Bandits 2001  PG-13, 123 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Bruce Willis, Cate Blanchett, Billy Bob Thornton, Troy Garity, Stacey Travis, Brian F. O'Byrne, Bobby Slayton, January Jones, Azura Skye, Peggy Miley, William Converse-Roberts, Richard Riehle, Micole Mercurio, Anthony Burch, Scott Burkholder
Prison friends–Joe (Bruce Willis) and Terry (Billy Bob Thornton)–hijack a cement truck, break out of prison, and begin a series of bank heists that turns them into folk heroes. Plans go well, until a neurotic housewife (Cate Blanchett) is taken hostage only to become their lover. She just cannot decide between them so opts for both. A fun comedy caper.
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Dracula Rising 1993  R, 85 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Fantasy
Director: Fred Gallo
Cast: Christopher Atkins, Stacey Travis, Doug Wert, Vessala Karlukousk, Nikolai Sotirov, Zahari Valahov, Desi Stoyanova, Stancho Stanchev, Nelli Vladova, Tara McCann
Atmosphere is everything in this Roger Corman production. Theresa (Stacey Travis) meets Vlad (Christopher Atkins) at an art gallery, and her dreams of him are erotic, AND she has a nagging feeling they have met before. Later, they meet again in Europe, and now she knows they had met in a former life where he and her current boss had been rivals for her love. The vampires may have to duke it out for her again.
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 Fun with Dick and Jane 2005  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Dean Parisot
Cast: Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins, Carlos Jacott, Angie Harmon, John Michael Higgins, Richard Burgi, Jeff Garlin, Stacey Travis, Timm Sharp
Dick Harper (Jim Carrey) is a rising star at Globodyne Corporation, but there is a problem: the C.E.O. (Alec Baldwin) leaves the company under dire circumstances. Stocks plummet, Dick loses his job, and Dick and wife Jane (Tea Leoni) cannot pay their bills. To make ends meet, Dick and Jane begin robbing banks–and having fun in the process.
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 Ghost World 2001  R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Cast: Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Brad Renfro, Illeana Douglas, Bob Balaban, Teri Garr, Stacey Travis, Ashley Peldon, Dave Sheridan, Charles C. Stevenson Jr., Tom McGowan
Adapted from a comic book series about high-school friends who try to find their place in the lonely, fake world of suburbia, this film is both funny and insightful. Extroverted Enid (Thora Birch) and her direct opposite, Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), plan to share an apartment but find their lives diverging as their interests change.
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Hardware 1990 R, 93 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
Director: Richard Stanley
Cast: Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, William Hootkins, Iggy Pop, Mark Northover, Paul McKenzie, Lemmy, Mac McDonald, Carl McCoy, Chris McHallem, Barbara Yu Ling, Oscar James, Arnold Lee, Susie Savage
Set in a post-apocalyptic world covered by contaminated debris fields, people live in cramped dwellings eating synthetic food. The birthrate of mutants is also increasing, resulting in the use of a Cyborg force to control population. One man, Moses Baxter (Dylan McDermott), dares to venture out in the wasteland, where he picks up debris that he might be able to sell. He comes across some android parts, which he takes to his girlfriend, Jill (Stacey Travis), who welds metal art objects. But the new find is part of a Cyborg, and it rebuilds itself from the parts Jill has on hand and then begins a killing rampage.
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Intolerable Cruelty 2003 PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance / Drama
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Herrmann, Richard Jenkins, Billy Bob Thornton, Julia Duffy, Jonathan Hadary, Paul Adelstein, Tom Aldredge, Stacey Travis, Jack Kyle, Judith Drake, Irwin Keyes
When top-notch divorce lawyer Miles Massey (George Clooney) represented Marilyn Rexroth's (Catherine Zeta-Jones) philandering husband, Rex (Edward Herrmann), in their divorce, Rex came out the winner. Now, looking to recoup her losses, gold-digger Marilyn approaches Miles and asks him for a prenuptial agreement before her next marriage to wealthy, Texas oil man Howard D. Doyle (Billy Bob Thornton). Marilyn has plans to invalidate the prenuptial agreement and grab off Howard's assets. When Miles realizes what she has planned, he is mesmerized by her predatory powers and is drawn into his own, off-beat romance with her.
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The Muse 1999  PG-13, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Albert Brooks
Cast: Albert Brooks, Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell, Jeff Bridges, Mark Feuerstein, Steven Wright, Bradley Whitford, Dakin Matthews, Cybill Shepherd, Martin Scorsese, Marnie Shelton, Lorenzo Lamas, Jennifer Tilly, Stacey Travis
A neurotic screenwriter, Steven Phillips (Albert Brooks), feels that his career is sliding into an abyss when he contacts his friend, Jack (Jeff Bridges), who puts him on to the Muse, Sarah (Sharon Stone), who should be able to inspire him. Steven contracts for Sarah's help, but it isn't long before the goddess shows that she expects to be treated like one, and Steven's catering to Sarah's every demand begins to cost him his sanity.
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The Only Thrill 1997  R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Peter Masterson
Cast: Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Diane Lane, Robert Patrick, Tate Donovan, Sharon Lawrence, Stacey Travis, Brad Leland, Brandon Smith, Mona Lee Fultz, Richard Nance, Fred Ellis, Jessica Wilson
Clothing store owner Reece (Sam Shepard) hires Carol (Diane Keaton) as a seamstress. Reece has a teenage son (Robert Patrick), and Reece's wife has been in a coma since an auto accident. Carol is a widow with a teenage daughter (Diane Lane). Reece and Carol strike up a no-commitment relationship that lasts for decades, while their children also become a couple.
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The Super 1991 R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Rod Daniel
Cast: Joe Pesci, Vincent Gardenia, Madolyn Smith-Osborne, Ruben Blades, Stacey Travis, Carole Shelley, Kenny Blank, Paul Benjamin, Beatrice Winde, Carol Jean Lewis, Anthony Heald, Jack Hallett
Wealthy slumlord Louie Kritski (Joe Pesci) owns a rundown tenement building to which the court orders him to make needed repairs. But when he is also ordered to take up residence in the building for 120 days, Louie gets a firsthand look at life on the other side of the tracks.
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Suspect Device 1995 R, 95 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Rick Jacobson
Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Stacey Travis, Jed Allan, John Beck, Marcus Aurelius, Jonathan Fuller, Jeff Allin, Heidi Sorenson, Mark Ginther, Betty Vaughan
Dan Jericho (C. Thomas Howell) realizes that the CIA is trying to erase him from existence, and he finds brick walls in his paths to escape.
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| 1. Bandits (2001)
2. Dracula Rising (1993)
3. Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
4. Ghost World (2001)
5. Hardware (1990)
6. Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
7. The Muse (1999)
8. The Only Thrill (1997)
9. The Super (1991)
10. Suspect Device (1995)
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