Cannes Man 1996  R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Richard Martini
Cast: Seymour Cassel, Francesco Quinn, Rebecca Broussard, Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper, Treat Williams, Jim Jarmusch, Lara Flynn Boyle, James Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Ann Cusack, Jon Cryer, Gary W. Godstein, Duncan Clark, Therese Kablan
Producer Sy Lerner (Seymour Cassel) makes a bet that he can turn a nobody into the talk of the Cannes Film Festival overnight. New York cab driver Frank Rhinoslavsky (Francesco Quinn) is chosen, and Sy turns him into "Frank Rhino." Almost immediately, celebrities line up to meet the new "Star." Cameo appearances abound in this Troma film.
|  | |
Hiding Out 1987  PG-13, 99 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Bob Giraldi
Cast: Jon Cryer, Keith Coogan, Annabeth Gish, Oliver Cotton, Claude Brooks, Ned Eisenberg, Anne Pitoniak, Tim Quill, John Spencer, Alexandra Auder, Tony Soper, Ned Eisenberg, Marita Geraghty, Steven Small, Johnny Walker
When the mob is looking for Boston stockbroker Andrew Morenski (Jon Cryer), he tries to escape their notice by enrolling as "Max Hauser" in his nephew Patrick's (Keith Coogan) high school, which is located in another state. As he is adjusting to changes since his teenage days, the mob finds Andrew, and a fight in the high school gym ensues.
| | |
Holy Man 1998 PG, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stephen Herek
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum, Kelly Preston, Robert Loggia, Jon Cryer, Eric McCormack, Edie McClurg, Soupy Sales, Tim Powell, Morgan Fairchild
Eddie Murphy plays the title role of a man who, due to a bizarre set of circumstances, ends up recuperating in the home of Ricky Hayman (Jeff Goldblum), an executive at The Good Buy Shopping Network. From there he finds a way to turn Hayman's network into a religious experience as he sells Hayman's "unsellable" products while turning the American viewers on to his way of thinking.
| | |
Hot Shots! 1991  PG-13, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jim Abrahams
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golino, Cary Elwes, Lloyd Bridges, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer, William O'Leary, Kristy Swanson, Bruce A. Young
Lloyd Bridges plays the admiral who has spent a little too much time at sea (his elevator does not go all the way up to his flight deck!). Charlie Sheen takes on the role of a young Navy jet pilot who is trying to overcome his father's reputation for cowardice while flying a bombing mission. This is one VERY funny movie.
| | |
Morgan Stewart's Coming Home 1987 PG-13, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Aaron (as Alan Smithee), Terry Winsor (as Alan Smithee
Cast: Jon Cryer, Lynn Redgrave, Nicholas Pryor, Viveka Davis, Paul Gleason, JD Cullum, Robert Sedgwick, Waweru Njenga, Sudhir Rad, Alan Beck, Brendan O'Meara, Saveli Kramarov, Leeza Vinnichenko, Glenn R. Wilder, Tammy Amerson
Lonely Morgan Stewart (Jon Cryer) is coming home after spending seven years at boarding school. Morgan's parents–Senator Tom Morgan (Nicholas Pryor) and social climbing mother Nancy (Lynn Redgrave)–have not had time to spend with Morgan over the holidays, but Morgan believes that they have now changed their minds. Morgan is hopeful but then disappointed when he learns that the only reason he is home is to fulfill his father's campaign manager Jay Le Soto's (Paul Gleason) ploy to make Tom look like his life is family oriented. Mayhem ensues when Morgan tries to change his family's attitudes and teach his elders some lessons about life.
| | |
No Small Affair 1984 R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Cast: Jon Cryer, Demi Moore, George Wendt, Peter Frechette, Elizabeth Daily, Ann Wedgeworth, Jeffrey Tambor, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Tilly, Hamilton Camp
Awkward teen Charles Cummings (Jon Cryer) has a crush on an "older woman," Laura Victor (Demi Moore), and sets out to promote her rock-singing career as his way to impress her.
| | |
The Pompatus of Love 1996 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Schenkman
Cast: Jon Cryer, Tim Guinee, Adam Oliensis, Adrian Pasdar, Kristen Wilson, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Jennifer Tilly
Four friends, Mark (Jon Cryer), Runyan (Tim Guinee), Josh (Adrian Pasdar), and Phil (Adam Oliensis) meet women and fall in and out of love.
| | |
Pretty in Pink 1986 PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Howard Deutch
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, James Spader, Jim Haynie, Emily Longstreth, Alexa Kenin, Andrew Dice Clay, Kate Vernon, Dweezil Zappa, Margaret Colin, Jamie Anders, Gina Gershon
High-school insecurities are portrayed in this film about Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) from the wrong side of the tracks. She lives with her father (Harry Dean Stanton) and runs around with Iona and Duckie (Annie Potts and Jon Cryer). Andie falls for rich kid Blane McDonnagh (Andrew McCarthy). Blane does ask her to the Senior Prom, but then his friends tease him about his choice for a date.
| | |
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace 1987 PG, 91 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
aka: Superman 4
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Mariel Hemingway, Jon Cryer, Marc McClure, Sam Wanamaker, Jim Broadbent, William Hootkins, Mark Pillow, Damian McLawhorn, Stanley Lebor, Don Fellows, Robert Beatty
Superman (Christopher Reeve) has a quest for world peace. To that end, he addresses the United Nations to announce that he will rid the world of all nuclear weapons. At the same time, the evil Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) has made a clone of Superman, and the clone is ruining Superman's reputation.
| | |
Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... 1998  R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Schenkman
Cast: Jon Cryer, Rick Stear, Rafael Baez, Ione Skye, Frank Whaley, Peter Gerety, Akili Prince, Aesha Waks, Dominic Chianese, Susan Foster, Christina Hernandez, William Wise, Patricia Mauceri
[Full title: "Went to Coney Island on a Mission From God...Be Back by Five"] Daniel (Jon Cryer), Stan (Rick Stear), and Richie (Rafael Baez) were boyhood friends. Now, years later, Dan and Stan get word that Richie, who hasn't been in the picture since high school, is wandering around Coney Island finding shelter under the boardwalk with other homeless souls. With that news, Dan and Stan plan a rescue mission.
| | |
| 1. Cannes Man (1996)
2. Hiding Out (1987)
3. Holy Man (1998)
4. Hot Shots! (1991)
5. Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987)
6. No Small Affair (1984)
7. The Pompatus of Love (1996)
8. Pretty in Pink (1986)
9. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
aka: Superman 4
10. Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... (1998)
In The News
|
