 American Beauty 1999  R, 120 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards, Barry Del Sherman, Amber Smith, Joel McCrary, Erin Cathryn Strubbe, Matthew Kimbrough
Lester (Kevin Spacey) and Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) have grown apart over their years of marriage when Lester falls head-over-heels for their daughter Jane's (Thora Birch) best friend, Angela (Mena Suvari). Carolyn, meanwhile, begins an affair with successful realtor Buddy Kane (Peter Gallagher), and Jane becomes chummy with her neighbor, Ricky Fitts (Wes Bentley). Their tangled lives all come together one stormy night amidst bizarre misunderstandings. The film received eight Academy Award nominations, five of which captured Oscars, including Best Picture, Actor (Spacey), and Director. Other nominations included Bening for Best Actress.
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Cats Don't Dance 1997  G, 69 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy / Musical
Director: Mark Dindal
Cast: Scott Bakula, Jasmine Guy, Natalie Cole, John Rhys-Davies, George Kennedy, Rene Auberjonois, Hal Holbrook, Don Knotts, Ashley Peldon, Kathy Najimy
Warner Bros. produced this entertaining animated film about a cat, Danny (voice of Scott Bakula), that heads for Hollywood in the 1930s hoping for stardom but finding that there is not a big demand for animal actors in starring roles.
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The Informant! 2009 R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Matt Damon, Lucas McHugh Carroll, Eddie Jemison, Rusty Schwimmer, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Tom Papa, Rick Overton, Melanie Lynskey, Thomas F. Wilson, Craig Ricci Shaynak, Scott Adsit, Ann Dowd, Allan Havey, Howie Johnson
In the early 1990s, Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) is a rising star at the agri-business powerhouse Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in Decatur, Illinois. After Whitacre exposes his company to a multi-national price-fixing conspiracy, the FBI needs evidence concerning the conspiracy and convinces Whitacre to wear a wire along with a tape recorder in his briefcase while attending meetings around the world. The result is one of the FBI's largest price-fixing cases, but Whitacre's own misdeeds lead to his world crashing around him, and he is convicted of price-fixing, money laundering, wire fraud, and tax fraud and sentenced to a nine-year prison term. Based on a true story.
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Life as a House 2001  R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irwin Winkler
Cast: Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hayden Christensen, Jena Malone, Mary Steenburgen, Mike Weinberg, Scotty Leavenworth, Ian Somerhalder, Jamey Sheridan, Scott Bakula
Diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, George (Kevin Kline) decides to devote his final three months to building his new house. He even manages to draw his troubled teenage son, Sam (Hayden Christensen), into the labor. As one might guess, the physical effort on the house extends into the emotional realm as well. Sappy.
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Luminarias 1999 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jose Luis Valenzuela
Cast: Evelina Fernandez, Scott Bakula, Cheech Marin, Robert Beltran, Marta DuBois, Angela Moya, Dyana Ortelli, Seidy Lopez, Sal Lopez, Fidele Gomez
Four professional women–Andrea (Evelina Fernandez), Sofia (Marta DuBois), Lilly (Angela Moya), and Irene (Dyana Ortelli)–meet regularly at the Luminarias restaurant and discuss their professional and personal tribulations and celebrations. This film provides an invigorating experience of observing today's Latino culture.
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Major League: Back to the Minors 1998  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Warren
Cast: Scott Bakula, Corbin Bernsen, Walton Goggins, Eric Bruskotter, Peter Mackenzie, Thom Barry, Judson Mills, Dennis Haysbert, Jensen Daggett, Ted McGinley, Kenny Johnson, Takaaki Ishibashi, Lobo Sebastian, Thom Barry, Tim & Tom DiFilippo
Gus Cantrell (Scott Bakula) is an aging baseball pitcher given the opportunity to coach a Minnesota Twins minor league team. He takes on the task and coaches so well that his team is able to competently compete with the major league Twins.
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My Family 1995 R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gregory Nava
Cast: Edward James Olmos, Jimmy Smits, Esai Morales, Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Scott Bakula, Mary Steenburgen, Dedee Pfeiffer, Jenny Gago, Constance Marie, Lupe Ontiveros
Three generations of a Mexican-American family from the early 1900s until today are chronicled in this excellent production.
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Necessary Roughness 1991 PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stan Dragoti
Cast: Scott Bakula, Hector Elizondo, Robert Loggia, Harley Jane Kozak, Sinbad, Larry Miller, Fred Dalton Thompson, Rob Schneider, Jason Bateman, Andrew Bryniarski
The Texas State football program is in deep trouble: a scandal resulted in NCAA sanctions. Now a team must be formed without scholarships, so a 34-year-old farmer–a former quarterback–is lured back to school. A team, built around him, includes a beautiful lady kicker and assorted misfits. Harmless, with a few laughs.
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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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Sibling Rivalry 1990 PG-13, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Carl Reiner
Cast: Kirstie Alley, Bill Pullman, Carrie Fisher, Jami Gertz, Scott Bakula, Sam Elliott, Ed O'Neill, Frances Sternhagen, John Randolph, Bill Macy
A young wife (Kirstie Alley) longs for more out of life than her busy doctor husband (Scott Bakula) is willing to give. Her solution is a quick jump into bed with a lover; he has a heart attack during his performance and dies. The rest of the movie deals with one twist after another involving sisters, brothers, and in-laws in hilarious episodes as they interact with one another.
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What Girls Learn 2001 PG, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lee Rose
Cast: Elizabeth Perkins, Scott Bakula, Alison Pill, Margo Martindale, Tamara Hope, Kyle Schmid, Sarah Gadon, Gloria Slade, Paulette Sinclair, Noah Griffin
This over-long, coming-of-age, soapy film follows an Atlanta family through love and tragedy. Sisters Tilden and Elizabeth (Alison Pill and Tamara Hope) live with their single mother (Elizabeth Perkins). The girls' lives change drastically when Mama announces that she is going to marry a man, Nick (Scott Bakula), whom they had not met. This doesn't go over well with the girls, especially Tilden, but that becomes less important when Mama finds out she has cancer.
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| 1. American Beauty (1999)
2. Cats Don't Dance (1997)
3. The Informant! (2009)
4. Life as a House (2001)
5. Lord of Illusions (1995)
6. Luminarias (1999)
7. Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)
8. My Family (1995)
9. Necessary Roughness (1991)
10. NetForce (1999)
aka: Tom Clancy's NetForce
11. Sibling Rivalry (1990)
12. What Girls Learn (2001)
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