The Assistant 1997 N/R, 105 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Petrie Cast: Gil Bellows, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Joan Plowright, Kate Greenhouse, Jaimz Woolvett, Dick Callahan, Frank Moore, Alon Nashman, Nicholas Van Burek, Darlene Mignacco, Sam Aaron, David Clement, Michael Ricupero, Frank Ruffo, Larry Solway
Jobs are hard to find in the early 1900s, and Frank (Gil Bellows) finds a job working in a Jewish immigrant's store. Frank hooks up with a petty thief who robs the store, and now Frank feels responsible and agrees to help the store owner. In the process, love blossoms. Based on Bernard Malamud's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
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Beautiful Joe 2000 R, 98 min. Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Stephen Metcalfe Cast: Sharon Stone, Billy Connolly, Ian Holm, Gil Bellows, Jurnee Smollett, Dillon Moen, Frank C. Turner, Dann Florek, Ben Derrick, Kwesi Ameyaw, Jaimz Woolvett, Alan C. Peterson, Sheila Paterson, Frank C. Turner, Ben Johnson
Down-on-his-luck Joe (Billy Connolly) is a florist who has learned that he has a brain tumor and that his wife wants out of their marriage. He has a little change in luck when he wins the jackpot at the races. Then, he meets exotic dancer Hush (Sharon Stone) who is deeply in debt to the bad guys. So, she steals his winnings to pay off her debts. But, Joe is in love with Hush, and he gets his money back after talking to the gangsters who believe that he is a syndicate kingpin. When the gangsters learn the truth about him, they set off to find Joe who is now on the run with Hush and her kids.
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Black Day, Blue Night 1995 R, 110 min. Genre: Drama / Action / Adventure
Director: J.S. Cardone Cast: Gil Bellows, Mia Sara, Michelle Forbes, J.T. Walsh, Tim Guinee, F.J. Flynn, John Beck, Norman Patrick Brown, Benjamin Lum, Kellye Nakahara, Michael Holmes, Thomas Redhouse, Caroline Barclay, Kirk Baily, Jack Leal
Rinda Wooley (Michelle Forbes) and Hallie Schrag (Mia Sara) pick up hitchhiker Dodge (Gil Bellows) who could be a murderer, and their search for adventure turns from pure pleasure seeking to dangerous.
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Blind Horizon 2003 R, 100 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Michael Haussman Cast: Val Kilmer, Neve Campbell, Sam Shepard, Noble Willingham, Amy Smart, Gil Bellows, Giancarlo Esposito, Leo Fitzpatrick, Charles Ortiz, Cole S. McKay, Faye Dunaway, Ellen Blake, Trajan Cuevas, Jesus Mayorga, Guadalupe A. Garcia
After waking up in a hospital bed, Frank Kavanaugh (Val Kilmer) suffers from amnesia caused by a gunshot wound. He experiences flashbacks and is convinced that there is a plot to assassinate the President of the United States. Kavanaugh tries to convince local Sheriff Jack Kolb (Sam Shepard) that there could be trouble when the President passes through town later that day. But the sheriff has election plans to deal with and doesn't react as Kavanaugh feels is necessary to prevent disaster.
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Final Days of Planet Earth 2006 TV, 170 min. Genre: Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Horror
Director: Robert Lieberman Cast: Daryl Hannah, Campbell Scott, Gil Bellows, Suleka Mathew, Serge Houde, Beau Starr, Patrick Gilmore, Tygh Runyan, Tina Milo Milivojevic, William MacDonald, Tom Heaton, John Cassini, Mary Black
Strange things are happening in San Francisco, and archaeologist Lloyd Walker (Gil Bellows) and entomologist Marianne Winters (Suleka Mathew) are investigating when they come across an underground colony of insect-like creatures that are planning to enslave mankind. Now Walker finds himself in an all-out effort to save the human race and puts together clues that link the creatures to William Phillips (Campbell Scott) who is the sole survivor of a space mission and is being held captive. Will Walker find Phillips in time to save humanity? And, where exactly does Liz (Daryl Hannah), who is an employee at the mayor's office, really fit into the picture?
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Judas Kiss 1998 R, 98 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez Cast: Simon Baker, Gil Bellows, Carla Gugino, Alan Rickman, Til Schweiger, Emma Thompson, Roscoe Lee Browne, Hal Holbrook, Lisa Eichhorn, Greg Wise
When a no-good couple, Junior Armstrong (Simon Baker) and Coco Chavez (Carla Gugino), put together a plot to kidnap computer mogul Ben Dyson (Greg Wise), they enlist the aid of Lizard Browning (Gil Bellows) and Ruben Rubenbauer (Til Schweiger). But the well-laid plans go awry when Dyson's neighbor–who just happens to be the wife of the powerful Senator Rupert Hornbeck (Hal Holbrook)–is killed by a stray bullet during the kidnapping.
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Love and a .45 1994 R, 100 min. Genre: Drama / Comedy / Thriller
Director: C.M. Talkington Cast: Gil Bellows, Renee Zellweger, Rory Cochrane, Jeffrey Combs, Jace Alexander, Ann Wedgeworth, Peter Fonda, Tammy Le Blanc, Wiley Wiggins, Jack Nance, Charlotte Ross, Scott Roland, Michael Bowen, Todd Conner, Richard Rothenberg
A white-trash couple, Watty (Gil Bellows) and Starlene (Rene Zellweger), are on the lam after Watty's partner Billy Mack (Rory Cochrane) kills a clerk during a robbery. The couple rob banks and have even become cop killers during their flight as the law and two loan sharks follow in pursuit. TV coverage makes the couple popular in this violent, but somewhat fun, film.
