An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn 1997  R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alan Smithee
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Coolio, Chuck D., Richard Jeni, Eric Idle, Whoopi Goldberg, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone, Leslie Stefanson, Harvey Weinstein, Sandra Bernhard, Cherie Lunghi, Gavin Palone, Erik King, Nicole Nagel
The title of this film reflects the custom in Hollywood of replacing a director's name with "Alan Smithee" if the director wants his name removed from a film's credits. In this story, the director's (Eric Idle) real name IS Alan Smithee, and more than a few problems ensue when producer James Edmunds (Ryan O'Neal) hires him to direct a movie.
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Beautiful 2000 PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sally Field
Cast: Minnie Driver, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Joey Lauren Adams, Kathleen Turner, Leslie Stefanson, Bridgette Wilson, Kathleen Robertson, Michael McKean, Gary Collins, Linda Hart
Mona (Minnie Driver) is determined to gain fame and fortune via the "Miss American Miss" contest. But first she must pawn off her illegitimate daughter, Vanessa (Hallie Kate Eisenberg), on her friend Ruby (Joey Lauren Adams). When Ruby is sent to jail for a crime she did not commit, Mona is forced to reevaluate her priorities.
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 The Break Up 1998   R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Marcus
Cast: Bridget Fonda, Kiefer Sutherland, Steven Weber, Penelope Ann Miller, Tippi Hedren, Hart Bochner, Brent Briscoe, Sarah DeVincentis, Susan Barnes, Leslie Stefanson, Tom Harrison, Hal Landon Jr., Joe Spano, Jack Shearer, Tommy Townsend
Frank Dade (Hart Bochner) physically abuses his wife, Jimmy (Bridget Fonda), himself, and others as well. But it is not until dead bodies start showing up that Jimmy flees for her life.
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Desert Saints 2002  R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Richard Greenberg
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Melora Walters, Leslie Stefanson, Jamey Sheridan, Rachel Ticotin, Jim Jenkins, Bill Sage, Beth Grant, Donald Sage Mackay, Alan Gelfant
Banks (Kiefer Sutherland) is a hit man who has his own way of conducting business. He picks up a woman to help him with a hit and then kills the woman. On his way to Mexico for his next job, he picks up a drifter (Melora Walters) who just may be more than a match for him.
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Flubber 1997 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Les Mayfield
Cast: Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Wil Wheaton, Raymond J. Barry, Clancy Brown, Ted Levine, Scott Michael Campbell, Edie McClurg, Jodi Benson, Leslie Stefanson, Malcolm Brownson, Benjamin Brock, Dakin Matthews, Zach Zeigler
"Flubber," the green goo invented by Professor Brainard (Robin Williams), gets top billing in this comedy that children AND adults will like for its outstanding special effects. Brainard has been working on his invention "Flubber" (flying rubber), a substance that causes things to bounce in the air. Meanwhile, Brainard has spent so much time on his experiment that he has ignored his fiancee Sara Jean Reynolds (Marcia Gay Harden). Now, gangsters are trying to steal "Flubber." Will Brainard defeat the gangsters, and will he win back Sarah?
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 The General's Daughter 1999 R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Simon West
Cast: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Leslie Stefanson, Daniel von Bargen, Clarence Williams III, James Woods, Peter Weireter, Boyd Kestner
When General Campbell's (James Cromwell) daughter, Elisabeth (Leslie Stefanson), is found brutally murdered on the Army base, Paul Brenner (John Travolta) and Sarah Sunhill (Madeleine Stowe) are assigned to investigate the case.
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 The Hunted 2003  R, 94 min.
Genre: Action
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen, Leslie Stefanson, Jose Zuniga, Ron Canada, Mark Pellegrino, Aaron Brounstein, Carrick O'Quinn, Lonny Chapman, Rex Linn, Eddie Velez
Retired FBI Agent L.T. Bonham (Tommy Lee Jones) agrees to aid FBI Agent Abby Durrell (Connie Nielson) in tracking down a trained assassin (Benicio Del Toro) who is leaving hunters' corpses in his wake. A brutal chase movie.
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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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 The Mirror Has Two Faces 1996  PG-13, 126 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Barbra Streisand
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall, George Segal, Mimi Rogers, Pierce Brosnan, Brenda Vaccaro, Austin Pendleton, Elle Macpherson, Taina Elg, Ali Marsh, Leslie Stefanson, Lucy Avery Brooks, Thomas Hartman, David Kinzie
Society's obsession with beauty is questioned in this love story about dowdy, English Professor Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand) who becomes involved with–and then accepts terms of a platonic marriage to–calculus Professor Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges). The marriage lasts for a while, until Rose wants more. Lauren Bacall was nominated for Best Supporting Actress as Rose's mother, Hannah.
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 Unbreakable 2000 PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Fantasy
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Penn, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard, Eamonn Walker, Leslie Stefanson, Johnny Hiram Jamison, Michaelia Carroll, Bostin Christopher, Elizabeth Lawrence, David Duffield, Laura Regan, Michael Kelly
Nicknamed "Mr. Glass" as a child, Elija Price (Samuel L. Jackson) was born with a rare bone disease that has confined him to a wheelchair. When David Dunn (Bruce Willis) escapes from a train wreck as the sole survivor, Elija contacts him to share his theory of universal balance. Gleaned from the comic books, Elija is convinced that good balances out evil or, in this case, Elija's frailties balance out the super health of David.
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| 1. An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)
2. Beautiful (2000)
3. The Break Up (1998)
4. Desert Saints (2002)
5. Flubber (1997)
6. The General's Daughter (1999)
7. The Hunted (2003)
8. Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot (2001)
aka: Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Kennedy Women
9. The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
10. Unbreakable (2000)
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