Child's Play 1988  R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Tom Holland
Cast: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, Dinah Manoff, Tommy Swerdlow, Jack Colvin, Neil Giuntoli, Juan Ramirez, Alan Wilder, Richard Baird, Raymond Oliver, Ted Liss, Tyler Hard, Aaron Osborne
Chucky is six-year-old Andy Barclay's (Alex Vincent) new doll; however, Chucky is possessed by the soul of a dead murderer (Brad Dourif), which leads to the terrorization of Andy through Chucky's evil deeds. Murders take place, and when Andy tells people that Chucky did it, no one pays attention. Andy's mother Karen (Catherine Hicks) asks Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon) to investigate. Because Mike is romantically interested in Karen, he agrees even though he does not believe Andy's stories–until Chucky starts to strangle him. Sequels follow.
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Dillinger and Capone 1995  R, 94 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Jon Purdy
Cast: Martin Sheen, F. Murray Abraham, Stephen Davies, Catherine Hicks, Don Stroud, Jeffrey Combs, Bert Remsen, Michael C. Gwynne, Clint Howard, Sasha Jenson
To make this film work you must assume that it really wasn't John Dillinger (Martin Sheen) who was shot outside the Biograph Theater, but rather his brother. Then, it makes sense that when Al Capone (F. Murray Abraham) is released from prison several years later and wants someone to recover the millions he has stashed away in the bank, he would turn to John. Of course Capone holds Dillinger's family hostage to ensure the heist is carried out.
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Eight Days a Week 1997 R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Davis
Cast: Keri Russell, Josh Schaefer, R.D. Robb, Mark L. Taylor, Marcia Shapiro, Johnny Green, Buck Kartalian, Catherine Hicks, Darleen Carr, Biff Manard
Young Peter (Joshua Schaefer) is obsessed with his neighbor, Erica (Keri Russell), and goes to extremes to win her heart in this coming-of-age comedy.
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 Fever Pitch 1985  R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Catherine Hicks, Giancarlo Giannini, Bridgette Andersen, Chad Everett, John Saxon, Hank Greenspun, William Smith, Keith Hefner, Rafael Campos
Sports columnist Taggart (Ryan O'Neal) writes an expose on the gambling world and, in the process of his investigation, develops gambling fever himself.
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Garbo Talks 1984 PG-13, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks, Steven Hill, Howard Da Silva, Dorothy Loudon, Hermione Gingold, Harvey Fierstein, Richard B. Shull
Estelle Rolphe (Anne Bancroft) is dying, and her last wish is to meet Greta Garbo. Her son Gilbert (Ron Silver) is determined to grant his mother's request.
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Liebestraum 1991 R, 109 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Kevin Anderson, Pamela Gidley, Bill Pullman, Kim Novak, Graham Beckel, Zach Grenier, Thomas Kopache, Taina Elg, Max Perlich, Catherine Hicks
Nick (Kevin Anderson) is called back to his hometown by his dying mother (Kim Novak). Thus begins the story of an old scandal, his own affair with his boyhood friend's wife, and other brooding moments. While director Figgis does his usual great job of presenting his story beautifully, the story itself is not all that good in this instance.
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Like Father, Like Son 1987  PG-13, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Rod Daniel
Cast: Dudley Moore, Kirk Cameron, Margaret Colin, Catherine Hicks, Patrick O'Neal, Sean Astin, Camille Cooper, Micah Grant, David Wohl, Maxine Stuart, Bill Morrison, Skeeter Vaughan, Larry Sellers, Tami David, Michael Horton
A surgeon (Dudley Moore) accidentally places a few drops of an old Indian mind exchange potion into his Bloody Mary. He and his son's (Kirk Cameron) minds are thus exchanged. What then happens is inane as each tries to cope with being in the other's body. Punch lines fail, and so does this film.
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Peggy Sue Got Married 1986  PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Barbara Harris, John Carradine, Maureen O'Sullivan, Leon Ames
Peggy (Kathleen Turner) is a 43-year-old housewife and mother having serious difficulties with her husband (Nicholas Cage) because of his infidelity. She attends her 25th high-school reunion, faints, and wakes up in the past when she was a teenager. With the wisdom of 43 years, she experiences again her trials as a teenager. Kathleen was nominated for an Oscar.
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The Razor's Edge 1984 PG-13, 129 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Byrum
Cast: Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, James Keach, Peter Vaughan, Brian Doyle-Murray, Saeed Jaffrey, Faith Brook, Stephen Davies
W. Somerset Maugham's novel is again brought to the screen in this version of a young veteran (Bill Murray) from World War I searching for some meaning and goodness in his life.
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She's Out of Control 1989 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stan Dragoti
Cast: Tony Danza, Ami Dolenz, Catherine Hicks, Wallace Shawn, Dick O'Neill, Laura Mooney, Derek McGrath, Dana Ashbrook, Matthew Perry, Lance Wilson-White
What do you do when your little girl suddenly grows up and is attractive to boys? Tony Danza plays the dismayed father in this VERY lame comedy.
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Souvenir 1989 R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Geoffrey Reeve
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Catherine Hicks, Michael Lonsdale, Christopher Cazenove, Patrick Bailey, Amelie Pick, Lisa Daniely, Jean Badin
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a German soldier and a French woman fall in love. Now, 43 years later, that soldier (Christopher Plummer) returns to France where he faces the destruction caused by his Nazi forces during the war.
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986  PG, 119 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Cast: Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Jane Wyatt, Catherine Hicks, Brock Peters, Jane Wiedlin, Mark Lenard, Robin Curtis, Robert Ellenstein
Time travel is the theme for this movie where Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) must lead the crew of the Enterprise–Capt. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Scotty (James Doohan), Sulu (George Takei), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), and Chekov (Walter Koenig)–back into the 20th century. The reason for their journey to 1986 San Francisco is that humpback whales are now extinct, and they are needed to translate messages from an unidentified probe. If successful, they will transfer a humpback whale to the 23rd century.
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Turbulence 1997 R, 100 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Robert Butler
Cast: Ray Liotta, Lauren Holly, Brendan Gleeson, Hector Elizondo, Catherine Hicks, Rachel Ticotin, Ben Cross, Jeffrey DeMunn, John Finn, Heidi Kling
So much for a peaceful holiday flight–problems develop on a 747's flight from New York to Los Angeles on Christmas Eve when the Lonely Hearts Killer (Ray Liotta) breaks free from his captors, a storm threatens instant destruction, the pilots are killed, and the flight attendant, Teri Halloran (Lauren Holly) is forced into attempting an emergency landing.
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| 1. Child's Play (1988)
2. Dillinger and Capone (1995)
3. Eight Days a Week (1997)
4. Fever Pitch (1985)
5. Garbo Talks (1984)
6. Laguna Heat (1987)
7. Liebestraum (1991)
8. Like Father, Like Son (1987)
9. Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980)
10. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
11. The Razor's Edge (1984)
12. She's Out of Control (1989)
13. Souvenir (1989)
14. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
15. Turbulence (1997)
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