End of the Line 1988  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jay Russell
Cast: Wilford Brimley, Levon Helm, Mary Steenburgen, Barbara Barrie, Bob Balaban, Kevin Bacon, Holly Hunter, Clint Howard, Trey Wilson, Bruce McGill
Protesting the closing of a train yard, railroaders Will Haney (Wilford Brimley) and Leo Pickett (Levon Helm) steal a train engine and head for Chicago where they confront railroad owners.
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 Ladder 49 2004  PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Jay Russell
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Robert Patrick, Morris Chestnut, Billy Burke, Balthazar Getty, Tim Guinee, Kevin Chapman, Jay Hernandez
Baltimore probationary firefighter Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) is trapped inside a burning building, and his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy (John Travolta), is trying to save him. Fearing death, Jack reminisces about his life, career, and marriage to Linda (Jacinda Barrett).
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My Dog Skip 2000 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Family / Drama
Director: Jay Russell
Cast: Frankie Muniz, Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Caitlin Wachs, Bradley Coryell, Daylan Honeycutt, Cody Linley, Clint Howard, Harry Connick Jr., Peter Crombie, Mark Beech
Based on Willie Morris' Pulitzer Prize-winning book, this story–set in Yazoo, Mississippi, during 1942–is about shy nine-year-old Willie (Frankie Muniz) who forms a partnership with his new dog, Skip. In this boy-and-his-dog story, the segregated South is observed through young Willie's eyes.
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 Tuck Everlasting 2002 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jay Russell
Cast: Alexis Bledel, William Hurt, Sissy Spacek, Jonathan Jackson, Scott Bairstow, Ben Kingsley, Amy Irving, Victor Garber, Kosha Engler, Richard Pilcher, Elisabeth Shue
A young teen, Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel), runs away into the woods by her home and stumbles upon 17-year-old Jessie Tuck (Jonathan Jackson). When Jessie's brother, Miles (Scott Bairstow), brings Winnie to his home, Winnie meets the Tuck family. It seems that the Tucks, in the middle 1800s, drank from a nearby spring, which proved to be a fountain of youth. Now, in 1914, family members look and feel as they did 80 years ago, and Winnie must decide if she, too, wants immortality.
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The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep 2007 PG, 111 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Jay Russell
Cast: Emily Watson, Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin, David Morrissey, Priyanka Xi, Marshall Napier, Joel Tobeck, Erroll Shand, Brian Cox, Bruce Allpress, Craig Hall, Bill Johnson
While Angus MacMorrow's (Alex Etel) father is off fighting in World War II, Angus walks along the shores of Loch Ness, finds an encrusted object, and brings it home. It turns out that the object is an egg that pops open to reveal a living creature with flippers, horns, and sharp teeth. Angus names it Crusoe. When Angus's mother (Emily Watson) hires a handyman, Lewis Mowbray (Ben Chaplin), Ben shows Lewis Crusoe. Lewis thinks Crusoe is a water horse, and the two take on the task of keeping Crusoe safe. But when Crusoe grows too big, Lewis and Ben release Crusoe into Loch Ness where Ben hopes he can still protect his pet–despite the fact that the British militia believes that Crusoe is a Nazi submarine.
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| 1. End of the Line (1988)
2. Ladder 49 (2004)
3. My Dog Skip (2000)
4. Tuck Everlasting (2002)
5. The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007)
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