Amazing Stories: Book 1 1986  PG, 71 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Steven Spielberg, Danny DeVito
Cast: Kevin Costner, Kiefer Sutherland, Christopher Lloyd, Rhea Perlman, Danny DeVito, Casey Siemaszko
Two episodes from the popular TV series are compiled in this home video offering. Steven Spielberg directs "The Mission," in which Kevin Costner is a World War II airplane gunner who is trapped in the turret. Danny DeVito directs "The Wedding Ring," starring his wife, Rhea Perlman. A waitress' husband gives her a ring, which, as it turns out, may not have been a good idea.
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Back to the Future 1985  PG, 116 min.
Genre: Adventure / Sci-Fi
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson, Claudia Wells, Marc McClure, Casey Siemaszko, Billy Zane, Wendie Jo Sperber, George DiCenzo, Frances Lee McCain, James Tolkan, J.J. Cohen
One of the most popular films of the 1980s, this movie is about a boy, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), from 1985 who is transported to 1955 via a time machine built into a DeLorean automobile by eccentric scientist Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). While visiting the past, he discovers that his parents weren't exactly like they say they were and that he could actually change the course of their lives. Great flick.
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Back to the Future Part II 1989  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Thomas F. Wilson, Harry Waters Jr., Charles Fleischer, Elisabeth Shue, Casey Siemaszko, James Tolkan, Joe Flaherty, Billy Zane, J.J. Cohen, Jeffrey Weissman, Ricky Dean Logan, Jason Scott Lee
The sequel starts where the original ends; this time, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) must travel to the future and save his kids from being idiots. He encounters Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), the villain of the last film, who steals the time machine to give his 1955 "other self"' knowledge to build an evil empire based on the outcome of sporting events and therefore change time–and Marty's life.
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The Big Slice 1991  PG, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Bradshaw
Cast: Casey Siemaszko, Leslie Hope, Justin Louis, Kenneth Welsh, Heather Locklear, Nicholas Campbell, Henry Ramer, Bruce McFee, Francois Klanfer, Michael Copeman, Phil Morrison, Philip Akin
Aspiring novelists Mike Sawyer (Casey Siemaszko) and Andy McCafferty (Justin Louis) utilize method writing by taking on the roles and experiences of the characters they write about in their stories. But when they take on the experience of cops and robbers, they find themselves in over their heads.
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Biloxi Blues 1988 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Matt Mulhern, Corey Parker, Casey Siemaszko, Penelope Ann Miller, Park Overall, Markus Flanagan
This is Neil Simon's screen version of his Broadway play and a sequel to "Brighton Beach Memoirs". The talented young actor Matthew Broderick plays a recruit sent to Biloxi, Mississippi, for basic training where he finds a worrisome sergeant, a prostitute, and belligerent fellow soldiers.
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Black Scorpion 1995 R, 92 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi
Director: Jonathan Winfrey
Cast: Joan Severance, Bruce Abbott, Stephen Lee, Terri J. Vaughn, Michael Wiseman, Bradford Tatum, Steven Kravitz, Rick Rossovich, Casey Siemaszko, Garrett Morris, Ashley Peldon, John Sanderford
In this Roger Corman, made-for-TV action film, Joan Severence plays the Batman-like Black Scorpion who battles and kung-fu's her way through the city to find the bad guy who intends to use his drugs and nerve gas to control the world.
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 Bliss 1997 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lance Young
Cast: Craig Sheffer, Sheryl Lee, Terence Stamp, Spalding Gray, Casey Siemaszko, Leigh Taylor-Young, Lois Chiles, Blu Mankuma, Ken Camroux, Molly Parker
A newly married couple, Joseph (Craig Sheffer) and Maria (Sheryl Lee), consult a sex therapist. When psychoanalytic methods fail, Maria heads for the strange Dr. Baltazar Vincenza (Terence Stamp), and Joseph soon follows. This is a very graphic film, which deals openly with the subject of sex.
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Breaking In 1989 R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bill Forsyth
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko, Sheila Kelley, Lorraine Toussaint, Albert Salmi, Harry Carey Jr., Maury Chaykin, Stephen Tobolowsky, Alan Fudge
Burt Reynolds does a great job as a veteran safe-cracker who encounters a young hoodlum while robbing a wealthy home and decides to teach him his art. The two form a partnership of sorts and plan on stealing the Fourth of July take of an amusement park. A clever, well done film.
