The American Success Company 1980 PG, 94 min. Genre: Comedy aka: American Success Success Good as Gold
Director: William Richert Cast: Jeff Bridges, Belinda Bauer, Ned Beatty, Steven Keats, Bianca Jagger, John Glover, Mascha Gonska, Michael Durrell, Eva Maria Meineke, Gunter Meisner
In this offbeat satire on big business, Harry (Jeff Bridges) is a low-level corporate loser who decides to get even with the "system," including his rich corporate in-laws. The film was re-edited and rereleased twice under the titles of "American Success" and "Success."
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Flashdance 1983 R, 95 min. Genre: Musical / Drama / Romance
Director: Adrian Lyne Cast: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Belinda Bauer, Sunny Johnson, Kyle T. Heffner, Lee Ving, Cynthia Rhodes, Ron Karabatsos, Malcolm Danare, Philip Bruns, Micole Mercurio, Lucy Lee Flippin, Don Brockett, Durga McBroom
A Pittsburgh steel worker by day, Alex Owens (Jennifer Beals) is a bar room dancer by night. Her dream is to study dance and, as she dances at the bar room, she dreams of being selected to study at the local ballet company. Her boyfriend is her wealthy boss Nick (Michael Nouri), and he gives Alex financial help toward her goal. Alex does come to terms with her dreams and finds the inner strength to turn them into reality. The music makes the movie, and "Flashdance...What a Feeling" won the Academy Award for Best Song.
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RoboCop 2 1990 R, 117 min. Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Drama / Thriller
Director: Irvin Kershner Cast: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Tom Noonan, Dan O'Herlihy, Willard E. Pugh, Belinda Bauer, Felton Perry, Robert DoQui, Gabriel Damon, Patricia Charbonneau, John Glover, Mario Machado, Leeza Gibbons, John Ingle, Roger Aaron Brown
The futuristic cyborg RoboCop (Peter Weller) again fights evil forces but is scheduled by OCP, the company that created Robocop, to be replaced by a more modern model: RoboCop 2. Cain (Tom Noonan) leads a drug ring and plans to get his hands on the drug Nuke and market it to Detroit's citizens. When RoboCop arrests Cain, Cain is injured and OCP designer Faxx (Belinda Bauer) secretly takes Cain's brain and inserts it into RoboCop 2. Now, the battle ensues as RoboCop must wipe out the evil, psychotic RoboCop 2. There is one more sequel.
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The Servants of Twilight 1991 R, 95 min. Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Jeffrey Obrow Cast: Bruce Greenwood, Jarrett Lennon, Belinda Bauer, Grace Zabriskie, Richard Bradford, Carel Struycken, Jack Kehoe, Dale Dye, James Harper, Kelli Maroney
Private detective Charlie (Bruce Greenwood) is hired to protect a boy from the religious cult whose leader thinks the boy is the Antichrist. Based on the Dean R. Koontz book, "Twilight."
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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann 1982 PG, 93 min. Genre: Sci-Fi aka: Timerider
Director: William Dear Cast: Fred Ward, Belinda Bauer, Peter Coyote, Richard Masur, Tracey Walter, Ed Lauter, L.Q. Jones, Chris Mulkey, Macon McCalman, Jonathan Banks
Through the magic of a time machine, Lyle Swann (Fred Ward) is transported to 1875 where he rides his motorcycle in the Mexican desert and meets an assortment of bandits, murderers, and rapists.
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| 1. The American Success Company (1980) aka: American Success aka: Success aka: Good as Gold
2. Flashdance (1983)
3. Poison Ivy 2: Lily (1995)
4. RoboCop 2 (1990)
5. The Rosary Murders (1987)
6. The Servants of Twilight (1991)
7. Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982) aka: Timerider
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