El Cortez 2006  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Stephen Purvis
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Bruce Weitz, Glenn Plummer, Tracy Middendorf, James McDaniel, Peter Onorati, Shelley Malil, David Johann, Robin Adair, Kathleen LaGue, Joseph Griffin, Deborah Cresswell, Edoardo Ballerini, Pat Crawford Brown
Manny DeSilva (Lou Diamond Phillips) is an autistic ex-con who, after being released from five years in prison, tries to start a new life as a night clerk at the Reno hotel, El Cortez. Manny makes friends with wheelchair-bound gold prospector Popcorn (Bruce Weitz), and all goes well–until the detective (James McDaniel) who first arrested him arrives on the scene and tells Manny to keep an eye on the comings and goings of drug dealer Jack Clay (Glenn Plummer). When Clay's girlfriend Theda (Tracy Middendorf) gets involved, secrets rise to the fore, and the result is a deadly game of murder.
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Just Looking 1999  R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jason Alexander
Cast: Ryan Merriman, Joey Franquinha, Peter Onorati, Gretchen Mol, Patti LuPone, Amy Braverman, Ilana Levine, Rich Licata, John Bolger, Robert Weil
The year is 1955, and Lenny (Ryan Merriman) is 14-years old and very interested in sex, not so much in experiencing it himself but in viewing others in the act. His parents ship him off to Queens for a summer vacation with his aunt and uncle. First he meets members of a "sex club"–all talk, no action with these teens. Then, as luck would have it, he meets neighbor Hedy (Gretchen Mol) who was once a bra model. For Lenny, it can't get better than this.
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Rocket Man 1997 PG, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stuart Gillard
Cast: Harland Williams, Jessica Lundy, William Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn, James Pickens Jr., Beau Bridges, Shelley Duvall, Gailard Sartain, Don Lake, Peter Onorati
A computer nerd, Fred Randall (Harland Williams), gets the chance of his dreams when he is given the assignment of being an astronaut heading to Mars.
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Tycus 2000  R, 94 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: John Putch
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Peter Onorati, Finola Hughes, John Putch, Chick Vennera, Bert Remsen, Art LaFleur, Tommy Hinkley, Robert Romanus, Todd Allen
Jake (Peter Onorati), a tabloid photographer, gets wind of something strange going on in the Sierras and parachutes into a restricted area. There he finds a noted astronomer, Peter Crawford (Dennis Hopper), who has discovered a comet hurtling to Earth. In an attempt to save a chosen segment of humanity, Crawford has begun construction of a city beneath Earth's surface. No awards here.
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| 1. El Cortez (2006)
2. Just Looking (1999)
3. Rocket Man (1997)
4. Tycus (2000)
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