El Cortez 2006  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Stephen Purvis
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Bruce Weitz, Glenn Plummer, Tracy Middendorf, James McDaniel, Peter Onorati, Shelley Malil, David Johann, Robin Adair, Kathleen LaGue, Joseph Griffin, Deborah Cresswell, Edoardo Ballerini, Pat Crawford Brown
Manny DeSilva (Lou Diamond Phillips) is an autistic ex-con who, after being released from five years in prison, tries to start a new life as a night clerk at the Reno hotel, El Cortez. Manny makes friends with wheelchair-bound gold prospector Popcorn (Bruce Weitz), and all goes well–until the detective (James McDaniel) who first arrested him arrives on the scene and tells Manny to keep an eye on the comings and goings of drug dealer Jack Clay (Glenn Plummer). When Clay's girlfriend Theda (Tracy Middendorf) gets involved, secrets rise to the fore, and the result is a deadly game of murder.
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 Half Past Dead 2002  PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Don Michael Paul
Cast: Steven Seagal, Morris Chestnut, Ja Rule, Nia Peeples, Kurupt, Tony Plana, Michael Taliferro, Matt Battaglia, Richard Bremmer, Stephen J. Cannell, Claudia Christian, Linda Thorson, Bruce Weitz, Michael McGrady, Hannes Jaenicke
Undercover FBI agent Sascha Petrosevitch (Steven Seagal) and mobster Nicholas (Ja Rule) are imprisoned in the reopened New Alcatraz prison when they foil an extortion plot to force death-row inmate Lester (Bruce Weitz) to reveal where he has stashed $200 million in gold.
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If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium 1987 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bob Sweeney
Cast: Claude Akins, Courteney Cox, Stephen Furst, Anna Maria Horsford, Peter Graves, Richard Moll, Doris Roberts, Lou Jacobi, David Leisure, Bruce Weitz, Faith Ford, Lou Liberatore, Kiel Martin, Tracy Nelson, David Oliver
American tourists embark on a European bus tour in this made-for-TV follow-on of the 1969 film. A wild ride is in store for the tourists as the bus driver, Mo Wyshocki (Claude Akins), sets out to save his daughter Hana (Courteney Cox) from the clutches of a circus performer.
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Joe and Max 2002   PG-13, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Steve James
Cast: Leonard Roberts, Til Schweiger, Peta Wilson, John Toles-Bey, Richard Roundtree, David Paymer, Jurgen Schornagel, Bruce Weitz, Siena Goines, Paul Collins, Daniel Hugh Kelly
Joe Louis (Leonard Roberts) and Max Schmeling (Til Schweiger) were the top heavyweight boxers of the 1930s and 40s, and their rivalry was legendary. But–they were also good friends, and Schmeling, despite being used by Hitler as an example of the superiority of the Aryan race, was against Hitler's regime and worked against the Nazi cause during World War II. This made-for-cable TV entry is the story of the two fighters. 1 User Review
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| | Joe and Max | Anonymous 08/10/2007 | | Excellent! I love this movie! |
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Mixed Blessings 1995 TV, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Danielle Steel's 'Mixed Blessings'
Director: Bethany Rooney
Cast: Gabrielle Carteris, Scott Baio, Bruce Greenwood, James Naughton, Alexandra Paul, Bess Armstrong, Bruce Weitz, Julie Condra, Barbara Tyson, Janne Mortil, Ocean Hellman, Michelle Beaudoin
This film involves three couples who want to start their own families. Brad (James Naughton), who already had a daughter from a previous marriage, deals with his young wife (Bess Armstrong) who wants to start a family of their own. Diana and Andy Douglas (Gabrielle Carteris and Bruce Greenwood) have problems conceiving, and then there's Charles (Scott Baio) who figures out that his wife, Beth (Alexandra Paul), is not ready to be a parent. Based on Danielle Steele's novel.
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| 1. Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981)
2. El Cortez (2006)
3. Half Past Dead (2002)
4. If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium (1987)
5. Joe and Max (2002)
6. Mixed Blessings (1995)
aka: Danielle Steel's 'Mixed Blessings'
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