David 1997  TV, 190 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Robert Markowitz
Cast: Nathaniel Parker, Jonathan Pryce, Leonard Nimoy, Sheryl Lee, Ben Daniels, Richard Ashcroft, Gideon Turner, Maurice Roeves, Dominic Rowan, Clara Bellar, Franco Nero, Gina Bellman
The biblical story of David (Nathaniel Parker) is told in this made-for-TV film, which captures several of the many adventures of his interesting life–including his encounter with Goliath, becoming King and conquering the Philistines, and his illicit affair with Bathsheba.
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Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist 2005  R, 116 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar, Billy Crawford, Ralph Brown, Israel Aduramo, Julian Wadham, Andrew French, Antonie Kamerling, Eddie Osei
Many years before Father Lankester Merrin saved Regan in "The Exorcist," he had doubted his faith. This story takes place when Father Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard) takes a sabbatical and works on an archaeological dig where he confronts a demon, which turns out to be the same one who will try to take Regan's soul years later.
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Kill the Poor 2006 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alan Taylor
Cast: David Krumholtz, Clara Bellar, Paul Calderon, Jon Budinoff, Heather Burns, Zak Orth, Larry Gilliard Jr., Otto Sanchez, Jaime Tirelli, Fisher Stevens, Cliff Gorman, Damian Young
The time is 1982, and the place is New York City where Joe (David Krumholtz) and his pregnant French wife, Anabelle (Clara Bellar), buy into a tenement building on Avenue E on the city's lower East Side. Their neighbors are pot heads, dealers, and thieves roaming the streets. To make their house a home and protect the property, Joe joins forces with the other tenants who elect him president of the "co-op." Joe is asked to evict long-time squatter Carlos DeJesus (Paul Calderon) who has lived in the building longer than anyone else. But, Joe's attempts at mediation meet with little success.
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The Sleepy Time Gal 2001  R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Christopher Munch
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Martha Plimpton, Nick Stahl, Amy Madigan, Frankie Faison, Carmen Zapata, Peggy Gormley, Seymour Cassel, Molly Price, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Justin Theroux, Clara Bellar
Frances (Jacqueline Bisset) has led a spirited activist life and has even been a popular D.J., known as "Sleepy Time Gal," at a small radio station. Now a freelance writer in San Francisco, she is dying of cancer. She takes a trip to visit an old lover to ask about the daughter, Rebecca (Martha Plimpton), they had given up for adoption. Meanwhile, Rebecca has been searching for her birth mother, and their lives cross when, in the course of the Rebecca's work, she is told about the D.J. called "Sleepy Time Gal." Good performances enhance this film.
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| 1. David (1997)
2. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
3. Kill the Poor (2006)
4. Rendezvous in Paris (1996)
5. The Sleepy Time Gal (2001)
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