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 The Chase 1991  PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Casey Siemaszko, Ben Johnson, Ricki Lake, Anthony Tyler Quinn, Barry Corbin, Nada Despotovich, Robert Beltran, Gerry Bamman, Megan Follows, Sheila Kelly, Gailard Sartain, Jimmie F. Skaggs
Based on a true story, this made-for-TV tale concerns a bank robber (Casey Siemaszko) who kills a cop and takes an old man (Ben Johnson) hostage. The high-speed chase was filmed by a TV crew in a helicopter that contributed to the eventual capture.
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Class 1983 R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lewis John Carlino
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Cliff Robertson, Stuart Margolin, John Cusack, Alan Ruck, Virginia Madsen, Casey Siemaszko, Anna Maria Horsford
Naive prep-schooler Skip (Rob Lowe) has an affair with his roommate Jonathan's (Andrew McCarthy) mother, Ellen (Jacqueline Bisset). Problems accelerate when Skip learns of the affair.
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The Crew 2000  PG-13, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Dinner
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya, Seymour Cassel, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jennifer Tilly, Lainie Kazan, Miguel Sandoval, Jeremy Piven, Casey Siemaszko
Four retired mobsters–Joey "Bats" Pistella (Burt Reynolds), Bobby Bartellemeo (Richard Dreyfuss), Mike the Brick (Dan Hedaya), and Tony "The Mouth" Donato (Seymour Cassel)–are living out their days at a Miami hotel. But the hotel is rapidly becoming home to the Yuppie crowd. When the four senior citizens face eviction, they stage a mock murder hoping to scare the up-scale clientele. A problem surfaces: their "corpse" turns out to be the father of a drug lord!
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Limbo 1999 R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Vanessa Martinez, Kris Kristofferson, Casey Siemaszko, Kathryn Grody, Rita Taggart, Leo Burmester, Michael Laskin, Herminio Ramos, Dawn McInturff, Tom Biss, Jimmy MacDonell, Monica Brandner, Merit Carlson-van Dort
Set in the harsh reality of Alaska, this tale is told through a frontier diary and involves three floundering characters: Joe Gastineau (David Strathairn) who long ago was traumatized by an accident while fishing, lounge singer Donna De Angelo (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Donna's angry teenage daughter Noelle (Vanessa Martinez). They are drawn together by circumstances and then are suddenly stranded at the center of a wilderness while Joe tries to hide from a group that wants to kill him.
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Milk Money 1994 PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Benjamin
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Ed Harris, Michael Patrick Carter, Malcolm McDowell, Anne Heche, Casey Siemaszko, Philip Bosco, Brian Christopher, Adam LaVorgna, Kevin Scannell, Jessica Wesson, Amanda Sharkey
Frank (Michael Patrick Carter) and his two buddies pool their money and bike to town to find a prostitute who will strip for them. They are befriended by kind-hearted V (Melanie Griffith), who ends up taking them home after their bikes are stolen. Frank thinks she would be a perfect new wife for his dad, Tom (Ed Harris), who is too preoccupied trying to save the wetlands. She stays in Frank's tree house, unknown to Tom who thinks she is a tutor for Frank. But a crime boss is after V, believing she has run off with the gang's money. Near the bottom of the barrel, jokes and all.
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Mistrial 1996 R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Heywood Gould
Cast: Bill Pullman, Robert Loggia, Blair Underwood, Jon Seda, Josef Sommer, Casey Siemaszko, Leo Burmester, James Rebhorn, Roma Maffia, Kate Burton, Peter MacNeill, Roberta Maxwell
When it looks like accused cop-killer Eddie Rios (Jon Seda) is going to be set free, the arresting policeman, Steve Donahue (Bill Pullman), grabs control of the courtroom and proves Rios' guilt.
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 Napoleon 1995 G, 81 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure
Director: Mario Andreacchio
Cast: Adam Wylie, Bronson Pinchot, Barry Humphries, David Ogden Stiers, Carol Kane, David Argue, Joan Rivers, Steven Vidler, Stuart Pankin, Casey Siemaszko
Muffin is a Golden Retriever puppy that enjoys a cozy life in a Sydney, Australia, home. But he dreams of adventure by joining a pack of wild dogs and thinks of himself as being Napoleon. So, off he goes on his quest. On the way, he meets all sorts of creatures, good and bad, and even achieves his goal. He also learns that there's no place like home. The young ones should love this live-action adventure.
