All I Want for Christmas 1991 G, 92 min. Genre: Family / Comedy / Romance
Director: Robert Lieberman Cast: Ethan Embry, Thora Birch, Harley Jane Kozak, Jamey Sheridan, Amy Oberer, Lauren Bacall, Leslie Nielsen, Michael Alaimo, Kevin Nealon, Andrea Martin, Renee Taylor, Felicity LaFortune, Camille Saviola, Joanne Baron, Alan Brooks
All that seven-year-old Hallie (Thora Birch) and her 13-year-old brother, Ethan (Ethan Embry), want for Christmas is to have their divorced parents Catherine and Michael (Harley Jane Kozak and Jamey Sheridan) reconcile. This is the story of how Hallie and Ethan set out to make that happen.
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D3: The Mighty Ducks 1996 PG, 104 min. Genre: Family / Action / Comedy / Drama
Director: Robert Lieberman Cast: Emilio Estevez, Matt Doherty, Marguerite Moreau, Ty O'Neal, Kenan Thompson, Joshua Jackson, Jeffrey Nordling, David Selby, Heidi Kling, Joss Ackland, Elden Ratliff, Shaun Weiss
This sequel to the original 1992 film shows the "ducklings" growing up, and Charlie (Joshua Jackson) and his teammates are recipients of sports scholarships to play hockey at a prep school. Problems quickly develop as uptight Coach Orion (Jeffrey Nordling) works to turn the affable group into fierce competitors. Will their old coach, Gordon (Emilio Estevez), be able to bring sanity back to the players and save the day?
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Final Days of Planet Earth 2006 TV, 170 min. Genre: Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Horror
Director: Robert Lieberman Cast: Daryl Hannah, Campbell Scott, Gil Bellows, Suleka Mathew, Serge Houde, Beau Starr, Patrick Gilmore, Tygh Runyan, Tina Milo Milivojevic, William MacDonald, Tom Heaton, John Cassini, Mary Black
Strange things are happening in San Francisco, and archaeologist Lloyd Walker (Gil Bellows) and entomologist Marianne Winters (Suleka Mathew) are investigating when they come across an underground colony of insect-like creatures that are planning to enslave mankind. Now Walker finds himself in an all-out effort to save the human race and puts together clues that link the creatures to William Phillips (Campbell Scott) who is the sole survivor of a space mission and is being held captive. Will Walker find Phillips in time to save humanity? And, where exactly does Liz (Daryl Hannah), who is an employee at the mayor's office, really fit into the picture?
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Fire in the Sky 1993 PG-13, 110 min. Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama / Horror / Mystery
Director: Robert Lieberman Cast: D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg, Henry Thomas, Noble Willingham, Kathleen Wilhoite, James Garner, Wayne Grace, Bradley Gregg, Georgia Emelin, Scott MacDonald, Robert Covarrubias, Bruce Wright, Kenneth White
This film is based on the true story of the alleged alien abduction of Arizona logger Travis Walton (D.B. Sweeney). After his disappearance, his logging crew claim that Travis was abducted by aliens. Special investigator Frank Watters (James Garner) doubts their story and investigates, but the men pass their lie detector tests. When Travis reappears a week later, he tells a fantastic story about where he has been.
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NetForce 1999 R, 154 min. Genre: Action aka: Tom Clancy's NetForce
Director: Robert Lieberman Cast: Scott Bakula, Brian Dennehy, Kris Kristofferson, Joanna Going, Xander Berkeley, CCH Pounder, Judge Reinhold, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Paul Hewitt, Chelsea Field
Set in 2005, this made-for-TV miniseries tells how the internet could be used in the near future. The FBI has started a new division, NetForce, to investigate internet crime, and it is after a software guru who has a new web browser–one that allows him to take control of the internet and spy on NetForce via the internet. Clancy was the executive producer.
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Second String 2002 TV, 95 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Lieberman Cast: Gil Bellows, Jon Voight, Teri Polo, Richard T. Jones, George Eads, Charles Malik Whitfield, Shawn Woods, Lamont Johnson, Mike Ditka, Doug Flutie, Evan Parke
The Buffalo Bills make it to the playoffs–but not without problems. The entire first-string offensive unit gets food poisoning and the team must rely on over-the-hill benchwarmers. Will Coach Ditcher (Jon Voight) bring them together and win the games leading to the Super Bowl and then the Super Bowl itself? Sounds a lot like "The Replacements" with the normal cliches in this made-for-TV film.
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Table for Five 1983 PG, 122 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Lieberman Cast: Jon Voight, Richard Crenna, Marie-Christine Barrault, Millie Perkins, Roxana Zal, Robby Kiger, Kevin Costner, Erik Holland, Son Hoang Bui, Maria O'Brien
This film concerns the ordeals of divorce and its impact on children; a divorced father (Jon Voight) plans a cruise with his children to renew their deteriorating relationship.
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Titanic 1996 TV, 165 min. Genre: Adventure
Director: Robert Lieberman Cast: George C. Scott, Peter Gallagher, Tim Curry, Roger Rees, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Marilu Henner, Eva Marie Saint, Harley Jane Kozak, Kevin McNulty, Scott Hylands
George C. Scott takes on the role of Captain Smith in this TV version of the 1912 sinking of the famous ocean liner, Titanic. Too many tedious romantic scenes finally give way to improved drama as Smith tries to save his doomed ship. (In the end, Smith could not save the ship, and Scott could not save the film.)
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| 1. All I Want for Christmas (1991)
2. D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)
3. Final Days of Planet Earth (2006)
4. Fire in the Sky (1993)
5. NetForce (1999) aka: Tom Clancy's NetForce
6. Second String (2002)
7. Table for Five (1983)
8. Titanic (1996)
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