Alien Nation 1989  TV, 95 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama
Director: Kenneth Johnson, Harry Longstreet
Cast: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland, Sean Six, Terri Treas, Ron Fassler, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Jeff Marcus, Molly Morgan, Jeff Doucette, Robert Allan Curtis
In this TV version of the 1988 movie, Gary Graham inherits the James Caan role of policeman Matthew Sykes who teams up with an alien (Eric Pierpoint) in near-future Los Angeles. As they learn to accept each other's differences, they go after the drug dealers in L.A.
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Alien Nation: Body and Soul 1995 TV, 87 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Cast: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Terri Treas, Lauren Woodland, Sean Six, Jeff Marcus, Ron Fassler, Jenny Gago, Leon Russom, Pamela Gordon, Tiny Ron, Glenn Morshower
Detective Sykes (Gary Graham) and his alien sidekick (Eric Pierpoint) are back and continue their work in the city of humans and the alien Newcomers. A young girl, part human and part Newcomer, provides a mystery to solve.
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Alien Nation: Dark Horizon 1994 TV, 93 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Cast: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Terri Treas, Lauren Woodland, Sean Six, Jeff Marcus, Ron Fassler, Jenny Gago, Scott Patterson, Michele Lamar Richards, Dana Andersen, Lee Bryant, David Purdham, Nina Foch
In this follow-up to the TV series, the alien "Newcomers" from the planet Tencton and humans coexist in L.A. Meanwhile, the "Purists" have developed a virus to infect them. Detective George Francisco (Eric Pierpoint) who is a Tencton and his partner Matthew Sikes (Gary Graham) investigate. But more problems arise when Ahpossno (Scott Patterson) is sent from Tencton to capture the "Newcomers" and take them back to a world of slavery.
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Alien Nation: Millennium 1996  TV, 90 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Cast: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Terri Treas, Lauren Woodland, Sean Six, Jeff Marcus, Ron Fassler, Jenny Gago
Our friends, the humans and alien Newcomers, are back yet again. It is now 1999 and as the end of the millennium approaches, it affects people in different ways.
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Alien Nation: The Enemy Within 1996 TV, 95 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Cast: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Joe Lando, Terri Treas, Michele Scarabelli, Kerrie Keane, Jeff Marcus, Dana Reed, Sean Six, Lauren Woodland
This made-for-TV film, based on the 1989 flick and a subsequent TV series, follows our hero-detectives–earthling Mike (Gary Graham) and alien Newcomer George (Eric Pierpoint). After the death of a Newcomer, the alien caste system is revealed as George isn't interested in finding the killer of a low-caste man.
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Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy 1997 TV, 95 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Cast: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Terri Treas, Lauren Woodland, Sean Six, Jeff Marcus, Ron Fassler, Jenny Gago, Peggy McCay
The detective duo–earthling Matt (Gary Graham) and alien Newcomer George (Eric Pierpoint)–is back; this time they are investigating Newcomers programmed to perform peoples' dirty work.
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 Forever Young 1992 PG, 138 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Romance
Director: Steve Miner
Cast: Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, Isabel Glasser, George Wendt, Nicolas Surovy, David Marshall Grant, Robert Hy Gorman, Joe Morton, Art LaFleur, Millie Slavin, Veronica Lauren, Michael A. Goorjian, Eric Pierpoint, Walton Goggins
Daniel (Mel Gibson) is a test pilot who is cryogenically frozen in 1939 as part of a military experiment. David volunteers for the experiment so that he will not have to deal with his girlfriend Helen (Isabel Glasser) being in a coma. He wakes up in 1992 when young Nat (Elijah Wood) and Felix (Robert Hy Gorman) find the freezing unit while playing at an abandoned warehouse once run by the military. When David thaws out, the boys take him home where their mother Claire (Jamie Lee Curtis) takes care of him and helps him adjust to the modern world. Their friendship grows into love–until David learns that Helen is still alive.
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Invaders from Mars 1986  PG, 100 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cast: Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman, James Karen, Bud Cort, Louise Fletcher, Eric Pierpoint, Jimmy Hunt, Dale Dye
This remake of the 1953 film is a near disaster. The only interesting comment is that the boy in the earlier film is now the police chief (Jimmy Hunt). A boy (Black's real-life son) sees an alien landing in his back yard, and then sees the townsfolk get taken over. Watch the earlier version.
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Liar Liar 1997  PG-13, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Tom Shadyac
Cast: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper, Cary Elwes, Anne Haney, Jennifer Tilly, Jason Bernard, Swoosie Kurtz, Amanda Donohoe, Mitch Ryan, Marianne Muellerleile, Christopher Mayer, Eric Pierpoint, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Cheri Oteri
A yuppie lawyer, Fletcher Reede (Jim Carrey), has a great career but is newly divorced from his wife, Audrey Reede (Maura Tierney). When their five-year-old son, Max (Justin Cooper), makes a birthday wish that his father will not tell another lie, Fletcher must go 24 hours without telling any falsehoods. Will he survive the ordeal?
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The Movie Hero 2003  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Brad T. Gottfred
Cast: Jeremy Sisto, Dina Meyer, Peter Stormare, Brian J. White, Carlos Jacott, Frances Bay, Alexis Arquette, Reedy Gibbs, Robert Sutton, Marcia Strassman, Eric Pierpoint, Aviva Gale
Blake Gardner (Jeremy Sisto) constantly addresses his "audience" and lives his life as if he is on stage in a movie awaiting the happy ending.
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Steel 1997  PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Cast: Shaquille O'Neal, Annabeth Gish, Judd Nelson, Richard Roundtree, Irma P. Hall, Ray J, Charles Napier, Kerrie Keane, Eric Pierpoint, Tembi Locke
John Henry Irons (Shaquille O'Neal) was once a designer of military weapons. Now those same weapons are being used by gangs, terrorists, and neo-Nazis. The weapons designer makes use of his Uncle Joe's (Richard Roundtree) junkyard; becomes a real man of "steel"; and, as a superhero, comes to the rescue.
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Where Truth Lies 1996 R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: William H. Molina
Cast: John Savage, Kim Cattrall, Malcolm McDowell, Candice Daly, Eric Pierpoint, Sam J. Jones, Denis Forest, David St. James, Timothy Patrick Quill, Rance Howard, Barry Lee Pearl, Jean Speegle Howard
Now here's a bizarre film. A psychiatrist, Dr. Ian Lazarre (John Savage), sinks into depression and drinking after his wife's death in an alcohol-related car accident, though he has remarried to a woman who looks just like his dead wife. He is talked into going to a rehab center that specializes in using experimental drugs. But the head of the institution, Dr. Renquist (Malcolm McDowell), is out to get Ian; in fact, Renquist murdered Ian's first wife–and staged the car accident–out of jealousy and now intends to take care of Ian.
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| 1. Alien Nation (1989)
2. Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995)
3. Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994)
4. Alien Nation: Millennium (1996)
5. Alien Nation: The Enemy Within (1996)
6. Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997)
7. Forever Young (1992)
8. Invaders from Mars (1986)
9. Liar Liar (1997)
10. The Movie Hero (2003)
11. Steel (1997)
12. Where Truth Lies (1996)
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