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 Of Mice and Men 1992  PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gary Sinise
Cast: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sherilyn Fenn, John Terry, Richard Riehle, Joe Morton, Noble Willingham, Alexis Arquette, Joe D'Angerio, Tuck Milligan, Mark Boone Junior, David Steen, Moira Harris
This remake of John Steinbeck's novel about California migrant workers during the Great Depression is well worth watching. John Malkovich plays feeble-minded Lennie who is in need of support and protection by his friend George (Gary Sinise). They find work at a ranch in the San Joaquin Valley, but the foreman, Curley (Casey Siemaszko), torments Lennie, and Curley's wife (Sherilyn Fenn) flirts with Lennie–all of which leads to a tragic end.
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Secret Admirer 1985 R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Greenwalt
Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Lori Loughlin, Kelly Preston, Dee Wallace, Cliff De Young, Fred Ward, Leigh Taylor-Young, Casey Siemaszko, Geoffrey Blake, Rodney Pearson
This comedy of errors begins with Michael (C. Thomas Howell) finding an anonymous love letter in his locker on the last day of school. Hoping it is from Deborah (Kelly Preston), on whom he has a crush, he comes up with a scheme to find out, with the help of his (and Deborah's) friend, Toni (Lori Loughlin). Before long, the mix-ups start, with the families involved in the fray. Who REALLY wrote the love note? I'm betting on Toni.
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 Stand by Me 1986 R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Kiefer Sutherland, Wil Wheaton, Jerry O'Connell, Richard Dreyfuss, Casey Siemaszko, John Cusack, Bradley Gregg, Marshall Bell
This nostalgic comedy/drama is backed by a great sound track of 1950s' hits. Although the plot of four young boys searching for a corpse sounds ghoulish, the underlying story is really about the innocence of youth in the final days of summer. The story is taken from the Stephen King novel, "The Body".
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Storm of the Century 1999 TV, 256 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Stephen King's Storm of the Century
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Cast: Tim Daly, Colm Feore, Debrah Farentino, Casey Siemaszko, Jeffrey DeMunn, Julianne Nicholson, Dyllan Christopher, Soo Garay, Becky Ann Baker, Spencer Breslin
The tightly knit community of Little Tall Island, Maine, is hit with a double whammy when a deadly blizzard coincides with the visit from a stranger, Andre Linoge (Colin Feore), who seems to know everyone's dirty little secrets and uses them to create havoc in his wake. Only one resident has the power to bring an end to this nonsense: the part-time sheriff, Mike Anderson (Tim Daly).
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The Taxman 1999 R, 94 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Avi Nesher
Cast: Joe Pantoliano, Wade Dominguez, Elizabeth Berkley, Michael Chiklis, Robert Townsend, Fisher Stevens, Casey Siemaszko, Mike Starr, Vincent J. Mazella, Molly Schulman
A state tax investigator (Joe Pantoliano) is hot on the trail of a tax scam by gas stations. This leads to a bigger problem as he gets close to the Russian Mafia in this Russian inhabited neighborhood in Brooklyn. Not bad.
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 Young Guns 1988 R, 102 min.
Genre: Western / Drama / Thriller
Director: Christopher Cain
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Palance, Lou Diamond Phillips, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, Terence Stamp, Terry O'Quinn, Brian Keith, Sharon Thomas, Geoffrey Blake, Alice Carter, Patrick Wayne
William H. Bonney/"Billy the Kid" (Emilio Estevez) works as a hired gun "regulator" at John Tunstan's (Terence Stamp) ranch. Along with Billy, Tunstan employs and teaches reading to five other young guns (Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, and Casey Siemaszko). After Tunstan is killed by the henchmen of corrupt land baron Lawrence Murphy (Jack Palance), the "regulators" set off to avenge the murder and begin gunning down those guilty. Their actions lead to the Cavalry and bounty hunters hunting them down–all of which ultimately ends in a shootout.
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| 1. Amazing Stories: Book 1 (1986)
2. Back to the Future (1985)
3. Back to the Future Part II (1989)
4. The Big Slice (1991)
5. Biloxi Blues (1988)
6. Black Scorpion (1995)
7. Bliss (1997)
8. Breaking In (1989)
9. The Chase (1991)
10. Class (1983)
11. The Crew (2000)
12. Limbo (1999)
13. Milk Money (1994)
14. Mistrial (1996)
15. Napoleon (1995)
16. Of Mice and Men (1992)
17. Secret Admirer (1985)
18. Stand by Me (1986)
19. Storm of the Century (1999)
aka: Stephen King's Storm of the Century
20. The Taxman (1999)
21. Young Guns (1988)
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