The Changeling 1979  R, 113 min.
Genre: Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos, Jean Marsh, Barry Morse, James B. Douglas, Eric Christmas, Roberta Maxwell, Bernard Behrens, Madeleine Sherwood, Helen Burns, Frances Hyland, Ruth Springfield, J. Kenneth Campbell
After music professor John Russell (George C. Scott) moves into a mansion in Seattle, he realizes that his new home is haunted. Working with Claire Norman (Trish Van Devere), John figures out that the haunting comes from the ghost of a murdered boy whose father wanted to collect on his life insurance policy. When the father realized that he could not collect on the boy's insurance, the father substituted another boy for his son, and now the "changeling"–wealthy Joseph Carmichael–believes that John is finding information about his past and could blackmail him.
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David Copperfield 2000  TV, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Hugh Dancy, Max Dolbey, Michael Richards, Sally Field, Nigel Davenport, Eileen Atkins, Anthony Andrews, Frank MacCusker, Freddie Jones, Edward Hardwicke, Emily Hamilton, Julie Cox, Sarah Smart, Alan Howard, Alec McCowen
In this made-for-TV, two-part Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, Max Dolbey takes on the role of young David Copperfield while Hugh Dancy plays the adult David as Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical novel is once again presented on film. The setting, filmed in Ireland, gives the look and feel of Copperfield's 19th-century England in which he grew up under the thumb of his cruel stepfather Murdstone (Anthony Andrews) but with support from others such as Aunt Betsy (Sally Field).
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Let Him Have It 1991  R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Bell, Eileen Atkins, Clare Holman, Michael Elphick, Mark McGann, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gough, Ronald Fraser
As a teenager in 1950, Derek (Christopher Eccleston) finds he can make easy money by joining a group of London's street toughs. However, when petty crimes turn into murder, Derek is faced with a death sentence for a crime he did not commit. Well-made film from the UK.
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The Men's Club 1986  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Roy Scheider, Treat Williams, Richard Jordan, Frank Langella, David Dukes, Craig Wasson, Stockard Channing, Cindy Pickett, Jennifer Jason Leigh
This story about a group of nearly 40-year-olds who get together for a stag party depicts all that is macho about some men and their destructive attitudes toward women.
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 Pinocchio 1984  TV, 85 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Carl Reiner, Paul Reubens, James Belushi, Lainie Kazan, Vincent Schiavelli, James Coburn, Don Novello, Vito Scotti, Michael Richards, Helena Kallianiotes, Avery Schreiber
The Carlo Collodi story comes to the screen again via TV as part of "Faerie Tale Theater" series. Carl Reiner takes the role of woodcarver Geppetto who dreams of having a son when he creates a wooden puppet, Pinocchio (Paul Reubens). The Blue Fairy (Lainie Kazan) appears on the scene and grants Geppetto's wish by turning Pinocchio into a living marionette. But, Pinocchio must prove himself to be a good boy and must never lie or his nose will grow. Problems lie ahead, but, by story's end, Pinocchio proves that he has a good soul.
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Pontiac Moon 1994 PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Ryan Todd, Eric Schweig, Cathy Moriarty, Max Gail, Lisa Jane Persky, J.C. Quinn, John Schuck, Don Swayze, Gene Borkan, Ron Burke, Frank Carl Fisher Jr., Suzanne Ircha, Ramsey Ellis
Leaving his agoraphobic wife, Katherine (Mary Steenburgen), at home, absent-minded professor Washington Bellamy (Ted Danson) hatches a plan to support son Andy's (Eric Schweig) interest in space: on the eve of Neil Armstrong's landing on the Moon, they will embark on a road trip that will take the same time as space travel from Earth to the Moon. Thus begins their symbolic adventure from California to Idaho. Meanwhile, Katherine senses that her family needs her and ventures from the security of home to join Washington and Andy.
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Romeo Is Bleeding 1993 R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, Michael Wincott, Roy Scheider, Ron Perlman, Dennis Farina, Will Patton, David Proval
Jack (Gary Oldman), a New York cop who is on the take, has a good life–nice home, wife, and a dumb mistress. His job for the mob is to supply information on mob-related witnesses. When Jack is hired to guard a tough, sexy, Russian hit woman (Lena Olin), his life starts to unravel. Lots of brutality in this modern film noir.
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The Ruling Class 1972 PG, 154 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Nigel Green, William Mervyn, Michael Bryant, James Villiers, Kay Walsh, Carolyn Seymour, Hugh Burden, Graham Crowden, Patsy Byrne, Joan Cooper
There are lots of wild happenings in this black comedy as the crazy son Jack Gurney (Peter O'Toole)–who thinks he is Jesus Christ– inherits an estate from his nobleman father. Thus begins the mayhem as family members try to retrieve the estate from our "hero." Peter O'Toole was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1984 TV, 60 min.
Genre: Family / Fantasy
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Elizabeth McGovern, Vanessa Redgrave, Vincent Price, Shelley Duvall, Rex Smith, Michael Preston, Kevin Thompson, Tony Cox, Peter Risch, Phil Fondacaro, Kevin Thompson, Billy Curtis
All the fun, fantasy, and adventure are present in this TV adaptation of the popular story presented as one of the episodes of the popular "Fareie Tale Theatre" series. Elizabeth McGovern plays Snow White and Vanessa Redgrave takes on the role of the wicked queen.
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Species II 1998  R, 92 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Michael Madsen, Natasha Henstridge, Marg Helgenberger, Mykelti Williamson, George Dzundza, James Cromwell, Justin Lazard, Myriam Cyr, Richard Belzer, Peter Boyle
Astronauts land on Mars and discover there IS life there. Problems develop when one astronaut (Justin Lazard) becomes infected by an alien DNA that is out to "fxxx the human race out of existence."
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| 1. The Changeling (1979)
2. David Copperfield (2000)
3. Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973)
4. Let Him Have It (1991)
5. The Men's Club (1986)
6. Pinocchio (1984)
7. Pontiac Moon (1994)
8. Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)
9. The Ruling Class (1972)
10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1984)
11. Species II (1998)
12. Zorro, the Gay Blade (1981)
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