Blood Bath 1976  PG, 86 min.
Genre: Horror
Director: Joel M. Reed
Cast: Harve Presnell, Doris Roberts, P.J. Soles, Jack Somack, Jerry Lacy, Curt Dawson, Stefan Schnabel, Norman Bush, William Chen, Deborah Loomis, Rene Enriquez
Four spooky tales compose this anthology told around the dinner table by actors and actresses resting after a day of filming a horror film.
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A Bright Shining Lie 1998  R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Terry George
Cast: Bill Paxton, Amy Madigan, Vivian Wu, Donal Logue, Eric Bogosian, Kurtwood Smith, Robert John Burke, James Rebhorn, Ed Lauter, Harve Presnell
Based on Neil Sheehan's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, this film remains faithful to the original true story of a morally defunct Army lieutenant colonel, John Paul Vann (Bill Paxton), who comes face-to-face with the sham of America's involvement in Vietnam.
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Escanaba in da Moonlight 2001 PG-13, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jeff Daniels
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Harve Presnell, Wayne David Parker, Joey Albright, Randall Godwin, Kimberly Norris Guerrero, Sandy Birch, Jim Porterfield
Now here's a goofy film about a goofy family in a goofy locale. Folks in Escanaba, Michigan, are proud to be Yoopers (residents of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan), and the Soady family represents the people who live for the deer-hunting season. But Rueben (Jeff Daniels), now in his forties, hasn't ever bagged one deer and is ridiculed by all. A new season dawns as the Soady men head to the cabin and their fun, with Rueben convinced he can change his luck. And the weird events unfold.
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Evan Almighty 2007 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Tom Shadyac
Cast: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman, Johnny Simmons, Graham Phillips, Jimmy Bennett, Wanda Sykes, John Michael Higgins, Jonah Hill, Molly Shannon, Harve Presnell, Arden Myrin, Brian Howe
In this sequel to "Bruce Almighty" (2003), Steve Carell is back in his role of Evan Baxter who is now a newly elected U.S. Congressman. Evan, his wife Joan (Lauren Graham), and sons (Johnny Simmons, Graham Phillips, and Jimmy Bennett) move to suburban Virginia into the neighborhood of Prestige Crest and settle into the Beltway life. In his congressional campaign, Evan had promised to "change the world," and now God (Morgan Freeman) enters his life and asks him to follow up on his promise. God gives Evan a copy of the book "Ark Building for Dummies" and commands him to build an ark. Evan ignores the challenge, but when God provides him with an overnight growth of beard that he cannot shave off and a myriad of paired animals, Evan becomes convinced and gathers his sons around him to help build that ark.
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Everything That Rises 1998   TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dennis Quaid
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Mare Winningham, Harve Presnell, Meat Loaf, Ryan Merriman, Bruce McGill, Denise Durham, Gwyn Ganjean, Jack Lilley, Brace Williams
Rancher Jim's (Dennis Quaid) son Nathan (Ryan Merriman) is paralyzed as a result of a truck crash, and now the family rallies around making personal sacrifices to help Nathan get on with his life. 1 User Review
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 Face/Off 1997  R, 138 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: John Woo
Cast: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain, Nick Cassavetes, Harve Presnell, CCH Pounder, Colm Feore, John Carroll Lynch, Robert Wisdom, Matt Ross, Margaret Cho, James Denton
As the means of getting information about a time bomb that terrorist Castor Troy (Nicholas Cage) has planted to destroy Los Angeles, FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) undergoes surgery to take on the appearance of Castor who is presumed dead. He believes this will give him the means of getting information from Troy's brother Pollux (Alessandro Nivola) about the time bomb. However, it turns out that Troy is merely in a coma, and when he recovers he turns the tables and assumes the identity of Archer–now, the fight to the finish is on.
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The Family Man 2000 PG-13, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Brett Ratner
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Tea Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven, Saul Rubinek, Josef Sommer, Makenzie Vega, Lisa Thornhill, Harve Presnell, Mary Beth Hurt, Jake and Ryan Milkovich, Amber Valletta, Francine York, Ruth Williamson, Robert Downey Sr.
