Disorderlies 1987  PG, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Schultz
Cast: Mark Morales, Ralph Bellamy, Anthony Geary, Tony Plana, Marco Rodriguez, Troy Beyer, Darren Robinson, Damon Wimbley, Don Hood, Helen Reddy, Lisa Kingston, JoMarie Payton
The dastardly nephew Winslow (Anthony Geary) plots to get the money of his millionaire Uncle Albert (Ralph Bellamy) by murdering him. A bomb.
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An Early Frost 1985  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Erman
Cast: Aidan Quinn, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney, D.W. Moffett, John Glover, Terry O'Quinn, Bill Paxton, Sydney Walsh, Cheryl Anderson, Don Hood, Scott Jaeck
After learning that he has AIDS, Michael Pierson (Aidan Quinn) must deal with his homosexuality and disease. As a successful lawyer, he returns home to face his mother (Gena Rowlands) and father (Ben Gazzara). This film was made for TV in 1985, and it was the first of its kind to deal with the subject of AIDS.
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Fear 1990  R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Rockne S. O'Bannon
Cast: Ally Sheedy, Lauren Hutton, Michael O'Keefe, Dina Merrill, Stan Shaw, Dean Goodman, Pruitt Taylor Vince, John Agar, Keone Young, Jonathan Prince, Don Hood, Marta DuBois
Cayce Bridges (Ally Sheedy) has found fame using her psychic powers to help police crack cases. Now, while working a new case, she discovers that the killer has his own psychic powers and is using them to stalk Cayce.
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Fletch Lives 1989  PG, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Mystery
Director: Michael Ritchie
Cast: Chevy Chase, Julianne Phillips, Hal Holbrook, R. Lee Ermey, Richard Libertini, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Cleavon Little, Richard Belzer, Geoffrey Lewis, George Wyner, Phil Hartman, Patricia Kalember, Titos Vandis, Don Hood, Dennis Burkley
When L.A. investigative reporter "Fletch" Fletcher (Chevy Chase) inherits his aunt's crumbling Southern plantation, he heads to Louisiana where he hooks up with probate lawyer Amanda (Patricia Kalember) who then is found dead in Fletch's bed. Fletch is the prime suspect and now must use his investigative skills to find out what really happened.
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French Quarter 1978  R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dennis Kane
Cast: Virginia Mayo, Bruce Davison, Lindsay Bloom, Alisha Fontaine, Ann Michelle, Vernel Bagneris, Lance LeGault, Stocker Fontelieu, Becky Allen, Anna Filamento, William Simms, Laura Misch Owens, Don Hood, Stanley Reyes, Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Each performer in this film has dual roles: one in modern times and the other in the past. The story begins in the early 1900s in New Orleans' red-light district and then covers the characters' reincarnations many years later. Affected by a voodoo curse, they are all living new lives despite what their futures might hold.
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Lush 1999 R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mark Gibson
Cast: Campbell Scott, Jared Harris, Laura Linney, Laurel Holloman, Nick Offerman, James "Kimo" Wills, James R. Hall Jr., Don Hood, Joseph Chrest, Michael Cahill
Golf pro "Ex" Exley (Campbell Scott) drinks hard and is usually drunk at tee-off time. After a DUI arrest and jail time as a result of attempting to bribe the cop, he heads to New Orleans where he drinks and wanders the streets. He meets F. Firmin Carter (Jared Harris), a suicidal lawyer, who introduces Ex into the high-class, but decadent, crowd. After Firmin changes his will to make Ex his heir, Firmin disappears, and Ex is the likely suspect. Different and offbeat, but amusing.
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Marie 1985 PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Jeff Daniels, Keith Szarabajka, Morgan Freeman, Lisa Banes, Fred Dalton Thompson, Trey Wilson, Leon Rippy, Don Hood, Graham Beckel
Based on Marie Ragghianti's true story, Sissy Spacek stars in the title role of this solid drama about a mother who blows the whistle on her corrupt Tennessee government.
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Mr. Murder 1998 R, 180 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: Dean Koontz's Mr. Murder
Director: Dick Lowry
Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Julie Warner, Bill Smitrovich, Thomas Haden Church, James Coburn, Kaley Cuoco, Brittney Lee Harvey, Don Hood, K Callan, Dan Lauria
Originally a two-part TV miniseries, this is the tale of scientists who set out to rule the world. To further their cause, they intend to create an army of superbeings through cloning, but good-old Marty (Stephen Baldwin) has his blood used for cloning by mistake. Now there are two Martys and the problems begin.
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Obsession 1976 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold, John Lithgow, Sylvia Kuumba Williams, Wanda Blackman, Don Hood, Pat McNamara, Stanley Reyes, Nick Kreiger, Stocker Fontelieu
New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) is haunted by the kidnapping and murder of his wife and daughter. Then, on a visit to Italy, he meets Sandra Portinari (Genevieve Bujold) who eerily resembles his dead wife Elizabeth (also played by Bujold).
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The River 1984 PG-13, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mark Rydell
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, Scott Glenn, Shane Bailey, Becky Jo Lynch, Don Hood, Billy Green Bush, James Tolkan, Jack Starrett, Lisa Sloan
Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. No sooner does the Garver family (Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek) watch the flood waters recede than a land grabber (Scott Glenn) tries to buy their land. The film won a Special Achievement Academy Award for Sound Effects Editing and had four nominations, including Best Actress (Spacek).
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The Toy 1982  PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason, Scott Schwartz, Teresa Ganzel, Ned Beatty, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Annazette Chase, Virginia Capers, Don Hood, Tony King
When Eric Bates (Scott Schwartz) visits his father U.S. Bates (Jackie Gleason), the millionaire takes his lonely son to a department store and offers the precocious boy anything he wants. Eric chooses a store janitor, Jack Brown (Richard Pryor), and takes the man home as his new "toy." But roles reverse as Jack gradually teaches Eric empathy for others and becomes his devoted friend.
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| 1. Disorderlies (1987)
2. An Early Frost (1985)
3. Fear (1990)
4. Fletch Lives (1989)
5. French Quarter (1978)
6. Lush (1999)
7. Marie (1985)
8. Mr. Murder (1998)
aka: Dean Koontz's Mr. Murder
9. Obsession (1976)
10. The River (1984)
11. The Toy (1982)
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