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, Tony Mohamed, Darlene Mignacco
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, the film doesn't do the story justice.
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Beautiful Joe 2000  R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
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
Down-on-his-luck Joe (Billy Connolly) has a little change in luck when he wins big at the races. But then he meets exotic dancer Hush (Sharon Stone) who is deeply in debt to the bad guys. So, of course, she steals his winnings to pay off her debts, which starts a relationship.
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Blind Horizon 2003 R, 100 min.
Genre: 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
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
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
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
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
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? Sounds a lot like "The Replacements" with the normal cliches in this made-for-TV film.
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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: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Grimm Brothers' Snow White
Director: Michael Cohn
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Monica Keena, Gil Bellows, Taryn Davis, Brian Glover, David Conrad, Anthony Brophy, Frances Cuka, Chris Bauer
The story starts off the way that a fairy tale should, with a beautiful scene being set. The Snow White story, however, has a dark side, and rather than staying with a higher-plane rendition, the movie resorts to gore.
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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
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
14. The Substance of Fire (1997)
15. The Weather Man (2005)
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