The Alibi 2006  R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
aka: Lies and Alibis
Lies & Alibis
Director: Matt Checkowski, Kurt Mattila
Cast: Steve Coogan, Rebecca Romijn, Selma Blair, James Brolin, Sam Elliott, Jaime King, John Leguizamo, James Marsden, Debi Mazar, Henry Rollins, Deborah Kara Unger, Jerry O'Connell, Jon Polito, Allan Rich, Sharon Lawrence
While running a prosperous alibi service for cheating husbands, Ray Elliot (Steve Coogan) hires a new assistant, Lola (Rebecca Romijn). Now, Ray must rely on Lola to clear his name and even save his life when he is implicated in the murder committed by Wendell (James Marsden) who is the spoiled son of Ray's high-profile client, Robert Hatch (James Brolin).
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Body Shots 1999  R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Cristofer
Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery, Jerry O'Connell, Amanda Peet, Tara Reid, Ron Livingston, Emily Procter, Brad Rowe, Sybil Temchen, Larry Joshua, Adina Porter
Dating practices among eight shallow, young L.A. professionals are revealed in this tasteless rendition of modern-day sexual encounters.
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Can't Hardly Wait 1998  PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan
Cast: Ethan Embry, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Peter Facinelli, Seth Green, Lauren Ambrose, Jerry O'Connell, Melissa Joan Hart, Jenna Elfman, Charlie Korsmo, Amber Benson, Alexander Martin, Sean Patrick Thomas, Jay Paulson, Brian Hall, Jaime Pressly
The last party at the end of Huntington Hills High School is eagerly anticipated by seniors who see it as their final hurrah. The night turns into one long drunken fling filled with romantic confrontations and "deep" conversations.
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 Jerry Maguire 1996  R, 138 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renee Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jerry O'Connell, Jay Mohr, Bonnie Hunt, Regina King, Jonathan Lipnicki, Todd Louiso, Mark Pellington, Jeremy Suarez, Susan Norfleet, Jared Jussim, Benjamin Kimball Smith
Sports agent Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) suddenly loses his job and his friends. The film's plot is about how he stumbles into a new life and finds that there is room for decency in his new lifestyle. Cuba Gooding Jr. won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in his role as the football star, and the film received four nominations, including Best Picture and Actor (Cruise).
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Joe's Apartment 1996  PG-13, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Payson
Cast: Jerry O'Connell, Megan Ward, Robert Vaughn, Don Ho, Jim Turner, Sandra "Pepa" Denton, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Billy West, David Huddleston, Reginald Hudlin
A young Iowan (Jerry O'Connell) moves to New York and settles into a rent-controlled apartment. The apartment is infested with cockroaches, but these roaches are a bit different–they sing and dance and become Joe's friends.
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Kangaroo Jack 2003 PG, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David McNally
Cast: Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Estella Warren, Christopher Walken, Dyan Cannon, Michael Shannon, Marton Csokas, Bill Hunter, David Ngoombujarra, Mark Sellitto
Mob boss Sal Maggio (Christopher Walken) sends stepson Charlie (Jerry O'Connell) and Charlie's friend, Louis (Anthony Anderson), to Australia with a package containing $100,000 to be delivered to "Mr. Smith." Along the way, a kangaroo absconds with the money, and the chase is on.
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Mission to Mars 2000 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell, Kim Delaney, Elise Neal, Jill Teed, Peter Outerbridge, Kavan Smith, Robert Bailey Jr., Marilyn Norry, Freda Perry, Lynda Boyd, Patricia Harras
Commander Luke Graham (Don Cheadle) leads a manned mission to Mars in the year 2020. They encounter a suspicious structure, and then a catastrophe occurs that kills three of the four crewmembers, leaving Graham as the sole survivor. Jim McConnell (Gary Sinise) leads his crew–(Tim Robbins, Connie Nielsen, and Jerry O'Connell)–on a rescue mission, and they find Graham still alive. Now they must figure out what to do.
