sides (Jack or Locke?) in Season 4, which spans nine days (Dec. 21-30, 2004) and opens with the castaways awaiting rescue by the offshore freighter crew. But when four strangers arrive on the island via helicopter, Jack (Matthew Fox) and others begin to question the intentions Read More

Masters of Science Fiction: The Awakening

Actors: Terry O'Quinn, Elisabeth Röhm

Lost: Season 03

Actors: Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O'Quinn, Josh Holloway, Jorge Garcia

Synopsis: Season 3 chronicles 24 more days on the island (Nov. 28-Dec. 21, 2004) and focuses on the survivors' struggles with the Others and their leader Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson). Ben, formerly known as captive Henry Gale, was freed by Michael last season, and then Michael delivered Jack (Matthew Read More

Lost: Season 02

Actors: Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O'Quinn, Josh Holloway, Jorge Garcia

Synopsis: Some of the island's mysteries and dangers are revealed during the second season, which spans 23 days (Nov. 4-27, 2004) and opens with Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Locke (Terry O'Quinn) venturing into the hatch for the first time. There they discover Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) Read More

Lost: Season 01

Actors: Matthew Fox, Emilie de Ravin, Evangeline Lilly, Ian Somerhalder, Dominic Monaghan, Jorge Garcia

Synopsis: A passenger jet breaks apart in mid-air, crash-landing on a tropical island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Left without the creature comforts and basic necessities of civilization, the 48 survivors are forced to rely upon one another to stay alive -- and given the personality quirks of these Read More

Alias: Firebomb

Synopsis: After threatening to destroy an entire city block with a super-explosive, the fugitive Sloane (Ron Rifkin) slips through the fingers of the CIA, sparking a heated argument between Sydney (Jennifer Garner) and Kendall (Terry O'Quinn). Meanwhile, Marshall (Kevin Weisman) uses his photographic memory Read More

Alias: A Dark Turn

Synopsis: Evidence found on a victim in an elevator accident leads to the elusive Sloane (Ron Rifkin), who is poised to steal yet another precious Rambaldi manuscript. Irina (Lena Olin) suggests that a sting operation be set up to capture Sloane, thereby enabling her daughter, Sydney (Jennifer Garner), to Read More

Alias: Second Double

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Francie's evil double (Merrin Dungey) implants Will (Bradley Cooper) with phony retinal DNA, thereby framing him as a traitor. Worried about the fugitive Will's fate, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) blows her cover in the presence of the phony Francie -- meaning Read More

Alias: Truth Takes Time

Synopsis: Vaughn's (Michael Vartan) security clearance is downgraded pending investigation of accusations that he has been double-crossing the CIA. This, however is only one of two emotional crosses for Sydney (Jennifer Garner) to bear: the other is the escape of her double-agent mother, Irina (Lena Olin) Read More

Alias: A Free Agent

Synopsis: With the Alliance in tatters and Sloane (Ron Rifkin) still MIA, new college graduate Sydney (Jennifer Garner) is more determined than ever to give up the spy game. But CIA director Kendall (Terry O'Quinn) insists that Sydney tackle a case which seems to prove that the Alliance is still a force to Read More

Alias: Phase One

Synopsis: Originally telecast right after Super Bowl XXXVII, "Phase One" was the most controversial and talked-about episode of Alias' second season -- and not only because of the notorious segment in which star Jennifer Garner appears clad only in a skimpy bra and panties. With Sloane (Ron Rifkin) having Read More

Alias: The Getaway

Synopsis: Convinced that Alliance counterintelligence head Ariana Kane (Faye Dunaway) plans to frame him on a murder-extortion rap, Jack (Victor Garber) is forced to rely upon Irina (Lena Olin) to turn the tables on Kane and clear his name. Meanwhile, while on assignment in France to retrieve the prototype Read More

Alias: Double Agent

Synopsis: After CIA agent Emma Wallace (Olivia D'Abo) is killed in full view of a nationwide TV audience, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) and Vaughn (Michael Vartan) are assigned to take over Emma's mission. They must determine if a new gene-splicing technology called Helix is actually some sort of weapon -- and Read More

