Combat High 1986  TV, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Combat Academy
Director: Neal Israel
Cast: Keith Gordon, Wallace Langham, George Clooney, Dana Hill, Tina Caspary, Danny Nucci, Elya Baskin, Jamie Farr, Sherman Hemsley, Robert Culp, Kevin Haley, Richard Moll, Marc Price
After they are suspended from their high school because of their pranks, teenagers Max (Keith Gordon) and Perry (Wallace Langham) are sent to Kirkland Military Academy where the pranks continue–even bigger than before.
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Cross Creek 1983  PG, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Mary Steenburgen, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill, Rip Torn, Alfre Woodard, Joanna Miles, Ike Eisenmann, Jay O. Sanders, Malcolm McDowell, Cary Guffey, Toni Hudson, Bo Rucker, John Hammond, Tommy Alford, C.T. Wakefield
The Florida backwoods home of "The Yearling" author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen) and her life prior to publishing her first novel are the basis for this story. Rawlings leaves her husband and moves to a Florida orange grove where she begins life anew hoping to find needed peace to write her story. Among her new-found friends are her servant Geechee (Alfre Woodard), her lover Norton (Peter Coyote), and father and daughter Marsh and Ellie Turner (Rip Torn and Dana Hill)–all of whom give her the inspiration to write her novel. The film received four Academy Award nominations including Torn for Best Supporting Actor and Woodard for Best Supporting Actress.
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Fallen Angel 1981  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Michael Lewis
Cast: Dana Hill, Melinda Dillon, Richard Masur, Ronny Cox, David Hayward, Virginia Kiser, Shelby Leverington, Adam Gunn, Ronald G. Joseph, David Rode, Arthur Rosenberg, Sherrie Wills, Ed Call, Tamar Cooper, Elizabeth Cheshire
Jennifer (Dana Hill) is an innocent young girl who is coerced by her softball coach, Howard "Howie" Phillips (Richard Masur) into posing for child pornography. Later, Jennifer finds it impossible to talk to her own mother (Melinda Dillon) who represents a means of saving her from the world of pornography. This was a big TV hit and was nominated for an Emmy.
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National Lampoon's European Vacation 1985  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Drama
aka: European Vacation
Director: Amy Heckerling
Cast: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Hill, Eric Idle, Victor Lanoux, John Astin, Paul Bartel, Mel Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Lively, Didier Pain, Cynthia Szigeti, Malcolm Danare, Kevi Kendall, William Zabka
The Griswold family is back at it again. This time, Clark and Ellen (Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo) and their children Rusty and Audrey (Jason Lively and Dana Hill) compete on a family game show and win a trip to Europe. There is plenty of trouble awaiting them in Europe–from London where Clark must learn to drive a European car, to Paris where their camcorder is stolen, and then on to Germany to meet relatives IF they can find the correct home. All of this culminates in the camcorder thief selling erotic pictures of Ellen and then Ellen being kidnapped by other thieves. By the vacation's end, the Griswold family is very happy to return to American soil.
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 Rover Dangerfield 1991 G, 74 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy
Director: James L. George, Bob Seeley
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Susan Boyd, Ronnie Schell, Ned von Leuck, Shawn Southwick, Dana Hill, Sal Landi, Mel Blanc, Barbara Goodson, Bill Farmer, Tress MacNeille, Danny Mann, Bert Kramer, Lara Cody
Rover (voice of Rodney Dangerfield) is a dog that is also an ex-Las Vegas entertainer. Rover has problems adjusting to life away from the neon lights in this imaginative animated film.
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Shoot the Moon 1982 R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Albert Finney, Diane Keaton, Karen Allen, Peter Weller, Dana Hill, Tracey Gold, George Murdock, Leora Dana, Irving Metzman, Robert Costanzo
A marriage is falling apart, and the couple (Albert Finney and Diane Keaton) agrees to let the husband spend some time with his girlfriend (Karen Allen). This couple just cannot seem to get either marriage or themselves together.
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Silence of the Heart 1984 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Michaels
Cast: Mariette Hartley, Dana Hill, Howard Hesseman, Chad Lowe, Charlie Sheen, Silvana Gallardo, Lynette Mettey, Elizabeth Berridge, Alexandra Powers, Sherilyn Fenn
In this excellent made-for-TV film, a teenager (Chad Lowe) is killed in an auto accident, which appears to be a suicide. How the family and his closest friend cope with this tragedy is revealed.
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Tom and Jerry: The Movie 1992 G, 80 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy / Musical
Director: Phil Roman
Cast: Richard Kind, Dana Hill, Anndi McAfee, Charlotte Rae, Henry Gibson, Rip Taylor, Sydney Lassick, Tony Jay, Michael Bell, Ed Gilbert, David L. Lander, Howard Morris, Tino Insana, Don Messick
Tom and Jerry are just as lovable in this full-length version as they are in their shorter cartoon stories. In this case, Tom and Jerry (voices of Richard Kind and Dana Hill) team up to rescue a young girl from her governess and lawyer.
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| 1. Combat High (1986)
aka: Combat Academy
2. Cross Creek (1983)
3. Fallen Angel (1981)
4. National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
aka: European Vacation
5. Rover Dangerfield (1991)
6. Shoot the Moon (1982)
7. Silence of the Heart (1984)
8. Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)
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