Cast Away 2000  PG-13, 143 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Chris Noth, Lari White, Geoffrey Blake, Jenifer Lewis, David Allen Brooks, Nan Martin, Viveka Davis, Peter Von Berg, Dmitri S. Boudrine, Leonid Citer, Anne Bellamy, Dennis Letts
"I'll be right back," Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) tells girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt). In the next scene, he survives his plane's crash landing and floats to a deserted island. Now, he enters a world with no clocks, no meetings, and no people. It represents the direct opposite of Noland's life as a FedEx executive. If he is to survive, Noland must fend for himself to obtain food, fire, and water. Survive he does, and Tom Hanks excels in carrying the storyline by himself through more than half of the film. Tom Hanks was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award.
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 Contact 1997  PG, 150 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, William Fichtner, David Morse, Angela Bassett, Rob Lowe, Jena Malone, Geoffrey Blake, Sami Chester, Timothy McNeil, Laura Elena Surillo, Max Martini
All of her life, Ellie Arroway has been hoping to receive a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence that will prove there is another world out there. Now, as an adult researcher, Ellie (Jodie Foster) discovers a signal from outer space that gives instructions for building and piloting a space craft as the means for communicating with the aliens. With financial help from multi-millionaire S.F. Hadden (John Hurt), Ellie sets out to contact the message's source. Based on astronomer Carl Sagan's 1985, thought-provoking bestseller.
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Frost/Nixon 2008 R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Rebecca Hall, Toby Jones, Matthew Macfadyen, Oliver Platt, Sam Rockwell, Patty McCormack, Andy Milder, Kate Jennings Grant, Geoffrey Blake, Gabriel Jarret, Jim Meskimen, Clint Howard
This film analyzes events before, during, and after the 1977 television interview of Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) by David Frost (Michael Sheen) during which they dealt with questions about the Watergate scandal that brought down Nixon's presidency. Nixon chose Frost as the man to interview him, and the result, as is demonstrated in this film, was a battle of wits. The film received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Actor (Langella), and Director
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Heaven or Vegas 1997  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gregory C. Haynes
Cast: Richard Grieco, Yasmine Bleeth, Sarah Schaub, Geoffrey Blake, Monica Potter, Andy Romano, Marklen Kennedy, Suzanne Barnes, Christian Martin, Jim Eckland
A gigolo, Navy (Richard Grieco), and a prostitute, Rachel (Yasmine Bleeth), are tired of their Las Vegas casino lifestyle and head for Montana where love–supposedly–conquers all.
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Life Without Dick 2001  PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Bix Skahill
Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Harry Connick Jr., Johnny Knoxville, Teri Garr, Ever Carradine, Craig Ferguson, John Eddins, David Koechner, Michael Hitchcock, Claudia Schiffer, Geoffrey Blake, Brigid Brannagh, David Cross, Jon Sklaroff, Brad Grunberg
Colleen (Sarah Jessica Parker) is not at all happy with boyfriend Dick (Johnny Knoxville), so she hires a hit man, Daniel (Harry Connick Jr.), to kill him. As Colleen gets to know Daniel, she falls in love with him and convinces him to change careers. Daniel likes the idea, but who will help him complete the remaining contracts?
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The Philadelphia Experiment II 1993 PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Stephen Cornwell
Cast: Brad Johnson, Marjean Holden, Gerrit Graham, Cyril O'Reilly, James Green, John Christian Graas, Geoffrey Blake, Lisa Robins, David Wells, Larry Cedar, Hank Stone
Already experienced in time travel, David Herdeg (Brad Johnson) leaves 1993 America, which the Nazis overthrew 50 years before, and travels back to 1943 Japan to prevent the planned bombing of Washington, D.C., and change the course of history.
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Rated X 2000 R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Emilio Estevez
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Rafer Weigel, Tracy Hutson, Megan Ward, Terry O'Quinn, Danielle Brett, Nicole de Boer, Deborah Grover, Peter Bogdanovich, Geoffrey Blake, Dylan McFadyen, Robert Clark, Caterina Scorsone
Brothers Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez portray the Mitchell brothers, Artie and Jim, who, after opening a San Francisco strip club, gained fame and notoriety for their successful porn films. Cocaine addictions would later cause their world to fall down around them.
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Secret Admirer 1985 R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Greenwalt
Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Lori Loughlin, Kelly Preston, Dee Wallace, Cliff De Young, Fred Ward, Leigh Taylor-Young, Casey Siemaszko, Geoffrey Blake, Rodney Pearson
This comedy of errors begins with Michael (C. Thomas Howell) finding an anonymous love letter in his locker on the last day of school. Hoping it is from Deborah (Kelly Preston), on whom he has a crush, he comes up with a scheme to find out, with the help of his (and Deborah's) friend, Toni (Lori Loughlin). Before long, the mix-ups start, with the families involved in the fray. Who REALLY wrote the love note? I'm betting on Toni.
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 The Tracker 1988 TV, 102 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Guillermin
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Mark Moses, Scott Wilson, David Huddleston, John Quade, Geoffrey Blake, Don Swayze, Brynn Thayer, Ernie Lively, Leon Rippy
Noble Adams (Kris Kristofferson) is on the trail of a murdering, religious fanatic (Scott Wilson) in this OK Western.
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The War at Home 1996  R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Emilio Estevez
Cast: Kathy Bates, Martin Sheen, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Emilio Estevez, Carla Gugino, Geoffrey Blake, Corin Nemec, Ann Hearn, Marcus H. Nelson, Penelope Allen
Jeremy (Emilio Estevez) returns home from Vietnam, and no one in his family (Kathy Bates, Martin Sheen, and Kimberly Williams-Paisley) understands the emotional problems he is living with.
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 Young Guns 1988 R, 102 min.
Genre: Western / Drama / Thriller
Director: Christopher Cain
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Palance, Lou Diamond Phillips, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, Terence Stamp, Terry O'Quinn, Brian Keith, Sharon Thomas, Geoffrey Blake, Alice Carter, Patrick Wayne
William H. Bonney/"Billy the Kid" (Emilio Estevez) works as a hired gun "regulator" at John Tunstan's (Terence Stamp) ranch. Along with Billy, Tunstan employs and teaches reading to five other young guns (Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, and Casey Siemaszko). After Tunstan is killed by the henchmen of corrupt land baron Lawrence Murphy (Jack Palance), the "regulators" set off to avenge the murder and begin gunning down those guilty. Their actions lead to the Cavalry and bounty hunters hunting them down–all of which ultimately ends in a shootout.
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| 1. Cast Away (2000)
2. Contact (1997)
3. Frost/Nixon (2008)
4. Heaven or Vegas (1997)
5. Life Without Dick (2001)
6. The Philadelphia Experiment II (1993)
7. Rated X (2000)
8. Secret Admirer (1985)
9. The Tracker (1988)
10. The War at Home (1996)
11. Young Guns (1988)
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