Alias: A Higher Echelon

Synopsis: Sydney (Jennifer Garner) believes that computer wonk-turned-spy Marshall Flinkman (Kevin Weisman) is safely ensconced in CIA headquarters. In truth, however, Marshall has been captured and is being tortured by a bespectacled interrogator (Ric Young) who is determined to retrieve the Echelon Read More

Phenomenon II

Synopsis: Made for television, Phenomenon II is not so much as sequel to the theatrical feature Phenomenon as it is a remake--and as such, it is rather obvious that the film is the pilot for a proposed TV series. Christopher Shyer stars as California mechanic George Malley, who after being literally struck Read More

Alias: The Telling

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) manages to clear Will (Bradley Cooper) of espionage charges, but she must still deal with the fact that her mother, Irina (Lena Olin), has betrayed her. The situation changes radically when Irina shows up, claiming that she was only Read More

Alias: Dead Drop

Synopsis: Defying the wishes of her father, Jack (Victor Garber), Sydney (Jennifer Garner) insists upon pumping her KGB-agent mother, Irina (Lena Olin), for information necessary to topple SD-6 -- and, incidentally, to allow Syd to quit the spy game for good. On other fronts, a rattled Sloane (Ron Rifkin) Read More

Alias: Passage, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Sydney's perennial nemesis Sark (David Anders) has ostensibly mended his ways and joined the staff of SD-6. Sark's former confederate Irina (Lena Olin) suspects that he is up to no good -- and she turns out to be right on target when Sark delivers the Read More

Alias: The Counteragent

Synopsis: Infected with the virus unleashed by Irina's successor Sark (David Anders), Vaughn (Michael Vartan) has but a few days to live. In order to find an antidote for the virus, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) is forced to place her trust in the highly unreliable Irina (Lena Olin). Ultimately, Syd finds Read More

Alias: Cipher

Synopsis: Now that Sark (new series regular David Anders) is in charge of the cartel formerly headed by Sydney's mother, Irina (Lena Olin), he launches a Russian satellite spy camera that will help him corrupt the world's security systems. It is up to Sydney (Jennifer Garner) to tap into the images Read More

Winds of Terror

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Vanessa Williams, Terry O'Quinn

Synopsis: Timothy Hutton stars as a government agent dealing with the aftermath of a biological attack in this thriller from director Robert Mandel (School Ties). In the wake of a deadly outbreak on a cruise ship, it becomes clear that the U.S. has been hit by a terrorist attack. As the virus spreads, it's Read More

Hometown Legend

Actors: Terry O'Quinn, Lacey Chabert, Nick Cornish, Kirk B.R. Woller, Ian Bohen

Synopsis: Produced by Jerry B. Jenkins of Left Behind and Navigators fame, Hometown Legend tells the story of a small Alabama town where football and faith come together. The downtrodden town has seen better days, and the community's high school is scheduled to close at the end of the year. In honor of the Read More

Alias: Trust Me

Synopsis: Irina (Lena Olin) turns herself in to the CIA, insisting that her main purpose in life is "Defeating Arvin Sloane. SD-6. The Alliance." She also offers to help track down "The Bible," the elusive operations manual for the evil cartel which she formerly headed. But her ex-husband, Jack (Victor Garber Read More

Alias: Q and A

Synopsis: Taken into custody by the FBI, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) is relentlessly grilled about her own espionage activities and her involvement in the Rambaldi prophecies. What follows is essentially the "backstory" of Sydney's entire life, complete with painful memories of Daniel's murder, SD-6's Read More

Alias: Passage, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Sydney (Jennifer Garner), her father, Jack (Victor Garber), and her mother, Irina (Lena Olin), are still in Pakistan, still searching for the code that will enable a group of rebels to activate half a dozen nuclear warheads. Despite Irina's protestations of Read More

American Outlaws

Actors: Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter, Gabriel Macht, Gregory Smith, Harris Yulin, Will McCormack, Kathy Bates, Timothy Dalton

Synopsis: This loosely fact-based oater attempts to mimic the youthful heartthrobs in Western garb formula of Young Guns (1988), as well as the cheeky humor and some plot elements of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Colin Farrell stars as Jesse James, who returns home from the Civil War to his Read More

