Awake to Danger 1995  TV, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Tuchner
Cast: Tori Spelling, Michael Gross, Reed Diamond, Laura Johnson, Shae D'Lyn, John Getz, Michael O'Neill, Jennifer Blanc, Holland Taylor, Leigh Lombardi, Joanna Lipari, Donzaleigh Abernathy, Emily Kuroda, Paul Linke
Sixteen-year-old Aimee (Tori Spelling) awakens from an 18-month coma, which had resulted from viewing the death of her mother during a home invasion. As she goes through therapy, her memory of that night comes into focus, and she is fearful that the killer is lurking nearby.
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Berkeley 2007  R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bobby Roth
Cast: Nick Roth, Laura Jordan, Henry Winkler, Bonnie Bedelia, Tom Morello, Jake Newton, Sebastian Tillinger, Wade Allain-Marcus, Sarah Carter, Sarah Bibb, Ruby Roth, Tracey Walter, Thomas Gibson, Reed Diamond, Henry G. Sanders
Eighteen-year-old Ben Sweet (Nick Roth) enrolls at UC Berkeley in 1968 to study accounting and as a means of avoiding the draft in the midst of the anti-war movement. While at Berkeley, Ben learns to party '60s' style–including sex, drugs, and rock and roll. He joins a rock band and goes through a number of life changes discovering by story's end that his "true self" lies in writing.
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Full Circle 1996 TV, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Danielle Steel's 'Full Circle'
Director: Bethany Rooney
Cast: Teri Polo, Corbin Bernsen, Rod Biermann, Reed Diamond, Erika Slezak, Eric Lutes, Allison Smith, Starletta DuPois, Mark Kiely, James Read, Sue Casey, Alice Carter, Nicolas Coster, Robert Curtis Brown, Mary Kate McGeehan
Traumatized by rape as a young girl, Tana Roberts (Teri Polo) struggles with her past by throwing herself into her career–with an affair along the way ending in disaster and bringing her full circle back to her career world. Based on Danielle Steele's novel.
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Good Night, and Good Luck 2005  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Clooney
Cast: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Ray Wise, Frank Langella, Jeff Daniels, Tate Donovan, Thomas McCarthy, Matt Ross, Reed Diamond, Robert John Burke
This film recreates events surrounding the March, 1954, TV broadcast when journalist Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) took on Senator Joseph McCarthy on his show, "See it Now." George Clooney's film inter-cuts between Murrow and the real Senator McCarthy bring a sense of reality to the film. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (David Strathairn), and Director.
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 High Noon 2000 PG-13, 120 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Rod Hardy
Cast: Tom Skerritt, Susanna Thompson, Randy Birch, Reed Diamond, Maria Conchita Alonso, Dennis Weaver, Michael Madsen, August Schellenberg, David Lereaney, Matthew Walker
This TV remake of the 1952 classis is weak, but watchable, as Will Kane (Tom Skerritt) must stand alone against the man who he sent to jail and now seeks revenge.
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Homicide: The Movie 2000  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Cast: Andre Braugher, Yaphet Kotto, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Clark Johnson, Daniel Baldwin, Giancarlo Esposito, Michelle Forbes, Reed Diamond, Max Perlich
The 1990s' TV show is brought to closure with this movie that brings "everyone" back for a bow. "Gee" (Yaphet Kotto), the former head of the Homicide Division, is running for mayor and a would-be killer sends him to the emergency room. As he balances between life and death, his old crew gets together to track down the gunman. Those who watched the series will get more out of the dialogue than the others who do not know much about the series' episodes.
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 Madison 2005 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Bindley
Cast: James Caviezel, Bruce Dern, Mary McCormack, Jake Lloyd, Paul Dooley, Brent Briscoe, Mark Fauser, Reed Diamond, Frank Knapp Jr., Chelcie Ross, Byrne Piven, William Shockley
This film is based on events surrounding the 1971 Madison, Indiana, hydro-plane regatta during which retired racer Jim McCormick (James Caviezel) rallied the town for support after he accepted the offer for Madison to host the regatta, promised $50 thousand (which he didn't have) in earnest money, and managed the "Miss Madison" crew. Originally shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001, the film didn't receive public release until 2005.
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| 1. Awake to Danger (1995)
2. Berkeley (2007)
3. Full Circle (1996)
aka: Danielle Steel's 'Full Circle'
4. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
5. High Noon (2000)
6. Homicide: The Movie (2000)
7. Madison (2005)
8. O Pioneers! (1992)
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