Michael Keaton plays a famous Chicago-based hockey player who befriends trouble-prone teenager Ajay Naidu (after Naidu's gang has tried to mug him!) He also extends the hand of friendship to Naidu's mother Maria Conchita Alonso, a friendship that blossoms into a physical relationship. Too self-centered to make a commitment to Alonso, Keaton tries ...
Colors stars Robert Duvall and Sean Penn as partners on the LAPD's gang crime division. Duvall had hoped to spend more time with his family, but he's pulled back into active service because of a step-up in gang activity. He makes no secret of his contempt for his novice partner Penn, but eventually comes to rely on the younger man as a valuable ...
Blake Edwards comes a cropper in this lunk-headed slapstick homage to Laurel and Hardy, Mack Sennett, and Jerry Lewis. Ted Danson and Howie Mandell play Spence Holden and Dennis Powell, a couple of idiots who find themselves involved with a pack of gangsters. Spence is a two-bit actor who is at a racetrack location with his pal Dennis, when he ...
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story is a made-for-cable adaptation of James Neff's Mobbed Up, a real-life account about Teamster president Jackie Presser. Brian Dennehy plays Presser, who was Jimmy Hoffa's successor as president of the Teamsters. Like Hoffa, Presser was caught between the Mafia, the FBI, and his own ambitions, and the film ...
Premiering at the 2000 New York Independent Film and Video Festival, this low-budget thriller involves a software company's attempts to create the perfect anti-piracy code -- one that ends up coming under suspicion from the U.S. government, in large part because an Israeli programmer helped them devise the technology. Maria Conchita Alonso and ...
In this suspense thriller, Adrianna (Maria Conchita Alonso) is married to the wealthy and successful owner of a major computer company. One day, Adrianna is kidnapped, and the men who have abducted her demand a huge ransom for her safe return. To Adrianna's horror, it soon becomes evident that her husband is not willing to pay the price; Paul ...
Writer-directors Felix Sabroso and Dunia Ayaso made this Spanish comedy-drama with an "inside television" angle. TV host Miranda Vega (Maria Conchita Alonso) heads a variety talk-show format. Confronted with plummeting ratings, she is forced to try a different approach that brings singing hookers, drug addicts, and other no-talents into the studio ...
In this feature-length episode, Mac Shayne is busily trying to prove a pop star innocent of murder charges when he stumbles across a conspiracy to kill an up-and-coming politician. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Robin Williams stars as Vladimir Ivanoff, a Russian sax player working in a circus whose home life with his warm and colorful family does not compensate for his feelings of repression and lost opportunity in his native land. When the circus comes to New York, Williams goes on a shopping trip to Bloomingdale's -- where he suddenly announces his ...
Directed by former Starsky and Hutch TV star Paul Michael Glaser, this post-apocalyptic science fiction yarn satirized American entertainment, mocking pro wrestling, game shows, and law-and-order reality programming. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Ben Richards, a cop in the totalitarian America of 2019, framed for massacring rioting civilians ...
Milcha Sanchez-Scott adapted her own play for this moving and poetic tale of family obsessions directed by Robert M. Young. Edward James Olmos stars as Gallo, the macho head of the Morales family. He has been in prison for the last seven years for murdering a man over a cockfight, but now he is returning home to his family -- his wife Juana (Sonia ...
Blood Ties began life as a 4-hour Italian TV movie. The American version, which premiered December 14, 1986 on the Showtime Cable network, runs 125 minutes, and "runs" is the right word. Brad Davis plays an American naval engineer with familial ties to Sicily. Before he can offer a protest, Davis is sucked into the murderous machinations of the ...
In this drama, a police officer's widow is shocked to discover that her late spouse's pension is too small to support her. In desperation she overcomes her grief and rage at discovering her husband had a mistress and enlists the other woman's aid in convincing the police department to increase the pension's size. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Ray (Richard Grieco) and Annette (Maria Conchita Alonso) are a pair of confidence artists in this complex thriller. Ray and Annette are looking for a big score, and they believe they've found one when they encounter a woman who has inherited a large amount of money following a death in the family. Ray and Annette are cooking up a scheme to get ...
Michael Madsen (Species), Maria Conchita Alonso (Predator 2), and Jeff Fahey (The Lawnmower Man) head the cast of this Canadian thriller tracing the downward spiral of denizens inhabiting Miami's alternative music club scene. Long buried family secrets begin to resurface, triggering violent reactions. Rated R "for language, and for some sexuality, ...
This special effects-heavy science fiction sequel moves the action from the first film's Amazon forest to the urban jungle of L.A. Danny Glover stars as Lt. Mike Harrigan, an LAPD detective baffled by his latest case, the ritualistic slaughter of several drug dealers by a devastating killer who leaves no traces. As Harrigan and his partners, Danny ...
One of Hollywood's most acclaimed Westerns gets a new interpretation in this made-for-TV remake of Fred Zinnemann's 1952 classic. Will Kane (Tom Skerritt), the marshal of the frontier town of Hadleyville, is stepping down to marry his sweetheart Amy (Susanna Thompson) and move on to a less demanding occupation. However, on the day of his wedding, ...
Stripped of their wealth and forced to fend for themselves when the multi-million-dollar cosmetics company inherited from their father suffers due to controversy, two sisters who have never known the simple life must finally find out how the other half lives in a high-fashion comedy about hard times starring Hilary and Haylie Duff. Ava (Haylie) ...
Modern-day Texas Ranger Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte) was once the best friend of local drug kingpin Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe). At present, however, the only element linking them together is Jack's lover Sarita (Maria Conchita Alonso), Cash's former mistress. When Sarita tires of Jack's Spartan lifestyle, she returns to Cash as a voluntary hostage ...
Written and directed by filmmaker Daphna D. Edwards, this erotic thriller stars Damian Chapa as Jason a reporter who finds himself tangled in a web of intrigue involving sex and murder. After a local judge is found dead, Jason begins investigating the homicide. Meanwhile, he also starts an affair with a photographer. Before long, Jason believes ...
A skateboarder-turned-superhero dedicates his life to fighting the forces of evil in an animated adventure produced by comic book icon Stan Lee and featuring the voice of That 70s Show star Wilmer Valderrama. All Tony Valdez ever wanted out of life was some smooth concrete and four good wheels to coast on, but then his parents were mysteriously ...
Vampire's Kiss follows the story of yuppie literary agent Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage) as he descends into madness and vampirism. Loew believes he has been bitten by a vampire (Jennifer Beals) and is slowly becoming one himself, despite the contrary opinion of his therapist (Elizabeth Ashley). He then begins to wage a campaign of escalating terror ...
A Colombian soldier (Chick Vennera) working to save U.S. prisoners of war is killed during a bloody coup, so his sister (Maria Conchita Alonso) asks one of the rescuers (Christopher Walken) to avenge his death. The man assembles a team of soldiers to invade Central America and get rid of the evil dictator. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
Love, lust, loyalty, and betrayal are the themes of this tense adult drama. Joe (Edward James Olmos) and Betty (Maria Conchita Alonso) are a married couple living in Jersey City; Joe runs a fish market, and Betty wishes that Joe showed as much interest in her as he does in his business, since she feels the spark has died in their relationship. ...
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