A Wall Street investment broker, bachelor Jack Campbell (Nicholas Cage), wakes up one day to find that he has a wife, Kate (Tea Leoni), and family. This is the life he would have lived if he had married Kate back in their college days when Kate was his sweetheart. Gradually, Jack realizes that not only is his old life as the free-living bachelor over but he now has the opportunity to enjoy a more fulfilling personal life than he has ever known.
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 Fargo 1996  R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Joel Coen
Cast: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, Peter Stormare, Steve Reevis, Kristin Rudrud, John Carroll Lynch, Tony Denman, Gary Houston, Warren Keith, Larry Brandenburg, Bruce Bohne
This film by Joel and Ethan Coen is based on actual events that took place in Fargo, ND. Car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) plots to have his wife (Kristin Rudrud) kidnapped so he can collect the ransom from his wealthy father-in-law (Harve Presnell). Frances McDormand won an Oscar as Best Actress for her role as the pregnant policewoman. An Oscar also went to the Coens for Writing, and five other nominations were received, including Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor (William H. Macy).
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Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot 2001 TV, 170 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Kennedy Women
Director: Larry Shaw
Cast: Jill Hennessy, Lauren Holly, Leslie Stefanson, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Robert Knepper, Matt Letscher, Harve Presnell, Charmion King, Joy Tanner, Karl Pruner, David Eisner, Thom Christopher
In this TV miniseries, the story begins in the 1950s and follows events in the lives of the Kennedy women–Jackie (Jill Hennessy), Ethel (Lauren Holly), and Joan (Leslie Stefanson)–through marriages, politics, and widowhood and divorce.
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Julian Po 1997  PG-13, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alan Wade
Cast: Christian Slater, Robin Tunney, Michael Parks, Cherry Jones, Frankie Faison, Harve Presnell, Bruce Bohne, Roy Cooper, Zeljko Ivanek, Allison Janney
Julian Po's (Christian Slater) car breaks down outside a depressing, small town, so he has no choice but to clutch his suitcase and head for the town. As a stranger, Julian is regarded with suspicion–until he reveals that he is planning suicide. This knowledge spurs the townsfolk into action as players in their roles during the last days of Julian's life.
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Mr. Deeds 2002 PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Steven Brill
Cast: Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Jared Harris, Peter Gallagher, Allen Covert, Roark Critchlow, Peter Dante, Conchata Ferrell, Gideon Jacobs, Erick Avari, Harve Presnell, Blake Clark, J.B. Smoove
After small-town pizza shop owner Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler) inherits a $40 billion media conglomerate, he heads for New York to do business. Once there, he finds himself the object of prey by greedy stockholders and becomes the subject for tabloid journalists–especially Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder) who poses as a school nurse to obtain information that will give her the scoop on Deeds. But, in the process, Babe ends up falling in love with Deeds who is equally smitten with her. This is an updated version of Frank Capra's award-winning 1936 classic, "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town."
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 Old School 2003 R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Todd Phillips
Cast: Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Jeremy Piven, Ellen Pompeo, Juliette Lewis, Leah Remini, Craig Kilborn, Perrey Reeves, Seann William Scott, Harve Presnell, Elisha Cuthbert, Matt Walsh, Artie Lange, Sara Fischler
Mitch, Frank, and Beanie (Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, and Vince Vaughn) decide their problems in life can be alleviated if only they could recapture their youth. The solution: start a college fraternity and begin recruiting anyone who wants to pledge–young, old, student, or non-student. Remember "Animal House?" Here we go again.
