 8 Seconds 1994  PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Eight Seconds to Glory
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Luke Perry, Stephen Baldwin, Red Mitchell, Cynthia Geary, James Rebhorn, Carrie Snodgress, Ronnie Claire Edwards, Linden Ashby, Cameron Finley, Dustin Mayfield
Lane Frost was a champion bull rider who won a rodeo world championship in 1987 at the tender age of 21. This is Frost's (Luke Perry) story, which includes his marriage to Kellie (Cynthia Geary) and his determination to make ends meet without using the money from his wife's family. He died in a rodeo accident in 1989. Not much here except for Luke Perry fans.
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Attention Shoppers 2000  R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Philip Charles MacKenzie
Cast: Nestor Carbonell, Luke Perry, Cara Buono, Kathy Najimy, Martin Mull, Michael Lerner, Carlos Jacott, O-Lan Jones
When Enrique Suarez (Nestor Carbonell), a sitcom actor, agreed to grace the grand opening of a K-Mart store, he entertained high expectations of fans crowding around him asking for autographs. Wrong!
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 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1992 PG-13, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Fran Rubel Kuzui
Cast: Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry, Michele Abrams, Hilary Swank, Paris Vaughan, David Arquette, Randall Batinkoff
When teenager Buffy (Kristy Swanson) finds out that she is descended from vampire slayers, she learns how to ply her skills. And just in time, too, since L.A. is being invaded by vampires. Some funny scenes, and the film spawned a TV series.
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 The Fifth Element 1997  PG-13, 122 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry, Brion James, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, John Neville, Indra Ove, Lee Evans, John Bluthal
New York cab driver Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) becomes an unlikely hero when a scientifically cloned woman, Leeloo (Milla Jovovich), comes crashing through the roof of his cab. She is escaping those who would cause harm to the Universe, and the future now rests on the actions of Korben and Leeloo.
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The Florentine 1999 R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Nick Stagliano
Cast: Jeremy Davies, Virginia Madsen, Luke Perry, Mary Stuart Masterson, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Hal Holbrook, Tom Sizemore, James Belushi, Lillo Brancato, Maeve Quinlan, Robert Downs, Burt Young, Chris Barnes, Jill Hennessy
Whitey (Michael Madsen) owns a Pennsylvania bar where losers–Robbie (Chris Penn), Truby (Jeremy Davies), Smitty (Hal Holbrook), and Frankie (Luke Perry)–come together and brood over their sad lots in life. Whitey is deeply in debt to loan shark Joe McCullough (Burt Young) who is being distracted by Whitey's friend Robbie, but there are more problems as well. His pal Frankie has lost the cash Whitey had planned to use for his sister Molly's (Virginia Madsen) wedding, and now her ex-boyfriend (Tom Sizemore) has returned, and more problems rise to the fore. But, Smitty just may prove to be the unlikely hero in this sad state of affairs, and Smitty just might save the day.
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Invasion 1997  TV, 180 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Cast: Luke Perry, Rebecca Gayheart, Kim Cattrall, Christopher Orr, Jon Polito, Jason Schombing, Neal McDonough, Rosanna DeSoto, Castulo Guerra, Louis Crugnali
Based on a story by Robin Cook, this made-for-TV miniseries follows a small group who attempts to find a cure for a deadly virus, latent in all humans, that is triggered when a pebble that fell from the sky is touched. All but these people have been mutated into subservient creatures who worship the aliens who now control them. Not much good about this movie–and it goes on and on and on.
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Lifebreath 1997 R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Last Breath
Director: P.J. Posner
Cast: Luke Perry, Francie Swift, Gia Carides, Gary Basaraba, Jack Gilpin, Lisa Gay Hamilton, David Margulies, Matt McGrath, Hillary Bailey Smith, Karen Shallo, Diane Kagan, Maureen Shannon
Chrystie (Francie Swift) suffers from cystic fibrosis and requires a new set of lungs. Finding a donor is made more difficult by the fact that Chrystie has a rare blood type. Her husband, Marty (Luke Perry), desparately searches for a donor and finds Gale (Gia Carides) with whom he starts an affair. Chrystie fnds out about the affair and, furthermore, figures out that Marty intends to murder Gale for her lungs.
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Normal Life 1996  R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John McNaughton
Cast: Ashley Judd, Luke Perry, Bruce A. Young, Jim True-Frost, Edmund Wyson, Michael Skewes, Scott Cummins, Tom Towles, Kate Walsh, Kevin Mukherji, Penelope Milford, Dawn Maxey
Chicago policeman Chris Anderson (Luke Perry) and his wife, Pam (Ashley Judd), enter into a dysfunctional marriage that leads to a crime spree in the Chicago suburbs.
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Riot in the Streets 1997 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Riot
Director: Galen Yuen, Richard Di Lello, David C. Johnson, Alex Munoz
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Luke Perry, Melvin Van Peebles, Cicely Tyson, Douglas Spain, Mako, Peter Dobson, Kieu Chinh, Alexis Cruz, Lucy Liu
Four stories are interwoven into the theme of events that surrounded the 1992 Los Angeles riots when citizens, learning of the Rodney King court verdict, took to the streets.
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Storm Trackers 1999 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Thriller
aka: Storm
Director: Harris Done
Cast: Luke Perry, Martin Sheen, Robert Knott, Renee Esteves, Alexandra Powers, Marc McClure, David Moses, Glenn Shadix, John Ingle, Mark Chaet, David Sederholm, Tim Colceri
A government team is working on a top secret project to alter weather as a weapon of mass destruction. An experiment in 1992 did result in a large hurricane but could not be controlled. Now, seven years later, meteorologist Ron Young (Luke Perry) has developed a program that may allow success. Young is hired, and the test is run. A massive hurricane is formed and is to be aimed at Mexico, but things go wrong and it heads toward L.A. Young, finding out what his program is being used for, sets out to save L.A. Terrible.
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The Triangle 2001 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure / Horror
Director: Lewis Teague
Cast: Luke Perry, Dan Cortese, Olivia d'Abo, Dorian Harewood, Polly Shannon, David Hewlett, Robert Dodds, Matthew Warry-Smith, Victor Clifford, Sonya Williams
Three friends embark on their annual trip, this time to fish on what turns out to be an old tub of a boat. At sea, the ship becomes fog-bound in the infamous Bermuda Triangle, and a luxury liner, which disappeared 60 years ago, appears out of the fog. The group board the liner–a big mistake, since the greeting by the "inhabitants" isn't pleasant.
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| 1. 8 Seconds (1994)
aka: Eight Seconds to Glory
2. Attention Shoppers (2000)
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
4. The Fifth Element (1997)
5. The Florentine (1999)
6. Invasion (1997)
7. Lifebreath (1997)
aka: Last Breath
8. Normal Life (1996)
9. Riot in the Streets (1997)
aka: Riot
10. Storm Trackers (1999)
aka: Storm
11. The Triangle (2001)
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