Rated X

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Rafer Weigel, Megan Ward

Synopsis: Having created an empire on girly shows and skin flicks, Jim Mitchell and Artie Mitchell achieved mainstream success with Behind the Green Door (1972), one of only a handful of hardcore porn movies to do so. Brothers Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen star in the film about the life and troubled Read More

Harsh Realm [TV Series]

Actors: Scott Bairstow, D.B. Sweeney, Terry O'Quinn, Samantha Mathis, Max Martini

The X-Files

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Martin Landau, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Blythe Danner

Synopsis: This 60-million-dollar science fiction suspense drama (marketed with an additional 25 million dollars), was adapted from the popular TV series The X-Files -- arriving in theaters while the Emmy-winning series was still being aired, continuing plot threads familiar to many of the series' 25 million Read More

Millennium: Season 03

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Brittany Tiplady, Klea Scott, Terry O'Quinn, Stephen E. Miller

Synopsis: Season two of Millennium had ended with a deadly, Ebola-like virus spreading throughout the nation, apparently engineered by the alleged anti-criminal organization the Millennium Group. Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a criminal profiler for Millennium who possessed the ability to "see" through the Read More

Millennium: Season 02

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Brittany Tiplady, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Kristen Cloke, Stephen J. Lang

Synopsis: Season two of Millennium finds former FBI agent Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) utilizing his special gift -- that of "seeing" through the eyes of violent criminals -- to root out villains of a supernatural nature on behalf of the Seattle PD in general and detective Bob Geibelhouse (Stephen James Lang Read More

Shadow Conspiracy

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Theodore Bikel, Linda Hamilton

Synopsis: Presidential advisor Bobby Bishop (Charlie Sheen) is hunted by an unknown assailant in this political thriller. With the help of Chief-of-Staff Jake Conrad (Donald Sutherland) and the newspaper journalist Amanda (Linda Hamilton), he uncovers an assassination plot to kill the President and his Read More

Love, Murder and Deceit

Actors: Rachel Ward, Joshua Morrow, Terry O'Quinn, Michael Genevie

Synopsis: A lonely trophy wife turns to her adult stepson for companionship after being denied freedom and an opportunity for a career of her own by her wealthy yet distant husband. Continually made to stay at home while her husband Richard jets to exotic corners of the globe on business, Caitlin Cory does Read More

On the Edge of Innocence

Synopsis: It can hardly be described as a match made in heaven when manic-depressive teenager Zoe (Kellie Martin falls in love with violence-prone Jake (James Marsden) while both a being treated at a mental institution. When parents and doctors alike express harsh disapproval of the romance, Zoe and Jake Read More

Millennium [TV Series]

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Brittany Tiplady, Bill Smitrovich, Terry O'Quinn

Synopsis: Created by Chris Carter of X-Files fame, the Fox sci-fi crime thriller series Millennium starred Lance Henriksen as Frank Black, a former Washington, D.C.-based FBI agent who in the opening season returned to his native Seattle with wife Catherine (Megan Gallagher) and daughter Jordan (Brittany Tiplady Read More

Primal Fear

Actors: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Alfre Woodard

Synopsis: A high-profile slaying becomes the case of an ambitious attorney's career in this legal thriller based on the novel by William Diehl. Richard Gere stars as Martin Vail, a famed defense lawyer who volunteers his services to Aaron Stampler (Edward Norton), a Kentucky teenager charged with the murder Read More

Millennium: Season 01

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Brittany Tiplady, Megan Gallagher, Bill Smitrovich, Terry O'Quinn

Synopsis: Season one of Millennium begins as ex-FBI agent Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) moves from Washington, D.C., to the state of Washington -- specifically, his home town of Seattle. Gifted with the psychic power to "see" through the eyes of violent criminals and thereby anticipate their next moves Read More

Shadow Warriors

Actors: Terry O'Quinn, Evan Lurie, Russ Tertyask

Synopsis: When Global Cybernetics Inc. develops a new, cutting-edge cyborg bodyguard, they make only one mistake -- you need a human body to make each one. So GCI chairman Dr. Connors (Terry O'Quinn) programs a super-cyborg to search for healthy human specimens to meet the demand for his product. When his Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Hate Crimes

