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The Mountain Men

The Mountain Men (1980) more movies like this

directed by Richard Lang
featuring Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Victoria Racimo, Seymour Cassel, Stephen Macht, John Glover, Victor Jory

In this subpar western, gratuitous profanity and violence are at odds with the theme of rescuing a Native American from a marriage she does not want. A bearded Charleton Heston (whose son wrote the screenplay) is the fur trader Bill Tyler, out in the remote mountain ranges looking for a legendary valley where furry animals are plentiful. Brian ...

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Scrooged

Scrooged (1988) more movies like this

directed by Richard Donner
featuring Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, John Glover, Carol Kane

A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard of levels to increase his network's ratings -- even ...

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Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) more movies like this

directed by Joe Dante
featuring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo

Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy, with a couple of horrifying touches. As the film starts, the fantastical trinket shop in Chinatown, which sold the Mogwai in the first film, is demolished by a crazed multi-media businessman called Daniel Clamp (John Glover). ...

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The Tempest

The Tempest (1998) more movies like this

directed by Jack Bender
featuring Peter Fonda, John Glover, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Katherine Heigl, John Pyper-Ferguson

This adaptation of the classic Shakespearean tale of an exiled ruler who happens to be a very powerful magician is set in a pre-Civil War Mississippi bayou, with the main characters as powerful slaveowners instead of heads-of-state. All Movie Guide

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Rocket Gibraltar

Rocket Gibraltar (1988) more movies like this

directed by Daniel Petrie
featuring Burt Lancaster, Suzy Amis, Patricia Clarkson, Frances Conroy, Sinéad Cusack, John Glover, Bill Pullman, Macaulay Culkin

On the occasion of wealthy patriarch Burt Lancaster's 77th birthday, his Long Island home is invaded by well-meaning family members. Lancaster is bored by the well-meaning interference of his grown children, but he thrives on the company of his grandchildren, especially 5-year-old Macaulay Culkin (in a terrific pre-star performance). To the kids, ...

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The Chocolate War

The Chocolate War (1988) more movies like this

directed by Keith Gordon
featuring John Glover, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Wally Ward, Doug Hutchison, Adam Baldwin

The independently produced Chocolate War marked actor Keith Gordon's directorial debut. Adapted from the popular novel by Robert Cormier (I Am the Cheese), it functions as a political allegory set in a curricular context, in the same vein as Rene Daalder's Massacre at Central High (1976). In War, Ilan Mitchell-Smith plays Jerry, a new enrollee at ...

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52 Pick-Up

52 Pick-Up (1986) more movies like this

directed by John Frankenheimer
featuring Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover, Robert Trebor

Wealthy metallurgist Harry Mitchell (Roy Scheider) lives to regret his extramarital affair with pretty young Cini (Kelly Preston). A trio of vicious blackmailers (John Glover, Robert Trebor, Clarence Williams III) show Mitchell a videotape of his most recent roll in the sack with Cini. They demand a huge amount of hush money, but Mitchell calls ...

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Love! Valour! Compassion!

Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997) more movies like this

directed by Joe Mantello
featuring Jason Alexander, Randy Becker, Stephen Bogardus, John Glover, John Benjamin Hickey

Eight friends spend three weekends in the country over the course of a summer as they explore their sometimes conflicting attitudes about love, sex, friendship, life, and death in this screen adaptation of Terrence McNally's award-winning play. Gregory Mitchell (Stephen Bogardus) is a successful choreographer whose skills as a dancer have begun to ...

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Masquerade

Masquerade (1988) more movies like this

directed by Bob Swaim
featuring Rob Lowe, Meg Tilly, Doug Savant, Kim Cattrall, John Glover

American-born French film director Bob Swaim directed this sordid tale of greed, deception, machinations and murder. The darkly beautiful Meg Tilly stars as Olivia Lawrence, member of the Hamptons social elite and heiress to a vast fortune, who becomes attracted to dangerous newcomer Tim Whalen (Rob Lowe). She unwittingly falls into his web of ...

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An Early Frost

An Early Frost (1985) more movies like this

directed by John Erman
featuring Aidan Quinn, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney, John Glover

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 and Gena Rowlands play Quinn's parents, ...

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A Little Sex (1982) more movies like this

directed by Bruce Paltrow
featuring Tim Matheson, Kate Capshaw, Edward Herrmann, John Glover, Joan Copeland

In this made-for-TV comedy, a womanizer (Tim Matheson) marries his live-in girlfriend (Kate Capshaw) only to quickly resume his wicked ways. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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Traveling Man (1989) more movies like this

directed by Irvin Kershner
featuring John Glover, John Lithgow, Jonathan Silverman, Margaret Colin

John Lithgow sets aside his patented drooling villainy to play the sympathetic title character in Traveling Man. Beset by business and marital problems, salesman Lithgow feels as though he's at the end of his rope. But it's at this point that he avoids the Willy Loman syndrome by realizing that there's more to life than a smile and a shoeshine. ...

