Action Jackson 1987  PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Cast: Carl Weathers, Vanity, Craig T. Nelson, Sharon Stone, Thomas F. Wilson, Bill Duke, Robert Davi, Jack Thibeau, Roger Aaron Brown
A tough black cop who also happens to be a Harvard graduate goes after a big shot auto tycoon who's trying to frame him for murder. Action, violence and good-looking women.
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April Fool's Day 1986  R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Fred Walton
Cast: Deborah Foreman, Griffin O'Neal, Thomas F. Wilson, Clayton Rohner, Deborah Goodrich, Tom Heaton, Ken Olandt, Leah Pinsent, Amy Steel
This slasher film is about a group of college students vacationing at an island mansion. Their hostess, Buffy (Deborah Foreman), induces them to reveal personal secrets. But once each secret is out, that person ends up dead.
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Back to the Future 1985  PG, 116 min.
Genre: Adventure / Sci-Fi
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson, Claudia Wells, Marc McClure, Casey Siemaszko, Billy Zane, Wendie Jo Sperber, George DiCenzo, Frances Lee McCain, James Tolkan, J.J. Cohen
One of the most popular films of the 1980s, this movie is about a boy, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), from 1985 who is transported to 1955 via a time machine built into a DeLorean automobile by eccentric scientist Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). While visiting the past, he discovers that his parents weren't exactly like they say they were and that he could actually change the course of their lives. Great flick.
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Back to the Future Part II 1989  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Thomas F. Wilson, Harry Waters Jr., Charles Fleischer, Elisabeth Shue, Casey Siemaszko, James Tolkan, Joe Flaherty, Billy Zane, J.J. Cohen, Jeffrey Weissman, Ricky Dean Logan, Jason Scott Lee
The sequel starts where the original ends; this time, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) must travel to the future and save his kids from being idiots. He encounters Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), the villain of the last film, who steals the time machine to give his 1955 "other self"' knowledge to build an evil empire based on the outcome of sporting events and therefore change time–and Marty's life.
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Back to the Future Part III 1990  PG, 118 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Western
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Elisabeth Shue, Matt Clark, Richard Dysart, Pat Buttram, Dub Taylor, James Tolkan, Marc McClure, Harry Carey Jr., Christopher Wynn, Mike Watson
Marty (Michael J. Fox) and the Doc (Christopher Lloyd) are back, but now they are living in the 1800s after Doc has been sucked back into the Old West. In spite of Doc Brown's warnings not to use the time machine again, Marty goes back to save his friend's life. Again, he encounters Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), but this time he's Biff's evil ancestor.
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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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Let's Get Harry 1986 R, 98 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The Rescue
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Cast: Robert Duvall, Gary Busey, Mark Harmon, Glenn Frey, Michael Schoeffling, Thomas F. Wilson, Rick Rossovich, Ben Johnson, Matt Clark, Gregory Sierra
A mercenary (Robert Duvall) is hired to help friends rescue Harry (Mark Harmon) from the jungles of South America. Duvall's performance keeps this from bombing out entirely. Director Rosenberg used the infamous pseudonym of "Alan Smithee" for this film, which meant he didn't want to be associated with it.
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 That Darn Cat 1997 PG, 89 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy
Director: Bob Spiers
Cast: Christina Ricci, Doug E. Doug, George Dzundza, Peter Boyle, Bess Armstrong, Michael McKean, Dean Jones, Estelle Parsons, Dyan Cannon, John Ratzenberger, Megan Cavanagh, Rebecca Schull, Thomas F. Wilson, Brian Haley, Mark Christopher Lawrence
In this remake of "That Darn Cat" (1965), Christina Ricci takes the role of Patti whose cat, D.C. (Darn Cat), stumbles upon a kidnap victim who scratches the word "Help" on her wristwatch and attaches it around D.C.'s neck. Patti discovers the watch and joins forces with FBI rookie Zeke (Doug E. Doug), and together they tail D.C.–believing that he will lead them to the kidnap victim and, hopefully, to the abductors (Peter Boyle and Rebecca Schull).
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 Zoom 2006 PG, 83 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Peter Hewitt
Cast: Tim Allen, Rip Torn, Kevin Zegers, Courteney Cox, Chevy Chase, Spencer Breslin, Kate Mara, Michael Cassidy, Ryan Newman, Cornelia Guest, Thomas F. Wilson, Ridge Canipe, Danny McCarthy
Jack Shepard (Tim Allen) is called back to work as superhero Captain Zoom in order to train a group of kids as superheroes who will fight for what is right and transform the world.
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| 1. Action Jackson (1987)
2. April Fool's Day (1986)
3. Back to the Future (1985)
4. Back to the Future Part II (1989)
5. Back to the Future Part III (1990)
6. The Informant! (2009)
7. Let's Get Harry (1986)
aka: The Rescue
8. That Darn Cat (1997)
9. Zoom (2006)
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