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Not all is what it seems as the detectives investigate a hate crime perpetrated by skinheads in a gay community. In other developments, Howard (Melissa Leo) displays an unattractive case of envy when Lewis (Clark Johnson) begins to make headway in an unsolved case left behind by the late Steve Read More

Death of a Cheerleader

Actors: Tori Spelling, Kellie Martin

Synopsis: A recently transferred high-school student finds herself walking a double-edged sword in her attempt to court friendship with the powerfully popular but frighteningly unpredictable head cheerleader in a disturbing look at the adolescent social hierarchy starring Tori Spelling and Kellie Martin. Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Pegasus

Synopsis: Terry O'Quinn guest-stars as Riker's former commander Pressman. Now an admiral, Pressman orders the Enterprise to embark upon a risky, an unexplained mission. Learning the true nature of the mission, Riker is sworn to silence by Pressman, whereupon another "duty vs. loyalty" crisis looms Read More

Don't Talk to Strangers

Actors: Shanna Reed, Terry O'Quinn, Pierce Brosnan, Keegan Macintosh, Douglas Stewart

Synopsis: In this suspenseful made-for-television drama, a young mother is horrified to realize that her creepy ex-husband is quietly following her and her son as they travel across the country to their new home. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Justice in a Small Town

Actors: Kate Jackson, John Shea, Dean Stockwell, Rand Courtney, Terry O'Quinn

Synopsis: Caring more about justice than her own safety, a courageous Georgian civil service employee agrees to testify about the corruption rampant in the highest levels of her agency. Unfortunately, her testimony will also endanger the lives of her family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Heart of a Child

Actors: Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: Some parents are faced with a difficult decision in this dramatic made-for-TV movie. Based on a true story, parents (Bruce Greenwood and Michelle Greene) of an ill infant decide to donate their brain-damaged baby's heart to help save the life of another newborn in need. The film was nominated for Read More

Lipstick Camera

Actors: Sandahl Bergman, Charlotte Lewis, Terry O'Quinn, Brian Wimmer, Corey Feldman, Ele Keats

Synopsis: An aspiring reporter looking for a big story finds one big enough to kill her in this suspense thriller. Omy Clark (Ele Keats) wants a career as a television journalist, but while she has eagerly courted the favor of video reporter Flynn Dailey (Brian Wimmer), he's not eager to pass along any Read More

Visions of Murder

Actors: Barbara Eden, James Brolin, Terry O'Quinn, Erika Flores, Joan Pringle

Synopsis: A woman becomes deeply disturbed when she starts having psychic visions of a brutal murder. Unfortunately, when she goes to the police, they treat her not as a witness, but as the prime suspect. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tombstone

Actors: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Robert John Burke, Dana Delany

Synopsis: A high-energy action adventure based on legend rather than historical fact finds Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) desiring to retire from law enforcement. With brothers Virgil (Sam Elliot) and Morgan (Bill Paxton), he arrives in Tombstone, Arizona intending to build his fortune. He discovers that Read More

Born Too Soon

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Pamela Reed, Terry O'Quinn, Joanna Gleason, Mariangela Pino

Synopsis: In this domestic drama a young couple's life and relationship is nearly shattered after the wife gives birth three months early. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Amityville: A New Generation

Actors: Ross Partridge

Synopsis: This tired, pointless sequel (the sixth in the creatively bankrupt series) continues the premise explored in both Amityville: The Evil Escapes and later used in Amityville 1992: It's About Time, in which the demonic forces occupying the infamous haunted Long Island spook-house reside within Read More

The Cutting Edge

Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Moira Kelly, Roy Dotrice, Terry O'Quinn, Dwier Brown

Synopsis: Can a rough and tumble hockey player and a snooty ice dancer find love and a gold medal at the same time? That's the burning (or more appropriately freezing) question in this romantic drama. Kate Moseley (Moira Kelly) is a world-class figure skater training for the Olympics; she has genuine Read More

