 Along Came a Spider 2001  R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Lee Tamahori
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott, Jay O. Sanders, Dylan Baker, Mika Boorem, Penelope Ann Miller, Michael Moriarty, Raoul Ganeev, Billy Burke, Anton Yelchin, Kimberly Hawthorne, Anna Maria Horsford, Scott Heindl, Christopher Shyer
In this follow-up to "Kiss the Girls," Morgan Freeman is back as Detective Alex Cross, and his new case is the abduction of a congressman's daughter, Megan Rose (Mika Boorem). The perpetrator is Gary Soneji (Michael Wincott) who spent two years waiting for the opportunity to pull off the kidnapping. Now, despite losing his partner, Cross takes on the job and tries to save the day.
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Bulletproof 1996  R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy Drama / Action / Adventure
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Cast: Adam Sandler, James Caan, Kristen Wilson, Damon Wayans, Jeep Swenson, James Farentino, Larry McCoy, Allen Covert, Mark Roberts, Bill Nunn, Mark Casella, Monica Potter, Andrew Shaifer, Jonathan Loughran, Steve White
Undercover cop Keats (Damon Wayans) must transport a member of the drug cartel, Moses (Adam Sandler), to L.A. and, along the way, they bond in friendship.
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Con Air 1997  R, 115 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Simon West
Cast: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Ving Rhames, Danny Trejo, Steve Buscemi, Rachel Ticotin, Colm Meaney, M.C. Gainey, Monica Potter, Nick Chinlund, Dave Chappelle, Mykelti Williamson, Steve Eastin, Renoly Santiago
On a flight transporting convicts to a maximum-security prison, the convicts murder their guards, take over the plane, and head for South America. Also on board is Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) who is on his way home to begin his parole–after being unfairly imprisoned for eight years. Now, Poe is trapped on the hijacked plane, and, as the good hero, he cannot walk away from this fight.
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A Cool, Dry Place 1998 PG-13, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John N. Smith
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Joey Lauren Adams, Monica Potter, Bobby Moat, Devon Sawa, Nicholas Campbell, Chris Bauer, Aleksa Palladino, Siobhan Fallon, Todd Louiso
Single dad Russell Durrell (Vince Vaughn) balances his time–between work, estranged wife Kate (Monica Potter), and beautiful divorcee Beth (Joey Lauren Adams)–and still keeps his role of father to five-year-old Calvin (Bobby Moat) as the #1 priority.
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Head Over Heels 2001 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance / Thriller
Director: Mark Waters
Cast: Monica Potter, Freddie Prinze Jr., Shalom Harlow, Ivana Milicevic, Sarah O'Hare, Tomiko Fraser, Raoul Ganeev, China Chow, Jay Brazeau, James Kirk
Amanda (Monica Potter) moves into a new apartment that she shares with four up-and-coming models. When Amanda meets and falls for neighbor Jim (Freddie Prinze Jr.), her roommates come to her rescue and help Amanda do a little detective work after she believes she has seen Jim beating a blonde to death.
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Heaven or Vegas 1997 R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gregory C. Haynes
Cast: Richard Grieco, Yasmine Bleeth, Sarah Schaub, Geoffrey Blake, Monica Potter, Andy Romano, Marklen Kennedy, Suzanne Barnes, Christian Martin, Jim Eckland
A gigolo, Navy (Richard Grieco), and a prostitute, Rachel (Yasmine Bleeth), are tired of their Las Vegas casino lifestyle and head for Montana where love–supposedly–conquers all.
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The Last House on the Left 2009 R, 100 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Cast: Tony Goldwyn, Monica Potter, Sara Paxton, Garret Dillahunt, Aaron Paul, Spencer Treat Clark, Riki Lindhome, Martha MacIsaac, Michael Bowen, Joshua Cox, Usha Khan
John and Emma Collingwood (Tony Goldwyn and Monica Potter) have just arrived with their 17-year-old daughter Mari (Sara Paxton) at their lakeside home. Mari and her friend Paige (Martha MacIsaac) get together in town and meet Justin (Spencer Treat Clark). The three of them go to Justin's seedy motel room where they are getting high when Justin's father Krug (Garret Dillahunt), his Uncle Francis (Aaron Paul), and their friend Sadie (Riki Lindhome) appear on the scene after committing a double murder. They take the girls and Justin out in the woods where they murder Paige, and Krug rapes Mari and leaves her for dead. It is a stormy night, and Krug, Sadie, Francis, and Justin find shelter at the Collingwood home. Lightning strikes, and they have lost power when Mari arrives home. When they learn what happened to Mari, Emma and John take on the savage behavior of the strangers they took into their home and plot revenge on their "guests."
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Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence 1998 R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
aka: The Very Thought of You
Director: Nick Hamm
Cast: Monica Potter, Rufus Sewell, Tom Hollander, Joseph Fiennes, Ray Winstone, Debora Weston, Jan Pearson, Steven O'Donnell, Rebecca Craig, Paul Bigley, Rob Brydon, Geoffrey McGivern, Lorelei King
When Martha (Monica Potter) flies out of Minneapolis on her way to a new life in London, over a short time period she meets three men–Frank (Rufus Sewell), Daniel (Tom Hollander), and Laurence (Joseph Fiennes). Although she encounters them on separate occasions, coincidentally, they are old friends, and each one falls madly in love with Martha.
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Patch Adams 1998 PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Tom Shadyac
Cast: Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Josef Sommer, Irma P. Hall, Harve Presnell, Frances Lee McCain, Peter Coyote, Daniella Kuhn, Harold Gould, Michael Jeter, James Greene, Bruce Bohne
Robin Williams performs well as the real-life West Virginia physician, "Patch" Adams, an ex-mental patient who is now in medical school. Patch uses humor to challenge both the medical establishment and fellow students to become more personal in their relationships with patients. Based on a true story.
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 Saw 2004 R, 100 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Director: James Wan
Cast: Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung, Dina Meyer, Mike Butters, Paul Gutrecht, Michael Emerson, Benito Martinez, Shawnee Smith, Monica Potter, Makenzie Vega, Ned Bellamy, Avner Garbi, Alexandra Bokyun Chun
A serial killer named "Jigsaw Killer" by the police is on the loose, and his latest victims–Adam (Leigh Whannell) and Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes)–awaken to find themselves chained to pipes in a warehouse bathroom with a dead body between them. They are told through an electronically produced voice that the only escape route is for one of them to kill the other within the next eight hours.
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 Without Limits 1998  PG-13, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Towne
Cast: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter, Jeremy Sisto, Billy Burke, Dean Norris, Gabriel Olds, Judith Ivey, Matthew Lillard, Adam Setliff
This is the story of Olympics runner Steve Prefontaine and his effect on all around him. The life of this sexy, charming, popular star athlete is portrayed from prep-school days to Oregon University to the Munich Olympics. Although he died tragically at the age of 24 in a car crash, while he lived his star shone brightly.
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| 1. Along Came a Spider (2001)
2. Bulletproof (1996)
3. Con Air (1997)
4. A Cool, Dry Place (1998)
5. Head Over Heels (2001)
6. Heaven or Vegas (1997)
7. The Last House on the Left (2009)
8. Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence (1998)
aka: The Very Thought of You
9. Patch Adams (1998)
10. Saw (2004)
11. Without Limits (1998)
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