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Paint Your Wagon 1969  PG, 166 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance / Western
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, Jean Seberg, John Mitchum, Harve Presnell, Ray Walston, Alan Dexter, William O'Connell, Benny Baker, Alan Baxter, Tom Ligon, Paula Trueman, Robert Eastman, Geoffrey Norman, Terry Jenkins
The loneliness of gold mining in the Sierras abates for prospector Pardner (Clint Eastwood) when his cohort, Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin), agrees to share his wife Elizabeth (Jean Seberg). They live in the town of No Name where Elizabeth is the only woman, and now Ben worries about the other men being interested in her. His solution: kidnap a stagecoach filled with prostitutes. He opens a brothel, and business booms. Ben later gets involved with Mad Jack Duncan (Ray Walston) in creative mining under the town's buildings looking for golddust falling through the floorboards. Not a good idea–the town collapses, and everyone moves on. But, Pardner and Elizabeth remain and try to work out their problems. Lerner and Lowe songs intertwine with the action and include "I Talk to the Trees," "They Call the Wind Mariah," and "Wand'rin Star."
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Patch Adams 1998 PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Tom Shadyac
Cast: Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Josef Sommer, Irma P. Hall, Harve Presnell, Frances Lee McCain, Peter Coyote, Daniella Kuhn, Harold Gould, Michael Jeter, James Greene, Bruce Bohne
Robin Williams performs well as the real-life West Virginia physician, "Patch" Adams, an ex-mental patient who is now in medical school. Patch uses humor to challenge both the medical establishment and fellow students to become more personal in their relationships with patients. Based on a true story.
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Super Sucker 2002 R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jeff Daniels
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Harve Presnell, Matt Letscher, Dawn Wells, Suzi Regan, Michelle Mountain, Sandra Birch, Guy Sanville, John Seibert, Will Young
Vacuum cleaner salesmen Fred (Jeff Daniels) and Winslow (Harve Presnell) compete in a contest to see who can sell the most vacuum cleaners in 30 days.
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown 1964 N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Ed Begley, Hermione Baddeley, Harve Presnell, Jack Kruschen, Martita Hunt, Harvey Lembeck, Kathryn Card, Hayden Rorke, Harry Holcombe
A very determined young woman, Molly Brown (Debbie Reynolds), survives tragedies while moving West and later escapes drowning while sailing on the Titanic. In the end, she finds love and monumental wealth in Denver. Debbie Reynolds was nominated for an Oscar, which was one of six nominations for the film.
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When the Boys Meet the Girls 1965 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Cast: Sue Ane Langdon, Louis Armstrong, Liberace, Frank Faylen, Harve Presnell, Fred Clark, Connie Francis, Stanley Adams, Joby Baker, Russell Collins
A financially troubled college is saved through the efforts of its students in this over-long film used to show off studio talent.
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 The Whole Wide World 1996 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Dan Ireland
Cast: Vincent D'Onofrio, Renee Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Benjamin Mouton, Chris Shearer, Harve Presnell, Michael Corbett, Helen Cates, Marion Eaton, Leslie Berger, Libby Villari, Dell Aldrich, Elzabeth D'Onofrio, Antonia Bogdanovich, Sandy Walper
This film–based on retired schoolteacher Novalyne Price Ellis' memoirs, "One Who Walked Alone"–tells the story of her youthful 1930s' romance with pulp writer Robert E. Howard. Seen through Novalyne's (Renee Zellweger) eyes, this is a sympathetic story of Howard (Vincent D'Onofrio) who comes equipped with too much emotional baggage to carry on a love affair. What Novalyne and Robert DO have is a common love of writing, but that alone cannot keep them together.
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| 1. Blood Bath (1976)
2. A Bright Shining Lie (1998)
3. Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001)
4. Evan Almighty (2007)
5. Everything That Rises (1998)
6. Face/Off (1997)
7. The Family Man (2000)
8. Fargo (1996)
9. The Glory Guys (1965)
10. Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot (2001)
aka: Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Kennedy Women
11. Julian Po (1997)
12. Mr. Deeds (2002)
13. Old School (2003)
14. Paint Your Wagon (1969)
15. Patch Adams (1998)
16. Super Sucker (2002)
17. The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
18. When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965)
19. The Whole Wide World (1996)
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