My Samurai

Synopsis: In this martial-arts actioner a young man is forced to learn physical and spiritual self-defense tactics from a master after he witnesses a gangland murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Wildcard

Synopsis: In this action adventure, the mysterious Preacher, a "special forces" veteran, card sharp and ex-clergyman, is called to a town on the Texas-Mexico border to investigate a suspicious helicopter crash involving a Vietnam veteran pilot. His investigation reveals that the town is totally corrupt. Read More

Take Down

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Teri Garr, Terry O'Quinn, Gary Frank, Jocelyn O'Brien

Synopsis: This made-for-TV film was based on a real-life, nail-biting hostage situation. The incident began when a deranged gunman, disgruntled for a variety of reasons, burst into the maternity ward at the Alta View Hospital in Sandy, Utah. Holding mothers, babies and nurses captive, the gunman clearly Read More

Sexual Advances

Synopsis: Treatment of a problem only recently addressed, the promotion manager of a sporting equipment firm becomes the victim of sexual harassment. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Trial: The Price of Passion, Part 1

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Beverly D'Angelo, Peter Strauss

Synopsis: Based on Clifford Irving's novel Trial, this 2-part TV movie is set amongst the Texas elite. Peter Strauss plays Warren Blackburn, a brilliant but discredited trial lawyer. His career seems due for redemption when judge Louise Parker (Jill Clayburgh), formerly Blackburn's bitterest foe, appoints Read More

The Good Fight

Actors: Christine Lahti, Terry O'Quinn, Kenneth Welsh, Lawrence Z. Dane, Adam Trese

Synopsis: Good Fight is a made-for-cable film about a small-town lawyer (Christine Lahti) who fights a tobacco company when her son's best friend is stricken with mouth cancer, due to his frequent use of chewing tobacco. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Company Business

Actors: Gene Hackman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Kurtwood Smith, Terry O'Quinn, Daniel Von Bargen

Synopsis: The demise of the Cold War rendered this flat and obsolete spy thriller, written and directed by Nicholas Meyer, mute upon its release in 1991. Gene Hackman plays Sam Boyd, a retired CIA agent, now making ends meet by engaging in industrial espionage. But Sam is recalled to duty and ordered to Read More

Prisoners of the Sun

Actors: Bryan Brown, George Takei, Terry O'Quinn, Toshi Shioya, John Bach

Synopsis: In 1945, a tribunal was held to investigate atrocities committed by the Japanese upon Australian soldiers during World War II. At an internment camp, 1100 Australian soldiers were tortured and killed by the Japanese, with only 300 survivors. This horrible event was not known until a terrible Read More

The Rocketeer

Actors: Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: After getting his start as a visual effects artist on the original Star Wars trilogy, Spielberg protege Joe Johnston found success as a director with his debut film, the blockbuster family adventure Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. For his sophomore outing, Johnston helmed this action-adventurer, set in Read More

Son of the Morning Star

Actors: Gary Cole, Rosanna Arquette, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: This second half of the sweeping TV adaptation of Evan S. O'Connell's novel (see entry 129099 for details on Part One) stars Gary Cole as George Armstrong Custer, leader of the 7th Cavalry of the Great Plains in the early 1870s. Custer's efforts to maintain peace with the surrounding Native Read More

When the Time Comes

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a woman suffering the ravages of terminal cancer desires, against the wishes of her husband, to permanently end her suffering. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Last to Go

Actors: Terry O'Quinn

Synopsis: Tyne Daly ages and ages (courtesy of a sympathetic makeup staff) as the matriarch of an upper-class Connecticut family. This TV movie traces the progress of that family--mother, father, three kids--from 1962 through 1984. We watch the children go through all the joys and heartache of maturity, and Read More

Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance

Synopsis: This police story chronicles the true story of two partners who started out as best friends and later became the bitterest of enemies when one of them becomes corrupted. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Blind Fury

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Brandon Call, Terry O'Quinn, Lisa Blount, Noble Willingham, Meg Foster

Synopsis: Rutger Hauer plays a blinded Vietnam vet who also happens to be an expert swordsman. Twenty years after the war, Hauer finds himself waist-deep in gangsters when he tries to help the son (Brandon Call) of an old army buddy. Along the way, he reforms an ex-comrade in arms (Terrance O'Quinn) who was Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Kaleidoscope'