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A Killing Affair (1988) more movies like this

directed by David Saperstein
featuring Peter Weller, Kathy Baker, John Glover, Bill Smitrovich

When reviled labor boss Pink Gresham (Bill Smitrovich) is found murdered, his wife Maggie (Kathy Baker) is visited by Baston Morris (Peter Weller). Morris claims to have killed Pink before leaving his lifeless corpse symbolically in an outhouse. Instead of leaving, Morris moves in on the backwoods widow, and the two begin a psychological game of ...

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On Edge (2001) more movies like this

directed by Karl Slovin
featuring Jason Alexander, John Glover, Scott Hamilton, Chris Hogan, A.J. Langer

The world of competitive figure skating takes a pratfall in this satiric comedy. Professor Robinson (Chris Hogan) is a documentary filmmaker whose latest project presents an in-depth look at three figure skaters hoping to someday rise from the lowest rungs of amateur competition into the ranks of the U.S. Olympic Team. Robinson's subjects are Veda ...

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Ed and His Dead Mother (1993) more movies like this

directed by Jonathan Wacks
featuring Steve Buscemi, Ned Beatty, Miriam Margolyes, John Glover, Sam Jenkins, Rance Howard

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 bliss. But eventually dead old mom begins acting very ...

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Shamus (1973) more movies like this

directed by Buzz Kulik
featuring Jimmy Kelly, John Glover, Lou Martell, Tony Amato Jr., Burt Reynolds, Dyan Cannon, John Ryan, Joe Santos, Georgio Tozzi

This detective-themed action-adventure film spoofs The Big Sleep, which was based on the novel by Raymond Chandler. Burt Reynolds plays McCoy, a hard-nosed private detective. The story has more tangles than a bowl of spaghetti, but it begins when McCoy is called to the house of Hume (Ron Weyand), an eccentric diamond dealer, and is given the task ...

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1991) more movies like this

directed by David Greene
featuring John Glover

Whoever hit upon the idea that What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? would make a good TV movie remake forgot one essential fact. The original 1962 Baby Jane was at best a ludicrous melodrama, which only reached the level of art thanks to the bravura performances of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. This time around, real-life sisters Vanessa and Lynn ...

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Dead on the Money (1991) more movies like this

directed by Mark Cullingham
featuring Corbin Bernsen, Amanda Pays, John Glover, Eleanor Parker, Kevin McCarthy

Plot twists abound in this suspenseful made-for-television thriller as a beautiful actress tries to save her cousin from the schemes of a conniving murderer who just may be her lover. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Meet the Hollowheads (1989) more movies like this

directed by Thomas R. Burman
featuring John Glover, Nancy Mette, Richard Portnow, Matt Shakman, Juliette Lewis

In a futuristic society, a menial worker (John Glover) invites his boss (Richard Portnow) over for dinner to ingratiate himself with the business hierarchy. The two begin to fight however, and the tranquil meal turns ugly. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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Dead Broke (1998) more movies like this

directed by Edward Vilga
featuring Paul Sorvino, John Glover, Tony Roberts, Jill Hennessy, Justin Theroux

The potential witnesses to a mysterious murder all become suspects when a determined detective fails to crack the case in a hard-boiled mystery directed by Edward Vilga and starring Jill Hennessy, Paul Sorvino, and John Glover. When gunshots pierce the black stillness of the night and a body plunges into the icy depths of a deserted pier, an ...

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Automatic (1994) more movies like this

directed by John Murlowski
featuring Olivier Gruner, John Glover, Daphne Ashbrook

A kickboxing cyborg security agent accidentally kills a corporate officer who was trying to rape a blonde employee in this sci-fi copy of Die Hard. The head of the corporation orders his security teams to kill both the cyborg and the employee to prevent word of the attempted rape from getting out. The cyborg and the victim must make their way out ...

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The Last Embrace (1979) more movies like this

directed by Jonathan Demme
featuring Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Christopher Walken, Sam Levene, John Glover

In 1979, Jonathan Demme was still a cutting-edge director and The Last Embrace was his first effort at a completely commercial assignment. Very much in the Hitchcock vein, The Last Embrace is an intense suspense film concerning Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider), a government agent recovering from a catatonic collapse after the murder of his wife. After ...

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Macbeth In Manhattan (1999) more movies like this

directed by Greg Lombardo
featuring Gloria Reuben, David Lansbury, Nick Gregory, John Glover, Harold Perrineau, Jr.

A group of young actors rehearsing a production of Macbeth find their roles are at once reflecting and shaping their personalities in Macbeth in Manhattan. Claudia (Gloria Reuben) and Max (David Lansbury) are a couple living together who both audition for an upcoming New York production of Macbeth. They win the leading roles, but the director ...

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Something Special (1986) more movies like this

directed by Paul Schneider
featuring Pamela Segall, Eric Gurry, Mary Tanner, Patty Duke, John Glover

Pamela Segall gives a winning performance in this gender-bending comedy about a girl who wants to be a boy and gets her wish. 14-year-old Milly Niceman's "deepest, darkest heart's desire" is to be a boy, as she feels that boys' lives are simpler and more interesting than girls' lives. After her best friend's brother sells her an "eclipse powder," ...

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