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Obsessed 2009 PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Steve Shill
Cast: Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles, Ali Larter, Jerry O'Connell, Christine Lahti, Bonnie Perlman, Nathan&Nicolas Meyers, Scout Taylor-Compton, Bruce McGill, Richard Ruccolo, Bryan Ross, Nelson Mashita, Ron Rogge, Matthew Humphreys, Dana Cuomo
Derek Charles (Idris Elba) is successful in business and is happily married to Sharon (Beyonce Knowles). They are enjoying their infant son Kyle (Nathan and Nicolas Myers). Then, office temp Lisa (Ali Larter) reports for work at the office and flirts with Derek. The flirting turns from harmless play to dangerous stalking, which leads Derek and Sharon to use desperate measures to defend Derek's honor and to protect themselves from Lisa's potentially deadly activities.
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The Room Upstairs 1987 TV, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stuart Margolin
Cast: Stockard Channing, Sam Waterston, Linda Hunt, Joan Allen, Clancy Brown, Sarah Jessica Parker, James Handy, Jerry O'Connell, De'voreaux White, Renee Estevez
Lonely Leah (Stockard Channing) teaches special needs children and rents rooms in her family house to make ends meet. A simple story of Leah and her boarders, including Cellist Travis (Sam Waterston) who may end her loneliness. Made for TV.
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Scream 2 1997 R, 120 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy, Laurie Metcalf, David Warner, Jerry O'Connell, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liev Schreiber, Elise Neal, Timothy Olyphant, Lewis Arquette, Duane Martin, Rebecca Gayheart
Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), after surviving her ordeal of mass killings in "Scream" (1996), is now a college co-ed living in Cincinnati. Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) has written a best-selling book based on the killings, and the book is made into a movie, "Stab." While watching "Stab" at the local theater, two college students are killed. Sidney suspects that she has not escaped from her life of terror. Gale and Deputy Dewey (David Arquette) investigate and discover that a copy-cat killer is, indeed, recreating the earlier massacres that involve carving up the victims.
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 Stand by Me 1986  R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Kiefer Sutherland, Wil Wheaton, Jerry O'Connell, Richard Dreyfuss, Casey Siemaszko, John Cusack, Bradley Gregg, Marshall Bell
This nostalgic comedy/drama is backed by a great sound track of 1950s' hits. Although the plot of four young boys searching for a corpse sounds ghoulish, the underlying story is really about the innocence of youth in the final days of summer. The story is taken from the Stephen King novel, "The Body".
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Tomcats 2001 R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gregory Poirier
Cast: Jerry O'Connell, Shannon Elizabeth, Jake Busey, Horatio Sanz, Jaime Pressly, Bill Maher, John Patrick White, Bernie Casey, David Ogden Stiers, Travis Fine
Years ago, a group of friends made a bet that the last unmarried man would collect on a mutual fund for which they all pledged cash. Now it is down to two bachelors: Michael (Jerry O'Connell) and Kyle (Jake Busey). Michael just lost a bundle in Las Vegas, and he sees getting Kyle married off as a solution to his financial woes.
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What the Deaf Man Heard 1997 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Kent Harrison
Cast: Matthew Modine, Claire Bloom, Judith Ivey, James Earl Jones, Jerry O'Connell, Bernadette Peters, Tom Skerritt, Anne Bobby, Stephen Spinella, Jake Weber
Sammy (Matthew Modine) was left on a bus headed for Georgia by his mother when Sammy was 10. Since she had told him not to say a word if they were separated, he never spoke. He was taken in and grew up as a handyman, but, true to his mother's admonition, he stayed silent. People in town assumed that he could not hear nor speak, so would confide in him when they needed to talk. Then along comes Archibald (James Earl Jones), the junkman, who learns the truth. Not bad. Made for TV.
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| 1. The Alibi (2006)
aka: Lies and Alibis
aka: Lies & Alibis
2. Body Shots (1999)
3. Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
4. Jerry Maguire (1996)
5. Joe's Apartment (1996)
6. Kangaroo Jack (2003)
7. Mission to Mars (2000)
8. Obsessed (2009)
9. The Room Upstairs (1987)
10. Scream 2 (1997)
11. Stand by Me (1986)
12. Tomcats (2001)
13. What the Deaf Man Heard (1997)
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