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Perry King, Claudia Christian, Patricia Kalember

Synopsis: Wealthy, but yearning for the family he lost after his parents' untimely deaths, a businessman hires a private eye to locate his three sisters, each of whom was sent to a different foster home following the mysterious accident. One particularly traumatized sister seems to know the truth about the Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason represents a Marine Officer who is accused of killing a Nazi war criminal. He is the prime suspect because the Nazi had treated his mother terribly at a concentration camp. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stepfather 2

Actors: Terry O'Quinn, Meg Foster, Caroline Williams, Jonathan Brandis, Henry Brown

Synopsis: A passable sequel to the excellent sleeper hit that preceded it, this film steers its story in a cartoonish, less horrific direction. Terry O'Quinn returns as the nameless family man who butchered one nuclear unit and was on his way to dispatching another when he was (seemingly) fatally stabbed. Read More

Pin

Actors: David Hewlett, Cyndy Preston, John Ferguson, Terry O'Quinn, Bronwen Mantel

Synopsis: An obscure and offbeat novel by Andrew Neiderman comes to life as this strange, disturbing, but fairly compelling psychological thriller. The title refers to a life-sized medical dummy (the name is short for Pinocchio) through which strait-laced physician and would-be ventriloquist Doctor Linden (Terry O'Quinn Read More

The Forgotten One

Synopsis: In this supernatural drama, a writer seeks to revive his flagging career and overcome his writer's block by moving into a big old house. Unfortunately for him, he soon discovers that the place is haunted by the restless ghost of a murdered woman who falls in love with the writer and beckons him to Read More

Roe vs. Wade

Actors: Holly Hunter, Amy Madigan

Synopsis: Based on the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld a woman's right to have an abortion, the made-for-television film Roe Vs. Wade follows an unmarried Texas woman (Holly Hunter) and her lawyer (Amy Madigan), as they take her case to the Supreme Court. Abortion is always a controversial Read More

Young Guns

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Jack Palance

Synopsis: In this Western based loosely on actual events and people, Emilio Estevez stars as William H. Bonney (aka Billy the Kid). Sought for a petty crime in Lincoln County, Billy is taken in by John Tunstall (Terrence Stamp), a British ranch owner seeking to make it in the cattle business. Tunstall Read More

Stranger on My Land

Synopsis: In this drama, a Vietnam vet takes a stand when government agents attempt to take his ranch so they can build a missile base there. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Black Widow

Actors: Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey, Dennis Hopper, Nicol Williamson

Synopsis: Black Widow bears no relation to the 1954 film of the same name--beyond its characterization of the female as the deadlier of the species, that is. Debra Winger stars as a federal agent who has sworn to bring Theresa Russell to justice. Ms. Russell has married several millionaires who have all Read More

The Stepfather

Actors: Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack, Stephen Shellen, Charles Lanyer

Synopsis: Terry O'Quinn plays The Stepfather in this intelligent, unsettling chiller. We'd tell you O'Quinn's character name, but he has so many. You see, O'Quinn has been a stepfather many times over, romancing and marrying widowed women in several different states. After each wedding, everything is Read More

Moonlighting: Take a Left at the Altar

Synopsis: It's been two weeks since David (Bruce Willis) has seen Maddie (Cybill Shepherd), his partner at the Blue Moon Detective Agency--and his lover, or so he'd been led to believe. With no one else around, David teams with the obsequious Bert Viola (Curtis Armstrong) for his latest case, involving Read More

Spacecamp

Actors: Leaf Phoenix, Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: This is an eerily prescient family adventure starring Kate Capshaw as Andie, a frustrated NASA astronaut who's never actually been into outer space. Her husband, flight controller Zach (Tom Skerritt), is sympathetic, but he can't influence her place in the rotation. Andie is assigned to train a Read More

Between Two Women

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Colleen Dewhurst, Michael Nouri, Bridgette Andersen, Daniel Bryan Corkill