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Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature 2001 R, 89 min. Genre: Horror / Thriller / Fantasy aka: She Creature
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez Cast: Rufus Sewell, Carla Gugino, Jim Piddock, Reno Wilson, Mark Aiken, Fintan McKeown, Aubrey Morris, Gil Bellows, Rya Kihlstedt, Hannah Sim, Dan Hildebrand, Preston Maybank, David Nott, Brian Sieve, Jon Sklaroff
Angus (Rufus Sewell) runs a sideshow in 1905 Ireland with his girlfriend, Lillian (Carla Gugino), posing as a mermaid in the show. When they steal a real mermaid and head to America on a ship, Lillian bonds with the mermaid who, in turn, has bad things in store for the ship's crew. Good, eerie flick.
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Miami Rhapsody 1995 PG-13, 95 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: David Frankel Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Antonio Banderas, Gil Bellows, Mia Farrow, Carla Gugino, Paul Mazursky, Kevin Pollak, Jeremy Piven, Mark Blum, Ben Stein
Gwyn (Sarah Jessica Parker) contemplates the virtues of marriage. To her dismay, she finds that not only her parents, but all of her married siblings are having extra-marital affairs, and she wonders if she should tell her fiance "No!"
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Second String 2002 TV, 95 min. Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Robert Lieberman Cast: Gil Bellows, Jon Voight, Teri Polo, Richard T. Jones, George Eads, Charles Malik Whitfield, Shawn Woods, Lamont Johnson, Mike Ditka, Doug Flutie, Evan Parke, Mike O'Shea, Gouchy Boy, Jeff Pustil, Dwight McFee
The Buffalo Bills make it to the playoffs–but not without problems. The entire first-string offensive unit gets food poisoning, and the team must rely on over-the-hill benchwarmers. Will Coach Ditcher (Jon Voight) bring them together and win the games leading to the Super Bowl and then the Super Bowl itself?
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The Shawshank Redemption 1994 R, 142 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Darabont Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Clancy Brown, William Sadler, Gil Bellows, Mark Rolston, James Whitmore, Jeffrey DeMunn, David Proval, Larry Brandenburg, Neil Guintoli, Brian Libby, Joseph Ragno, Jude Ciccolella
Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) has been falsely convicted of murder and sentenced to Shawshank State Prison in Maine. Once there, he learns just how tough prison can be. One shining light in his newfound Hell is Red (Morgan Freeman) who shows Andy how to work the prison system to survive. Set in the 1940s, this film is based on a Stephen King short story. Seven Academy Award nominations were received, including Best Picture and Actor (Morgan Freeman).
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Snow White: A Tale of Terror 1997 R, 100 min. Genre: Fantasy / Horror / Thriller aka: The Grimm Brothers' Snow White Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs of the Black Forest
Director: Michael Cohn Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Monica Keena, Gil Bellows, Taryn Davis, Brian Glover, David Conrad, Anthony Brophy, Frances Cuka, Chris Bauer, Miroslav Taborsky, Andrew Tiernan, Bryan Pringle, Dale Wyatt, Joanna Roth
Lilli (Taryn Davis) was cut from her dying mother's womb, and now, many years later, her father Frederick (Sam Neill) marries Claudia (Sigourney Weaver) who dislikes Lilli. When Claudia becomes pregnant, she loses the baby and decides to get rid of Lilli by having her brother Gustav (Miroslav Taborsky) kill Lilli in the forest. Instead, Gustav kills a pig and tells Claudia that the pig's heart is Lilli's. Claudia believes him, but Frederick goes off to search for Lilli in the forest.
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The Substance of Fire 1997 R, 98 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel J. Sullivan Cast: Ron Rifkin, Timothy Hutton, Tony Goldwyn, Sarah Jessica Parker, Eric Bogosian, Lee Grant, Gil Bellows, Tom McDermott, George Morfogen, Benjamin Ungar, Ron Rifkin, Andrew Pang, Edmund Ikeda, Elizabeth Franz, Ronny Graham
As a young boy, Isaac (Ron Rifkin) stood by watching as Nazis burned books. Today, he is in charge of a N.Y. publishing house and wants to publish a study of atrocities performed by Nazi doctors. The problem is that his grown children see this enterprise as a financial disaster that will prove the undoing of the publishing house. In the midst of family turmoil, Isaac loses his mind, and one is left wondering to what degree the Holocaust was to blame.
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The Weather Man 2005 R, 101 min. Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Gore Verbinski Cast: Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis, Gemmenne de la Pena, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Rispoli, Gil Bellows, Judith McConnell, Chris Marrs, Dina Facklis, Sia A. Moody, DeAnna N.J. Brooks, Guy Van Swearingen, Jackson Bubala, Alejandro Pina
Chicago TV weather man David Spritz's (Nicolas Cage) marriage to Noreen (Hope Davis) has broken up, and his father, Robert (Michael Caine), is dying of Lymphoma. David auditions for a New York City national morning show. Will the change to New York be the answer to pulling his family together and David gaining self-esteem in the future?
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| 1. The Assistant (1997)
2. Beautiful Joe (2000)
3. Black Day, Blue Night (1995)
4. Blind Horizon (2003)
5. Final Days of Planet Earth (2006)
6. Judas Kiss (1998)
7. Love and a .45 (1994)
8. Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature (2001) aka: She Creature
9. Miami Rhapsody (1995)
10. Pursued (2004)
11. Second String (2002)
12. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
13. Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997) aka: The Grimm Brothers' Snow White aka: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs of the Black Forest
14. The Substance of Fire (1997)
15. The Weather Man (2005)
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