Synopsis: The old reliable movie title Between Two Women was activated once more for this made-for-TV film. Farrah Fawcett and Colleen Dewhurst star as, respectively, a domineering ex-opera star and a shy schoolteacher. The ads for the film suggested that Michael Nouri played the apex of a romantic triangle Read More

Women of Valor

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Kristy McNichol, Alberta Watson, Valerie Mahaffey, Suzanne Lederer

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film, a group of American nurses stationed in the Philippines are captured when Japanese forces invade during World War II. In the hands of the enemy, the women are held prisoner for three years and must struggle to survive. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

An Early Frost

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney, John Glover

Synopsis: Originally telecast November 11, 1985, An Early Frost was the first TV movie to deal with the subject of AIDS. Aidan Quinn plays a personable young gay lawyer who is stricken with the HIV virus. As his health deteriorates, Quinn finds that his physical agony is secondary to his mental anguish. Ben Gazzara Read More

Silver Bullet

Actors: Gary Busey, Corey Haim, Megan Follows, Everett McGill, Terry O'Quinn

Synopsis: In this undistinguished Stephen King horror adaptation, the good residents of Tarker's Mill are dense enough to ignore or explain away a series of violent deaths until a little boy is torn to pieces while flying his kite after dark. At that point, the men gang up and go into the fog-shrouded woods Read More

Mischief

Actors: Doug McKeon, Catherine Stewart, Kelly Preston, Chris Nash, D.W. Brown

Synopsis: This entertaining teen comedy is set in the effervescent 1950s and involves the friendship of the introverted, clumsy Jonathan (Doug McKeon) and the nonconformist, extroverted Gene (Chris Nash). Jonathan's main objective is to win over the sexy Marilyn (Kelly Preston), in spite of his shyness Read More

The Right to Kill

Actors: Frederic Forrest, Christopher Collet, Karmin Murcelo, Justine Bateman, Ann Wedgeworth

Synopsis: Christopher Collet stars as real-life teenager Richard Jahnke Jr. in the made-for-TV Right to Kill. After suffering years of torment and abuse from his father (Frederic Forrest), Jahnke can stand no more. Hiding in the closet of his Wyoming home, Jahnke hears the familiar sounds of his father Read More

Mrs. Soffel

Actors: Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Trini Alvarado

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Mrs. Soffel is set in Pittsburgh near the dawn of the 20th century. Peter Soffel (Edward Herrmann) is the warden of a top security prison, and his wife Kate (Diane Keaton) often comes by to read the Bible aloud to the inmates, despite her fragile health. While making her Read More

Places in the Heart

Actors: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover

Synopsis: Of the three "mortgage on the farm" films of 1984 (Country and The River were the other two), Places in the Heart is the only one set during the Depression. After her husband is killed, Sally Field is forced to take over the debt-ridden Texas family farm herself. Though slightly embittered by the Read More

All the Right Moves

Actors: Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Charles Cioffi, Paul Carafotes

Synopsis: High school athlete Tom Cruise would do anything to escape the dull provincialism of his home town. Cruise's bullying coach Craig T. Nelson cajoles Cruise into seeking an athletic scholarship to a major university. Inevitably, the boy begins to question his goals in life, and soon his soul is the 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

Heaven's Gate

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Sam Waterston, John Hurt, Brad Dourif

Synopsis: A notorious artistic and financial failure, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was blamed for critically wounding the movie Western and definitively ushering out the 1970s Hollywood New Wave of young, brash, independent filmmakers. Taking a revisionist, post-Vietnam view of American imperialism Read More

F.D.R. The Last Year

Actors: Eileen Heckart, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: Jason Robards stars as the ailing, 62-year-old President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in F.D.R.: The Last Year. Though visibly frail and weary, Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime Read More

Mahler

Actors: Elaine Delmar, Claire McLellan, Sarah McLellan, Gary Rich, Michael Southgate, Arnold Yarrow, Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Richard Morant, Lee Montague, Rosalie Crutchley

Synopsis: Director Ken Russell made a number of biographical films of composers' lives including The Music Lovers, (about Tchaikovsky) and Lisztomania. Russell embellished the other films with certain characteristic flourishes, which include a focus on the composers' sexual obsessions, poetically telling Read More